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Excerpt from Helen's Babies: With Some Account of Their Ways, Innocent, Crafty, Angelic, Impish, Witching and Repulsive, Also, a Partial Record of Their Actions During Ten Days of Their ExistenceDear harry - Remembering that you are always complaining that you never have a chance to read, and knowing that you won't get it this summer, if you spend your vacation among people of your own set, I write to ask you to come up here. I admit that I am...

Excerpt from Trif and Trixy: A Story of a Dreadfully Delightful Little Girl and Her Adoring and Tormented Parents, Relations and FriendsRixy was not a babe, for she had passed her seventh birthday and was as wise and irrepressible as the only child of a lov ing father and mother usually becomes. Her parents and relations continued to allude to her as the baby, and they might still be doing so had not certain of her deeds checked them, and comp...

Excerpt from The Annals of a Baby: How It Was Named, How It Was Nursed, How It Was a Tyrant, And How Its Nose Got Out of Joint, Also, a Few Words About Its Aunties, Its Grandfathers, Grandmothers, and Other Important RelationsOme, where the Father and Mother were young, and where there were no other children. It was a soft, pink little thing, with just dark, downy rings for hair, and a sound like a bird's chirrup for its first weak human cry. ...

Excerpt from All He Knew: A StoryN the Capital Express train dashed into the village of Bruceton one bright afternoon, a brakeman passing through a car was touched on the shoulder by a man, who said.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from Budge Toddie: Or Helen's Babies at Play, Being an Account of the Further Doings of These Marvelously Precocious ChildrenWhen in the course of human events it becomes meces sary for a writer to impose five books upon the public within a single year, a decent respect for literary custom demands that he should make known the reasons which impelled him to do so: The author of Helen's Babies might evade the subject by admitting, as he ...

Excerpt from Some FolksMany of the sketches contained in Some Folks were written by me during the past five years, and some of them published by Mr. Leslie in his Illus trated Newspaper and his Chimney Corner, from which journals they have been collected by friends who be lieve that in these stories is displayed better work manship than I have since done. For myself, I can claim for them only an unusual degree of that unlite erary and unpopula...

Excerpt from Our Country's Future: Or, Great National Questions as Viewed by the Most Prominent EditorsOn topics distinctly political and partisan, editors differ violently in print and often in spirit, but on most of the subjects touched in this book they are so well agreed that many of my chap ters are close reports, from memory, of chats between live editors of different papers, after office hours, over the dinner-table, or during vacation ...

Excerpt from Caleb Wright: A Story of the WestAll people who have more taste than money are as one in the conviction that people with less money than taste suffer more keenly day by day, week by week, year by year, than any other class of human beings.Of this kind of sufferer was Philip Somerton, a young man who had strayed from a far-western country town to New York to develop his individuality and make his fortune, but especially to enjoy th...

The Scripture Club of Valley Rest - Sketches of Everybody's Neighbors is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today ...

Excerpt from The Worst Boy in TownI can't, said Matt, gazing hungrily at the new fishing tackle, the governor wouldn't like it at all.Oh, never mind the governor, said Jack, I'll explain things to him when we get back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art t...

Excerpt from The Barton ExperimentThe ideal reformer, the man of great principles and eloquent arguments, fails to appear in these pages, not because of any doubts as to his existence, but because his is a mental condition to which men attain without much stimulus from without, while it need not be feared that in the direction of indi vidual effort and self-denial, the greatest amount of suggestion will ever urge any one too far.About the Publ...

Excerpt from Helen's BabiesP. S. You shall have our own chamber, it catches every breeze, and commands the finest views. The children's room communi cates with it, so, if anything would happen to the darlings at night, you'd be sure to hear them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten B...

Helen's Babies - some account of their ways, innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers an...

Habberton (1842-1921) was an American author who spent nearly 20 years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald. His early humorous novel Helen's Babies (first published anonymously in 1876) achieved great success and he went on to write a sequel in addition to many other humorous titles and stories about early California life. This work was first published in 1880.

Excerpt from Country LuckThe merchant shrugged his shoulders Slightly, and replied, Worse men have called upon us, my dear, without being made to feel unwelcome.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

About the Book Books about the History of Christianity discuss the fundamental Christian religion that is the largest in the world, and has fragmented into a large number of denominations. Beginning with the birth of Jesus Christ in Palestine during the Roman occupation, Christianity has survived Roman persecution, schism and invasion, while carrying its message to the world. Titles include: A History of the Origin of the Doctrine of the Trini...

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Excerpt from The Jericho Road: A Story of Western Life While reading of the poor fellow who had so hard a time on the road to Jericho, two thousand years ago, I have often wondered what would have happened had not the Good Samaritan come along. Similar accidents have occurred when the Good Samaritan was longed for, but failed to put in an appearance, when priests and Levites passed by in unending procession, when the thieves had such an air o...

About the Book Books that are Anthologies of Fictional Works by multiple authors are selected by the editor. Examples include: Kotto, being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs, Bibliographical notes on One hundred books famous in English literature, and Die Drei Grazien des Traumes: Fünf Novellen.About usTrieste Publishing's aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood t...