Stories of Mystery by Rossiter Johnson
Included in this collection are The Ghost – William D. O’Connor, The Four-Fifteen Express – Amelia B. Edwards, The Signal-Man – Charles Dickens, The Haunted Ships – Allan Cunningham, A Raft That No Man Made – Robert T.S. Lowell, The Invisible Princess – Francis O’Connor, The Advocate’s Wedding-Day – Catherine Crowe, and The Birthmark -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Best Russian Short Stories by Leonid Andreyev et al.; Chekov, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, etc.
Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literature. French and English and German authors, too, occasionally, offer works of lofty, simple naturalness; but the very keynote to the whole of Russian literature is simplicity, naturalness, veraciousness.
Famous Assassinations of History by Francis Johnson
The thirty-one assassinations, famous in history, which are narrated in this volume, have never before had their stories told in a collected form in any language. The accounts of them were scattered through the historical works of all nations, and through many volumes of private memoirs, which had to be scanned for proper and trustworthy material. It is hoped that their presentation in this form will make an interesting volume, not only for the student of history, but also for the general reader, on account of the historical and psychological interest which attaches to them.
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
To anyone who had just walked down the drive in the August sun, the open door of the Red House revealed a delightfully inviting hall, of which even the mere sight was cooling. It was a big low-roofed, oak-beamed place, with cream-washed walls and diamond-paned windows, blue-curtained. On the right and left were doors leading into other living-rooms, but on the side which faced you as you came in were windows again, looking on to a small grass court, and from open windows to open windows such air as there was played gently. The staircase went up in broad, low steps along the right-hand wall, and, turning to the left, led you along a gallery, which ran across the width of the hall, to your bedroom. That is, if you were going to stay the night. Mr. Robert Ablett’s intentions in this matter were as yet unknown.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
A classic book that every Person should know, My Daily Meditation For the Circling Year provides thoughtful and meaningful meditation chosen for each day of the year. Each meditation includes a Bible verse and 2 or 3 paragraphs of thought provoking focus for meditations that will build your day and build your life.
