Penny Dredfuls for All
Is the free library, as it is now conducted, an unmixed blessing to any community?
Most of our readers will be ready to send up a howl of derision in answer to such a question. We Americans usually are like Chinamen—any printed…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following text offers the original serialized version of "A Story of To-Day" with comparative annotations of revisions for the book version, Margret Howth. The only instance in which revisions are not shown is the change in…
Enos Lex—A Cobbler and Drunkard
Mary Brunt was a visiting governess in Philadelphia. She went from house to house giving lessons to little children in the rudiments of knowledge. She was not young, nor beautiful, nor particularly clever, yet she had…
Country Girls in Town
IT was about ten years ago when I first saw Mary Carr. She was a woman of forty, healthy, resolute, keen of eye and sharp of tongue; with a firm belief in herself and very little belief in any other person or thing. She always…
