Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a …
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are …
It was a time of great and exalting excitement.
The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire …
In that summer of 1861 the first wash of the wave of war broke upon the shores of Missouri. Our state was invaded by the …
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and …
It was at a banquet in London in honor of one of the two or three conspicuously illustrious English military names of this generation. For …
After the kings of Great Britain had assumed the right of appointing the colonial governors, the measures of the latter seldom met with the ready …
A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of …
“Perhaps, father,” said Annie, without showing much interest in the question, “Owen is inventing a new kind of timekeeper. I am sure he has ingenuity …
Such a union accordingly took place, and was attended with truly remarkable consequences and a deeply impressive moral. One day, very soon after their marriage, …
“And verily,” thought he, ” I deem it a chief condition of Heaven’s mercy to myself, that I hold no communion with those abominable myriads …
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I. HOWE’S MASQUERADE
One afternoon, last summer, while walking along Washington street, my eye was attracted by …