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pubOne.info present you this new edition. MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A. D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Happy in the hope that the news was "e;exclusive"e;, the Despatch had thrown the name of Stephen Hallowell, his portrait, a picture of his house, and the words, "e;At Point of Death! "e; across three columns. The announcement was heavy, lachrymose, bristling with the melancholy...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-one- the end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THIS volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. A MIDSUMMER freshet was running over old Gabe Bunch's water-wheel into the Cumberland. Inside the mill Steve Marcum lay in one dark corner with a slouched hat over his face. The boy Isom was emptying a sack of corn into the hopper. Old Gabe was speaking his mind....

The following story, the first published by the author, was written nineteen years ago, at a time when he was feeling his way to a method. The principles observed in its composition are, no doubt, too exclusively those in which mystery, entanglement, surprise, and moral obliquity are depended on for exciting interest; but some of the scenes, and at...