The battle which the "Soirees de Medan" helped to win has been won; having gained our right to deal with humble and unpleasant and sordidly tragic things in fiction, we are free to concern ourselves with other things. But though the period has passed, and will not return, the ...
The count, a nobleman advanced in years and of aristocratic bearing, strove to enhance, by every artifice of the toilet, his natural resemblance to King Henry IV, who, according to a legend of which the family were inordinately proud, had been the favoured lover of a De Bréville lady, an...
"Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, inhaving been permitted to draw out your head in safety from themouth and jaws of a wolf." In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if youescape injury for your pains. The Fisherman Piping A FISHERMAN skilled in...
A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast, I miss my family all the more on every festive day. 大江东去,浪淘尽,千古风流人物。 The endless river eastward flows; with its huge waves arc gone all those gallant heroes of bygone years. 二人同心,其利断金。 If two people are of the ...
n intelliince had been faulty in not ascertaining that the new Churchill tanks could cross two key bridges - and if they couldn't, could easily have forded the rivers; that the narrow galleys leading from the narrow beaches to the top of the hiih cliffs had been filled with tangles of...