In a retired street in one of the inland cities of Massachusetts stood a neat and attractive little cottage of purest white, the dark ...

Judge Camden’s two beautiful granddaughters were the pride of Fauquier County, and both were so charming that Paris himself must have ...

“A star Which moves not ’mid the moving heavens alone, A smile among dark frowns—a gentle tone Among rude voices, a beloved light, A ...

It was a beautiful winter night. The sky was brilliant with millions of beautiful stars that glowed and scintillated as if conscious ...

The morning mail for Merrivale had just arrived, and the postmaster was distributing the letters. Col. Rossiter, who lived in the large ...

The first, a small half-sheet, inclosed in a large thick envelope, and addressed in a childish, unformed hand to Mr. James Everard ...

It was in the “merry month” of May, the “beautiful harbinger of summer,” as the poets call it; and one of those charming east winds that ...

The President of the United States shook his head with an emphasis which caused the other men gathered around the massive mahogany ...

“Fly around there, little Eva, and pack the lunch basket while me an’ the other girls get ready for the hay ride an’ the party. Put in ...

“Oh, Mamma, I have had a lovely time at Mrs. Van Bibber’s! I would not have missed her reception for the world!” The blonde beauty ...

Crack—crack! Though faint and far away, there could be no mistaking these sharp, spiteful reports for other than the voice of rifles. ...

In the midst of the lonely forest, that stretched in an almost unbroken line of solitude from the head-waters of the Hudson to the ...

“A man and a woman together; then a man alone.” Nick Carter thought this remark rather than uttered it in words, as he came to an ...

Among the earliest settlements of Kentucky was that which figures in our story. At the time of the following events, it contained some ...

“Love! It began with a glance, Grew with the growing flowers, Smiled in a dreamful trance, Recked not the passage of hours. “Grief! ...

Many long years have elapsed since I first set foot in the valley of the Mississippi. I had strayed thither a young and enthusiastic ...

"I say, stranger, did you see anything of a confounded big b'ar passing this way?" The question was uttered by Davy Crockett, the ...

Fancy a dingy old brick house on B— street, New York City—dusty outside and moldy in all its ragged, papered walls inside—a dreary house ...

“Her lips were silent—scarcely beat her heart, Her eyes alone proclaimed, ‘we must not part;’ Thy hope may perish, or thy friends may ...

"Annie, girl, who is that coming up the spring path? Ah me! I fear my old eyes are beginning to fail me at last!" "Coming up the—ugh! ...