'TWAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.'

“The volume is unique in that it relates to a period about which American readers have known little.” —Boston Transcript. “With numerous illustrations from photographs” —A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers. In response to repeated requests, the compiler now presents in book form the series of legends that have been made a feature of "The Hawaiian Annual" for a number of years past. The series has been enriched by the addition of several tales, the famous shark legend having been furnished for ...

A bright and happy Christmas to you! Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as something so sublimely precious that it is worthy of being made an offering to God, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been truly born anew into His Divinity, as He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day. Most tangible of all the gods that be, O Santa Claus—our own since infancy!— As first we scampered to thee—now, as then, Take u...

CHRISTMAS STORIES: A Very Naughty Little Person. Poor Uncle Tom. A Snow Man Not Such Fun as it Seemed. On The Sands. Old Clothes. The Little Tiny Thing. Questions. A Lesson in Manners. The Prize Boat. The Little Thief in the Pantry. Great-Grandmother’s Wish.

Now the King Of the North had a beautiful daughter called Crystal. Her eyes were bright like the stars; her hair was black like the sky at night and her skin was as white as the snow which covered the ground outside the palace where she lived, which was built entirely Of crystals clear as the clearest glass. And the King Of the South had a son who had been named Sunshine on account of his brightness and warmth of heart. The King of the East had a son who, because he was always up early and...

This volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible—the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Dore. The original work, from which this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm recognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its purchase, and its popularity has in no wise diminished since its first publication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it casually, or...

From the Editior: This volume does not aim to contain all ?the best American humorous short stories?; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the p...

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Various - The Original Classic EditionFinally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:The world of dead matter which our fathers thought they understood has become ...

Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German war criminals, the International Military Tribunal directed the publication of the Record of the Trial. The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German, the four languages used throughout the hearings. The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language. The first volume contains basic, official, pre-trial documents together with the Tribuna...

The experiences of EXPERIENCES of Walter Besant, Robert Michael Ballantyne, James Payn, Israel Zangwill, William Clark Russell, Morley Roberts, Grant Allen, David Christie Murray, Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, George R. Sims, Jerome K. Jerome, Rudyard Kipling, John Strange Winter, A. Conan Doyle, Bret Harte, M. E. Braddon, 'Q.', F. W. Robinson, Robert Buchanan, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson

To read the old Nursery Rhymes brings back queer lost memories of a man's own childhood. One seems to see the loose floppy picture-books of long ago, with their boldly coloured pictures. The books were tattered and worn, and my first library consisted of a wooden box full of these volumes. And I can remember being imprisoned for some crime in the closet where the box was, and how my gaolers found me, happy and impenitent, sitting on the box, with its contents all round me, reading.

KITTY'S BASKET RIDE. TIME. THANKSGIVING AT GRANDPA'S. A QUEER PLACE FOR A BIRD'S HOME. LITTLE FIDGET. THE GOOD LITTLE MILKMAN. SIX NICE DUCKS ROBBIE'S DRUM. LITTLE MISS SONNET. THE PIPPIN-TREE. MOUSIE'S MATCH. DENNY O'TOOLE. AFRAID OF SPIDERS. WHAT BECAME OF THE SUGAR-PLUM? GOOD WORK FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. THE WREN'S NEST. BE GOOD, PAPA. THE SNOW FAMILY. CROSSING THE BROOK. GRANDFATHER'S SPECTACLES. FINDING BABY'S DIMPLES. PLAYING HORSE. NINE LITTLE PIGS. CONFIDENTIAL A ROSE THAT WILL ...