类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Is Saul also among the prophets? With my mental ear I hear thus exclaim those in whose view the teller of tales stands immeasurably higher than the rabbi, minister, preacher, scholar, or whatever else may be called he whose vocation it is to dissemin...
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简介： The bark Nebuchadnezar came staggering into Chelsea harbor in a very demoralized condition. Her main and mizzen masts were both gone, the bulwarks were smashed in, the poop swept away, and she leaked so badly that all the short-handed crew were nearl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Boys Foot-race at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Cor?bus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice,...
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简介： This monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion was delivered in substance as the presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada at its May meeting of 1893, in Ottawa. Since then the author has given the whole subject a careful re...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The heavens were a stainless blue, and the Moon shone out of them arrayed in silvery garments. One by one the skys matchless jewels, the stars, peeped out, studding that great ceiling with flashing diamond-points, until the whole dome was a glitterin...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Prudence was the oldest, and very wise. (That was why she was Prudence, but more often the Princess said, Miss Phyllis-y.) She had brown eyes, clear and steady, and short hair. There was a perky little lock on one side of the middle of her forehead t...
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简介： It has only recently been recognized as a fact, says Prof. A. F. Bandelier, that on the whole American continent, the mode of life of the primitive inhabitants was formed on one sociological principle, and consequently the culture of these peoples ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Sherwood Park is twelve miles from Washington. Starting as a somewhat pretentious suburb on the main line of a railroad, it was blessed with easy accessibility until encroaching trolleys swept the tide of settlement away from it, and left it high and...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Once there was a nice young hen that we will call Mrs. Feathertop. She was a hen of most excellent family, being a direct descendant of the Bolton Grays, and as pretty a young fowl as you could wish to see of a summers day. She was, moreover, as fort...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Every now and then some one who has not given much thought to the matter asks the questions, Of what real use is the Stock Exchange? What does it accomplish? Is it a necessary and useful part of our economic life, or is it merely a means of promoting...
