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Title	Author
John Mccrae: An Essay In Character	by Andrew Macphail
King Candaules	by Theophile Gautier
Blackbeard; Or, The Pirate Of Roanoke	by B. Barker
The Story Of Oello	by Edward Everett Hale
The Two Princes	by Edward Everett Hale
Stand And Wait	by Edward Everett Hale
Daily Bread	by Edward Everett Hale
Alice’s Christmas-Tree	by Edward Everett Hale
They Saw A Great Light	by Edward Everett Hale
Time And The Kings Of The Elements	by Alexander Chodsko
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse	by Beatrix Potter
The Same Christmas In Old England And New	by Edward Everett Hale
Christmas And Rome	by Edward Everett Hale
Love Is The Whole	by Edward Everett Hale
The Journey To The Sun And The Moon	by Alexander Chodsko
The Maid With Hair Of Gold	by Alexander Chodsko
The Grand Inquisitor	by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sovereign Of The Mineral Kingdom	by Alexander Chodsko
The Sun Or The Three Golden Hairs Of The Old Man Vsevede	by Alexander Chodsko
The Twelve Months	by Alexander Chodsko
The History Of Prince Slugobyl Or The Invisible Knight	by Alexander Chodsko
The Broad Man, The Tall Man, And The Man With Eyes Of Flame	by Alexander Chodsko
Flying Carpet, Invisible Cap, Gold-Giving Ring, And Smiting Club	by Alexander Chodsko
The Dwarf With The Long Beard	by Alexander Chodsko
Tears Of Pearls	by Alexander Chodsko

Random Acts of Poetry

Title	Author
To The Winds	by Charles Mackay
Renascence	by Edna St Vincent Millay
The Eastern Question	by Ambrose Bierce
Another New-Year’s Gift: Or, Song For The Circumcision	by Robert Herrick
Richard Watson Gilder	by Henry Van Dyke
The Bonny, Bonny Dell	by George MacDonald
The Feast Of Victory	by Frederich Schiller
The Swimmer	by Adam Lindsay Gordon
The Milestone by the Rabbit-Burrow	by Thomas Hardy
The Rat Retired From The World	by Jean de La Fontaine
King’s Chapel	by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Stag And The Vine	by Jean de La Fontaine
Ode To Heaven	by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ower The Hedge	by George MacDonald
My Rights	by Susan Coolidge
The Ancient Of Days	by G. K. Chesterton
The Eternal Will	by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Fools’ Paradise	by Thomas Moore
Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare	by Robert Burns
The Four Ages Of The World	by Frederich Schiller
A Doe At Evening	by D. H. Lawrence

Recommended Essays

Title	Author
Consider The Commuter	by Christopher Morley
Holidays In Hawaii	by John Burroughs
Royal Promotions	by Isaac Disraeli
The English Renaissance Of Art	by Oscar Wilde
Idler 012 [No. 12: Marriages, why advertised]	by Samuel Johnson
Of Honor And Reputation	by Francis Bacon
An Essay On Satire, Particularly On The Dunciad	by Walter Harte
No. 061 [from The Spectator]	by Joseph Addison
Rambler 134 [Idleness an anxious and miserable state]	by Samuel Johnson
No. 199 [from The Spectator]	by Richard Steele
Emerald Uthwart	by Walter Pater
An Ordnance Map	by A. A. Milne
Adventurer 069 [No. 69: Idle hope]	by Samuel Johnson
Mrs. Margaret L. Woods	by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Inane And Unimaginative	by Richard King
Home Rule And Imperial Unity	by Henry Thring
The Revolution Of Greece	by Thomas De Quincey
The Evolution Of Mystery	by Maurice Maeterlinck

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