A Stagecoach Romance “I’ll cross it though it blast me!”–Hamlet It was a rainy Sunday in the gloomy month of November. I had been detained, in the course of a journey, by a slight indisposition, from which I was recovering; but was still feverish, and obliged to keep within doors all day, in an inn […]

In a stormy night, in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was returning to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. The lightning gleamed, and the loud claps of thunder rattled through the lofty narrow streets—but I should first tell you something about this young German. […]

A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker By Woden, God of Saxons,From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. Truth is a thing that ever I will keepUnto thylke day in which I creep intoMy sepulchre——CARTWRIGHT The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was […]

Found among the Papers ofthe late Diedrich Knickerbocker A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky. —Castle of Indolence. INthe bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore […]

He that supper for is dight,He lyes full cold, I trow, this night!Yestreen to chamber I him led,This night Gray-steel has made his bed!—Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-steel. On the summit of one of the heights of the Odenwald, a wild and romantic tract of Upper Germany that lies not far from the […]

A FEW MILES from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp, or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove; on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s […]

WHILE Governor Manco, or “the one-armed,” kept up a show of military state in the Alhambra, he became nettled at the reproaches continually cast upon his fortress, of being a nestling place of rogues and contrabandistas. On a sudden, the old potentate determined on reform, and setting vigorously to work, ejected whole nests of vagabonds […]