Poitiers

Hilaire Belloc

CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN _Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years_ Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. [Illustration] DUCKWORT...

Hilaire Belloc

PREFACE The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books.

Hilaire Belloc

[Illustration: Hebrew text] Constable & Company, Limited London Bombay Sydney First Published 1922 Second Impression 1922 To MISS RUBY GOLDSMITH MY SECRETARY FOR MANY YEARS AT K...

Hilaire Belloc

[Illustration] THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. DUCKWORTH, ...

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.