An Encore

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

CHAPTER I "Climb up in this tree, and play house!"

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

CHAPTER I Dr. Lavendar and Goliath had toiled up the hill to call on old Mr. Benjamin Wright; when they jogged back in the late afternoon it was with the peculiar complacency which follows the do...

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

By Margaret Deland TO LORIN DELAND KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE AUGUST 12TH, 1910 I ATHALIA HALL stopped to get her breath and look back over the road climbing steeply up from the cove...

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

According to Old Chester, to be romantic was just one shade less reprehensible than to put on airs.

Washington Irving

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.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.