短篇小说 | Post-mortem Poetry

2024年1月25日

In Philadelphia they have a custom which it would be pleasant to see adopted throughout the land. It is that of appending to published death-notices a little verse or two of comforting poetry.

短篇小说 | Political Economy

2024年1月23日

Political Economy is the basis of all good government. The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the--

短篇小说 | "Party Cries" In Ireland

2024年1月21日

Belfast is a peculiarly religious community. This may be said of the whole of the North of Ireland. About one-half of the people are Protestants and the other half Catholics.

短篇小说 | Paris Notes

2024年1月20日

The Parisian travels but little, he knows no language but his own, reads no literature but his own, and consequently he is pretty narrow and pretty self-sufficient.

短篇小说 | My Watch

2024年1月19日

My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping.

短篇小说 | My Military Campaign

2024年1月18日

You have heard from a great many people who did something in the war; is it not fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it, but didn't?

短篇小说 | My Late Senatorial Secretaryship

2024年1月17日

I am not a private secretary to a senator any more I now. I held the berth two months in security and in great cheerfulness of spirit, but my bread began to return from over the waters then--that is to say, my works came back and revealed themselves.

短篇小说 | My Debut as a Literary Person

2024年1月14日

I was in the islands to write letters for the weekly edition of the Sacramento 'Union,' a rich and influential daily journal which hadn't any use for them, but could afford to spend twenty dollars a week for nothing.