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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

gh he had a quick eye for itsvanities. He had social wit, and liked to put it to small uses. But he ...

The Vampyre; a Tale

John William Polidori

his own nation, but from the farthest boundaries ofEurope. Here too is Bonnet's abode, and, a few s...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

erof the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of animperfect medium. No artis...

Gulliver of Mars

Edwin Lester Arnold

eak crisp and brown on both sides, and tomatoes red as asetting sun!Much else though I have forgotte...

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays

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Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley

Lord Dunsany

AGON AND KNIGHTTHE SECOND CHRONICLE     HOW HE HIRED A MEMORABLE SERVANTTHE THIRD CHRONICLE  ...

Tales of Three Hemispheres

Lord Dunsany

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The History of Caliph Vathek

William Beckford

s dreamafter a very heavy dinner at the Mansion House.  There isdevotion in it to the senses, empha...

The Enchanted Island of Yew

L. Frank Baum

on a time", andso few of these days in which we live; but that is easily explained.In the old days, ...

Otto of the Silver Hand

Howard Pyle

ul period in our world’s history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragme...

Fifty-One Tales

Lord Dunsany

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The Road to Oz

L. Frank Baum

ents have been considered as carefully as possible, and ifthe story is not exactly as you would have...

Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany

cles the dreams arose and stood upproudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the...

Ozma of Oz

L. Frank Baum

ng: "Please have Dorothy go tothe Land of Oz again"; or, "Why don't you make Ozma and Dorothy meet,a...

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

nish History", Translated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894; Reissued by the Online Mediev...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

sour temper and a grim look—the worshipful, the Sheriff of Nottingham. And here, above all, ...

The Golden Scorpion

Sax Rohmer

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The Hand of Fu-Manchu

Sax Rohmer

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The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

Sax Rohmer

PERCHAPTER ITHE PHANTOM SCIMITARI was not the only passenger aboard the S.S. Mandalay who perceived ...

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer

" he continued, and, dimly, I could seehim at the window, peering out into the road, "but before you...

Two New Meadow Mice from Michoacán Mexico

E. Raymond Hall

.—Known only from the vicinity of the type locality.Diagnosis.—Size large (see measurements); co...

Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews

James S. Findley

nited States National Museum, No. 19434, respectively, both of whichare alcoholics, reveals that the...

A New Hylid Frog from Eastern Mexico.

Edward Harrison Taylor

um sized member of the genus with known maximumlength of male, 57 mm. Canthus rostralis well defined...

A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico

John M. Legler

those for holotype; USNM 60976, adult, stuffed specimen with disassociated skull, Lerdo, Durango, D...

A New Extinct Emydid Turtle from the Lower Pliocene of Oklahoma

Edwin C. Galbreath

ates Geological Survey. When examiningthe marl beds an Emydid turtle was discovered which appears to...

Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado

Sydney Anderson

two localitiesbelow the rim of the Mesa on the north slope, on the basis ofspecimens preserved, and ...

Observations on the Mississippi Kite in Southwestern Kansas

Henry S. Fitch

ite (Ictinia mississippiensis) is one of the commonraptors of Kansas, occurring regularly and abunda...

Conspecificity of two pocket mice, Perognathus goldmani and P. artus

E. Raymond Hall and Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

s twospecies. In both goldmani and artus the upper parts are Ochraceous-Buff(capitalized color terms...

Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919

Various

y will be considered for publication.Manuscripts submitted should be typewritten on one side ofpaper...

A Bilateral Division of the Parietal Bone in a Chimpanzee; with a Special Reference to the Oblique Sutures in the Parietal

Aleš Hrdlička

arallel with the sagittal suture," but, as the illustration shows(Fig. 1), it descends in its poster...