McTaggart consults with a doctor, who, after careful examination, credits his astonished patient with a double heart. This quality of existence pursues him morally as well as physically, for he is concerned with a Parisian adventuress who tries to entangle him for financial purposes, and Cydonia, the beautiful daughter of a nouveau riche. A many-sided […]
How does it work? This question has been put to me so often by persons young and old that I have at last decided to answer it in such a manner that a much larger public than that with which I have personal acquaintance may be able to satisfy themselves as to the principles underlying […]
An uncensored story of the motion picture colony that explains what the public has long wanted to know.
Book Excerpt r le souvenir des conseils de Matrona Philémonovna et par le sentiment du malaise qui régnait dans la maison. Il parcourut tout le journal, apprit que le comte de Beust était parti pour Wiesbaden, qu’il n’existait plus de cheveux gris, qu’il se vendait une calèche, qu’une jeune personne cherchait une place, et ces […]
Book Excerpt documents humains, et il paraît que personne ne s’en était avisé jusqu’aujourd’hui, pas même mon vieil ami Fielding, que je relis tous les ans. Documentez à votre aise, mes enfants, et allez dîner chez Mme Corneuil, qui ne reçoit que les gens qui documentent. Je n’aime pas beaucoup les pédants sérieux, mais j’ai […]
In this powerful story Mr. Garland has entered a new field, full of fascination for the modern mind–that of the occult. The heroine is a girl in all respects normal except for a strange psychic power which she possesses, but does not understand. Coming under strange influences, she is in danger of being exploited for […]
Stella Benton, a college graduate reared in luxury, became the cook in her brother’s lumber camp in the Roaring Lake Region through the self-centered ambition of Benton that took no count of others. When, at the end of her endurance, Jack Fyfe offers her a way out as his wife, she accepts, thinking anything better […]
Book Excerpt bride showing no repugnance, but being absolutely passive in everything her mother commanded or advised. On the day of the marriage, which, as was then usual, was celebrated by a great assemblage of friends and relations, she was the same–sad, silent, and resigned, as it seemed, to her destiny. A lady, very nearly […]