The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant part 1
The author of the following story is unknown. It was gathered with others in Persia, brought to England and presented to the Bodleian Library.
The...
The Higher The Flight, The Lower The Fall part 2
The present version is made by the editors from two old English verse translations.
The Higher The Flight, The Lower The Fall
(From Emblems)
Puffed up with...
Creole Democracy part 1
Venezuela
Rufino Blanco-Fombona (1874-1944)
Blanco-Fombona was born at Caracas, in Venezuela, in 1874. He came of an old and aristocratic family of Spanish descent. His extraordinary...
Easter Torch Part 8
The trap was ingeniously contrived: a long rope fastened round a block of wood; lengthwise, at the place where the sawn panel had disappeared,...
Easter Torch Part 7
In a few moments, this same gimlet would cause the destruction of Leiba and his domestic hearth. The two executioners would hold the victim...
Easter Torch Part 6
His throat was parched. He was thirsty. He washed a small glass in a three-legged tub by the side of the bar and tried...
Easter Torch Part 5
Then he had passed under the portico, and had listened at the top of the stone steps by the door which was secured with...
Easter Torch Part 4
What followed must have undoubtedly filled the driver with respect. The young passengers were two students, one of philosophy, the other of medicine; they...
Easter Torch Part 3
On the main road there was a good deal of traffic, an unceasing noise of wheels accompanied by -the rhythmic sound of horses` hoofs...
Easter Torch Part 2
Leiba went to the town hall, then to the sub-prefecture to denounce the threatener, begging that he might be watched. The sub-prefect was a...
