Solomon dies during the building of the temple, but his body remains leaning on a staff, and overlooking the workmen, as if it were ali...

Gordier, a young man of the Island of Jersey, was paying his addresses to a young lady of Guernsey. He visited the latter island, inten...

Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to di...

THE following story, the simple and domestic incidents of which may be deemed scarcely worth relating, after such a lapse of time, awaken...

One afternoon, when the sun was going down, a mother and her little boy sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great Stone...

We do not remember to have seen any translated specimens of the productions of M. de l'Aubepine--a fact the less to be wondered a...

Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head bac...

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who n...

"Dickon," cried Mother Rigby, "a coal for my pipe!" The pipe was in the old dame's mouth when she said t...

Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood One September night a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwo...

In some old magazine or newspaper, I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man—let us call him Wakefield—who absented himself for a lo...