APPLES Come buy my fine wares, Plums, apples, and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many: Come, will you have an...

That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces an...

The prettiest scenery in all England--and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europe--is in Devonshire, on the s...

I shall never forget my first introduction to country life in Ireland, my first day's hunting there, or the manner in which I pass...

from Trollope's Tales of all Countries series. "Let the boys have it if they like it," said Mrs. Garrow, plead...

I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala. I interchanged a few words with him or wit...

The house of Heine Brothers, in Munich, was of good repute at the time of which I am about to tell,--a time not long ago; and is so st...

John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift a...

Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le V...

It is generally supposed that people who live at home,--good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parl...

Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained...

There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the latter...

from Tales from All Countries. The Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is not much known to English, ...

I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to i...

Of all the spots on the world's surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the ...

In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental c...

I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the...

Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of ...