Seeing People Off
音频 Seeing People Off by Max Beerbohm I am not good at it. To do it well seems to me one of the most difficult things inthe world, and...
The Crooked Streets
音频 Why do they pull down and do away with the Crooked Streets, I wonder, which are my delight, and hurt no man living? Every day the...
The Town Week
音频 It is odd that "Mondayish“ is the only word which the days of the week have given us since Monday is not alone in possessing a...
Universities and Their Function (excerpt)
音频 The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found...
The Woods and the Pacific
音频 The Bay of Monterey has been compared by no less a person than General Sherman to a bent fishing-hook; and the comparison, if less...
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
音频 From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which...
On Familiar Style
音频 It is not easy to write a familiar style. Many people mistake a familiar for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without...
The Convalescent
音频 A pretty severe fit of indisposition which, under the name of a nervous fever, has made a prisoner of me for some weeks past, and is...
A Shooter
音频 Thursday, Wednesday, 26 Oct. 1825 I was once acquainted with a famous shooter whose name was William Ewing. He was a barrister of...
On National Prejudices
原文音频 As I am one of that sauntering tribe of mortals, who spend the greatest part of their time in taverns, coffee houses, and other...
