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Updated: June 17, 2025
Why, before long I shall become a classic! Bound in sets and kept on the top book-shelf brr, doesn't that sound freezing? I foresee the day when I shall be as lonely as an Etruscan museum! Ventnor. Yours? Mrs. Yes; I claim them. On what ground? Mrs. Dale. Hear the man! Because I wrote them, of course. Ventnor. But it seems to me that under your inspiration, I admit I also wrote mine. Mrs. Dale.
She sat down on his bed a bench only covered by a bit of carpet and began to take off her boots. The little cell seemed to her charming. The narrow little room, some seven feet by nine, was as clean as glass. There was nothing in it but the bench on which she was sitting, the book-shelf above it, and a lectern in the corner. A sheepskin coat and a cassock hung on nails by the door.
As little is he conscious of the significance of the words "society" and "civilization"; nor can he explain whether, or why, either of them is desirable or undesirable, good or bad. On an accessible book-shelf in my library, stand side by side four volumes whose contents I once knew by heart, and which, after the lapse of twenty years, are yet tolerably distinct in my memory.
That is precisely what the admirer of M. Feuillet's books feels as one by one he places them on his book-shelf, to be sought again. What is proposed here is not to tell his last story, but to give the English reader specimens of his most recent effort at characterisation.
Well, here you are." Hewitt reached an atlas from his book-shelf. "Now, look here: the biggest island of the lot on this map, barring Cuba, is Hayti. You know as well as I do that the western part of that island is peopled by the black republic of Hayti, and that the country is in a degenerate state of almost unexampled savagery, with a ridiculous show of civilization.
The book-shelf, however, was to Anne the most attractive object in the room; and whilst Helen was untying the strings of her portfolio, she went up to it. 'What a beautiful little Bishop Wilson! exclaimed she, taking out one of the books. 'Yes, said Helen with a sigh, 'that was dear Mrs. Staunton's last present to me before I left Dykelands.
Anders Ekman took up some wood-carving and went quietly to work; while Grandmother Ekman selected a well-worn book from the book-shelf, and seated herself in the big chair by the window to look over the Norse legends of the gods and giants. She turned the pages slowly until she found the pleasant tale of Frey, who married Gerd, the beautiful daughter of one of the frost giants.
A plump, cheery landlady saw Beth to her room, and, once alone, she did just what hundreds of other girls have done in her place sat down on that big trunk and wept, and wondered what "dear old daddy" was doing. But she soon controlled herself, and looked around the room. It was a very pretty room, with rocker and table, and a book-shelf in the corner.
Take it all in all, "Horseshoe Robinson" is a work which should be found on every book-shelf, not only because it is a most entertaining story, but because of the wealth of valuable information concerning the colonists which it contains.
He felt about with his fingers, right and left, and in doing so disturbed another row of books, which fell upon the floor beneath him. He had apparently come out in the middle of a large book-shelf.
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