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VV2-sandeman-capriccioso

XML   PDF Rhapsodie Capriccioso         NOW when life is nearly o’er,         And there remains for me         Only the bleak and barren shore         By a cold…

VV2-toc

XML   PDF CONTENTS Front Cover  by  Walter Bayes Endpapers Arden Press Imprint                         …

VV2-thomas-skeleton

XML   PDF The Skeleton WHEN Philaster was alive, he and I were often busy with records of great beauty that had long ago flourished.…

VV2-syrett-journey

XML   PDF The Last Journey ON a summer night, in the year of grace nineteen hundred and four, in the age of motor-cars and…

VV2-symons-poppaea

XML   PDF Otho and Poppaea                               (From an unfinished play.)         SCENE: The Gardens of Agrippina in the Vatican. Otho.  A word, Poppaea! Pop.             I will speak…

VV2-swift-waltham

XML   PDF John de Waltham A Fragment of a Play                                     SCENE: A FOREST         Enter Marion Levenoth, a reputed witch, and a disguised Priest.         Priest. …

VV2-sullivan-actress

XML   PDF On staying at an Hotel with a Celebrated Actress                                                       I THIS was at Turin. I had strolled slowly back to the hotel…

VV2-roberts-box

XML   PDF The Ebony Box. THERE was nothing, to the glance of a casual observer, of the extraordinary in Colonel Hicks’ drawing-room. Fur- nished…

VV2-robertson-solution

XML   PDF A Solution                                                          I WHEN the door had closed on the last guest, Madame Verneuil bade George Harley draw his chair nearer the…

VV2-ransome-melody

XML   PDF A Tuscan Melody SEVEN hundred years ago, when the heart of Italy was glowing from a new fire and strong with a…