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The Queen of Spades A.S. Pushkin The Cloak N.V. Gogol The District Doctor I.S. Turgenev The Christmas Tree And The Wedding F.M. Dostoyevsky God Sees The Truth, But Waits L.N. Tolstoy How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials M.Y. Saltykov The Shades, A Phantasy V.G. Korolenko The Signal V.N. Garshin The Darling A.P. Chekhov The Bet A.P. Chekhov Vanka A.P. Chekhov Hide and Seek F.K. Sologub Dethroned I.N. Potapenko The Servant S.T. Semyonov One Autumn Night M. Gorky Her Lover M. Gorky Lazarus L.N. Andreyev

tospecial disfavour of fortune, or the niggardly provision of astep-motherly nature, this will should wholly lack power to accomplishits purpose, if with its greatest efforts it should yet achievenothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to besure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then,like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thingwhich has its whole value in itself. Its usefulness or fruitfulnesscan neither add nor take away anything

the young shopman had thrown her up she was getting more and more into the habit of drinking. It was not so much the flavour of wine that tempted her as the fact that it gave her a chance of forgetting the misery she suffered, making her feel more unrestrained and more confident of her own worth, which she was not when quite sober; without wine she felt sad and ashamed. Just at this time a woman came along who offered to place her in one of the largest establishments in the city, explaining all

onishing spread andpopularity of these therapeutic innovations?Their success undoubtedly is based on the fact that they concentratetheir best efforts on preventive instead of combative methods oftreating disease. People are beginning to realize that it is cheaperand more advantageous to prevent disease than to cure it. To createand maintain continuous, buoyant good health means greaterefficiency for mental and physical work; greater capacity for thetrue enjoyment of life, and the best insurance

her people in theworld. Hence the tribes went up to Jerusalem to worship; there wasGod's house, God's high-priest, God's sacrifices accepted, and God'seye, and God's heart perpetually; Psalm lxxvi. 1, 2; Psalm cxxii.; 1Kings ix. 3. But,Thirdly, We are to consider Jerusalem also in her decays; for as sheis so considered, she is the proper object of our text, as will befurther showed by and by. Jerusalem, as I told you, was the place and seat of God's worship,but now decayed, degenerated, and

adily enough, for, unfortunately, my professional duties were not onerous.Good man! he cried, wringing my hand in his impetuous way. We start now. What, to-night? To-night! I had thought of turning in, I must admit. I have not dared to sleep for forty-eight hours, except in fifteen-minute stretches. But there is one move that must be made to-night and immediately. I must warn Sir Crichton Davey. Sir Crichton Davey--of the India-- Petrie, he is a doomed man! Unless he follows my instructions