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The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English

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 Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted c...


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Idle Hours in a Library

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The title of this little volume was chosen because it seems to indicate a characteristic possessed in common by the otherwise unrelated essays here brought together. They may all be described in a general way as holiday tasks—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, ...


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Gossip in a Library

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It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were no public libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from 1608; the Bodleian, at Oxford, from 1612. To these Angelo Rocca added his in Rome, in 1620. But private collections of books always exist...


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THE LOCK AND KEY LIBRARY CLASSIC MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE STORIES

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Charles Dickens(1812-1870),British novelist, was born in navy clerk family, at the age of 10 family was forced to move debtors prison, 11 years, and he took heavy housework. Once child labor in the black shoe polish workshop, at the age of 15 as an apprentice in a law firm, and later as a civil court case records, then a newspaper ...


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