Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As I started out from the farm with a basket of potatoes, for our supper in the shack half a mile up the hillside, where we had made our Summer camp, my eye fell on a notice affixed to a gate-post, and, as I read it, my heart sank - sank as the sun was sinking yonder with wistful glory behind the purple ridge. I tore the paper from the gate-post and put it in my pocket with a sigh. "It is true, then," I said to myself. "We have got...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As I started out from the farm with a basket of potatoes, for our supper in the shack half a mile up the hillside, where we had made our Summer camp, my eye fell on a notice affixed to a gate-post, and, as I read it, my heart sank - sank as the sun was sinking yonder with wistful glory behind the purple ridge. I tore the paper from the gate-post and put it in my pocket with a sigh. "It is true, then," I said to myself. "We have got...

Richard le Gallienne was an early 20th century writer. He joined the staff of The Star in 1891, and wrote for various papers using the pseudonym Logroller. His works include, My Ladies' Sonnets and Other Vain and Amatorious Verses (1887), Volumes in Folio (1889) poems, George Meredith: Some Characteristics (1890), English Poems (1892), The Religion of a Literary Man (1893), and Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy and Other Poems. In The Worshipper of the Image Antony is a man with a beautiful wife, lovely child and a gift for writing poetry. He is also one of those men destined to face tragedy....