Joseph in the Snow and The Clockmaker

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker by Berthold Auerbach JOSEPH IN THE SNOW, AND THE CLOCKMAKER. BY AUERBACH. TRANSLATED BY LADY WALLACE IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III. LONDON: SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO., 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1861. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
AND CHARING CROSS.CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER XXIII. The first Nail knocked in, Peace in the House, and the first Sunday
Guest CHAPTER XXIV. Ancient Heirlooms are dismissed, and a new Tone pr...

Of Death and Watches

by David Winner 1976 All sixth-grade summer, the name of the Greek historian Xenophon pounded in my ears like a minor chord banged upon a piano.  I had borrowed a book by him from my father’s shelves but misplaced it in the last days of school. Fearing the wrenching disappointment that accompanied misplaced articles and forgotten tasks, I would slip nervously past the empty space in the bookshelf where Xenophon belonged. An English professor rather than a classicist, he would hardly hav...

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