The complete online text of Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang.

More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...

For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...

Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...

JOHN CICHOWSKI The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-10-2005 It'll take common sense to keep the left lane clear JOHN CICHOWSKI Date: 04-10-2005, Sunday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Column: THE ROAD WARRIOR After enduring his share of road hogs, Michael Fremer...

Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along the two-lane main street, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to scamper for their lives. The usual remedies --...