The complete online text of Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times by Mary Martha Sherwood.

It is unfortunate that Mary Martha Sherwood is chiefly remembered today for The History of the Fairchild Family (1818), a book that has become infamous in the late twentieth century for extended deathbed scenes, rotting corpses, and other grisly and dist...

THE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT ceremony was exactly as I had remembered it from my undergraduate days. Only the architecture had changed. A "South African shantytown" had been erected in the Old (or West) Yard, where the graduates and alumni assemble before marching into Tercentenary...

IN the Yatenga region in Burkina Faso, it is still common to see people refusing to drink from the same calabash or sit on the same mat as a blacksmith. The reason lies in an old tale. It goes: 'In the beginning blacksmiths...