The complete online text of The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Alice Meynell.

Alice Meynell was extraordinarily well known during her career, which spanned the late-Victorian and mid-Georgian eras. Her elegant, acute essays were frequently praised, and as a poet she was given the attention due a cultural prodigy. A tiny body of wo...

Alice Meynell was a remarkable literary figure and personality of the latter half of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. An independent woman for her era, Meynell was a leading essayist, an important poet--she was nominated for...

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women)? Hollywood thinks it does. Sadly, Lamont Cranston, a k a the Shadow, has been dragged out of radio's vacuum tubes, projected 40 feet high in full color, and blasted in multi-track...

Philosophers 'Hobbies and Other Essays, by Jenny Teichman, illustrated by Michael Jorgensen; Black Jack Press, 2003, $22. SHE'S A ONE-OFF, this Jenny Teichman. One minute she's discussing Aristotle's doctrine of the soul. The next, she's on about noisy stereos. Or the cruelty of...