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"The Silver Stream" is an entertaining story of two men who defended the honor of their university in rowing. There were only two men in the small craft, and as they were double sculling, with a long clean sweep, making a musical click of paddlers in the rowlocks, there was little opportunity for conversation. They proceeded with a steady fast rhythm until they were almost in the bridge's shadow. But can they get to their goal after several obstacles fall in their way?

The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of Immortality is a novella by James Lane Allen. Allen was an American novelist and short story writer, here conveying a wholesome and poetic reflection of nature. Excerpt: "But meantime life on this earth implies warmth and carries warmth: that at least we positively have found out though without knowing what warmth is. Every living terrestrial creature is a candle, is a lamp. The rose is a perfumed lamp and when its bowl is without oil, that inimitable lamp so silently built to give off for a little while a few serene rays of vestal beauty as silently falls to pieces. The pine tree is a wild candle poised on a mountain table. The eagle is a winged candle burning to cinders on a peak of air. The albatross is a floating conflagration with all the ineffectual sea drenching its back and breast. The polar bear is a four-branch candle in a candlestick of snow. We human beings are laughing and tear-dripping candles, descending swiftly to our sockets."

"The River's Children" is an incredible work by American author, Ruth McEnery Stuart, representing the conduct of life of African Americans residing near the Mississippi River and the poverty they lived in. Excerpt from "The River's Children" "The Mississippi was flaunting itself in the face of opposition along its southern banks. It had carried much before it in its downward path ere it reached New Orleans. A plantation here, a low-lying settlement there, a cotton-field in bloom under its brim, had challenged its waters and been taken in, and there was desolation in its wake."