The Mastery of Destiny embodies New Thought writer James Allen's teachings that our thoughts can be used to increase our capabilities and to create our lives as we desire them to be.

Henry Thomas Hamblin was one of the founding fathers of the New Thought Movement.

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.

We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)

In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.

Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

Poise is a power derived from the Mastery of Self.

Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

John Dewey's Democracy and Education.

Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.

From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing.

A review from the PENN STATER, Sept./Oct. 1997: ". . .Braund's descriptions of his agricultural mission will interest some readers.

The secret Society for Emigrant Women runs an international rescue operation for runaway women.

Don't Try and Sell Me No Pink Flamingos: From the forward by George Garrett York Harbor.

Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.

Throne of Straw has been performed in: Los Angeles at UCLA's MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater.

When disasters strike ships in space, only three ships stand ready to answer the call in in our solar system.