“T he art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Aristippus, “and the keenest ...

Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance,” the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly ...

Editor’s Note: After training as a chemical engineer, JAMES HURST switched directions and studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music and in Rome. After a brief and unsuccessful fling at an ...