| | Author: | EDITED BY
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Out of his head  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | “On the seventeenth of August, in the year
16—, the morning sun, resting obliquely on the
gables and roof-tops of Portsmouth, lighted up
one of those grim spectacles not unusual in New
England at that period. In Thomas Bailey Aldrich, whose death was briefly
announced in The Times of Wednesday, America has lost
the most brilliant man of letters of the generation that
succeeded the Concord group. He was born in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, in November, 1836, when Longfellow
and Emerson were in their prime, and he reaped
the benefit of their labours by coming into an age which
they had familiarized with literature and cultivation.
Mr. Aldrich early became a journalist, and was connected
with the New York Evening Mirror, Willes's Home
Journal, and other papers. The outbreak of the war
saw him as newspaper correspondent, and in 1865 he
became the editor of Every Saturday. Nine years in
that post were followed by seven of miscellaneous work,
till in 1881 he reached the height of his career as
journalist by becoming editor of the Atlantic Monthly, a
position he held till 1890. Meanwhile he had written
much original matter both in prose and verse. His genius
was many-sided, and it is surprising that so busy an
editor and so prolific a writer should have attained the
perfection of form for which Mr. Aldrich was remarkable.
Among his novels “Prudence Palfrey” and “The
Stillwater Tragedy” are the best known. From his
country home at Porkapog, Mass., he sent out the charming
“Porkapog Papers,” as graceful and delicate as their
title was ungainly. He described with the skill of a
Hawthorne his native town by the sea, and in “Marjorie
Daw” and other works he proved himself an “American
humourist” of a characteristic type. One of his
books, “The Story of a Bad Boy,” has achieved
notable distinction; it has been translated into
French in a series entitled “Education et Récréation,”
and into German as a specimen of American humour. It
is, however, as a poet that Mr. Aldrich was chiefly
entitled to recognition, and on his poetry that his fame
will rest. Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman regarded him
as “the most pointed and exquisite of our lyrical craftsmen”;
and the words are well chosen. He was the
doyen and the leader of the school of American poetry
which is now being displaced by Mr. Bliss Carman and
others, who are apparently more virile than the preceding
generation. His was the poetry of exquisite finish and
not of great force or profundity. To say that his lyrics
are vers de société in the highest form is not to rate their
content too low nor their manner too high; and it is in
lyric song rather than in the longer poems, such as
“Wyndham Towers,” that Mr. Aldrich excelled. Some
of his poems—that on the intaglio head of Minerva,
“When the Sultan goes to Ispahan,” and “Identity”—
are in every anthology of American literature, and have
won their author fame throughout the English-speaking
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| | Author: | Abutsu-ni | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Izayoi Nikki | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | むかし、かべのなかより、もとめいでたりけむふみの名をば、いまの世の人の子は、夢ばかりも、身のうへの事とはしらざりけりな。みづくきのをかの葛原かへす％＼もかきおくあとたしかなれども、かひなきものは、おやのいさめなりけり。また賢王の人をすて給はぬまつりごとにももれ、忠臣の世を思ふなさけにもすてらるるものは、かずならぬ身ひとつなりけりと思ひしりなば又さてしもあらで、なほこのうれへこそやるかたなくかなしけれ。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aki | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 拭絖絅喝紊у
鐚
鐚
紕違
鐚
鐚
ゃ充絅潟篏紕
罧
鐚
祉
鐚
茯違ゃ賢綵弱コ絖賢鞘篏茯吾筝
壕
鐚
泣＜
鐚
罩ゃ＜キ荀障絅喝＜冴絖綵弱コ宴
緇
鐚
鐚
ャ罸
鐚
鐚
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| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bungakuzuki no katei kara | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 私の家は代々お
奥坊主
(
おくぼうず
)
だったのですが、父も母もはなはだ特徴のない平凡な人間です。父には
一中節
(
いっちゅうぶし
)
、囲碁、盆栽、俳句などの道楽がありますが、いずれもものになっていそうもありません。母は
津藤
(
つとう
)
の
姪
(
めい
)
で、昔の話をたくさん知っています。そのほかに
伯母
(
おば
)
が一人いて、それが特に私のめんどうをみてくれました。今でもみてくれています。
家
(
うち
)
じゅうで顔がいちばん私に似ているのもこの伯母なら、心もちの上で共通点のいちばん多いのもこの伯母です。伯母がいなかったら、
今日
(
こんにち
)
のような私ができたかどうかわかりません。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jigokuhen | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 堀川の大殿樣のやうな方は、これまでは固より、後の世には恐らく二人とはいらつしやいますまい。噂に聞きますと、あの方の御誕生になる前には、大威徳明王の御姿が御母君の夢枕にお立ちになつたとか申す事でございますが、兎に角御生れつきから、並々の人間とは御違ひになつてゐたやうでございます。でございますから、あの方の爲さいました事には、一つとして私どもの意表に出てゐないものはございません。早い話が堀川の御邸の御規模を拜見致しましても、壯大と申しませうか、豪放と申しませうか、到底私どもの凡慮には及ばない、思ひ切つた所があるやうでございます。中にはまた、そこを色々とあげつらつて大殿樣の御性行を始皇帝や煬帝に比べるものもございますが、それは諺に云ふ群盲の象を撫でるやうなものでございませうか。あの方の御思召は、決してそのやうに御自分ばかり、榮耀榮華をなさらうと申すのではございません。それよりはもつと下々の事まで御考へになる、云はば天下と共に樂しむとでも申しさうな、大腹中の御器量がございました。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kappa | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 三年前の夏のことです。僕は人並みにリユツク・サツクを背負ひ、あの上高地
の温泉宿から穗高山へ登らうとしました。穗高山へ登るのには御承知の通り梓川を溯
る外はありません。僕は前に穗高山は勿論、槍ケ岳にも登つてゐましたから、朝霧の
下りた梓川の谷を案内者もつれずに登つて行きました。朝霧の下りた梓川の谷を――
しかしその霧はいつまでたつても晴れる景色は見えません。のみならず反つて深くな
るのです。僕は一時間ばかり歩いた後、一度は上高地の温泉宿へ引き返すことにしよ
うかと思ひました。けれども上高地へ引き返すにしても、兎に角霧の晴れるのを待つ
た上にしなければなりません。と云つて霧は一刻毎にずんずん深くなるばかりなので
す。「ええ、一そ登つてしまへ。」――僕はかう考へましたから、梓川の谷を離れな
いやうに熊笹の中を分けて行きました。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Matsue inshoki | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 松江へ来て、まず自分の心をひいたものは、この
市
(
まち
)
を
縦横
(
じゅうおう
)
に貫いている川の水とその川の上に
架
(
か
)
けられた多くの木造の橋とであった。河流の多い都市はひとり松江のみではない。しかし、そういう都市の水は、自分の知っている限りでたいていはそこに架けられた
橋梁
(
きょうりょう
)
によって少からず、その美しさを
殺
(
そ
)
がれていた。なぜといえば、その都市の人々は必ずその川の流れに第三流の
櫛形
(
くしがた
)
鉄橋を架けてしかもその醜い鉄橋を彼らの得意なものの一つに数えていたからである。自分はこの
間
(
かん
)
にあって愛すべき木造の橋梁を松江のあらゆる川の上に見いだしえたことをうれしく思う。ことにその橋の二、三が古日本の版画家によって、しばしばその構図に利用せられた青銅の
擬宝珠
(
ぎぼうし
)
をもって主要なる装飾としていた一事は自分をしていよいよ深くこれらの橋梁を愛せしめた。松江へ着いた日の薄暮雨にぬれて光る大橋の擬宝珠を、灰色を帯びた緑の水の上に望みえたなつかしさは事新しくここに書きたてるまでもない。これらの
木橋
(
もくきょう
)
を有する松江に比して、朱塗りの神橋に隣るべく、醜悪なる鉄のつり橋を架けた日光町民の愚は、誠にわらうべきものがある。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mizu no mikka | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 講堂で、
罹災民
(
りさいみん
)
慰問会の開かれる日の午後。一年の丙組（当日はここを、僕ら――卒業生と在校生との事務所にした）の教室をはいると、もう上原君と岩佐君とが、
部屋
(
へや
)
のまん中へ机をすえて、何かせっせと書いていた。うつむいた上原君の顔が、窓からさす日の光で赤く見える。入口に近い机の上では、七条君や下村君やその他僕が名を知らない卒業生諸君が、寄附の
浴衣
(
ゆかた
)
やら手ぬぐいやら
晒布
(
さらし
)
やら浅草紙やらを、罹災民に分配する準備に忙しい。
紺飛白
(
こんがすり
)
が二人でせっせと晒布をたたんでは手ぬぐいの大きさに
截
(
き
)
っている。それを、茶の小倉の
袴
(
はかま
)
が、せっせと折目をつけては、行儀よく積み上げている。向こうのすみでは、原君や小野君が机の上に塩せんべいの袋をひろげてせっせと数を勘定している。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nikko shohin | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 馬返しをすぎて少し行くと大谷川の見える所へ出た。落葉に埋もれた石の上に腰をおろして川を見る。川はずうっと下の谷底を流れているので幅がやっと五、六尺に見える。川をはさんだ山は紅葉と黄葉とにすきまなくおおわれて、その間をほとんど純粋に近い
藍色
(
あいいろ
)
の水が白い
泡
(
あわ
)
を
噴
(
ふ
)
いて流れてゆく。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Okawa no mizu | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 自分は、
大川端
(
おおかわばた
)
に近い町に生まれた。家を出て
椎
(
しい
)
の若葉におおわれた、
黒塀
(
くろべい
)
の多い横網の
小路
(
こうじ
)
をぬけると、すぐあの幅の広い川筋の見渡される、
百本杭
(
ひゃっぽんぐい
)
の
河岸
(
かし
)
へ出るのである。幼い時から、中学を卒業するまで、自分はほとんど毎日のように、あの川を見た。水と船と橋と
砂洲
(
すなず
)
と、水の上に生まれて水の上に暮しているあわただしい人々の生活とを見た。真夏の日の
午
(
ひる
)
すぎ、やけた砂を踏みながら、水泳を習いに行く通りすがりに、
嗅
(
か
)
ぐともなく嗅いだ
河
(
かわ
)
の水のにおいも、今では年とともに、親しく思い出されるような気がする。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sogi | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 離れで電話をかけて、
皺
(
しわ
)
くちゃになったフロックの
袖
(
そで
)
を気にしながら、玄関へ来ると、
誰
(
だれ
)
もいない。客間をのぞいたら、奥さんが誰だか黒の
紋付
(
もんつき
)
を着た人と話していた。が、そこと書斎との
堺
(
さかい
)
には、さっきまで
柩
(
ひつぎ
)
の後ろに立ててあった、白い
屏風
(
びょうぶ
)
が立っている。どうしたのかと思って、書斎の方へ行くと、入口の所に
和辻
(
わつじ
)
さんや何かが二、三人かたまっていた。中にももちろん大ぜいいる。ちょうど皆が、先生の
死顔
(
しにがお
)
に、最後の別れを惜んでいる時だったのである。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Yarigateke ni nobottaki | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 雑木の暗い林を出ると案内者がここが
赤沢
(
あかざわ
)
ですと言った。暑さと疲れとで目のくらみかかった自分は今まで下ばかり見て歩いていた。じめじめした
苔
(
こけ
)
の間に
鷺草
(
さぎぐさ
)
のような小さな紫の花がさいていたのは知っている。
熊笹
(
くまざさ
)
の折りかさなった中に
兎
(
うさぎ
)
の
糞
(
ふん
)
の白くころがっていたのは知っている。けれどもいったい林の中を通ってるんだか、やぶの中をくぐっているんだかはさっぱり見当がつかなかった。ただむやみに、岩だらけの路を登って来たのを知っているばかりである。それが「ここが赤沢です」と言う声を聞くと同時にやれやれ助かったという気になった。そうして首を上げて、今まで自分たちの通っていたのが、しげった雑木の林だったということを意識した。安心すると急に四方のながめが眼にはいるようになる。目の前には高い山がそびえている。高い山といっても平凡な、高い山ではない。
山膚
(
やまはだ
)
は白っちゃけた灰色である。その灰色に縦横の
皺
(
しわ
)
があって、くぼんだ所は
鼠色
(
ねずみいろ
)
の影をひいている。つき出た所ははげしい真夏の日の光で雪がのこっているのかと思われるほど白く輝いて見える。山の八分がこのあらい灰色の岩であとは黒ずんだ緑でまだらにつつまれている。その緑が縦にＭの字の形をしてとぎれとぎれに山膚を縫ったのが、なんとなく荒涼とした思いを起させる。こんな山が
屏風
(
びょうぶ
)
をめぐらしたようにつづいた上には
浅黄繻子
(
あさぎじゅす
)
のように光った青空がある。青空には熱と光との暗影をもった、溶けそうな白い雲が銅をみがいたように輝いて、紫がかった鉛色の陰を、山のすぐれて高い頂にはわせている。山に囲まれた細長い渓谷は石で一面に埋められているといってもいい。大きなのやら小さなのやら、みかげ石のまばゆいばかりに日に反射したのやら、赤みを帯びたインク
壺
(
つぼ
)
のような形のやら、直八面体の角ばったのやら、ゆがんだ球のようなまるいのやら、立体の数をつくしたような石が、雑然と狭い渓谷の急な斜面に
充
(
み
)
たされている。石の
洪水
(
こうずい
)
。少しおかしいが全く石の洪水という語がゆるされるのならまさしくそれだ。上の方を見上げると一草の緑も、一花の紅もつけない石の連続がずーうっと先の先の方までつづいている。いちばん遠い石は
蟹
(
かに
)
の
甲羅
(
こうら
)
くらいな大きさに見える。それが近くなるに従ってだんだんに大きくなって、自分たちの足もとへ来ては、一間に高さが五尺ほどの鼠色の四角な石になっている。荒廃と
寂寞
(
じゃくまく
)
――どうしても元始的な、人をひざまずかせなければやまないような強い力がこの両側の山と、その間にはさまれた谷との上に動いているような気がする。案内者が「赤沢の小屋ってなアあれですあ」と言う。自分たちの立っている所より少し低い所にくくりまくらのような石がある。それがまたきわめて大きい。動物園の象の足と鼻を切って、胴だけを三つ四つつみ重ねたらあのくらいになるかもしれない。その石がぬっと半ば起きかかった下に
焚火
(
たきび
)
をした跡がある。黒い燃えさしや、白い石がうずたかくつもっていた。あの石の下に寝るんだそうだ。夜中に何かのぐあいであの石が寝がえりを打ったら、下の人間はぴしゃんこになってしまうだろうと思う。渓谷の下の方はこの大石にさえぎられて何も見えぬ。目の前にひろげられたのはただ、長いしかも乱雑な石の排列、頭の上におおいかかるような灰色の山々、そうしてこれらを強く照らす真夏の白い日光ばかりである。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ise monogatari | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | むかしおとこありけりうゐかふりしてならの京かすかの里にしるよししてかりにいきけり其さとにいともなまめきたる女はらすみけりかのおとこかいま見てけりおもほえすふるさとにいともはしたなくありけれは心ちまとひにけり男きたりけるかりきぬのすそをきりてうたをかきてやるそのおとこしのふすりのかりきぬをなんきたりける | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Matsuhonoura monogatari | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 遠からぬ世の事にや侍けん四条わたりに中納言にて右衛門のかみかけたる人なむおはしましける中将殿とて御子ひとりありてさう／＼しくおほしけるにあり／＼てちこ出き給ひにけるおひさき見えてかたちいとうつくしく物し給ひけれはかきりなくかしつき給ふほとに父の卿はかなくなり給ひぬたつきなきやうにておはしけるに中将の君らうたき物にして十はかりまてそ有けるそのうち横河に禅師の房とて此おちになんおはしける中将に申給ふこのわか君いたつらにおひ出給はむよりは山にのほせて物ならはし給へかしなとより／＼すゝめ申されしかは横川へそのほせられける大かたの学文にも和歌の道にも心をいれて筆とる事もたと／＼しからすはかなきすさみこともつき／＼しく心さま人にすくれたりしかは一山のもてあそひちこ童子もむつましきことにおもひしほとに三年はかり此山に送りけるになむかゝれは此母君久しくみぬはかなしとて折ゝ里へよはせけるにあるとき禅師申されけるはかくもんのかたもさとくかしこき人なり法師になして父の御跡をもとはせ給へかしなと念ころにかたらひ申給へはあたらかたちを墨の袖にやつさんも情なく八重たつ雲にましりなんも心くるしなとの給ひてうちとけたる答へもし給はねはちからなしかくて後はあやうくや思はれけん京にすません事を中将にも申給ふにつれ／＼のなくさめにもとや思はれけんおなし心にの給へは禅師もいかゝはせんとてなく／＼京へそをくりける此ちこもよ河にすみつき給ひけれはさひしかりし山水にも名残多くあそひ伴ひしちこわらはにもはなるゝことなんかなしかりけるみな京ちかきわたりまて送りきてそ余浪おしみけるさて禅師立帰りてとし月手習なとしてすみ給ひし所を引あけて見給へはいとうつくしき手して障子に書付らる | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sumiyoshi monogatari | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | むかし中納言にて左衞門督かけたる人侍けりうへ二人をかけてそかよひ給ける一人は時めく諸大夫のむすめそのはらに女君二人いてき給へりいまひとりはふるきみやはらの御むすめにておはしけるかいかなるすくせにてこの中納言よな／＼かよひ給ける程にやかて人めもつゝます成てすみわたり給けるかひかる程の女君いてき給けるおもひのまゝなれはおほしかしつき給ことかきりなし姫君日かすふるまゝにおひ出給へりとし月かさなりて八はかりになり給ひけるとしはゝ宮れいならすなやみ給けるか日をへておもくのみなりまさり給けれは中納言に聞え給けるやうはわれはかなくなりなはこのおさなきものゝためうしろめたうなん侍へきわれなからんあとなりともなみ／＼ならんふるまひせさせ給ふないかにも／＼みかとにたてまつらせ給へことむすめたちにおほしおとすなとなく／＼聞え給へは中納言もうちなき給て我もおなしおやなれはおとりてやなとかたらひつゝあかしくらす程に世の哀にはかなくつねなき所なれはなさけなくむかしかたりになりはてにけり中納言おなし道にとかなしみ給ひなからのち／＼のわさもさるへきやうにして四十九日もほとなうはてぬれはもとの北のかたへわたり給にけりひめ君おさなき御心ちにことのはにつけてこ宮の御事をおほしつゝかなしみ給ひてけるに中納言さへわたり給ひぬれはいとゝつれ／＼かきりなくふたはのこはき露おもけなりけれは御めのととかくなくさめてそ過し侍ける中納言ともすれはみきこえにわたりてかへり給へはなをしの袖をひかへてゆくゑもしらぬ程なれは涙をなかしつゝしたひまほしきけしきを御覧するにつけてもはかなくなりにし人の俤ふと思ひ出るにもむねうちさはきをそふる袖もあやしくていとゝ心くるしくこそ侍らんなとかたらはせ給ひてこしらへをき我にもあらぬ心ちにてかへらせ給にけり帰り給ひても姫君のおほしなけきつる俤のみ心にかゝりてことむすめたち一所に住せまほしくおほしなから今もむかしもまことならぬおやこの中なれはとてめのとのもとにすませ聞え給へり日かすふるまゝにひかりさしそふ心ちしてみえ給ひけれはめのと哀此御けしきをこ宮に御覧せはいかはかりおほしかしつき給はんなといひて御くしをかきなてなくより外の事なかりけり十あまりにも成給ひけれはめのと中納言に申けるはおさなくおはしますほとこそとてもかくても侍れこの一とせ二とせになりていかにならせ給ふる年月心もとなくなんかなしくこ宮のおほせ候し御宮つかへいかにと聞えけれは中納言うれしくも心にかけぬる事よわれもわするゝ時なけれともおもふにかなはぬことのみにてこそは過行侍れさりなからむかへて見聞えんとて正月の十日とさためてかへり給ぬ漸その日にも成ぬれはむかへ奉り給たれは今二人の御むすめたちとうちかたらひておはしますをみていとうれしきことにそめやすくおほしける中の君三の君はとり／＼にいとにほひやかになへてのにはあらぬ御けしきなれとひめきみは今一しほ匂ひくはゝりてひかるなとはこれを申にやとそ見え給けるこのひめきみの御めのと子に侍従と聞ゆる侍けり年はひめ君に今二はかりのまさりにてすかたありさまありつかはしくものなといひ出したるさまもいとあらまほしくそ見え侍けるこれそ姫きみにつきそひてたかひにかた時もたちはなれんも物うくおもひてそあかしくらし給ける中納言にしのたいしつらひてすませ侍らんとてそのいとなみにてそ侍けるまゝ母心のうちにはいかゝおもひけん人聞には聞ゆるやうまことにはゝ宮にをくれ給てのちむかへ奉らまほしう侍つれともけふ／＼とのみおもひてすくしつるにわかき人々あまたおはするたかひにつれ／＼なくさめていとうれしき事にこそいかにをさなき心ちにそのむかしこひしくおほし出らんあなあはれやと聞ゆれはめのとまことにとし比あやしきところにうつもれておはせしにはていかゝなとかきくもりかなしく侍しにこれを見奉れはよろつはれぬる心ちしてよみちやすくこそなといひつゝけてうちなき侍けりむかひはらなれは中の君にはひやうゑのすけなる人あはせてけり西のたいにすみ給へは中のきみ三のきみむつれあそひたかひにむつましく思ひて明しくらし給けりこ宮のおほせられし御宮つかへのこといかにと御めのとわするゝ時なくおとろかし侍けれは中納言われもおこたる時なけれともきたのかたに聞えあはせんにわか子ならねは心にいそかんこともかたけれはいひもいてすとて思ひわつらひ給けりかくて月日かさなりゆくほとに右大臣なる人の御子に四位の少将とて世にすくれたる人侍けるいかにもおもふさまなる人もかなとあさゆふは御心もそらにあくかれて物かなしきに右大臣のはした物にそらさへといふ物のおとこにてありける下つかへになりてちくせんと聞ゆるなん中納言の宮の世まてはとのもの大夫といふものをおとこにて侍けれはあさゆふにこのひめ君をは見聞けりちくせん右大臣の家のきたのかたにて人のよしわろき事かたるつゐてに中納言の宮はらの姫君こそをさなおひめてたくふたはのこはきをみる心ちせしかいかにおひ出給たらんこはゝ宮のうせ給てのちは四五年は見侍らすといふを少将たち聞給ていとうれしきことを聞つる物かなとおほしてわかさうしにちくせんをよひて見るらんやうにさもとある人あまたあれとも物うくのみしてすくす中納言の宮はらの姫君はみしかとたつね給ひけれはちくせんおとこにて侍しものこはゝ宮に侍しかはよくみ奉りて侍し世にうつくしくさふらふ中納言とのは宮つかへをとの給へともうちかなはておほしなけくとそうけたまはるといへはその人の事いひよりてふみなとつたへてんやとの給へはかなはんことはしらす御ふみをもて参りてこそは見侍らめと聞ゆれはよろこひて十月はかりにもみちかさねのうすやうに | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Taketori monogatari | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 今は昔、竹取の翁といふものありけり。野山にまじりて、竹を取りつゝ、萬づの事に使ひけり。名をば讃岐造麿となむいひける。その竹の中に、本光る竹一筋ありけり。怪しがりて寄りて見るに、筒の中光りたり。それを見れば、三寸ばかりなる人、いと美しうて居たり。翁いふやう、「われ朝夕毎に見る竹の中に、おはするにて知りぬ。子になり給ふべき人なめり」とて、手に打入れて家に持ちて來ぬ。妻の嫗に預けて養はす。美しきこと限りなし。いと幼ければ籠に入れて養ふ。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Taketori no okina monogatari | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 今はむかし竹とりの翁といふものありけり野山にましりて竹をとりつゝ万の事につかひけり名をはさぬきの宮つことなむいひける其竹の中に本光る竹なむ一すち有けりあやしかりて寄て見るにつゝの中ひかりたりそれを見れは三寸はかりなる人いとうつくしうてゐたり翁云やう我朝毎夕毎にみる竹の中におはするにてしりぬ子になりたまふへき人なめりとて手に打入て家にもちて来ぬめの女にあつけてやしなはすうつくしき事限なしいとおさなけれはこに入てやしなふ竹とりの竹をとるに此子を見つけて後に竹とるにふしを隔てよことにこかねある竹を見つくる事かさなりぬかくておきなやう／＼ゆたかになり行この児やしなふほとにすく／＼とおほきになり増る三月計の内によきほとなる人になりぬれはかみあけなとさうしてかみあけさせもきすちやうのうちよりもいたさすいつきかしつきやしなふ此児のかたちのけさうなる事よになく屋のうちは闇き所なく光満たり翁心あしく候へし時も此子をみれはくるしき事もやみぬ腹たゝしくあることもなくさみけり翁竹をとる事久敷成ぬいきほひまうの物に成にけり此子いと大きに成ぬれはなをみむろといむへのあきたを喚てつけさすあきたなよ竹のかくや姫とつけつれ此ほと三日打あけあそふ万のあそひをそしける男はうけきらはすよひつとへてかしこくあそふ世かいのをのこあてなるもいやしきもいかて此かくや姫をえてしかな見てしかなと音に聞愛てまとふ其あたりの垣にも家の戸にもをる人たにたはやすくみるましき物を夜はやすきいもねす闇の夜にもこゝかしこよりのそきかいまみまとひあへりさる時よりなん夜はひとは云ける人も物ともせぬ所にまとひありけとも何のしるしあるへくも見えす家の人ともに物をたにいはんとていひかくれともことゝもせすあたりをはなれぬきんたち夜をあかし日をくらす人おほかりをろかなる人はようなきありきはよしなかりけりとてこす成にけりその中になを云けるは色好みといはるゝ限五人思ひやむ時なく夜ひる来けり其名とも石作りの御子、くらもちの御子左大臣安倍のみむらし大納言大とものみゆき中納言いそのかみのもろたり此人々なりけり世中におほかる人をたにすこしも形ちよしと聞ては見まほしくする人とも也けれはかのかくや姫をみまほしくて物もくはす思ひつゝかの家に行てたゝすみありきけれともかひあるへくもあらす文を書てやれとも返事もせす侘歌なと書てをこすれともかひなしと思へと霜月しはすの降氷水無月のてりはたゝくにもさはらすきたり此人々ある時は竹とりを喚てむすめを我にたへとふし拝み手をすりのたまへとをのかなさぬ子なれは心にも随はすなむあると云て月日を過すかゝれは此人々家に帰りて物を思ひ祈りをし願をたつ思ひやむへくもあらすさりとも終に男あはせさらんやはとおもひて頼をかけたりあなかちに心さしをみえありく是を見つけて翁かくや姫に云給我子のほとけへんけの人と申なからこゝらおほきさまてやしなひたてまつる志をろかならす翁の申さん事を聞給ひてんやといへはかくや姫何事をかのたまはむ事を承はらさらむ変化の物にてはんへりけん身ともしらす親とこそおもひ奉れといへは翁うれしくもの給ふ物かなと云翁年七十にあまりぬ今日ともあすともしらす此世の人はおとこは女に逢女は男にあふ事をす其後なむ門もひろくもなり侍るいかてかさる事なくてはおはしまさむかくや姫のいはくなむてうさる事かし侍らんと云は変化の人といふとも女の身持給へり翁のあらんかきりはかうてもいますかりなんかし此人々の年月を経てかうのみいましつゝのたまふ事をおもひ定て独々にあひ奉り給ひねといへはかくや姫いはくよくもあらぬ形ちをふかき心もしらてあた心つきなは後くやしき事も有へきをと思ふはかり也世の賢き人成ともふかき志をしらてはあひかたしとなむ思ふと云翁いはく思ひのことくもの給ふかなそも／＼いかやうなる志あらん人にはあはんとおほすかはかりの心さしをろかならぬ人々にこそあめれかくや姫のいはくなにはかりのふかきをかみんといはむいさゝかの事也人の心さしひとしかんなりいかてか中にをとりまさりはしらむ五人のひとの中にゆかしき物みせ給へらんに御志まさりたりとてつかふまつらんとそのおはすらん人々に申給へといふよき事なりとうけつ日くるゝ程に例のあつまりぬあるひは笛を吹或はうたをうたひ或は琵琶しやうかをしあるひはうそふきあふきをならしなとするに翁出ていはく忝もきたなけなる所に年月を経てものし給ふ事きはまりたるかしこまりと申す翁の命今日明日ともしらぬをかくの給ふ君達にもよく思ひ定てつかふまつれと申も理なりいつれもをとり増りおはしまさねは御志の程はみゆへしつかふまつらん事はそれになむ定むへきといへは是よき事なり人の御恨も有ましと云五人の人々もよき事也といへは翁入て云かくや姫石作の御子には・佛の御いしのはちと云物ありそれをとりて給へと云倉もちの御子には東の海に蓬莱と云山ありそれにしろかねを根として金をくきとし白き玉をみとしたてる木ありそれを一えたおりて給はらんと云今独にはもろこしにある火鼠の革きぬをたまへ大ともの大納言には龍のくひに五色に光る玉ありそれをとりて給へ磯の上の中納言にはつはくらめのもたるこやすのかひ一つとりてたまへといふ翁かたき事ともにこそあなれ此国に有物にはあらすかく難事をはいかに申さんといふかくや姫なにかかたからんといへは翁とまれかくまれ申さんとて出てかくなむきこゆるやうに見たまへといへは御子たち上たちめ聞ておいらかにあたりよりたになありきそとやはのたまはぬといひてうむしてみな帰ぬなを此女みては世にあるましき心ちしけれは天竺にある物ももてこぬものかはと思ひめくらしていしつくりの御子は心のしたくある人にて天竺に二つとなきはちを百千万里のほといきたりともいかてとるへきと思ひてかくや姫のもとには今日なん天竺へ石のはちとりにまかると聞せて三年計大和国とをちの郡に有山寺にひむつるの前なるはちのひたくろに墨付たるを取て錦の袋に入てつくり花の枝につけてかくや姫の家にもて来て見せけれはかくや姫あやしかりてみれははちの中にふみ有ひろけて見れは | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tokan kiko | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 齡は百とせのなかばに近づきて、鬢の霜やうやく冷しといへども、なすことなくして、徒らに明かし暮らすのみにあらず、さしていづこに住みはつべしとも思ひ定めぬ有樣なれば、かの白樂天の、身は浮雲に似たり、首は霜に似たり、と書き給へる、あはれに思ひ合せらる。もとより金張七葉の榮えを好まず、ただ陶潜五柳の住みかを求む。しかはあれども、みやまの奧の柴の庵までも、しばらく思ひやすらふ程なれば、なまじひに都のほとりに住まひつつ、人なみに世にふる道になんつらなれり。これ即ち、身は朝市にありて心は隱遁にあるいはれなり。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Toribeyama monogatari | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | とにかくに常ならぬ物は此世なりけりこゝにさいつころ武蔵国のかたへに物まなふさうさなん有けるそのつかさ何かしの和尚とかや聞えし人の御弟子に民部卿といひしは容色いときよけに心のねさしふかく我家のことならぬ史記なとやうのかたき巻々ををたにかた／＼にかよはしよみきこえ給ふれはこと人よりもすくよかにおほえ給ひかたはらちかくめされて年ころつかへたてまつりぬつねはたゝ松風にねふりをさまし谷水に心をやりてふかきのりの水上をたつね窓の蛍のむつひ枝の雪をならして法の燈をもかゝけつへきさきらあれはとてかたみの人もいともてなすなるへしされはそのころ九重に何のみしほとかありて国々よりたとき僧達のまいりつとふ事なん侍りける此和尚もその数にめされてのほり給ふへきさたまりけれはかみなかしも旅よそひとてのゝしりあへりころは夏たつはしめなれは木々の梢もしけりあひ庭の千くさも色そへていとすゝしけなる宵のまの月もやかて草葉にかくれ武蔵野の名残おほへてむらさきのゆかりあれはあとの事なとなにくれといひこしらへぬるうちに短き夜半のうき枕むすふともなきうたゝねのゆめを残して明はなれむとするころあつまの空をたちて日数十日あまりに都になむつきぬ何事もおとろへたる世といへと猶九重のかみさひたるさまこそこよなふめてたけれかくてほとへぬれは御祈の事ははてぬれと猶かへるへきほともゆるきなけれはその事となく月日をおくりけるほとに年もかへりぬ空のけしきなこりなくうらゝかに雪まの草もあをみいててをのつから人のこゝろものひらかにまいて玉をしける御かた／＼は庭よりはしめ見所おほくみかきましぬるありさままねひたてむもことのはたるましくなむいつしか都ちかきよもの山の端霞のよそになり行ころはまたみぬ花も俤にたちておなし心の友とちとうちつれ北山のかたへとこゝろさしける道のほとに老たるわかきたかきあやしき行来る袖も色めきあへる中にさはやかなる車かたへの木蔭によせてつきしたかふをのこなとさしよりつゝいとおかしき花のけしき御らむせよすみれましりの草もなつかしくなときこえけれはおり給へるよそほひ年のほとまた二八にもたり給はぬほとなるか色々に染わけたる衣いとなよやかにきなしてなかめ給へる様体かしらつきうしろてなとこの世の人ともおもはれすあてやかなるさまはかりなし民部ほのかに見てしよりそゝろに心まとひてかへさのあともしたはしきまてなむみとれたるをともなふ人々もめとかむるほとなれはさすかに人のいひおもはむもあさはかなれはと心にこめて立かへりしより俤にのみおほえて昼はひめもす夜はすからになけき明し今は心もみたれ髪のいふにもあまる恋草はつむともつきぬ七車の又めくりあふ事もやといたらぬくまもなくまとひありきてもとむれとひとりこかるゝすて舟のさほさしていつことをしゆるよすかもなけれはむなしく立かへりけるか四条の坊門とかや打過るに公卿のすむ家と見えておくふかく木立ものふりなにとなくなつかしくおほえけれは門のかたはらにさし入たるにかたちいとたくひなき児の梅の枝に蝶鳥とひちかひからめきたるをうちきて散すきたる花の梢をつく／＼となかめて | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Arishima, Takeo | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kain no matsuei | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 長い影を地にひいて、
痩馬
(
やせうま
)
の
手綱
(
たづな
)
を取りながら、
彼
(
か
)
れは黙りこくって歩いた。大きな汚い風呂敷包と一緒に、
章魚
(
たこ
)
のように頭ばかり大きい
赤坊
(
あかんぼう
)
をおぶった彼れの妻は、少し
跛脚
(
ちんば
)
をひきながら三、四間も離れてその跡からとぼとぼとついて行った。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Arishima, Takeo | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Oborekaketa kyodai | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: |
土用波
(
どようなみ
)
という高い波が風もないのに海岸に
打寄
(
うちよ
)
せる
頃
(
ころ
)
になると、海水浴に
来
(
き
)
ている
都
(
みやこ
)
の人たちも段々別荘をしめて帰ってゆくようになります。今までは海岸の砂の上にも水の中にも、朝から晩まで、沢山の人が集って来て、砂山からでも見ていると、あんなに大勢な人間が一たい
何所
(
どこ
)
から出て来たのだろうと不思議に思えるほどですが、九月にはいってから三日目になるその日には、見わたすかぎり砂浜の何所にも人っ子一人いませんでした。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Arishima, Takeo | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tsubame to oji | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: |
燕
（
つばめ
）
という鳥は所をさだめず飛びまわる鳥で、暖かい所を見つけておひっこしをいたします。今は日本が暖かいからおもてに出てごらんなさい。羽根がむらさきのような黒でお
腹
（
なか
）
が白で、のどの所に赤い
首巻
（
くびま
）
きをしておとう様のおめしになる
燕尾服
（
えんびふく
）
の
後部
（
うしろ
）
みたような、尾のある
雀
（
すずめ
）
よりよほど大きな鳥が目まぐるしいほど活発に飛び回っています。このお話はその燕のお話です。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Arishima, Takeo | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Umareizuru nayami | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 私は自分の仕事を神聖なものにしようとしていた。ねじ曲がろうとする自分の心をひっぱたいて、できるだけ伸び伸びしたまっすぐな明るい世界に出て、そこに自分の芸術の宮殿を築き上げようともがいていた。それは私にとってどれほど喜ばしい事だったろう。と同時にどれほど苦しい事だったろう。私の心の奥底には確かに――すべての人の心の奥底にあるのと同様な――火が燃えてはいたけれども、その火を
燻
(
いぶ
)
らそうとする
塵芥
(
ちりあくた
)
の
堆積
(
たいせき
)
はまたひどいものだった。かきのけてもかきのけても容易に火の燃え立って来ないような瞬間には私はみじめだった。私は、机の向こうに開かれた窓から、冬が来て雪にうずもれて行く一面の畑を見渡しながら、滞りがちな筆をしかりつけしかりつけ運ばそうとしていた。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Abbott, John S. C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Crockett: His Life and Adventures | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Emigrant.—Crossing the Alleghanies.—The boundless
Wilderness.—The Hut on the Holston.—Life's Necessaries.—The Massacre.—Birth
of David Crockett.—Peril of the Boys.—Anecdote.—Removal to Greenville;
to Cove Creek.—Increased Emigration.—Loss of the Mill.—The Tavern.—Engagement
with the Drover.—Adventures in the Wilderness.—Virtual Captivity.—The
Escape.—The Return.—The Runaway.—New Adventures. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Driven From Home | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A BOY of sixteen, with a small gripsack in
his hand, trudged along the country road. He
was of good height for his age, strongly built,
and had a frank, attractive face. He was
naturally of a cheerful temperament, but at present
his face was grave, and not without a shade
of anxiety. This can hardly be a matter of
surprise when we consider that he was thrown
upon his own resources, and that his available
capital consisted of thirty-seven cents in
money, in addition to a good education and
a rather unusual amount of physical strength.
These last two items were certainly valuable,
but they cannot always be exchanged for the
necessaries and comforts of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Allen, Raymund | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Happy Solution | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The portmanteau, which to Kenneth Dale's strong arm had been little
more than a feather-weight on leaving the station, seemed to have
grown heavier by magic in the course of the half-mile that brought him
to Lord Churt's country house. He put the portmanteau down in the
porch with a sense of relief to his cramped arm, and rang the bell. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Andreyev, Leonid | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lazarus | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Lazarus left the grave, where, for three days and
three nights he had been under the enigmatical sway
of death, and returned alive to his dwelling, for a long time no
one noticed in him those sinister oddities, which, as time went
on, made his very name a terror. Gladdened unspeakably by the
sight of him who had been returned to life, those near to him
carressed him unceasingly, and satiated their burning desire
to serve him, in solicitude for his food and drink and garments.
And they dressed him gorgeously, in bright colors of hope and
laughter, and when, like to a bridegroom in his bridal vestures,
he sat again among them at the table, and again ate and drank,
they wept, overwhelmed with tenderness. And they summoned
the neighbors to look at him who had risen miraculously from
the dead. These came and shared the serene joy of the hosts.
Strangers from far-off towns and hamlets came and adored the
miracle in tempestuous words. Like to a beehive was the house
of Mary and Martha. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Triumph of the Egg | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful,
kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a
farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the
town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday
evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse
with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and
stood about in Ben Head's saloon—crowded on Saturday evenings with
visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses thumped on the bar.
At ten o'clock father drove home along a lonely country road, made his
horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in
his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to rise
in the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stephen Crane : author of The black riders and other lines | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You will look in vain through the pages of the Trade
Circular for any record of a story of New York life entitled
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which was published three or
four years ago in this city. At the moment of going to press the
timorous publishers withdrew their imprint from the book, which was
sold, in paper covers, for fifty cents. There seems to be
considerable difficulty now in securing copies, but the fact that
there is no publisher's name to the book, and that the author
appears under the nom de plume of "Johnston Smith," may have
something to do with its apparent disappearance. The copy which
came into the writer's possession was addressed to the Rev. Thomas
Dixon a few months ago, before the author went West on a
journalistic trip to Nebraska, and has these words written across
the cover: "It is inevitable that this book will greatly shock you,
but continue, pray, with great courage to the end, for it tries to
show that environment is a tremendous thing in this world, and
often shapes lives regardlessly. If one could prove that theory,
one would make room in Heaven for all sorts of souls (notably an
occasional street girl) who are not confidently expected to be
there by many excellent people." The author of this story and the
writer of these words is Stephen Crane, whose "Lines" (he does not
call them poems) have just been published by Copeland and Day, and
are certain to make a sensation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Little Women" on the Stage | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At last there is to be a stage version of Little Women,
that story which since its publication in 1868 has appealed to so
many generations of readers. The dramatisation has been made by
Miss Jessie Bonstelle (Mrs. Alexander Stuart), who for eight years
has been working to obtain the necessary permission. The
copyrights were in the possession of Miss Alcott's two nephews, the
famous twins, "Daisy" and "Demi" (John and Demijohn), sons of Miss
Alcott's last surviving sister, Mrs. Anna B. Pratt, to whom one of
the editions, published by Little, Brown and Company, in 1889, was
dedicated in these words: "The Sole Surviving Sister of Louisa M.
Alcott, and Her Never Failing Help, Comforter and Friend from Birth
to Death." In Boston the two Pratt boys when growing up were
pointed out as the famous twins, just as Vivian Burnett was pointed
out as Little Lord Fauntleroy. There has been a certain New
England prejudice against making a play of the story, although Miss
Alcott herself was fond of the theatre and actually wrote herself
a short comedy which was produced at the Boston Theatre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Stephen Crane: A "Wonderful Boy." | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE death of Mr. Stephen Crane, while yet barely thirty, is widely
regarded as a serious loss to American literature, one which it can
ill afford. Mr. Crane, who had for some time past resided in
Surrey, England, had been critically ill for some months previous
to his death and had lately been taken to Baden to obtain the
benefit of the waters. His best known works are: "Maggie: A Girl
of the Streets"; "The Red Badge of Courage"; "The Little
Regiment"'; "The Black Riders"; "War Is Kind"; "The Open Boat";
"The Third Violet"; "George's Mother"; and "Active Service."
The Late Stephen Crane.
Newspaper photo. Portrait of Stephen Crane.
Photographer unknown.
In three somewhat widely separated lines of fiction—stories of
slum-life (especially of the demi-monde), war stories, and tales about
boy-life—Mr. Crane attained notable success. By many critics it
is doubted whether any one has ever got nearer the spirit of the
boy of today than has Stephen Crane in these latter tales, altho'
his fame has been founded more upon his stories of low-life and of
war. Whether his fame would ever have reached a higher level is
open to doubt, and perhaps critical opinion largely leans to the
judgment that his artistic attainment would never have been able to
go beyond the extremely clever but impressionistic word-painting of
the work already produced by him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Ida M. Tarbell" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Without expressing any opinion critically, it is quite safe to
say that there are few, if any, living American writers on
historical subjects in whom the general reading public has more
real interest than Miss Ida M. Tarbell, the author of the lives
of
Madame Roland, Napoleon and of Lincoln, and The History of the
Standard Oil, which is now running serially in McClure's
Magazine. Miss Tarbell was interviewed a short time ago for
THE BOOKMAN by Mr. Charles Hall Garrett, and out of that
interview
grew these paragraphs. Beginning biographically, it is enough to
say that Miss Tarbell attended school in Titusville,
Pennsylvania,
and later Alleghany College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, where she
was
an editor of the college publication. Being graduated with
honours, she became preceptress of the Seminary at Poland, Ohio.
Two years later she assumed the associate editorship of the
Chautauquan, published at Meadville in the interests of
its
Chautauqua work; and eventually became managing editor of that
publication. It was during this period that she awakened to a
realisation of her interest in historical and biographical
work. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Appleton, Victor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TOM SWIFT, who had been slowly looking
through the pages of a magazine, in the contents
of which he seemed to be deeply interested,
turned the final folio, ruffled the sheets back
again to look at a certain map and drawing, and
then, slapping the book down on a table before
him, with a noise not unlike that of a shot,
exclaimed: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Atherton, Gertrude | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rezánov | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | As the little ship that had three times raced with
death sailed past the gray headlands and into the
straits of San Francisco on that brilliant April
morning of 1806, Rezánov forgot the bitter
humiliations, the mental and physical torments, the
deprivations and dangers of the past three years;
forgot those harrowing months in the harbor of
Nagasaki when the Russian bear had caged his tail
in the presence of eyes aslant; his dismay at
Kamchatka when he had been forced to send home another
to vindicate his failure, and to remain in the
Tsar's incontiguous and barbarous northeastern
possessions as representative of his Imperial
Majesty, and plenipotentiary of the Company his
own genius had created; forgot the year of loneliness
and hardship and peril in whose jaws the
bravest was impotent; forgot even his pitiable crew,
diseased when he left Sitka, that had filled the Juno
with their groans and laments; and the bells of
youth, long still, rang in his soul once more. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Art Influence in the West | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHOEVER undertakes to discuss art influence brings up sooner or
later at the Greeks. I prefer to begin there, and to begin with that one of
its sources which is not peculiarly Greek, but eternal: I mean with
Greece. Whatever a people may make will resemble the thing that people
look on most; so that the first guess as to what is likely to come out of
any quarter is a knowledge of the land itself, its keen peaks,
round-breasted hills, and bloomy valleys. Greek polity had never so
much to do with the surpassingness of Hellenic art as the one thing the
Hellenes had nothing whatever to do with—the extraordinary beauty of
the land in which they lived. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | H.G. Wells
An illustrated portrait of H.G. Wells, flanked on either side
by the titles of his works: The War of the Worlds, In the Days of the
Comet, A Modern Utopia, The Future in America, New Worlds For Old,
First and Last Things, When the Sleeper Wakes, Tales of Space and
Time, Kipps, Tono Bungay, Mr. Polly, The New Machiavelli. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental I
I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be
its final word. It was to be so chosen from the limited sort of
incidents that could occur there, so charged with the still
ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its
obsession, free to concern myself about other affairs. And from
the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's body at Dead Man's
Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Note on Edith Wharton, in "Chronicle and Comment" | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | If we were to single out one book from those that have been
published this season as exhibiting in the highest degree that rare
creative power called literary genius, we should name The
Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton. The book has met with
a fair reception in the press, but it does not seem to us that
enough emphasis has been laid upon the originality of the work.
And not only has Mrs. Wharton brought to these stories a remarkable
power of insight and imagination, but the phase of life in America
which she has chosen for treatment may be said to be altogether new
in her hands. Her work is the more remarkable when we know that
the processes by which her results are reached have been gained
largely through intuition and sympathy. One would almost imagine
in reading these stories that the author must have suffered and
gone deep into life in order to bring up from its depths such
knowledge of the world as is disclosed in her pages. And yet this
is far from being the case. Mrs. Wharton was born little more than
thirty years ago in New York. On both sides she comes of old New
York stock, her mother being a Rhinelander. Most of her time has
been spent between New
Greyscale image of Edith Wharton with two dogs, one perched
on her right shoulder, the other in her left arm.
York and
Newport, and she has also lived abroad, especially in Italy, of
which country she is very fond. Her husband, Mr. Edward Wharton,
is a member of the Philadelphia family of that name, and was
married to Miss Edith Jones fully ten years ago. Both are
passionately fond of animals, and have been for years the moving
spirits in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in
Rhode Island. The photograph which we present of Mrs. Wharton with
her two pet dogs is the only one that was available for
reproduction here, but it is very characteristic when we bear in
mind her love of animals. Her first stories began to appear in
Scribner's and the Century some years ago; one of
them especially, called "Mrs. Manstey's View," published in
Scribner's, attracted a great deal of attention at the time
of its appearance. She is also the author of a book on domestic
architecture and home decoration, published by the Messrs.
Scribner, which was reviewed in these pages a year ago last April.
A review of The Greater Inclination appears on another page. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, J | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob Armentrout to Amanda C. Armentrout, July 64 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I am fine & we have beenthey are
Gordons John I think is going this evening
so I thought I would write to you I was in Richmond to day & was much pleased with the city. We rested one day
& then we had to drill we hav had pretty weather
since we hav been here excpet hot this has been very
severe the Wheat is nearly all distroyed oats is
good & some corn loooks well Cousin Ott he is his very day I have but little at Culpeper Cort House if so we will go in the morning John is going to start so I
must close hope God will bless you all. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Angus | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Angus to Amanda C. Armentrout, April 8, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | Your very welcome missive by the hand of Annie, could not have been otherwise
perused than with some mental effect. I always feel sad, when I think of those
who once were our brother
associates; but they are gone, & their graves, we can not but think, are
the monuments of living spirits, whose bodies have assumed originality. There is
a time for sadness & a time for pleasure; & of the former, we
ought to be submissive as possible,
knowing that it proceeds from afflictions, bereavements, &c. inflicted
for our benefit. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, June 3, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I received your very dear letter of 24 last Wednesday never was a letter read
with more interest than that; it found me enjoying the best of health one of our
dear Saveirs best blessing (but how unworthy am I
for it) I can say dear brother that I was truly glad to hear from you &
do thank my heavenly Father that he put it in your dear good heart to write
Willie dear boy I have wronged you will you forgive me I believe I have found
forgiveness in the dear Lord but will you forgive for I have been the cause of
all this trouble Oh dear brother it will kill me if you dont forgive; just to think that I am the cause of my dear bosom companions being lost, eternially lost. Oh my dear dear Savier
pitty & forgive for I will give you my life for
the salvation of that dear soul yes dear brother I will spend & be spent
for you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved; I deserve
nothing but your hatred & contempt can I ever be happy again not untill I see the dear one changed yes a Christian. Yes my dear brother if you allow me to
call you thus last year you started out with prospects bright & allureing & these were your words Kate I am
going to make or brake & for whome for what for an
unworthy creture as I (me) that did not deserve the
notice of a cat let alone the notice of one so pure so noble so good at heart as
thou all went on well prospect bright & brighning
grain came in on evry side I must surely be the
happiest man living. Oh is this not flattering it is (like) an ideal lover or
will be soon but hark I hear a noise & in come a fine looking old gent
(Ah the serpent coils in eden bows) Well
Mr B dont you want to go in pardnership with me you will make mony at
it; at what why haveing your grain distilled I wont go I must make my money some other way my good heart
& God sais I must not go Ah come dont listen at that you will make enough soon to get
married Ah that is charming well I must wait a while & yes I must go
& see K & see what she sais about it Pa
& K both oppose dont care so much for Pa but K
is the one he lays it all out in flattering terms she said do as you pleas & Mr B sais at
last consented & his word goes as far as mine with with me &
farther too; he goes back but concience &
Pa sais
dont go but I am doing it for K when he gets back serpent enters
what say you well I dont know I believe I will; well
lets draw the article but we must have a dram first no I dont indulge her come going in do such business & dont last & yourself besides you have a cough
& it will help it; well K told me to take somthing for my cough & that is the very thing any thing for K
all done for K. come Mr B there is a party a head tonight lets go no I dont care about it I just got a leter from K &
she is very cold & indifferent she is always writing something about
some nice fellow or her dear friend R that I dont
blieve she thinks as much of me as she ought I will
go & a way he goes come Mr B join in the dance I can't come ah well I
will K is perhaps having her fun I will to drove away
sorrow Mr B you are very lively to night but it is all put on what is the matter
with you well I will tell you I fear my first love is blasted Oh my dear her
then thou only knows the agony of that dear heart. Soon the serpent goes to K he
has done his will with B he tell her that B has got to drinking she writes a
hasty & insulting letter & it insults & wonds B sais I dont care I will go & see her & quit her at once I
have done all this for her & this is the thanks I got he comes but love
& pitty enters that good heart I will tell her
all my bad deeds & she will turn
me off but instead it bound her nearer to him & what next the serpent is
at work he tell K much & she believes &
what is the consecuence God knows she suffers for
it but is she a lone no no Oh she ought to be she diserves it all & more but enough of this. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, July 6, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I received your very dear letter several weeks ago & can say some part of
it made me very happy; I thake this leasure hour to respond but how must I respond not knowing whether
my letters are welcome or not but hoping they are I will try & interest
you. My health is very good & I must not murmer of my happiness for my dear Father only knows what I have borne;
the chastning rod has been severe but I rejoise in Christ that he has been with me or this
feble frame would have sunk beneath the rod. yes
brother you no nothing when the last earthly friend
forsakes you then & not till then will you know (what) what this sis of yours has borne I have felt that I was like
Jobe forsaken by all but thank God he has never
forsook me I hope you will never know what it is to be forsaken by all for there is one that
I dont think
will ever forsake you no neve
I will still remember thee. I hope ere this letter
reaches you that you may be enjoying the best blessing that God ever bestowed on
man & that is religion for it is the cheaf
unsorn of mortals here below & our only sure happiness what would I have done if it
had not been for it. cast down forsaken by all but God I ask what would I have
done I know not. brother are you happy I ask the question I hope to get an
answer from you personaly soon if you are not let
me as a sister tell you where I fear you are rong you
said in you letter you had heard reponse from old
Ang; that has cased
you cheek to light up with anger dear bro do you think
that is right for you to let that anger rise what does our bible teach us not to
get angry at those that persecute us. let me here cast a verse or two.
"Wherefore my beloved bro let evry man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man work Ah not the
righteousness of God you must lay a side all such things & recd with meekness the engrafted word will change
any dear dear Willie if he has not which
is abe to save your soul". note brother I do not think
you have heard any thing compared to what I have heard but thank God it did not
make me angry it made me pray for those that talked about me & you
& treat them kindly & I feel that God will help me to live right
though my temptations are great do pray for me that I may be able to withstand
all these trials. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, July 23, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I have been waiting for a letter from you but have waited in vain have come to
the conclusion that you have forgoten me or must
perhaps changed again ha ha if so Willie let me
know, you know I cant think you that ficle. Your brother C said he would carry this note or I reckon I
would still wait for to hear from you why have you not ritten or been down do come down Saturday & & bring
me some good news for I havent got any good news but
I have bad news somthing that gave me the blues for three or 4 days but I am
quite cheerful now was a little sick this eve was
gathering cherries & almost fell off of the tree the jar maid me sick. I cannot tell you what gave me the blues but
I am all right if you are one smile from thee will drive that gloom away Willie
I have not got anything yet for my will untill I hear from you
or see you & much rather see you the girls think best for us to have
waters & then for you & I to take a trip to Rockingham Ronoak or Buckingham I think myself it would be very
wise but of corse if it does not suit you I will not
insist Charles has put me in the notion of visiting Buckingham but enough of
this. Dear Willie I am very anxious to see you I hope you will not loos what Mr C owes you but if you do dont let it greave you we can make a liven of corse we will have to
commence unable in life but we must trust in God he will help us if (I) we be
energetick & have faith Willie dont
promis yourself any thing but me I have got nothing
but I mean to strive to have you value me more than you wou value any other earthly thing I know dear one you are not going to
marry me for wealth for I cannot promis myself
anything from any the things that are mine now but I dont think that will make any diference
with you but I must close we are all well & I hope this will find you
well & happy yes happy in Christ yes Oh dear one strive to be a good boy
& let us be happy together there is hardly any hour of the day but what
I think of those recent promises may God in his mercy help you to keep them this
is my only prayer Oh is good let us trust in him & pray to him for more
faith Willie do come down with C Saturday
pleas excuse all imperfections. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, July 29, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | This is a beautiful Sabbeth morn & all nature
seems to be sending up its praises to the great & good God yes I say
good (good when he gives supremely good
nor less when he dinies) & it is Him who
deserves the prais for he does all things well. Willie
I was not well this morning nor have not been for a week & could not go
to church so I thought I would respond to your dear messive that I Recd last Thursday Oh you
know not how I felt when I got it I feared to open it my hand trembled when I
grasped it & saw it was from you; but you will say what caused the fear
now do not centure me for my weakness, I feared it
would be cold & indiferent &
perhaps bid me neve to right
again but when I saw dear Kate it cheared me up yes I
filt strong again & thought perhaps ther were some hope & now I am replying with you
last request (write soon) yes I will try &
comply with evry request that you make though I have
been denied of evry one I have made. I will try
& return good for evel, I am resigned to my
fate. but I must hasten to respond to
your dear sweet letter. you say mine caused your sensitive nature to mourn over
the past my dear friend I am sorry that I caused you to morn over the past for it is wicked for me to mourn over it let alone
being the cause of another one to be sad forgive me for making you thus. God in
his goodness has some wise devise for doing this so I
am willing to bare though the chastning rod has been sever it has
brought me nearer him & maid a better girl of me & I hope ere long dear brother that you
will exclame God is good & does all things
well. Willie you wish a relies you have loved me I do
not doubt that but your affections have changed & you soon wish to be
free again & can I hold thy pure & noble heart bind it to me
that is so impure as mine for I have been the cause of you being unhappy
& I know not but what I am the cause of you loosing your religion though I hope not so Willie I am not worthy of
you. I love you & can not help it but Willie I will never harm you love
works no ill to any one I never expect to love another nor do not wish to no
could I trust another could I ask my dear Father to chang that which I asked him to do but with in my bosom no never, but can I claim you when you are chainged; Oh my Heavenly Father forbid no no Willie I care not what
may be my fate I can not hold thee to me if you do not wish it nor can I spurn
you no Willie I blame myself in part for it yes the letter that I wrote last
winter just after Christmas I blame for it yes dear Willie I will take half of
the blame or all of it if it will make you happy for I have bore the blame
& centure of the people for it &
swore then it yes Willie I have bore the burden in the heat of the day I caused
& cast it all uppon thee now but will bare half of it with you. I will tell you some things that
has (come) been said to me Kate you look sad you kicked Billie thinking you
could do better & I dont pitty you one bit what
could I say I dened the charge but it is generly believed that I did kick you yes I am blamed
with your drinking which I neve did believe you did
though you thought I did no Willie I could not believe it I would see you laying
dead drunk in the mud I would (not) think it was not you there oh you said the
next to the last time you were down her if I ever kicked
you that you would get to drinking but Willie here is the hardest thing I had to
endure that I had kicked you & you got to drinking on the account of it
& that now I had lost my mind on the account of it Oh Willie is it not a
wonder that I have not lost my mind
as be blaimed with so much that I hope I am inosent of & yet I bilieve it is all for my own good "all work together for good to those
that love God yes dear Willie God in all his ways is just & merciful
& if we rely trust him though we pass through
fire it will not harm us. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Amanda C. Armentrout | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, August 17,
1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I expected to send my letter this morn to the offise
but did not so I thought I would write (some) & tell you that I am quite
well this evening & dear brother for what else can I term you now as you
wish to be free & let me beg you to try & be happy I am very
very happy this evening I feel that God has blessed me this day yes dear Willie
I have wept for joy & I can say with a thankful heart thy will be done
Oh my dear Father not mine though doest all things well but dear one are you
happy yes you are free are you as happy as when you were bound to your fond K or
has the first of this letter caused a sad thought to enter thy borow say dear one are you happy or would you ask her who is pening this to come to thy bosom again or what is the
cause of thy unhappiness Oh my dear one true happiness is not found in this
world now dont get angry with me & I will tell
you what my belief is; I beleave that you love me as
fondly as you ever did but you do not enjoy religion as you once did & you are not happy if you
have tryed to study up what was the cause will I have
desided I have changed I know you think so but
not that true heart as it once was & what does it say if I would scorn
you what would you do. Now Willie let me beg you once more to come to see me as
a friend an enimy as a lover a brother or anything you
wish I will be happy yes do anything that you ask me & it is in my power but I beg you to come as soon as you
get this if you do not get it before Saturday come to show people that I am not
to blame & that we are friends we are expecting a nice time at the
mountain the 7 of next month come & lets join our
party & lets be friends now dont my heart will
not deny no pitty if nothing else will bring you I will
receive you as my friend but I must close now may the rich blessings of our
heavenly Father rest upon you try & be happy, we know not what blessings
are in store for us but come dear one do come | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, October 7, 1866 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I have not received a line from you yet but concluded I would not wait any longer
this is a beautiful Sabbath morn & I wish you were here to go to church
with me Annie Mollie Jake & George have gone & I thought I would
stay at home & write to the dear one that is far a way. I expect to go
to prayr meeting this evening Oh how I wish you were
here to go with me for I feel some what
lonly have not had time to have the blues much but
am anxiously looking for-ward for Saturday to arive
& to bring my dear one with it the time will not appear long for I will
be so busy that I will harly have time to think but do
not disappoint me for you know Willie I will be very uneasy if you dont come think it very strange that I have not got a
letter yet have sent twice to the office but hope I will soon hear from you I
expect you have forgotten Kate as she is so selfish I reckon I had better look
for a sweetheart this eve perhaps I could find one that would thake your place Well Willie dear this is the first time I have had
a pen in my hand sense you left me I am getting carlous would have written to cous Mollie C but have forgotten her address so I cannot write untill I see you will write to cous Joe this week & Dottie I have been too busy to write to
them we are all very well I have had a slight cold but feel very well now hope
this will find you well & happy & in fine spirits &
above all striving to do the will of our dear Mother remember thy dear Kate at
the throne of grace & pray that
I may over come the selfish feeling that rise in my bosom for you & that
we may both draw nearer to each other by the strong ties of holy love it makes
me very sad some time when I think I have caused thy dear bosom to heave a sigh
for my selfishness but it is my nature & hope you will love me dearer
for it after while but you will say how can I love you
dearer I do not know that you can but that it will make you happy to think that
you have it in in your power to wound & to heal Willie you think me very
childish I acknowledge I am but can not help it my love is so strong that it
makes me thus do not let it greave you I hope by the
grace of God to over come it & make you very happy it is my disire to make you happy & I believe I can but
enough of this. I have no news to write the boys are not done cutting up there corn yet the rain prevented them yesterday we had a
hail storm Friday evening it did no damage here, in the neighborhood of cousin
John Crist it broke out most all of the window pains
& cut the parlor so it will harley be worth
saving it has made quite a change in the weather I expect it will get cold
before we want to see cold weather I wish we could get maried before it gets cold I am anxious to be with you; I suppose
you were teased enough about having me in Augusta but I think it was for the
best but I cant stay much longer I hope it will save
you the trip over the mountain I shant
promis you that though I expect I will have you to
come to old Augusta evry two or three weeks after
something for ro ex what do you think of all that but I
must close I would like very much to accompany this do not let any thing in this
cause one sad thought but be cheerful & happy pleas excuse hast & all imperfections I
will try & look my prettiest Saturday eve write very soon. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Amanda C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Amanda C. Armentrout to William F. Brand, September 1, 1867 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I have just returned from my friend Rachel's & thought I would write you
a short note my health is very good better than usual I think & I am
trying to be very cheerful though I get the blues very bad some times. Pa has at
last consented for to have some waters & get
married at home so I have chosen six girls though I expected to have 7 but I
want the privlege of inviting one gent as water & will give you the same privlege you can invite a lady to wait as I have but
(on) six chosen but wish to know immediately what lady you wish. I have my two
sises R.C.E. Shuey, Kate Shields & cousin
Josie of course I will expect you to have Mr. Linzy as a water to make the 6th I do not know how to spell the name; Oh how I
wish you were here that we could make the arangement you are so slow a bout writing I
think you are so careless a bout writing Willie dear
will you always be so it has a bad tendency now you can not imagin my feelings when I
think a bout it but then I think it will not be long
that I will be from you & that you will strive to make me happy. Alas how long long did I await to hear
these words the other night Kate I am
striving to live a better life to become a good Christian my dear one are you
trying to do this Oh I do hope you are you cannot imagine the joy those few
words would create within in my bosom I think the tryals that I have dayly would be nothing if I
but knew that all that you can do is being done; if I allow myself to think for
one moment that you are not doing that I almost shrink from the situation or
position I have taken but I feel that you are trying for I know you will not
have me brake that no I know you want
to make me happy & that will make us both happy dearest remember me in
your dayly
prayrs but enough. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armentrout, Jacob C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jacob C. Armentrout to Kate Armentrout, April 22, 1862 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | we were on picket about two in the morning we suppose the object of the
picket was to stop straglers for the tenth Regt. came across upon the same road consequently
the enemy could not leave unexpected. We left Rude's Hill the 11th & camped near the Spring. Abe, Hunter, John & I
stope
allnight at Ants She was
very much distressed at the thought of the advance of the enemy the people in
general were rioting about in the utmost confusion not knowing their personal
fate if they stayed nor the fate of their property if they left. Unkle
Cirus sold some cattle in town & on his return,
he & his three sons met the Brigade they had their horses &
equipments expecting to join their
company at Richmond they certainly had but little time to escape for the enemy's
calvery were at the Spring the next morning.
Ashby killed several in Mr. Lincon's wheat-field it is sayed Cousin John & Albert took dinner at home the next day.
They say the enemy did not disturb any citizen but took several horses. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Alexander, Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to George H. Robinson, 27 November 1867 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | You will receive
per Stmr. Wanasit 43 Bags containing
64 Bus: Corn Shipped by John Mason
/coloured/ also 13 Bags Containing Bus.
Corn Shipped by James Beverly /coloured.
There are seven bags remaining of the lot
sent down by you yesterday which will
be filled with corn and sent to you by
Wanasit on Sunday next, sent shipped to you by
William Robertson /coloured/ who requests
me to ask you to send him Twenty /20/ bags
by the Boat on friday next to hold the balance
of the corn he has on hand, John Mason
wishes you to sell his corn and retain
the money in your hands until he calls
for it —
William Robertson wishes you to sell
to sell his corn and pay the money to
John Mason. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years; August 19, 1865 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | This Indenture, made this 19th day of August, in the year
Eighteen hundred & Sixty five between 1st Lieut. Ab S Dial A.A.A. Gen'l
J. B. 7th Dist. Va. of the one part, and John F. Hawkins of the
County of Bedford of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said
Lieut Ab S Dial &c. &c. by virtue of the authority in him
vested as Military (Commandant
agent aforesaid, hath put and bound, and doth by These
Presents, put and bind Susan— a free Girl of color, of the said
County, and being of the age of Five years, to be Apprenticed to the
said John F Hawkins to learn the Business of a
house servant, and with him to dwell and remain and serve until She, the
aid Susan —, shall obtain the age of Eighteen
ears; during all which time, she, the said Susan—,
— —
faithfully shall serve and obey, all secrets keep, and all lawful
commands willingly do and perform; and shall not absent herself from the service of
her master day or night, without his leave; but shall, in all things, as a faith-
ful Apprentice, behave herself towards her master, and all his family, during the said
term: and the said John F Hawkins doth hereby covenant, promise and
agree to, and with the said Lieut A. S. Dial &c and his succeſsors in office,
that he the said John F Hawkins will instruct said Apprentice in the
business of a houseservant (which now
Ann useth), shall and will
teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best manner that he can,
and shall and will provide and allow unto the said Apprentice, during all the said term,
competent and sufficient meat, drink, washing lodging, apparel, and all other things ne-
ſsary for the said Apprentice to have, and that he will well and truly pay
to the said Susan — at the end of —her—
term of apprenticeship aforesaid, the sum of Twenty — dollars, lawful money of
Virginia; and that during the term aforesaid —he— will instruct,
or cause to be instructed, the said Susan, in reading, writing and
arithmetic, as far as the Rule of Three. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Armitt, Elizabeth | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Will of Elizabeth Armitt [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | I Elizabeth Armitt of the City of
Philadelphia Widow being through Divine
Favour in good health and of Sound
Disposing mind and memory Do make
this my Last Will and testament in
maner following Item I give &
bequath to
my great grand Daughter Elizabeth Waln Wiſter
my Silver tankerd marked EL Item
I give and bequeath my part of the meſsuage
and Lot where I now Dwell with the
appurtenances and also all my household
furniture and Plate except what is before
given. unto my grandson Charles Brockden
Brown his heirs and
aſsines in trust, as to
the furniture and Plate to and for the separate
Use of my Daughter Mary Brown Item
and as to the meſsuage and Lot in truſt to
and for the Separate Use of the said Mary
Brown Item I give and bequeath to my Said
Daughter Mary Brown all my waring
Apparel. Item I hearby Authorise and
Impower my Exceutors on the Surviver
of them to Sell and convey my Ground rent
of fourteen Pounds per year payable by
Thomas Wright and my Meſsuage and Lot
situate on the weſt Side of Second Street
bounded Northward by ground Late of Conrad
Pidgen and Southward by ground Late of Joshua
Fiſher and require them to pay the Intereſt on
the Sum for which it is Sold to
my Grand Son Charles Brockden Brown in trust
to and for the separate use of my
Daughter Mary Brown, and after her
decease to Divide the Said Sum the one
half betwen the Children of my Said
Daughter Share and Share alike and the other
half betwen the Children of my Late
Daughter Elizabeth Waln Share and Share
alike. Item in case my Excutors Shall
not Sell my Said Ground rent and meſsuage
and Lot of Grownd I give and Devise the
Same to my Grand Son x Charles Brockden Brown
to and for the Separate use of My Said Daughter
Mary Brown During her Life. I will that
after her Death the one half of my Said Eſtate
be Divided between the Children of My Said
Daughter Mary Brown or the Surviors Share and Share alike
and the other half of my Said Estate be Divied
betwen the Children of My Late Daughter
Elizabeth Waln or the Surviors Share and Share alike.
Laſtly I nominate and appoint my Son
in Law Richard Waln and my Said Grand
Son Charles Brockden Brown Exceutors of
this my Last Will and tastatment hearby
revoking all Wills by me heartofore Maide
and it is My Earneſt Decire and requeſt that
My Children and Grand Children Live in Love
as becomes the followers of Chriſt | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Allan, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter, from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1827 March 20 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | your letter of Monday was received this
morning, I am not at all surprized at any step
you may take, at any thing you can say, or
any thing you may do, you are a much
better judge of the propriety of your own conduct
and general treatment of those who have had the charge
of your infancy I have watched with parental
solicitude & affection over your tender years
affording you such means of instruction as was
in their power & which was performed with
pleasure until you became a much better judge
of your own conduct, rights & priviledges, than
they, it is true: I taught you to aspire, even to
eminence in Public Life, but I never expected
that Don Quixotte. Gil
Blas: Jo; Miller & such
works were calculated to promote the end | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Allan, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1829 May 18 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I duly recd your letter from
Baltimore
on Saturday but seeing Col Preston I gave it to
him to read. I have not yet recovered possession.
The contents however, are on my mind. I was agreeably
pleased to hear that the Honourable Jms J
Barber
did interest himself so much in your favour
He perhaps remembered you when you were at the
Springs in 1812. from the interest exhibited by the
Secratary of War you stand a fair chance I think
of being one of those selected for Sept.
Col. Preston
wrote a warm letter in your favour to Major Eaton since
your departure. Major Campbell left this for Washington
on yesterday. While you are in Maryland,
assertain
& get Certificate of the fact whether your Grandfather
was in the Service during the revoly
war. where
he served.[1] Rank & &. it may be of service & cannot
do you any harm. I cover a Bank check of Virga
on the union Bank of Maryland (this date) of
Baltimore for one Hundred Dollars payable to your
order be prudent and careful | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Aesop | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Fables | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to
lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the
Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him:
"Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated
the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then
said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied
the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf,
"You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet
drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink
to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying,
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every
one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for
his tyranny. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Struggling Upward | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated
group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond
in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall,
pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the
Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A.B., a recent graduate
of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance
on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Apology for Crudity | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | For a long time I have believed that crudity is an inevitable
quality in the production of a really significant present-day
American literature. How indeed is one to escape the obvious fact
that there is as yet no native subtlety of thought or living among us?
And if we are a crude and childlike people how can our literature
hope to escape the influence of that fact? Why indeed should we
want it to escape? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The New Englander | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HER name was Elsie Leander and her girlhood was spent on her
father's farm in Vermont. For several generations the
Leanders had all lived on the same farm and had all married thin
women, and so she was thin. The farm lay in the shadow of a
mountain and the soil was not very rich. From the beginning and
for several generations there had been a great many sons and few
daughters in the family. The sons had gone west or to New York
City and the daughters had stayed at home and thought such
thoughts as come to New England women who see the sons of their
father's neighbours slipping, away, one by one, into the West. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rabbit-pen | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN a wire pen beside the gravel path, Fordyce, walking in the
garden of his friend Harkness and imagining marriage, came upon a
tragedy. A litter of new-born rabbits lay upon the straw scattered
about the pen. They were blind; they were hairless; they were
blue-black of body; they oscillated their heads in mute appeal. In
the center of the pen lay one of the tiny things, dead. Above the
little dead body a struggle went on. The mother rabbit fought the
father furiously. A wild fire was in her eyes. She rushed at the
huge fellow again and again. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | About Mrs. Wharton, in "Chronicle and Comment" | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | According to certain chroniclers in the daily press, Mrs. Wharton
is going to write no more long novels, but will devote herself to
serious historical composition. We are glad that she has abjured long
novels, but deplore her intention of becoming an historian. There are
scores of historians busily at work, many of them very good ones, but
where shall we find another writer who could give us such remarkable
work as that contained in The Greater Inclination? It is pure
perversity to give up doing the thing that one can do best in order to
waste time over that which many others can do better. We have a
certain right to speak out frankly on this subject, because we were
among the very first to greet Mrs. Wharton as a writer of very rare
gifts and of unusual distinction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In a Fog | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A FEW minutes before one o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the
8th of February, 1857, Policeman Smithers, of the Third District, was
meditatively pursuing his path of duty through the quietest streets of
Ward Five, beguiling, as usual, the weariness of his watch by
reminiscent Aethiopianisms, mellifluous in design, though not severely
artistic in execution. Passing from the turbulent precincts of Portland
and Causeway Streets, he had entered upon the solitudes of Green Street,
along which he now dragged himself dreamily enough, ever extracting
consolations from lugubrious cadences mournfully intoned. Very silent
was the neighborhood. Very dismal the night. Very dreary and damp
was Mr. Smithers; for a vile fog wrapped itself around him, filling his
body with moist misery, and his mind with anticipated rheumatic
horrors. Still he surged heavily along, tired Nature with tuneful charms
sweetly restoring. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Watching the Crops | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE members of civilized and artificially organized
communities, who buy their food at markets, can gain from their own
experience but little idea of the watchful and anxious interest
attending the care of growing crops by those populations who must
depend directly upon the product of their fields for subsistence.
To the inhabitants of purely agricultural districts a loss of the
annual harvest means deprivation, and perhaps hunger and famine;
and naturally they have a constant realization of the fact that the
welfare of their whole community is bound up in the promise of the
heading wheat and tasselling corn. Between seed-time and harvest
the husbandman's task is an incessant and arduous one. Weeds must
be kept down, every means of diminishing the ill effects of drought
or of over-moisture must be adopted, the danger from floods
obviated as far as possible, and vigilant guard kept that marauders
shall not deprive him of the reward of his labors. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "St. Elmo" and its Author | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In the rush to keep any sort of pace with the lighter and noisier
literature of the day it is pleasant and worth while occasionally
to spend a few minutes looking over the publishers' lists at the
ends of the popular novels of thirty odd years ago, and from them
to contrast the tastes of the past and the present generations—a
contrast which is very far from being entirely flattering to the
readers of to-day. At the head of such lists we may be sure to
find the names of those writers who corresponded with the authors
of what are now known as "the best sellers"—we realise the claims
that Mary J. Holmes and Ann S. Stevens and Augusta J. Evans and May
Agnes Fleming then had to popular attention. We recognise many
laudable ambitions in the advertisements of books dealing with "the
habits of good society," with "the nice points of taste and good
manners, and the art of making oneself agreeable," with "the art of
polite conversation," and the forms in which letters of business,
of friendship, of society, of respectful endearment should be
couched. At first sight all this is likely to provoke rather
contemptuous amusement. And how unjustly! The forms may be quaint
and obsolete, but the sentiments are homely and praiseworthy, and
in similar literature of to-day there are just as many platitudes,
just as much that is silly and not nearly so much that is sincere.
The average highly successful novel of that time was no more
literature than is the average highly successful novel of to-day,
and the old was generally marked, it must be acknowledged, by an
airiness and pedantry that to-day would not reach the public
without pretty severe editing. On the other hand, however, the old
novels almost always had stories to tell, and they told them in a
manner to make them from end to end vitally interesting to that
class of readers to which they were designed to appeal. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | English Views of Stephen Crane. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE late Mr. Stephen Crane was, as is well known, much more of a
prophet in England than in his own country, and during his latter
years he found it pleasant to make his home in a land where his
work met with such warm appreciation. Since his death, the English
critical journals have with little or no exception expressed a high
judgment of his literary abilities. The Academy (June 9)
says: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Facts. By a Woman | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Debating the question of ways and means, . . . I was prompted instinctively to pick up a city
newspaper . . . my visionary mind was mechanically drawn down through its newsy page to a
single item of distinctive meaning, so electrifying and magically warming my freezing life-current,
that I was instantly thrown into complete respiration and retroaction. It was a simple
announcement, an advertisement only, of A. Roman & Co., who wanted agents to canvass "Tom
Sawyer," Mark Twain's new book. I had been led to it by a mysterious guidance . . . . | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Grindwell Governing Machine | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | On the other side of the Atlantic there is a populous city called
Grandville. It is, as its name indicates, a great city, — but it is said that
it thinks itself a good deal greater than it really is. I meant to say that
Grandville was its original name, and the name by which even at the
present day it is called by its own citizens. But there are certain wits, or
it may be, vulgar people, who by some process have converted this name
into Grindwell. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Indian of Commerce | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | For purposes of literary classification, all Indians may be divided, quite
regardless of linguistic affinities, into three sole tribes—the human,
the inhuman, and the super-human. There is the actual aborigine, interesting to
competent fiction as to science because he is a man and at the same time a
living archive from the childhood of the race. There is the wooden eikon which
stands for questionable cigars or unquestionable penny-a-lining—in
either case a mere peg upon which to hang commercial profit. And there is also
the Red Man of Rhapsody—a conveniently distant fiction to carry
heroics which would seem rather too absurd if fathered upon poor human nature as
we see it next door. With the last-mentioned tribe deals one of the handsomest
and one of the most preposterous books of the season, 'A Child of the Sun,' by
Charles Eugene Banks (Stone). Brilliant as a parrot in mechanical coloration,
the text also seems to have undergone some mental "three-color process."
Fenimore Cooper was cold ethnography to this, and even Prescott's Empire of
Montezuma quite as true to life. There is nothing Indian in these pages, except
the good intention. A curbstone version of the "legend" of the Piasau serves for
warp; and into it the author has woven a truly curious fabric of girl-graduate
mundiloquence and scope. Nominally in prose, the book is in fact very largely
couched in wilful and poor Hiawathan measure, doubly cheap by being masked in
"long type." Perhaps the most diagrammatic comment on the quality of the volume
is in its own exemplary lines about "Pakoble," belle of the "Arctide" tribe, who
was "so perfect in beauty that the artists of the Arctides often begged the
favor of her time, that they might preserve her loveliness to future
generations." It must be said that the fifteen "color-type" illustrations, by
Louis Betts, are far and away above their company and their sort. Of no value as
racial types, they are very uncommonly attractive and sympathetic, and not
without a touch of real poetry in conception as well as in color-scheme. Its
whole dress would befit a worthier volume. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last of Stephen Crane. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE collection of stories about the Spanish-American war upon which
Mr. Crane was engaged at the time of his death, has lately appeared
in book form under the title "Wounds in the Rain." The St.
James's Gazette (London, September 27) thinks that in a few of
the stories he rises almost, tho not quite, to the level of his
masterpiece, "The Red Badge of Courage." It says: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Literary Chat | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Europe appears to be exerting more and more of an attractive
power over our literary men. Henry James has lived abroad so
long that he may almost be considered to have expatriated
himself; Bret Harte has of late years so thoroughly identified
himself with England that his stories now always appear there
before they do here; Frank Stockton is making a prolonged visit
on the other side and a newspaper paragraph announces that Mark
Twain is in Geneva so often that many believe him to have taken
up his residence there. He himself declares that it is the Alps
that draw him thither so frequently. "They follow me
everywhere," he says, "and I cannot get away from them." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mary Somerville | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE have been in every age a few women of genius who have
become the successful rivals of man in the paths which they have
severally chosen. Three instances are of our time. Mrs. Browning is
called a poet even by poets; the artists admit that Rosa Bonheur is a
painter; and the mathematicians accord to Mary Somerville a high rank
among themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Octave Thanet | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN, a decade ago, some one asked "Octave Thanet" to state
where she would like to live, her reply was: "Nowhere all the year
round." And if you care to make an attempt to trace Miss French's
whereabouts you will very likely discover that she is living up to her
declaration. A modern captain of industry
is not more at home anywhere than this
delightful writer of short stories — a literary lapidary she might well
be termed, so absolutely clean-cut and brilliant is her work. Miss
French has been complimented by pastmasters of the art of literary
criticism for work of a widely diversified character. She shows a
remarkable familiarity with life in our bustling west, as well as with
that of our less assertive south. We marvel at this, when we
consider that her birth and education is of New England. However,
the fact that fate compelled her to take up residence in Iowa, and
inclination led her to spend a part of the year in the south, accounts
for those characteristics in her work that are reflective of the
sections, and which might possibly puzzle an unsophisticated reader
concerning the personality of the author. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elizabeth Sara Sheppard | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YOU ask from me some particulars of the valued life so recently
closed. Miss Sheppard was my friend of many years; I was with her to
the last hour of her existence; but this is not the time for other than a
brief notice of her career, and I comply with your request by sending
you a slight memorial, hardly full enough for publication. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Antibiastes | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army,
and in the navy of the United States. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Resolve of Congress, for prohibiting the importation of
Slaves, demonstrates the consistent zeal of our rulers in the cause of mankind.
They have endeavoured, as early and as extensively as it then was in their
power, to reform our morals, by checking the progress of the general
depravation, which, sooner or later, proves the ruin of the countries, where
domestic slavery is introduced. From the liberal spirit of that resolve, which,
soon after, was most cheerfully supported by their constituents, it is natural
to infer that, had not the necessity of repelling the hostilities of powerful
invaders so deeply engaged the attention of the several legislative bodies of
our Union, laws would, long since, have been made, with every precaution, which
our safety might have dictated, for facilitating emancipations. Many Slaves,
however, too many perhaps, are incautiously allowed to fight under our banners.
They share in the dangers and glory of the efforts made by US, the freeborn
members of the United States, to enjoy, undisturbed, the common rights of human
nature; and THEY remain SLAVES! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman's Half-Century of Evolution | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE status of woman in the United States fifty years ago, the
progressive steps by which it has been improved, present
conditions, future probabilities—in fact, a resume of the great
movement in which Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been the central
figure through two generations—this is the subject assigned me to
consider in the brief space of one magazine article! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Gulliver of Mars | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DARE I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic
lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible
things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera
in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness?
At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and
cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up
my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I must write
it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and
lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult
of the struggle into which that vision led me still
throbs in my mind, the soft, lisping voices of the planet
I ransacked for its sake and the roar of the destruction
which followed me back from the quest drowns all other
sounds in my ears! I must and will write—it relieves me;
read and believe as you list. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Scholemaster / Roger Ascham | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AFter the childe hath learned perfitlie the eight partes of
speach, let him then learne the right ioyning togither of
substantiues with adiectiues, the nowne with the verbe, the
relatiue with the antecedent. And in learninge farther hys
Syntaxis, by mine aduice, he shall not vse the common order
in common scholes, for making of latines: wherby, the childe
Cic. de // commonlie learneth, first, an euill choice of wordes,
Cla. or. // (and right choice of wordes, saith Cæsar, is the
foundation of eloquence) than, a wrong placing
of wordes: and lastlie, an ill framing of the sentence, with
a peruerse iudgement, both of wordes and sentences. These
Making of // faultes, taking once roote in yougthe, be neuer, or
Lattines // hardlie, pluckt away in age. Moreouer, there is
marreth // no one thing, that hath more, either dulled the
Children. // wittes, or taken awaye the will of children from
learning, then the care they haue, to satisfie their masters, in
making of latines. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AH LEW SING was the proprietor of a vegetable garden between the stock yard
and the rail-road bridge, on the farther side of the Summerfield canal. He was the
lankest, obliquest-eyed celestial that ever combined an expression of childlike
innocence with the appearance of having fallen into a state of permanent
disrepair, an outward seeming that much belied the inner man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last Antelope | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE were seven notches in the juniper by the Lone Tree
Spring for the seven seasons that Little Pete had summered there,
feeding his flocks in the hollow of the Ceriso. The first time of
coming he had struck his axe into the trunk meaning to make
firewood, but thought better of it, and thereafter chipped it in
sheer friendliness, as one claps an old acquaintance, for by the
time the flock has worked up the treeless windy stretch from the
Little Antelope to the Ceriso, even a lone juniper has a friendly
look. And Little Pete was a friendly man, though shy of demeanor,
so that with the best will in the world for wagging his tongue, he
could scarcely pass the time of day with good countenance; the soul
of a jolly companion with the front and bearing of one of his own
sheep. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jimville: A Bret Harte Town | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Mr. Harte found himself with a fresh palette and his
particular local color fading from the West, he did what he
considered the only safe thing, and carried his young impression
away to be worked on untroubled by any newer fact. He should have
gone to Jimville. There he would have found cast up on the ore-ribbed hills the bleached timbers of more tales, and better ones. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Little Coyote | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT doubt a man's son is his son, whether the law has
spoken or no, and that the Little Coyote was the son of Moresco was
known to all Maverick and the Campoodie beyond it. In the course
of time it became known to the Little Coyote. His mother was
Choyita, who swept and mended for Moresco in the room behind the
store, which was all his home. In those days Choyita was young,
light of foot, and pretty,—very pretty for a Piute. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Agua Dulce | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Los Angeles special got in so late that day that if the driver
of the Mojave stage had not, from having once gone to school to me,
acquired the habit of minding what I said, I should never have made
it. I hailed it from the station, and he swung the four about in
the wide street as the wind swept me toward the racked old coach in
a blinding whirl of dust. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mother of Felipe | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT triangular portion of the great Mojave desert lying south of the
curve of the Sierra Nevadas, where those mountains unite with the coast hills is
known as Antelope Valley. A big, barren, windy country, rising from the level of
the desert in long, undulating slopes that face abruptly toward the mountains. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Frustrate | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I KNOW that I am a disappointed woman and that nobody cares at all
about it, not even Henry; and if anybody thought of it, it would
only be to think it ridiculous. It is ridiculous, too, with my
waist, and not knowing how to do my hair or anything. I look at
Henry sometimes of evenings, when he has his feet on the fender,
and wonder if he has the least idea how disappointed I am. I even
have days of wondering if Henry isn't disappointed, too. He might
be disappointed in himself, which would be even more dreadful; but
I don't suppose we shall ever find out about each other. It is
part of my disappointment that Henry has never seemed to want to
find out. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White Hour | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was told Mono John that a daughter was born to him, he
named her after the most admirable white woman he knew, Eva Lee
Matheson, teacher of the Tres Pinos school. He named her by ear,
so that the child came to be called Evaly. Later, when she went to
school, and understood that children must be known by their
father's names, she called herself Evaly John. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mahala Joe | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the campoodie of Three Pines, which you probably know
better by its Spanish name of Tres Pinos, there is an Indian, well
thought of among his own people, who goes about wearing a woman's
dress, and is known as Mahala Joe. He should be about fifty years
old by this time, and has a quiet, kindly face. Sometimes he tucks
up the skirt of his woman's dress over a pair of blue overalls when
he has a man's work to do, but at feasts and dances he wears a
ribbon around his waist and a handkerchief on his head as the other
mahalas do. He is much looked to because of his knowledge of white
people and their ways, and if it were not for the lines of deep
sadness that fall in his face when at rest, one might forget that
the woman's gear is the badge of an all but intolerable shame. At
least it was so used by the Paiutes, but when you have read this
full and true account of how it was first put on, you may not think
it so. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Little Town of the Grape Vines | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE are still some places in the West where the quail cry,
" Cuidado;" where all the speech is soft, all the manners
gentle; where all the dishes have chile in them, and they make
more of the Sixteenth of September than they do of the Fourth of
July. I mean in particular El Pueblo de Los Vinos Uvas. Where it
lies, how to come at it, you will not get from me; rather would I
show you the heron's nest in the Tulares. It has a peak behind it,
glinting above the Tamarack pines; above, a breaker of ruddy hills
that have a long slope valley-wards, and the shore-ward steep of
waves toward the Sierras. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Walking Woman | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE first time of my hearing of her was at Temblor. We had
come all one day between blunt whitish bluffs rising from mirage
water, with a thick pale wake of dust billowing from the wheels,
all the dead wall of the foothills sliding and shimmering with
heat, to learn that the Walking Woman had passed us somewhere in
the dizzying dimness, going down to the Tulares on her own feet.
We heard of her again in the Carrisal, and again at Adobe Station,
where she had passed a week before the shearing, and at last I had
a glimpse of her at the Eighteen-Mile House as I went hurriedly
northward on the Mojave stage; and afterward sheepherders at whose
camps she slept, and cowboys at rodeos, told me as much of her way
of life as they could understand. Like enough they told her as
much of mine. That was very little. She was the Walking Woman,
and no one knew her name, but because she was a sort of whom men
speak respectfully, they called her to her face, Mrs. Walker, and
she answered to it if she was so inclined. She came and went about
our western world on no discoverable errand, and whether she had
some place of refuge where she lay by in the interim, or whether
between her seldom, unaccountable appearances in our quarter she
went on steadily walking, was never learned. She came and went,
oftenest in a kind of muse of travel which the untrammeled space
begets, or at rare intervals flooding wondrously with talk, never
of herself, but of things she had known and seen. She must have
seen some rare happenings too—by report. She was at Maverick the
time of the Big Snow, and at Tres Pinos when they brought home the
body of Morena; and if anybody could have told whether de Borba
killed Mariana for spite or defense, it would have been she, only
she could not be found when most wanted. She was at Tunawai at the
time of the cloud-burst, and if she had cared for it could have
known most desirable things of the ways of trail-making, burrow-habiting small things. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Return of Mr. Wills | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MRS. WILLS had lived seventeen years with Mr. Wills, and when he
left her for three, those three were so much the best of her
married life that she wished he had never come back. The only real
trouble with Mr. Wills was that he should never have moved West.
Back East, I suppose, they breed such men because they need them,
but they ought really to keep them there. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wooing of the Señorita | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MILLARD TRAVIS was a man of ideas; he was also very young. This
was not so bad as it might have been, for his ideas were of the toy pistol sort,—a
nuisance to everybody, but only occasionally hurtful to the holder. The idea
which made Travis particularly odious to his fellow men was less original than
unexpected. He merely held that all this peep-show performance of modern
affairs was a progression towards emptiness, that there was nothing sound or
wholesome, but naked, unblushing savagery, and his vade mecum was
"our progenitor, Adam." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Spring o' the Year | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Don Pedro Ruiz, owner of five hundred fat wethers and two
hundred ewes, was a little bowed in the back and a little frosty
about the temples, a sickness got abroad among his sheep and took
a good half of them. The next year a bear stampeded the flock
toward a forty-foot barranca over which two hundred pitched to
destruction. After that Don Pedro went down to La Liebre and hired
out as a herder. The superintendent thereupon gave him a lamb
band, flock-wise, seasoned ewes, mostly with twin lambs; and
because there was old kindness between him and the superintendent
of La Liebre, and because he had by long usage established a right
to much good pasture in the neighborhood of Wild Rose, Don Pedro
was allowed to take the flock out in his own charge, with a couple
of dogs, and no companion herder except to set him on his way. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE delusion of the coming of the Messiah among the Indians of
the Northwest, with the resulting ceremony known as the ghost
dance, is indicative of greater danger of an Indian war in that
region than has existed since 1876. Never before have diverse
Indian tribes been so generally united upon a single idea. The
conspiracy of Pontiac and the arrayment of savage forces by
Tecumseh are insignificant by comparison. The conditions do not
exist that ordinarily have led to wars upon the Western frontier.
The peril of the situation lies in the fanaticism which may carry
the superstitious and excitable Indian to the point of hostilities
in defiance of all hope of ultimate success; and the uncertainty of
this element baffles the judgment of the oldest frontiersman, in
the effort to determine the extent of the danger. A single spark
in the tinder of excited religious gatherings may precipitate an
Indian war more sanguinary than any similar war that has ever
occurred. The hope of peace lies in the judicious display of
force, united with conciliation, by the United States authorities,
helped by the coming of severely cold weather, which would make an
outbreak obviously hopeless, and allow time for the delusion to
dissipate. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Chief Joseph | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SCULPTURE labors under the disadvantage of having in most
cases to carry out a subject or make a likeness at the bidding of
some one else besides the artist himself. In painting there is
more chance for an independent choice of topic, though the painted
portrait is usually undertaken under the same hampering bonds.
Luckily Mr. Olin I. Warner, while travelling in the West, happened
to be on the Cherokee Reservation when Chief Joseph, the famous
leader of the Nez Perces, was expected at army head-quarters. He
waited until the old chief arrived, and used such arguments that in
the course of several sittings he obtained the bass-relief
medallion which is here to be seen [illustration omitted]. It was
shown at the National Academy last spring, but hardly received the
place and the attention it deserved. The portrait is a true labor
of love on the part of the sculptor, and while it gives one of the
many types of our North-American Indians, is said to be an
excellent likeness of the warrior. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Decoration of Houses. By Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | One opens a new book on decoration with a weary anticipation,
remembering how much has been lately written on the subject for
Americans, and to how little purpose; but now the whole style and
practice of decoration has changed, and the teaching of the last
generation has become obsolete. 'The Decoration of Houses,' a
handsome, interesting, and well-written book, not only is an
example of the recent reversion to quasi-classic styles and
methods, but signalizes the complete reaction that has thrown to
the winds, even before the public discovered it, perhaps, the
lately accepted doctrine of constructive virtue, sincerity, and the
beauty of use. The authors take the new ground uncompromisingly,
snap their fingers at sincerity, have no horror of shams, and stand
simply on proportion, harmony of lines, and other architectural
qualities. "Any trompe-d'oeil is permissible in decorative
design," they say, "if it gives an impression of pleasure." To
this have we already come; yet it seems not to have produced
harmony between the outside and the inside of their volume. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Motor Flight through France. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is not to be expected that Mrs. Wharton would write the
ordinary book of travel—nor has she done so in the present
volume. «The motor-car has restored the romance of travel,» she
declares: and to prove her contention she whirls her reader through
the towns and picturesque country scenes of France on a motor-car
that certainly leaves nothing to be desired by the traveler in the
way of comfort and convenience. Mrs. Wharton dwells with delight
on the freedom from the «ugliness and desolation created by the
railway,» as enjoyed by the motorist, and describes in her usual
charming style the various objects of beauty and interest that
flash by her car without being marred by intervening railroad
yards, smoke, and general dulness. With no country is Mrs. Wharton
more thoroughly familiar than with France, and her brilliant
sketches of towns, castles, churches, men, and women, seen in
passing, furnish excellent reading and lend to this book a piquancy
not usually possest by others of its kind. For any one
contemplating a motor trip through France it should serve,
moreover, as an excellent guide. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Few Thought-Compelling Novels. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is possible to write about the «smart set» and not be
sophomoric or flippant. Edith Wharton does this, and her new
novel, «The Reef» (Appletons), is a serious and important criticism
of the aimless existence of the idle rich. Her criticism,
however, is made subtly; it is a matter not of statement but of
suggestion. George Darrow, a diplomatist, drifts into a foolish
intrigue with Sophy Viner, a commonplace little person who has been
making a dreary living as a companion to a vulgar woman of wealth.
After a Parisian sojourn they separate, and when next he meets her,
after three years, she is acting as governess to the little
daughter of Anna Leath, a widow whom he is courting. This is
embarrassing enough, but worse is in store. Sophy, he finds, is
affianced to Owen Leath, Mrs. Leath's stepson. There is something
reminiscent of Pinero in Mrs. Wharton's method of juggling these
troubled souls. «The Reef» could be made into an admirable drama.
The plot comes to its climax naturally, in the manner of life, with
that irony which is characteristic of the way of the gods with
foolish people. For Mrs. Wharton's people are foolish—they are
vain, selfish and flatly materialistic. She has knowledge of but
not love for mankind. Perhaps it is fairer to say that she has no
love for the class of which she writes with such cruel realism. It
is certain that the future historian who wishes a clear idea of the
thoughts and actions of the most worthless people of this
generation will need but two books—«The House of Mirth» and «The
Reef.» | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ethan Frome | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | More than ten years ago Mrs. Wharton published a short story
called «The Duchess at Prayer.» Since that time we have cherished
an estimate of her powers which no intermediate accession to her
repertory has raised, nor even, to speak truth, quite justified.
Practised, cosmopolitan, subtle, she has seemed, on the whole, to
covet most earnestly the refinements of Henry James. In spite of
her habit of a franker approach, her consistent rating of matter
above manner, and the gravitation — we should hesitate to say
transfer — of her interest from exotic to native themes; we might
have been reasonably content to rank her as the greatest pupil of
a little master, were it not for the appearance of «Ethan Frome.»
This startling fulfilment recalls not only the promise of the early
story, but its revelation of a more potent influence — the
inspiriting example of a greater novelist to whom Mr. James's
devoirs have been paid in the phrase, «The master of us
all.» Exactly how much the inception and execution of «The Duchess
at Prayer» owed to Balzac's «La grande Breteche» is beyond our
present point, which is, specifically, that the excellence of Mrs.
Wharton's work in this case outstripped the charge of imitation,
and allied her with that company of splendid talents whom neither
magnificence nor the catastrophes of passion can abash. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Addams, Jane | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Women and Public Housekeeping | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other re- spects it is enlarged housekeeping. If
American cities have failed in the first, partly because officeholders have
carried with them the predatory instinct learned in competitive business,
and cannot help "working a good thing" when they have an opportunity, may
we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the
traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform
activities? The men of the city have been carelessly indifferenct to much
of its civic housekeeping, as they have always been indifferent to the
details of the household. They have totally dis-
regarded a candidate's capacity to keep the streets clean, preferring
to con- sider him in relation to the national
tariff or to the necessity for increasing the national navy, in a pure
spirit of reversion to the traditional type of government, which had to do
only with enemies and outsiders. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Blind Lark / Alcott, Louisa M.; illustrated by W. H. Drake | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIGH up in an old house, full of poor people, lived Lizzie, with her mother and
baby Billy. The street was a narrow, noisy place, where carts rumbled and dirty
children played; where the sun seldom shone, the fresh wind seldom blew, and the
white snow of winter was turned at once to black mud. One bare room was Lizzie's
home, and out of it she seldom went, for she was a prisoner. We all pity the
poor princesses who were shut up in towers by bad fairies, the men and women in
jails, and the little birds in cages, but Lizzie was a sadder prisoner than any
of these. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours! | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The pending amendment in this State is a copy of the Suffrage Amendment in
Louisiana except the property clause. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana
adopted the amendment in 1898. It went into effect soon after. There has been
the fullest possible opportunity to study the question in all its detail. The
city elections last year were held under the provisions of the new constitution.
This year the State election was held under it. No word of complaint has been
heard. No white man has stated that his right to vote was denied. No test has
been made of the question in the courts. So we take it that the working of the
amendment in Louisiana will be its working in this State. It has stood a
practical test there. In order that the people of the State might have the
fullest information on this subject, Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, has been to the State of Louisiana and
made a study of the question in all its bearings. He was specially active in
seeking information as to whether white people are disfranchised. His letters
from the South are interesting reading. He interviewed men of every shade of
political opinion. He did not confine his investigation to the towns. The County
Parishes—our townships-were visited and people themselves sounded on
the subject. Attention is invited to some of the leading points taken from his
articles. In the light of experience the people of Louisiana declare unanimously
that their amendment was the only possible solution of the suffrage question,
and the amendment is regarded as an entirely satisfactory solution of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bitterness of Women | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LOUIS CHABOT was sitting under the fig tree in her father's garden at Tres Pinos
when he told Marguerita Dupré that he could not love her. This sort
of thing happened so often to Louis that he did it very well and rather enjoyed
it, for he was one of those before whom women bloomed instinctively and preened
themselves, and that Marguerita loved him very much was known not only to Louis,
but to all Tres Pinos. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Search for Jean Baptiste | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE bred to the hills and the care of dumb, helpless things must in the end, whatever
else befalls, come back to them. That is the comfort they give him for their care and
the revenge they have of their helplessness. If this were not so Gabriel Lausanne
would never have found Jean Baptiste. Babette, who was the mother of Jean Baptiste
and the wife of Gabriel, understood this also, and so came to her last sickness in
more comfort of mind than would have been otherwise possible; for it was understood
between them that when he had buried her, Gabriel was to go to America to find Jean
Baptiste. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE very ancient conception of a genius as one seized upon by the waiting Powers for
the purpose of rendering themselves intelligible to men has its most modern exemplar
in the person of Herbert George Wells, a maker of amazing books. It is impossible to
call Mr. Wells a novelist, for up to this time the bulk of his work has not been
novels; and scarcely accurate to call him a sociologist, since most of his social
science is delivered in the form of fiction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be its final word. It
was to be so chosen from the limited sort of incidents that could occur there, so charged with
the still ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its obsession, free to
concern myself about other affairs. And from the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's
body at Dead Man's Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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