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81Author:  Woolf, VirginiaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Night and Day  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IT was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the daylight. But although she was silent, she was evidently mistress of a situation which was familiar enough to her, and inclined to let it take its way for the six hundredth time, perhaps, without bringing into play any of her unoccupied faculties. A single glance was enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in the gifts which make tea-parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread and butter was discharged for her.
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82Author:  Zerbe, J. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Aeroplanes  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE "SCIENCE" OF AVIATION.—It may be doubted whether there is such a thing as a "science of aviation." Since Langley, on May 6, 1896, flew a motor-propelled tandem monoplane for a minute and an half, without a pilot, and the Wright Brothers in 1903 succeeded in flying a bi-plane with a pilot aboard, the universal opinion has been, that flying machines, to be successful, must follow the structural form of birds, and that shape has everything to do with flying.
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83Author:  Alexander, HartleyRequires cookie*
 Title:  American Indian Myth Poems  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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84Author:  Andreyev, LeonidRequires cookie*
 Title:  To the Russian Soldier  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SOLDIER, what hast thou been under Nicholas the Secone? Thou hast been a slave of the autocrat. Conscience, honor, love for the people, were beaten out of thee in merciless training by whip and stick.
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85Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Amours De Voyage  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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86Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Beowulf  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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87Author:  Beecher, Catharine E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  An essay on slavery and abolitionism, with reference to the duty of American females. By Catharine E. Beecher  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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88Author:  Bibb, HenryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. With an introd. by Lucius C. Matlack.  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Sketch of my Parentage. — Early separation from my Mother. — Hard Fare. — First Experiments at running away. — Earnest longing for Freedom. — Abhorrent nature of Slavery.
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89Author:  BoethiusRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Consolation of Philosophy (Trans. W.V. Cooper, 1902)  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 'To pleasant songs my work was erstwhile given, and bright were all my labours then; but now in tears to sad refrains am I compelled to turn. Thus my maimed Muses guide my pen, and gloomy songs make no feigned tears bedew my face. Then could no fear so overcome to leave me companionless upon my way. They were the pride of my earlier bright-lived days: in my later gloomy days they are the comfort of my fate; for hastened by unhappiness has age come upon me without warning, and grief hath set within me the old age of her gloom. White hairs are scattered untimely on my head, and the skin hangs loosely from my worn-out limbs.
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90Author:  Brawley, BenjaminRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Negro in American Fiction  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Ever since Sydney Smith sneered at American books a hundred years ago, honest critics have asked themselves if the literature of the United States was not really open to the charge of provincialism. Within the last year or two the argument has been very much revived; and an English critic, Mr. Edward Garnett, writing in "The Atlantic Monthly," has pointed out that with our predigested ideas and made-to-order fiction we not only discourage individual genius but make it possible for the multitude to think only such thoughts as have passed through a sieve. Our most popular novelists, and sometimes our most respectable writers, see only the sensation that is uppermost for the moment in the mind of the crowd, — divorce, graft, tainted meat or money, — and they proceed to cut the cloth of their fiction accordingly. Mr. Owen Wister, a "regular practitioner" of the novelist's art, in substance admitting the weight of these charges, lays the blame on our crass democracy which utterly refuses to do its own thinking and which is satisfied only with the tinsel and gewgaws and hobbyhorses of literature. And no theme has suffered so much from the coarseness of the mob-spirit in literature as that of the Negro.
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91Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "A Brief and True Narrative, by Deodat Lawson, 1692," from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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92Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S., 1692"; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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93Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692-1693"; Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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94Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "The Wonders of the Invisible World," by Cotton Mather, 1693 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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95Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  "More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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96Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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97Author:  Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Chessmen of Mars  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective — a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king.
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98Author:  Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938Requires cookie*
 Title:  Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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99Author:  Cahan, AbrahamRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Younger Russian Writers  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: RUSSIAN critics never cease lamenting the dearth of good literature. Turgeneff, Dostoyevsky, Pisemsky, Goncharoff, and Pomialovsky are dead; Tolstoy, the only survivor of the great constellation of the sixties and seventies, is a very old man and has "sworn off;" while the younger generation of novelists has so far failed to produce a single work of lasting value. The productions of the masters were inspired by the noble enthusiasms of their time: they were the æsthetic offspring of the abolitionist movement and of the renaissance which followed the emancipation of the serfs. "Does the poverty of our literature of to-day denote a lack of ideals?" ask the critics.
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100Author:  Chalmers, H.H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Effects of Negro Suffrage  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THIRTEEN years have elapsed since, by act of Congress, negro suffrage was established in ten States of the Union, and ten years since, by amendment of the federal Constitution, it was made universal throughout the nation.
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