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141Author:  Prest, Thomas PreskettRequires cookie*
 Title:  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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142Author:  Pyrnelle, Louise ClarkeRequires cookie*
 Title:  Diddi, Dumps, and Tot  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THEY were three little sisters, daughters of a Southern planter, and they lived in a big white house on a cotton plantation in Mississippi. The house stood in a grove of cedars and live-oaks, and on one side was a flower-garden, with two summer-houses covered with climbing roses and honey-suckles, where the little girls would often have tea-parties in the pleasant spring and summer days. Back of the house was a long avenue of water-oaks leading to the quarters where the negroes lived.
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143Author:  Rinehart, Mary RobertsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Bab: A Sub-Deb  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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144Author:  Rowson, Susanna Haswell, 1762-1824Requires cookie*
 Title:  Charlotte Temple, a tale of truth; reprinted from the rare first American edition (1794), over twelve hundred errors in later editions being corected, and the preface restored; with an historical and biographical introduction, bibliography, etc., by Francis W. Halsey.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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145Author:  Russell, FrankRequires cookie*
 Title:  Myths of the Jicarilla Apache  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In the under-world, Un-gó-ya-yen-ni, there was no sun, moon, or light of any kind, except that emanating from large eagle feathers which the people carried about with them. This method of lighting proved unsatisfactory, and the head men of the tribe gathered in council to devise some plan for lighting the world more brightly, One of the chiefs suggested that they make a sun and a moon. A great disk of yellow paint was made upon the ground, and then placed in the sky. Although this miniature creation was too small to give much light, it was allowed to make one circuit of the heavens ere it was taken down and made larger. Four times the sun set and rose, and four times it was enlarged, before it was "as large as the earth and gave plenty of light." In the under-world dwelt a wizard and a witch, who were much incensed at man's presumption and made such attempts to destroy the new luminaries that both the sun and the moon fled from the lower world, leaving it again in darkness, and made their escape to this earth, where they have never been molested, so that, until the present time, they continue to shine by night and by day. The loss of the sun and moon brought the people together, that they might take council concerning the means of restoring the lost light. Long they danced and sang, and made medicine. At length it was decided that they should go in search of the sun. The Indian medicine-men caused four mountains to spring up, which grew by night with great noise, and rested by day. The mountains increased in size until the fourth night, when they nearly reached the sky. Four boys were sent to seek the cause of the failure of the mountains to reach the opening in the sky, ha-ná-za-ä, through which the sun and moon had disappeared. The boys followed the tracks of two girls who had caused the mountains to stop growing, until they reached some burrows in the side of the mountain, where all trace of the two females disappeared. When their story was told to the people, the medicine-men said, "You who have injured us shall be transformed into rabbits, that you may be of some use to mankind ; your bodies shall be eaten," and the rabbit has been used for food by the human race down to the present day.
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146Author:  Savage, Ernest Albert, 1877-1966.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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147Author:  Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906Requires cookie*
 Title:  Abraham Lincoln : an essay  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: NO American can study the character and career of Abraham Lincoln without being carried away by sentimental emotions. We are always inclined to idealize that which we love,—a state of mind very unfavorable to the exercise of sober critical judgment. It is therefore not surprising that most of those who have written or spoken on that extraordinary man, even while conscientiously endeavoring to draw a lifelike portraiture of his being, and to form a just estimate of his public conduct, should have drifted into more or less indiscriminating eulogy, painting his great features in the most glowing colors, and covering with tender shadings whatever might look like a blemish.
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148Author:  Scott, WalterRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main inducement to credit its occasional re-appearance — The Philosophical Objections to the Apparition of an Abstract Spirit little understood by the Vulgar and Ignorant — The situations of excited Passion incident to Humanity, which teach Men to wish or apprehend Supernatural Apparitions — They are often presented by the Sleeping Sense — Story of Somnambulism — The Influence of Credulity contagious, so that Individuals will trust the Evidence of others in despite of their own Senses — Examples from the "Historia Verdadera" of Bernal Dias del Castillo, and from the Works of Patrick Walker — The apparent Evidence of Intercourse with the Supernatural World is sometimes owing to a depraved State of the bodily Organ s — Difference between this Disorder and Insanity, in which the Organs retain their tone, though that of the Mind is lost — Rebellion of the Senses of a Lunatic against the current of his Reveries — Narratives of a contrary Nature, in which the Evidence of the Eyes overbore the Conviction of the Understanding Example of a London Man of Pleasure — Of Nicolai, the German Bookseller and Philosopher — Of a Patient of Dr. Gregory — Of an Eminent Scottish Lawyer, deceased — Of this same fallacious Disorder are other instances, which have but sudden and momentary endurance — Apparition of Maupertuis — Of a late illustrious modern Poet — The Cases quoted chiefly relating to false Impressions on the Visual Nerve, those upon the Ear next considered — Delusions of the Touch chiefly experienced in Sleep — Delusions. of the Taste — And of the Smelling — Sum of the Argument.
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149Author:  Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Judgment of Peter and Paul on Olympus. A Poem in Prose.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Illuminated capitol.
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150Author:  PlatoRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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151Author:  Southall, James P. C. (James Powell Cocke), b. 1871.Requires cookie*
 Title:  In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ALMOST MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTION OF RICHMOND, WHERE I grew up, is the scene of a vast concourse of people assembled in Capitol Square between the Washington Monument and the Governor's Mansion, to witness the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, and to listen to Dr. Hoge's eloquent oration which was a chief part of the ceremony on that impressive occasion. That was in 1875 when I was four years old; yet somehow I was certainly there that day in the midst of the throng, and while I remember the spectacle almost as vividly as if I had seen it yesterday, I cannot recall whether I was with my mother and father or simply with my dear old mammy, Malvina. In those days of my early boyhood, Richmond on the James, outwardly, not yet inwardly recovered from the ugly scars of the Civil War, was an historic and picturesque old residential town that stretched or sprawled several miles from Church Hill — the site of St. John's Church where Patrick Henry a century ago had shouted "Give me liberty, or give me death! "— westward as far as Hollywood Cemetery, where ... sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest. The port of Rocketts at the foot of Church Hill and just below the Falls of James River was the head of tidewater, as far up the big river as a steamer could come; so if you had a mind to go to Norfolk by the sea about a hundred miles away, you might get on board a side-wheeler, somewhat ironically called the Ariel, which used to leave the wharf at Rocketts early in the morning and was lucky if it got to Norfolk by bedtime that evening. How ever, if you were in a hurry, you had another alternative and could go by train, changing cars in Petersburg; although, even then it was doubtful whether you would reach Norfolk ahead of the Ariel, for in the days of my youth trains in Virginia were almost invariably long behind time. Time was not so precious then as it is now, and the truth is it usually did not matter much when you reached your destination.
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152Author:  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894Requires cookie*
 Title:  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Jenkins of Stowting — Fleeming's grandfather — Mrs. Buckner's fortune — Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career — The Campbell— Jacksons — Fleeming's mother — Fleeming's uncle John.
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153Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MAJOR AMBERSON had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog.
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154Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mrs. Protheroe  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE CONVERSION OF THE SENATOR FROM STACKPOLE Senator Battle spies on Mrs. Protheroe and the Senator from Stackpole under the palms
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155Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Turmoil  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: BOOTH TARKINGTON Serious picture of author in a fur collar
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156Author:  Thanet, OctaveRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Rowdy  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: first page of story
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157Author:  Thanet, OctaveRequires cookie*
 Title:  Stories of a western town  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "No, it was not fair to thee—I know that now." Old man and young woman sitting talking at the parlor table. Black and white watertint
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158Author:  Tilden, Bill, 1893-1953Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Art of Lawn Tennis  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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159Author:  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.Requires cookie*
 Title:  democracy in America, volume 1  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated.
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160Author:  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.Requires cookie*
 Title:  democracy in America, volume 2  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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