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181Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Innocents Abroad  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: FOR months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novelty in the way of excursions — its like had not been thought of before, and it compelled that interest which attractive novelties always command. It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. The participants in it, instead of freighting an ungainly steam ferry-boat with youth and beauty and pies and doughnuts, and paddling up some obscure creek to disembark upon a grassy lawn and wear themselves out with a long summer day's laborious frolicking under the impression that it was fun, were to sail away in a great steamship with flags flying and cannon pealing, and take a royal holiday beyond the broad ocean in many a strange clime and in many a land renowned in history! They were to sail for months over the breezy Atlantic and the sunny Mediterranean; they were to scamper about the decks by day, filling the ship with shouts and laughter — or read novels and poetry in the shade of the smokestacks, or watch for the jelly-fish and the nautilus over the side, and the shark, the whale, and other strange monsters of the deep; and at night they were to dance in the open air, on the upper deck, in the midst of a ballroom that stretched from horizon to horizon, and was domed by the bending heavens and lighted by no meaner lamps than the stars and the magnificent moon-dance, and promenade, and smoke, and sing, and make love, and search the skies for constellations that never associate with the "Big Dipper" they were so tired of; and they were to see the ships of twenty navies — the customs and costumes of twenty curious peoples — the great cities of half a world — they were to hob-nob with nobility and hold friendly converse with kings and princes, grand moguls, and the anointed lords of mighty empires! It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. It was well advertised, but it hardly needed it: the bold originality, the extraordinary character, the seductive nature, and the vastness of the enterprise provoked comment everywhere and advertised it in every household in the land. Who could read the program of the excursion without longing to make one of the party? I will insert it here. It is almost as good as a map. As a text for this book, nothing could be better:
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182Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins  
 Published:  1996 
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183Author:  Germ: Various AuthorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art  
 Published:  1996 
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184Author:  Germ: Various AuthorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Germ, Issue #2: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art  
 Published:  1996 
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185Author:  Germ: Various AuthorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Germ, Issue #3: Art and Poetry: Being Thoughts Towards Nature  
 Published:  1996 
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186Author:  Germ: Various AuthorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Germ, Issue #4: Art and Poetry: Being Thoughts towards Nature  
 Published:  1996 
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187Author:  Washington, Booker T.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Negro Self-Help  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Image of page 1207 of the Independent Vol. 59 No. 2973
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188Author:  Watanna, OnotoRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three Headed Maid  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: Drawn by John Cecil ClayOrnamental title and byline on three panels. The center panel is the largest; it holds all the writing and depicts tree branches with leaves. The branches extend to the left panel. The right panel is largely empty, except for a detailed flying wasp.
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189Author:  Wedgwood, EthelRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: IN the name of Almighty God, I, John, Lord of Joinville, Seneschal of Champagne, do cause to be written the life of our Saint Louis, that which I saw and heard during the space of six years that I was in his company on the pilgrimage over seas and after we returned. And before I tell you of his great deeds and knightliness, I will tell you what I saw and heard of his holy words and good teachings, so that they may be found in sequence, to the edification of those that shall hear them.
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190Author:  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
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191Author:  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories  
 Published:  1996 
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192Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Abode of the Fool's Heart  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Edith WhartonThree-quarter profile portrait of Edith Wharton. Photographer unknown.
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193Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Guide to the New Books [excerpt].  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Wharton in three-quarter profile. Photographer unknown.
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194Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires 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.
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195Author:  White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918Requires cookie*
 Title:  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I  
 Published:  1996 
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196Author:  Williams, William CarlosRequires cookie*
 Title:  Six Poems  
 Published:  1996 
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197Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Squirrel.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Squirrel lived with his life-long mate near the farm-house. He considered himself very rich, because he owned an English walnut tree. Neither he nor his mate had the least doubt that it belonged to them and not to the Farmer. There were not many like it in the State or the whole country. It was a beautiful tree, with a mighty spread of branches full of gnarled strength. Nearly every year there was a goodly promise of nuts, which never came to anything, so far as the people in the farm-house were concerned. Every summer they looked hopefully at the laden branches, and said to each other, "This year we shall have nuts," but there were never any. They could not understand it. But they were old people; had there been boys in the family it might have been different. Probably they would have solved the mystery. It was simple enough. The Squirrel and his mate considered the nuts as theirs, and appropriated them. They loved nuts; they were their natural sustenance; and through having an unquestioning, though unwitting, belief in Providence, they considered that nuts which grew within their reach were placed there for them as a matter of course. There were the Squirrels, and there were the nuts. No nuts, no Squirrels! The conclusion was obvious to such simple intelligences.
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198Author:  Wharton review: Winter, CalvinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Representative American Story Tellers: XVI— Edith Wharton  
 Published:  1996 
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199Author:  Zitkala-SaRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Warrior's Daughter  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Bush in foreground; indians (Native Americans) on horseback riding near teepees on the plain. Feathered headdress ornamenting the frame of the illustration.
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200Author:  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.  
 Published:  1996 
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