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41Author:  Cather, Willa SibertRequires cookie*
 Title:  Ardessa  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE grand-mannered old man who sat at a desk in the reception-room of "The Outcry" offices to receive visitors and incidentally to keep the time-book of the employees, looked up as Miss Devine entered at ten minutes past ten and condescendingly wished him good morning. He bowed profoundly as she minced past his desk, and with an indifferent air took her course down the corridor that led to the editorial offices. Mechanically he opened the flat, black book at his elbow and placed his finger on D, running his eye along the line of figures after the name Devine. "It's banker's hours she keeps, indeed," he muttered. What was the use of entering so capricious a record? Nevertheless, with his usual preliminary flourish he wrote 10:10 under this, the fourth day of May.
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42Author:  Chopin, KateRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Awakening  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:
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43Author:  Christie, AgathaRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Mysterious Affair at Styles  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case'' has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist.
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44Author:  Cooke, Josiah ParsonsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Religion and Chemistry  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE time has been when the Christian Church was an active antagonist of physical science; when the whole hierarchy of Rome united to condemn its results and to resist its progress; when the immediate reward of great discoveries was obloquy and persecution. But all this has passed. The age of dogmatism has gone, and an age of general scepticism has succeeded. The power of traditional authority has given place to the power of ideas, and physical science, which before hardly dared to assert its birthright, and could even be forced to recant, on its knees, its demonstrated truths, has now become one of the rulers of society. By its rapid growth, by its conquests over brute matter, and by its wonderful revelations, it has deservedly gained the highest respect of man, while by multiplying and diffusing the comforts of life it has become his acknowledged friend. Every effort is now made to further its progress. Its great discoveries win the applause of nations, and its fortunate students are remembered when the princes and nobles of the earth are forgotten.
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45Author:  Coppard, A. E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Hurly-Burly  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Printer's ornament
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46Author:  Corrothers, James D.Requires cookie*
 Title:  An Indignation Dinner  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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47Author:  Cowley, AbrahamRequires cookie*
 Title:  Translation of the Sixth Book of Mr. Cowley's Plantarum  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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48Author:  Cowley, AbrahamRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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49Author:  Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900Requires cookie*
 Title:  Manacled  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN the First Act there had been a farm scene, wherein real horses had drunk real water out of real buckets, afterward dragging a real waggon off stage, L. The audience was consumed with admiration of this play, and the great Theatre Nouveau rang to its roof with the crowd's plaudits.
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50Author:  Cummings, E. E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Puella Mea  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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51Author:  Dana, MarvinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Within the Law  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness, and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again arouse to the full horror of her plight. In a curious subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from the torture that had exhausted her soul.
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52Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Red Cross Girl  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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53Author:  DeCora, AngelRequires cookie*
 Title:  Angel DeCora—An Autobiography  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: An ornamental illustration of two crossed tomahawks
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54Author:  Der Ling, PrincessRequires cookie*
 Title:  Two Years in the Forbidden City  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MY father and mother, Lord and Lady Yü Keng, and family, together with our suite consisting of the First Secretary, Second Secretary, Naval and Military Attachés, Chancellors, their families, servants, etc., — altogether fifty-five people, — arrived in Shanghai on January 2, 1903, on the S.S. "Annam'' from Paris, where for four years my father had been Chinese Minister. Our arrival was anything but pleasant, as the rain came down in torrents, and we had the greatest difficulty getting our numerous retinue landed and safely housed, not to mention the tons of baggage that had to be looked after. We had found from previous experience that none of our Legation people or servants could be depended upon to do anything when travelling, in consequence of which the entire charge devolved upon my mother, who was without doubt the genius of the party in arranging matters and straightening out difficulties.
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55Author:  Doyle, Arthur ConanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The White Company  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell, Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long?
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56Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Poems  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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57Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Toll-Gate House  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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58Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Two Poems  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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59Author:  Dyer, Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford MartinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during 1846, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific'' dated from that hour. With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, 1848, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States. Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence. Moreover, within its boundaries was embraced all the great American gold-field, just on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away her rights in California and in all the vague, remote hinterland facing Cathayward.
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60Author:  Eaton, Walter PrichardRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Painter of "Diana of the Tides"  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: GIVEN nearly three hundred square feet of blank wall space, and it takes something of an artist to fill it up with interesting paint. Probably you would not pick a miniature painter for the task. Yet, curiously, John Elliott, creator of "Diana of the Tides," the great mural painting which adorns the large gallery to the right of the entrance of the new National Museum at Washington, also paints on ivory. He works, likewise, in silver point, that delicate and difficult medium; he draws pastel illustrations for children's fairy tales; he works in portraiture with red chalk or oils. And, when the need comes, he has shown that he can turn stevedore, carpenter, and architect, to slave with the relief party at Messina, finally to help design and build, in four months, an entire village for the stricken sufferers, including a hotel, a hospital, three schoolhouses, and a church. The too frequent scorn of the "practical man of affairs" for the artist and dreamer, the world's sneaking tolerance for the temperament which creates in forms of ideal beauty rather than in bridges or factories or banks, finds in the life and work of such a man as John Elliott such complete, if unconscious, refutation, that his story should have its place in the history of the day.
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