| | 43 | 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 |
| 44 | 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 |
| 48 | 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 |
| 50 | 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 |
| 56 | 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 |
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