| | 221 | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | English Views of Stephen Crane.  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE late Mr. Stephen Crane was, as is well known, much more of a
prophet in England than in his own country, and during his latter
years he found it pleasant to make his home in a land where his
work met with such warm appreciation. Since his death, the English
critical journals have with little or no exception expressed a high
judgment of his literary abilities. The Academy (June 9)
says: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 222 | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Indian of Commerce | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | For purposes of literary classification, all Indians may be divided, quite
regardless of linguistic affinities, into three sole tribes—the human,
the inhuman, and the super-human. There is the actual aborigine, interesting to
competent fiction as to science because he is a man and at the same time a
living archive from the childhood of the race. There is the wooden eikon which
stands for questionable cigars or unquestionable penny-a-lining—in
either case a mere peg upon which to hang commercial profit. And there is also
the Red Man of Rhapsody—a conveniently distant fiction to carry
heroics which would seem rather too absurd if fathered upon poor human nature as
we see it next door. With the last-mentioned tribe deals one of the handsomest
and one of the most preposterous books of the season, 'A Child of the Sun,' by
Charles Eugene Banks (Stone). Brilliant as a parrot in mechanical coloration,
the text also seems to have undergone some mental "three-color process."
Fenimore Cooper was cold ethnography to this, and even Prescott's Empire of
Montezuma quite as true to life. There is nothing Indian in these pages, except
the good intention. A curbstone version of the "legend" of the Piasau serves for
warp; and into it the author has woven a truly curious fabric of girl-graduate
mundiloquence and scope. Nominally in prose, the book is in fact very largely
couched in wilful and poor Hiawathan measure, doubly cheap by being masked in
"long type." Perhaps the most diagrammatic comment on the quality of the volume
is in its own exemplary lines about "Pakoble," belle of the "Arctide" tribe, who
was "so perfect in beauty that the artists of the Arctides often begged the
favor of her time, that they might preserve her loveliness to future
generations." It must be said that the fifteen "color-type" illustrations, by
Louis Betts, are far and away above their company and their sort. Of no value as
racial types, they are very uncommonly attractive and sympathetic, and not
without a touch of real poetry in conception as well as in color-scheme. Its
whole dress would befit a worthier volume. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 223 | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last of Stephen Crane. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE collection of stories about the Spanish-American war upon which
Mr. Crane was engaged at the time of his death, has lately appeared
in book form under the title "Wounds in the Rain." The St.
James's Gazette (London, September 27) thinks that in a few of
the stories he rises almost, tho not quite, to the level of his
masterpiece, "The Red Badge of Courage." It says: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 224 | Author: | Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman's Half-Century of Evolution | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE status of woman in the United States fifty years ago, the
progressive steps by which it has been improved, present
conditions, future probabilities—in fact, a resume of the great
movement in which Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been the central
figure through two generations—this is the subject assigned me to
consider in the brief space of one magazine article! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 225 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AH LEW SING was the proprietor of a vegetable garden between the stock yard
and the rail-road bridge, on the farther side of the Summerfield canal. He was the
lankest, obliquest-eyed celestial that ever combined an expression of childlike
innocence with the appearance of having fallen into a state of permanent
disrepair, an outward seeming that much belied the inner man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 226 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Agua Dulce | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Los Angeles special got in so late that day that if the driver
of the Mojave stage had not, from having once gone to school to me,
acquired the habit of minding what I said, I should never have made
it. I hailed it from the station, and he swung the four about in
the wide street as the wind swept me toward the racked old coach in
a blinding whirl of dust. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 227 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mother of Felipe | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT triangular portion of the great Mojave desert lying south of the
curve of the Sierra Nevadas, where those mountains unite with the coast hills is
known as Antelope Valley. A big, barren, windy country, rising from the level of
the desert in long, undulating slopes that face abruptly toward the mountains. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 231 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wooing of the Señorita | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MILLARD TRAVIS was a man of ideas; he was also very young. This
was not so bad as it might have been, for his ideas were of the toy pistol sort,—a
nuisance to everybody, but only occasionally hurtful to the holder. The idea
which made Travis particularly odious to his fellow men was less original than
unexpected. He merely held that all this peep-show performance of modern
affairs was a progression towards emptiness, that there was nothing sound or
wholesome, but naked, unblushing savagery, and his vade mecum was
"our progenitor, Adam." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 232 | Author: | Crane review: Barry, John D. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A note on Stephen Crane | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Not long ago, the New York Evening Post, in an editorial
discussing "The Decay of Decadence," grouped the late Stephen
Crane, as a poet, with the Symbolists of France and England. I was
struck by the association, for the reason that I happened to be
familiar with the peculiar circumstances under which The Black
Riders and Other Lines, from which a quotation is made in the
editorial, had come to be written. As a matter of fact, at the
time of writing that volume it is probable that Mr. Crane had never
even heard of the Symbolists; if he had heard of them, it is pretty
certain that he had never read them. He was then about twenty-one
years of age, and he was woefully ignorant of books. Indeed, he
deliberately avoided reading from a fear of being influenced by
other writers. He had already published Maggie, his first
novel, and by sending it to Mr. Hamlin Garland he had made an
enthusiastic friend. Through Mr. Garland he met several other
writers, among them Mr. W. D. Howells. One evening while receiving
a visit from Mr. Crane, Mr. Howells took from his shelves a volume
of Emily Dickinson's verses and read some of these aloud. Mr.
Crane was deeply impressed, and a short time afterward he showed me
thirty poems in manuscript, written, as he explained, in three
days. These furnished the bulk of the volume entitled The Black
Riders. It was plain enough to me that they had been directly
inspired by Miss Dickinson, who, so far as I am aware, has never
been classed with the Symbolists. And yet, among all the critics
who have discussed the book, no one, to my knowledge, at any rate,
has called attention to the resemblance between the two American
writers. It is curious that this boy, feeling his way toward
expression as he was then doing, should have been stimulated by so
simple and so sincere a writer as Miss Dickinson into unconscious
cooperation with the decadent writers of Europe. Perhaps an
explanation may be suggested by the association of Mr. Crane at
this period with a group of young American painters, who had
brought from France the impressionistic influences, which with him
took literary form. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 235 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Bird Out of the Snare | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AFTER the bargain was completed and the timber merchant had
gone away, Jehiel Hawthorn walked stiffly to the pine tree and put his
horny old fist against it, looking up to its spreading top with an
expression of hostile exultation in his face. The neighbor who had been
called to witness the transfer of Jehiel's woodland looked at him
curiously. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 236 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Bliss of Solitude | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE last time I came from Europe, although I was supposed to be
in charge of my pretty young niece, I did not appear on deck until the last
day of the voyage. I was tired, and I knew that Puss had plenty of
acquaintances on board. She is the soft-eyed, appealing, helpless sort of
girl who is always looked after. When I finally ascended to the upper
world, I was, therefore, both surprised and remorseful to find her looking
troubled and almost distressed. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 237 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Professor's Commencement | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE professor sat at his library table at six
o'clock in the morning. He had risen with the sun, which is up
betimes in June. An uncut volume of "Huxley's Life and Letters" lay
open on the table before him, but he tapped the pages absently with
his paper-knife and his eyes were fixed unseeingly on the St. Gaudens
medallion of Stevenson on the opposite wall. The professor's library
testified to the superior quality of his taste in art as well as to
his wide and varied scholarship. Only by a miracle of taste could so
unpretentious a room have been made so attractive; it was as dainty as
a boudoir and as original in color scheme as a painter's studio. The
walls were hung with photographs of the works of the best modern
painters,—Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Corot, and a dozen others. Above
the mantel were delicate reproductions in color of some of Fra
Angelica's* most beautiful paintings. The rugs were exquisite in
pattern and color, pieces of weaving that the Professor had picked up
himself in his wanderings in the Orient. On close inspection, however,
the contents of the book-shelves formed the most remarkable feature of
the library. The shelves were almost equally apportioned to the
accommodation of works on literature and science, suggesting a form of
bigamy rarely encountered in society. The collection of works of pure
literature was wide enough to include nearly all the major languages of
modern Europe, besides the Greek and Roman classics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 238 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | On the Gull's Road | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You may open now the little package I
gave you. May I ask you to keep it? I gave it to you
because there is no one else who would care about it in
just that way. Ever since I left you I have been
thinking what it would be like to live a lifetime
caring and being cared for like that. It was not the
life I was meant to live, and yet, in a way, I have
been living it ever since I first knew you. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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