| | 182 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Chessmen of Mars  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as
usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might
by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by
calling his attention to the nth time to that theory,
propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the
assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to
be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over
seventy-two or the mentally defective — a theory that is lightly
ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. Shea had gone
to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always
in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there
before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at
the dishonored head of my defeated king. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 184 | Author: | Cahan, Abraham | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Younger Russian Writers | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | RUSSIAN critics never cease lamenting the dearth of good
literature. Turgeneff, Dostoyevsky, Pisemsky, Goncharoff, and
Pomialovsky are dead; Tolstoy, the only survivor of the great
constellation of the sixties and seventies, is a very old man and has
"sworn off;" while the younger generation of novelists has so far failed to
produce a single work of lasting value. The productions of the masters
were inspired by the noble enthusiasms of their time: they were the
æsthetic offspring of the abolitionist movement and of the
renaissance which followed the emancipation of the serfs. "Does the
poverty of our literature of to-day denote a lack of ideals?" ask the critics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 186 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Free Colored People of North Carolina | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN our generalizations upon American history — and the American
people are prone to loose generalization, especially where the
Negro is concerned — it is ordinarily assumed that the entire colored
race was set free as the result of the Civil War. While this is true in
a broad, moral sense, there was, nevertheless, a very considerable technical exception in the case of several hundred thousand free people of
color, a great many of whom were residents of the Southern States.
Although the emancipation of their race brought to these a larger
measure of liberty than they had previously enjoyed, it did not confer
upon them personal freedom, which they possessed already. These
free colored people were variously distributed, being most numerous,
perhaps, in Maryland, where, in the year 1850, for example, in a state
with 87,189 slaves, there were 83,942 free colored people, the white population of the State being 515,918; and perhaps least numerous in
Georgia, of all the slave states, where, to a slave population of 462,198,
there were only 351 free people of color, or less than three-fourths of
one per cent., as against the about fifty per cent. in Maryland. Next
to Maryland came Virginia, with 58,042 free colored people, North
Carolina with 30,463, Louisiana with 18,647, (of whom 10,939 were in
the parish of New Orleans alone), and South Carolina with 9,914.
For these statistics, I have of course referred to the census reports
for the years mentioned. In the year 1850, according to the same
authority, there were in the state of North Carolina 553,028 white people, 288,548 slaves, and 27,463 free colored people. In 1860, the white
population of the state was 631,100, slaves 331,059, free colored people, 30,463. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 189 | Author: | Dargan, E. Preston | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Voyages of Conrad | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN 1873, A POLISH LAD of fifteen, walking in the Alps with his tutor, dismayed that gentleman
by a declaration of independence. He proposed to give up his country and career, in order to take
his chances on the sea. A few years later he was sailing on the Mediterranean, that "nursery of
the craft." Then he realized his dream by becoming associated with the English flag —
incidentally learning the English language. He went on far voyages, seeing little of Europe for a
quarter of a century. Finally, he accomplished his second transformation: the Polish lad became
a great writer of English. The boy was named Jozef Korzeniowski the writer is known to fame
as Joseph Conrad. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 192 | Author: | Friedland, Louis S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anton Chekhov | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | We are about to come into possession of Chekhov. It will be a
priceless possession, for Chekhov is indispensable to our understanding
of the psychology of the great people that has introduced into the present
world situation an element so complex, so disturbing, so tragic and
beautiful. Chekhov is the faithful reporter, unerring, intuitive, direct. He
never bears false witness. The essence of his art lies in a fine restraint,
an avoidance of the sensational and the spectacular. His reticence reveals
the elusive and lights up the enigmatic. And what a keen, voracious
observer he was! Endless is the procession of types that passes through
his pages — the whole world of Russians of his day: country gentlemen,
chinovniks, waitresses, ladies of fashion, shopgirls, town physicians,
Zemstvo doctors, innkeepers, peasants, herdsmen, soldiers, tradesmen,
every type of the intelligentsia, children, men and women of every class
and occupation. Chekhov describes them all with a pen that knows no
bias. He eschews specialization in types. In a letter written to his friend
Plescheyev, Chekhov draws in one stroke a swift, subtle parallel between
the two authors, Shcheglov and Korolenko, and then he goes on to say,
"But, Allah, Kerim! Why do they both specialize? One refuses to part
with his prisoners, the other feeds his readers on staff officers. I
recognize specialization in art, such as genres, landscape, history; I
understand the 'emploi' of the actor, the school of the musician, but I
cannot accept such specialization as prisoners, officers, priests. This is
no longer specialization; it is bias." Chekhov ignores no phase of the life
of his day. This inclusiveness, this large and noble avidity that refuses to
be circumscribed by class or kind or importance, makes the sum of his
stories both ample and satisfying. His work illuminates the whole of
Russian life, the main thoroughfares, the bypaths, the unfrequented
recesses. Without Chekhov, how are we to embark on the discovery of
Russia? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 194 | Author: | Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gipsy's Bear — A Story | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In
September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The
Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The
unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their
household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of
these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose
coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town
common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the
publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period
had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and
themselves destroy their supporters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 196 | Author: | Goldberg, Isaac | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | New York's Yiddish Writers | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | STRANGELY enough, it has long been a question to many, not
alone whether the modern Jews have any literature, but whether
Yiddish itself is a language. Many have been the prophecies which
predicted the immediate extinction of the tongue, and yet, like the
fabled Phoenix of old, it has risen new-born from its own ashes. Let
prophets deal in futures — and it must be admitted that from certain
signs familiar to students of linguistic evolution Yiddish would
seem to be eventually doomed — the fact remains that to-day it is
enjoying what amounts practically to a renaissance. And the
question whether modern Jews have a literature is settled by a
reading of the works themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 198 | Author: | H. H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wards of the United States Government | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT the Indians should be called "wards" of the United States
Government, would seem a natural thing, significant of the natural
relation between the United States Government and the Indian. The
dictionary definition of the word "ward" is "one under a guardian,"
and of the word "guardian," a "protector." For white orphans under
age, guardians are appointed by law; and the same law defines the
duties and sets limit to the authority of such appointed guardians.
The guardianship comes to end when the orphan ward is of age.
This is one important difference between the white "wards" in our
country, and Indian "wards." The Indian "ward" never comes of
age. There are other differences, greater even than this; in fact, so
great that the term "ward" applied to the Indian, savors of a satire as
bitter as it was involuntary and unconscious on the part of the
Supreme Court, which, I believe, first used the epithet, or, if it did
not first use it, has used it since, as a convenient phrase of
"conveyance" of rights, not to the Indian, but from him; to define,
not what he might hope for, but what he must not expect; not what
he is, but what he is not; not what he may do, but what, being a
"ward," he is forever debarred from doing. Among other things, he
may not make a contract with a white man, unless through his
guardian, the Government. He may not hire an attorney to bring
any suit for him, unless by consent of his guardian, the Government.
Strangely enough, however, though as an individual he cannot make
a contract or bring a suit, he has, until six years ago, always been
considered fit, as a member of a tribe, to make a treaty; i. e.,
if the treaty were with the United States Government, his guardian. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 200 | Author: | Howard, General O. O. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The True Story of the Wallowa Campaign | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON reading in the "North American Review" for April the
article entitled "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs," I was so
pleased with Joseph's statement — necessarily ex parte
though it was, and naturally inspired by resentment toward me as a
supposed enemy — that at first I had no purpose of making a
rejoinder. But when I saw in the "Army and Navy Journal" long
passages quoted from Joseph's tale, which appeared to reflect
unfavorably upon my official conduct, to lay upon me the blame of
the atrocious murders committed by the Indians, and to convict me
of glaring faults where I had deemed myself worthy only of
commendation, I addressed to the editor of that journal a
communication (which has been published) correcting
misstatements, and briefly setting forth the facts of the case. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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