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1Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Octave Thanet  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEN, a decade ago, some one asked "Octave Thanet" to state where she would like to live, her reply was: "Nowhere all the year round." And if you care to make an attempt to trace Miss French's whereabouts you will very likely discover that she is living up to her declaration. A modern captain of industry is not more at home anywhere than this delightful writer of short stories — a literary lapidary she might well be termed, so absolutely clean-cut and brilliant is her work. Miss French has been complimented by pastmasters of the art of literary criticism for work of a widely diversified character. She shows a remarkable familiarity with life in our bustling west, as well as with that of our less assertive south. We marvel at this, when we consider that her birth and education is of New England. However, the fact that fate compelled her to take up residence in Iowa, and inclination led her to spend a part of the year in the south, accounts for those characteristics in her work that are reflective of the sections, and which might possibly puzzle an unsophisticated reader concerning the personality of the author.
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2Author:  Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Gulliver of Mars  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: DARE I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I must write it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult of the struggle into which that vision led me still throbs in my mind, the soft, lisping voices of the planet I ransacked for its sake and the roar of the destruction which followed me back from the quest drowns all other sounds in my ears! I must and will write—it relieves me; read and believe as you list.
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3Author:  Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Hosts and Guests"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: BEAUTIFULLY vague though the English language is, with its meanings merging into one another as softly as the facts of landscape in the moist English climate, and much addicted though we always have been to ways of compromise, and averse from sharp hard logical outlines, we do not call a host a guest, nor a guest a host. The ancient Romans did so. They, with a language that was as lucid as their climate and was a perfect expression of the sharp hard logical outlook fostered by that climate, had but one word for those two things. Nor have their equally acute descendants done what might have been expected of them in this matter. Hôte and ospite and huesped are as mysteriously equivocal as hospes. By weight of all this authority I find myself being dragged to the conclusion that a host and a guest must be the same thing, after all. Yet in a dim and muzzy way, deep down in my breast, I feel sure that they are different. Compromise, you see, as usual. I take it that strictly the two things are one, but that our division of them is yet another instance of that sterling common sense by which, etc., etc.
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4Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Poet and Scullery-Maid / By Dorothy Canfield  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONCE upon a time there was a little scullery-maid, who, like all scullery-maids, spent most of her time in a kitchen. It was the kitchen of a boarding-house, and you can imagine what a disagreeable place it was — full of unpleasant smells, and usually piled high with dirty dishes which the scullery-maid must wash. It was dark, it was greasy, the cook had a bad temper, and the chimney smoked.
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5Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of Ralph Miller / By Dorothy Canfield ; Author of "A Philanthropic Honeymoon," "The Rescue," "Moonshine"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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6Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Piano / By Dorothy Canfield; Author of "The Rescue," "The Story of Ralph Miller," ETC.  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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7Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Rescue / By Dorothy Canfield.  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE old man controlled himself with a violent effort, and stopped his storming commands, daunted by the face of fierce opposition which the girl turned to him. He wheeled about and relieved his mind by a few clamorous, angry chords on the great piano against which he was leaning. There was a moment's silence before he faced her again — a silence full of faint reminiscent murmurs and echoes from the music-soaked walls of the bare little room. The tense rigidity of the girl's slenderness relaxed a little; and when the master again looked at her, the stormy light of revolt was gone from her eyes, leaving their usual curious, half-absent brooding.
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8Author:  Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Partners  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AMONG the human flotsam and jetsam that followed in the wake of the Civil War, there drifted into a certain Southern town, shortly after the surrender, two young colored men, named respectively William Cain and Rufus Green. They had made each other's acquaintance in a refugee camp attached to an army cantonment, and when the soldiers went away, William and Rufus were thrown upon their own resources. They were fast friends, and discussed with each other the subject of their future.
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9Author:  Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Middle-Aged Woman  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: CHOOSE any artist that you know — the one with the kindliest nature and the finest perceptions — and ask him to give you his idea of the genius of the commonplace, and any word for it, he paints you a middle-aged woman. The thing, he will say, proves itself. Here is a creature jogging on leisurely at midday in the sight of all men along a well-tramped road. The mists of dawn are far behind her; she has not yet reached the shadows of evening. The softness and blushes, and shy, sparkling glances of the girl she was, have long been absorbed into muddy thick skin, sodden outlines, rational eyes. There are crows' feet at either temple, and yellowish blotches on the flesh below the soggy under-jaw. Her chestnut-brown hair used to warm and glitter in the sun, and after a few years it will make a white crown upon her head, a sacred halo to her children; but just now it is stiff with a greasy hair dye, and is of an unclean and indescribable hue.
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10Author:  Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886Requires cookie*
 Title:  "The Sleeping Flowers"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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11Author:  Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Red Flower of the Madman  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "IN the name of his majesty, the Czar, Peter the First, I order an immediate inspection of this asylum for the insane!"
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12Author:  Glasgow, EllenRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Freeman  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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13Author:  Gorky, MaximRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Heart of a Beggar: A Story by Gorky  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Maxim Gorky is always vivid and usually terrible in his portrayal of the underworld of Russia. In this little character-sketch (translated for us by Montressor Paull), he strikes a note of tenderness that is less usual with him.
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14Author:  Griggs, Sutton Elbert, 1872-1933Requires cookie*
 Title:  Friction between the races : causes and cure  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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15Author:  Hexham, IrvingRequires cookie*
 Title:  Concise Dictionary of Religion  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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16Author:  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Helen Jackson  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE news of the death of Mrs. Helen Jackson — better known as "H. H." — will probably carry a pang of regret into more American homes than similar intelligence in regard to any other woman, with the possible exception of Mrs. H. B. Stowe, who belongs to an earlier literary generation. With this last-named exception, no American woman has produced literary work of such marked ability. Her fame was limited by the comparatively late period at which she began to write, and by her preference for a somewhat veiled and disguised way of writing. It is hard for two initial letters to cross the Atlantic, and she had therefore no European fame; and as she took apparently a real satisfaction in concealing her identity and mystifying her public, it is very likely that the authorship of some of her best prose work will never be absolutely known. Enough remained, however, to give her a peculiar both hold upon thoughtful and casual readers.
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17Author:  Johnson, SamuelRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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18Author:  Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637Requires cookie*
 Title:  Every Man in His Humour  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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19Author:  Lowell, AmyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Quincunx  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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20Author:  Marquis, DonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fits and Starts  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I WENT into the new Broadway Subway, near City Hall, the other day, and asked the pensive lady at the money-window:
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