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381Author:  Dunbar, AliceAdd
 Title:  Edouard  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: PERE BOUTIN came down the sandy, pine-bordered walk with a knotted brow and a gait that grew slower and slower. He was perplexed and his forehead knitted more and more in a comical assumption of dignity. Père Boutin thought that he was dignified, but when one weighs two hundred pounds, and is short and rolls in one's gait, is it reasonable to expect that the world will be impressed by one's magnificence?
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382Author:  Dunbar, AliceAdd
 Title:  Lesie, the Choir Boy  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: OVER and above all things nature had been lavish to Lesie Channing in the matter of a voice. It was a full, clear soprano with rich tones in it that presaged a marvel of tone in later years. He loved to sing. It was a pure joy to him to fill the hall and room of his tenement home with the only tunes that he knew—"coon" songs and music-hall ballads. But while he delighted in the sounds that he made, no one had ever told Lesie that his voice was marvellous.
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383Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Add
 Title:  Humble Pie  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: THERE are some people who never during their whole lives awake to a consciousness of themselves, as they are recognized by others; there are some who awake too early, to their undoing, and the flimsiness of their characters; there are some who awake late with a shock, which does not dethrone them from their individuality, but causes them agony, and is possibly for their benefit. Maria Gorham was one of the last, and for the first time in her life she saw herself reflected mercilessly in the eyes of her kind one summer in a great mountain hotel. She had never been aware that she was more conceited than others, that she had had on the whole a better opinion of her external advantages at least, than she deserved, but she discovered that her self-conceit had been something which looked to her monstrous and insufferable. She saw that she was not on the surface what she had always thought herself to be, and she saw that the surface has always its influence on the depths.
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384Author:  Le Gallienne, RichardAdd
 Title:  The Quest of the Golden Girl  
 Published:  1996 
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385Author:  Housman, Alfred EdwardAdd
 Title:  A Shropshire Lad  
 Published:  1996 
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386Author:  Kropotkin, PeterAdd
 Title:  Maxím Górky  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: FEW writers have established their reputation so rapidly as Maxím Górky. His first sketches (1892-95), were published in an obscure provincial paper of the Caucasus, and were totally unknown to the literary world, but when a short tale of his appeared in a widely-read [illustration omitted] review, edited by Korolénko, it at once attracted general attention. The beauty of its form, its artistic finish, and the new note of strength and courage which rang through it, brought the young writer immediately into prominence. It became known that Maxím Górky was the pen-name of quite a young man, A. Pyeshkoff, who was born in 1868 in Nizhni Novgorod, a large town on the Volga; that his father was a merchant, or an artisan, his mother a remarkable peasant woman, who died soon after the birth of her son, and that the boy, orphaned when only nine, was brought up in a family of his father's relatives. The childhood of Górky must have been anything but happy, for one day he ran away and entered into service on a Volga River steamer. Later he lived and wandered on foot with the tramps in South Russia, and during these wanderings he wrote a number of short stories which were published in a newspaper of Northern Caucasia. The stories proved to be remarkably fine, and when a collection of all that he had hitherto written was published in 1900, in four small volumes, the whole of a large edition was sold in a very short time, and the name of Górky took its place—to speak of living novelists only—by the side of those of Korolénko and Tchéhoff, immediately after the name of Leo Tolstóy. In Western Europe and America his reputation was made with the same rapidity, as soon as a couple of his sketches were translated into French and German, and retranslated into English.
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387Author:  La Flesche, FrancisAdd
 Title:  The Story of a Vision  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: EACH of us, as we gathered at the lodge of our story teller at dusk, picked up an armful of wood and entered. The old man who was sitting alone, his wife having gone on a visit, welcomed us with a pleasant word as we threw the wood down by the fire-place and busied ourselves rekindling the fire.
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388Author:  Marquis, DonAdd
 Title:  Danny's Own Story  
 Published:  1996 
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389Author:  Mitchell, S. WeirAdd
 Title:  The Autobiography of a Quack  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: AT this present moment of time I am what the doctors call an interesting case, and am to be found in bed No. 10, Ward 11, Massachusetts General Hospital. I am told that I have what is called Addison's disease, and that it is this pleasing malady which causes me to be covered with large blotches of a dark mulatto tint. However, it is a rather grim subject to joke about, because, if I believed the doctor who comes around every day, and thumps me, and listens to my chest with as much pleasure as if I were music all through—I say, if I really believed him, I should suppose I was going to die. The fact is, I don't believe him at all. Some of these days I shall take a turn and get about again; but meanwhile it is rather dull for a stirring, active person like me to have to lie still and watch myself getting big brown and yellow spots all over me, like a map that has taken to growing.
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390Author:  Neihardt, John G.Add
 Title:  The Stranger at the Gate  
 Published:  1996 
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391Author:  Oskison, John M.Add
 Title:  The Man Who Interfered  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: UNTIL long after midnight Jim Freeman sat reading a battered, graceful old volume containing "Troilus and Cressida" and "Julius Caesar"—a book bound in leather for a Gentleman of Virginia in 1771, and strayed from its mates of the set generations ago. Its type was bold and clear, fit for failing eyes to peruse.
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392Author:  Oskison, John M.Add
 Title:  The Problem of Old Harjo  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Spirit of the Lord had descended upon old Harjo. From the new missionary, just out from New York, he had learned that he was a sinner. The fire in the new missionary's eyes and her gracious appeal had convinced old Harjo that this was the time to repent and be saved. He was very much in earnest, and he assured Miss Evans that he wanted to be baptized and received into the church at once. Miss Evans was enthusiastic and went to Mrs. Rowell with the news. It was Mrs. Rowell who had said that it was no use to try to convert the older Indians, and she, after fifteen years of work in Indian Territory missions, should have known. Miss Evans was pardonably proud of her conquest.
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393Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE child's dead," said Nora, the nurse. It was the upstairs sitting-room in one of the pretentious houses of Sutherland, oldest and most charming of the towns on the Indiana bank of the Ohio. The two big windows were open; their limp and listless draperies showed that there was not the least motion in the stifling humid air of the July afternoon. At the center of the room stood an oblong table; over it were neatly spread several thicknesses of white cotton cloth; naked upon them lay the body of a newborn girl baby. At one side of the table nearer the window stood Nora. Hers were the hard features and corrugated skin popularly regarded as the result of a life of toil, but in fact the result of a life of defiance to the laws of health. As additional penalties for that same self-indulgence she had an enormous bust and hips, thin face and arms, hollow, sinew-striped neck. The young man, blond and smooth faced, at the other side of the table and facing the light, was Doctor Stevens, a recently graduated pupil of the famous Schulze of Saint Christopher who as much as any other one man is responsible for the rejection of hocus-pocus and the injection of common sense into American medicine. For upwards of an hour young Stevens, coat off and shirt sleeves rolled to his shoulders, had been toiling with the lifeless form on the table. He had tried everything his training, his reading and his experience suggested—all the more or less familiar devices similar to those indicated for cases of drowning. Nora had watched him, at first with interest and hope, then with interest alone, finally with swiftly deepening disapproval, as her compressed lips and angry eyes plainly revealed. It seemed to her his effort was degenerating into sacrilege, into defiance of an obvious decree of the Almighty. However, she had not ventured to speak until the young man, with a muttered ejaculation suspiciously like an imprecation, straightened his stocky figure and began to mop the sweat from his face, hands and bared arms.
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394Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  Grain of Dust.  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: INTO the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famous — radical orators often said infamous — in New York. The girl seemed, at a glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde — tawny hair, fair skin, blue eyes. Aside from this hardly conclusive mark of identity there was nothing positive, nothing definite, about her. She was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, neither grave nor gay. She gave the impression of a young person of the feminine gender — that, and nothing more. She was plainly dressed, like thousands of other girls, in darkish blue jacket and skirt and white shirt waist. Her boots and gloves were neat, her hair simply and well arranged. Perhaps in these respects — in neatness and taste — she did excel the average, which is depressingly low. But in a city where more or less strikingly pretty women, bent upon being seen, are as plentiful as the blackberries of Kentucky's July — in New York no one would have given her a second look, this quiet young woman screened in an atmosphere of self-effacement.
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395Author:  Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911Add
 Title:  The Price She Paid.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-one—the end of a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances and neighbors, with his wife and son and daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted, good-natured man, ready at all times to do anything to help anybody, incapable of envy or hatred or meanness. In fact, not once in all his days had he ever thought or done a single thing except for his own comfort. Like all intensely selfish people who are wise, he was cheerful and amiable, because that was the way to be healthy and happy and to have those around one agreeable and in the mood to do what one wished them to do. He told people, not the truth, not the unpleasant thing that might help them, but what they wished to hear. His family lived in luxurious comfort only because he himself was fond of luxurious comfort. His wife and his daughter dressed fashionably and went about and entertained in the fashionable, expensive way only because that was the sort of life that gratified his vanity. He lived to get what he wanted; he got it every day and every hour of a life into which no rain ever fell; he died, honored, respected, beloved, and lamented.
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396Author:  Romeyn, HenryAdd
 Title:  'Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Among the passengers of the "Roger B. Taney," Captain Timothy Meaher, plying between Mobile and Montgomery, Ala. in April, 1858, were a number of Northern gentlemen returning to their homes after a winter spent in the South. The trip occupied several days, and as might have been expected, the slavery question was a fruitful theme of discussion. Captain Meaher, though born in Gardiner, Maine, had removed, when a mere lad, to the Gulf States, and accumulated quite a fortune for those days; a large portion of which was in "chattels" employed on his half dozen steamboats, or on cotton plantations in the interior of the state, and in lumbering among the pines and cypress lands near the coast. Of course he was a defender of "the institution," and, in reply to the expressed belief of one of his passengers that "with the supply by importation from Africa cut off and any further spread in the Territories denied, the thing was doomed," he declared that, despite the stringent measures taken by most of the civilized powers to crush out the over-sea traffic, it could be still carried on successfully. In response to the disbelief expressed by his opponent, he offered to wager any amount of money that he would "import a cargo in less than two years, and no one be hanged for it."
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397Author:  Austin review: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936Add
 Title:  Mary Austin  
 Published:  1996 
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 Description: OUT in the great Southwest they say that the desert “gets” those who live there long enough, and they illustrate themselves the truth of that saying. They say, but they stay; they cannot come away.
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398Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Add
 Title:  Seventeen  
 Published:  1996 
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399Author:  Teasdale, SaraAdd
 Title:  Rivers to the Sea  
 Published:  1996 
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400Author:  Germ: Various AuthorsAdd
 Title:  The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art  
 Published:  1996 
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