| | 221 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Add | | | Title: | T. Tembarom  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE boys at the Brooklyn public school which
he attended did not know what the "T."
stood for. He would never tell them. All
he said in reply to questions was: "It don't
stand for nothin'. You+'ve gotter have a'
'nitial, ain't you?" His name was, in fact,
an almost inevitable school-boy modification
of one felt to be absurd and pretentious.
His Christian name was Temple, which became
"Temp." His surname was Barom,
so he was at once "Temp Barom." In the natural tendency to
avoid waste of time it was pronounced as one word, and the
letter p being superfluous and cumbersome, it easily settled itself
into "Tembarom," and there remained. By much less inevitable
processes have surnames evolved themselves as centuries rolled
by. Tembarom liked it, and soon almost forgot he had ever
been called anything else. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 223 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Add | | | Title: | Frances Waldeaux | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In another minute the Kaiser Wilhelm would push off from
her pier in Hoboken. The last bell had rung, the last uniformed officer and
white-jacketed steward had scurried up the gangway. The pier was massed with
people who had come to bid their friends good-by. They were all Germans, and
there had been unlimited embracing and kissing and sobs of "Ach! mein lieber Sckatz!" and "Gott bewahre
Dick!" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 224 | Author: | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. | Add | | | Title: | The Scarlet Car | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | For a long time it had been arranged they all should go to the Harvard and Yale game in
Winthrop's car. It was perfectly well understood. Even Peabody, who pictured himself and Miss
Forbes in the back of the car, with her brother and Winthrop in front, condescended to approve.
It was necessary to invite Peabody because it was his great good fortune to be engaged to Miss
Forbes. Her brother Sam had been invited, not only because he could act as chaperon for his
sister, but because since they were at St. Paul's,
Winthrop and he, either as participants or spectators, had never missed going together to the
Yale-Harvard game. And Beatrice Forbes herself had been invited because she was herself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 225 | Author: | Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 | Add | | | Title: | The Blue Flower | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and
lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a
restless, whispering wind. The room grew light, and dark, and wondrous light
again, as the moon played hide-and-seek through the clouds. The boy, wide-awake
and quiet in his bed, was thinking of the Stranger and his stories. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 226 | Author: | Ferber, Edna | Add | | | Title: | Fanny Herself | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs.
Brandeis. In a town of ten thousand, where every one was a personality, from Hen
Cody, the drayman, in blue overalls (magically transformed on Sunday mornings
into a suave black-broadcloth usher at the Congregational Church), to A. J.
Dawes, who owned the waterworks before the city bought it. Mrs. Brandeis was a
super-personality. Winnebago did not know it. Winnebago, buying its dolls, and
china, and Battenberg braid and tinware and toys of Mrs. Brandeis, of Brandeis'
Bazaar, realized vaguely that here was some one different. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 229 | Author: | Fox, John | Add | | | Title: | Knight of the Cumberland | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIGH noon of a crisp October day,
sunshine flooding the earth with
the warmth and light of old wine and,
going single-file up through the jagged
gap that the dripping of water has worn
down through the Cumberland Mountains
from crest to valley-level, a gray horse
and two big mules, a man and two young
girls. On the gray horse, I led the
tortuous way. After me came my small
sister—and after her and like her, mule-back, rode the Blight—dressed as she
would be for a gallop in Central Park or
to ride a hunter in a horse show. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 230 | Author: | Harrison, James A. ; William. E. Peters ; R. Heath Dabney | Add | | | Title: | Address to the Students of the University of Virginia | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY of Sunday, October 27th, has left the main building
of our
revered and beloved Alma Mater in ruins. The historic monuments of three-quarters of
a
century have been obliterated by the fury of the flames in a few hours, and nothing is
left of
our great Rotunda, our Public Hall, our Old Chapel, and our Academic Halls and
Lecture-Rooms,
hallowed by so many recollections precious to us all, except blackened walls. In this
unspeakable
calamity all that remains to us except brave hearts and unbroken spirits is the memory of
the gallant
and heroic conduct of the entire student body, without which nothing could have been
saved from
the Library and the Scientific halls in and adjacent to the Rotunda. We therefore desire,
on behalf of the
Faculty, to express to you collectively and individually, one and all, our profoundest
gratitude and our
warmest praise for your noble and admirable demeanor on this trying occasion, for your
intense sym-
pathy with us in our irreparable losses, and your manly and self-sacrificing co-operation in our endeavors
to save something from the wreck, and rehabilitate the great institution consecrated by
the name of
Jefferson. We are perfectly sure that every man, every student, will continue to do his
whole duty in
the same splendid spirit of devotion to Alma Mater; that all will nobly stand by us in our
misfortune;
that all will work gladly and gallantly together without murmur and without complaint,
and soon we
shall behold our great Mother rising before us statelier, stronger than ever, the glory of
Virginia, the
glory of the entire South. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 233 | Author: | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The Conquest of Canaan | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A DRY snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind
cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white
harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw;
only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant
chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme
whiteness. The wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of the school-children had ceased
at nine o'clock with pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on the air; and the
muffling of the thoroughfares wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday.
This was the phenomenon which afforded the opening of the morning debate of the sages in the
wide windows of the "National House.'' | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 235 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Add | | | Title: | The Cash Boy | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A group of boys was assembled in an open field to
the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of
Crawford. Most of them held hats in their hands,
while two, stationed sixty feet distant from each
other, were "having catch." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 239 | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Add | | | Title: | Stephen Crane : author of The black riders and other lines | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You will look in vain through the pages of the Trade
Circular for any record of a story of New York life entitled
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which was published three or
four years ago in this city. At the moment of going to press the
timorous publishers withdrew their imprint from the book, which was
sold, in paper covers, for fifty cents. There seems to be
considerable difficulty now in securing copies, but the fact that
there is no publisher's name to the book, and that the author
appears under the nom de plume of "Johnston Smith," may have
something to do with its apparent disappearance. The copy which
came into the writer's possession was addressed to the Rev. Thomas
Dixon a few months ago, before the author went West on a
journalistic trip to Nebraska, and has these words written across
the cover: "It is inevitable that this book will greatly shock you,
but continue, pray, with great courage to the end, for it tries to
show that environment is a tremendous thing in this world, and
often shapes lives regardlessly. If one could prove that theory,
one would make room in Heaven for all sorts of souls (notably an
occasional street girl) who are not confidently expected to be
there by many excellent people." The author of this story and the
writer of these words is Stephen Crane, whose "Lines" (he does not
call them poems) have just been published by Copeland and Day, and
are certain to make a sensation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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