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121Author:  Cummings, E. E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Puella Mea  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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122Author:  Dana, MarvinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Within the Law  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness, and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again arouse to the full horror of her plight. In a curious subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from the torture that had exhausted her soul.
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123Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Red Cross Girl  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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124Author:  DeCora, AngelRequires cookie*
 Title:  Angel DeCora—An Autobiography  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: An ornamental illustration of two crossed tomahawks
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125Author:  Der Ling, PrincessRequires cookie*
 Title:  Two Years in the Forbidden City  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MY father and mother, Lord and Lady Yü Keng, and family, together with our suite consisting of the First Secretary, Second Secretary, Naval and Military Attachés, Chancellors, their families, servants, etc., — altogether fifty-five people, — arrived in Shanghai on January 2, 1903, on the S.S. "Annam'' from Paris, where for four years my father had been Chinese Minister. Our arrival was anything but pleasant, as the rain came down in torrents, and we had the greatest difficulty getting our numerous retinue landed and safely housed, not to mention the tons of baggage that had to be looked after. We had found from previous experience that none of our Legation people or servants could be depended upon to do anything when travelling, in consequence of which the entire charge devolved upon my mother, who was without doubt the genius of the party in arranging matters and straightening out difficulties.
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126Author:  Doyle, Arthur ConanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The White Company  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell, Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long?
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127Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Poems  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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128Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Toll-Gate House  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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129Author:  Drinkwater, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Two Poems  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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130Author:  Dyer, Frank Lewis and Thomas Commerford MartinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during 1846, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific'' dated from that hour. With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, 1848, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States. Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence. Moreover, within its boundaries was embraced all the great American gold-field, just on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away her rights in California and in all the vague, remote hinterland facing Cathayward.
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131Author:  Eaton, Walter PrichardRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Painter of "Diana of the Tides"  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: GIVEN nearly three hundred square feet of blank wall space, and it takes something of an artist to fill it up with interesting paint. Probably you would not pick a miniature painter for the task. Yet, curiously, John Elliott, creator of "Diana of the Tides," the great mural painting which adorns the large gallery to the right of the entrance of the new National Museum at Washington, also paints on ivory. He works, likewise, in silver point, that delicate and difficult medium; he draws pastel illustrations for children's fairy tales; he works in portraiture with red chalk or oils. And, when the need comes, he has shown that he can turn stevedore, carpenter, and architect, to slave with the relief party at Messina, finally to help design and build, in four months, an entire village for the stricken sufferers, including a hotel, a hospital, three schoolhouses, and a church. The too frequent scorn of the "practical man of affairs" for the artist and dreamer, the world's sneaking tolerance for the temperament which creates in forms of ideal beauty rather than in bridges or factories or banks, finds in the life and work of such a man as John Elliott such complete, if unconscious, refutation, that his story should have its place in the history of the day.
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132Author:  Engelmann, George J.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Labor Among Primitive Peoples  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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133Author:  Le Fanu, Joseph SheridanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Purcell Papers, Volume I  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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134Author:  Le Fanu, Joseph SheridanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Purcell Papers, Volume II  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Decorative header at top of page: drawing of two cherubs surrounding a goat, one of whom is holding a leash around the goat's neck. Ornamented with vines. Ornamental capital letter "T" at the beginning of the first paragraph.
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135Author:  Le Fanu, Joseph SheridanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Purcell Papers, Volume III  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Decorative header at top of page: flower-like design pattern, ornamented with vines. Ornamental capital letter "J" at the beginning of the first paragraph.
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136Author:  Ferber, EdnaRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Homely Heroine  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Woman looking into a hand-held mirror. Back view of head and shoulders. Black hat, lacy blouse. Decorative border. Illustrated by Horace Taylor.
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137Author:  Fetridge, W. PembrokeRequires cookie*
 Title:  Harper's Hand-book for Travelers in Europe and The East (Ninth Year)  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: [The section on Paris, the longest in the book, covers 74 pages. It begins with a discussion of hotels, then backs up to consider the history of the city and its contemporary political situation, before getting to the attractions. Starting with museums, Fetridge concludes by talking about how to get oneself presented to the Emperor, and where to buy the new clothes one would want to wear on such an occasion. The following two passages are from the middle of this lengthy account.]
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138Author:  Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEN it was determined to extend the present edition of Fielding, not merely by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the three universally popular novels, but by two volumes of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about at least one of the contents of these latter. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild as an example of our author's genius, is an invaluable and delightful document for his character and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed out in the General Introduction to this series, our main source of indisputable information as to Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and unaffected stoicism which the author displays under a disease which he knew well was probably, if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort of a kind more intolerable than pain itself; his affectionate care for his family; even little personal touches, less admirable, but hardly less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman's dislike to be "done'' and an Englishman's determination to be treated with proper respect, are scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical side than the unimpaired brilliancy of his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and character is on the side of literature.
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139Author:  Fiske, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: FEW mediæval heroes are so widely known as William Tell. His exploits have been celebrated by one of the greatest poets and one of the most popular musicians of modern times. They are doubtless familiar to many who have never heard of Stauffacher or Winkelried, who are quite ignorant of the prowess of Roland, and to whom Arthur and Lancelot, nay, even Charlemagne, are but empty names.
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140Author:  Fitzgerald, EdwardRequires cookie*
 Title:  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia (First edition)  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: p. [1]
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