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181Author:  Ostrom, Kurre W.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Massage and the Original Swedish Movements  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In walking or riding, or even in some of the ordinary occupations of life, it is true that a person takes a certain amount of exercise, but there is no method in such movements.
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182Author:  Page, Thomas NelsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A man on horseback talking to an old Negro man as Marse Chan's dog walks away.
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183Author:  Palmer, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  George Bernard Shaw: Harlequin or Patriot?  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Decorative black-and-white illustration; open book overlaid with feathers, with a sword and scythe sticking out, against a border of flowers, leaves, and human faces.
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184Author:  Peacock, Thomas LoveRequires cookie*
 Title:  Maid Marian  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "THE abbot, in his alb arrayed," stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding with excellent game. The bride, with her father and attendant maidens, entered the chapel; but the earl had not arrived. The baron was amazed, and the bridemaidens were disconcerted. Matilda feared that some evil had befallen her lover, but felt no diminution of her confidence in his honour and love. Through the open gates of the chapel she looked down the narrow road that wound along the side of the hill; and her ear was the first that heard the distant trampling of horses, and her eye was the first that caught the glitter of snowy plumes, and the light of polished spears. "It is strange," thought the baron, "that the earl should come in this martial array to his wedding;" but he had not long to meditate on the phenomenon, for the foaming steeds swept up to the gate like a whirlwind, and the earl, breathless with speed, and followed by a few of his yeomen, advanced to his smiling bride. It was then no time to ask questions, for the organ was in full peal, and the choristers were in full voice.
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185Author:  Phillips, StephenRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Woman to Shakspere  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Ornamental design resembling a fountain
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186Author:  Porter, Eleanor H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Miss Billy's Decision  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: CALDERWELL had met Mr. M. J. Arkwright in London through a common friend; since then they had tramped half over Europe together in a comradeship that was as delightful as it was unusual. As Calderwell put it in a letter to his sister, Belle:
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187Author:  Prime, William C.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Tent Life in the Holy Land  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: [from Chapter 1, "Nunc Dimittis Domine!"] To see the sun go down beyond the Sepulchre and rise over the mountain of the Ascension, to bare my forehead to the cold dews of Gethsemane, and lave my dim eyes in the waters of Siloam, to sleep in the company of the infinite host above the oaks of Mamre, and to lie in the starlight of Bethlehem and catch, however faintly, some notes of the voices of the angels, to wash off the dust of life in the Jordan, to cool my hot lips at the well of Samaria, to hear the murmur of Gennesareth, giving me blessed sleep — was not all this worth dreaming of — worth living for — was it not worth dying for?
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188Author:  Pyle, Howard and Katharine PyleRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Wonder Clock  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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189Author:  Redgrove, Herbert Stanley, 1887-1943Requires cookie*
 Title:  Alchemy: Ancient and Modern  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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190Author:  Russell, Bertrand, F.R.S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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191Author:  Scull, Guy H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lassoing Wild Animals In Africa  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IT was a special train—loaded to capacity with horses and dogs, camp baggage, moving-picture cameras, cowboys, photographers, and porters; and when it pulled out of the Nairobi station on the way to the "up country" of British East Africa, the period of preparation passed away and the time of action began. As the faces of the people on the platform glided by the window of the slowly moving carriage, there was good will written on all of them; but also unbelief. There was no doubt as to what they thought of Buffalo Jones's expedition that was setting out to rope and tie and photograph the wild animals of the East African Veldt.
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192Author:  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Last Man  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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193Author:  Shepherd, Lilian McG.Requires cookie*
 Title:  A New Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Time has recently revealed a picture of Poe and two of his friends that has been carefully hidden away for more than half a century. Few people outside the Allan family ever knew of its existence.
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194Author:  Shillaber, Benjamin PenhallowRequires cookie*
 Title:  Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Illustrated capital N in which Mrs. Partington and Ike look out the window at the cat hanging in the tree. NOW, Isaac," said Mrs. Partington, as she came into the room with a basket snugly covered over, "take our Tabby, and drop her somewhere, and see that she don't come back again, for I am sick and tired of driving her out of the butter. She is the thievinest creatur! But don't hurt her, Isaac; only take care that she don't come back."
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195Author:  Steward, T. G.Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Charleston Love Story; or, Hortense Vanross  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "I don't think our Len will ever amount to much," said Leonard Howell, senior, one day to his wife as he entered the house.
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196Author:  Stewart, Donald OgdenRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Parody Outline of History  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: On a memorable evening in the year 1904 I witnessed the opening performance of Maude Adams in "Peter Pan''. Nothing in the world can describe the tremendous enthusiasm of that night! I shall never forget the moment when Peter came to the front of the stage and asked the audience if we believed in fairies. I am happy to say that I was actually the first to respond. Leaping at once out of my seat, I shouted "Yes—Yes!'' To my intense pleasure the whole house almost instantly followed my example, with the exception of one man. This man was sitting directly in front of me. His lack of enthusiasm was to me incredible. I pounded him on the back and shouted, "Great God, man, are you alive! Wake up! Hurrah for the fairies! Hurrah!'' Finally he uttered a rather feeble "Hurrah!'' Childe Roland to the dark tower came.
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197Author:  Stewart, CalvinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories"  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE author was born in Virginia, on a little patch of land, so poor we had to fertilize it to make brick. Our family, while having cast their fortunes with the South, was not a family ruined by the war; we did not have anything when the war commenced, and so we held our own. I secured a common school education, and at the age of twelve I left home, or rather home left me—things just petered out. I was slush cook on an Ohio River Packet; check clerk in a stave and heading camp in the knobs of Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; I helped lay the track of the M. K. & T. R. R., and was chambermaid in a livery stable. Made my first appearance on the stage at the National Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have since then chopped cord wood, worked in a coal mine, made cross ties (and walked them), worked on a farm, taught a district school (made love to the big girls), run a threshing machine, cut bands, fed the machine and ran the engine. Have been a freight and passenger brakeman, fired and ran a locomotive; also a freight train conductor and check clerk in a freight house; worked on the section; have been a shot gun messenger for the Wells, Fargo Company. Have been with a circus, minstrels, farce comedy, burlesque and dramatic productions; have been with good shows, bad shows, medicine shows, and worse, and some shows where we had landlords singing in the chorus. Have played variety houses and vaudeville houses; have slept in a box car one night, and a swell hotel the next; have been a traveling salesman (could spin as many yarns as any of them). For the past four years have made the Uncle Josh stories for the talking machine. The Lord only knows what next!
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198Author:  Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  Alice Adams  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE patient, an old-fashioned man, thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame. "The human frame won't stand everything, Miss Perry,'' he warned her, resentfully. "Even a child, if it had just ordinary gumption, ought to know enough not to let the night air blow on sick people—yes, nor well people, either! `Keep out of the night air, no matter how well you feel.' That's what my mother used to tell me when I was a boy. `Keep out of the night air, Virgil,' she'd say. `Keep out of the night air.' ''
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199Author:  Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Reminiscences of Tolstoy  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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200Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Babies  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The fifteenth regular toast was "The Babies. — As they comfort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities."
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