| | 341 | Author: | Norris, Frank | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Ship That Saw a Ghost  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | VERY much of this story must remain untold, for the reason that if
it were definitely known what business I had aboard the tramp
steam-freighter Glarus, three hundred miles off the South American
coast on a certain summer's day some few years ago, I would very
likely be obliged to answer a great many personal and direct
questions put by fussy and impertinent experts in maritime law—who are
paid to be inquisitive. Also, I would get "Ally Bazan,"
Strokher and Hardenberg into trouble. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 343 | Author: | Oskison, John M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Biologist's Quest | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JAKE was a collector of small mammal skins for the Smithsonian
authorities in Washington and for the British Museum. His work had been
done mainly in the mountains of Southern California and on the big stretches
of Arizona deserts. In the winter of 1895 there was a good deal of heated
discussion between professor McLean of the Pennsylvania Scientific Society
and one of the scientists at Washington, over the question of whether or not a
certain species of short tailed rat still existed in the Lower California
Peninsula. The Smithsonian authority believed that it did, from reports sent
in by Aldrich, who had collected in the Southwest until 1893, when he was
killed by a superstitious Mexican. The rat, if it existed, was a curious
survival, and the scientist who could secure and classify it would earn an
enviable reputation. So Lake, in the early spring, received orders to go down
into the Lower California region and make a thorough search, following
Aldrich's lead. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 353 | Author: | Ragozin, Zenide A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pushkin and His Work | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT may be a long time yet before Russian poetry is anything more
than a word to the great bulk of the English-reading public, and
the name of Kalidâsa or Firdûsi would convey to the
average mind a far more definite impression than the name of
Maïkof, Polonsky or Nekràssof—because every one who is
at all on familiar terms with books has met at least the names of
the Hindoo and the Persian poet, while it is absolutely certain
that not one in a thousand habitual readers, or even students of
literature, ever comes across those of the Russians. Yet one name
there is, which has pierced through the barrier raised by race
difference and an exceedingly difficult language, and is at least
as familiar to English and American ears as those of the two
Orientals: the name of Pushkin, the centennial anniversary of whose
birth was celebrated last year all over Russia. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 360 | Author: | Wharton review: Trueblood, Charles K. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edith Wharton | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MADAME de Treymes' way of expressing her predilection for Durham
was to say that he was extremely clever; and casting about to find
terms of appreciation for the distinguished persons the reader
discovers in Mrs. Wharton's pages, one can probably find none more
fit than the dictum that whatever else they may be they are
extremely clever. Unqualified, such a remark is slight enough.
The characters of any novelist who tends to psychology are likely
to be clever, for considerable cleverness in the subject is
necessary to psychological interest and some cleverness necessary
to any interest. And cleverness must be an elastic term to cover
such diverse qualities as the clairvoyance of Mrs. Ansell, or the
fastidiousness of Justine Brent, or the polished and brittle
worldliness of Mr. Langhope. Again, not all of these persons are
extremely clever: Gerty Farish was not clever at all, and Undine
Spragg was only clever enough to be extremely fashionable; though
here it should be remembered that Gerty Farish was rather
patronized by the narrator of her history, and Undine Spragg flayed
with satire. Moreover, one cannot take the measure of an author's
qualities, say the last word about his work, in a word; even if it
were possible, cleverness would probably not be the only
discoverable last word about the qualities of Mrs. Wharton. But it
is at least an allusion, and as a first word cannot be
unserviceable. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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