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61Author:  Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Father Sergius  
 Published:  2000 
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62Author:  Tolstoy, Count IlyaRequires cookie*
 Title:  My Last Visit to My Mother  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: WITH all the other appalling news from Russia comes word of the devastation of the home of Leo Tolstoy and the burning of his manuscripts. This news is so horrible that I cannot believe it is true. I cannot believe the people can be so blinded as to attack a helpless old woman, the widow of the greatest man of Russia, and destroy the precious relics that have no other value except that of preserving the memory of this man.
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63Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Great Revolution in Pitcairn  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: LET me refresh the reader's memory a little. Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. They procured wives for themselves among the natives of Tahiti, then proceeded to a lonely little rock in mid-Pacific, called Pitcairn's Island, wrecked the vessel, stripped her of everything that might be useful to a new colony, and established themselves on shore.
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64Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Life on the Mississippi  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world—four thousand three hundred miles. It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty-five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty-eight times as much as the Thames. No other river has so vast a drainage-basin: it draws its water supply from twenty-eight States and Territories; from Delaware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope—a spread of forty-five degrees of longitude. The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage-basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Turkey; and almost all this wide region is fertile; the Mississippi valley, proper, is exceptionally so.
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65Author:  Brock: Webbe, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  A discourse concerning paper money: in which its principles are laid open; and a method, plain and easy, for introducing and continuing a plenty, without lessening the present value of it, is demonstrated. / by John Webbe  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: The value of the paper-money of Pennsylvania notwithstanding the obvious manner of accounting for it, is attributed by many to the land-security on which it is lent; and in support of this notion, the following argument, whoever first broached it, has been printed; which I shall particularly examine; for as it has been generally adopted, it cannot with decency be condemned in the lump. It runs thus. As those who take bills out of the banks in Europe put in money for security, so here we engage our Land. And as bills issued upon money security are money, so bills issued upon land security are, in effect, coined land. Now the Banks of Europe do actually borrow the money lodged with them, and therefore give their notes as a security for the repayment. But the paper-money-bank of Pennsylvania, to which the argument is applied, does not borrow but lend money, and therefore takes security from the borrowers for the repayment at the times stipulated. The two cases then, instead of having the least resemblance, being essentially opposite; it is impossible that any conclusion drawn from the one should be applicable to the other. Indeed the bills given by an European bank have the same power as the silver promised by 'em; because the possessors have a right to receive, and do also receive on demand the very sums expressed by such bills. But those of Pennsylvania cannot, for a like reason, nor for any reason, be considered as land; for tho' they be lent upon land, yet the possessors have no right to demand from any man, or any body of men, any land for 'em.
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66Author:  Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937Requires cookie*
 Title:  "A Grave" / by Edith Wharton  
 Published:  2000 
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67Author:  Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937Requires cookie*
 Title:  "The Great Blue Tent"  
 Published:  2000 
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 Description: Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. PARIS, Aug. 24.—Edith Wharton has written the following poem for The New York Times:
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68Author:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892Requires cookie*
 Title:  Leaves of Grass [1867]  
 Published:  2000 
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