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81Author:  Stewart, Donald OgdenRequires cookie*
 Title:  Perfect Behavior  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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82Author:  Tennyson, Alfred LordRequires cookie*
 Title:  Enoch Arden & c.  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Illustration of Annie sitting on a chair, leaning over an empty cradle. A man stands in a doorway behind her.
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83Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Roughing It  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MY brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory—an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel" had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside. And by and by he would become very rich, and return home by sea, and be able to talk as calmly about San Francisco and the ocean, and "the isthmus" as if it was nothing of any consequence to have seen those marvels face to face. What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe. And so, when he offered me, in cold blood, the sublime position of private secretary under him, it appeared to me that the heavens and the earth passed away, and the firmament was rolled together as a scroll! I had nothing more to desire. My contentment was complete. ENVIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS. At the end of an hour or two I was ready for the journey. Not much packing up was necessary, because we were going in the overland stage from the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and passengers were only allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece. There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it.
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84Author:  Tyler, RoyallRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Contrast: A Comedy  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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85Author:  Tennyson Keepsake; University of Virginia LibraryRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Tennyson Collection at UVa: a Keepsake  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Charge of the Light Brigade Manuscript in Tennyson's hand. The first page of MS, Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, from the University of Virginia Special Collections Dept.
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86Author:  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The World Set Free  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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87Author:  Wetmore, Helen CodyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: A PLEASANT, roomy farm-house, set in the sunlight against a background of cool, green wood and mottled meadow-- this is the picture that my earliest memories frame for me. To this home my parents, Isaac and Mary Cody, had moved soon after their marriage.
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88Author:  White, Stewart EdwardRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Silent Places  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At about eight o'clock one evening of the early summer a group of men were seated on a grass plot overlooking a broad river. The sun was just setting through the forest fringe directly behind them.
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89Author:  Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943Requires cookie*
 Title:  A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE development of the science of chemistry from the "science" of alchemy is a striking example of the complete revolution in the attitude of observers in the field of science. As has been pointed out in a preceding chapter, the alchemist, having a preconceived idea of how things should be, made all his experiments to prove his preconceived theory; while the chemist reverses this attitude of mind and bases his conceptions on the results of his laboratory experiments. In short, chemistry is what alchemy never could be, an inductive science. But this transition from one point of view to an exactly opposite one was necessarily a very slow process. Ideas that have held undisputed sway over the minds of succeeding generations for hundreds of years cannot be overthrown in a moment, unless the agent of such an overthrow be so obvious that it cannot be challenged. The rudimentary chemistry that overthrew alchemy had nothing so obvious and palpable.
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90Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Maiden Lady  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: An image of the poem.
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91Author:  Woolf, VirginiaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Night and Day  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IT was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the daylight. But although she was silent, she was evidently mistress of a situation which was familiar enough to her, and inclined to let it take its way for the six hundredth time, perhaps, without bringing into play any of her unoccupied faculties. A single glance was enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in the gifts which make tea-parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread and butter was discharged for her.
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92Author:  Zerbe, J. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Aeroplanes  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE "SCIENCE" OF AVIATION.—It may be doubted whether there is such a thing as a "science of aviation." Since Langley, on May 6, 1896, flew a motor-propelled tandem monoplane for a minute and an half, without a pilot, and the Wright Brothers in 1903 succeeded in flying a bi-plane with a pilot aboard, the universal opinion has been, that flying machines, to be successful, must follow the structural form of birds, and that shape has everything to do with flying.
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93Author:  White, James J.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: I am compelled from want of pen and ink to write a line in pencil—seizing a moment now I may not have it half hour hence. It is my painful duty to inform you that your son William died today after an illness of several days which appeared to me something like conjestion of the brain. Our brigade has been very much exposed by forced marches through heat and dust, and by being compelled to camp out at night without tents, not even the superior officers being allowed to carry tents from the difficulty of transportation.[1] I suppose it would be most agreeable to the feelings of yourself and your boy's mother that his remains should be taken at once to his home, but we have been drawn up in line of battle this evening[2] and on application to our colonel[3] he assured me that it would be impossible to get permission from Gen. Johnston[4] for any one to leave at this time, and I ascertained that permission had been refused to remove the remains of Lieutenant Patton[5] of the Rockbridge Grays who died this morning. And although I had with considerable difficulty made arrangements for William's transportation before speaking to Col. Preston, I felt forced to abandon it, and have provided for his decent interment in the Episcopal Cemetery here and have directed a head board with his name to be provided so that at some subsequent time his remains may be removed to the bosom of his friends. When I discovered that William was sick I had him taken to the Hospital in Winchester which is in Charge of M. H. Houston, formerly of Rockbridge, late of Wheeling, where every attention possible under the circumstances was provided. I have done the best I could my dear Sir and in communicating with the stricken parents of the most admirable young man, it is but the simplest justice to say that whether as student or soldier, I had nothing to complain of him, but believe in my conscience that he did his duty modestly and conscientiously on every occasion. Your son Andrew has just mentioned that the physician thought the disease of his brother was spinal to the brain.[6] Excuse the unavoidable haste of this letter, for I am hurried in every way imaginable. We are expecting the enemy here at any moment and I believe that we are able to meet them. With assurances of kind regards and sincere sympathy.
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94Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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95Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Mary Susan Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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96Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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97Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, WilliamRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Mary Susan Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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98Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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99Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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100Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, MoffettRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Moffett Brooks' aunt  
 Published:  1998 
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