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101Author:  Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Free Colored People of North Carolina  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN our generalizations upon American history — and the American people are prone to loose generalization, especially where the Negro is concerned — it is ordinarily assumed that the entire colored race was set free as the result of the Civil War. While this is true in a broad, moral sense, there was, nevertheless, a very considerable technical exception in the case of several hundred thousand free people of color, a great many of whom were residents of the Southern States. Although the emancipation of their race brought to these a larger measure of liberty than they had previously enjoyed, it did not confer upon them personal freedom, which they possessed already. These free colored people were variously distributed, being most numerous, perhaps, in Maryland, where, in the year 1850, for example, in a state with 87,189 slaves, there were 83,942 free colored people, the white population of the State being 515,918; and perhaps least numerous in Georgia, of all the slave states, where, to a slave population of 462,198, there were only 351 free people of color, or less than three-fourths of one per cent., as against the about fifty per cent. in Maryland. Next to Maryland came Virginia, with 58,042 free colored people, North Carolina with 30,463, Louisiana with 18,647, (of whom 10,939 were in the parish of New Orleans alone), and South Carolina with 9,914. For these statistics, I have of course referred to the census reports for the years mentioned. In the year 1850, according to the same authority, there were in the state of North Carolina 553,028 white people, 288,548 slaves, and 27,463 free colored people. In 1860, the white population of the state was 631,100, slaves 331,059, free colored people, 30,463.
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102Author:  Chekhov, AntonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Party  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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103Author:  Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924Requires cookie*
 Title:  Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard / Joseph Conrad  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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104Author:  Dargan, E. PrestonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Voyages of Conrad  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN 1873, A POLISH LAD of fifteen, walking in the Alps with his tutor, dismayed that gentleman by a declaration of independence. He proposed to give up his country and career, in order to take his chances on the sea. A few years later he was sailing on the Mediterranean, that "nursery of the craft." Then he realized his dream by becoming associated with the English flag — incidentally learning the English language. He went on far voyages, seeing little of Europe for a quarter of a century. Finally, he accomplished his second transformation: the Polish lad became a great writer of English. The boy was named Jozef Korzeniowski the writer is known to fame as Joseph Conrad.
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105Author:  Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Two Poems  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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106Author:  Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895Requires cookie*
 Title:  The heroic slave  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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107Author:  Friedland, Louis S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Anton Chekhov  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: We are about to come into possession of Chekhov. It will be a priceless possession, for Chekhov is indispensable to our understanding of the psychology of the great people that has introduced into the present world situation an element so complex, so disturbing, so tragic and beautiful. Chekhov is the faithful reporter, unerring, intuitive, direct. He never bears false witness. The essence of his art lies in a fine restraint, an avoidance of the sensational and the spectacular. His reticence reveals the elusive and lights up the enigmatic. And what a keen, voracious observer he was! Endless is the procession of types that passes through his pages — the whole world of Russians of his day: country gentlemen, chinovniks, waitresses, ladies of fashion, shopgirls, town physicians, Zemstvo doctors, innkeepers, peasants, herdsmen, soldiers, tradesmen, every type of the intelligentsia, children, men and women of every class and occupation. Chekhov describes them all with a pen that knows no bias. He eschews specialization in types. In a letter written to his friend Plescheyev, Chekhov draws in one stroke a swift, subtle parallel between the two authors, Shcheglov and Korolenko, and then he goes on to say, "But, Allah, Kerim! Why do they both specialize? One refuses to part with his prisoners, the other feeds his readers on staff officers. I recognize specialization in art, such as genres, landscape, history; I understand the 'emploi' of the actor, the school of the musician, but I cannot accept such specialization as prisoners, officers, priests. This is no longer specialization; it is bias." Chekhov ignores no phase of the life of his day. This inclusiveness, this large and noble avidity that refuses to be circumscribed by class or kind or importance, makes the sum of his stories both ample and satisfying. His work illuminates the whole of Russian life, the main thoroughfares, the bypaths, the unfrequented recesses. Without Chekhov, how are we to embark on the discovery of Russia?
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108Author:  Gale, ZonaRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Secret Dove  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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109Author:  Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Gipsy's Bear — A Story  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and themselves destroy their supporters.
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110Author:  Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Awakening of the Lieutenant-Governor  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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111Author:  Goldberg, IsaacRequires cookie*
 Title:  New York's Yiddish Writers  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: STRANGELY enough, it has long been a question to many, not alone whether the modern Jews have any literature, but whether Yiddish itself is a language. Many have been the prophecies which predicted the immediate extinction of the tongue, and yet, like the fabled Phoenix of old, it has risen new-born from its own ashes. Let prophets deal in futures — and it must be admitted that from certain signs familiar to students of linguistic evolution Yiddish would seem to be eventually doomed — the fact remains that to-day it is enjoying what amounts practically to a renaissance. And the question whether modern Jews have a literature is settled by a reading of the works themselves.
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112Author:  Hale, Sarah JosephaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Woodbine Cottage  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "PRAY, can you tell me who owns yonder pretty cottage? I am sure it must have a history," said Mrs. Conant to her landlady.
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113Author:  H. H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Wards of the United States Government  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THAT the Indians should be called "wards" of the United States Government, would seem a natural thing, significant of the natural relation between the United States Government and the Indian. The dictionary definition of the word "ward" is "one under a guardian," and of the word "guardian," a "protector." For white orphans under age, guardians are appointed by law; and the same law defines the duties and sets limit to the authority of such appointed guardians. The guardianship comes to end when the orphan ward is of age. This is one important difference between the white "wards" in our country, and Indian "wards." The Indian "ward" never comes of age. There are other differences, greater even than this; in fact, so great that the term "ward" applied to the Indian, savors of a satire as bitter as it was involuntary and unconscious on the part of the Supreme Court, which, I believe, first used the epithet, or, if it did not first use it, has used it since, as a convenient phrase of "conveyance" of rights, not to the Indian, but from him; to define, not what he might hope for, but what he must not expect; not what he is, but what he is not; not what he may do, but what, being a "ward," he is forever debarred from doing. Among other things, he may not make a contract with a white man, unless through his guardian, the Government. He may not hire an attorney to bring any suit for him, unless by consent of his guardian, the Government. Strangely enough, however, though as an individual he cannot make a contract or bring a suit, he has, until six years ago, always been considered fit, as a member of a tribe, to make a treaty; i. e., if the treaty were with the United States Government, his guardian.
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114Author:  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mrs. Helen Jackson ("H.H.")  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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115Author:  Howard, General O. O.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The True Story of the Wallowa Campaign  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ON reading in the "North American Review" for April the article entitled "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs," I was so pleased with Joseph's statement — necessarily ex parte though it was, and naturally inspired by resentment toward me as a supposed enemy — that at first I had no purpose of making a rejoinder. But when I saw in the "Army and Navy Journal" long passages quoted from Joseph's tale, which appeared to reflect unfavorably upon my official conduct, to lay upon me the blame of the atrocious murders committed by the Indians, and to convict me of glaring faults where I had deemed myself worthy only of commendation, I addressed to the editor of that journal a communication (which has been published) correcting misstatements, and briefly setting forth the facts of the case.
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116Author:  Young JosephRequires cookie*
 Title:  An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I WISH that I had words at command in which to express adequately the interest with which I have read the extraordinary narrative which follows, and which I have the privilege of introducing to the readers of this "Review." I feel, however, that this apologia is so boldly marked by the charming naïveté and tender pathos which characterize the red-man, that it needs no introduction, much less any authentication; while in its smothered fire, in its deep sense of eternal righteousness and of present evil, and in its hopeful longings for the coming of a better time, this Indian chief's appeal reminds us of one of the old Hebrew prophets of the days of the captivity.
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117Author:  Kayden, Eugene M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: BETWEEN THE TWO REVOLUTIONS of 1905 and 1917 Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Leonid Nickolayevitch was born in the province of Oryol, in 1871, and studied law at the University of Moscow. Those were days of suffering and starvation; he gazed into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published the short story In the Fog, which for the first time brought him universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of 1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev is entirely in his stories and plays.
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118Author:  Lowell, PercivalRequires cookie*
 Title:  Mars / Lowell, Percival  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AMID the seemingly countless stars that on a clear night spangle the vast dome overhead, there appeared last autumn to be a new-comer, a very large and ruddy one, that rose at sunset through the haze about the eastern horizon. That star was the planet Mars, so conspicuous when in such position as often to be taken for a portent. Large as he then looked, however, he is in truth but a secondary planet traveling round a secondary sun; but his interest for us is out of all proportion to his actual size or his relative importance in the cosmos. For that sun is our own; and that planet is, with the exception of the moon, our next to nearest neighbor in space, Venus alone ever approaching us closer. From him, therefore, of all the heavenly bodies, may we expect first to learn something beyond celestial mechanics, beyond even celestial chemistry; something in answer to the mute query that man instinctively makes as he gazes at the stars, whether there be life in worlds other than his own.
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119Author:  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616Requires cookie*
 Title:  The First Part of King Henry IV  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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120Author:  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616Requires cookie*
 Title:  The First Part of King Henry VI  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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