| | 142 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rescue / By Dorothy Canfield.  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE old man controlled himself with
a violent effort, and stopped his
storming commands, daunted by the face
of fierce opposition which the girl turned
to him. He wheeled about and relieved
his mind by a few clamorous, angry
chords on the great piano against which
he was leaning. There was a moment's
silence before he faced her again — a
silence full of faint reminiscent murmurs
and echoes from the music-soaked walls
of the bare little room. The tense rigidity of the girl's slenderness relaxed a
little; and when the master again looked
at her, the stormy light of revolt was
gone from her eyes, leaving their usual
curious, half-absent brooding. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 145 | Author: | Carleton, S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Lame Priest | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | If the air had not been December's, I should have said there
was balm in it. Balm there was, to me, in the sight of the road
before me. The first snow of winter had been falling for an hour
or more; the barren hill was white with it. What wind there was
was behind me, and I stopped to look my fill. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 148 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Professor's Commencement | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE professor sat at his library table at six
o'clock in the morning. He had risen with the sun, which is up
betimes in June. An uncut volume of "Huxley's Life and Letters" lay
open on the table before him, but he tapped the pages absently with
his paper-knife and his eyes were fixed unseeingly on the St. Gaudens
medallion of Stevenson on the opposite wall. The professor's library
testified to the superior quality of his taste in art as well as to
his wide and varied scholarship. Only by a miracle of taste could so
unpretentious a room have been made so attractive; it was as dainty as
a boudoir and as original in color scheme as a painter's studio. The
walls were hung with photographs of the works of the best modern
painters,—Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Corot, and a dozen others. Above
the mantel were delicate reproductions in color of some of Fra
Angelica's* most beautiful paintings. The rugs were exquisite in
pattern and color, pieces of weaving that the Professor had picked up
himself in his wanderings in the Orient. On close inspection, however,
the contents of the book-shelves formed the most remarkable feature of
the library. The shelves were almost equally apportioned to the
accommodation of works on literature and science, suggesting a form of
bigamy rarely encountered in society. The collection of works of pure
literature was wide enough to include nearly all the major languages of
modern Europe, besides the Greek and Roman classics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 150 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | On the Gull's Road | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You may open now the little package I
gave you. May I ask you to keep it? I gave it to you
because there is no one else who would care about it in
just that way. Ever since I left you I have been
thinking what it would be like to live a lifetime
caring and being cared for like that. It was not the
life I was meant to live, and yet, in a way, I have
been living it ever since I first knew you. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 154 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Baxter's Procrustes | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | BAXTER'S Procrustes is one of the publications of the Bodleian
Club. The Bodleian Club is composed of gentlemen of culture, who
are interested in books and book-collecting. It was named, very
obviously, after the famous library of the same name, and not only
became in our city a sort of shrine for local worshipers of fine
bindings and rare editions, but was visited occasionally by
pilgrims from afar. The Bodleian has entertained Mark Twain,
Joseph Jefferson, and other literary and histrionic celebrities.
It possesses quite a collection of personal mementos of
distinguished authors, among them a paperweight which once belonged
to Goethe, a lead pencil used by Emerson, an autograph letter of
Matthew Arnold, and a chip from a tree felled by Mr. Gladstone.
Its library contains a number of rare books, including a fine
collection on chess, of which game several of the members are
enthusiastic devotees. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 155 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Bouquet | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MARY MYROVER's friends were somewhat surprised when she
began to teach a colored school. Miss Myrover's friends are mentioned
here, because nowhere more than in a Southern town is public opinion a
force which cannot be lightly contravened. Public opinion, however, did
not oppose Miss Myrover's teaching colored children; in fact, all the
colored public schools in town — and there were several — were taught
by white teachers, and had been so taught since the state had undertaken
to provide free public instruction for all children within its boundaries.
Previous to that time there had been a Freedman's Bureau school and a
Presbyterian missionary school, but these had been withdrawn when the
need for them became less pressing. The colored people of the town had
been for some time agitating their right to teach their own schools, but
as yet the claim had not been conceded. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 157 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 158 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Goophered Grapevine | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ABOUT ten years ago my wife was in poor health, and our family
doctor, in whose skill and honesty I had implicit confidence, advised a
change of climate. I was engaged in grape-culture in northern Ohio, and
decided to look for a locality suitable for carrying on the same business
in some Southern State. I wrote to a cousin who had gone into the
turpentine business in central North Carolina, and he assured me that no
better place could be found in the South than the State and neighborhood
in which he lived: climate and soil were all that could be asked for, and
land could be bought for a mere song. A cordial invitation to visit him
while I looked into the matter was accepted. We found the weather
delightful at that season, the end of the summer, and were most
hospitably entertained. Our host placed a horse and buggy at our
disposal, and himself acted as guide until I got somewhat familiar with
the country. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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