| | 62 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Add | | | 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 |
| 63 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Add | | | 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Presbyterian missionary school, but these had been withdrawn when the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 |
| 64 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Add | | | 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 |
| 67 | Author: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932 | Add | | | Title: | Po' Sandy | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON the northeast corner of my vineyard in central North Carolina,
and fronting on the Lumberton plank-road, there stood a small frame
house, of the simplest construction. It was built of pine lumber, and
contained but one room, to which one window gave light and one door
admission. Its weather-beaten sides revealed a virgin innocence of paint.
Against one end of the house, and occupying half its width, there stood a
huge brick chimney: the crumbling mortar had left large cracks between
the bricks; the bricks themselves had begun to scale off in large flakes,
leaving the chimney sprinkled with unsightly blotches. These evidences
of decay were but partially concealed by a creeping vine, which extended
its slender branches hither and thither in an ambitious but futile attempt
to cover the whole chimney. The wooden shutter, which had once
protected the unglazed window, had fallen from its hinges, and lay
rotting in the rank grass and jimson-weeds beneath. This building, I
learned when I bought the place, had been used as a school-house for
several years prior to the breaking out of the war, since which time it
had remained unoccupied, save when some stray cow or vagrant hog had
sought shelter within its walls from the chill rains and nipping winds of
winter. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 70 | Author: | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 | Add | | | Title: | The Red Badge of Courage | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring
fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened,
and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long
troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river,
amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the army's
feet; and at night, when the stream had become of a sorrowful
blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of
hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 71 | Author: | Daviess, Maria Thompson | Add | | | Title: | The Elected Mother | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "Yes, and one of the very nicest parts about getting home is to
find the astonishing faithfulness of Pa," said Mrs. Pettibone as her eyes
roamed over the garden, the yard, down the long arbor and across the
meadow bars to return to the wistaria {sic} on the side porch, which was
riotous with the bumble of bees and blooms. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 72 | Author: | Dawes, Henry L. | Add | | | Title: | Have We Failed with the Indian? | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN the public mind is directed to a discussion of the wisest
and safest attitude toward other alien races whose future has been put in
our keeping, our policy with the Indians becomes an object lesson
worthy of careful and candid study. It is for this purpose that attention
is here invited to what that policy has come to be, and what it has thus
far accomplished. The treatment of the Indian has been the subject of
much study and experiment that has proved fruitless. Only by the
process of elimination after experiment have the multitude of ephemeral
and ineffective methods given way to one which has at last come to hold
undivided public support for a time long enough to test its
efficacy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 74 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Add | | | Title: | An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A VERY limited statement of the argument for impartial
suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would
require more space than can be reasonably asked here. It is
supported by reasons as broad as the nature of man, and as numerous
as the wants of society. Man is the only government-making animal
in the world. His right to a participation in the production and
operation of government is an inference from his nature, as direct
and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education.
It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that
he shall not share in the making and directing of the government
under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire
property and education. The fundamental and unanswerable argument
in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the
undisputed fact of his manhood. He is a man, and by every fact and
argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro
can sustain his right equally. It is plain that, if the right
belongs to any, it belongs to all. The doctrine that some men have
no rights that others are bound to respect, is a doctrine which we
must banish as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated.
If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the
whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. The result is a
war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 76 | Author: | Dowd, Jerome | Add | | | Title: | Paths of Hope for the Negro: Practical Suggestions of a Southerner | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is too late in the day to discuss whether it would have been
better had the Negro never been brought into the Southern States.
If his presence here has been beneficial, or is ever to prove so,
the price of the benefit has already been dearly paid for. He was
the occasion of the deadliest and most expensive war in modern
times. In the next place, his presence has corrupted politics and
has limited statesmanship to a mere question of race supremacy.
Great problems concerning the political, industrial, and moral life
of the people have been subordinated or overshadowed, so that,
while important strides have been made elsewhere in the
investigation of social conditions and in the administration of
State and municipal affairs, in civil-service reform, in the
management of penal and charitable institutions, and in the field
of education, the South has lagged behind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 77 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Add | | | Title: | Round the Red Lamp | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | My first interview with Dr. James Winter was
under dramatic circumstances. It occurred at two in
the morning in the bedroom of an old country house.
I kicked him twice on the white waistcoat and knocked
off his gold spectacles, while he with the aid of a
female accomplice stifled my angry cries in a flannel
petticoat and thrust me into a warm bath. I am told
that one of my parents, who happened to be present,
remarked in a whisper that there was nothing the
matter with my lungs. I cannot recall how Dr. Winter
looked at the time, for I had other things to think
of, but his description of my own appearance is far
from flattering. A fluffy head, a body like a
trussed goose, very bandy legs, and feet with the
soles turned inwards — those are the main items which
he can remember. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 78 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Add | | | Title: | The New Revelation | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The subject of psychical research is one upon which
I have thought more and about which I have been slower
to form my opinion, than upon any other subject
whatever. Every now and then as one jogs along through
life some small incident happens which very forcibly
brings home the fact that time passes and that first
youth and then middle age are slipping away. Such a
one occurred the other day. There is a column in that
excellent little paper, Light, which is devoted to
what was recorded on the corresponding date a
generation — that is thirty years — ago. As I read over
this column recently I had quite a start as I saw my
own name, and read the reprint of a letter
which I had written in 1887, detailing some interesting
spiritual experience which had occurred in a seance.
Thus it is manifest that my interest in the subject is
of some standing, and also, since it is only within the
last year or two that I have finally declared myself to
be satisfied with the evidence, that I have not been
hasty in forming my opinion. If I set down some of my
experiences and difficulties my readers will not, I
hope, think it egotistical upon my part, but will
realise that it is the most graphic way in which to
sketch out the points which are likely to occur to any
other inquirer. When I have passed over this ground,
it will be possible to get on to something more general
and impersonal in its nature. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 79 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Add | | | Title: | The Vital Message | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It has been our fate, among all the innumerable generations
of mankind, to face the most frightful calamity that has ever
befallen the world. There is a basic fact which cannot be
denied, and should not be overlooked. For a most important
deduction must immediately follow from it. That deduction is
that we, who have borne the pains, shall also learn the lesson
which they were intended to convey. If we do not learn it and
proclaim it, then when can it ever be learned and proclaimed,
since there can never again be such a spiritual ploughing and
harrowing and preparation for the seed? If our souls, wearied
and tortured during
these dreadful five years of self-sacrifice and suspense, can show no radical changes, then what
souls will ever respond to a fresh influx of heavenly
inspiration? In that case the state of the human race would
indeed be hopeless, and never in all the coming centuries would
there be any prospect of improvement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | Author: | Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt | Add | | | Title: | The Freedmen's Bureau | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the
color line; the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men
in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was
a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War; and however much
they who marched south and north in 1861 may have fixed on the
technical points of union and local autonomy as a shibboleth, all
nevertheless knew, as we know, that the question of Negro slavery
was the deeper cause of the conflict. Curious it was, too, how
this deeper question ever forced itself to the surface, despite
effort and disclaimer. No sooner had Northern armies touched
Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the
earth, — What shall be done with slaves? Peremptory military
commands, this way and that, could not answer the query; the
Emancipation Proclamation seemed but to broaden and intensify the
difficulties; and so at last there arose in the South a government
of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, which lasted, legally, from
1865 to 1872, but in a sense from 1861 to 1876, and which sought to
settle the Negro problems in the United States of America. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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