| | 1 | Author: | Woolf, Virginia | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | Zerbe, J. S. | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | Prince, Morton, editor | Add | | | Title: | The Journal of Abnormal Psychology | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE progress in our understanding of hysteria has come largely
through the elaboration of the so-called mechanisms by which the
symptoms arise. These mechanisms have been declared to reside or to
have their origin in the subconsciousness or coconsciousness. The
mechanisms range all the way from the conception of Janet that the
personality is disintegrated owing to lowering of the psychical tension
to that of Freud, who conceives all hysterical symptoms as a result of
dissociation arising through conflicts between repressed sexual desires
and experiences and the various censors organized by the social life.
Without in any way intending to set up any other general mechanism or to
enter into the controversy raging concerning the Freudian mechanism,
which at present is the storm center, the writer reports a case in which
the origin of the symptoms can be traced to a more simple and fairly
familiar mechanism, one which, in its essence, is merely an
intensification of a normal reaction of many women to marital
difficulties. In other words, women frequently resort to measures which
bring about an acute discomfort upon the part of their mate, through his
pity, compassion and self-accusation. They resort to tears as their
proverbial weapon for gaining their point. In this case the hysterical
symptoms seem to have been the substitute for tears in a domestic
battle. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | Andreyev, Leonid | Add | | | Title: | Lazarus | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Lazarus left the grave, where, for three days and
three nights he had been under the enigmatical sway
of death, and returned alive to his dwelling, for a long time no
one noticed in him those sinister oddities, which, as time went
on, made his very name a terror. Gladdened unspeakably by the
sight of him who had been returned to life, those near to him
carressed him unceasingly, and satiated their burning desire
to serve him, in solicitude for his food and drink and garments.
And they dressed him gorgeously, in bright colors of hope and
laughter, and when, like to a bridegroom in his bridal vestures,
he sat again among them at the table, and again ate and drank,
they wept, overwhelmed with tenderness. And they summoned
the neighbors to look at him who had risen miraculously from
the dead. These came and shared the serene joy of the hosts.
Strangers from far-off towns and hamlets came and adored the
miracle in tempestuous words. Like to a beehive was the house
of Mary and Martha. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Boyce, Neith | Add | | | Title: | "Prigs" and "Cads" in Fiction | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A RECENT review puts the question thus: "Although women make the amenities of life, and
men would soon 'hottentot,' as Miss Edgeworth has it, if left to themselves, why is it that
women's heroes are almost invariably prigs or cads of the first water?" And the reviewer adds:
"We thought we had reached the limit in Daniel Deronda, but even he shows up well beside Mrs.
Wharton's insufferable Selden: and now here is Barry Carleton filling us with a vulgar but lively
desire to 'punch his head for him.'" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902. | Add | | | Title: | The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental cap of the letter M with a sailboat in the background.
MEN who do great things are men we all like to read about. This is the
story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. He lived
four hundred years ago. When he was a little boy he lived in Genoa. It
was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country called
Italy. The mountains were behind it; the sea was in front of it, and it
was so beautiful a place that the people who lived there called it
"Genoa the Superb." Christopher Columbus was born in this beautiful
city of Genoa in the year 1446, at number 27 Ponticello Street. He was a
bright little fellow with a fresh-looking face, a clear eye and golden
hair. His father's name was Domenico Columbus; his mother's name was
Susanna. His father was a wool-comber. He cleaned and straightened out
the
snarled-up wool that was cut from the sheep so as to make it
ready to be woven into cloth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Carvalho, David N. | Add | | | Title: | Forty Centuries of Ink | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE ORIGIN OF INK—COMPOSITION OF THE COLORED INKS OF
ANTIQUITY—ANCIENT NAMES FOR BLACK INKS—METHODS OF THEIR
MANUFACTURE—THE INVENTION OF "INDIAN" INK—THE ART OF DYEING
HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED—THE SYMBOLIC ESTIMATION OF COLORS—THE
EMPLOYMENT OF TINCTURES AS INKS—CONSIDERATION OF THE ANTIQUITY OF
ARTIFICIAL INKS AND THE BLACK INKS OF INTERMEDIATE TIMES—ORIGIN OF THE
COLORED PIGMENTS OF ANTIQUITY-CITATIONS FROM HERODOTUS, PLINY AND
ARBUTHNOT—PRICES CURRENT, OF ANCIENT INKS AND COLORS—WHY THE NATURAL
INKS FORMERLY EMPLOYED ARE NOT STILL EXTANT—THE KIND OF INK EMPLOYED BY
THE PRIESTS IN THE TIME OF MOSES—ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS
IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WRITING IMPLEMENTS—THE USE OF BOTH RED AND BLACK
INK IN JOSEPH'S TIME—ITS OTHER HISTORY PRECEDING THE DEPARTURE OF
ISRAEL FROM EGYPT—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL BUT A FEW KINDS OF INK—INK
TRADITIONS AND THEIR VALUE—STORY ABOUT THE ORACLES OF THE SIBYLS—HOW
THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS SOUGHT TO BE MISLEADING—ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTE BY
RICHARDSON: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Carpenter, Edward | Add | | | Title: | Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as
the great multitude of books upon it, published in late
years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day
in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the
material to hand—and that not only on account of the
labor involved in sorting the material, but because the
abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a student
in this department of Anthropology (as happens also in
other branches of general Science) to rush in too hastily
with what seems a plausible theory. The more facts,
statistics, and so forth, there are available in any investigation,
the easier it is to pick out a considerable number
which will fit a given theory. The other facts being neglected
or ignored, the views put forward enjoy for a
time a great vogue. Then inevitably, and at a later time,
new or neglected facts alter the outlook, and a new perspective
is established. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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