| | 162 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | The Awakening of the Negro  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN a mere boy, I saw a young colored man, who had spent
several years in school, sitting in a common cabin in the South,
studying a French grammar. I noted the poverty, the untidiness, the
want of system and thrift, that existed about the cabin,
notwithstanding his knowledge of French and other academic
subjects. Another time, when riding on the outer edges of a town in
the South, I heard the sound of a piano coming from a cabin of the
same kind. Contriving some excuse, I entered, and began a
conversation with the young colored woman who was playing, and
who had recently returned from a boarding-school, where she had
been studying instrumental music among other things. Despite the
fact that her parents were living in a rented cabin, eating poorly
cooked food, surrounded with poverty, and having almost none of the
conveniences of life, she had persuaded them to rent a piano for four
or five dollars per month. Many such instances as these, in
connection with my own struggles, impressed upon me the importance
of making a study of our needs as a race, and applying the remedy
accordingly. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 163 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | Signs of Progress among the Negroes | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN addition to the problem of educating eight million negroes in
our Southern States and ingrafting them into American citizenship,
we now have the additional responsibility, either directly or
indirectly, of educating and elevating about eight hundred thousand
others of African descent in Cuba and Porto Rico, to say nothing of
the white people of these islands, many of whom are in a condition
about as deplorable as that of the negroes. We have, however, one
advantage in approaching the question of the education of our new
neighbors. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 165 | Author: | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The Crystal Egg | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy-looking shop near
Seven Dials over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of
"C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities," was inscribed. The
contents of its window were curiously variegated. They comprised
some elephant tusks and an imperfect set of chessmen, beads and
weapons, a box of eyes, two skulls of tigers and one human, several
moth-eaten stuffed monkeys (one holding a lamp), an old-fashioned
cabinet, a flyblown ostrich egg or so, some fishing-tackle, and an
extraordinarily dirty, empty glass fish tank. There was also, at the
moment the story begins, a mass of crystal, worked into the shape of
an egg and brilliantly polished. And at that two people, who stood
outside the window, were looking, one of them a tall, thin clergyman,
the other a black-bearded young man of dusky complexion and
unobtrusive costume. The dusky young man spoke with eager
gestulation, and seemed anxious for his companion to purchase the article. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 168 | Author: | Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The Time Machine | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of
him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone
and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.
The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the
incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles
that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his
patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat
upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when
thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And
he put it to us in this way — marking the points with a lean
forefinger — as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over
this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 170 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Add | | | Title: | The House of the Dead Hand | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "Above all," the letter ended, "don't leave Siena without
seeing Doctor Lombard's Leonardo. Lombard is a queer old
Englishman, a mystic or a madman (if the two are not synonymous),
and a devout student of the Italian Renaissance. He has lived for
years in Italy, exploring its remotest corners, and has lately
picked up an undoubted Leonardo, which came to light in a farmhouse
near Bergamo. It is believed to be one of the missing pictures
mentioned by Vasari, and is at any rate, according to the most
competent authorities, a genuine and almost untouched example of
the best period. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 171 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Add | | | Title: | The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Once upon a time a number of children lived together in the Valley
of Childish Things, playing all manner of delightful games, and
studying the same lesson-books. But one day a little girl, one of
their number, decided that it was time to see something of the
world about which the lesson-books had taught her; and as none of
the other children cared to leave their games, she set out alone to
climb the pass which led out of the valley. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 172 | Author: | Whibley, Charles | Add | | | Title: | A Book of Scoundrels | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JAMES HIND, the Master Thief of England, the fearless Captain
of the Highway, was born at Chipping Norton in 1618. His father,
a simple saddler, had so poor an appreciation of his son's
magnanimity, that he apprenticed him to a butcher; but Hind's
destiny was to embrue his hands in other than the blood of oxen,
and he had not long endured the restraint of this common craft
when forty shillings, the gift of his mother, purchased him an
escape, and carried him triumphant and ambitious to London. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 173 | Author: | Wilkins, Mary E. | Add | | | Title: | The Prism | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | There had been much rain that season, and the vegetation was
almost tropical. The wayside growths were jungles to birds and
insects, and very near them to humans. All through the long
afternoon of the hot August day, Diantha Fielding lay flat on her
back under the lee of the stone wall which bordered her
stepfather's, Zenas May's, south mowing-lot. It was pretty warm
there, although she lay in a little strip of shade of the tangle
of blackberry-vines, poison-ivy, and the gray pile of stones; but
the girl loved the heat. She experienced the gentle languor
which is its best effect, instead of the fierce unrest and
irritation which is its worst. She left that to rattlesnakes and
nervous women. As for her, in
times of extreme heat, she
hung over life with tremulous flutters, like a butterfly over a
rose, moving only enough to preserve her poise in the scheme of
things, and realizing to the full the sweetness of all about her. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 175 | Author: | Wood, J. Taylor | Add | | | Title: | The Capture of a Slaver | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FROM 1830 to 1850 both Great Britain and the United States, by
joint convention, kept on the coast of Africa at least eighty guns
afloat for the suppression of the slave trade. Most of the vessels
so employed were small corvettes, brigs, or schooners; steam at
that time was just being introduced into the navies of the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 180 | Author: | Zitkala-Sa | Add | | | Title: | Why I Am a Pagan | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN the spirit swells my breast I love to roam leisurely
among the green hills; or sometimes, sitting on the brink of the
murmuring Missouri, I marvel at the great blue overhead. With half
closed eyes I watch the huge cloud shadows in their noiseless play
upon the high bluffs opposite me, while into my ear ripple the
sweet, soft cadences of the river's song. Folded hands lie in my
lap, for the time forgot. My heart and I lie small upon
the earth like a grain of throbbing sand. Drifting clouds and
tinkling waters, together with the warmth of a genial summer day,
bespeak with eloquence the loving Mystery round about us. During
the idle while I sat upon the sunny river brink, I grew somewhat,
though my response be not so clearly manifest as in the green grass
fringing the edge of the high bluff back of me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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