| | 103 | Author: | Friedland, Louis S. | Add | | | 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? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 105 | Author: | Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888 | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 107 | Author: | Goldberg, Isaac | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 109 | Author: | H. H. | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | Howard, General O. O. | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Young Joseph | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Kayden, Eugene M. | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 114 | Author: | Lowell, Percival | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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