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101Author:  Eliot, T. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Second-Order Mind  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: TO any one who is at all capable of experiencing the pleasures of justice, it is gratifying to be able to make amends to a writer whom one has vaguely depreciated for some years. The faults and foibles of Matthew Arnold are no less evident to me now than twelve years ago, after my first admiration for him; but I hope that now, on rereading some of his prose with more care, I can better appreciate his position. And what makes Arnold seem all the more remarkable is, that if he were our exact contemporary, he would find all his labour to perform again. A moderate number of persons have engaged in what is called "critical" writing, but no conclusion is any more solidly established than it was in 1865. In the first essay in the first Essays in Criticism we read that "it has long seemed to me that the burst of creative activity in our literature, through the first quarter of this century, had about it in fact something premature; and that from this cause its productions are doomed, most of them, in spite of the sanguine hopes which accompanied and do still accompany them, to prove hardly more lasting than the productions of far less splendid epochs. And this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient material to work with. In other words, the English poetry of the first quarter of this century, with plenty of energy, plenty of creative force, did not know enough. This makes Byron so empty of matter, Shelley so incoherent, Wordsworth even, profound as he is, yet so wanting in completeness and variety."
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102Author:  Eliot, T. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Possibility of a Poetic Drama  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE questions—why there is no poetic drama to-day, how the stage has lost all hold on literary art, why so many poetic plays are written which can only be read, and read, if at all, without pleasure—have become insipid, almost academic. The usual conclusion is either that "conditions" are too much for us, or that we really prefer other types of literature, or simply that we are uninspired. As for the last alternative, it is not to be entertained; as for the second, what type do we prefer? and as for the first, no one has ever shown me "conditions" except of the most superficial. The reasons for raising the question again are first that the majority, perhaps, certainly a large number, of poets hanker for the stage; and second, that a not negligible public appears to want verse plays. Surely here is some legitimate craving, not restricted to a few persons, which only the verse play can satisfy. And surely the critical attitude is to attempt to analyse the conditions and the other data. If there comes to light some conclusive obstacle, the investigation should at least help us to turn our thoughts to more profitable pursuits; and if there is not we may hope to arrive eventually at a statement of conditions which might be altered. Possibly we shall find that our incapacity has a deeper source: the arts have flourished at times when there was no drama; possibly we are incompetent altogether; in that case the stage will be not the seat, but at all events a symptom, of the malady.
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103Author:  Far, Sui SinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Chan Hen Yen, Chinese Student  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HE was Han Yen of the family of Chan, from the town of Choo-Chow, in the Province of Kiangsoo. His father was a schoolmaster, so also had been his grandfather, and his great grandfather before him. He was chosen out of three sons to be the scholar of the family, and during his boyhood studied diligently and with ambition. From school to college he passed, and at the age of twenty, took successfully the examinations which entitled him to a western education at government expense.
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104Author:  Ferri, EnricoRequires cookie*
 Title:  Criminal Sociology  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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105Author:  Ford, Mary K.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Woman's Progress a Comparison of Centuries  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Ornamental T — men reading THE participation of Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Sherman in the Inauguration Procession at Washington on the 4th of March, and the fact of their doing so without provoking any adverse criticism, is a comment upon the position that women are now taking in public affairs. And yet this state of things has come about so gradually, it seems so natural that women should be keenly interested in public as well as domestic questions, that it is hard to realise that not so very long ago the interests of men and women and all that concerned their mental needs were considered to have nothing whatever in common.
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106Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Requires cookie*
 Title:  Humble Pie  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Printer's ornament.
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107Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Requires cookie*
 Title:  Cat.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Cat Foraged Tirelessly. Greyscale frontispiece by A. B. Frost. Winter scene. A large striped cat, carrying a squirrel in its mouth, walks towards an old man who is bringing firewood into a hut.
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108Author:  Le Gallienne, RichardRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Quest of the Golden Girl  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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109Author:  Garis, Howard Roger, 1873-1962Requires cookie*
 Title:  Johnnie and Billie Bushytail  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SAMMIE and Susie Littletail, the rabbits of whom I told you in the book just before this, lived in an underground house called a burrow, but Johnnie and Billie Bushytail had their home in a nest on a tall tree. No, they were not birds, though they did live in a nest. Yes, you have guessed it. They were squirrels.
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110Author:  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Eternal Me  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: title of illustration Pen and ink drawing in triptych format by Robert J. Campbell. A funeral scene under a passing storm.
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111Author:  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Just To Be Out Of Doors  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: drawing of woman in white dress under tree
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112Author:  Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948Requires cookie*
 Title:  In the Face of His Constituents.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SENATOR HARRISON concluded his argument and sat down. There was no applause, but he had expected none. Senator Dorman was already saying “Mr. President?” and there was a stir in the crowded galleries, and an anticipatory moving of chairs among the Senators. In the press gallery the reporters bunched together their scattered papers and inspected their pencil-points with earnestness. Dorman was the last speaker of the Senate, and he was on the popular side of it. It would be the great speech of the session, and the prospect was cheering after a deluge of railroad and insurance bills.
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113Author:  Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Jury of Her Peers  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Copyright, 1917, by The Crowell Publishing Company. Copyright, 1918, by Susan Glaspell Cook.
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114Author:  Glasgow, EllenRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Shadowy Third  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I saw her lift her little arms, and I saw the mother stoop and gather her to her bosom. A drawing by Elenore Plaisted Abbott. Standing by an open window, a woman wearing a long grey shawl leans down toward a small girl whom she embraces with her arms. The little girl has her arms wrapped around her mother's waist, and leans back to look up into her mother's face. There is a pot of daffodils on the windowsill. Ornamental letter "W" which begins the text.
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115Author:  Gorky, MaximRequires cookie*
 Title:  The March of Man  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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116Author:  Gorky, MaximRequires cookie*
 Title:  Song of the Storm-Petrel  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: drawing of figures plowing through snow storm drawing of storm; figures leaving to "promised land."
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117Author:  Grey, ZaneRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Redheaded Outfield  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THERE was Delaney's red-haired trio—Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his trouble.
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118Author:  Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1824-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Sketches of Southern Life  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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119Author:  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Gray Champion  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THERE was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till these evil times, however, such allegiance had been merely nominal, and the colonists had ruled themselves, enjoying far more freedom than is even yet the privilege of the native subjects of Great Britain.
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120Author:  Headland, Isaac TaylorRequires cookie*
 Title:  Court Life In China  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONE day when one of the princesses was calling at our home in Peking, I inquired of her where the Empress Dowager was born. She gazed at me for a moment with a queer expression wreathing her features, as she finally said with just the faintest shadow of a smile: "We never talk about the early history of Her Majesty.'' I smiled in return and continued: "I have been told that she was born in a small house, in a narrow street inside of the east gate of the Tartar city—the gate blown up by the Japanese when they entered Peking in 1900.'' The princess nodded. "I have also heard that her father's name was Chao, and that he was a small military official (she nodded again) who was afterwards beheaded for some neglect of duty.'' To this the visitor also nodded assent.
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