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The little country theaterThe little country theaterOne day, about three weeks before the Christmas holidays, two young men came to see me. I shall never forget the incident because to me it marked one of the most fascinating episodes in the social life of country people. One...
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The ethics of rhetoricThe ethics of rhetoricAcknowledgments with thanks are due the following: Charles Scribners Sons for the passage from Allen Tates The Subway, from Poems 1922-1947; Karl Shapiro and Random House, Inc., for the passage from Essay on Rime; and the Viking Press, Inc., for the...
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Studying the short-storyStudying the short-story - Sixteen short-story classics with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools.Fiction as an art has made more progress during the last hundred years than any other literary type. The first...
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Színházi estékSzínházi estékSzofoklesznek azok a tragdii, melyeket a Nemzeti Sznhz igazgatsga ugyanegy este adatott el az Operahz sznpadn: Oedipus kirly, Oedipus Kolonosban s Antigone nem alkotnak valsgos trilgit a sznak szokott rtelmben. Egyik gy, mint a msik, nll egsz; s hogy Szofoklesznek a drmai trgy...
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An outline of humorAn outline of humor - Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth centurySpeaking exactly, an Outline of the Worlds Humor is an impossibility. For surely the adjectives most applicable to humor are elusive, evasive, evanescent, ephemeral, intangible, imponderable, and other terms...
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Doubleday short studies in political science, 18The political novelTo order these titles and to receive forthcoming ones (none more than 95c), enter your subscription now. All titles will be sent on approval. COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. From time to time in...
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On poetic interpretation of natureOn poetic interpretation of nature[v] This small book is the result of some lectures which I had occasion to give to a large popular audience more than a year ago. I have since re-written and re-cast them into their present shape. Yet the book...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 6, December 1842Among the many brave men who early contributed to render the navy of the republic popular and respectable, the gallant seaman whose name is placed at the head of this article is entitled to a conspicuous place;...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 5, November 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 5, November 1842Scene II.The public square of El Pardillo. The Ave Maria still tolling. A crowd of villagers, with their hats in their hands, as if in prayer. In front a group of Gipsies. The bell rings a merrier...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 4, October 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 4, October 1842Few men in this country have left names as distinguished as that of Somers, around whose personal history there remains so much doubt. Had he not given up his life in the service of the republic, he...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 3, September 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 3, September 1842Chispa. Abernuncio Satanas! and a plague on all lovers who ramble about at night, drinking the elements instead of sleeping quietly in their beds. Every dead man to his cemetery, say I; and every friar to his...
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Prejudices: Fourth SeriesPrejudices: Fourth SeriesCOPYRIGHT, 1924, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1924 SET UP, AND ELECTROTYPED BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. PAPER FURNISHED BY W. F. ETHERINGTON & CO., NEW YORK. PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS. THE...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 2, August 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 2, August 1842You have told me, Mr. Hunter, at least a dozen times, you would reveal to me the secret of your bachelorism; now we have no visiters, and no prospect of any; the quiet patter of the rain...
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Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and WorkedMoving Pictures: How They Are Made and WorkedThe marvellous, universal popularity of moving pictures is my reason for writing this volume. A vast industry has been established of which the great majority of picture-palace patrons have no idea, and the moment appears timely to...
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Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 1, July 1842Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 1, July 1842It was a gorgeous bridal. The old hall of the palace was lit up with a thousand lights, and crowded with all the wealth, beauty and rank of Poland. The apartment blazed with the jewels of its...
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Readers and Writers (1917-1921)Readers and Writers (1917-1921)Under the title of Readers and Writers and over the initials R. H. C. I contributed to the New Age, during a period of seven or eight years, a weekly literary causerie of which the present volume, covering the years 1917-1921,...
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Friends on the ShelfFriends on the ShelfHappy is the man who enjoys himself. His are the true riches. Saving physical pain and mortal illness, few evils can touch him. He may lose friends and make enemies; all the powers of the world may seem to have combined...
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Supercheries littérairesSupercheries littéraires - pastiches, suppositions d'auteurs dans les lettres et dans les artsNous avons cherch donner dans deux prcdents ouvrages, une dfinition, aussi claire que possible, du Centon et de la Parodie. Il est peut-tre plus difficile d'tablir la thorie du Pastiche et ses...
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First Theater in AmericaFirst Theater in America - When was the drama first introduced in America? An inquiry, including a consideration of the objections that have been made to the stage.The paper here reprinted by the Dunlap Society was read before the New York Historical Society more...
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Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classicalIllustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classicalLiterature, in its broadest sense, comprises the written productions of all nations in all ages. It is the permanent expression of the intellectual power of man, and reflects the popular manners, the political condition, the moral and...
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