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The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 2Some corrections were made where printers errors were most likely, as described in the Note at the end of the text. Other than those corrections, no changes to spelling have been made. Hyphenation of words at...
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The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1In the course of the preparation of these volumes there was gradually accumulated so great a number of the letters written by Lafcadio Hearn during twenty-five years of his life, and these letters proved of so...
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The Ordeal of Mark TwainThe Ordeal of Mark Twain"What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."Marginal note...
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The Silver PoppyThe Silver PoppyIt was a warm, humid evening of early September, and every window and skylight of Repellier's huge studio was open its widest. Between the muffled rhythm and beat of an orchestra the sound of laughter and merriment, and the murmur of many...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)XXV. The "Flitting" to Abbotsford. Plantations. George Thomson. Rokeby and Triermain in Progress. Excursion to Flodden. Bishop-Auckland, and Rokeby Park. Correspondence with Crabbe. Life of Patrick Carey, etc. Publication of Rokeby, and of...
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Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five ActsCyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five ActsThe author of this translation trusts that he is not presuming too much if, despite his aversion for anything akin to offensive thought and mention of self, he claims the privilege of prefacing the result here...
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Hermann LauscherHermann Lauscher Auf den Wunsch einiger Freunde, namentlich aber auf die Aufforderung Wilhelm Schfers hin, soll der verstorbene Hermann Lauscher wieder ausgegraben und noch einmal unter die Leute geschickt werden. Da bin ich denn eine Erklrung und Rechenschaft schuldig, zumindest eine bibliographische. Hinterlassene Schriften...
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Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, CriticTheodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, CriticAlthough in the inner circle of English letters this study of a living writer will need no apology, it may be well to explain for the general reader the reasons which moved me to undertake it. Some time ago a...
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The City of Beautiful NonsenseThe City of Beautiful NonsenseIt was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets...
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English Men of LettersSwiftThe chief materials for a life of Swift are to be found in his writings and correspondence. The best edition is the second of the two edited by Scott (1814 and 1824). In 1751 Lord Orrery published Remarks upon the Life and Writings of...
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Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveDorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's LoveThis little book owes its origin to the fact that, with the exception of Professor Shairp's Sketch contained in the preface to the "Tour in Scotland," no biography or memoir of the subject of it has hitherto...
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AddisonAddisonOf the four English men of letters whose writings most fully embody the spirit of the eighteenth century, the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison. In his Journal to Stella, his social verses, and his letters to his friends,...
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Miss Eden's LettersMiss Eden's LettersIN the autumn of 1913 a Life of Lord Clarendon[1] was published, and among many of his letters were a few written to him by an old friend, Miss Eden. It was thought that a further selection of Emily Edens letters might...
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May Iverson's CareerMay Iverson's Career1 The Commencement exercises at St. Catharine's were over, and everybody in the big assembly-hall was looking relieved and grateful. Mabel Muriel Murphy had welcomed our parents and friends to the convent shades in an extemporaneous speech we had overheard her practising...
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The Friendly Club and Other PortraitsThe Friendly Club and Other PortraitsCitation of authorities, except so far as they appear in the text, has been considered inappropriate in the case of such informal articles as these. It would be ungracious, however, to omit mention of the writer's indebtedness in connection...
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The Life of Daniel De FoeThe Life of Daniel De FoeThe ensuing Life was written for amusement, during a period of convalescence in 1785; and published anonymously by Stockdale, before The History of the Union, in 1786. As the Author fears no reproach for such amusement, during such a...
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L'élite: écrivains, orateurs sacrés, peintres, sculpteursL'élite: écrivains, orateurs sacrés, peintres, sculpteursEn effet, il est surprenant de penser qu'on le conteste encore, que les critiques le dnaturent, que les anthologies le ngligent, qu'on le tient tout au plus pour un pote trange, malsain, strile en tout cas. Mais l'opinion finale...
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William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, SocialistWilliam Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist The personal life of William Morris is already known to us through Mr. Mackails admirable biography as fully, probably, as we shall ever know it. My own endeavour has been to present a picture of Morriss busy career perhaps...
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The Journal of a Disappointed ManThe Journal of a Disappointed Man"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men...
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Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2James Newton Baskett, novelist and scientist, was born near Carlisle, Kentucky, November 1, 1849. He was taken to Missouri in early life by his parents. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1872, since...
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