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American literary mastersAmerican literary mastersThe nineteen men of letters whose work is reviewed in this volume represent an important half-century of our national literary life. The starting-point is the year 1809, the date of A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker. No author is included...
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Michael FieldMichael FieldSOME years ago the writer of this book discovered to herself the work of Michael Field, with fresh delight at every step of her adventure through the lyrics, the tragedies, and later devotional poems. But she was amazed to find that no one...
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A happy half-century, and other essaysA happy half-century, and other essaysThe half-century, whose more familiar aspects this little book is designed to illustrate, has spread its boundary lines. Nothing is so hard to deal with as a period. Nothing is so unmanageable as a date. People will be born...
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Carlyle's laugh, and other surprisesCarlyle's laugh, and other surprisesThe two papers in this volume which bear the titles A Keats Manuscript and A Shelley Manuscript are reprinted by permission from a work called Book and Heart, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, by Harper and Brothers, with whose...
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The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIThe Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIALEXANDER HERZEN was born in Moscow on March 25,[1] 1812, six months before Napoleon arrived at the gates of the city with what was left of his Grand Army. He died in Paris on January 9,...
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RecollectionsRecollections - The Reminiscences of the Busy Life of One Who Has Played the Varied Parts of Sailor, Author & LecturerIt may very well be that I am doing something now which is totally unnecessary, indeed that is a foregone conclusion as far as...
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Hadrian the 7thHadrian the SeventhIn Obedience to the Decree of Urban P.M. VIII, I declare that I have no Intention of attributing any other than a purely human Authority to the Miracles, Revelations, Favours, & particular Cases, recorded in this Book; & the same as regards...
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Memories and AdventuresMemories and AdventuresI was born on May 22, 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, so named because in old days a colony of French Huguenots had settled there. At the time of their coming it was a village outside the City walls, but now it...
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Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herselfLife of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself - with additions by the author, and introduction by Blanche AtkinsonMy life has been an interesting one to live and I hope that this record of it may not prove too dull to read. The...
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MårbackaMårbacka ONCE they had a nursemaid at Mrbacka who was called Back-Kaisa. She must have been all of six feet high. She had a large-featured, swarthy, stern-looking face, her hands were hard and full of cracks, in which the childrens hair would catch when...
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Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man A Study in Christian IntegrationHilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian IntegrationPoet, sailor, Grizzlebeardthis trinity sums up, not only the man who is Hilaire Belloc, but the vision of integrated humanity concretized in his work. Bellocian humanism is Hilaire Belloc grasped in the essence of his...
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Victor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiquesVictor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiquesElles ont trouv place par extraits dans le tome premier de la Correspondance de Victor Hugo[1] et ont fourni M. Louis Belton, avocat Blois, matire une fort attachante tude: Victor Hugo et son Pre, le gnral Hugo Blois[2]. Publie...
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The Truth About an AuthorThe Truth About an Author Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. The work was constant; but the...
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Estienne Dolet: Sa vie, ses œuvres, son martyreEstienne Dolet: Sa vie, ses œuvres, son martyreAgrez, Monsieur, le faible mais juste hommage de mon travail sur Dolet. Cest une ddicace qui vous revient de droit. Lhomme trange et remarquable dont je me suis fait, en quelque sorte, le contemporain par une tude...
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The Plagiarist From Rigel IVThe Plagiarist From Rigel IVI glanced at him skeptically. The machine was a Remington Noiseless, with italics, probably worth a little over a hundred new, and it couldn't have been more than a year or two old. "Keys even," he said, still smiling. "A...
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The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasionsThe Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasionsMUCH has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Frosers Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts...
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Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical SketchDu Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch There was a fashion amongst a certain school of critics and literati of former years to go about the country with dark lanterns ready to flash their microscopic spot lights upon this or that author, as...
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Mere Literature, and Other EssaysMere Literature, and Other Essays All but one of the essays brought together in this volume have already been printed, either in the Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, or the Forum. The essay on Burke appears here for the first time in print. A...
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Marie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMarie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMiss Marie Corellis unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes of society, and we are aware that the present work will be diligently searched for intimate information regarding the subject of these pages. It behooves...
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Our Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyOur Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyTo Richard Gregory.Little Grandson: When I go into the garden in the morning to find you a nectarine or tell you the names of flowers, Catalpa, Lovelies-bleeding, Balsam, Phlox, you ask me why I cannot stay but must...
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