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... JAMES. Ramona -- 15th 1,000 -- $ 1.50 . In a letter to her publishers , written only a few days ago , Mrs. Jackson speaks these prophetic words : " I did not write ' Ramona . ' It was written through me . My life blood went into it - all ...
... JAMES. Ramona -- 15th 1,000 -- $ 1.50 . In a letter to her publishers , written only a few days ago , Mrs. Jackson speaks these prophetic words : " I did not write ' Ramona . ' It was written through me . My life blood went into it - all ...
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... James , Jr. EDITORIAL : Plagiarism ont of Bounds , 5 . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Henry James , Jr. , 6 . MISCELLANY : Helen Jackson ( H. H. ) , 6 . The Literary Will of Victor Hugo , 6 . Sonnet : King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid , 7 . Give ...
... James , Jr. EDITORIAL : Plagiarism ont of Bounds , 5 . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH : Henry James , Jr. , 6 . MISCELLANY : Helen Jackson ( H. H. ) , 6 . The Literary Will of Victor Hugo , 6 . Sonnet : King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid , 7 . Give ...
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... James was at the Harvard Law School , where , perhaps , he did not study a great deal of law . His father removed from Newport to Cambridge in 1866 , and there Mr. James remained till he went abroad , three years later , for the ...
... James was at the Harvard Law School , where , perhaps , he did not study a great deal of law . His father removed from Newport to Cambridge in 1866 , and there Mr. James remained till he went abroad , three years later , for the ...
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... James , Aldrich , Lathrop , Stockton , Piatt , Cable , Crawford , Fawcett , Gilder , Harris , Carleton , Mark Twain , Stoddard and Burroughs . Before the sad news came of the death of Mrs. Helen Jackson ( H. H. ) , the announcement had ...
... James , Aldrich , Lathrop , Stockton , Piatt , Cable , Crawford , Fawcett , Gilder , Harris , Carleton , Mark Twain , Stoddard and Burroughs . Before the sad news came of the death of Mrs. Helen Jackson ( H. H. ) , the announcement had ...
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... James Jackson Jarves . The Travellers ' series . 16mo , paper , 40 cents ; by mail , 47 cents . Those who have read from time to time the letters in which Mr. Jarves has given the fruits of his expe- rience in Old and New Italy , will ...
... James Jackson Jarves . The Travellers ' series . 16mo , paper , 40 cents ; by mail , 47 cents . Those who have read from time to time the letters in which Mr. Jarves has given the fruits of his expe- rience in Old and New Italy , will ...
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Page 7 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 157 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; IV.
Page 148 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With Portraits.
Page 185 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 54 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 148 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Page 279 - Kidnapped; being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called, written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Page 307 - THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little bed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly. " Oh, mother ! Take my hand," said she, " And then the dark will all be light." We older children grope our way From dark behind to dark before ; And only when our hands we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore. Reach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind...
Page 301 - Rossetti.— A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage.
Page 28 - London, a series of historical studies, intended to present in a graphic manner the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history. In the story form the current of each national life...