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...Old World Evil vs New Age Passion ... A centuries old djinni betrayed...A modern career woman and wife bereft...Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's l...

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...barely heard her sealing his verdict. One year or until such time when his new master saw fit to liberate him before his service was done. It might as... ...Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 8 CHAPTER 1 Present Day America Mount Vernon, New York Therese turned into her husband's body, buried her face against hi... ...o like a Bedouin warrior—turns to her, flashing an adventurous smile as he waves. In this moment, Therese knows that he is the reason she is here. He ... ...t had seemed so real! She was relieved to see she only had on her good old American short Tasmanian Devil flannels. She stretched as she got up and he... ...al Saudi Arabian garb on display, along with rugs, woven objects, jewelry, musical instruments and other artifacts. The library alone contained severa... ...red at one time to ogle the exhibit Therese had wangled compliments of the American Numismatic Society—a collection of coins and medals from around th... ...hos and kowtowing sycophants. "Hey, Hunter!" Jakob Lundquist spied her and waved from across the crowded room before strutting in her direction. One o... ...llowed him through the crowded living room, weaving in and out of assorted groups of ghouls, goblins, vamps and frighteningly accurate renditions of h... ...ance and appreciate the view unnoticed. On his knees, head bowed, voice so musical and soothing she wanted to join him. Or join with him. Where had th...

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...d into repudiating their aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over the corpse of the earlier one the way dogs on the Ban... ..., he befriended his morose tendencies. Basking in the grandeur of his new stature, the back seat Nawin was dwelling on himself continually in the... ... nod. The boy born of the name Jatupon was bleeding inside him. His brain waves wiggled around like noodles. He was no better than this man. They bo... ...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...ls finding themselves separately cast onto lifeboats in an ocean of random waves for they found oceans of thoughts within themselves that seemed more ... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... "Lets talk of them, the ashes that they be. They make up one of two groups of people in your life and these categories of individuals need to b... ...e evanescent nectar in the dissolution of events and time." "Only two groups?" "Only two unless you make up a third. All I know of the futu... ...l training and boldness could persevere to be someone accomplished in this musical genre. He could run to Noppawan Piggy's home. He had the address...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin realized that this new friend of his was not just straying off briefly, so he gradually went... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...nts at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new friend, Sung Ki. That night they slept together; and the boy that had... ...a mokotong. He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually... ... on the steam that rose above his head, exhausted itself on the mirrors, the waves that he had created which massaged his psyche in sight, feel and so... ...nd the mutilation calcified by experience. Seoul Tiger gets on a plane. He waves goodbye to his mother and father from the window. He feels the pla...

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... suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...erything merely seemed. In his last conscious moment as he faced the tidal wave that he hoped would claim him fully into sleep--instead of those small... ...e that he hoped would claim him fully into sleep--instead of those smaller waves whose prehensile inundations formed such an ineffective grasp--he won... ...d uncomely Laotian, should seem sensual to him now. No, he thought, with a new idea repudiating the old, the only peculiarity was that as a casualty o... ... minute of temporary derangement that was quite natural in life, a game of musical chairs in which the chairs also moved. He further averred that a mo... ...mirrors could do. Still, while moving out of the toilet and pondering this new justification for male promiscuity within the corridor between the two ... ... all Thai holidays. For it was on such days that happy or speciously happy groups burgeoned rife on sidewalks as a type of rank urban wildflower; and ... ...e steps of shopping malls where the roots of these blooming and ambulatory groups more fully tangled his steps like seaweed washed on crowded shores. ...

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...a filmy form of an arm that began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his c... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...ver, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, wh... ... it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to everyone, including the new Pope. When it was later discovered that Pope Francis was not on... ...g," he said flatly. "Oh, for Christ sakes, not you too Walter!” he said as a wave of despair washed over him. “First, my wife, and now you. After e... ...le of days." "What do you think they'll do?" "First, they'll pull in those groups who are the most loyal to them. If I were the Colombians, I'd h... ... been in the U.S. for many years and who have no connections to any terrorist groups, to be framed for the bombings. I want the Americans to believe... ... and prayed to his Father in Heaven, “May Heaven’s mission be fulfilled.” A musical chorus of the ‘Ave Maria’ wafted throughout the stadium, as the...

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...roblems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during ... ...een lending so much to the U.S. to keep it afloat that it practically owns New York and California! China, of course, was a vast agricultural... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...tes for a measure you may have to take into consideration special interest groups like farmers, unions or businesses. There is also the political co... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ...rom developing electrical power from the mechanical potential of the ocean waves near the desalinization plants and from power developed by the ebb a... ...nto better education, better libraries, better parks and pools, and better musical productions of opera, musical theater and symphonies. We want the ... ...ino. And I do want to use your recreational facilities and experience your musical presentations. I think every culture has something to teach other... ...three more pop up in your face. But we know this--if you‘re not riding the wave of change you will be drowned by it. In Kino we have learned to be t...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ard the cock crow without a yawn. But Raphael and Titian and Rubens were a new kind of arithmetic, and they inspired our friend, for the first time in... ...ple of months ago, something very curious happened to me. I had come on to New York on some important business; it was rather a long story—a question ... ...absence several persons had come in. They were scattered about the room in groups, two or three of them having passed into a small boudoir, next to th... ... in five days. She is a charm- ing hostess; we talk of Shakespeare and the musical glasses. She is extremely clever and a very curious type; not at al... ... mo- ment he perceived Mrs. Tristram at the other side of the room, and he waved his hand in farewell to M. de Bellegarde and made his way toward her.... ... irritated sense that Madame Alboni had a thin, shrill voice, and that her musical phrase was much gar- nished with a laugh of the giggling order. Aft... ...anest winding-up of a man’s af- fairs that I can imagine!” Valentin feebly waved his hand to and fro. “Don’t in- sist—don’t insist! It is mean—decided...

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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ed relish, and as his jaw was underhung, he chummed and made the moustache wave like reeds in the swell of a steamer. It gave him a conscientious look... ...ng but a few prohibitions, a few hints, a lot of dirty jokes and, and “—he waved a hand and seemed to seek and catch his image in the air—” oh, a conf... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...hy but determined. She had rather open blue eyes, and she spoke in an even musical voice with the gen- tlest of stresses and the ghost of a lisp. And ... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...f more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of ladies and gentlemen, in the very highest state of enjoyment and ... ... I am sorry to say.’ They are away, and never said, Good b’ye. Ah now they wave it from the little boat. ‘Good b’ye! Good b’ye!’ Three cheers from the... ...ast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state r... ...e the sky both dark and wild, and the clouds, in fearful sympathy with the waves, making another ocean in the air. Add to all this, the clattering on ... ...e little Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly,... ...el discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city,... ...f the mixing of cool liquors: but they were a merrier people here, and had musical instruments playing to them o’ nights, which it was a treat to hear...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world re- quired that the German text of French operas sung by Swed... ... he said, smiling into her can- did eyes, as they floated away on the soft waves of the Blue Danube. She made no answer. Her lips trembled into a smil... ...ace by a miniature portrait of the late Mr. Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious arm... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ... mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eati...

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...4 CHAPTER 8. A RIDE ON A LION. 49 CHAPTER 9. A JESTER AND A BEAR. 56 CHAPTER 10. THE OTHER PROFESSOR. 62 CHAPTER 11. PETER AND PAUL. 69 CHAPTER 12. A MUSICAL GARDENER. 75 CHAPTER 13. A VISIT TO DOGLAND. 82 CHAPTER 14. FAIRY-SYLVlE. 91 CHAPTER 15. BRUNO?S REVENGE....

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...E OTHER PROFESSOR. 62 CHAPTER 11 . PETER AND PAUL. 69 CHAPTER 12 . A MUSICAL GARDENER. 75 CHAPTER 13. A VISIT TO DOGLAND. 82 CHAPTER 14.... ...n held his hat in one hand and a little green flag in the other: whenever he waved the flag the procession advanced a little nearer, when he dipped it... ... nearer, when he dipped it they sidled a little farther off, and whenever he waved his hat they all raised a hoarse cheer. “Hoo roah!” they cried, car... ...elf, you know: he’s a very learned doctor. Why, he’s actually invented three new diseases, besides a new way of breaking your collar bone!” “Is it a n... ...” “You mean the Patients?” she interrupted, while a look of tender pity gave new sweetness to her face. “But,” with an evident wish to avoid a possibl... ...e you!” “He is a charming boy!” my Lady exclaimed. “Even his snores are more musical than those of other boys!” If that were so, the Professor seemed ... ...t, rest, perturbed Spirit!”’ “And that, I suppose, means an easy chair?” “An American rocking chair, I think—” “Fayfield Junction, my Lady, change for... ... stood tremulously lean ing on his stick, she turned to me. “This is not an American rocking chair, by any means! Yet may I say,” slightly chang ing... ...ing about the ruins: gathering at last, by common consent, into a few random groups, seated on the side of a mound, which commanded a good view of the...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsy... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...F THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK MR. SILAS Q. SCUDDAMORE was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his cr... ...n of title. Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a w... ...ng and capable exterior. They were divided into two 59 New Arabian Nights groups, one about a roulette board, and the other surround- ing a table at ... ...te, on a patch of smooth turf, we set down the despatch-box; and Northmour waved a white handkerchief over his head. Nothing replied. We raised our vo... ...ped into the bows himself. Northmour took the tiller; the boat rose to the waves, and the oars between the thole-pins sounded crisp and measured in th... ...us inclination of the head. Partly from the smile, partly from the strange musical mur- mur with which the Sire prefaced his observation, Denis felt a... ...d to limp about the apartment, clearing his throat the while with that odd musical chirp which had already grown so irritating in the ears of Denis de...

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.................................................................. 76 8. THE NEW ACCELERATOR .............................................................. ...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...ty was the elastic lining of the contractile balloon. He found he needed a new substance, and in the discovery and manufacture of that new substance h... ...ve indistinctly, enormous self-assertive things, he backs into the rear of groups by instinct if Banghurst drops the line for a minute, and when he wa... ...breathing a little more freely. “Magic!” said the shopman, with a careless wave of the hand, and behold! sparks of coloured fire flew out of his finge... ...heart! No!” and the shopman swept the little men back again, shut the lid, waved the box in the air, and there it was, in brown paper, tied up and—wit... ...d only say “you should have tasted it!” and of fairy music, “like a little musical box,” that came out of nodding flowers. There was a great open plac...

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...miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an erra...

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... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...ion of that ad- venture. Nettie was dressed in white, her hair went off in waves of soft darkness from above her dark shining eyes; there was a little... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...mpos- sible that we could really have parted ourselves for good and all. A wave of tenderness flowed over me, and still flooded me as I came through t... ... decorative crock- ery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate. And books, countless books, too, and ...

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...ost and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a long table, white and inhospitable like a snow bank....

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...e landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a... ...hands. “That day I wouldn’t have called the Queen my cousin,” declared our new acquaintance enthusiastically. At that time the Marine Board examinatio... ...‘ere, so I …” “It’s all right I tell you,” Mr. Powell cut him short with a wave of his hand; and, as the old fraud walked off at last, he raised his e... ...g at the outer door, Fyne entered. I treated him without ceremony and only waved my hand towards a chair. Even before he sat down he gasped out: “We’v... ...ishment. Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week. I won’t say in American parlance that suddenly the bottom fell out of the whole of de Barr... ...y! But Mrs. Fyne’s fervent “thank goodness” turned out to be a bit, as the Americans—some Americans—say “previous.” In a very short time the odious fe... ...f one thing I am certain, and that is that Mrs. Fyne did not go out to the musical function that afternoon. She was no doubt considerably annoyed at m... ...ptain Anthony stood in the forefront of all men. We may suppose that these groups were not very large. He had gone to sea at a very early age. The fee...

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... of a very definite purpose. It struck him at once that she was waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions....

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... some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of... ...t, he had always made use of the “argument from design.” “The resources of New Y ork are rather meagre,” he said; 5 Edith Wharton “but I’ll find a ha... ...sure in her nearness: in the modelling of her little ear, the crisp upward wave of her hair—was it ever so slightly brightened by art?—and the thick p... ...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ... at herself between the candle-flames. The white oval of her face swam out waver- ingly from a background of shadows, the uncertain light blurring it ... ...ned away as she spoke, letting him strut at her side through the gathering groups on the terrace, while every nerve in her throbbed with the conscious... ...e after the princi- pal actors had left the stage; but among the remaining groups, Lily could discover neither Gryce nor the youngest Miss V an 91 Ed... ...men have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through a course of this every winter. It isn’t s...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...rly twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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.... Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the ... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...pers: but now it was a clean white shirt, and his best black trousers, and new pink and white braces. He sat under the gas-jet of the back kitchen, lo... ...ars, and became only whiter and colder, set in more intense obsti- nacy. A wave of revulsion lifted him. He became aware that he was deadly antagonist... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...foliage. They gave a strange, perpendicular aspiration in the night. Julia waved slowly in her tree dance. Jim stood apart, with his legs straddled, a... ...s something like the keyboard of a piano: more still, like a succession of musical notes. For the rectangular planes of light were of different intens... ... Aaron’s Rod The whole party moved out on to the crimson-carpeted gangway. Groups of people stood about chatting, men and women were passing along, to... ...HE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical people in a village by the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant m...

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...n have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ...f the original subject is lost. De Quincey divides his writings into three groups: first, that class which “proposes primarily to amuse the reader, bu... ...tobiographic Sketches and the Literary Reminiscences. As a second class he groups “those papers which address them- selves purely to the understanding... ...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...g at intervals one hand to heaven, amidst the fiery crests of the pursuing waves and the raving of the storm; until at last, upon a sound from afar of... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section ...

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...qual opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Ambassadors by Henry James New York Edition (1909). Volume I Preface Nothing is more easy than to stat... ... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...s secrets. He would have issued, our rueful worthy, from the very heart of New England—at the heels of which matter of course a perfect train of secre... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ... my first care, I had thus inevitably to set him up a confidant or two, to wave away with energy the custom of the seated mass of explanation after th... ...is own likeness-poor Lambert Strether washed up on the sunny strand by the waves of a single day, poor Lam- bert Strether thankful for breathing-time ... ...ett—that he had already begun to take in. Who were they all, the dispersed groups and couples, the ladies even more unlike those of Woollett than the ... ...em. It might have been, on analysis, nothing more than Shakespeare and the musical glasses; but it had served all the purpose of his appearing to have...