The Oxford Book of American Essays, edited by Brander Matthews Benjamin Franklin (Author), Francis Hopkinson (Author), Washington Irving (Author), Brander Matthews (Editor, Introduction) B00BVQT8EQ File Size: 732 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- INTRODUCTION THE customary antithesis between "American" literature and "English" literature is unfortunate and misleading in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a language is one and indivisible and that the nativity or the domicile of those who make it matters nothing. Just as Alexandrian literature is Greek, so American literature is English; and as Theocritus demands inclusion in any account of Greek literature, so Thoreau cannot be omitted from any history of English literature as a whole. The works of Anthony Hamilton and Rousseau, Mme. de Staël and M. Maeterlinck are not more indisputably a part of the literature of the French language than the works of Franklin and Emerson, of Hawthorne and Poe are part of the literature of the English language. Theocritus may never have set foot on the soil of Greece, and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to visit the island-home of his ancestors; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English,?and how can either be neglected in any comprehensive survey of the literature of his own tongue? None the less is it undeniable that there is in Franklin and Emerson, in Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, whatever their mastery of the idiom they inherited in common with Steele and Carlyle, with Browning and Lamb, an indefinable and intangible flavor which distinguishes the first group from the second. The men who have set down the feelings and the thoughts, the words and the deeds of the inhabitants of the United States have not quite the same outlook on life that we find in the men who have made a similar record in the British Isles. The social atmosphere is not the same on the opposite shores of the Western ocean; and the social organization is different in many particulars. For all that American literature is,?in the apt phrase of Mr. Howells,?"a condition of English literature," nevertheless it is also distinctively American. American writers are as loyal to the finer traditions of English literature as British writers are; they take an equal pride that they are also heirs of Chaucer and Dryden and subjects of King Shakspere; yet they cannot help having the note of their own nationality. Green, when he came to the Fourth of July, 1776, declared that thereafter the history of the English-speaking people flowed in two currents; and it is equally obvious that the stream of English literature has now two channels. The younger and the smaller is American?and what can we call the older and the ampler except British? A century ago there were published collections entitled the British Poets, the British Novelists, and the British Essayists; and the adjective was probably then chosen to indicate that these gatherings included the work of Scotch and Irish writers. Whatever the reason, the choice was happy; and the same adjective would serve to indicate now that the selections excluded the work of American writers. The British branch of English literature is the richer and the more various; yet the American branch has its own richness and its own variety, even if these qualities have revealed themselves only in the past hundred years. It may be noted also that although American literature has not been adorned by so great a galaxy of brilliant names as illumined British literature in the nineteenth century, it has had the good fortune to possess more authors of cosmopolitan fame than can be found in the German literature of the past hundred years, in the Italian, or in the Spanish. A forgotten American essayist once asserted that "foreign nations are a contemporaneous posterity," and even if this smart saying is not to be taken too literally, it has its significance. There is therefore food for thought in the fact that at least half a dozen, not to say half a score, of American authors have   Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Rupert S. Holland (Editor) B00C0DUEU6 File Size: 857 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Contents : I. The Lost Children II. The Great Journey of Lewis and Clark III. The Conspiracy of Aaron Burr IV. How the Young Republic Fought the Barbary Pirates V. The Fate of Lovejoy's Printing-Press VI. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon VII. How the Mormons Came to Settle Utah VIII. The Golden Days of 'Forty-Nine IX. How the United States Made Friends with Japan X. The Pig that Almost Caused a War XI. John Brown at Harper's Ferry XII. An Arctic Explorer XIII. The Story of Alaska XIV. How the "Merrimac" was Sunk in Santiago Harbor Illustrations : Shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats Sawquehanna seemed to remember the voice Decatur caught the Moor's arm The last six hundred miles were the hardest Nauvoo had handsome houses and public buildings Wherever there was a stream explorers began to dig The teams, exhausted, began to fail Spanish boats pulled close to them   Across America / The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James F. Rusling : (full image Illustrated) James F. Rusling (Author) B00CVGZSB2 File Size: 1244 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Across America: OR THE GREAT WEST AND THE PACIFIC COAST. BY JAMES F. RUSLING, Late Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. V. PREFACE. In the summer of 1866, having lately concluded a tour of inspection through the West and South, and awaiting orders in Washington, it was my fortune one morning to receive the following: "Quartermaster-General's Office, } "Washington, D. C., July 10, 1866. } "General:?You will immediately enter upon a tour of inspection of the affairs of the Quartermaster's Department, as administered at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and thence west via Denver City and Salt Lake City to the Pacific Coast, inspecting all intermediate Posts while en route. At Denver City you will confer with Brevet Col. Howard, A. Q. M., as to the practicability of breaking up that depot, and removing the stores to other points where needed. Thence to Salt Lake City, where a rigid inspection is needed. Thence to San Francisco, Cal. "Upon reaching the Pacific Coast, you will confer with the Commanding General and Chief Quartermaster of the Military Division of the Pacific, and having procured necessary information relative to the locality, importance, etc. of the various Posts, you will proceed upon a careful inspection throughout California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington and Arizona Territories. Upon completing this duty, you will return to this city, via the Isthmus, and report in person to the Quartermaster-General. "It will be necessary to keep this Office fully informed, in advance, as to your probable whereabouts, so that instructions may be telegraphed to you at the stations where you are on duty when necessary. You are authorized to take a clerk with you. ... In brief, if what is here roughly said will lead any American to a better love of his country, or to a truer pride in it, or any foreigner to a kindlier appreciation of the Republic, verily I have my reward. J. F. R. Trenton, N. J., March, 15, 1874. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. New York to Fort Riley, Kansas. Across America.?Off July 24, 1866.?West by Erie Railroad.?The Great West.?Northern New Jersey.?Western New York.?Ohio.?Miami Valley.?Indiana and Illinois.?Buckeye vs. Hoosier and Sucker.?Cincinnati and St. Louis vs. Chicago.?St. Louis redivivus.?Missouri.?Her Germans and Vineyards.?The Missouri River.?Leavenworth.?Lawrence and Topeka.?Valley of the Kansas.?Junction City.?Kansas Generally.?Her fine Building-stone.?Her Scenery.?Her Enterprise and Thrift.?"Fall Leaf" and the Delawares.?A Big Chief and his Exploits.?The Pottawatomies.?Returning from a Buffalo Hunt.?The Indian in Kansas. CHAPTER II. From the Kansas to the Platte. Compagnons du Voyage.?Afloat on the Plains.?Travelling by Ambulance.?Camping-out.?Outfit and Escort.?The "divides."?The Platte itself.?The Grasshoppers.?Prairie-chickens and other Game.?Prairie Dogs.?A Happy Family.?The Little Blue.?The Pawnees and Indian rumors generally.?Virginia Station and Big Sandy.?The Settlers en route.?A Pennsylvania Dutchman Westernized.?Life on Fancy Creek.?Rev. Mr. Silvers of Wild Cat Creek.?A Pioneer Missionary. CHAPTER III. Up the Platte to Denver. The Union Pacific Railroad.?The Overland Stage Company.?Mr. Ben Holladay.?An Enterprising Missourian.?Concord Coaches and Teams.?Stage Stations.?Meals en route.?The Drivers generally.?Fellow-passengers.?Col. B., an ex-Lieut.-Governor turned Sutler.?A Swiss Artist.?A Doctor of Divinity.?A New York Banker and his Patriotic Wife.?The Weather.?Life on a Stage-Coach, outside Day and Night.?The Scenery generally.?Magnificent Sunsets.?A particularly fine one. CHAPTER IV. Up the Platte to Denver (concluded). The Platte Valley in general.?Its Features and Resources.?The Platte River itself.?The Cañon Cedars.?Want of Timber.?Costly Fuel, Grain, etc. at Fort Sedgwick.?Scenery of the Plains generally.?Buffalo and their Range.?A Ride after Antelope.?Lost on the Plains.?Buffalo Trails.?The Settlers generally.?Kearney City, Julesburg, etc.?The Ranches.?Fort Wicked.?Wagon-trains.?Prairie Schooner   The American Claimant by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) File Size: 1103 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- The American Claimant by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) fiction, American, England, Yankee, Adventure, Colonel, Gadsby It is a matchless morning in rural England. On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages. This is one of the seats of the Earl of Rossmore, K. G. G. C. B. K. C. M. G., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., who possesses twenty-two thousand acres of English land, owns a parish in London with two thousand houses on its lease-roll, and struggles comfortably along on an income of two hundred thousand pounds a year. The father and founder of this proud old line was William the Conqueror his very self; the mother of it was not inventoried in history by name, she being merely a random episode and inconsequential, like the tanner's daughter of Falaise. In a breakfast room of the castle on this breezy fine morning there are two persons and the cooling remains of a deserted meal. One of these persons is the old lord, tall, erect, square-shouldered, white-haired, stern-browed, a man who shows character in every feature, attitude, and movement, and carries his seventy years as easily as most men carry fifty. The other person is his only son and heir, a dreamy-eyed young fellow, who looks about twenty-six but is nearer thirty. Candor, kindliness, honesty, sincerity, simplicity, modesty?it is easy to see that these are cardinal traits of his character; and so when you have clothed him in the formidable components of his name, you somehow seem to be contemplating a lamb in armor: his name and style being the Honourable Kirkcudbright Llanover Marjoribanks Sellers Viscount-Berkeley, of Cholmondeley Castle, Warwickshire. (Pronounced K'koobry Thlanover Marshbanks Sellers Vycount Barkly, of Chumly Castle, Warrikshr.) He is standing by a great window, in an attitude suggestive of respectful attention to what his father is saying and equally respectful dissent from the positions and arguments offered. The father walks the floor as he talks, and his talk shows that his temper is away up toward summer heat. "Soft-spirited as you are, Berkeley, I am quite aware that when you have once made up your mind to do a thing which your ideas of honor and justice require you to do, argument and reason are (for the time being,) wasted upon you?yes, and ridicule; persuasion, supplication, and command as well. To my mind?" CONTENTS The Earl of Rossmore vs. the American Claimant? Viscount Berkeley proposes to change places with the Claimant? The Claimant's letter? Lord Berkeley decides to visit America Colonel Mulberry Sellers and his art gallery? He receives a visit from Washington Hawkins? Talking over old times ? Washington informs the colonel that he is the congressional delegate from Cherokee Strip. Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel "the same old scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always was"? He takes in Dan'l and Jinny? The colonel originates "Pigs in the Clover"? He offers one of his art treasures to propitiate Suggs? One-armed Pete; the bank thief A Yankee makes an offer for "Pigs in the Clover"? By the death of a relative Sellers becomes the rightful Earl of Rossmore and consequently the American Clairnant? Gwendolen is sent for from school? The remains of the late Claimant and brother to be shipped to England? Hawkins and Sellers nail the hatchments on "Rossmore Towers" Gwendolen's letter? Her arrival at home? Hawkins is introduced, to his great pleasure? Communication from the bank thief? Hawkins and Sellers have to wait ten days longer before getting the reward? Viscount Berkeley and the late Claimant's remains start simultaneously from England and America Arrival of the remains of late Claimant and brother in England ? The usurping earl officiates as chief mourner, and they are laid with their kindred in Cholmondeley church? Sally Sellers a gifted costume-designer? Another communication from the bank thief? Locating him in the New Gadsby? The colonel's glimpse of one? armed Pete in the elevator? Arrival of Viscount Berkeley at the same hotel Viscount Berkeley jots down his "impressions" to date with a quill pen? The destruction of the New Gadsby by fire? Berkeley loses his bearings and escapes with his journaled "impressions" only? Discovery and hasty donning of one-armed Pete's abandoned wardrobe? Glowing and affecting account in the morning papers of the heroic death of the heir of Rossmore? He will take a new name and start out "incog" The colonel's grief at the loss of both Berkeley and one-armed Pete? Materialization? Breaking the news to the family? The colonel starts to identify and secure a body (or ashes) to send to the bereaved father The usual actress and her diamonds in the hotel fire? The colonel secures three baskets of ashes? Mrs. Sellers forbids their lying in state? Generous hatchments? The ashes to be sent only when the earl sends for them Lord Berkeley deposits the $500 found in his appropriated clothes? Attends "Mechanics' Debating Club"? Berkeley (alias Tracy) is glad he came to this country No work for Tracy? Cheaper lodgings secured? Sleeping on the roof? "My daughter Hattie"? Tracy receives further "impressions" from Hattie (otherwise "Puss")? Mr. Barrow appears? And offers to help Tracy find work A boarding? house dinner? "No money, no dinner" for Mr. Brady? "How did you come to mount that hat?"? A glimpse of (the supposed) one-armed Pete? Extract from Tracy's diary Tracy and trades-unions? Unpopularity with fellow-boarders ? Which changes to popularity on his punishing Allen? The cablegram "Mechanics' Debating Club" again? Tracy is comforted by Barrow's remarks? "Fool or no fool, he would grab it" ? "Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers" "You forgot to pay your board"? "I've been robbed "? Mr. Allen among the missing, likewise other things? The cablegram: "Thanks"? Despair of Tracy? "You've got to amuse your mind" The collaborative art collection? The artists? "The cannon's our trademark"? Tracy's mind is amused No further cablegram? "If those ghastly artists want a confederate, I'm their man"? Tracy taken into partnership? Disappointments of materialization ? The phonograph adapted to marine service? Utilization of wasted sewer gas The colonel's project to set Russia free? "I am going to buy Siberia"? The materializee turns up? Being an artist he is invited to restore the colonel's collection? Which he forthwith begins The perplexities and nobilities of materialization? The materializee eats a couple of apples? Horror of Hawkins and Sellers? It must be a mistake" Tracy's perplexities with regard to the Claimant's sanity? The Claimant interviews him? Sally Sellers meets Tracy ? A violent case of love at first sight? Pinks Empty painting; empty millinerizing? Tracy's work satisfactory? Sellers's new picture of Lord Berkeley? "He is a wobbler"? The unsuccessful dinner? parties? "They flung their arms about each other's necks" "The materializing has got to stop where it is"? Sally Sellers repudiates "Lady Gwendolen"? The late Lord Berkeley Sally's hero? "The shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her" Tracy writes to his father? The rival houses to be united by his marriage to Sally Sellers? The earl decides to "step over and take a hand"? "The course of true love," etc., as usual? "You an earl's son! show me the signs" Time drags heavily for all concerned? Success of "Pigs in the Clover"? Sellers is "fixed" for his temperance lecture? Colonel and Mrs. Sellers start for Europe? Interview of Hawkins and Sally? Tracy an impostor Telegram: "She's going to marry the materializee"? Interview between Tracy and Sally? Arrival of the usurping earl? "You can have him if you'll take him"? A quiet wedding at the Towers? Sellers does not join the party to England? Preparing to furnish climates to order   Abroad at Home / American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street : (full image Illustrated) Julian Street B00JYIDY6G File Size: 2834 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- travel, adventure, Rambling, Abroad, United States, CLEVELAND, MARK TWAIN STEPPING WESTWARD "What, you are stepping westward?"-"Yea." --'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? --Wordsworth. For some time I have desired to travel over the United States?to ramble and observe and seek adventure here, at home, not as a tourist with a short vacation and a round-trip ticket, but as a kind of privateer with a roving commission. The more I have contemplated the possibility the more it has engaged me. For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, almost never permit ourselves to travel, either at home or abroad, as the "guests of Chance." We always go from one place to another with a definite purpose. We never amble. On the boat, going to Europe, we talk of leisurely trips away from the "beaten track," but we never take them. After we land we rush about obsessed by "sights," seeing with the eyes of guides and thinking the "canned" thoughts of guidebooks. In order to accomplish such a trip as I had thought of I was even willing to write about it afterward. Therefore I went to see a publisher and suggested that he send me out upon my travels. I argued that Englishmen, from Dickens to Arnold Bennett, had "done" America; likewise Frenchmen and Germans. And we have traveled over there and written about them. But Americans who travel at home to write (or, as in my case, write to travel) almost always go in search of some specific thing: to find corruption and expose it, to visit certain places and describe them in detail, or to catch, exclusively, the comic side. For my part, I did not wish to go in search of anything specific. I merely wished to take things as they might come. And?speaking of taking things?I wished, above all else, to take a good companion, and I had him all picked out: a man whose drawings I admire almost as much as I admire his disposition; the one being who might endure my presence for some months, sharing with me his joys and sorrows and collars and cigars, and yet remain on speaking terms with me. The publisher agreed to all. Then I told my New York friends that I was going. I was moving about my room, my hands full of hairbrushes and toothbrushes and clothesbrushes and shaving brushes; my head full of railroad trains, and hills, and plains, and valleys They were incredulous. That is the New York attitude of mind. Your "typical New Yorker" really thinks that any man who leaves Manhattan Island for any destination other than Europe or Palm Beach must be either a fool who leaves voluntarily or a criminal taken off by force. For the picturesque criminal he may be sorry, but for the fool he has scant pity. CONTENTS STEPPING WESTWARD BIFURCATED BUFFALO CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS MORE CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS DETROIT THE DYNAMIC AUTOMOBILES AND ART THE M?CENAS OF THE MOTOR THE CURIOUS CITY OF BATTLE CREEK KALAMAZOO GRAND RAPIDS THE "ELECT" A MIDDLE-WESTERN MIRACLE FIELD'S AND THE "TRIBUNE" THE STOCKYARDS THE HONORABLE HINKY DINK AN OLYMPIAN PLAN LOOKING BACKWARD SOMNOLENT ST. LOUIS THE FINER SIDE HANNIBAL AND MARK TWAIN PIKE AND POKER OLD RIVER DAYS KANSAS CITY ODDS AND ENDS COLONEL NELSON'S "STAR" KEEPING A PROMISE THE TAME LION KANSAS JOURNALISM A COLLEGE TOWN MONOTONY UNDER PIKE'S PEAK HITTING A HIGH SPOT COLORADO SPRINGS CRIPPLE CREEK THE MORMON CAPITAL THE SMITHS PASSING PICTURES SAN FRANCISCO "BEFORE THE FIRE" AN EXPOSITION AND A "BOOSTER" NEW YORK AGAIN ILLUSTRATIONS The St. Francis at tea-time.?With her hotels San Francisco is New York, but with her people she is San Francisco?which comes near being the apotheosis of praise. I was moving about my room, my hands full of hairbrushes and toothbrushes and clothesbrushes and shaving brushes; my head full of railroad   American Adventures / A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Julian Street : (full image Illustrated) Author: Julian Street, Illustrator: Wallace Morgan B00JDPZ990 File Size: 3086 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- American, history, trip, Washington, ARISTOCRACY, POLITICS, DOMINION FOREWORD Though much has been written of the South, it seems to me that this part of our country is less understood than any other part. Certainly the South, itself, feels that this is true. Its relationship to the North makes me think of nothing so much as that of a pretty, sensitive wife, to a big, strong, amiable, if somewhat thick-skinned husband. These two had one great quarrel which nearly resulted in divorce. He thought her headstrong; she thought him overbearing. The quarrel made her ill; she has been for some time recovering. But though they have settled their difficulties and are living again in amity together, and though he, man-like, has half forgotten that they ever quarreled at all, now that peace reigns in the house again, she has not forgotten. There still lingers in her mind the feeling that he never really understood her, that he never understood her problems and her struggles, and that he never will. And it seems to me further that, as is usually the case with wives who consider themselves misunderstood, the fault is partly, but by no means altogether, hers. He, upon one hand, is inclined to pass the matter off with a: "There, there! It's all over now. Just be good and forget it!" while she, in the depths of her heart, retains a little bit of wistfulness, a little wounded feeling, which causes her to say to herself: "Thank God our home was not broken up, but?I wish that he could be a little more considerate, sometimes, in view of all that I have suffered." For my part, I am the humble but devoted friend of the family. Having known him first, having been from boyhood his companion, I may perhaps have sympathized with him in the beginning. But since I have come to know her, too, that is no longer so. And I do think I know her?proud, sensitive, high-strung, generous, captivating beauty that she is! Moreover, after the fashion of many another "friend of the family," I have fallen in love with her. Loving her from afar, I send her as a nosegay these chapters gathered in her own gardens. If some of the flowers are of a kind for which she does not care, if some have thorns, even if some are only weeds, I pray her to remember that from what was growing in her gardens I was forced to make my choice, and to believe that, whatever the defects of my bouquet, it is meant to be a bunch of roses. J. S. October 1, 1917. ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES On journeys through the States we start, ... We willing learners of all, teachers of all, lovers of all. We dwell a while in every city and town ... ?Walt Whitman. Had my companion and I never crossed the continent together, had we never gone "abroad at home," I might have curbed my impatience at the beginning of our second voyage. But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite. The vast sweep of the country continually suggested to me some great delectable repast: a banquet spread for a hundred million guests; and having discovered myself unable, in the time first allotted, to devour more than part of it?a strip across the table, as it were, stretching from New York on one side to San Francisco on the other?I have hungered impatiently for more. Indeed, to be quite honest, I should like to try to eat it all. Months before our actual departure for the South the day for leaving was appointed; days before we fixed upon our train; hours before I bought my ticket. And then, when my trunks had left the house, when my taxicab was ordered and my faithful battered suitcase stood packed to bulging in the hall, my companion, the Illustrator, telephoned to say that certain drawings he must finish before leaving were not done, that he would be unable to go with me that afternoon, as planned, but must wait until the midnight train. CONTENTS ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES A BALTIMORE EVENING WHERE THE CLIMATES MEET TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT TERRAPIN AND THINGS DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS A RARE OLD TOWN WE MEET THE HAMPTON GHOST ARE WE STANDARDIZED? HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN THE VIRGINIAS AND THE WASHINGTONS I RIDE A HORSE INTO THE OLD DOMINION CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MONTICELLO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOX-HUNTING IN VIRGINIA "A CERTAIN PARTY" THE LEGACY OF HATE "YOU-ALL" AND OTHER SECTIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS IDIOMS AND ARISTOCRACY THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL RANDOM RICHMOND NOTES JEDGE CRUTCHFIELD'S COT NORFOLK AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD COLONEL TAYLOR AND GENERAL LEE RALEIGH AND JOSEPHUS DANIELS ITEMS FROM "THE OLD NORTH STATE" UNDER ST. MICHAEL'S CHIMES HISTORY AND ARISTOCRACY POLITICS, A NEWSPAPER AND ST. CECILIA "GULLA" AND THE BACK COUNTRY OUT OF THE PAST ALIVE ATLANTA GEORGIA JOURNALISM SOME ATLANTA INSTITUTIONS A BIT OF RURAL GEORGIA A YOUNG METROPOLIS BUSY BIRMINGHAM AN ALLEGORY OF ACHIEVEMENT THE ROAD TO ARCADY A MISSISSIPPI TOWN OLD TALES AND A NEW GAME OUT OF THE LONG AGO THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW SHREDS AND PATCHES THE BAFFLING MISSISSIPPI OLD RIVER DAYS WHAT MEMPHIS HAS ENDURED MODERN MEMPHIS BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH MISS "JAX" AND SOME FLORIDA GOSSIP PASSIONATE PALM BEACH ASSORTED AND RESORTED FLORIDA A DAY IN MONTGOMERY THE CITY OF THE CREOLE HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS FROM ANTIQUES TO PIRATES ANTOINE'S AND MARDI GRAS FINALE   Germany in War Time / What an American Girl Saw and Heard by Mary Ethel McAuley : (full image Illustrated) Mary Ethel McAuley B00LS8ZB6Q File Size: 6902 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- war, germany, Soldiers, Berlin, Prisoners, Spy, Vienna This book is the product of two years spent in Germany during the great war. It portrays what has been seen and heard by an American girl whose primary interest was in art. She has tried to write without fear or favor the simple truth as it appeared to her. GETTING INTO GERMANY IN WAR TIME. Now that America and Germany are at war, it is not possible for an American to enter the German Empire. Americans can leave the country if they wish, but once they are out they cannot go back in again. Since the first year of the war there has been only one way of getting into Germany through Denmark, and that is by way of Warnemünde. After leaving Copenhagen you ride a long way on the train, and then the train boards a ferry which takes you to a little island. At the end of this island is the Danish frontier, where you are thoroughly searched to see how much food you are trying to take into Germany. After this frontier is passed you ride for a few hours on a boat which carries you right up to Warnemünde, the German landing-place and the military customs of Germany. When I went to Germany in October, 1915, the regulations were not very strict, travelers had only to show that they had a good reason for going into the country, and they were searched?that was all. But during the two years I was in Germany all this was changed. Now it is very hard for even a neutral to enter Germany. Neutrals must first have a visé from the German consul in Denmark. It takes four days to get this visé, and you must have your picture taken in six different poses. Also, you must have a legitimate reason for wanting to go into the country, and if there is anything the least suspicious about you, you are not granted a permit to enter. Travelers entering Germany bring as much food with them as they can. You are allowed to bring a moderate amount of tea, coffee, soap, canned milk, etc.; nine pounds of butter and as much smoked meat as you can carry. No fresh meat is allowed, and you must carry the meat yourself as no porters are allowed around the docks. This is a spy precaution. The butter and meat are bought in Copenhagen from a licensed firm where it is sealed and the firm sends the package to the boat for you. You must be careful not to break the seal before the German customs are passed. The Danes are very strict about letting rubber goods out of their country, and one little German girl I knew was so afraid that the Danes would take her rubbers away from her, that she wore them on a hot summer day. The boat which takes passengers to and from Warnemünde is one day a German boat and the next day a Danish boat. If you are lucky and make the trip on the day the Danish boat is running, you get a wonderful meal, and if you are unlucky and strike the German day, you get a poor one. After getting off the boat, you get your first glimpse of the German Militär, the soldiers at the customs. The travelers are divided into two classes?those going to Hamburg and those going to Berlin. Then a soldier gets up on a box and asks if there is any one in the crowd who has no passport. The day I came through only one man stepped forward. I felt sorry for him, but he did not look the least bit disheartened. An officer led him away. Strange to say, four days later we were seated in a hotel in Berlin eating our breakfast when this same little man came up and asked if we were not from Pittsburg, and if we had not come over on the "Kristianiafjord." When I said that we had, he remarked: "Well, I am from Pittsburg, too, and I came over on the 'Kristianiafjord.'" "But I did not see you among the passengers," I said. CONTENTS Getting into Germany in War Time Soldiers of Berlin The Women Workers of Berlin German "Sparsamkeit" The Food in Germany What We Ate in Germany How Berlin is Amusing Itself in War Time The Clothes Ticket My Typewriter Moving in Berlin What the Germans Read in War Time Precautions Against Spies, etc. Prisoners in Germany Verboten The Mail in Germany The "Ausländerei" War Charities What Germany is Doing for Her Human War Wrecks Will the Women of Germany Serve a Year in the Army? The Kaiserin and the Hohenzollern Princesses A Stroll Through Berlin A Trip Down the Harbor of Hamburg The Krupp Works at Essen Munich in War Time From Berlin to Vienna in War Time Vienna in War Time Soldiers of Vienna Women Warriors How Americans Were Treated in Germany I Leave Germany July 1, 1917   The Motor Scout / A Story of Adventure in South America by Herbert Strang : (full image Illustrated) Herbert Strang B00DGTG5QU File Size: 727 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- Fiction, adventure, action, boy, travel, South America, San Rosario ILLUSTRATED BY CYRUS CUNEO BOMBASTES FURIOSO One hot sultry afternoon in June, the population of the little town of San Rosario in the Peruvian Andes was struck with sudden amazement at the sight of a motor-bicycle clattering its way through the main street with some risk to the dogs, poultry, and small boys who had been lazily disporting themselves there. It was not the bicycle itself that evoked their wonder: that was an object familiar enough. Nor was it the youth seated in the saddle, and steering it deftly past all obstacles. It was a second figure, mounted uneasily on the carrier behind: a rotund and portly figure, which shook and quivered with the vibration of the machine as it jolted over the ill-paved road, maintaining its equilibrium with obvious difficulty. Children and women shrieked; the men leaning against the walls took their cigars from their lips and gasped; and the noise of the engine was almost smothered by the mingled din of barking dogs and screaming fowls. It was the figure of the gobernador himself: land-owner, chief magistrate, and father of a family. The wondering populace might have supposed that the gentleman had taken leave of his senses--for surely no one of his mature years and serious responsibilities would have risked so much if he had been sane--had it not been plain to them that he was in desperate distress. His head was bare; his swarthy cheeks were shining with perspiration; his eyes rolled with fright; and his fat hands were clasped about the waist of the boy in the saddle with the convulsive grip of a man clinging for dear life. The face of the boy was, on the contrary, beaming with delight. His lips were parted in a wide smile; his blue eyes were dancing; and his mop of tow-coloured hair waved joyously in the breeze that the motion of the vehicle created. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE GOBERNADOR RIDES CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS HORSEMEN ON THE TRACK TIM LEADS A CHARGE THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR A CHECK AT THE CAVE MAP CONTENTS 1. BOMBASTES FURIOSO 2. COMINGS AND GOINGS 3. BENEVOLENCES 4. GAS 5. PARDO DISMISSES HIMSELF 6. TIM IS HELD TO RANSOM 7. THE PREFECT MOVES 8. SUSPENSE 9. FLIGHT TO THE HILLS 10. CINCINNATUS O'HAGAN 11. THE MOTOR-CYCLE 12. FREE WHEEL 13. A COMMISSION 14. HIS FATHER'S HOUSE 15. THE RAID ON SAN ROSARIO 16. A SIEGE AND A SORTIE 17. IN POSSESSION 18. THE ORDER OF THE NASTURTIUM 19. PARDO SCORES A TRICK 20. PARDO LOSES A TRICK 21. RUN TO EARTH 22. A PUNCTURE 23. A LEAP FOR LIFE 24. FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA 25. THE RAVINE 26. HANDSOME ACKNOWLEDGMENTS   Games and Songs of American Children by Various Various B00KNJEEVE File Size: 1798 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- American, Children, Game-rhymes, May-games, Witch, GUESSING-GAMES, MYTHOLOGY EDITOR'S NOTE. The existence of any children's tradition in America, maintained independently of print, has hitherto been scarcely noticed. Yet it appears that, in this minor but curious branch of folk-lore, the vein in the United States is both richer and purer than that so far worked in Great Britain. These games supply material for the elucidation of a subject hitherto obscure: they exhibit the true relation of ancient English lore of this kind to that of the continent of Europe; while the amusements of youth in other languages are often illustrated by American custom, which compares favorably, in respect of compass and antiquity, with that of European countries. Of the two branches into which the lore of the nursery may be divided?the tradition of children and the tradition of nurses?the present collection includes only the former. It is devoted to formulas of play which children have preserved from generation to generation, without the intervention, often without the knowledge, of older minds. Were these?trifling as they often are?merely local and individual, they might be passed over with a smile; but being English and European, they form not the least curious chapter of the history of manners and customs. It has therefore been an essential part of the editor's object to exhibit their correspondences and history; but, unwilling to overcloud with cumbrous research that healthy and bright atmosphere which invests all that really belongs to childhood, he has thought it best to remand to an appendix the necessary references, retaining in the text only so much as may be reasonably supposed of interest to the readers in whom one or another page may awaken early memories. He has to express sincere thanks to the friends, in different parts of the country, whose kind assistance has rendered possible this volume, in which almost every one of the older states is represented; and he will be grateful for such further information as may tend to render the collection more accurate and complete. The melodies which accompany many of the games have been written from the recitation of children by S. Austen Pearce, Mus. Doc. Oxon. THE DIFFUSION AND ORIGIN OF AMERICAN GAME-RHYMES. "The hideous Thickets in this place[1] were such that Wolfes and Beares nurst up their young from the eyes of all beholders in those very places where the streets are full of Girles and Boys sporting up and downe, with a continued concourse of people."?"Wonder-working Providence in New England," 1654. "The first settlers came from England, and were of the middle rank, and chiefly Friends. * * * In early times weddings were held as festivals, probably in imitation of such a practice in England. Relations, friends, and neighbors were generally invited, sometimes to the amount of one or two hundred. * * * They frequently met again next day; and being mostly young people, and from under restraint, practised social plays and sports."?Watson's "Account of Buckingham and Solebury" (Pennsylvania; settled about 1682).   An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan : (full image Illustrated) Author: Sara Jeannette Duncan, Illustrator: F. H. Townsend B00L02VGN2 File Size: 4508 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- American, Girl, London, LIFE STYLE, fiction, advanture, England I have written this account only secondarily and at the instigation of publishers, for Americans. Primarily, I wrote it for the English people. I composed it in their country; it was suggested by their institutions, and it is addressed to them. You will see, if you read it, that I had reasons for doing this. The reasons are in the first chapter, at the very beginning. As you have not far to look for them, therefore, and as it is quite unnecessary to print a thing twice in the same book, I will not go over them again. The object of this preface is chiefly to draw your attention to the fact that I am not talking to you, dear compatriot, so that you will understand that there is no personal ground for any annoyance you may feel at what I say. Notwithstanding this, one of the Miss Wastgoggles, of Boston, has already taken the trouble to send me a rather severely reproachful letter about my impressions and experiences, in which she says that she would have written hers, if it had ever occurred to her to do so, very differently. I have no doubt that this is true. She also begs me to remember that there are a great many different kinds of girls in America, numbers of whom are brought up "quite as they are in England." It is this remark of hers that makes me quote Miss Wastgoggles. I wish to say in connection with it that, while it is unreasonable to apologize for being only one kind of American girl, I do not pretend to represent the ideas of any more. Mamie Wick. No. 4000 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, November 20, 1890. I AM an American Girl. Therefore, perhaps, you will not be surprised at anything further I may have to say for myself. I have observed, since I came to England, that this statement, made by a third person in connection with any question of my own conduct, is always broadly explanatory. And as my own conduct will naturally enter more or less into this volume, I may as well make it in the beginning, to save complications. It may be necessary at this point to explain further. I know that in England an unmarried person, of my age, is not expected to talk much, especially about herself. This was a little difficult for me to understand at first, as I have always talked a great deal, and, one might say, been encouraged to do it; but I have at length been brought to understand it, and lately I have spoken with becoming infrequency, and chiefly about the Zoo. I find the Zoo to be a subject which is almost certain to be received with approval; and in animal nature there is, fortunately, a good deal of variety. I do not intend, however, in this book, to talk about the Zoo, or anything connected with it, but about the general impressions and experiences I have received in your country; and one of my reasons for departing from approved models of discussion for young ladies and striking out, as it were, into subject-matter on my own account, is that I think you may find it more or less interesting. I have noticed that you are pleased, over here, to bestow rather more attention upon the American Girl than upon any other kind of American that we produce. You have taken the trouble to form opinions about her--I have heard quantities of them. Her behaviour and her bringing-up, her idioms and her 'accent'--above all her 'accent'--have made themes for you, and you have been good enough to discuss them--Mr. James, in your midst, correcting and modifying your impressions--with a good deal of animation, for you. I observe that she is almost the only frivolous subject that ever gets into your newspapers. I have become accustomed to meeting her there, usually at the breakfast-table, dressed in green satin and diamonds. The encounter had quite a shock of novelty for me at first, but that wore off in time; the green satin and diamonds were so invariable.   [Prev] .. 1 ... 1 2 ... 2 .. [Next]

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