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Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851

Various Authors

Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 by various authors. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc...

Essays on Art

Arthur Clutton-Brock

Essays on Art by Arthur Clutton-Brock. Preface from the book:These essays, reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement with a few additions and corrections, are not all entirely or directly conc..

Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy

Josephine A. Jackson

Psychotherapy, which is treatment by the mental measures of psycho-analysis and re-education, is an established procedure in the scientific world to-day. Nervous disorders are now curable, as has been..

Anomalies of the Short Story

William Dean Howells

The interesting experiment of one of our great publishing houses in putting out serially several volumes of short stories, with the hope that a courageous persistence may overcome the popular indiffer..

Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)

Alexander Whyte

This is a new kind of pilgrim.  There are not many pilgrims like this bright brisk youth.  A few more young gentlemen like this, and the pilgrimage way would positively soon become fashionab..

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

Willa Cather

Willa Siebert Cather was born in 1873 in the home of her maternal grandmother in western Virginia. Although she had been named Willela, her family always called her "Willa." Upon graduating from the U..

Censorship and Art

John Galsworthy

Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the C..

Confessions and Criticisms

Julian Hawthorne

Julian Hawthorne was practically born to write; after all, his father, Nathaniel, was and remains considered one of America's greatest novelists. While Julian would obviously never reach the same heig..