title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Hortus Vitae
Essays on the Gardening of Life | Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 | en | | Dedication -- The garden of life -- In praise of governesses -- On going to the play -- Reading books -- Hearing music -- Receiving letters -- New friends and old -- Other friendships -- A hotel sitting-room -- In praise of courtship -- Knowing one's mind -- Against talking -- In praise of silence -- The blame of portraits -- Sere and yellow -- A stage jewel -- My bicycle and I -- Puzzles of the past -- Making presents -- Going away -- Coming back -- Losing one's train -- The hanging gardens. | | | 2008-10-07 |
Chopin and Other Musical Essays | Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926 | en | | Chopin, the greatest genius of the pianoforte -- How composers work -- Schumann, as mirrored in his letters -- Music and morals -- Italian and German vocal styles -- German opera in New York. | | Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849; Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856; Music; Music -- History and criticism | 2006-06-12 |
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 | Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906 | en | | | | Shirley, Dame, 1819-1906 -- Correspondence; California -- Description and travel; California -- Gold discoveries; Women pioneers -- California -- Correspondence | 2007-11-01 |
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 | Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack | en | | | | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); United States. Army -- Military life; Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack; West (U.S.) -- Biography; Army wives -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | 2004-11-01 |
Last Words
A Final Collection of Stories | Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 | en | | Mary's meadow -- Letters from a little garden -- Snap-dragons -- Dandelion clocks -- The blind man and the talking dog -- So-so -- The Trinity flower -- The kyrkegrim turned preacher -- Ladders to heaven -- Sunflowers and a rushlight -- Tiny's tricks and Toby's tricks -- The owl in the ivy bush. | Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945 [Illustrator] | Children's stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-06-06 |
The Letters of Charles Dickens
Vol. 3, 1836-1870 | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Correspondence; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence | 2008-06-20 |
The Letters of Charles Dickens
Vol. 2, 1857-1870 | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Correspondence; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence | 2008-06-20 |
The Letters of Charles Dickens
Vol. 1, 1833-1856 | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Correspondence; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence | 2008-06-20 |
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 | | en | From the series: Original narratives of early American history | Michaelius, by Jonas Michaelas -- Novum Belgium, by Isaac Jogues -- Journal of New Netherland -- Representation of New Netherland, by Adriaen van der Donck -- Van Tienhoven's answer, by Cornelius Van Tienhoven -- Bogaert: Letter of Johannes Bogaert to Hans Bontemantel -- Letters of the Dutch ministers to the Classis of Amsterdam, by Johannes Megapolensis, Samuel Drisius, and Henricus Selyns. | Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937 [Editor] | | 2002-04-01 |
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 | en | | | | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Correspondence; Composers -- Austria -- Correspondence | 2004-08-25 |
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 | en | | | | Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Correspondence; Composers -- Austria -- Correspondence | 2004-07-31 |
Letters on an Elk Hunt | Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878- | en | | | | Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878-; Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming; Elk hunting -- Wyoming; Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Biography; Wyoming -- Biography | 2009-04-21 |
Letters to Dead Authors | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | To W. M. Thackeray -- To Charles Dickens -- To Pierre de Ronsard -- To Herodotus -- Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope -- To Lucian of Samosata -- To Maitre Francoys Rabelais -- To Jane Austen -- To Master Isaak Walton -- To M. Chapelain -- To Sir John Manndeville, kt. -- To Alexandre Dumas -- To Theocritus -- To Edgar Allan Poe -- To Sir Walter Scott, bart. -- To Eusebius of Caesarea -- To Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To Monsieur de Molière, valet de chambre du roi -- To Robert Burns -- To Lord Byron -- To Omar Khayyám -- To Q. Horatius Flaccus. | | Literature; Authors | 2002-07-01 |
Letters of a Woman Homesteader | Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878- | en | | | | Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1878- -- Correspondence; Wyoming -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming; Ranch life -- Wyoming -- History; Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence; Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Correspondence | 2005-08-30 |
As We Go | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | Our president -- The newspaper-made man -- Interesting girls -- Give the men a chance -- The advent of candor -- The American man -- The electric way -- Can a husband open a wife's letters? -- A leisure class -- Weather and character -- Born with an 'ego' -- Juventus mundi -- A beautiful old age -- The attraction of the repulsive -- Giving as a luxury -- Climate and happiness -- The new feminine reserve -- Repose in activity -- Women--Ideal and real -- The art of idleness -- Is there any conversation? -- The tall girl -- The deadly diary -- The whistling girl -- Born old and rich -- The 'old soldier' -- The island of Bimini -- June. | | | 2004-12-05 |
Hearts of Controversy | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | Some thoughts of a reader of Tennyson -- Dickens as a man of letters -- Swinburne's lyrical poetry -- Charlotte and Emily Bronte -- Charmian -- The century of moderation | | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909; Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855; Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 | 1998-03-01 |
Rolling Stones | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The dream -- A ruler of men -- The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Helping the other fellow -- The marionettes -- The marquis and Miss Sally -- A fog in Santone -- The friendly call -- a dinner at ----* --- Sound and fury -- Tictocq -- Tracked to doom -- A snapshot at the President -- An unfinished Christmas story -- The unprofitable servant -- Aristocracy versus has -- The prisoner of Zembla -- A strange story -- Fickle fortune, or, How Gladys hustled -- An apology -- Lord Oakhurst's course -- Bexar script no. 2692 -- Queries and answers -- The pewee -- Nothing to say -- The murderer -- Some postscripts -- A contribution -- The old farm -- Vanity -- The lullaby boy -- Chanson de Bohême -- Hard to forget -- Drop a tear in this slot -- Tamales -- Some letters. | | | 2003-03-01 |
The Bibliotaph
and Other People | Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry), 1859-1941 | en | | The bibliotaph, a portrait not wholly imaginary -- The bibliotaph, his friends, scrapbooks, and 'bins' -- Last words on the bibliotaph -- Thomas Hardy -- A reading in the letters of John Keats -- An Elizabethan novelist -- The autobiography of a fair-minded man -- Concerning a red waistcoat -- Stevenson, the vagabond and the philosopher -- Stevenson's St. Ives. | | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Keats, John, 1795-1821; Lyly, John, 1554?-1606; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; Book collectors | 2007-05-02 |
Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 | Various | en | | A TOBACCO PLANTATION by PHILIP A. BRUCE
SCENES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ'S LIFE IN BRUSSELS by THEO. WOLFE
COOKHAM DEAN by MARGARET BERTHA WRIGHT
BIRDS OF A TEXAN WINTER by EDWARD C. BRUCE
THE FERRYMAN'S FEE by MARGARET VANDEGRIFT
"WHAT DO I WISH FOR YOU?" by CARLOTTA PERRY
LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES READE by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS
IN A SUPPRESSED TUSCAN MONASTERY by KATE JOHNSON MATSON
THE SUBSTITUTE by JAMES PAYN
NEW YORK LIBRARIES by CHARLES BURR TODD
THE DRAMA IN THE NURSERY by NORMAN PEARSON
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP : "The Man Who Laughs." by C.P.W. ; Why We Forget Names by XENOS CLARK ; A Reminiscence of Harriet Martineau by F.C.M.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY. : Illustrated Books | | | 2005-05-16 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A millionaire's proposal -- A substitute journalist -- Anna's love letters -- Aunt Caroline's silk dress -- Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving dinner -- By grace of Julius Caesar -- By the rule of contrary -- Fair exchange and no robbery -- Four winds -- Marcella's reward -- Margaret's patient -- Matthew insists on puffed sleeves -- Missy's room -- Ted's afternoon off -- The girl who drove the cows -- The doctor's sweetheart -- The end of the Young family feud -- The genesis of the Doughnut Club -- The growing up of Cornelia -- The Old Fellow's letter -- The parting of the ways -- The promissory note -- The revolt of Mary Isabel -- The twins and a wedding. | | | 2008-03-19 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A golden wedding -- A redeeming sacrifice -- A soul that was not at home -- Abel and his great adventure -- Akin to love -- Aunt Philippa and the men -- Bessie's doll -- Charlotte's ladies -- Christmas at Red Butte -- How we went to the wedding -- Jessamine -- Miss Sally's letter -- My lady Jane -- Robert Turner's revenge -- The Fillmore elderberries -- The finished story -- The garden of spices -- The girl and the photograph -- The gossip of Valley View -- The letters -- The life-book of Uncle Jesse -- The little black doll -- The man on the train -- The romance of Jedediah -- The tryst of the white lady -- Uncle Richard's New Year dinner -- White magic. | | | 2008-03-19 |
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06
Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes | | en | | The Life of Heinrich Heine. By William Guild Howard -- Dedication. -- Songs. -- A Lyrical Intermezzo. -- Sonnets. -- Poor Peter. -- The Two Grenadiers. -- Belshazzar. -- The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar. -- The Return Home. -- Twilight. -- Hail to the Sea. -- In the Harbor. -- A New Spring. -- Abroad. -- The Sphinx. -- Germany. -- Enfant Perdu. -- The Battlefield of Hastings. -- The Asra. -- The Passion Flower. -- The Journey to the Harz. -- Boyhood Days. -- English Fragments--Dialogue on the Thames; London; Wellington. -- Lafayette. -- The Romantic School. -- The Rabbi of Bacharach. -- The Life of Franz Grillparzer. By William Guild Howard -- Medea. -- The Jewess of Toledo. -- The Poor Musician. -- My Journey to Weimar. -- Beethoven as a Letter Writer. By Walter R. Spalding -- Beethoven's Letters. | | | 2004-05-01 |
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Volume 3, 1854-1861 | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 | en | | | | Europe -- Politics and government -- 1848-1871; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Correspondence | 2009-05-03 |
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
Volume 2, 1844-1853 | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 | en | | | | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Correspondence; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1848-1871; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources | 2008-03-08 |
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861
Volume 1, 1837-1843 | Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 | en | | | | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Correspondence; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1848-1871; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901 | 2006-12-05 |