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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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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...m 1836 to 1848. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing insti... ...he liberal camp were mistrustful. It was about this time (1847) that Gogol published his Corre- spondence with Friends, and aroused a literary contro-... ...usly: “I am once more a free Cossack.” Between 1834 and 1835 he produced a new series of stories, including his famous Cloak, which may be regarded as... ...stoy, 1860; St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories... ..., 1860; St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, Lo... ...lf: “Ah, good friend, you have lived your life, and now it is over! In the newspapers they will say of you that you died regretted not only by your su... ...but immature, opinions who culled the bulk of his wisdom from contemporary newspapers and pamphlets, he found, as time went on, that these companions ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introducti...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvan... ...ding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circum... ...at it would have been an idle piece of affectation to attempt getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow.... ...ng of a decisive character, and are not eagerly and easily diverted into a new channel. When I made the discov- 15 Sir Walter Scott ery—for to me it ... ..., as for- merly in words, the sole and unassisted author of all the Novels published as works of “The Author of Waverley.” I do this without shame, fo... ...he public dinner alluded to in the foregoing Introduction, as given in the newspapers of the time; and the reader is accordingly presented with the fo... ... he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence. The chairman then requested that gentlemen w... ...k in averring till one is sure of his facts. I will look back on a file of newspapers, and to-morrow you shall hear from me. Come, help your- self—I h...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...all. He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has... ... He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has bee... ...rk, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has been published in the news- papers of that State. It has not been announced or ... ...ve again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be ann... ...RLES P. KIRKLAND, ESQ., New Y ork: I have just received and have read your published letter to the HON. Benjamin R. Curtis. Under the circumstances I... ...ongstreet and yourself about the amnesty proclamation, which is now in the newspapers, genuine? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO E. STANLEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION,... ...hed this morning in the New Y ork World and New Y ork Journal of Commerce, newspapers printed and published in the city of New Y ork, a false and spur...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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