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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 29 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 52134 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 great 13 man 13 Mr. 11 England 10 book 8 life 7 history 7 good 7 New 7 God 6 child 6 Sir 6 Shakespeare 6 Mrs. 6 London 6 John 6 English 5 work 5 thing 5 read 5 little 5 Thomas 5 Lord 5 King 4 year 4 mind 4 illustration 4 York 4 University 4 Miss 4 Milton 4 Dr. 4 Book 3 world 3 way 3 time 3 like 3 William 3 Johnson 3 Homer 3 Children 3 Carlyle 2 story 2 reader 2 person 2 old 2 letter 2 fact 2 english 2 day Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9262 not 3788 so 3063 great 2797 more 2288 little 2281 very 2275 good 2101 only 2029 other 1830 well 1827 most 1677 then 1644 up 1638 much 1625 many 1618 first 1556 own 1549 now 1512 old 1507 as 1504 out 1384 never 1301 even 1282 such 1211 long 1016 here 978 too 933 always 931 same 910 down 902 ever 832 far 820 last 818 also 803 still 780 all 750 again 746 yet 737 young 737 new 727 once 722 few 715 true 687 just 685 high 679 there 636 away 620 human 603 perhaps 601 on Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 829 good 429 most 423 least 325 great 184 high 114 fine 79 early 75 Most 70 bad 53 deep 42 late 31 near 29 rich 29 large 26 wise 25 small 25 slight 25 noble 22 strong 22 low 20 young 18 simple 18 eld 15 old 14 pure 14 dear 13 happy 12 sweet 11 keen 10 rare 10 manif 10 full 9 wide 9 long 9 hard 9 dark 8 true 8 j 8 grand 8 dull 8 brave 7 witty 7 fair 7 easy 6 weak 6 sad 6 gentle 6 farth 6 choice 5 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1398 most 92 well 53 least 4 goethe 2 long 2 lest 2 hard 1 youngest 1 worst 1 soon 1 highest 1 greatest 1 cruellest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net 1 www.pgdpcanada.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/8/5/17857/17857-h/17857-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/8/5/17857/17857-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 _ is _ 20 one does not 13 _ do _ 9 _ have _ 9 book is not 9 man is not 9 world has ever 8 _ are _ 8 _ be _ 8 _ did _ 7 _ is not 7 books are not 7 man does not 7 world is not 6 life is not 6 one has ever 6 things are not 5 _ see _ 5 book is always 5 book is full 5 children ''s stories 5 man has ever 5 man has not 5 one is not 5 thing is not 4 _ do n''t 4 _ know _ 4 _ read _ 4 _ was _ 4 book is very 4 library is not 4 men are cheap 4 mind is not 4 one is apt 4 one is conscious 4 one is so 3 _ does _ 3 _ has _ 3 _ has many 3 book is good 3 book was not 3 books are more 3 books are so 3 books do not 3 books were not 3 children ''s reading 3 children do not 3 day is not 3 life does not 3 life is earnest Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 things are not only 2 time is not far 1 _ are not exceptional 1 _ had no thought 1 _ is not easy 1 _ is not necessarily 1 _ is not only 1 _ is not peculiar 1 _ is not sex 1 book found no more 1 book had no great 1 book has no claims 1 book has no way 1 book is not always 1 book is not arbitrary 1 book is not personal 1 book was no drawback 1 book was no longer 1 book was not directly 1 books are not accessible 1 books are not always 1 books are not everything 1 books are not lofty 1 books are not primarily 1 books are not seldom 1 books give no pleasure 1 books had no business 1 books has not enough 1 books is no longer 1 books is no puritanical 1 books were not always 1 books were not plentiful 1 boy has no desire 1 boy is not so 1 boy were not always 1 child has no choice 1 child has no need 1 child has no sense 1 child has not yet 1 children do not now 1 children have no permanent 1 children were not sufficiently 1 day had no attraction 1 day is not long 1 day is not strange 1 day is not yet 1 day were not aware 1 days were not over 1 facts were not brutal 1 friends are not far A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 19157 author = Arnold, Gertrude Weld title = A Mother''s List of Books for Children date = keywords = American; Book; Boy; Boys; Children; Co.; Editor; England; Fairy; Illustrator; John; King; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Old; Stories; Story; Tales; York; adventure; author; child; day; great; history; life; little; year summary = "Children must learn to creep before they can go." This little book children who have books at home and mothers who read them.... pictures in color, will delight young children of all lands. Reading picture story-books?_ Very simple and delightful narratives of the life of a little boy (p. These simple stories, written for the girls and boys of a generation These fourteen little stories include some about children and some This fully illustrated little volume gives clear directions for making present-day nature-books for young children, and they still children of eight years, the pictures really tell, the story. This first volume of Andrew Lang''s colored fairy books contains the These eight wonder stories incidentally illustrate the every-day (p. Mrs. Burnett''s well-known story of the little American boy who in the A fully illustrated little book which contains clear directions for The one great story of school-boy life, telling of days at Rugby under id = 48800 author = Ashton, John title = Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction date = keywords = ALDERMARY; Account; Bevis; CHAP; Children; Devil; Duke; Earl; Emperor; England; Faustus; Fortunatus; Fox; Giant; God; Guy; Jack; John; Joseph; King; Knight; LONDON; Lady; Life; Lord; Marquis; Meg; Mr.; Reynard; Sir; St.; Tom; Valentine; child; come; history; illustration; man; year summary = Come Sirs, to kill young Joseph is not good, Said good old Jacob, and the man will show that Place, not so long as a Day. After having view''d the Castle round he observed to his great and shews that a woman will be beloved of great Men. A Mole under the right loin, signifies an industrious man, and good to said, I do not fear death; I saw my father die, and he soon vanished; said the Queen, the King shall spare thy life--Madam, replied the Who cares for you, said Tom, you shall not find me like one of them. said the Giant, you are like to do great things with these One day, an old man came to him and begged for food, on which Jack Jack also asked for a pipe, and the old man said-He went and brought a man''s head that was bare, and said here id = 6884 author = Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title = Sleeping Fires: a Novel date = keywords = Abbott; Ballinger; Francisco; Holt; Howard; Langdon; Madeleine; Masters; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Sally; San; Society; Street; Talbot; Travers; York; man summary = Madeleine Talbot at this time was very happy, or, at least, too busy to Langdon Masters arrived in San Francisco during Madeleine''s third Such was Langdon Masters when he came to San Francisco and Madeleine To him, a far better judge of men than of women, Langdon Masters was seen a good many women in love in her time. end!" And for the first time in her life she felt like fainting. Madeleine sat at the end of the long double room behind a table and Masters turned after a time and his face looked as old as Talbot''s. imitation of the old Madeleine Talbot, and even mentioned Masters'' name he was leaving San Francisco for good and all, he looked like a man who man like Masters can quit cold no matter how far he has gone if the that Madeleine was in love with Langdon Masters. id = 13852 author = Bennett, Arnold title = Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature date = keywords = Classics; Edition; English; Everyman; John; Lamb; Library; Poems; Sir; Thomas; Universal; Wordsworth; Works summary = bound to have read somewhere that the style of Sir Thomas Browne is Let us begin experimental reading with Charles Lamb. think of Charles Lamb as a book, because he has arrived at the Charles Lamb was a man, not a book. form an idea of the man behind the book. You will find that, in classical literature, the style always follows But what do those people mean who say: "I read such and such an author influence of literature, there _is_ no such thing as literary style. prose and verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by that unsurpassed learning about literature in general; for books were his hobby, and he little for books and enjoys reading, and knows the classics by name Second: Read William Hazlitt''s essay "On Poetry in library of English literature, in comely and adequate editions. For the purposes of book-buying, I divide English literature, not id = 12244 author = Birrell, Augustine title = In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays date = keywords = Act; Bishop; Bodleian; Bodley; Carlyle; Church; Dr.; England; House; Johnson; King; Locker; London; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Non; Oxford; Paine; Parliament; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; University; William; Young; book; great; man summary = Sir Thomas Bodley''s Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and The good Bishop, known to all book-hunters as the author of the library a great register-book, containing the names and titles of things besides books and strangely-written manuscripts in old tongues; Some years later Dr. Garnett, who has spent a long life obliging men of letters, sent Mr. Blades two Athenian worms, which had travelled to this country in a of late years a good deal of sham book-collecting. Were an author to turn the pages of _Book Prices men of old, to breathe the prayer, ''May my books some day be found a public library, where beautiful and rare books will be kept for time--so much, at least, an old book-collector may be allowed to For a long time past the trades of bookselling and book-publishing one of the greatest book-buyers of his time, a man whose library it id = 13430 author = Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) title = A Librarian''s Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects date = keywords = Association; Club; England; God; Library; Louis; New; Newcomb; Public; Shakespeare; St.; States; United; York; american; book; case; fact; good; great; idea; man; read; reader; subject; thing; way; woman; work summary = persons begin to read books that fail to hold their attention. good reading is generally a matter of lifelong education. In the case of the public library, for instance, does a man readers of library books in New York shun the public-press, or do they pay heard all the other boys saying it was a good library and that the books friends "told her what nice books were in this library." In one case a electricity; I wanted to read that book and joined the library." Others and I have attempted this in the case of the New York public library for I''ll begin now." Here was a man who had never read a book, who had no use a man "talks like a book," or in other words, uses such language that it public association between its display and the work of the library shall id = 13435 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = On the Choice of Books date = keywords = Carlyle; Chelsea; Edinburgh; England; Footnote; Goethe; Hunt; John; Leigh; London; Lord; Mr.; Rector; Sir; University; great; man; thing summary = best thing he knew of that country was, that in it a man can have meat individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind infinite voices an eternal song of Hope in the soul of man.'' Carlyle Carlyle''s works, and indeed is one of the most remarkable books of the A great deal of information respecting Carlyle''s manner of living and Carlyle''s paper reads like a solemn and touching funeral oration to time when, an unknown young man, Thomas Carlyle wrote articles for conclusion, and it is to be regretted that the admiration which Mr. Carlyle feels for the great men of history will not allow him to at times to appoint a Dictator--a man who had the power of life and thing to what it was in these old times, I could go into a great many of sceptical men had not anything like so clear a mind as that man id = 35535 author = Carroll, Lewis title = Feeding the Mind date = keywords = letter; mind summary = you reply, "I do it to save _time_." A very good object, no doubt, but _Rule 5._--''If your friend makes a severe remark, either leave it friendly remark, tending towards making up the little difference that has _three-eighths_ of the way, and if in making friends, each was ready to go may be thoroughly digested; both which rules, for the body, are also four hours'' rest before it is ready for another meal, the mind will in once an hour, leaving off for five minutes only each time, but taking care to this is simply _thinking over_ what we read. greater exertion of mind than the mere passive taking in the contents of books we read; I mean the arranging and ''ticketing,'' so to speak, of the subjects in our minds, so that we can readily refer to them when we want interest to ''read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest'' the good books that id = 11483 author = Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson title = The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) date = keywords = Alice; Bishop; Bruno; Carroll; Charles; Christ; Church; College; Common; Dean; December; Diary; Dodgson; Dr.; Euclid; God; Lewis; London; Macmillan; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Press; Rev.; Sylvie; University; Wonderland; child; illustration; letter; little; print summary = two books I have seen was the answer of a little girl whom Lewis revelation to the undergraduate who heard for the first time that Mr. Dodgson of Christ Church and Lewis Carroll were identical. Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ time (knowing the sad end of the dear little boy), the funny parts A little book, published during this year, "Alice (a dramatic version "For auld lang syne" the author sent a copy of his book to Mrs. Hargreaves (Miss Alice Liddell), accompanied by a short note. A letter written about this time to his friend, Miss Edith Rix, gives The following letter written to a child-friend, Miss E. In December, the Logical controversy being over for a time, Mr. Dodgson invented a new problem to puzzle his mathematical friends id = 38873 author = Crothers, Samuel McChord title = The Gentle Reader date = keywords = Adams; Don; England; God; Ignorance; Milton; Mr.; Quixote; Reader; Sir; book; day; gentle; gentleman; good; great; history; knowledge; like; man; mind; old; person; read; thing; time; way; world summary = things too hard, having long since come to "the years that bring the That was the way books were written and read in the good old days before The book then becomes a person, and reading comes to be a kind of He knows a score of good old authors who have lived long in the happy pleasure like that which comes when a friend is received into a learned In like manner he believes in interesting things that great men must interested in a great many things he knows little about there is no such The Gentle Reader''s liking for histories that might be read to the "When a learned person asks one," says the Gentle Reader, "to accompany "What is your favorite character, Gentle Reader?" "I like to read about "I cannot make it appear so," says the Gentle Reader, who has come under id = 15432 author = De la Mare, Walter title = Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance date = keywords = Christian; Gulliver; Jane; Mr.; Reverie; Rochester; Rosinante; come; eye; face; like; little; man; night; sir; turn; voice summary = voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, sheer delight: Rosinante, with her mild face beneath its dark forelock Her thoughts followed my every word, passing upon her face like his garden wall," Jane said, turning sharply on me. wind or water, no sound of voices or footsteps; only far away the Rosinante awaited me at the little green gate, eyeing forlornly the "And now, Sir Traveller," said she of the sparkling eyes, named between the narrow leaves, perceived the cold, bright face of a little eyes fixed strangely on my coming with an intense, I had almost said dark eyes searching my face in the black shadow of night, he answered hare-like face, and the rage in his little active eyes. "Some I know," she answered with a little frown, and looked far out to "It''s amaranth," she said; and I have never seen so old a little look id = 5317 author = Doyle, Arthur Conan title = Through the Magic Door date = keywords = England; English; France; Gibbon; Johnson; London; Macaulay; Mr.; Napoleon; Richardson; Scott; Stevenson; book; british; french; good; great; history; life; man; mind; old; read; work summary = good company that one may come to think too little of the living. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good words--"D--was a dirty man," but the books certainly would be It''s a sad book, Lockhart''s "Life." It leaves gloom in the mind. great man takes of old age and death. mentioning his name--and one cannot read the great historian''s life hand, men who have been very great in the short story, Stevenson, all his flaws, the man who, in addition to the great book, of which Most of my books deal with the days of his greatness, but here, you the day might come when his book would be the one great authority, sure there are many good books, possibly there are some great ones, books to put into a young man''s hands if you wished to train him id = 35113 author = Fitch, George Hamlin title = Comfort Found in Good Old Books date = keywords = Bible; Bunyan; Dante; Defoe; Dr.; English; Imitation; Johnson; King; London; Milton; New; Shakespeare; Thomas; book; good; great; illustration; life; work; year summary = _These short essays on the best old books in the world were inspired by Next to the Bible in the list of great books of the world stands like the Bible, the great plays of Shakespeare are little read. In choosing the great books of the world, after the Bible and broad-minded in regard to reading books in good translations that he In reading the great books of the world one must be guided largely by not be able to read this year may become the greatest book in the world Every page of this great book reveals that the author had made the Bible comment by the best editors, the text of the great books of the world In beginning with the great books of the modern world two works stand _Notes on the Historical and Best Reading Editions of Great Authors._ id = 17857 author = Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina title = Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book date = keywords = Book; Boston; Charles; Children; Dr.; Edgeworth; England; John; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Newbery; Philadelphia; Samuel; Sunday; Thomas; William; York; american; child; english; history; illustration; little summary = first book of any kind written and printed in America for children;--an some Instruction with a little Book upon them." To children accustomed of a little Quakeress furnished the Philadelphia children with a book approach of the little gilt story-books which ten years later were to [Illustration: _John Newbery''s Advertisement of Children''s Books_] and religious books, issued as published in America for children, should "Little Books with Pictures for Children" could be purchased at the "The Famous Tommy Thumb''s Little Story-Book: Containing his Life and had the "following little Books for all good Boys and Girls: by the name of Newbery''s Little Books for Children, are now republished [Illustration: _A page from a Catalogue of Children''s Books printed by suggested in three little books, of two of which the author was Mrs. Pilkington, who had already written several successful stories for young The books for American children therefore Little Book for Children, 17. id = 18104 author = Kelman, John title = Among Famous Books date = keywords = Bunyan; Carlyle; Chesterton; Christianity; Diary; England; Faust; Fiona; God; Goethe; Macleod; Marius; Marlowe; Mr.; Pater; Pepys; Pilgrim; Progress; Sharp; Shaw; christian; find; great; life; man; thing; time; world summary = life of man, and whose story, told in one form or another, provides the local phase of human life and thought, and it has very little to do with human interest, and all ideas which concern the life of man are immortal common elements of human nature in all lands and times; and these, when this, as in all other things, a man must consent to lose his life in old Greek ideal of a complete earthly life for man, and all that was every man two ways of doing work, of reading a book, of loving a woman. between gods of the earth that are as old as Time, and daring thoughts soul of man and the life of God, but the way in which he tells these of life there is no thought of God or of idealism of any kind. id = 26312 author = Lee, Gerald Stanley title = The Lost Art of Reading date = keywords = God; New; Shakespeare; book; fact; great; life; like; live; look; man; mind; people; person; read; thing; way; world summary = man shall work to read, that he must win some great delight to do his It would be a great pity if a man could not know the things that have main ideal of living in the world, as long as every man''s life, chasing of all in human life--the days when men grow old, world-gentle, and power to read a great book is the power to glory in these things, and to "To a man," I said, "to whom books are people, and the livest kind of living a real day, I feel as if some Great Book were around me--were a live use of books, not only a man''s education after he is born, but thing in this world for a man''s life is his being original in it. reading for results, that the main thing a book is in a man''s hands for world where there are infinite things to know, a man''s knowledge must id = 16736 author = Mabie, Hamilton Wright title = Books and Culture date = keywords = Homer; Shakespeare; book; culture; experience; great; life; man; power; race; time; work summary = individual life through thought, feeling, and action,--an aim often He discovered that the great man was reading a Greek play with such along certain courses of work, but to have no deep life of thought the soul and life of man, the definite literary quality sometimes conception of man''s nature and life, or of the meaning and reality of the art of many countries; but the books of life ought to form the living, and whoever touches the deep life of men in the great works of only the poet''s interpretation of man''s life in the world, but he is life, a disclosure of the nature of man, a synthesis of ideas touched of the ideas about life held by a great race, he has gone a long way of life as that knowledge lies revealed in the experience of the race. to a man''s life or work. id = 37795 author = Parsons, Frank title = The World''s Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature date = keywords = Age; Eng; England; English; France; Homer; III; Life; Literature; Lowell; Milton; Poems; R.D.; R.D.C.; Rome; School; Scott; Shakspeare; book; cent; great; history; reader; table summary = means of training them to good habits of reading, and the books best [10] The little book on "Tolerance" by Phillips Brooks ought to be read Art of Shakspeare" (books that once read by a lover of poetry will ever critical, philosophic work, an era-making book, and should be read by [97] Read Wood''s beautiful and interesting books on Natural History; (France, 19th cent.) are among the greatest books of the world; and with Mackenzie''s "History of the Nineteenth Century" is the best English book _read all_ these books, but it is practicable by means of general works, reading books used in primary and grammar schools contain little or no good books the child can be induced to read each year, the better of The great English books of this time were THE BEST THOUGHTS OF GREAT MEN ABOUT BOOKS AND READING. THE BEST THOUGHTS OF GREAT MEN ABOUT BOOKS AND READING. id = 12914 author = Powys, John Cowper title = One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading date = keywords = Conrad; Edition; Hardy; Henry; James; Mr.; NEW; Powys; Walter; book; english; good; great; life; work summary = This selection of "One hundred best books" is made after a different and any list of books which they made would exclude the writers here different list--the curious way certain books and writers have of imagination works upon, that certain among modern artists, if not those other moments when the best books in the world seem irrelevant, Milton''s work witnesses to the value in art of what is ancient and in the "Scott Library." A good short life of Heine in the "Great poems, with his prose works and Mr. Traubel''s books about him as a Balzac''s books create a complete world, which has many points of Life of--Great Writers Series .... was only the second book issued by a new publisher. The author of "Visions and Revisions" says of this new book of essays: The object of Mr. Holborn''s little book is to show that the peculiar id = 16579 author = Quiller-Couch, Arthur title = On The Art of Reading date = keywords = Aristotle; Bible; Book; Cambridge; Chaucer; English; Gentlemen; God; Greek; Homer; Job; John; Literature; Longinus; Lord; Milton; Paradise; Shakespeare; Sir; Thomas; University; William; art; child; good; great; man; read summary = great University, that the other fair sisters of learning shall VII THE VALUE OF GREEK AND LATIN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Reading of the best Literature can be taught; and supposing it to The first thing, then, to be noted about the reading of English paper on passages from selected English verse and prose writings The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to Life._ And so I come to my subject--the art of reading _that,_ nay, presumed to _know_ certain things, we aim that our young men deliver courses of lectures on English Literature from the age of examinations in English Language and Literature came to pass, and English Literature to be great, we would point out that an Pass from the child to the working-man as we know him. reads its God--his open mind at once recognises it as poetry and thing the translators wrote was ''And God said, Let there be id = 5957 author = Shedlock, Marie L. title = The Art of the Story-Teller date = keywords = Andersen; Book; Emperor; Fairy; Hafiz; Hans; Hare; King; Legends; Lord; Mrs.; Nightingale; Old; Princess; Shepherd; Stories; Tales; child; good; great; little; man; story summary = My objects in urging the use of stories in the education of children I had been telling a class of young children the story of Polyphemus "No; it was a little kitten," said the story-teller decidedly. hears a story artistically told, a little more of the meaning suddenly said, in a most imperative tone: "Tell me the story of a bear came to me once after the telling of this story and said in an awestruck voice: "Do you cor-relate?" Having recovered from the effect been reading with some children of about ten years old the story from Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children Many people think that the dramatization of the story by the children looking back on the telling of the story, the child often remembers will you tell stories?" "As you will," said Sturla. "The very same," said the Emperor, and he cried like a little child. id = 32633 author = Venable, Lyn title = Time Enough at Last date = keywords = Agnes; Henry summary = For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. wanted to read the whole thing, all the way through from beginning to Henry was down in the vault of the Eastside Bank & Trust when it second Henry thought of a story he had started to read once called Henry saw a pink splash that he knew was his hand, and a something inside of it that Henry could not look at, something that Numbly, Henry realized that the rest of Mr. Carsville was under that of course, Henry knew Agnes wasn''t No, that was a thought Henry didn''t want to think, he forced it from his mind and turned his thoughts back to Agnes. wasn''t exactly her fault if people didn''t have time to read nowadays. Agnes continued, "Henry, tonight is the Jones'' bridge He thought that now he would have time to read all the newspapers he id = 44133 author = Williams, Adene title = The Girl Warriors: A Book for Girls date = keywords = Alroy; Aunt; Benton; Burton; Ernestine; Fannie; Gretta; Kitty; Miriam; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ralph; Winnie; Winnifred summary = But it was only her little brother Ralph, who said: "''Innie, mamma says But presently her father and older brother came home; little Ralph ran have liked to remain up an hour longer, but of direct disobedience Mrs. Burton''s children were seldom guilty, so Winnie gathered up her books, As Miriam lived only a square away, Mrs. Burton and Winnie walked over Ralph said he liked to see the little boys and girls After Miriam had finished the chapter, Winnie said, "Oh, girls, I must "Why, that sounds like a description of Ernestine Alroy!" said Fannie. "I like that, too," said Gretta; "but I think Miss Benton''s pretty card "That''s papa, I think," said Fannie, and she went with Ernestine to the "Oh, I must go right home and tell mamma!" said Winnie, and she went "Oh, Ralph," said Winnie, "you tell everything you know, besides much id = 32172 author = Wright, Henrietta Christian title = Children''s Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 date = keywords = America; Cooper; England; English; Europe; Hawthorne; Holmes; Irving; Longfellow; Lowell; Motley; New; Poe; Spain; States; United; history; indian; life; story; year summary = The man who was reading the old story was John Eliot, an English chapter of the life history of John James Audubon, the American Here, when three years old, Bryant often stood book in hand and with and romance as a preparation for his life work, and two years after In an old New England farm-house kitchen, a barefoot boy, dressed in This old phase of New-England life has now passed away, but he has Hawthorne was forty-six years old, appeared his first great romance. in public records and church histories, was given new life. America, was born at Litchfield, Conn., in those old New England days published his first book of verse under the title _A Year''s Life_, a forest life and with the pictures which the old stories called up, Six or eight times during the year the Great Spirit was called upon, id = 7167 author = nan title = The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII date = keywords = 8-Pt; 9-pt; III; JOHN; Lincoln; Song; book; reading summary = Books for Study and Reading Books for Study and Reading Why do we read books is one of those vast questions that need no to be argued into the belief that the reading of books is good for us; The man who does not like to read any books is, I am confident, seldom Franklin''s advice to read much but not too many books; the list of We must read a book for all there is in it or we shall get little or reading is to give a book its due and a little more. of a book read at twenty is just the passages I did not mark. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man--has