Authors and their public in ancient times; a sketch of literary conditions and of the relations with the public of literary producers, from the earliest times to the invention of printing,

"Principal works referred to as authorities": p. xiii-xvii.

A descriptive catalogue of the first series of the works of the Camden society: stating the nature of their principal contents, the periods of time to which they relate, the dates of their composition, their manuscript sources, authors, and editors. Accompianied by a classified arrangement and an index, and by some illustrative particulars that have arisen since their publication.

Mode of access: Internet.

Short plays about famous authors,

Introduction.--A mistake at the manor ["based on an incident in the early life of Oliver Goldsmith"]--When Heine was twenty-one.--Miss Burney at court.--A Christmas eve with Charles Dickens.--The fairies' plea; an interlude for Shakespeare day. Adapted from Thomas Hood's "Plea of the midsummer fairies."

Famous American authors /

Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Washington Irving -- William Hicklin Prescott -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- William Dean Howells -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Richard Watson Gilder -- Will Carleton -- George W. Cable -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) -- Charles Dudley Warner.

A Russian country house,

Mode of access: Internet.

Short stories by present-day authors,

- Stories of plot. (a) Dramatic incident:The red mark, John Russell. The Chink and the child, Thomas Burke. (b) Detective and mystery: The Doomdorf mystery, Melville Davisson Post. (c) Ingenuity and surprise: How it happened, A. Conan Doyle. (D) Problem: A jury of her peers, Susan Glaspell.- Stories of character. (a) Individual: Humoresque, Fannie Hurst. The game of life and death, Lincoln Colcord. (b) Psychological: The belled buzzard, Irvin Cobb.- Stories of setting. (a) Local color: The conversion of Elviny...

Drachkov; Russian drama in five acts,

Mode of access: Internet.

Hymns and songs: selected from various authors, for the primary associations of the children of Zion.

Mode of access: Internet.

Soviet-Russian scientific and technical terms; a selective list. Special issue: glossary of terms, English-Russian, Russian-English.

Distributed by U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services.

The practical elocutionist : a collection of recitations, chiefly from modern authors ... a number of original pieces ... /

Note by Bertram Dobell asserting that the author's real name was Church.

Landmarks in Russian literature,

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