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...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ...PTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRIST... ...s of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sen... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... ... full of deportment, solemnly courteous, and doing all things with grace and decorum. In dress they ran to colour and bright sashes. Not even the most... ... the wall. As an antiquity in this new land, a quaint specimen of missionary architecture, and a memorial of good deeds, it had a triple claim to pres... ...y, which is the only covered portion of the church, is filled with seats and decorated for the service; the Indians troop together, their bright dress... ...ech goes spiring and casting forth her arms, and, with a grace beyond church architecture, canopies this rugged chaos. Meanwhile, dividing the two can...

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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. The Point of View by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ment. He is always with the beau-frere, a rather untidy, fat, bearded man, deco- rated, too, always smoking and looking at the feet of the ladies, who... ... the rest. The landlady wears diamond ear-rings; and the drawing-rooms are deco- rated with marble statues. I should indeed be sorry to let you know h... ... and though I am not sure I agree with him in his views of the relation of art to life and life to art, and in his inter- pretation of some of the gre... ... true of the others), but that places and things as well have acquired the art of pleasing. The houses are extremely good, and they look so extraordin... ...er- in-law tells me) in the machinery, which is magnificent. Naturally, no architecture (they make houses of wood and of iron), no art, no literature,... ...ELLUS COCKEREL, IN WASH- INGTON, TO MRS. COOLER, NEE COCKEREL, AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. October 25. I ought to have written to you long before this, fo...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Mes- sage, and humor strictly mo... ...ng women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly gal- loped across the floor of the... ..., books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in th... ...ked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discov- ered new forms of suburban architecture, and remem- bered her desire to recreate villages. She decided... ...e traveling salesman had murmured, “Dentistry,” she desperately hazarded, “Architecture.” “That’s a real nice art. I’ve always said—when Haydock & Sim... ...st a fireplace. “We’ll have a new house in a couple of years, anyway.” She decorated only one room. The rest, Kennicott hinted, she’d better leave til... ...ht. The Arab village of Djeddah—an intricately chased jewel-box. A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatte...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...h remark, Hardy had a good deal to say concerning the manner in which that art was practised upon the island. Throughout the entire cluster the tattoo... ...tattooers of Hivarhoo enjoyed no small reputation. They had carried their art to the highest perfection, and the profession was esteemed most honoura... ...n the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and between th... ...not far from the Calabooza Beretanee. It was esteemed the best specimen of architecture in Tahiti. Of late, they have built their places of worship wi... ...uni- formity), patches of the same colour may be seen. In their ardour to decorate the sanctuary, the converts must have borrowed each a brush full o... ...Spanish hunters, men regularly trained to their calling upon the plains of California, that the work of slaughter was fairly begun. The Spaniards were... ...he volatile Polynesian in this, as in all other respects, is our grave and decorous North American Indian. While the former bestows a name in accordan...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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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. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North... ...gh without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters of the art), and in that plunge I did not lose my presence of mind. Two vigorous s... ...dozen yards, a second door opened before me. I then entered a dining-room, decorated and furnished in severe taste. High oaken sideboards, inlaid with... ..., thirty feet long, eigh- teen wide, and fifteen high. A luminous ceiling, deco- rated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light over all the mar... ...intelligent and prodigal hand had gathered all the treasures of nature and art, with the 55 Jules Verne artistic confusion which distinguishes a pain... ..., standing broad upon their granite base, like the heavy columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incompre- hensible guide led us to the bottom of ... ...ound, from which one would still recognise the massive character of Tuscan architecture. Further on, some remains of a gi- gantic aqueduct; here the h...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ....................................... .............................. 79 THE CALIFORNIAN’S TALE ........................................................... ...dred cathedrals, was being gratefully welcomed and blest in papal Rome and decorated with the Golden Rose which she had so honorably earned, what was ... ...id not know he was being nibbled at; but at last, chance accomplished what art had failed in. In illustration of some thing under discussion which re... ...HARMING HOME!—my new one; a fine great house, with pictures, and delicate decorations, and rich fur niture, and no gloom anywhere, but all the wilde... ...ing away—we don’t know whither; and down comes the cur tain. McClintock’s art is subtle; McClintock’s art is deep. Not many days afterward, as surrou... ...hall go in there for to look the interior. Admire this master piece gothic architecture’s. The chasing of all they figures is astonishing’ indeed. The... ... itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture. I was afraid of it at first, and started to run every time it...