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[Dance music for piano; a collection.] [1839-47.]

Bound up without title-page.

qM 786.46 D197

Made up mostly of waltzes, quick-steps, galops and marches, polkas, quadrilles, etc., with a few other piano selections.

Fisher, Henry.

780.1 F53

Psychology for music teachers; the laws of thought applied to sounds and their symbols, with other relevant matter. 1905. Curwen.

Homer, Sidney.

qM 784.8 H75 Songs from Mother Goose for voice and piano, set to music; illustrated by M. W. Enright. Op.36. 1920. Macmillan.

The same..

Liszt, Franz.

.qj 784.8 H75

qM 785.4 L73h

Hamlet [Symphonische dichtungen nr.10, orchestral score for 25 pieces]. Breitkopf.

Liszt, Franz.

qM 786.4902 L73h

Hungaria [Symphonische dichtung nr.9], für klavier zu 4 händen. Breitkopf.

Liszt, Franz.

qM 785.4 L73

Hunnenschlacht, nach Kaulbach [Symphonische dichtung nr.11], partitur, 28 orchesterstimmen. Breitkopf.

Liszt, Franz.

qM 786.4902 L73m

Mazeppa [Symphonische dichtung nr.6], für klavier zu 4 händen. Breitkopf.

Pittsburgh, Mozart Club.

r 780.6 P6742an Anniversary concert, Thursday evening, April 18th, 1918, 40th season, 161st concert, Carnegie Music Hall. [1918. Pittsburgh.]

Christy, Bayard H.

Recreation

796 C46

Going afoot; a book on walking. 1920. Association Press.
Published for the League of Walkers.
"Bibliography," p.143-148.

Tells how, when, and where to walk, discusses walking clubs in America, and the organization and conduct of walking clubs in general.

Foster, Robert Frederick.

795 F81ru

Russian bank (or crapette); a game for two players, with complete description and illustrative lists. 1920. Dutton.

Hallock, Charles.

r 799 H18 Sportsman's gazetteer and general guide; the game animals, birds and fishes of North America, their habits and various methods of capture; copious instructions in shooting, fishing, taxidermy, woodcraft, etc., with a glossary, and a directory to the principal game resorts of the country. 1878. Forest and Stream Pub. Co.

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Kimmins, Mrs Grace Thyrza (Hannam).

9 793.3 K26 Guild of play book of festival and dance; written by G. T. Kimmins, dances arranged by M. H. Woolnoth, with description and direction to dance music and costume. 4 pts. in 4v. 1907. Curwen.

v.3 title reads "Guild of play book of national dances;" v.4 title reads "Guild of play book for little children."

Brooks, Van Wyck.

Literature

Ordeal of Mark Twain. [1920.] Dutton.

817 T89z

A psychological study offering an explanation of Mark Twain's well known pessimism and claiming that his career was a tragedy because he did not live up to his highest possibilities.

Cushing, Charles Phelps.

If you don't write fiction. 1920. McBride.

808 C939

Hints upon practical journalism, with some account of the author's adventures in literary fields.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Compensation. [1912.] Barse. (Golden books.)

Garrett, Robert Max.

814 E58c0

qr 821 G19

The Pearl; an interpretation. 1918. University of Washington. (Washington (state) University. Publications in English, v.4, no.1.) The writer concludes that this 14th century poem has as its central idea the fundamental teachings of the eucharist.

Gosse, Edmund William.

824 G69s

Some diversions of a man of letters. 1919. Heinemann. Contents: Preface: On fluctuations of taste.-The shepherd of the ocean.-The songs of Shakespeare.-Catherine Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings.-The message of the Wartons.-The charm of Sterne.-The centenary of Edgar Allen Poe.The author of "Pelham."-The challenge of the Brontës.-Disraeli's novels.-Three experiments in portraiture: Lady Dorothy Nevill; Lord Cromer; The last days of Lord Redesdale. The lyrical poetry of Thomas Hardy.-Some soldier poets.-The future of English poetry.-The agony of the Victorian age.

Lowell, James Russell.

814 L95fu

The function of the poet, and other essays; collected and ed. by Albert Mordell. 1920. Houghton.

Contents: ON POETRY AND BELLES-LETTRES: The function of the poet.-Humor, wit, fun and satire. The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare).-The imagination.-Critical fragments.-REVIEWS OF CONTEMPORARIES: Henry James; James's Tales and sketches.-Longfellow; The courtship of Miles Standish, Tales of a wayside inn.-Whittier; In war time, and other poems, Home ballads and poems, Snow-bound.-Poetry and nationality.-W. D. Howells; Venetian life.E. A. Poe.-Thackeray; Roundabout papers. Two GREAT AUTHORS: Swift.-Plutarch's morals. A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers. .r 814 L95f

The same.

Mitchell, Roy.

Shakespeare for community players. 1919. Dent.

822.33 HL7

Contents: Introduction. Choosing the play. Organisation.-Rehearsal.—Stagesetting. Furniture and accessories. -Dresses. -Lighting. -Make-up. -Music. The "matinée lyrique,"

"Bibliography," p.136-142.

Neal, Robert Wilson.

808.3 N17s

Short stories in the making; a writers' and students' introduction to the technique and practical composition of short stories, including an adaptation of the principles of the stage plot to short story writing. 1914. Oxford University Press, American branch.

Repplier, Agnes.

Points of friction. 1920. Houghton.

814 R35P

Contents: Living in history.-Dead authors.-Consolations of the conservative.The cheerful clan.-The beloved sinner.-The virtuous Victorian.-Woman enthroned. -The strayed prohibitionist.-Money.-Cruelty and humour. Ritchie, Mrs Anne Isabella (Thackeray).

824 R49fr

From friend to friend; ed. by Emily Ritchie. 1920. Murray. Other essays: Mrs Sartoris, 1814-1879.-Mrs Kemble, 1809-1893.-A Roman Christmas-time.-Present tapestries and far-off bells and pomegranates.-Two letters to a painter from W. M. Thackeray.-In a French village.-Binnie. Schofield, William Henry.

821 $36

Mythical bards and The life of William Wallace. 1920. Harvard University Press. (Harvard University. Studies in comparative literature, v.5.)

An attempt at solving the problem of Henry the Minstrel, popularly called Blind Harry, author of "The life of William Wallace," and an inquiry into the circumstances of the production of the poem and the reasons why it has exerted such an influence in shaping the opinions of Scots. Concludes with a chapter on "The progress of conceptions of poesy."

Shelley, Henry Vogel.

Study of piety in the Greek tragic chorus. 1919.
Thesis for Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Smith, Bertram, 1876-1918.

kin.

r 882.09 $54

824 S643

Running wild [essays], with a preface by Ward Muir. 1920. Simp

Delightfully spontaneous recollections of boyhood days, written from a boy's point

of view.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

822.09 S97c

Contemporaries of Shakespeare; ed. by Edmund Gosse and T. J. Wise. 1919. Heinemann.

Contents: Christopher Marlowe in relation to Greene, Peele and Lodge.-George Chapman. The earlier days of Beaumont and Fletcher.-Philip Massinger.-John Day. -Robert Davenport.-Thomas Nabbes.-Richard Brome.-James Shirley. Tomlinson, H. M.

Old junk; foreword by S. K. Ratcliffe. 1920. Knopf.

824 T59

Contents: The African coast.-The call.-Old junk.-Bed-books and night-lights. -Transfiguration.-The pit mouth.-Initiation.-The art of writing.-A first impression. The derelict.-The voyage of the Mona.-The lascar's walking-stick.-The extra hand. The sou'-wester.-On leave.-The dunes.-Binding a spell.-A division on the march.-Holly-ho!-The ruins.-Lent, 1918.

Woolley, Edwin Campbell.

808 W87h

Handbook of composition; a compendium of rules regarding good English, grammar, sentence structure, paragraphing, manuscript arrangement, punctuation, spelling, essay writing and letter writing. 1920. Heath.

Woolley, Edwin Campbell.

808 W87w

Written English; a course of lessons in the main things to know in order to write English correctly. 1915. Heath.

Poetry

Masefield, John.

Boni, Albert, ed.

841.08 B62

Modern book of French verse, in English translations by Chaucer, Francis Thompson, Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Robert Bridges, John Payne and others. 1920. Boni. (The modern books of verse.) Frothingham, Robert, ed.

Songs of horses; an anthology. 1920. Houghton.

Enslaved. 1920. Macmillan.

821.08 F97s

821 M44en

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A prisoner of Pentonville [verse], with a foreword by J. F. Newton.

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"Bibliography," p.25 in introduction.

The princess; ed. with an introduction and notes by F. T. Baker. 1902. Appleton. (Twentieth century text-books.)

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Man of the people; a drama of Abraham Lincoln. 1920. Appleton. Ferber, Edna, & Levy, Newman.

812 F37

$1,200 a year; a comedy in three acts. 1920. Doubleday. An amusing satire on the salaries of college professors.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

812 L82

Courtship of Miles Standish; arranged in seven scenes for school and home theatricals. 1886. Houghton. (Riverside literature series.) O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone.

812 025b

Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts. 1920. Boni.

O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone.

812 025

Thirst, and other one act plays. 1914. Gorham Press. (American dramatists series.)

Other plays: The web. Warnings.-Fog.-Recklessness. Tagore, Sir Rabindranath.

891.4 T13chi

Chitra; un drama en un acto; traduccion del original bengali al ingles por el autor; traduccion al castellano por H. L. Gupta. 1919. A lyrical drama, based on a story from the Mahabharata.

Kelly, H. P. comp.

Humor

827 K17

Irish bulls and puns. Skeffington.

Ninety-six pages of examples of Irish wit.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.

ton.

Biography

92 A365a

Aldrich, Mrs Thomas Bailey. Crowding memories. 1920. Hough

Pleasantly written reminiscences giving intimate glimpses of the home life of Mrs Aldrich and her poet husband, incidents and experiences of their European journeys, and many entertaining anecdotes of the literary and artistic people who were their friends and associates-Edwin Booth and his young wife, Howells, Dickens, Mark Twain, Henry Irving, and others.

Eugénie, empress of the French.

92 E923f

Fleury, Maurice, comte, b. 1856, comp. Memoirs of the empress Eugenie; comp. from statements, private documents and personal letters of the empress Eugenie, from conversations of the emperor Napoleon III and from family letters and papers of General Fleury, M. Franceschini Pietri, prince Victor Napoleon and other members of the court of the second empire. 2v. 1920. Appleton.

Written a decade or more ago by an intimate member of the empress's entourage from data supplied by her. The most valuable parts of the book are the reports of conversations and sayings of Emperor Napoleon III and others, which picture forth their characters and set them in a new historic light. Condensed from New York times,

1920.

Lehmann, Elizabeth Nina Mary Frederika, afterward

Mrs Bedford.

92 L55321

Life, with coloured frontispiece by Herbert Bedford and 17 other illustrations.

[1919.] Unwin.

An autobiography of the famous singer and composer perhaps best remembered as the author of the song-cycle "In a Persian garden." Her reminiscences include many memories of the world of art in which she moved, as well as those more personal.

Penn, William, defendant.

r 92 P395pe

Tryal of William Penn & William Mead for causing a tumult at the sessions held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th and 5th of September, 1670; done by themselves; transcribed from the compleat collection of state tryals first published in 1719 and ed. by D. C. Seitz. 1919. Marshall Jones Co.

Roosevelt, Theodore.

92 R684lr

Leary, John Joseph, jr. Talks with T. R. 1920. Houghton. Extracts from the diary of a newspaper man who for years had carefully recorded his conversations with Roosevelt.

Tirpitz, Alfred Peter Friedrich von.

My memoirs. 2v. 1919. Dodd.

92 T498t

Reminiscences dating back to 1866 when von Tirpitz entered the German navy. The second volume deals with the high-sea fleet and the submarine campaign during the world war.

"Needs to be read with a wary eye for those amazing distortions of the truth in which German writers do not hesitate to indulge when they wish to defend the actions of their government." New York times, 1920.

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