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# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5/The Cup

Featured in Vol 2., No.5 of The Atlantic Monthly.
THE CUP.
The cup I sing is a cup of gold, Many and many a century old, Sculptured fair, and over-filled With wine of a generous vintage, spilled In crystal currents and foaming tides All round its luminous, pictured sides.
Old Time enamelled and embossed This ancient cup at an infinite cost. Its frame he wrought of metal that run Red from the furnace of the sun. Ages on ages slowly rolled Before the glowing mass was cold, And still he toiled at the antique mould,— Turning it fast in his fashioning hand, Tracing circle, layer, and band, Carving figures quaint and strange, Pursuing, through many a wondrous change, The symmetry of a plan divine. At last he poured the lustrous wine, Crowned high the radiant wave with light, And held aloft the goblet bright, Half in shadow, and wreathed in mist Of purple, amber, and amethyst.
This is the goblet from whose brink All creatures that have life must drink: Foemen and lovers, haughty lord And sallow beggar with lips abhorred. The new-born infant, ere it gain The mother's breast, this wine must drain. The oak with its subtile juice is fed, The rose drinks till her cheeks are red, And the dimpled, dainty violet sips The limpid stream with loving lips. It holds the blood of sun and star, And all pure essences that are: No fruit so high on the heavenly vine, Whose golden hanging clusters shine On the far-off shadowy midnight hills, But some sweet influence it distils That slideth down the silvery rills. Here Wisdom drowned her dangerous thought, The early gods their secrets brought; Beauty, in quivering lines of light, Ripples before the ravished sight; And the unseen mystic spheres combine To charm the cup and drug the wine. ​ All day I drink of the wine and deep In its stainless waves my senses steep; All night my peaceful soul lies drowned In hollows of the cup profound; Again each morn I clamber up The emerald crater of the cup, On massive knobs of jasper stand And view the azure ring expand: I watch the foam-wreaths toss and swim In the wine that o'erruns the jewelled rim, Edges of chrysolite emerge, Dawn-tinted, from the misty surge; My thrilled, uncovered front I lave, My eager senses kiss the wave, And drain, with its viewless draught, the lore That warmeth the bosom's secret core, And the fire that maddens the poet's brain With wild sweet ardor and heavenly pain.
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# The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5/The Dead House

Featured in Vol 2., No.5 of The Atlantic Monthly. (October 1858)
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The Dead House.
Here once my step was quickened, Here beckoned the opening door, And welcome thrilled from the threshold To the foot it had felt before.
A glow came forth to meet me From the flame that laughed in the grate, And shadows a-dance on the ceiling Danced blither with mine for a mate.
"I claim you, old friend," yawned the arm-chair,— "This corner, you know, is your seat." "Rest your slippers on me," beamed the fender,— "I brighten at touch of your feet."
"We know the practised finger," Said the books, "that seems like brain"; And the shy page rustled the secret It had kept till I came again.
Sang the pillow, "My down once quivered On nightingales' throats that flew Through moonlit gardens of Hafiz To gather quaint dreams for you."
Ah, me, where the Past sowed heart's-ease, The Present plucks rue for us men! I come back: that scar unhealing Was not in the churchyard then.
But, I think, the house is unaltered; I will go and beg to look At the rooms that were once familiar To my life as its bed to a brook.
Unaltered! Alas for the sameness That makes the change but more! 'Tis a dead man I see in the mirrors, 'Tis his tread that chills the floor!
To learn such a simple lesson Need I go to Paris and Rome,— That the many make a household, But only one the home?
'Twas just a womanly presence, An influence unexprest,—
But a rose she had worn on my grave-sod Were more than long life with the rest!
'Twas a smile, 'twas a garment's rustle, 'Twas nothing that I can phrase,— But the whole dumb dwelling grew conscious, And put on her looks and ways.
Were it mine, I would close the shutters, Like lids when the life is fled, And the funeral fire should wind it, This corpse of a home that is dead.
For it died that autumn morning When she, its soul, was borne To lie all dark on the hillside That looks over woodland and corn.
# The Beauties of Glasgow (1802)/The Beauties of Glasgow

The BEAUTIES OF GLASGOW CITY.
# The Beautiful White Devil

The Beautiful White Devil is a tale of revenge, love and piracy on the high seas.
| “ | "Lay on twelve lashes." The man had a broad white back, and the first cut raised its mark, the second put another alongside it, and by the time the twelve strokes had been administered the blood had begun to flow. After the first cut the wretched culprit no longer attempted to comport himself like a man; he struggled, whined, and finally bellowed outright. When the number was completed, the native paused and looked at Alie. Her face was turned away, but it was as hard as iron. "You have so far had six lashes for each of the women you killed," she said; "now you will have six more for the man you butchered, and six more on top of them to teach you to respect myself and the name of Woman. Go on!" | ” |
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THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL
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THE BEAUTIFUL
WHITE DEVIL
BY
GUY BOOTHBY
AUTHOR OF A BID FOR FORTUNE, DR. NIKOLA, THE MARRIAGE OF ESTHER, ETC.
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1897
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Copyright, 1896, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
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CONTENTS.
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# The Beauties of Glasgow (1802)/She's What I Dare Not Name

She's what I dare not Name.
If love the virgin's heart invade, How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays about the flame! If soon she be not made a wife, Her honour's sing'd, and then for life She's what I dare not name.
GLASGOW, PRINTED BY J. & M. ROBERTSON, 1802.
# The Avalanche/Chapter XIV

There was silence for a moment and then Price said awkwardly: "It is a pity you haven't the chain or you could wear the ruby for the rest of the evening."
She turned her eyes from the window and stared at him. "I have the chain--" She raised her hand to the tip of her bodice--"but--but--you can't mean--it isn't possible that you can forgive me."
"I think I have taken very bad care of you. What are you, after all, but a brilliant child? I am thirty-three--"
He suddenly tore off his domino with, a feeling of rage, and thrust his hands into his friendly pockets. He had never made many verbal protestations to her, although the most exacting wife could have found no fault with his love-making. But to-night he felt dumb; he was mortally afraid of appearing high and noble and magnanimous.
"You see, things always happen during the first years of married life. Perhaps more happens--I mean in a pettier way--when the man has leisure and can see too much of his wife. In my case--our case--it was the other way--and something almost tragic happened. So I vote we treat it casually, as something that must have been expected sooner or later to disturb our--our--even tenor--and forget it."
"Forget it?"
"Well, yes. I can if you can."
"And can you forget who I am?"
"You are exactly what you were before those scoundrels recognized your mother, and--and--set me going. Of course I had to find out the truth. I thought you knew and tried to make you tell me. But you wouldn't--couldn't--and I had to employ Spaulding."
"Do you mean you would have married me if you had known the truth at the time?"
"Rather."
"And--but--I told you--I became a regular gambler."
He could not help smiling. "I have no fear of your gambling again. And I don't fancy you were a bit worse than the others who had no gambling blood in them--all the world has that. Gambling is about the earliest of the vices. I--if--you wouldn't mind promising--I know you will keep it."
"Nothing under heaven would induce me to play again. But--but--I opened your safe like a thief and stole--"
"Oh, not quite. After all it was yours as much as mine. If I had died without a will you would have got it.
"Of course--I know what you mean--but men have always driven women into a corner, and they have had to get out by methods of their own. I wish now I had given you the twenty thousand. I prefer you should accept my decision that it was all my fault. Give me the chain."
She drew it from her bosom and handed it to him. He fastened the ruby in its place and threw the chain over her neck. The great jewel lit up the front of her somber gown like a sudden torch in a cavern.
The stern despair of Hélène's tragic mask relaxed. She dropped her face into her hands and began to sob. Then Ruyler was himself again. He picked her up in his arms and settled comfortably into the deepest of the chairs.
THE END
# The Avenger (Oppenheim)

Also published as The Conspirators. An audiobook is available at LibriVox.
"There flashed across her face a quiver, as though of pain." (Page 52)
[Frontispiece
The Avenger
By E. Phillips Oppenheim
Author of "The Matter Mummer," "A Maker of Hiitory," "The Malefactor," "The Lost Leader," "The Great Secret," Etc.
Illustrated by
ALEC BALL
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1908
Copyright, 1907, 1908, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published May, 1908
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
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# The Avenger

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# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Ira Wilder

​ALLEN, Ira Wilder, educator, was born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., July 5, 1827, the eldest son of the Rev. Ira Allen, pastor of a church at Potsdam for nearly fifty years, and a direct descendant of Ira Allen, the Vermont patriot. The son was taught at home and in the local seminary, and from 1843 to 1846 was employed in teaching school. He entered the sophomore class of Hamilton college in 1847, and was graduated in 1850, when he took charge of Manlius academy, New York. He was elected professor of mathematics, astronomy, and civil engineering in Antioch college, Ohio, in 1851; took an extra course in mathematics at Hamilton and Harvard colleges and studied in the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin. He also investigated the school systems while in Europe. On assuming his duties at Antioch college he found the financial affairs in poor condition. Its educational standing was excellent. He aided in founding a new college in Indiana, which he managed for the first year, and then he went to Albany, N. Y., where he studied law and was admitted to practice. His love of teaching, however, impelled him to return to the school-room, and he opened Allen academy, Chicago, Ill., in 1863. He was elected a life member of the National teachers' association, also a member of the American archœological society, and of the Astronomical society. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1874, by Union Christian college.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, James Cameron

​ALLEN, James Cameron, representative, was born in Shelby county, Ky., Jan. 29, 1822; son of Benjamin and Margaret (Youell) Allen; grandson of John and Margaret (Youell) Allen, and a descendant of William Youell of Augusta county, Va., a Revolutionary soldier in the war for independence. His father was of Irish and his mother of Scotch origin. He was educated in the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1843. He was prosecuting attorney of the 7th judicial district of Indiana, 1846-'48; removed to Palestine, Ill., in 1848; was a representative in the state legislature, 1850 and 1851, and served as representative in the 33d and 34th congresses, 1853-'57, his seat in the 34th congress being unsuccessfully contested. He was clerk of the house for the 35th congress and again a representative from Illinois in the 38th congress, 1863-'65, having been elected from the state at large. He served as judge of the circuit and appellate court, 1873-79.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, James Lane

​ALLEN, James Lane, author, was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1849; the youngest child of Richard and Helen (Foster) Allen. He was graduated from Transylvania university with the degree of B.A., and after taking a post-graduate course was given the degree of M.A. At the age of twenty-one the death of his father necessitated his earning the support of his mother and sister by teaching in public schools, and later as a private tutor. For two years he was tutor in Transylvania university, leaving to accept the chair of Latin and higher English in Bethany college, West Virginia. There he remained two years, and then went to New York city to devote his life to literature. He became a frequent contributor to the principal magazines and reviews of the day and a well-known essayist and writer of short stories, the latter including: "Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School"; "King Solomon of Kentucky"; "The White Cowl" and "Sister Dolorosa." His published works include: "Flute and Violin and other Kentucky Tales and Romances" (1891); "The Blue-Grass Regions of Kentucky, and other Kentucky Articles" (1892); "John Gray; a Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time" (1893); "A Kentucky Cardinal" (1895); "Aftermath" (1896); "A Summer in Arcady" (1896); "The Choir Invisible" (1897); "The Reign of Law" (1901); "The Mettle of the "Pasture" (1903).
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Joel Asaph

​ALLEN, Joel Asaph, naturalist, was born at Springfield, Mass., July 19, 1838. He studied at Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, and accompanied Agassiz on the expedition to Brazil in 1865. In 1870 he was elected assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge; was awarded the Humboldt scholarship in 1871; became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and of the National Academy of Science in 1876, and received the degree, Ph.D. from Indiana university. From 1885 he was curator of the American Museum of Natural History of New York. He made numerous geological surveys for the government; edited the "Auk" and "The Bulletin" of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and published, "Mammals and Winter Birds of East Florida" (1871); "The American Bison, Living and Extinct" (1872); "Monographs of North American Rodentia" (with Elliott Cowes, 1877); "History of North American Pinnipeds" (1880); and "The American Ornithologist's Union" (1891); besides shorter works.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Jerome

​ALLEN, Jerome, educator, was born in Westminster, Vt., July 17, 1830; son of David and Eliza (Graves) Allen; grandson of Silas Allen of Heath, Mass., and a descendant of the Allens of Devonshire, England. He was graduated at Amherst college in 1851; studied theology at East Windsor Hill theological seminary (Hartford theological seminary), 1851-'52; was ​principal of the academy at Maquoketa, Iowa, 1854; professor of natural sciences in Alexander college, Dubuque, Iowa, 1855-'58; principal of Bowen collegiate institute, 1858-'61; founder and president of Lenox college, Hopkinton, Iowa, 1861-'68. He was the organizer of normal institutes in Iowa and was one of the charter members of the Iowa state teachers' association, and also for a time, editor of the Iowa Journal of Education. He was institute conductor in New York state in 1869-'70; professor of natural sciences, state normal school, Geneseo, N.Y., 1780-81; editor of Barnes's Educational Monthly, 1876-'80; president of the New York state teachers' association, 1880; president of the normal section of the National educational association, 1880; president of the State normal school, St. Cloud, Minn., 1881-'84; editor of the School Journal and Teachers Institute, New York, 1884-'90; one of the founders of and dean of the school of pedagogy, University of the city of New York, 1890-'94, and professor emeritus, 1894. He received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Lenox college in 1881. He published "An Elementary Grammar," "National System of Map Drawing," "Laboratory Practice in Chemistry," "Short Studies in English," "Lectures on the History of Education," "Mind Studies for Young Teachers," "Training of Teachers in Scotland," and articles in periodicals and cyclopædias. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 26, 1894.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, John Beard

​ALLEN, John Beard, senator, was born at Crawfordsville, Ind., May 18, 1845. He was prepared for college and entered at Wabash, but left to enlist in the 135th Indiana volunteers as a private. When the war ended, he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1870. Removing to Washington territory the same year he opened a law office, and in April, 1875, was appointed by President Grant United States attorney for the territory, holding the office until 1885. He was reporter of the supreme court from 1878 and delegate to the fifty-first Congress. When Washington was admitted as a state he was elected to the United States senate 1893. He died at Seattle, Jan. 29, 1903.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, John Henry

​ALLEN, John Henry, mariner, was born at St. Andrews, West Indies, in 1836. In 1861 he joined the navy as an ensign, and served in the western gulf blockading squadron, winning for his gallant action in the battle of Mobile the command of the Selma. At the close of the war he became a ship-master and owner. From 1880 he resided in Brooklyn, N.Y. He published "The Fruits of the Wine Cup: a Drama in Three Acts"; "Decline of American Shipping: its Cause and Remedy" (1884); "The Spanish-American Reciprocity Treaty" (1885); and "The Tariff and Its Evils; or, "Protection Which Does Not Protect" (1888). On Dec. 8, 1889, he sailed for Queenstown in his ship Bridgewater, and was drowned on the voyage, probably in January, 1890.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, John M.

​ALLEN, John M., representative, was born in Tishomingo county, Miss., July 8, 1847. He received a common-school education, and at the age of fifteen enlisted in the Confederate army, in which he served as a private throughout the civil war. He then studied law at the Cumberland university, Tenn., and at the University of Mississippi, where he was graduated in 1870. He opened a law office at Tupelo, Lee county, and in 1875 was chosen district attorney for the first judicial district of Mississippi, and served for four years. In 1884 he was elected to represent his district in the 49th Congress, and was returned to the 50th, 51st, 52d, 53d, 54th, 55th and 56th Congresses. He became universally known as "Private Allen," through a happy repartee which he made in a political speech during the canvass for his first election to Congress. In a joint debate his competitor opened his speech with: "Fellow citizens, I slept one night in a tent on the mountainside, awaiting the battle on the morrow." When he had finished his speech, Allen rose to his feet and said: "Friends and fellow citizens, what General Tucker has told you about sleeping in his tent that night before the battle is true. I know, for I was guarding that tent all night long in the cold and the wet. Now, I want to say to all of you who were generals in the war, and slept at night in your guarded tents, vote for him; but all you fellows that guarded the generals' tents in the wet and cold, like me, you vote for 'Private Allen.'" Allen was triumphantly elected. In Congress he showed himself a ready and effective debater.
# The Biographical Dictionary of America/Allen, Joseph Henry

​ALLEN, Joseph Henry, theologian, was born in Northboro, Mass., Aug. 21 1820; son of the Rev. Joseph and ---- (Ware) Allen, and a direct descendant of "Walter Allen of Durham county, England, who immigrated to America and settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1630. His father was pastor of the church at Northboro, 1816-'73, and his mother was a daughter of Prof. Henry Ware of Harvard college. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B. in 1840, and from the divinity school in 1843. He was minister of the Third Unitarian parish at Roxbury, Mass., 1843-'47; Washington, D.C., 1847-'50; Bangor, Maine, 1850-'57; private instructor at Jamaica Plain, Mass., 1850-'63; minister at Northboro, 1863-'66; Ann Arbor, Mich., 1877-'78; editor of the Christian Examiner, 1857-'69, and of the Unitarian Review, 1887-'94. He was lecturer on ecclesiastical history in Harvard, 1878-'82, and received from Harvard the degrees A.M., 1879, D.D., 1891. He was married in May, 1845, to Anna, sister of S. M. Weld, and a descendant of Thomas Welde, first minister of Roxbury. They had three sons, Richard Minot, Gardner Weld and Russell Carpenter. He is the author of "Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy" (1849); "Memoirs of Hiram Withington" (1849); "Manual of Devotion" (1852); "Hebrew Men and Times from the Patriarchs to the Messiah" (1861); "The Great Controversy of States and People"; "Fragments of Christian History to the Founding of the Holy Roman Empire"; "Christian History in its Three Great Periods" (3 vols., 1883); "Outline of Christian History, A.D. 50-1880"; Positive Religion" (1891); "History of Unitarianism" (1894): "Our Liberal Movement in Theology" (1897) and edited the Allen and Greenough Classical Series. He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 20, 1898.