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# The Lay of the Motor-Car

We're away! and the wind whistles shrewd In our whiskers and teeth; And the granite-like grey of the road Seems to slide underneath. As an eagle might sweep through the sky, So we sweep through the land; And the pallid pedestrians fly When they hear us at hand.
We outpace, we outlast, we outstrip! Not the fast-fleeing hare, Nor the racehorses under the whip, Nor the birds of the air Can compete with our swiftness sublime, Our ease and our grace. We annihilate chickens and time And policemen and space.
Do you mind that fat grocer who crossed? How he dropped down to pray In the road when he saw he was lost; How he melted away Underneath, and there rang through the fog His earsplitting squeal As he went -- Is that he or a dog, That stuff on the wheel?
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# The Lay of the Nibelungs

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The Lay of the Nibelungs is an epic poem written anonymously in Middle High German around 1200. This copy is an English translation by Alice Horton, revised and edited for a second edition by Edward Bell.
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THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGS
GEORGE BELL & SONS
LONDON : YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
THE LAY OF THE
NIBELUNGS
METRICALLY TRANSLATED FROM THE OLD GERMAN TEXT BY ALICE HORTON
REVISED AND EDITED BY
EDWARD BELL, M.A.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE ESSAY ON THE NIBELUNGEN LIED BY THOMAS CARLYLE
LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
YORK STREET COVENT GARDEN 1901
First edition, 1898
Second edition revised, 1901
CONTENTS.
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# The Lay of the Last Minstrel/Preface

THE Poem now offered to the Public is intended to illustrate the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the Borders of England and Scotland. The inhabitants living in a state partly pastoral and partly warlike, and combining habits of constant depredation with the influence of a rude spirit of chivalry, were often engaged in scenes highly susceptible of poetical ornament. As the description of scenery and manners was more the object of the Author than a combined and regular narrative, the plan of the ancient metrical romance was adopted, which allows greater latitude in this respect than would be consistent with the dignity of a regular poem. The same model offered other faculties, as it permits an occasional alteration of measure, which, in some degree, authorises the changes of rhythm in the text. The machinery also, adopted from popular belief, would have seemed puerile in a poem which did not partake of the rudeness of the old ballad, or metrical romance.
For these reasons, the Poem was put into the mouth of an ancient Minstrel, the last of the race, who, as he is supposed to have survived the Revolution, might have caught somewhat of the refinement of modern poetry, without losing the simplicity of his original model. The date of the tale itself is about the middle of the 16th century, when most of the personages actually flourished. The time occupied by the action is three nights and three days.
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# The Mayor v. Lindsey

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United States Supreme Court
86 U.S. 485
The Mayor v. Lindsey
In error to the same Circuit Court, for the Middle District of Tennessee. In this case Lindsey sued the mayor of Nashville on certain checks, similar in all respects, in form and inception, to the check issued to Julius Sax, and mentioned more particularly supra, p. 472. The checks now sued on had been pledged as collateral security for a loan of less amount than the checks pledged, and were sold soon after being pledged, and before the loan fell due; the transaction being effected by the chairman of the finance committee of the city council without other authority. Such at least was the tendency of the evidence, and the judge charged substantially as in the preceding case of Ray.
Mr. Justice BRADLEY announced the judgment of this court, REVERSING THE JUDGMENT BELOW, with directions to award a

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# The Negro's Complaint

Forced from home and all its pleasures,  Afric's coast I left forlorn; To increase a stranger's treasures,  O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me,  Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though slave they have enroll'd me  Minds are never to be sold.
Still in thought as free as ever,  What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever,  Me to torture, me to task? Fleecy locks and black complexion  Cannot forfeit nature's claim; Skins may differ, but affection  Dwells in white and black the same.
Why did all-creating Nature  Make the plant for which we toil? Sighs must fan it, tears must water,  Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted,  Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted  For the sweets your cane affords.
Is there, as ye sometimes tell us,  Is there One who reigns on high? Has he bid you buy and sell us,  Speaking from his throne, the sky? Ask him, if your knotted scourges,  Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges  Agents of his will to use?
Hark! he answers—wild tornadoes,  Strewing yonder sea with wrecks; Wasting towns, plantations, meadows,  Are the voice with which he speaks. He, foreseeing what vexations  Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrants' habitations  Where his whirlwinds answer—no.
By our blood in Afric wasted,  Ere our necks received the chain; By the miseries that we tasted,  Crossing in our barks the main; By our sufferings, since ye brought us  To the man-degrading mart, All sustain'd by patience, taught us  Only by a broken heart;
Deem our nation brutes no longer,  Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger  Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings  Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings,  Ere you proudly question ours!
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# The Negro's Origin: and Is the Negro cursed?

THE
NEGRO'S ORIGIN:
AND
IS THE NEGRO CURSED?
By B. T TANNER
PHILADELPHIA:
african m.e. book depository,
631 pine street.
THE
NEGRO'S ORIGIN:
AND
IS THE NEGRO CURSED?
By B. T TANNER
PHILADELPHIA:
african m.e. book depository,
631 pine street.
Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1869, by B. T. TANNER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
THIS LITTLE PAMPHLET IS Dedicated TO THE NEGRO whose manhood CAN NEITHER BE DESTROYED BY THE rust of barbarism NOR THE FIRES OF PERSECUTION
* Letter from Bishop Campbell
* The Negro's Origin
* Is the Negro Cursed?
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# The Negro's Origin: and Is the Negro cursed?/Chapter 1

LETTER FROM BISHOP CAMPBELL
Rev. B. T. Tanner.
Dear Sir:—Allow me to say, that although I had not thought of writing an Introduction to your forthcoming Pamphlet, upon the "Negro's Origin," and "Is the Negro Cursed?" yet I had thought of writing an article which you might use with others of the same kind, and thus help forward the circulation of your little work. After seeing your notice in the Christian Recorder, I supposed that you were not waiting for me to accept the invitation you had given me to write the Introduction.
And now you must allow me to decline writing an Introduction. To write a proper Introduction to a work after the middle of the nineteenth century, a man ought to be well posted, not only as to the literary merits of the work itself, but also, as to the strength of the arguments produced against it by opposing theories.
As to the literary ability of your forthcoming Pamphlet, I am posted; but as to the strength of the arguments of many—very many opposing theories, I am not exactly posted. I must have time to compare your notes, with others who oppose, before I would be prepared to render a decision, which I would be willing to have go forth to the world in book form, to pass down to our posterity.
To say that I have read nothing, and thought nothing upon the subject, would be very far from the truth; but ​to say that I am prepared to defend all the arguments which you have produced, in opposition to the commonly received opinions, would be saying what is not the truth.
When you first named the subject of writing an Introduction, upon reflection of the subject, I thought it would be a good idea, for some one to write an Introduction for a second edition of the work, in which you would have a chance to enlarge, and the party introducing, would have a chance to examine, the sources of proof which you have introduced. By that means your work might not have only a transient existence, but it might possibly find a place among the few works that pass down from generation to generation. And such I desire to be the good fortune of your work.
Also, I hope in time to add something to the common stock, for which cause, I confess that I have to exercise a little caution about what I say and what I do.
I am yours truly,
J. P. Campbell.
P. S. You must already be aware of the fact, that in my travels, I have no access to libraries, when away from my home; and that I am constantly preaching and doing Church business. Under such circumstances it would not be possible for an intelligent man, to write an intelligent Introduction to a Book. I am willing to help others, when I can really help them, and help, or at least do no harm to myself at the same time.
When I can write an Introduction for you, that will make the people call for a work from me, from what they see in that Introduction, I will then do it.
J. P. C.
1810 Addison St., Phila., Pa.
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# The Mystery (Dunbar)

* "The Mystery", published in Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)
* "The Mystery", published in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1913)
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Concord (Massachusetts)

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​ CONCORD, kŏṉ′kẽrd. A town in Middlesex County, Mass., 20 miles northwest of Boston; on the Concord River and on the Boston and Maine Railroad (Map: Massachusetts, E 3). It has manufactures of rubber goods and harness. The Massachusetts Reformatory is situated here. The government is administered by town meetings, held annually and at special call. Population, in 1890, 4427; in 1900, 5652. Concord, settled in 1635, is the oldest interior town in Massachusetts, and by the time of the Revolution had come to be “one of the great centres, not only of intellectual life, but also of political influence and power.” In August, 1774, the Middlesex Convention, the first county convention assembled in Massachusetts, was held here, every town being represented; and on October 11, under the stimulus of the Revolutionary agitation, the first Provincial Congress, presided over by John Hancock, met to consider the ways and means of resisting the tyrannies of the mother country. Later large quantities of ammunition and military supplies were stored here, and in an attempt made by the British to destroy them, on April 19, 1775, occurred the memorable fight which precipitated the War of the Revolution. (See Lexington.) In 1787, during Shays's Rebellion, a body of insurgents entered Concord and prevented the sitting of its courts. The town is chiefly notable for having been the home of a distinguished coterie of writers and thinkers, including Emerson, Thoreau, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa M. Alcott, Hawthorne, and William Ellery Channing, ‘the poet.’ Consult: Hurd, History of Middlesex County (Philadelphia, 1890); Emerson, Historical Discourse Delivered in 1835 (Concord, 1835).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Congressional Library

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​CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, See Library of Congress.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Concord (North Carolina)

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​ CONCORD. A city and county-seat of Cabarrus County, N. C., 21 miles northeast of Charlotte; on the Southern Railroad (Map: North Carolina, B 2). It has foundries and machine-shops, and extensive manufactures of cotton. First incorporated in 1793, Concord is governed at present under a charter of 1851, revised in 1891, which provides for a mayor, elected biennially, and a city council. Population, in 1890, 4339; in 1900, 7910.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Congregational Methodist Church, The

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​CONGREGATIONAL METHODIST CHURCH, The. A body formed in May, 1852, in Monroe County, Ga., by ministers and laymen who had withdrawn from the Methodist Episcopal Church and wished to establish a church with Methodistic doctrines, but giving the people a voice in their own government. In 1852 the first district conference was held and a Book of Discipline adopted; in 1855 the first general convention was held. Since 1881 many churches have joined the Congregational body, but in 1901 the Congregational Methodists reported 350 churches and 21,000 members. In government it is not strictly Congregational, since it has semi-annual district conferences, annual State conferences, and quadrennial general conferences, and it is admissible to carry an appeal from one to another. It admits both white and colored persons, the latter being separately organized.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Congress

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​CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, conference, from congredi, to meet together, from com-, together + gradi, to step). In international affairs, an assembly either of sovereign princes or of delegates of sovereign States for the purpose of considering matters of common interest. In the United States, where the term has now a specific meaning as applied to the National Legislature (see United States), it had a similar origin, the first Congress being that of the delegates from the various British colonies, who met on October 7, 1765, for the purpose of considering their grievances. Previous to signing a treaty of peace, a meeting of plenipotentiaries usually takes place, to which the name of a congress is sometimes applied, though the term seems more properly to be reserved for those more important meetings at which extensive schemes of future policy are determined. The period of secular diplomatic congresses opened with the Congress of Münster and Osnabrück, which closed the Thirty Years' War by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (q.v.). Since then, omitting those diplomatic bodies whose object was simply to arrange terms of peace at the close of a war, the most important European congresses have been those of Vienna (1814-15), Paris (1856), Berlin (1878), and the Internation Peace Conference at The Hague (1899). An international ‘Pan-American’ congress, to discuss industrial and commercial questions, was held at Washington, from October, 1888, to April, 1890. In the winter of 1901-02 a similar congress assembled at Mexico and discussed at great length the question of international arbitration. See Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Congress of.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Concord (New Hampshire)

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​ CONCORD. A city, capital of New Hampshire, and county-seat of Merrimack County, 75 miles north-northwest of Boston; on the Merrimac River and on the Boston and Maine Railroad (Map: New Hampshire, J 9). It has wide streets, shaded and well paved, and a good water-supply, owned and operated by the municipality. Among the principal buildings are the State House, built of granite, United States Government building, court-house, and city hall. State prison. State insane asylum, the Margaret Pillsbury Hospital, State Library, and Saint Paul's School (Episcopal) for boys. There are several parks: White's, Rollins, Fiske, Contoocook River, and Pennacook. In the Statehouse park is a bronze statue of Daniel Webster, and at Pennacook, a monument to Hannah Dustin. In the vicinity are extensive quarries of fine-grained white granite, the quarrying of which is one of the leading industries. The repair-shops of the Boston and Maine Railroad are situated here. The manufactures include carriages, silverware, harness, furniture, flour, cotton and woolen goods, leather belting and leather hose, pianos, shoes, etc. Industrial statistics for 1900 give the following figures: Number of industries, 81; invested capital, $1,959,238; value of production, $3,252,302; persons employed, 1829. Under the charter of 1853, as amended, Concord is governed by a mayor, chosen every two years, and a bicameral city council. The assessors and the school board are chosen by popular election; other appointments are controlled by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and the Council. Population, in 1890, 17,004; in 1900, 19,632.
Concord was founded in 1725, on the site of Pennacook, the chief village of the Pennacook Indians, and bore that name until 1733, when it was incorporated as Rumford. It suffered greatly in all the Indian wars and was the scene of a massacre in 1746. In 1765 Rumford was renamed ‘Concord.’ On the adoption of a State constitution it became the capital of New Hampshire, and in 1853 was incorporated as a city. Consult: Moore, Annals of Concord, N. H. ​(Concord, 1824); and Bouton, The History of Concord (Concord, 1850).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Concord (music)

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​ CONCORD, in Music. See Consonance.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Congressional Cemetery

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​CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY, A handsome cemetery near Washington containing monuments to such members of Congress as have died during their term of office. See Washington.
# The Mythology of All Races/Volume 3/Slavic/Part 4/Chapter 3

CHAPTER III
THE RUSALYE
AMONG the Slavs the Rusalye are celebrated at the Whitsun holidays. The word itself is of foreign origin (from the Greek ῥουσάλια "feast of roses"), and so are many ceremonies connected with the festival, although numerous indigenous customs have been preserved side by side with these rites.
In Russia the Rusalye were celebrated in the following way. On Whitsun Monday a small shed, adorned with garlands, flowers, and fragrant grasses, was erected in the centre of an oak grove; a straw or wooden doll, arrayed in holiday garments, was placed inside; and people assembled from all quarters, bringing food and drink, dancing round the shed, and giving themselves up to merriment. In the Great Russian Governments people leave the towns and villages for the forests on the Thursday preceding Whitsunday (Semik), singing ancient songs and picking flowers which they make into wreaths. Then the lads fell a nice young birch-tree which the lasses dress in woman's robes, trimming it with gay-coloured ribbons and gaudy pieces of cloth. As they carry this tree along, they sing festive songs; and then follows a dinner of flour, milk, eggs, and other provisions brought for the occasion, while wine and beer are purchased by voluntary contributions. After dinner they take the birch, and singing merry songs, they carry it in procession to the village, where they put it down in a house chosen for the purpose, leaving it there till Sunday.
The doll which, in the course of these ceremonies, is finally ​thrown into the water or burned, is usually called Rusalka; and the ceremony itself is probably meant as a second funeral, i. e. to secure the favour of the Rusalky, the spirits of those who, dying a violent death, have not been buried with religious rites. The same signification may be attached to the so-called "Driving out of Death" before Easter, a custom which, though prohibited as early as the fourteenth century, has not yet entirely disappeared in Bohemia and other countries.
The Bulgarians in Southern Macedonia keep the Rusalye during Christmastide, the chief characteristic of the festival here being warlike games which remind us of the ancient funeral combats (trizna, tryzna).
* ↑ See supra, pp. 254–55.
* ↑ See A. Brückner, in ASP xiv. 175–78 (1892), and cf. Guagnini, f. 10 a.
* ↑ Cf. Krek, Einleitung, pp. 432–33; Leger, Mythologie, pp. 42, 205–06.