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China and International Intellectual Property Law
Authors: Sun Li , Gu Zuxue
Published: February 2024

International intellectual property (IP) law is a legal framework constructed from international organizations to enhance collaborations of countries around the world in IP protection. The primary sources of international IP law are international treaties which coordinate respective domestic law of states. Furthermore, as primary actors in this state-centric framework, states practice continues to influence the development of international IP law. Over the past few decades, with the sustained growth of China’s foreign trade, the interactions between China and international IP law have been under vigorous development. Since 1980s, China has acceded to the major international conventions relating to IP rights. To fulfill international obligations, China continues to update its domestic intellectual property laws and improve its intellectual property protection mechanisms. Meanwhile, it gradually realizes the importance of participation in international law-making, and actively attempts to shape global norms on IP protection for the interests of developing countries. The contemporary academic research in this field endeavors to satisfy two goals: (1) to ensure that new and revised laws can comply with international rules and norms, which rely upon academic observations and interpretations in international IP law; (2) to explore international IP legal propositions in the Chinese context and find appropriate approaches to translate them into concrete practices. This work reviews existing literature written in Chinese and English languages, and identifies China’s efforts and contributions in the development, interpretation, application, and enforcement of international IP law. Considering the fragmentation and diversification of international IP law, after a general introduction, the topic issue will be addressed from four areas: (1) China and Fundamental Principles of International IP Law, (2) China and International Organizations for IP Protection, (3) China and International Minimum Standards for IP Protection, (4) China and International Service for IP Protection.
Richard Owen (Victorian Naturalist)
Authors: Fallon Richard
Published: February 2024

Richard Owen (b. 1804–d. 1892), best known for his skills in comparative anatomy, was one of 19th-century Britain’s most celebrated naturalists. Owen coined the term “dinosaur” to describe a series of British fossil reptiles, but, in his own lifetime, he was better known for work on other strange specimens (both extant and extinct) brought into his hands from across the British Empire and the world. These included the moa bird, the pearly nautilus, the giant ground sloth Mylodon, and the gorilla. Most of Owen’s anatomical research was carried out from the vantage point of well-stocked London museums, namely the Hunterian Museum and the natural history department of the British Museum—the latter of which, thanks chiefly to Owen’s efforts, was relocated to South Kensington’s purpose-built Natural History Museum in 1881. Although born into a lower middle-class family in Lancaster, Owen’s scientific rise enabled him to move in elevated circles. He and his wife Caroline (née Clift) thus enjoyed the patronage of the royal family and prime minister Robert Peel and the friendship of literary figures like Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle. During the mid-19th century, his gift for publicity made his name the byword for an almost preternatural knowledge of fossil bones. Owen’s theistic anatomy combined the functionalism of French paleontological pioneer Georges Cuvier with concepts from German transcendentalism, the latter of which inspired his notion of a divinely ordained archetype underlying all vertebrate skeletons. During the late 1850s, however, this framework came under attack from iconoclastic naturalists like T. H. Huxley, whose subsequent association with Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory overshadowed Owen’s complicated ideas of life’s progressive development. At his death, Owen’s reputation had wilted. For decades, the Darwinian winners and their acolytes wrote the history, their work made easier by Owen’s reputation for abrasiveness. In the second half of the 20th century, scholars started to take him more seriously. While the proto-evolutionary nature of his early writings has intrigued the “Darwin Industry,” other fascinating parts of his career have also become better understood, including his anglicization of German and French anatomical ideas, his mastery of serial publishing and influence on Victorian literary culture, and his formative role in Australian colonial natural history. Despite this flowering of Owen scholarship, his life and works have not received the quantity of attention granted to other similarly eminent Victorians.
Arts and Crafts Movement
Authors: Cooper Thomas
Published: February 2024

The Arts and Crafts movement was one of several avant-garde artistic movements which occurred, principally, across Europe and America from approximately the 1860s to the 1930s. It emerged from a cultural and social landscape that was despoiled by poor design standards and increasingly mechanized and industrialized systems of manufacture. At its heart, it was a movement that aimed to change how and why art was made. In varying ways, it espoused collaboration between designers and craftspeople, instating joy in labor, working within the limitations of a medium, respecting materials, embedding artmaking in everyday life, and producing useful and beautiful objects for the many, not the few. Those making and writing on art in the wake of this movement have tended, broadly, to reflect on the Arts and Crafts movement as a historical development defined by its noble ideals, even if these were often idealistic and unfeasible. For many, the value of these ideals lies in their persistent relevance. Particularly in the twenty-first century, the writings of William Morris or the furniture of Ernest Gimson, for instance, appear prescient in the ways they encourage us to challenge a neoliberal capitalist world of corporate greed, environmental destruction, sweated labor, mass production, and planned obsolescence. The Arts and Crafts movement is a vast topic on which there is a wealth of scholarly literature. The first flowering of Arts and Crafts movement scholarship occurred between the early 1970s and late 1990s. Leading experts in the field—Annette Carruthers, Margot Coatts, Alan Crawford, Mary Greensted, Tanya Harrod, Linda Parry and Peter Stansky—focused on the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and its major themes, players, and organizations. In the 2000s, a new wave of scholarship established the Arts and Crafts movement as an international phenomenon, which spread and arose independently across much of northern and eastern Europe, the United States, and Japan. This was led by Rosalind P. Blakesley, Wendy Kaplan, Karen Livingstone, and Linda Parry. More recently, Glenn Adamson, Julia Griffin, Imogen Hart, Anna Mason, Zoë Thomas, and others have broadened the critical scope of Arts and Crafts movement scholarship. Their work addresses questions of gender, materiality, craft status, canonicity, and locality.
Science Fiction
Authors: Gomel Elana
Published: February 2024

While the genre of science fiction (SF) has already achieved academic recognition and amassed a significant and growing body of research, its history is still debated. Some critics, especially those who tend to conflate SF and fantasy, trace the origin of the genre to antiquity. Others situate the origin of the genre in the long nineteenth century, arguing it mutated from the Gothic via the singular birth of Mary Shelley’s “hideous progeny,” Frankenstein. The latter view is gaining prominence, despite the fact that the term science fiction was not used until the early twentieth century. However, it is evident that the Victorian interest in science and technology and belief in scientific progress generated a unique literary genre, distinguished from the supernatural ghost story on the one hand and the realistic novel on the other. SF’s position as a harbinger of modernity was evident in the way it tracked important developments of the Victorian Age, from Darwinism to imperialism; from the rise of metropolises to class division; from industrialization to militarism. In the mid- to late-Victorian age, SF often manifested as an element within the oeuvre of realistic writers, such as George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, or Thomas Hardy. Moreover, the dividing line between SF and other forms of speculative fiction was unclear. The influence of spiritualism, with its desire to develop the “science of the supernatural,” meant that ghost stories occasionally used the rhetoric of science. However, toward the end of the 19th century, such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Richard Jeffries, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others created a corpus of writing that manifested specific narrative and thematic feature we today ascribe to SF. Translations of the Frenchman Jules Verne’s “Voyages Extraordinaires,” popular in Victorian England, also influenced the development of the genre. However, the writer who is justly credited with making SF into a self-aware genre with a distinctive set of conventions is H. G. Wells. Wells called his early novels “scientific romances” and they have left an indelible imprint on the future development of what later became known as science fiction. His five great scientific romances written between 1895 and 1905 are credited with the invention of such central topoi of modern SF as time travel, space exploration, and alien invasion. Victorian SF is profoundly important in understanding contemporary culture. Popular genres of steampunk and retro-SF revive and reinterpret its conventions for the modern world.
Climate Change Effects on Fishes
Authors: Nagelkerken Ivan , Allan Bridie , Booth David , Donelson Jennifer , Mellin Camille , Ravasi Timothy , Rummer Jodie
Published: February 2024

Fishes comprise the most diverse group of aquatic vertebrates and are found across the world’s aquatic biomes and ecosystems — in freshwater, estuaries, as well as in the ocean. With this diversity also comes an extensive array of life histories, behaviors, physiologies, and adaptations. In addition to long-term direct human perturbations on fish populations and communities, such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and aquatic pollution, indirect human stressors such as various climate change stressors are now increasingly having an impact on many fish species as well. It is predicted that climate change stressors such as warming, acidification, and hypoxia will alter fish biodiversity, change their geographic distributions, alter their fitness and performance, and create novel community structures. Due to their rich diversity, it is difficult to predict how each fish species will respond to the interplay of various climate stressors. However, fish species can often be classified into guilds, functional groups, life history strategies, etc., based on various traits. As such, some generalizable patterns may emerge on how specific (taxonomic/functional) groups of fish species might respond to current and future climate change. This bibliography covers key studies on climate change effects on (predominantly marine) fishes, through the lens of fish ecology. It assesses the current published literature in terms of various research fields in fish ecology, scaling up from cellular, individual, and population levels to higher levels of biological organization such as communities, ecosystems, and biogeographies. Such a broad bibliography might provide for a better appreciation of the complexity of studying climate change impacts on fishes, as their ecology is intertwined with that of many other species, habitats, and environmental drivers. The ecological responses of fishes at multiple levels of biological organization mediate their fitness, performance, and persistence, and generalizable insights are needed for their biodiversity conservation, and to evaluate their importance for various ecosystem services, including fisheries.
Jewish American Children's Literature
Authors: Bernstein Dainy
Published: February 2024

All four terms in the field of American Jewish children’s literature are much debated by scholars. Should the corpus include only books originally published in America? Is a book Jewish because of the author, the characters, the themes, or something else? Should the corpus include any texts children read, or only texts produced specifically for children? Are pedagogical materials part of “literature?” All of these questions persist and inform how each scholar approaches the field. The first original English-language Jewish children’s books published in America were textbooks and curricular material, beginning with Think and Thank by Samuel Cooper, published by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) in 1890. Prior to that, Jewish Sunday schools in the early nineteenth century used modified Christian texts, and books imported from England, Europe, and Palestine were available in Yiddish, Hebrew, or English translations. The years between 1890 and 1930 saw intense production of educational children’s materials by Jewish presses including JPS, the Bloch Publishing Company, and Behrman House. The 1935 publication of Sadie Rose Weilerstein’s The Adventures of K’tonton: A Jewish Tom Thumb from the National Women’s League marked a turn from educational texts to stories about contemporary American Jewish children, and the 1951 publication of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family from the Follett Publishing Company marked the beginning of books with Jewish characters and themes from non-Jewish American presses. Over the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Jewish publishers continued to produce texts for children, and Jewish representation in books marketed to all children continued to grow. Global networks and PJ Library’s free book program begun in 2005 influenced texts on offer to contemporary American Jewish children, as did the development of a robust Haredi children’s publishing industry around 1980. In line with scholarship on children’s literature more broadly, the first conversations about Jewish children’s books appeared in journals for educators and librarians, moving into discussions of literary criticism in the second half of the twentieth century. Some of the major themes in contemporary scholarship of Jewish children’s literature are the Holocaust; gender roles; antisemitism; and diversity within Jewish representation along axes of race, ethnicity, and practice. Many sources useful for studying this corpus are larger studies of American Judaism or American Jewish literature with only one or two chapters on children’s literature. This trend is shifting now, however, and the field is growing in breadth and depth.
Jewish Morocco
Authors: Kosansky Oren
Published: February 2024

Jewish existence in Northwest Africa extends back to antiquity, but the idea of Moroccan Jews and Jewry is a modern phenomenon that crystallized with the ascendancy of European empire and the nation-state as a dominant political form. Exactly when Jews first arrived is subject to debate, with the earliest material evidence dating to the third century ce Roman settlement. Islamic expansion in the region created new conditions for Jewish political and legal existence, rabbinic culture, Arabic linguistic expression, and regional mobility. The Christian reconquest of Spain contributed to the influx of Sephardic Jews into Moroccan North Africa, which subsequently remained independent from Ottoman control. Beginning in the fifteenth century, Jewish urban quarters known as mellahs manifested the dialectics of autonomy and subordination that pertained to Jews, who as “people of the book” (ahl al-kitab) were protected as dhimmi within shifting parameters set by Islamic polities. Throughout the medieval and early modern periods, Jews in territorial Morocco continued to maintain economic, political, migratory, and rabbinic connections with their coreligionists in Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. In the modern period, Jews were agents and objects of European hegemony that culminated with the French and Spanish occupation of a partitioned Morocco from 1912 until 1956. In contrast with the Algerian case, Moroccan Jews were never granted French citizenship as a group. It was during this period that a national Moroccan Jewish community was constituted as a cohesive category of representation, diplomatic intervention, and bureaucratic administration. The contradictions of emancipatory liberalism, which fostered hopes of social equality and political citizenship, and colonial domination under European rule were experienced fully by Moroccan Jews, who negotiated fraught affiliations with French modernity, Zionist projects, and anticolonial Moroccan nationalism. The successive waves of 20th-century emigration that attenuated the Jewish population reflected broader patterns of postcolonial movement. International Jewish philanthropy, French colonial schooling, Arab nationalism, Zionist organizing, and regional diplomacy channeled the specific motivations, opportunities, and destinations of Jewish emigrants as part of a broader Moroccan diaspora. The largest waves of migration, directed primarily to Israel, occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. Other significant destinations in the decades that followed included points in Francophone Europe and North America. Alongside the small remaining Jewish population in Morocco, the Moroccan Jewish diaspora has emerged as a critical site for the ongoing construction of Moroccan Jewish identity in its intersecting religious, ethnic, and political forms.
Emmanuel Levinas
Authors: Cohen Richard A.
Published: February 2024

From the 1930s to the late 1980s Emmanuel Levinas (b. 1906–d. 1995) developed an original philosophy of ethics consistent with Jewish sources. This philosophy requires a fundamental reorientation of Western thinking and spirituality from ontology to ethics by uncovering the source of intelligibility in the imperatives of moral responsibility. Because the “for-the-other” has primacy—as obligation, as responsibility—over the “for-oneself,” Levinas is critical of both liberal philosophies which begin with isolated individuals and totalizing philosophies which reduce the human to a function of larger meaning-complexes such as reason, history, will or being. The import of Levinas’s contribution derives not only from his ethical teachings—kindness toward each, justice for all—which are already widely known, but from seeing in these teachings the basis of intelligibility, including science and art. Thus he is critical of the many classical and contemporary philosophies and theologies which in one way or another give primacy to the latter. Rigorously mining the epistemic resources of phenomenology, Levinas’s thought discloses the significance of embodiment, desire, worldliness, labor, language, time, and history, not as obstacles to morality, justice and truth, but as their very medium. For Levinas “revelation” and “reason” are not opposed, because both are aspects of the same wisdom of ethics. Contrary to the abstractions of today’s prevalent positivisms, for Levinas genuine thinking is akin to “Talmudic thinking” or “biblical humanism,” i.e., a concrete and compelling knowing, a wisdom, attached to virtue. Levinas does not reduce Judaism to formal propositions or aesthetic sentimentalism, or make philosophy handmaid to arbitrary faith. Wisdom allied to virtue escapes the ancient dualisms and their debilitating superstitious and mythological rationalizations. Levinas grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, in a traditional but modern Jewish home. He matriculated in philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, France, also studying under Husserl and Heidegger at the nearby University of Freiburg, Germany, during 1928–1929. After his university studies, he married, moved to Paris, became a French citizen, and worked at the École Normale Israélite Orientale, where he became director after returning to Paris from four years of internment as a prisoner of war (in a camp unit reserved for Jewish soldiers) in Germany during World War II. His entire birth family was murdered by the Nazis in Kaunas. In France his wife and daughter were hidden in a convent and survived the Vichy-Nazi onslaught. When he was in his sixties Levinas became a university professor, concluding a brief academic career at the University of Paris-Sorbonne ending in 1976.
Christine Brooke-Rose
Authors: Darlington Joseph
Published: February 2024

Christine Brooke-Rose (b. 1923 – d. 2012) was a writer and academic whose work contributed greatly to the development of British experimental writing, postmodern literature, and poststructuralist theory. She was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to a Swiss-French mother (Evelyn Brooke) and English father (Alfred Northbrook Rose). She was to live her life between the two cultures, English and French, and her work was an important crossing point for literary-critical influence. She lived in Belgium until the age of eighteen, before coming to England to study at Somerville College, Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of London, and her thesis became her first scholarly work, A Grammar of Metaphor, in 1958 (see Academic Work). She served at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and established herself as a popular, satirical novelist in the postwar years. Her turn to experimental writing during the 1960s was inspired by the French nouveaux romanciers (including Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute) and placed her alongside novelists like B.S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Eva Figes, and Alan Burns who sought to overturn the realist presumptions of British postwar writing. In 1968 she moved to Paris to teach at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes, where she stayed for the rest of her working life. At Vincennes she worked alongside key figures of poststructuralism including Helene Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, and Gerard Genette. Her study of their theoretical work added to her prior interest in structuralist theorists including Algirdas Julien Greimas, Roman Jakobson, and Tzvetan Todorov. After the commercial failure of her theory-inflected novel, Thru, she turned her attentions exclusively to her academic writing and critical work for nine years. She had some influence on British critics like Frank Kermode in softening attitudes to French theory (according to letters held in the Harry Ransom Archive) and on American academics who, by the 1980s, were beginning to adopt structuralism and poststructuralism as primary modes of analysis. Despite working closely with these theories, Brooke-Rose remained skeptical of her fellow literary theorists’ more extravagant social and epistemological claims. In particular, she remained committed to science as a method of analysis, visible in her science fiction works (Out, 1964; Such, 1966; Xorandor, 1986; and Verbivore, 1990) and her novel of deep history, Subscript (1999). By the end of her life, Brooke-Rose was engaged in finding new forms of autobiographical and memoir writing, the influence of which is only now beginning to be felt. Brooke-Rose’s writing remained consistently ahead of its time throughout her life. By making her books more readily available, the Internet and print-on-demand technologies have enabled a resurgence of interest in her work.
Homeworking among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Tareen M , Omar L , Gassas L , Ahmed D , Naleem S , Parsons V
Published: February 2024

This commentary article considers the experiences of homeworking among healthcare workers during the pandemic, with a focus on mental and physical health consequences. While positive outcomes were observed, such as improved sleep hygiene and increased patient capacity, negative effects like burnout, social disconnection and physical health deterioration were prevalent. Further research is necessary to assess long-term effects and evaluate if remote working practices can be adopted to support healthcare workers.
Risk of Primary Incident Hepatitis C Infection Following Bacterial Sexually Transmissible Infections Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia From 2016 to 2020
Authors: Harney Brendan L , Sacks-Davis Rachel , Agius Paul , van Santen Daniela K , Traeger Michael W , Wilkinson Anna L , Asselin Jason , Fairley Christopher K , Roth Norman , Bloch Mark , Matthews Gail V , Donovan Basil , Guy Rebecca , Stoové Mark , Hellard Margaret E , Doyle Joseph S
Published: February 2024

Background

In Australia, the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has declined among gay and bisexual men (GBM) with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) since 2015 and is low among GBM using HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, ongoing HCV testing and treatment remains necessary to sustain this. To assess the potential utility of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) to inform HCV testing among GBM with HIV and GBM using PrEP, we examined the association between bacterial STI diagnoses and subsequent primary HCV infection.

Methods

Data were from a national network of 46 clinics participating in the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance. GBM included had ≥1 HCV antibody negative test result and ≥1 subsequent HCV antibody and/or RNA test. Discrete time survival analysis was used to estimate the association between a positive syphilis, rectal chlamydia, and rectal gonorrhea diagnosis in the previous 2 years and a primary HCV diagnosis, defined as a positive HCV antibody or RNA test result.

Results

Among 6529 GBM with HIV, 92 (1.4%) had an incident HCV infection. A prior positive syphilis diagnosis was associated with an incident HCV diagnosis (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.99 [95% confidence interval, 1.11–3.58]). Among 13 061 GBM prescribed PrEP, 48 (0.4%) had an incident HCV diagnosis. Prior rectal chlamydia (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.75 [95% confidence interval, 1.42–5.32]) and rectal gonorrhea (2.54 [1.28–5.05]) diagnoses were associated with incident HCV.

Conclusions

Diagnoses of bacterial STIs in the past 2 years was associated with HCV incidence. These findings suggest that STIs might be useful for informing HCV testing decisions and guidelines for GBM with HIV and GBM using PrEP.
Hunger
Authors: Hamsun Knut
Published: February 2024

Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way. He wanders around the streets, sits on benches trying to write, spends a night locked in a pitch-dark police cell, thinks, slides into remarkably inventive reveries, speculates on his mental health, his ethical comportment, his relation to the divinity, the topics he might write about. The traces of a consistent narrative logic are uncertain and blurred; the voice of the narrator keeps shifting between pragmatic appraisal of his situation, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, anger, and despair. This is a story that lies on the threshold of modernism, anticipating many of the dislocations that narrative will be subject to in the decades to come.

This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poetic sensitivity, wild fantasies, manic outbursts, and hyperbolic emotion. Tore Rem's introduction provides an updated and fresh account of the genesis of Hunger, its book history and its reception.
Fourth Fragment
Authors: Hamsun Knut
Published: February 2024

Winter had come, a raw wet winter with almost no snow, a foggy dark endless night without a single fresh gust of wind from one end of the week to the other. The gas-lamps burned almost the whole day in the streets, yet people...
Pan
Authors: Hamsun Knut
Published: February 2024

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These last days I have been thinking and thinking about the Nordland* summer and its eternal daylight. I sit here thinking about it and about a hut I lived in* and the forest behind the hut and I...
Mr Sherlock Holmes
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night,* was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor...
The Curse of the Baskervilles
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

‘I have in my pocket a manuscript,’ said Dr James Mortimer.

‘I observed it as you entered the room,’ said Holmes.

‘It is an old manuscript.’

‘Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery.’

‘How can you say that, sir?’

‘You have presented an inch...
Sir Henry Baskerville
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Our breakfast-table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young Baronet.* The latter...
Baskerville Hall
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station, and gave me his last parting injunctions and advice.

‘I will not bias your mind by suggesting...
The Stapletons of Merripit House
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience at Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight...
The Light upon the Moor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

[Second report of Dr Watson]*

Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th

My Dear Holmes, If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events...
Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust...
The Man on the Tor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the 18th of October, a time when these strange events began to move swiftly towards their terrible conclusion. The incidents of the next few days are indelibly...
— Proem.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Midas.

The condition of England one of the most ominous ever seen in this world: Full of wealth in every kind, yet dying of inanition. Workhouses, in which no work can be done. Destitution of Scotland. Stockport Assizes. (p. 19). — England’s unprofitable success:...
Aristocracy of Talent.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

When an individual is miserable, what does it most of all behove him to do? To complain of this man or of that, of this thing or of that? To fill the world and the street with lamentation, objurgation? Not so at all; the...
Hero-Worship.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

To the present Editor, not less than to Bobus, a Government of the Wisest, what Bobus calls an Aristocracy of Talent, seems the one healing remedy: but he is not so sanguine as Bobus with respect to the means of realising it. He thinks...
Jocelin of Brakelond.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

We will, in this Second Portion of our Work, strive to penetrate a little, by means of certain confused Papers, printed and other,* into a somewhat remote Century; and to look face to face on it, in hope of perhaps illustrating our...
The Canvassing.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Now, however, come great news to St. Edmundsbury:* That there is to be an Abbot elected; that our interlunar obscuration is to cease; St. Edmund’s Convent no more to be a doleful widow, but joyous and once again a bride! Often in...
The Election.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Accordingly our Prior assembles us in Chapter; and, we adjuring him before God to do justly, nominates, not by our selection, yet with our assent, Twelve Monks, moderately satisfactory. Of whom are Hugo Third-Prior, Brother Dennis a venerable man, Walter the ...
The Abbot’s Ways.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Abbot Samson shewed no extraordinary favour to the Monks who had been his familiars of old; did not promote them to offices, — nisi essent idonei, unless they chanced to be fit men! Whence great discontent among certain of these, who had contributed...
In Parliament.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Of Abbot Samson’s public business we say little, though that also was great. He had to judge the people as Justice Errant, to decide in weighty arbitrations and public controversies; to equip his milites, send them duly in war-time to...
Phenomena.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

But, it is said, our religion is gone: we no longer believe in St. Edmund, no longer see the figure of him ‘on the rim of the sky,’* minatory or confirmatory! God’s absolute Laws, sanctioned by an eternal Heaven and an eternal...
Unworking Aristocracy.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

It is well said, ‘Land is the right basis of an Aristocracy;’* whoever possesses the Land, he, more emphatically than any other, is the Governor, Viceking of the people on the Land. It is in these days as it was...
Morrison again.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Nevertheless, O Advanced Liberal, one cannot promise thee any ‘New Religion,’ for some time; to say truth, I do not think we have the smallest chance of any!* Will the candid reader, by way of closing this Book Third, listen to a...
The Landed.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

A man with fifty, with five hundred, with a thousand pounds a day, given him freely, without condition at all, — on condition, as it now runs, that he will sit with his hands in his pockets and do no mischief, pass no Corn-Laws or the...
The Didactic.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Certainly it were a fond imagination to expect that any preaching of mine could abate Mammonism; that Bobus of Houndsditch will love his guineas less, or his poor soul more, for any preaching of mine! But there is one Preacher who does preach with...
A Haunted Island
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake* to whose cool waters the inhabitants of Montreal and Toronto flee for rest and recreation in the hot months. It is only to be regretted that...
The Willows
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Buda-Pesth, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered...
Ancient Sorceries
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

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There are, it would appear, certain wholly unremarkable persons, with none of the characteristics that invite adventure, who yet once or twice in the course of their smooth lives undergo an experience so strange that the world catches its breath — and looks the...
The Man Who Found Out
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

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Professor Mark Ebor, the scientist, led a double life, and the only persons who knew it were his assistant, Dr Laidlaw, and his publishers. But a double life need not always be a bad one, and, as Dr Laidlaw and the gratified publishers...
The Face of the Earth
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

Finkelstein, like many another German, resembled a weak edition of Bismarck.* A little way off the appearance was remarkable. Closer, of course, one saw the softness of eye and indecision of jaw that destroyed the illusion.

‘I want you to fearful be — of nozzing,’...
The Wendigo
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

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A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods* returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the...
Onanonanon
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

Certain things had made a deep impression in his childhood days; among these was the incident of the barking dog.

It barked during his convalescence from something that involved scarlet and a peeling skin;* his early mind associated bright colour and peeling skin...
Light in the Darkness
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected that we were all three fairly dumbfounded. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water. I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips...
A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson MD
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Our prisoner’s furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself powerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that he had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. ‘I guess you’re...
The Camel’s Back
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

The glazed eye of the tired reader resting for a second on the above title will presume it to be merely metaphorical. Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything to do with cups...
The Diamond as Big as The Ritz
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades — a small town on the Mississippi River* — for several generations. John’s father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heated contest; Mrs. Unger was known...
“O Russet Witch!”
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

Merlin Grainger was employed by the Moonlight Quill Bookshop, which you may have visited, just around the corner from the Ritz-Carlton on Forty-seventh Street.* The Moonlight Quill is, or rather was, a very romantic little store, considered radical and admitted dark. It...
Jemina, The Mountain Girl
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

This don’t pretend to be “Literature.” This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of “psychological” stuff or “analysis.” Boy, you’ll love it! Read it here, see it in the movies, play it on...
The Dancing Men
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product. His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like...
Charles Augustus Milverton
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

It is years since the incidents of which I speak took place, and yet it is with diffidence that I allude to them. For a long time, even with the utmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make the facts public;...
The Golden Pince-Nez
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894 I confess that it is very difficult for me, out of such a wealth of material, to select the cases which are most interesting in themselves and...
The Missing Three-Quarter
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street, but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning some seven or eight years ago and gave Mr. Sherlock Holmes a puzzled quarter of an hour....
A Happy Hour’s Command
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Down
in the Woods, July 2d, 1882. — If I do it at all I must delay no longer. Incongruous and full of skips and jumps as is that huddle of diary-jottings, war-memoranda of 1862–’65, Nature-notes of 1877–’81, with Western and Canadian observations afterwards, all bundled...
Growth — Health — Work
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I develop’d (1833–4–5) into a healthy, strong youth (grew too fast, though, was nearly as big as a man at 15 or 16.) Our family at this period moved back to the country, my dear mother very ill for a long time, but recover’d. All...
Through Eight Years
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

In 1848, ’49, I was occupied as editor of the “daily Eagle” newspaper, in Brooklyn. The latter year went off on a leisurely journey and working expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the middle States, and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....
Opening of the Secession War
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

News of the attack on fort Sumter and the flag at Charleston harbor, S. C., was receiv’d in New York city late at night (13th April, 1861,) and was immediately sent out in extras of the newspapers. I had been to the...
Unnamed Remains The Bravest Soldier
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Of scenes like these, I say, who writes — whoe’er can write the story? Of many a score — aye, thousands, north and south, of unwrit heroes, unknown heroisms, incredible, impromptu, first-class desperations — who tells? No history ever — no poem sings, no music sounds, those bravest men of all — those deeds....
Deserters
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Oct. 24. — Saw a large squad of our own deserters, (over 300) surrounded with a cordon of arm’d guards, marching along Pennsylvania avenue. The most motley collection I ever saw, all sorts of rig, all sorts of hats and caps, many fine-looking young fellows, some...
Death of President Lincoln
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

April 16, ’65. — I find in my notes of the time, this passage on the death of Abraham Lincoln: He leaves for America’s history and biography, so far, not only its most dramatic reminiscence — he leaves, in my opinion, the greatest, best, most characteristic, artistic, moral...
Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation — Its Sudden Stoppage
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

When Sherman’s armies, (long after they left Atlanta,) were marching through South and North Carolina — after leaving Savannah, the news of Lee’s capitulation having been receiv’d — the men never mov’d a mile without from some part of the line sending up continued, inspiriting shouts. At intervals...
A Soldier on Lincoln
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 28. — As I sat by the bedside of a sick Michigan soldier* in hospital to-day, a convalescent from the adjoining bed rose and came to me, and presently we began talking. He was a middle-aged man, belonged to the 2d Virginia regiment,...
The Million Dead, Too, Summ’d Up
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The dead in this war — there they lie, strewing the fields and woods and valleys and battle-fields of the south — Virginia, the Peninsula — Malvern hill and Fair Oaks — the banks of the Chickahominy — the terraces of Fredericksburgh — Antietam bridge — the grisly ravines of Manassas — the bloody promenade of the Wilderness — the varieties of...
New Themes Entered Upon
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

1876, ’77. — I find the woods in mid-May and early June my best places for composition.1 Seated on logs or stumps there, or resting on rails, nearly all the following memoranda have been jotted down. Wherever I go, indeed, winter or summer, city or...
Cedar-Apples
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

As I journey’d to-day in a light wagon ten or twelve miles through the country, nothing pleas’d me more, in their homely beauty and novelty (I had either never seen the little things to such advantage, or had never noticed them before) than that...
Summer Sights and Indolencies
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June
10th. — As I write, 5½ p.m., here by the creek, nothing can exceed the quiet splendor and freshness around me. We had a heavy shower, with brief thunder and lightning, in the middle of the day; and since, overhead, one...
Sundown Perfume — Quail-Notes — The Hermit-Thrush
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 19th, 4 to 6½, p.m. — Sitting alone by the creek — solitude here, but the scene bright and vivid enough — the sun shining, and quite a fresh wind blowing (some heavy showers last night,) the grass and trees looking their best — the clare-obscure of different greens,...
A Two Hours’ Ice-Sail
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Feb. 3, ’77. — From 4 to 6 p.m. crossing the Delaware, (back again at my Camden home,) unable to make our landing, through the ice; our boat stanch and strong and skilfully piloted, but old and sulky, and poorly minding her helm. (...
One of the Human Kinks
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

How is it that in all the serenity and lonesomeness of solitude, away off here amid the hush of the forest, alone, or as I have found in prairie wilds, or mountain stillness, one is never entirely without the instinct of looking around, (I...
Mulleins and Mulleins
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Large, placid mulleins, as summer advances, velvety in texture, of a light greenish-drab color, growing everywhere in the fields — at first earth’s big rosettes in their broad-leav’d low cluster-plants, eight, ten, twenty leaves to a plant — plentiful on the fallow twenty-acre lot, at the end of...
A Meadow Lark
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

March 16. — Fine, clear, dazzling morning, the sun an hour high, the air just tart enough. What a stamp in advance my whole day receives from the song of that meadow lark perch’d on a fence-stake twenty rods distant! Two or three liquid-simple notes, repeated...
Clover and Hay Perfume
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

July 3d, 4th, 5th. — Clear, hot, favorable weather — has been a good summer — the growth of clover and grass now generally mow’d. The familiar delicious perfume fills the barns and lanes. As you go along you see the fields of grayish white slightly tinged with...
Three of Us
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

July 14. — My two kingfishers still haunt the pond. In the bright sun and breeze and perfect temperature of to-day, noon, I am sitting here by one of the gurgling brooks, dipping a French water-pen in the limpid crystal, and using it to write these...
Jaunt up the Hudson
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 20th. — On the “Mary Powell,” enjoy’d everything beyond precedent. The delicious tender summer day, just warm enough — the constantly changing but ever beautiful panorama on both sides of the river — (went up near a hundred miles) — the high straight walls of the stony Palisades — beautiful Yonkers, and beautiful...
Scenes on Ferry and River — Last Winter’S Nights
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Then the Camden ferry. What exhilaration, change, people, business, by day. What soothing, silent, wondrous hours, at night, crossing on the boat, most all to myself — pacing the deck, alone, forward or aft. What communion with the waters, the air, the exquisite chiaroscuro — the...
Two City Areas, Certain Hours
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

New York, May 24, ’79. — Perhaps no quarters of this city (I have return’d again for awhile,) make more brilliant, animated, crowded, spectacular human presentations these fine May afternoons than the two I am now going to describe from personal observation....