A Wagner Matinee part 5
The overture closed, my aunt released my coat sleeve, but she said nothing. She sat staring dully at the orchestra. What, I wondered, did...
A Wagner Matinee part 4
The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women. One lost the contour of faces and figures, indeed any effect of line whatever, and...
A Wagner Matinee part 3
When my aunt appeared on the morning after her arrival in Boston, she was still in a semi-somnambulant state. She seemed not to realize...
A Wagner Matinee part 2
Whatever shock Mrs. Springer experienced at my aunt`s appearance, she considerately concealed. As for myself, I saw my aunt`s battered figure with that feeling...
A Wagner Matinee part 1
Willa Gather (1876-1947)
Willa Sibert Cather was born at Winchester, Va., in 1876. She was for some years engaged in newspaper work, and was until...
Journalism in Tennessee part 5
I said, “I`ll have to get you to excuse me; I think maybe I might write to suit you after a while; as soon...
Journalism in Tennessee part 4
They then talked about the elections and the crops while they reloaded, and I fell to tying up my wounds. But presently they opened...
Journalism in Tennessee part 3
That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, is down here again sponging at the Van Buren.
We observe that the...
Journalism in Tennessee part 2
John W. Blossom, Esq., the able editor of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, arrived in the city yesterday. He is stopping...
Journalism in Tennessee part 1
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, universally known under his pen-name of Mark Twain, was born at Florida, Mo., in 1835. His...
