Gaslight Digest Tuesday, June 8 1999 Volume 01 : Number 074


In this issue:


   Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_
   Re: Ambrose Bierce website
   Re: Ambrose Bierce website
   RE: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_
   Bierce--catsup?
   Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_
   Re: Ivory Gate
   Re: Ivory Gate
   Today in History - June 3
   Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE
   Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_
   Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE
   Re: Ivory Gate
   Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE
   Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE
   CFP: Nineteenth century encounters with aliens <FWD>
   Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: Various
   Today in History - June 4
   Re: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: Various
   Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC
   Re: Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC
   Re: Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC
   Owl Creek Bridge
   Today in History - June 7
   THIS WEEK'S story
   Re: Owl Creek Bridge
   Re: Owl Creek Bridge

-----------------------------THE POSTS-----------------------------

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:04:06 -0700
From: "Jesse F. Knight" <jknight(at)internetcds.com>
Subject: Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_

    Like Ms. Teter I find it very difficult to choose.  The entire book is
by turns witty, profound, brilliant, insightful, and ultimately very very
sad.

    For readers of this list, here is Bierce's definition of a ghost: "The
outward and visible sign of an inward fear."
I rather like that.  Not funny, but, I suspect, true.

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:07:32 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: Ambrose Bierce website

Stephen wrote:
<<< http://styx.ios.com/~damone/gbierce.html
<<<Has anyone else been able to connect?  or is there
another overview of Bierce available?>>

Yes, I was able to take a look at this site and it seems to be
a duplicate of The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society at
http://idt.net/~damone/gbierce.html


Patricia

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:09:47 -0700
From: "Jesse F. Knight" <jknight(at)internetcds.com>
Subject: Re: Ambrose Bierce website

>
> >First, here is an Appreciation of Bierce website:
> >
> > http://styx.ios.com/~damone/gbierce.html
>
> Has anyone else been able to connect?  or is there another overview of
Bierce
> available?
>
    I had no problem at all connecting to the site.  It is a dandy one.
Alan's is excellent, too, and I would heartily recommend everyone look at
it.

Jesse F. Knight

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:42:30 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: RE: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_

>Another Polydore sighted:
>
>DG & Christina Rossetti's mother was a Polidore... Their uncle John Polidore
>wrote "The Vampyre" on that most Gothic dark and stormy night that
>Frankenstein was written.  Best not dare a Romantic!
>
>(Happy you asked?)

Oh Debo, Pollydolly!  Of course!  Thank god for group research!

Carroll

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:26:53 -0500
From: Chris Carlisle <CarlislC(at)psychiatry1.wustl.edu>
Subject: Bierce--catsup?

I went to one of the Devil's Dictionary sites and was unable to
find what I thought I remembered as a favorite quote.  I could
have sworn that Bierce defined catsup as "a sauce used
by Americans in lieu of a state religion".  I looked under "catsup"
and "ketchup" both.  Am I just looking too superfically, or
ascribing this quip to the wrong author?

Kiwi

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:37:56 -0700
From: Jack Kolb <kolb(at)UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_

>I'd like to know what is everyone's favourite definition from Ambrose Bierce's
>_Devil's dictionary_.  A copy can be found online at
>http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~dcormier/dictintro.html with an appropriately
>crusty introduction.
>
>What are all the attributions thruout the dictionary?  These must be made up
>quotes.  I never heard of Polydore as a given name before.
>
>                                   Stephen D
>                          mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca

It's impossible for me to choose, Stephen.  Just in the first three letters
of the alphabet, I'm delighted to remember definitions of

Air
Birth
Cannibal
Childhood
Conservative

Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb(at)ucla.edu

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:30:00 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Ivory Gate

>It is a southern story--if Kentucky can be called the South-

Andrews was born in Alabama so in those terms it is a southern story, and
we always thought of Kentucky as part of the south anyway--the lifestyle
portrayed here certainly is.

>It reads as if it could have originally been published in a woman's
>magazine of >the time (do you know, Deborah?)

You didn't remember my first blurb on Andrews, it says it was published
first in Scribner's, Richard, in 1905, June.

>There must be countless legends of southern mansions with lost buried
>treasures >in the garden-- is this just a myth?

Probably some myth just like all the collections of church reliquaries the
Catholic priests buried during Henry the VIII's reign.  One incident, at
Magnolia Plantation (S.C.), is recorded:  as Magnolia was going up in
flames the former slave foreman, Adam Bennett, though strung up by Union
troops from a tree  in the garden and threatened with death, refused to
disclose the spot where he had buried the family treasure.  This treasure
was recovered after the cessation of hostilities.   Adam Bennett walked 250
miles to the family's mountain retreat and told his former master that the
treasure was safe and the property was being cared for by the former
slaves.  The Rev. Drayton, owner of Magnolia, returned with Adam to
rebuild.  It would make an interesting research project to discover others
where it is documented the treasure was hidden and never recovered.

>down side, the story reflects the idea that slaves were well-treated and
>happy

Andrews wasn't the only one to slip into this type of portrayal.  Last
year's author of "No Haid Pawn" Thomas Nelson Page was also fond of
portraying "positive" lifestyles of the plantation owners and their slaves
including his famous story "Marse Chan".  I tend not to look at this as a
racist and demeaning attitude but an attempt (because I'd heard it over and
over again) to make a bad situation not so horrible.  Interestingly enough,
again, at Magnolia Plantation up until the 1920's several generations of
former slaves (including the redoubtable Adam Bennett and sons) were still
working there.

Deborah



Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:10:45 -0400
From: Richard King <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ivory Gate

> You didn't remember my first blurb on Andrews, it says it was published
> first in Scribner's, Richard, in 1905, June.

My memory is totally shot.

> > rebuild.  It would make an interesting research project to discover others
> where it is documented the treasure was hidden and never recovered.
>

That it would. That it would. Buried treasure it always the most
fascinating of legends. Didn't Mark Twain write about going out in the
woods at night and watching for the mysterious glowing lights, then dig
beneath them for treasure?


> over again) to make a bad situation not so horrible.  Interestingly enough,
> again, at Magnolia Plantation up until the 1920's several generations of
> former slaves (including the redoubtable Adam Bennett and sons) were still
> working there.

I'm sure there were slave owners who treated the slaves well, those who
treated them horribly. I've got a recent book on narratives told by
former slaves that I plan to read.

I thought "Ivory Gate" was interesting because it was just like a
traditional British manor house ghost story, only set in America!

Thanks for picking the story.

Richard

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:50:49 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - June 3

            1861
                  Union forces defeat the Confederates at Philippi, in Western 
Virginia.
                  This was the first land battle of the Civil War. [I'm not 
sure, off the top of
                  my head, whether this was one of McClellan's victories over 
Lee.  I know
                  he had several in the area - much better than when they faced 
each other
                  farther east.]
            1864
                  Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes at Cold 
Harbor,
                  Virginia.
            1918
                  The Finnish Parliament ratifies a treaty with Germany.

Birthdays:
             1804
                  Richard Cobden, English economist and politician known as the 
'the Apostle of free
                  trade.'
            1808
                  Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States of America.
            1906
                  Josephine Baker, American-born dancer, singer, and Paris 
nightclub owner who
                  campaigned for Civil Rights in the U.S.

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:51:01 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE

Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:37:31 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>

>. Her first literary success was the independently reprinted short
story "The Perfect Tribute" (1906), in which President Lincoln hears a
wounded Confederate prisoner's opinion of the Gettysburg Address; it sold
>more than 600,000 copies.

There was a made-for-TV movie a few years ago (Turner comes to mind) which I 
believe was also titled "The Perfect Tribute", and involved Lincoln's 
Gettysburg Address.  In the climax Lincoln is despondent over the lack of 
applause for his speech until someone - I think it might have been a prisoner - 
comments that that would have been like applauding the Lord's Prayer.  Was the 
movie perhaps based on her story?

Jerry
gmc(at)libra.pvh.org

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:18:24 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Re: Bierce's _Devil's dictionary_

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:54:52 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA

>I'd like to know what is everyone's favourite definition from Ambrose Bierce's
>_Devil's dictionary_.

I have his definition of "Dog" posted in our living room, right next to the 
kennel our three spoiled ones sleep in while we're at work:

DOG: A kind of additional or supplementary Deity, designed to catch the 
overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Jerry
gmc(at)libra.pvh.org

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:50:20 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE

>>. Her first literary success was the independently reprinted short
>story "The Perfect Tribute" (1906), in which President Lincoln hears a
>wounded Confederate prisoner's opinion of the Gettysburg Address; it sold
>>more than 600,000 copies.
> Was the movie perhaps based on her story?


I wish I could tell you.  It certainly sounds like it.  I have found no
further information on Mary Shipman Andrews (librarians?) on the web,
including my most extensive resource from N.C. "Documenting the American
South" webpage.  I missed this on t.v., too--thanks for pointing it out so
I can look for it reruns.

Deborah


Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:52:19 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Ivory Gate

>Didn't Mark Twain write about going out in the woods at night and watching
>for >the mysterious glowing lights, then dig beneath them for treasure?

I don't know about Twain but there have been numerous folk tales using
this.  We were always on the watch for WillOWisps and treasure as a
kid!--also Pumpkin headed figures that glowed (?).  A  YA story uses this
theme to great advantage, too.

Deborah


Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:46:21 -0400
From: "J.M. Jamieson" <jjamieson(at)odyssey.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE

At 12:50 PM 03/06/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>>>. Her first literary success was the independently reprinted short
>>story "The Perfect Tribute" (1906), in which President Lincoln hears a
>>wounded Confederate prisoner's opinion of the Gettysburg Address; it sold
>>>more than 600,000 copies.
>> Was the movie perhaps based on her story?

Yes. Info from IMDB.COM
Date of birth (location)
2 April 1860,
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Date of death (details)
2 August 1936,
Syracuse, New York, USA. (following surgery)

Writer filmography
(1990s) (1930s) (1910s)

1.Perfect Tribute, The (1991) (TV) (article)
2.Perfect Tribute, The (1935) (article)
3.Unbeliever, The (1918) (story The Three Things)
4.Courage of the Common Place, The (1917) (novel)

Mac



Copyright ? 1999 J.M. Jamieson
ICQ #17834084
RSA & DH/DSS keys at http://pgp.rivertown.net/keyserver/

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Re: Author information: THROUGH THE IVORY GATE

Hi,

 Deborah wrote:


>I wish I could tell you.  It certainly sounds like it.  I have found no
>further information on Mary Shipman Andrews (librarians?) on the web,
>including my most extensive resource from N.C. "Documenting the American
>South" webpage.  I missed this on t.v., too--thanks for pointing it out so
>I can look for it reruns.

From Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature:


                     Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (1865?-1936). (Reference
Source)

               Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1991 HarperCollins Publishers

               novelist, short-story writer. Her fictional description of
the circumstances of Lincoln's Gettysburg
               Address, The Perfect Tribute (1906), sold many hundreds of
thousands of copies through the years.
               Among Andrews' other books were two collections of short
stories, The Eternal Masculine (1913) and
               The Eternal Feminine (1916), and A Lost Commander: Florence
Nightingale (1929).

Best,

Donna Goldthwaite
dgold(at)javanet.com

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:15:08 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: CFP: Nineteenth century encounters with aliens <FWD>

- ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 06/04/99
09:14 AM ---------------------------


from DICKNS-L Digest - 2 Jun 1999 to 3 Jun 1999; note the potential subject for
papers, "Aliens and other strange beings".

                                   Stephen D
                          mailto:sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca




Topics of the day:

  2. CFP: INCS: 19th cent. Centers and Peripheries (10/16, 4/6-8) (fwd)

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Date:    Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:50:11 -0700
From:    Patrick McCarthy <mccarthy(at)humanitas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: CFP: INCS: 19th cent. Centers and Peripheries (10/16, 4/6-8) (fwd)

Sent to us with a thougtful note from
         mark schoenfield <mark.schoenfield(at)vanderbilt.edu>

I thought the following might be of interest to your listserv.
Please post this version if you agree it is relevant.
Thank you...

INCS :   Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
announces its Fifteenth Annual Conference, to be held at the Yale Center for
British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut on  April 6-8, 2000.

Proposals are invited for papers and panels on the general topic of
"CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES."

This conference focuses on the interdisciplinary issues of how both
ideologies and material practices construct, maintain, and challenge centers
and peripheral spaces in geographic, political, and psychological terms; we
are interested in exploring the ways such practices are reflected and
produced in the arts, sciences, commerce, history, and societies of the 19th
century.

Possible themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
Fame and anonymity
The Cultures of Trade
Avant-gardes and Rear-Guards
Colonial Spaces
Maps and inventions
Aliens and other strange beings
That's entertainment?  Street culture
Literary and Popular culture
Theaters and Theatricals
Paris and London
Architecture and Class
Cities, Suburbia, Exurbia
Royalty
Rags and Riches
Representations of Empire  a.. Gender and Power
On the Margins: Gender and Sexuality
Crime and Punishment
Servants, Masters, Mistresses
Professional, Aristocrats, and the service industry
The Business of Education
Foreigners at home
Empiricism and Colonialism
Travellers and Travel Writing
Government and other rule(r)s


Our keynote speaker will be the noted feminist art historian Griselda
Pollock and an interdisciplinay plenary session will feature materials from
the Yale Center for British Arts.

Longer versions of INCS conference papers are regularly published in the
Affiliated journal, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTEXTS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
JOURNAL.

Send 200-400 word abstracts by October 16, 1999 to
        Mark Schoenfield, INCS President
        Emailed proposals and queries preferred to incs(at)vanderbilt.edu .
Alternatively, please mail to
    Mark Schoenfield
    Department of English
    Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, TN  37235


Notification of acceptance will be (e)mailed in December. INCS sessions are
devoted to discussion. Ten page papers are made available to attendants in
advance;presenters make brief opening statements and respond to discussion.
This format allows for lively, informed discussion that pursues
methodological, interpretive, and theoretical issues.

For more information, including about special sessions, see our website at
www.vanderbilt.edu/incs.

Sponsored by Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and the Yale Center for
British Art.

- ------------------------------

End of DICKNS-L Digest - 2 Jun 1999 to 3 Jun 1999
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:02:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: Various

Greetings,

 I did a little web trolling on Andrews, and found a few sites of
interest. Not a whole lot on her history, but I did find one of her poems
printed in the NY Times (no date given):

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

The Vigil (from the New York Times)

Like some young squire who watched his armor bright,
Kneeling upon the chapel floor all night--
Where glimmering candles on the altar glowed,
And moonlight through the Gothic windows flowed--
And prayed, with folded hands, that God would bless
His sword, and keep him pure, and give success--
So, kneeling, Lord, beneath Thine altar light,
The nation asks for help before the fight.

Grant us the prayer of that boy Knight of old--
Faith to be steadfast, courage to be bold.
Such passionate love toward the dear flag we fly
That each who serves it holds its honor high--
Simple, large gifts that soldiers need, O Lord,
Grant the young nation for its unsheathed sword.

And for our captains in the perilous way,
A vision widened to an unknown day.
We keep our vigil; send tomorrow glorious;
Let not God's will go down; bring right victorious.
Kneeling in prayer before Thine altar light,
The nation asks Thy help to fight Thy fight.


FROM: http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Andrews.html

 Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but the
Modern English Collection at the University of Virginia has uploaded an
illustrated edition of the short story "The Lake of the Devils" from
Scribner's, Feb., 1906:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengA.browse.html

 (You will have to scroll down to the Andrews piece; I couldn't save
the URL of the actual story.)

 I have online access to InfoTrak Searchbank's Expanded Academic
Index, and I found a short (5 pages) play, published in _Plays_, Jan-Feb
1997, v.56, n.4, called _The Perfect Tribute_ by Andrews and Glenhall
Taylor. Seems to be a play version of the original story. I've saved this
as a text file and will be happy to forward it as an attachment to anyone
who requests it off-list.

 Finally, for the iconoclasts among us, Donald Ogden Stewart's _A
Parody Outline of History_ (1921) has been uploaded at the following site:

http://www.softdisk.com/comp/naked/htmltext/apoohist.html

 Chapter Nine consists of a play, entitled "For the Freedom of the
World: A Drama of the Great War." Act I is written 'In the Manner of Mary
Raymond Shipman Andrews';  Act II, on the other hand, is in the manner of
Eugene O'Neill. Enjoy.

 As to her history, it would appear that she was related (sister?)
to Herbert Shipman, one of the first rectors of the Church of the Heavenly
Rest in NYC, which has connections to Columbia University:


http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/subjects/amerihist/Columns_all/Columns45_2/
heavenly_rest.html

 Another snippet:

     B. 04-02-1860, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, author of _The
Pefect Tribute_ (1906) which sold more than 600,000 copies.  It recounts
the fictionalized meeting of Lincoln and a dying Confederate soldier
during which Lincoln finds out the popularity of the Gettysburg
Address. Her son became dean of the College of Law of Syracuse
University.

FROM:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/WOAH/95-

04/04-02-95

 And another:


ANDREWS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN, 1860-1936

Writer. Born: April 2, 1860, Mobile. Parents: Jacob Shaw and Ann Louise
(Gold) Shipman. Married: William Shankland
Andrews, December 31, 1884. Children: One. Education: local schools in
Lexington, Ky.; studied at home with her father
who was an Episcopal priest and later a bishop at Fon du Lac, Wisconsin;
pastor of Christ Church in New York.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; Notable American Women, Vol. 1.

Author: The Better Treasure. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs- Merrill, 1908.

Bob and the Guides. New York: Scribner, 1906.

The Counsel Assigned. New York: Scribner, 1912.

The Courage of the Commonplace. New York: Scribner, 1912.

Crosses of War. New York: Scribner, 1918.

The Enchanted Forest, and Other Stories. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1909.

The Eternal Feminine, and Other Stories. New York: Scribner, 1916.

The Eternal Masculine: Stories of Men and Boys. New York: Scribner, 1913.

A Good Samaritan. New York: McClure, 1906.

Her Country. New York: Scribner, 1918.

His Soul Goes Marching On. New York: Scribner, 1922.

Joy in the Morning. New York: Scribner, 1919.
   NOTE: There is a scanned image of the cover of this book at the
following address:

http://www.violetbooks.com/gallery/joy-morning.html

   The note reads:
Having already long held some fame for her supernatural tales of
battlefields, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews was hardly  going to sit out the
craze for World War I legends during & immediately after that great war.
Joy in the Morning (1919) includes "The Ditch" set partly in the future &
"The Silver Stirrup" set in a foxhole in France haunted by a warrior saint.
Andrews lived part of each year in Quebec & incorporates much of
French-Canadian interest in these tales.

A Kidnapped Colony. New York: Harper, 1903.

The Lifted Bandage. New York: Scribner, 1910.

A Lost Commander: Florence Nightingale. New York: Doubleday, 1929.

The Marshal. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs, 1912.

The Militants: Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the
World. New York: Scribner, 1909.

 NOTE: This title also has a scanned illustration of the cover at:


http://www.violetbooks.com/gal-ghost-nouveau.html

 The note reads:

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews' The Militants: Stories of Some Parsons,
Soldiers & Other Fighters in the World (1909) sports a Margaret Armstrong
binding & eight interior illustration plates.  Andrews was best known for
"patriotic" stories, which frequently meant war stories. But even before
Arthur Machen's The Angels of Mons war stories were frequently interwoven
with ghosts. "The Messenger" in the present collection is an outstanding
war-legend of supernatural agencies in the Indian wars of the American west.

Old Glory. New York: Scribner, 1916.

Passing the Torch. New York: Scribner, 1924.

The Perfect Tribute. New York: Scribner, 1906.

Pontifex Maximus. New York: Scribner, 1925.

The Three Things: the Forge in Which the Soul of a Man Was Tested. Boston:
Little-Brown, 1915.

Vive l'empereur. New York: Scribner, 1902.

The White Satin Dress. New York: Scribner, 1930.

Joint Author: August First. New York: Scribner, 1915.

Yellow Butterflies. New York: Scribner, 1924.

Contributor: The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors. New York: Harper,
1908.


FROM: http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/ala_authors/a.html

 There is an interesting transcript from a _Booknotes_ interview
with Merrill Peterson, author of _Lincoln in American Memory_, in which he
talks about, for want of a better term, the Lincoln industry, and refers to
"The Perfect Tribute":

http://www.booknotes.org/transcripts/10181.htm

 BTW, a search on _Bookfinder_ (http://www.bookfinder.com) found any
number of copies of _The Perfect Tribute_ available, at very reasonable
prices.



Donna Goldthwaite (who really has to stop doing this sort of thing on my
day off)
dgold(at)javanet.com
E-mail me if you want a copy of the play, _The Perfect Tribute_.

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:11:34 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - June 4

            1805
                  Tripoli concludes peace with U.S. after a war over tribute to 
the Barbary Pirates.
            1859
                  The French army under Napoleon III takes Magenta from the 
Austrians after a
                  bloody battle in northern Italy.
            1864
                  General Joseph Johnston's Confederate army retreats to the 
mountains before
                  Marietta, Georgia to avoid another flanking movement by 
William T. Sherman.
            1911
                  Gold is discovered at Indian Creek in Alaska.
            1918
                  French and American troops halt a German offensive at 
Chateau-Thierry, France.
            1919
                  The U.S. Senate passes the Woman Suffrage bill


     Birthdays
            1738
                  George III, English king during the American Revolution and 
the Napoleonic Wars
            1867
                  Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, president of Finland
            1895
                  Dino Conte Grandi, Italian delegate to the League of Nations

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:15:25 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: Various

>I did a little web trolling on Andrews

A little??

>Donna Goldthwaite (who really has to stop doing this sort of thing on my
>day off)

Wow, I'm stunned with all this great info.  You obviously have the best web
research skills.  Thanks for all the research.  It's interesting that the
note states she wrote several other haunting tales.  I would like to try
and track down a few more especially since we now have titles and
citations.  Thanks again!

Deborah


Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:57:46 -0400
From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com>
Subject: Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC

New Statue Honors Poet Pushkin

By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A site on the campus of George Washington University was
dedicated Friday at a groundbreaking ceremony for a statue to celebrate the
200th birthday of Alexander Pushkin, the poet, storyteller and democratic
propagandist sometimes called ``the Russian Shakespeare.''

Former Rep. James W. Symington, D-Mo., chairman of the American-Russian
Cultural Foundation, read a letter of support from President Clinton, and
Washington Mayor Anthony Williams proclaimed Friday as ``Pushkin Day.''

``The statue, I am told, will be the only one of Pushkin, in fact the only
statue of a Russian literary figure, in this country,'' said Stephen Joel
Trachtenberg, president of the university.

Symington sang a Pushkin poem set to music by Russian composer Mikhail
Glinka. He also led an audience of 200 gathered at the street corner site in
a chorus of ``Happy Birthday, Alexander.''

``Having the statue may be more important for Russia than the next loan from
the World Bank,'' sculptor Alexander Burganov recently told a small group
representing the university and the foundation.

Burganov has also done a figure of the poet and his wife, Natalya, for the
front of the Pushkin House on the Arbat, Moscow's broad pedestrian avenue.
Pushkin died in 1837 from a wound suffered in a duel brought on by rumors
that his wife was unfaithful.

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 16:55:52 -0700
From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu>
Subject: Re: Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC

Thanks James for the Pushkin information.  Today, the
Los Angeles Times ran a front page Column One article on
Pushkin's 200th anniversary, discussing the modern Pushkin
revival in Russia.  The headline ran:

"Pushkin Turns 200, but Never Grows Old:
Russia's most revered writer touches his country's psyche like
no other.  Culturally, he's Shakespeare, Jefferson and Elvis
rolled into one. "

The article remarks that "Candy makers are molding Pushkin
chocolates. Distilleries are bottling Pushkin vodka. Smokers
are lighting up with Pushkin matches."

Hmmm...England and the US are missing some marketing
avenues.  Dickens Ale?    Poe chocolates?

Patricia

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:41:07 +0300
From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop)
Subject: Re: Chat: Pushkin Statue in DC

Article in latest New Yorker by Ralph Fiennes about filming EUGEN
ONEGIN (Pushkin's play subsequently an opera and ballet) partly
in Russia.  I sympathized with his description of the impossibility of
learning Russian in order to read Pushkin in the original.  Translation
is hell.  I think I've read about 20 versions of that famous "I loved
you" poem and of course the magic is in the Russian language and
the ineffable Pushkin personality.  No, I can't read Russian either,
but I sure do like that poem.

Michael Ignatieff wrote the first screenplay but much of it was
rewritten.  Sounds like that was a mistake.  Michael's a bonny writer,
and he has all that Russian family background, some of it Tolstoy.



Carroll

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:57:06 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Owl Creek Bridge

I'm actually surprised that there was so much comment on Bierce's DEVIL'S
DICTIONARY and not this wonderful story.  People must be on holiday!

While I have enjoyed much of his supernatural stories this one always stood
out for me.  Not only for it's poignancy but the hope.  There is another
story called "The Torture of Hope" and this story uses that theme well.

If you have seen the famous French film it almost pulls even more because
of the silence, as the soldier eludes his tormenters and executioners, and
gets close to home, close to his beloved only to have reality set in.

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:31:00 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - June 7

            1863
                  French troops capture Mexico City.
            1900
                  Rail links between Peking and Tientsin,China are cut by Boxer 
rebels.
            1903
                  Pierre Curie reveals the discovery of Polonium by himself and 
his wife, Marie.
            1914
                  The first vessel passes through the Panama Canal.

     Birthdays:
            1778
                  George "Beau" Brummell, English dandy who introduced the 
trouser to
                  replace breeches.
            1848
                  Paul Gaugin, French post-impressionist painter noted for his 
paintings of
                  Tahitian natives.
            1909
                  Peter Rodino, New Jersey Congressman and chairman of the 
Watergate
                  hearings.
            1917
                  Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet.

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:46:33 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: THIS WEEK'S story

(DRMRGHST.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos)
John William DeForest's "The drummer ghost" (approx. 1870)

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 08:05:05 -0500
From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net>
Subject: Re: Owl Creek Bridge

>
>If you have seen the famous French film it almost pulls even more because
>of the silence, as the soldier eludes his tormenters and executioners, and
>gets close to home, close to his beloved only to have reality set in.
>
Any idea on who directed or starred in this? I assume it's the same one I
saw long ago in high school-an interesting movie to watch when you know
what's going to happen & those around you don't.
Brian McM.

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 07:37:32 -0700
From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com>
Subject: Re: Owl Creek Bridge

>Any idea on who directed or starred in this?

Check the Ambrose Bierce appreciation page I posted earlier (did you get
this?).  It appeared as a Twilight Zone and was directed by a French
director.  You can still order the film on video grouped with other T/Z.
The film followed the story very closely.  Since I saw the film first the
ending was a shock.  One of the few times I think the film might be more
effective than the story, still, Bierce's writing led you on the same
way....

Deborah

Deborah McMillion
deborah(at)gloaming.com
http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html

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