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) - ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #74 *****************************