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Virginia—State library.<br />

Calendar of transcripts, including the annual report of the<br />

Department of archives and history. 1905 V975.5 V3494<br />

Calendar of the journals of the Council of Virginia, 1692—1850, House of<br />

burgesses, 1619-1776, Senate, 1839-61, House of delegates, 1776-1813,<br />

the Executive, 1832—1901, Civil establishment, 1775-1862, military,<br />

naval and county records, etc. Includes also a check-list of the<br />

transcripts made from the original papers in the British Record office<br />

and one of Virginiana in other departments of the state and national<br />

government.<br />

Williamson, William Durkee.<br />

History of the state of Maine from its first discovery,<br />

A. D. 1602, to the separation, A. D. 1820. 2v. 1832.. . .1974.1 W75<br />

"The work begins with a dissertation of 182 pp. on the geography and<br />

fauna and flora of Maine, The author then proceeds with the history<br />

of the colony and state, beginning with discovery and ending with<br />

the separation of Maine from Massachusetts in 1820. The book<br />

throughout is a sober, compact recital of facts, without ornament and<br />

with no display of partisan zeal. Citations of authorities are abundant."<br />

Larned's Literature of American history.<br />

Fiction<br />

Ade, Ge<strong>org</strong>e.<br />

Doc' Home; a story of the streets and town<br />

A228d<br />

Doc' Home was chief spokesman of a quintette of men in a Chicago<br />

hotel who nightly exchanged stories and experiences.<br />

Balzac, Honore de.<br />

The unconscious mummers (Les comediens sans le savoir),<br />

and other stories; tr. by Ellen Marriage, with a preface<br />

by Ge<strong>org</strong>e Saintsbury. 1897. (Comedie humaine.) .... B2i8unc<br />

Other stories: A prince of Bohemia.—A man of business.—Gaudissart<br />

II.—The firm of Nucingen.—Facino Cane.<br />

Becke, Louis.<br />

Strange adventure of James Shervinton, and other stories.. . . B364S<br />

Other stories: "Pig-headed" sailor men.—The Flemmings.—"Flash<br />

Harry" of Savaii.—Concerning "Bully" Hayes.—Amona, the child,<br />

and the beast.—The snake and the bell.—South sea notes.—Apinoka<br />

of Apamama.<br />

Stories of life in the South sea islands.<br />

Capes, Bernard.<br />

Loaves and fishes<br />

C181I0<br />

Short stories, very diverse in character.<br />

Knowles, Robert E.<br />

St. Cuthbert's; a novel<br />

K3523S<br />

Almost equally humorous and pathetic is this story without a plot, the<br />

record by a Presbyterian minister of his church in Canada and some of<br />

his Scotch parishioners.<br />

Metcalfe, Francis.<br />

Side show studies<br />

M645S<br />

Circus stories, each of which contains an actual incident in animal training,<br />

related by the manager of one of the largest troupes.<br />

Paine, Ralph Delahaye.<br />

The praying skipper, and other stories<br />

P164P<br />

Other stories: A victory unforeseen.—Corporal Sweeney, deserter.—<br />

The last pilot schooner.—The jade teapot.—Captain Arendt's choice.—<br />

Surfman Brainard's "day off."<br />

Seven short stories, of which four have to do with the sea, one with a<br />

Yale-Harvard boat-race, and two with the taking of Peking.<br />

Picken, Andrew.<br />

Traditionary stories of old families and legendary illustrations<br />

of family history; with notes, historical and bio-<br />

535

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