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...authors, but many are published anonymously-such are arranged under the first title-and many have pseudonymous authors. This latter class is to found under the real name of the author, with a reference under his pseudonyme. Works published by Government, are arranged under the country. with a sub-head, department; Society documents are entered under the name of the place which enters into the title of the society, but when the place is not known, they are entered under the first word of the title. In order to find works of Greek or Latin authors, one must look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to use the Card Catalogue. | 2/26/1885 | See Source »

...joint-editors in issuing this edition de lux. Each picture is numbered and has a description attached. Some of the corpses had been in the water a day, some a week, some-nobody knew how long. Some were clothed, some were naked; some lacked an arm or leg or head, some lacked everything except a single leg or arm, which came up in the net of some fisherman, with a few rags of cloth clinging to it. We sicken at the fearful list. Let us press on into the interior of the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...children are being held aloft in strong arms, that they too may see the dreadful thing, and they do see, and they toss their tiny, wavering arms aloft and crow right gleefully. The objects of Interest are four corpses, which are lying upon iron frameworks behind the glass, their heads propped high, their jaws agape, and their eyes staring in all the grim majesty of Death, as they gaze unflinchingly upon the guests who are thronging to this grisly reception. One is an old woman, whose skull has been split by some tremendous blow, and yawns in ghastly redness. Another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...real life which characterizes the Athletic Association cannot but be pleasing to all interested in physical culture. How pleasing this life must be to the undergraduates called to the head of the association for this year. When the college year opened last fall, the prospect which met their eyes was anything but bright. Indeed, to many the prospect appeared gloomier than ever before. Two years had elapsed since a trainer had been permitted by the faculty to prepare men in general athletics; the last of the celebrated college athletes trained in the old days had graduated, and comparatively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Devil in Literature. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »