| Jerome K. Jerome 1859 - 1927 |
| Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow ~ 1886 ~ Humorous essays ~ A
book for an idle holiday
Online eText Edition: http://www.literaturepage.com/read/idlethoughts.html "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." 
OTHER: Three Men in a Boat Online eText Edition: http://www.literaturepage.com/read/threemeninaboat.html "I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart." Three Men on the Bummel Clocks More Online examples of Jerome's Work |
Jerome Klapka Jerome, best known as the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', one of the great comic masterpieces of the English language, was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, on 2nd May 1859, the youngest of four children. His father, who had interests in the local coal and iron industries and was a prominent non-conformist preacher, had moved to the town in 1855 and installed the family in a fashionable middle class house in Bradford Street where they lived in comparative comfort until 1861. Following the collapse of the family business, the Jeromes moved first to Stourbridge and thence to Poplar in the East End of London where he was brought up in relative poverty. Jerome left school at fourteen
and worked variously as a clerk, a hack journalist, an actor ('I have played
every part in Hamlet except
Though a relaxed, urbane
man, Jerome was a relentless explorer of new ideas and experiences. He
travelled widely throughout Europe,
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| Owen McMahon Johnson 27 August 1878 in New York City ~ Died 27 January 1952 in Tisbury, Massachusetts |
The Woman Gives
Film: (see below)(Made into a 1920 film with Norma Talmadge and John Halliday (later to be ERB's friend and neighbour in WWII Hawaii. Other: The Varmint 1910."A Lawrenceville Story". The Prodigious Hickey 1908/1910 A.L. Burt Set in the Lawrenceville Prep School, it tells the story of William Hicks, the most popular student in the school, who rebels against authority, especially that of the housemaster, Mr. Tapping, and in doing so, provides much entertainment for his classmates. 335 pages.(made into a 1987 TV movie) Coming of the Amazons 1931 SF The Lawrenceville Stories Dink Stover, Doc MacNooder, The Tennessee Shad and their classmates have long lived in the hearts of generations of American schoolboys and ex-schoolboys.The three classic books that chronicle their prep school adventures, The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint, and The Tennessee Shad are contained in this edition with original illustrations Arrows of the Almighty - 1901 In the Name of Liberty- 1905 Max Fargus - 1905 The Eternal Boy - 1909 The Humming Bird - 1910 The Varmint - 1910 (a 1917 film) The Tennessee Shad - 1911 Stover at Yale - 1911 The Salamander - 1913 (a 1916 film) The Woman Gives - 1915 The Spirit of France - 1915 The Wasted Generation- 1921 Skippy Bedelle - 1922 Blue Blood - 1923 Sacrifice - 1929  
  The Woman Gives 1920 Review from the New York Times, April 12, 1920: Norma Talmadge brings her talent and ever pleasing person into a photoplay entitled "The Woman Gives," adapted from a novel by Owen Johnson, which is so artificial in construction and so filled with banal and stilted subtitles that it fails to hold the interest, despite its settings and the acting of Miss Talmadge and John Halliday. It was directed by R. William Neill, who has done better work. Review from the New York Dramatic Mirror: Norma Talmadge, John Halliday, and the Art Director combined to lift the screen version of Owen Johnson's novel "The Woman Gives" out of hopeless mediocrity. Miss Talmadge is quite her usual charming self and her gowns are a constant delight. Had the director been more chary of closeups and lengthy sub-titles the action might have moved smoothly enough to conceal its obviously overdrawn motivation. Mr. Halliday, by his sincerity and restraint achieved some success with the negative role assigned him. The sets, particularly the studio interiors, were pleasing in detail and atmosphere.The plot is the customary predigested pot-pourri of artist life with a dash, at the end, which is reminiscent of "The Man Who Came Back." In the role of Inga Sonderson, Miss Talmadge is the model for an illustrious painter and later is just in time to catch him on the rebound from the disillusionment which attends his tardy discovery of the selfish character of his wife, one who is ravaged by a bad evil of the "gimmies." The crushed genius seeks solace in the grape and poppy and in the process of throwing him the life-line Inga seriously jeopardizes her own happiness. Her Fiance, whose character appears to be equally compounded of jealousy, and fanatic and inexplicable impulses to self-abnegation, fluctuates from one mood to the other. Inga brings the picture to a close by casting herself into the arms of this emotional chameleon. It is scarcely a worthy vehicle for Miss Talmadge, but by virtue of her personality she carries it to success. The
Happy Years 1950
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| Owen McMahon Johnson (August 27, 1878- January 27, 1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. The "Lawrenceville Stories" (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint), set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky and Co. A 1992 PBS mini-series was based on them. He was born in New York City, the son of Robert Underwood Johnson and his wife Katherine, née McMahon, and attended Lawrenceville School, founding and editing the Lawrenceville Literary Magazine. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1901, marrying Mary Galt Stockly and moving to Paris, where he did his initial writing. He was a war correspondent for the New York Times and Collier's during World War I. His first wife died in 1910. His second wife was Esther Ellen Cobb, whom he divorced in 1917. His third wife was Cecile Denise de la Garde, who died in 1918. His fourth wife was Catherine Sayre Burton, who died in 1921. His fifth wife was Gertrude Bovee Le Boutillier. He was the father of five children. He worked and resided in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1923 to 1948, writing about marriage, divorce, and golf. After 1931, his writing activities became less intense, and he became interested in politics, running (unsuccessfully) for the House of Representatives in 1936 and 1938. He died at his home in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he had lived for five years. |
| Annie Fellows Johnston May 15, 1863 Evansville, Indiana - +October 5, 1931 Pewee Valley, Kentucky |
| Georgina of the Rainbows ~ 1916 ~ G&D
Georgina's Service Stars The Story of the Red Cross as Told to The Little Colonel  
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  Annie
Fellows Johnston was a celebrated author of children's and juvenile
fiction from the 1890's until her death in 1931. Her works sold millions
of copies, and were translated into over 40 languages, including Japanese.
She is best known for her "Little Colonel" series, a semi biographical
opus of 13 novels dealing with the aristocracy of old Kentucky, particularly
the story of a young girl, who came to be known as "the little Colonel"
because of her bully mannerisms at the age of 5 which seemed to echo the
military traits of her grandfather, a former confederate colonel. Johnston
planned to complete the series several times, once after The Little Colonel's
House Party, again after The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding.
Always, public demand compelled Johnston to continue. The last
work of the series, The Little Colonel Stories, Part 2, was published only
a few months before her passing.
In the latter half of the 20th Century, Annie Fellows Johnston began
to pass into relative obscurity. There has been little demand in
the last few years for the romantic and sentimental wholesomeness portrayed
in her works. Modern critics often dismiss her as unimportant and
too moralizing, not stopping to consider the tremendous impact she had
on the shaping of young minds, and therefore the national mores of a century
ago. Furthermore, the the auto- and biographical nature of her works
gives tremendous insight into the lifestyle and thought of the Victorian
and post-Victorian era among the gentry of the American heartland.
There can be no doubt that Johnston's strong belief in education relayed
in her novels, especially for women and girls, did not have a lasting and
important influence for generations of young Americans.
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| Mary Johnston |
| To Have and to Hold
~ 1900 ~ with Action illustration plates by Howard Pyle, E.B. Thompson,
A.W. Betts and Emlen McConnell.
The story of frontier and pioneer life in Virginia during the colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. One of the greatest swashbuckling novels ever.This was the #1 bestselling novel of 1900, hence a woman was the first #1 bestseller of the new century. The story opens in 1621, the setting is Colonial Virginia. Swordfights in ancient forests, pioneer struggles, encounters with aboriginal peoples.      Other:
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Mary Johnston was one of only two authors whom Rafael Sabatini claimed as signal influences (the other was Stanley Weyman). Her historical romances & fantasies have an underlying mysticism & matchless beauty. Bibliography |
| JOSEPHUS: 37 A.D. to about 100 A.D |
Works (1833) Antiquities of the Jews ~ War of the Jews
  
  Translated into English by Sir ROGER L'ESTRANGE, Knight. I. The Antiquities of the Jews, in twenty Books. II. Their Wars with the Romans, in Seven Books. III. The Life of JOSEPHUS written by himself. IV. His Book against Apion, in Defence of the Antiquities of the Jews, in Two Parts. V. The Martyrdom of the Maccabees. As also; VI. Philo's Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius Caligula. All carefully revised, and compar'd with the original Greek To which are added, Two Discourses, and several Remarks and Observations upon Josephus. Together with MAPS, SCULPTURES, and Accurate INDEXES. |
  Josephus - An Eyewitness to Christianity Josephus was a historian who lived from 37 A.D. to about 100 A.D. He was a member of the priestly aristocracy of the Jews, and was taken hostage by the Roman Empire in the great Jewish revolt of 66-70 A.D. Josephus spent the rest of his life in or around Rome as an advisor and historian to three emperors, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. For centuries, the works of Josephus were more widely read in Europe than any book other than the Bible. They are invaluable sources of eyewitness testimony to the development of Western civilization, including the foundation and growth of Christianity in the 1st Century. Josephus
is an invaluable source for the history of Judaism in the Second Temple
period.
In Rome Josephus resided
in an apartment within the emperor's house and devoted much of his time
to writing. In part his works were addressed to his fellow Jews, justifying
to them not only Roman conduct during the Jewish War, but also his own
personal conduct in switching loyalties. However, his writings were also
designed to justify Jewish culture and religion to an interested and sometimes
sympathetic Roman audience. The earliest of his extant writings is the
Bellum Judaicarum (or Jewish War), which was apparently drafted initially
in Aramaic and then translated into Greek 5 to 10 years after the 70 C.E.
destruction of Jerusalem. His second work, Antiquitates Judaicae (or Jewish
Antiquities), was published more than a decade later; it was much longer,
and recounts Jewish history from creation to the Jewish War, and contains
some valuable historical information. His last two works, probably published
shortly before his death, include the Vita (or Life), an autobiography
intended primarily to defend his conduct during the Jewish War 30 years
earlier, and Contra Apionem (or Against Apion), an apologetic defense of
Judaism against a wave of anti-Semitism emanating from Alexandria. Josephus
probably died ca. 100 C.E., several years after Trajan had become emperor
in Rome. His writings, while generally ignored by fellow Jews, were reserved
by Christians not only because they chronicled generally and so well the
"time between the testaments," but also because they contained specific
references to John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, and Jesus' brother James.
On the much-disputed matter of whether Josephus mentioned Jesus, see my
essay on the Testimonium Flavianum. Although a "Discourse to the Greeks
on Hades" is present in Whiston's translation, few if any scholars today
believe that Josephus wrote this work. This is why parallels with NT phrases
have been italicized at Wheaton's on-line library (above). I am informed
of the following by Stephen Carlson: After posting to Ioudaios, I received
two replies (copied herein) that state that it is well-settled that Josephus
did not write this discourse.
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| William Q. Judge April 13, 1851 ~ March 21st, 1896 |
| The Ocean of Theosophy ~ 1893 ~
Los Angeles: United Lodge of Theosophists, 1915. (Unclear if this is an
ERB book.)
William Judge's excellent discourse on Theosophical matters. This book is still considered an excellent primer for the serious student. It describes many Theosophy subjects such as cosmogenesis, anthropogenesis, reincarnation, death, karma. Excerpts: "it is only because that mankind has ever shut its eyes to the great truth that man is himself his own saviour as his own destroyer. That he need not accuse Heaven and the gods, Fates and Providence, of the apparent injustice that reigns in the midst of humanity." "To deal with kama loka compels us to deal also with the fourth principle in the classification of man's constitution, and arouses a conflict with modern ideas and education on the subject of the desires and passions." Online eText Edition: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ocean/oce-hp.htm Alternate eText Edition   In
the early 1890s Judge recognized the need for a book on theosophy that
could be readily understood by all. The Ocean provides a concise yet comprehensive
survey of the basic tenets of theosophy. Written with the beginner in mind,
it clarifies such topics as: the sevenfold nature of man; reincarnation
and karma; dangers of psychic practices and the pitfalls of pseudo-occultism;
earth's sevenfold being; cosmic and terrestrial cycles; afterdeath states;
the existence of highly advanced human beings; and many more. Here is knowledge
based upon evidence and experience, written with brevity and depth.
PREFACE An attempt is made in the pages of this book to write of theosophy in such a manner as to be understood by the ordinary reader. Bold statements are made in it upon the knowledge of the writer, but at the same time it is distinctly to be understood that he alone is responsible for what is therein written: the Theosophical Society is not involved in nor bound by anything said in the book, nor are any of its members any the less good Theosophists because they may not accept what I have set down. The tone of settled conviction which may be thought to pervade the chapters is not the result of dogmatism or conceit, but flows from knowledge based upon evidence and experience. Members of the Theosophical Society will notice that certain theories or doctrines have not been gone into. That is because they could not be treated without unduly extending the book and arousing needless controversy. The subject of the Will has received no treatment, inasmuch as that power or faculty is hidden, subtle, undiscoverable as to essence, and only visible in effect. As it is absolutely colorless and varies in moral quality in accordance with the desire behind it, as also it acts frequently without our knowledge, and as it operates in all the kingdoms below man, there could be nothing gained by attempting to enquire into it apart from the Spirit and the desire. I claim no originality for this book. I invented none of it, discovered none of it, but have simply written that which I have been taught and which has been proved to me. It therefore is only a handing on of what has been known before. Studies
in the Ocean of Theosophy
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  William
Q. Judge was a very close student and co-worker of Blavatsky who came
to be an occultist in his own right. Blavasky praised Judge quite significantly
and he was an essential figure in the early advancement of Theosophy. His
writings are an authentic 19th century presentation of original Theosophy
- often in a more approachable, easier to read, form than that written
by Blavatsky.
Full Biography Malibu United Lodge of Theosophists Theosophy Links ERBzine Reference: Dale R. Broadhurst's ERB Sword of Theosophy Series |
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