The 16th Cavern

Seal Rock, California by Albert Bierstadt  (1830–1902).

THE WAY OF THE WORLD A COMEDY Audire est operæ pretium ,  procedere recte Qui mæchis non vultis .— Hor .  Sat.  i. 2, 37. — Metuat doti deprensa .— Ibid .

Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in February 1885. It is kept in Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel (F138).

Head of a Peasant Woman with Brownish Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in December 1884. It is kept in Dufresne Art Gallery, Paris, France. (F136)

PABLO PICASSO LET me say at the beginning that I do not believe in art criticism, and the more especially when it is concerned with painting. I grant that everyone bas the right to express their opinion in art matters, to applaud, or disapprove, according to their own personal way of seeing and feeling; but I hold that they should do so without assuming any authority,

EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE LECTURE-ROOM. Letter to the Committee of the New Bedford Lyceum, November 29, 1845. After accepting an invitation to lecture before the Lyceum at New Bedford, Mr. Sumner, learning that colored persons were denied membership and equal opportunities with white persons, refused to lecture, as appears in the following Letter, which was published in the papers of the time.

Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in January 1885. It is kept in Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (F135)

THE MIDDLE CLASS GENTLEMAN (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) By MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) Translated by Philip Dwight Jones Comedy-Ballet presented at Chambord, for the entertainment of the King, in the month of October 1670, and to the public in Paris for the first time at the Palais-Royal Theater 23 November 1670

Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in March 1885. It is kept in Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (F134).

PROLOGUE, By David Garrick, Esq. Enter MR. WOODWARD, dressed in black, and holding a handkerchief to his eyes. Excuse me, sirs, I pray--I can't yet speak-- I'm crying now--and have been all the week. "'Tis not alone this mourning suit," good masters: "I've that within"--for which there are no plasters! Pray, would you know the reason why I'm crying? The Comic Muse, long sick, is now a-dying! And if she goes, my tears will never stop;

Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in January 1884. It is kept in National Gallery London, the United Kingdom. (F137)

Prologue Penfield twirled the stem of his port-glass between thumb and finger. “I don’t agree,” he said. “It’s nothing but egocentric vanity to consider our form of life as unique among those on the millions of worlds that must exist.” “How do you know they exist?” said Hodge. “Observation,” said McCall. “The astronomers have proved that other stars beside our sun have planets.”

Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in December 1884 - January 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F133).

UTILITARIANISM. CHAPTER I. GENERAL REMARKS. There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted intellects, and divided them into sects and schools, carrying on a vigorous warfare against one another. And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth ...

Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in March 1885. It is kept in Woodone Museum of Art, Yoshiwa, Japan (F131).

Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE A play in five acts DRAMATIS PERSONAE Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Medical Officer of the Municipal Baths. Mrs. Stockmann, his wife. Petra (their daughter) a teacher. Ejlif & Morten (their sons, aged 13 and 10 respectively). Peter Stockmann (the Doctor's elder brother), Mayor of the Town and Chief Constable, Chairman of the Baths' Committee, etc. Morten Kiil, a tanner (Mrs. Stockmann's adoptive father). Hovstad, editor of the "People's Messenger." Billing, sub-editor. Captain Horster. Aslaksen, a printer.

Head of a Woman is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in March 1885. It is kept in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (F130)

—whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as ’t were, the mirour up to nature.—HAMLET He cannot flatter, he!— An honest mind and plain,—he must speak truth; An they will take it, so. KING LEAR.

Peasant and Peasant Woman Planting Potatoes is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in April 1885. It is kept in Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. (F129a)

KIDNAPPED BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 1751 HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS; HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES; WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER BALFOUR OF SHAWS, FALSELY SO CALLED WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON

Two Peasant Women Digging Potatoes is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in August 1885. It is kept in Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands (F129 - also F97).

I. ALS Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.

Peasant Woman Standing Indoors is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in March 1885. It is kept in the National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade (F128).

Nice Girl With 5 Husbands Adventure is relative to one's previous experience. Sometimes, in fact, you can't even be sure you're having or not having one! To be given paid-up leisure and find yourself unable to create is unpleasant for any artist. To be stranded in a cluster of desert cabins with a dozen lonely people in the same predicament only makes it worse. So Tom Dorset was understandably irked with himself and the Tosker-Brown Vacation Fellowships as he climbed with the sun into the valley of red stones. He accepted the chafing of his camera strap

Peasant Woman, Seated (Half-Figure) is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in February 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F127).

CHAPTER I Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.

Peasant Woman Sewing is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in February/March 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F126a).

PROLOGUE. It is small wonder that the perusal of that hitherto, in my eyes, immaculate magazine, the _Nineteenth Century_, affords me less pleasure than usual. There may possibly be some articles in it both worth reading and worth remembering, but of these I am no longer conscious, for an overmastering rage fills my soul, to the exclusion of everything else. One article stands out with such prominence beyond the rest that, to all intents and purposes, this number of the _Nineteenth Century_ contains nothing else for me. Not that there is anything admirable in the said article. Far from it. I look upon it as the most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards woman by women. Indeed, were it not that some of the perpetrators of this outrage on my sex are well-known writers and society leaders, I would doubt the authenticity of the signatures, and comfort my soul with the belief that the whole affair has been nothing but a hoax got up by timorous and jealous male bipeds, ...

Peasant Woman Sitting on a Chair is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in June 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F126).

THE DISCOVERY OF A RARE ART TREASURE. Melos (Italian _Milo_), one of the smallest Greek islands, would scarcely be known at all except to specialists in geography or ancient history, had not a happy accident brought to light on one of its hillsides that most beautiful piece of sculpture which ever since its discovery has been known as the Venus of Milo. _Melon_ means apple, and the island of Melos (the “apple island”) belongs to the Cyclades, being the most southern and western member of that group. It lies almost straight west from the southern tip of the Peloponnesus and in a direction south to south-west from Athens.

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen with Pond and Figures was an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in November 1885. It was destroyed by fire in World War Two in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (F124)

To my former teacher HATTIE GORDON SMITH in grateful remembrance of her sympathy and encouragement. Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. --WHITTIER I An Irate Neighbor A tall, slim girl, “half-past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages.

Autumn Landscape at Dusk is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in October/November 1885. It is kept in Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (F121).

A STORY OF WALL-STREET. I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many of them, professionally and privately, and if I pleased, could relate divers histories, at which good-natured gentlemen might smile, and sentimental souls might weep. But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of. While of other law-copyists I might write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature. Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original so...

Autumn Landscape is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in October 1885. It is kept in Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, England (F119).

SATURDAY .--I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen, and that I was not noticing. Very well; I will be very watchful now, and if any day-before-yesterdays happen I will make a note of it. It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM--an experiment; just an experiment, and nothing more.

Still Life with an Earthen Bowl and Potatoes is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in September 1885. It is kept in Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (on loan) (F118).

The Problem of the Fish-Hooks 'There can be no doubt whatever,' said Mr. Phillipps, 'that my theory is the true one; these flints are prehistoric fish-hooks.' 'I dare say; but you know that in all probability the things were forged the other day with a door-key.' 'Stuff!' said Phillipps; 'I have some respect, Dyson, for your literary abilities, but your knowledge of ethnology is insignificant, or rather non-existent. These fish-hooks satisfy every test; they are perfectly genuine.' 'Possibly, but as I said just now, you go to work at the wrong end. You neglect the opportunities that confront you and await you, obvious, at every corner; you positively shrink from the chance of encountering primitive man in this whirling and mysterious city, and you pass the weary hours in your agreeable retirement of Red Lion Square fumbling with bits of flint, which are, as I said, in all probability, rank forgeries.' Phillipps took one of the ...

Still Life with Open Bible, Extinguished Candle and Novel also Still Life with Bible is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in October 1885. It is kept in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (F117).