MARY TAPPAN WRIGHT: THE TEST/NOVEL/SCARCE 1904 1st

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MARY TAPPAN WRIGHT: THE TEST/NOVEL/SCARCE 1904 1st:
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THE TEST. BY MARY TAPPAN WRIGHT. New York: Charles Scribner\'s Sons, 1904. First Edition. Scarce.

Asolid and attractive scarce book. Published 110years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find.

From the Text: \"\"Morning\'s Over\". SENATOR WINCHESTER was slowly mounting the broad stile that crossed the fence that surrounded the college grounds. The OCtober morning was gray; but few leaves had fallen, and the thick foliage of the little park seemed to intensify the dampness and to make the raw air colder. The Seantor had been to the post-office, and as he passed down the main street of the village one and another of his acquaintances had stopped as if wishing to speak to him, but he went by them without any sign of recognition, and they had gone on again wondering a little at this troubled face. When he reached the top of the stile, however, his eyes lighted and he stretched out his hand cordially to a girl who was coming up on the other side. \"I never see you now,\" he said, keeping her hand in his and looking down at her affectionately. The girl had flushed suddenly when she had caught sight of the Senator, and her lip, even as she answered him, quivered. \"I have but this minute left your house; I ran over there to see Anna on my way from the mail, and took the short cut home again across the Campus. I almost wish I hadn\'t,--it is so gloomy under the trees to-day.\" \"Ah!\" said the Senator inquiringly. \"Is that all?\" \"That is all.\" She looked away from him as she spoke. \"What else could it be?\" \"It could be a great many things.\" The Senator smiled as if in jest. \"Your conscience might be troubling you at leaving me to the mercy of that new stenographer: she is worthless, absolutely worthless! The History has come to a stand-still, completely.--Well,\" eh paused almost imperceptibly, \"what do you hear from Tom?\" \"I haven\'t heard for several days.\" \"Just how many days are several?\" \"Six, I think,-- Yes: six.\" \"He has not written for a week?\" \"I isn\'t nearly a week!-- And then you see he will be home this evening; besides, he is busy.\" \"tom never could write letters,\" said the Senator. the girl opened her mouth as if to protest. \"He ought to have been here yesterday,\" the Senator went on, in a grumbling tone. \"Why, he ought to have been here a week ago!\" The girl\'s face went over white; she sat down upon the top step of the stile, making a presence of tying her shoe. \"But there are oceans of time left!\" said the Senator, hastily. \"Oceans of time! This is only the eighth, and the wedding doesn\'t take place until the tenth. There is a good bit of money at stake in that Lamson business, however, and I have been anxious to hear how it was progressing. Perhaps you know?\" \"Tom hardly ever writes to me about business, Senator,\" said the girl, rising; \"but the last time he mentioned it was he said that everything was going smoothly.\" The Senator seemed undecided, moving uneasily from one foot to the other with unaccustomed awkwardness. \"I must be off,\" he said at last; \"I ought to have remembered that young laides who are preparing for a wedding have no time to waste, even upon their prospective fathers-in-law. Good-by!\" The girl began to descend toward the street, but before she had gone many steps she hesitated, and with difficulty restrained herself from turning back. \"Alice!\" Half way down the other side the Senator had stopped also. \"Have you anything that you would wish me to get for you in Conly? I am going over there this morning.\" \"Oh, please let me come with you!\" \"Let you come?\" The Senator seemed embarrassed. \"I\'m sorry, but I really don\'t know when I shall be home again. Not that I shouldn\'t like to have you along,--I always want you, Alice, you know that, -- but I may be busy until late to-night at the telegraph office, and Conly is ten miles off. I don\'t believe, at this stage of affairs, you have time enough to devote all those hours to driving with elderly gentlemen to the other end of the township. Still, if you wish to come, --- \" \"It was only an impulse to escape from Genoa. There is so much unnecessary turmoil at home just now,\" said Alice, rebuffed. \"Still I suppose that I ought to be here, even if there is nothing to do. Good-by, dear Senator!\" she said, reaching her hand up to him....\"

Contents include: \"Morning\'s Over\"; \"Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain!\"; \"When The Lamp Is Shattered\"; Refuge; \"And Press The Rue For Wine\"; \"How Charged with Punishments The Scroll\"; Suspicion; \"O True And Tried So Well And Long\"; \"Dear, The Pang Is Brief!\"; \"To Thy Part!\"; The Fringes Of The Fight; \"Der Herrlichste!\"; The Bolt Falls; \"\'Tis Not The Frost That Freezes\"; Rumor; \"Flower IHave Crushed\"; \"I Weep For The Lost Sun\"; Estrangement; The Christening; The Godmothers; \"Await No Gifts From Chance\"; A JAnuary Thaw; \"Draems Dawn And Fly, Friends Smile and Die\"; \"One Shall Be Taken\"; \"Mine-Mine, Not Yours!\"; A PArt of the PEnalty; \"Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye\"; \"I Sent A Message To My Love\"; The Decision; Theft; PRide; Humility; \"He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best\" \"A Lost Pulse of Feeling\"; Sara; \"A Discipliined Heart\"; \"The Marriage of True Minds\"; \"When The Snow Flies In My Face\"; \"Fortitude Strong As Earth\'s\"; The Return; \"Love, Still Love!\" Enoch ARden; \"Some Late Lark Singing\"

According to Wikipedia: \"Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist[1][2] and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright[3][4][5][6][7] and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.[5] Wright and her husband are said to have \"worked together on their literary activities.\"[14] Wright\'s first known published story was \"How They Cured Him,\" which appeared in The Youth\'s Companion (March 24, 1887), one of several written for that periodical. Some of the Youth\'s Companion tales form a loose series centering around holidays and featuring recurring characters; some of the early Dulwich tales were also published in that magazine. However, Wright\'s tales for Scribner\'s Magazine, beginning with \"As Haggards of the Rock\" (May 1890), attracted more notice, and the initial six of them, including also \"A Truce,\" \"A Portion of the Tempest,\" \"From Macedonia,\" \"Deep as First Love,\" and \"A Fragment of a Play, With a Chorus,\" were collected in her first book, A Truce, and Other Stories (1895).[16] None of her other short stories were gathered into book form in her lifetime. Much of her fiction dealt with American university life, often set in the fictional college town she called Dulwich in her short stories and The Test, and Great Dulwich in her other novels, which combines elements of both Kenyon College and Harvard University. Her novels are all set in college towns, the third and fourth in Dulwich itself (the first and second also mention it peripherally). Her first novel, Aliens (1902), attracted much attention when it appeared for its portrait of contemporary northerners in the racially tense Southern town of Tallawara. The next, The Test (1904), the story of a wronged young woman, received mixed reviews for what some perceived as its unpleasant subject matter and unsympathetic characters, though it was generally praised as well-written.[17][18][19] The Tower (1906) was described as \"a love story placed against the life of a college community taken from the faculty side and told with deep understanding and the most delicate art\"[20] and The Charioteers (1912) as \"a story of the social life and Environment of college professors and their families.\"[13] Wright’s first four books were published by Charles Scribner\'s Sons, the fifth being issued by D. Appleton & Company after having been rejected by the Houghton Mifflin Company.[21] Close to half of her short pieces appeared in Scribner\'s Magazine; others appeared in The Youth\'s Companion, Christian Union and its successor The Outlook, The Independent, Harper\'s Magazine, Harper\'s Weekly, and an anthology of works by various authors. She also contributed a book review to the North American Review. All of Wright’s novels are currently available in e-editions on Book Search. Aliens was reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC, in June, 2007; The Tower was reprinted by Kessinger in December, 2008. Wright\'s previously uncollected short stories were issued in new collections by Fleabonnet Press from December, 2007-November 2008. In her writing Wright was praised as having \"a keen sense of humor, good descriptive powers, a good working knowledge of human nature, an effective style\" and the ability to \"tell a story well.\"[17] Her skill at characterization was also noted.[1] Wright’s papers, including correspondence and original manuscripts and fragments, are found in various archival collections at the Harvard University Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard College.[22] An early commonplace book from 1870–77, containing mostly poetry, is in the Stone-Wright family papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.\"

Thick 12mo- sized hardcover book; vii + 360pages of text. Very Good condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; untrimmed page edges; gilt decorated top page edges;signature on front free endpaper \"J. B. Parker 18 Wildwod ?? Madison, CT\". Original hardcover binding, with wear, somewhat cocked spine,some scuffing, and some fraying to spine tips and corners. A solid and attractive copy of thisbook.

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