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Various . Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916

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Various . Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891

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Various Various The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 5, May, 1884

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Various None Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862

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Produced By Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci And The Pg Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Transcriber'S Note: Footnotes At End Of Document] The Continental Monthly: Devoted To Literature And National Policy Vol. I.--May, 1862.--No. V. * * * * * What Shall We Do With It? The First Blood That Was Shed In Our Revolutionary Struggle, Was In Boston, In March, 1770. The Next At Lexington, In June, 1775. [mehr]

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Various . The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891

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Amy Walton White Lilac; or the Queen of the May

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Mrs White had had several children before the birth of this one, but they had all died. This makes her quite determined to make sure that this one survives. She was telling a visitor that she thought of calling the baby Annie, in honour of the visitor, but she had just been saying how much she loved white lilacs, and her husband had brought a branch of it over from a nearby village. So the visitor said, call her Lilac White, as there were already too many Annie Whites in the village. Unfortunately the father dies shortly after, and the mother has to bring the child up on her own. Now she is twelve, and a pretty child. A visiting artist asks if he may put her in one of his pictures. Lilac goes off with her cousin Agnetta, who believes she needs a new hair-do. Needless to say, the result is not attractive to the artist, who now refuses to put her in the picture. Other characters in the story are Uncle Joshua, who is a good and well-loved man, and Peter, probably in his late teens, who is a farm worker, well-intentioned but clumsy. A big event in the village is May Day, and there is rivalry among the girls about which of them shall be Queen of the May. It is Lilac. Yet that very day her mother is taken ill and dies. She is taken to their home by a farmer and his wife, and taught the dairymaid arts such as butter and cheese making. In those days a girl such as Lilac would hope to be taken into domestic service and trained up to such high levels as house-keeper or cook. Lilac has some opportunities--will she or won't she take them up? A lovely book that takes us back to long-gone days in the pastoral England of the 1850s. [mehr]

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Various Various MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. VI., NO. 6, MAY, 1896

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Will Hicok Low (May 31, 1853 - November 27, 1933) was a United States artist, muralist, and writer on art.He was born at Albany, New York. In 1873 he entered the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme in the École des Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran, with whom he remained until 1877. Returning to New York, he became a member of the Society of American Artists in 1878 and of the National Academy of Design in 1890. His pictures of New England types, and illustrations of John Keats, brought him into prominence. [mehr]

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