COMPLETE - Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 30 - Jo

[Sue Anderson]

I have added the first chapter from The Living Word by Worcester, Elwood, 1863-; Fechner, Gustav Theodor, 1801-1887 The Three Motives of Faith in God

Soupy, thanks so much for your contribution to vol. 30 . I had to do a little Wikipedia sleuthing to find out who Worcester and Fechner were, and both men's careers sound interesting and well worth learning about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Fechner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Movement

I noticed that you're well underway with your Goethe project and are looking for readers and listeners, so here is a little "free publicity" from the nonfiction thread:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=45950&hilit=goethe!

[soupy]

Thanks for the publicity Sue. I ran across him while reading about Soren Kierkegaard and Walter Lowrie, Lowrie translated much of Kierkegaard's works and he also wrote a book called The Religion of a Scientist in 1944, which featured Fechner's writings.

[HughGil]

I have added the first chapter from The Living Word by Worcester, Elwood, 1863-; Fechner, Gustav Theodor, 1801-1887 The Three Motives of Faith in God
15.6 MB 17:07

Link to Text http://archive.org/stream/livingwordwo00worc#page/2/mode/2up

Audio:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_thethreemotivesoffaithingod_cc.mp3

Hi soupy,

The Three Motives of Faith in God is PL okay.

Hugh

[ToddHW]

• The link you copied from the uploader to your file http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_authenticaccountlayingcornerstonewashingtonmonumentbaltimore_pratt_th.mp3
• Source from which you read http://archive.org/details/authenticaccount00prat
• Length in minutes 28:41

Yes, the Washington Monument is really in Baltimore (where I live). Architect Mills designed this one in Baltimore first, then decades later the one in Washington.

I am also going to have this recording available for the monument's history website as they are fund-raising for renovation.

Thanks, Todd

[Sue Anderson]

• Yes, the Washington Monument is really in Baltimore (where I live). Architect Mills designed this one in Baltimore first, then decades later the one in Washington.

I am also going to have this recording available for the monument's history website as they are fund-raising for renovation.

Thanks, Todd

Todd, Thanks so much for an interesting contribution! What is the URL for the Baltimore Washington monument website? I took a look at the engraving of the monument in your source book and it looked impressive. I'd like to see what it looks like now. Your contribution to the fund raising is creative!

[ToddHW]

• Yes, the Washington Monument is really in Baltimore (where I live). Architect Mills designed this one in Baltimore first, then decades later the one in Washington.

I am also going to have this recording available for the monument's history website as they are fund-raising for renovation.

Thanks, Todd

Todd, Thanks so much for an interesting contribution! What is the URL for the Baltimore Washington monument website? I took a look at the engraving of the monument in your source book and it looked impressive. I'd like to see what it looks like now. Your contribution to the fund raising is creative!

http://mvba.org/mvpc/ is the current website for the renovation effort - the monument itself and the parks surrounding it. Due to budget cuts (what, they aren't a new thing?) the monument didn't end up so fancy as the engravings. I am tempted to read more from a later booklet at archive ( http://archive.org/details/washingtonmonume00baltd ) published in 1849 after the monument was completed describing some of the construction and the statue of Washington that tops the column - more fund-raising aids!

Over in The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, one of the mysteries (The Man Who Spoke Latin) took place in a fancy residence building off the park in the shadow of the monument.

Thanks, Todd

[ToddHW]

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Todd, Thanks so much for an interesting contribution! What is the URL for the Baltimore Washington monument website? I took a look at the engraving of the monument in your source book and it looked impressive. I'd like to see what it looks like now. Your contribution to the fund raising is creative!

Ah-ha! Now I know why you peeked at the engravings! You are the wonderful recorder of the fascinating two volumes of "Incidents of Travel in Central America" which I just finished listening to - and that book had great engravings too.

Many thanks for picking such great books - I'm now downloading a couple of your other non-fiction exploration tales!

Thanks, Todd

[Sue Anderson]

Ah-ha! Now I know why you peeked at the engravings!
Todd

Yes, I like old engravings . . . but what caught my attention, particularly, about the Baltimore Washington monument was how much it reminded me of the St Mark's Lion in Venice, atop his column (sadly, I've been to Venice but never Baltimore), and from Venice, my mind segued to a marvelous column in the tiny Illinois town of Stillman's Valley, commemorating the militia who died in a battle of the Black Hawk War: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stillman%27s_Run_Site_Stillman_Valley,_IL_07.JPG

[ToddHW]

Oh, I love the juxtaposition of the Stillman monument with the water tower! That should be a classic picture for the preservationists that try to preserve sightlines around national parks and battlefields!!!

I think that there are a few classical architecture guidelines that lead to buildings and monuments ending up looking similar. The three-part layout: ornamented base or foundation to establish the grandeur at ground level, then rather plain mid-section to guide the eye up ever so high without pause, and then the decorated top to stop the eye's travel and show off some marvels (like the hero's statue, or gargoyles!). Ornamenting the middle part looks better on paper - as in the engraving - since it fills in an otherwise dull section - than it real life. Hence that is one of the details lost in the final execution of my Washington monument. Other ornamented columns that require the eye to pause and look at the decorated column itself are rare - like Trajan's column.

In case you can't tell, I'm reading sections of The Stones of Venice on its art and architecture!

Many thanks for running this book and such stimulating asides!

Todd

[HughGil]

• The link you copied from the uploader to your file http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_authenticaccountlayingcornerstonewashingtonmonumentbaltimore_pratt_th.mp3
• Source from which you read http://archive.org/details/authenticaccount00prat
• Length in minutes 28:41

Yes, the Washington Monument is really in Baltimore (where I live). Architect Mills designed this one in Baltimore first, then decades later the one in Washington.

I am also going to have this recording available for the monument's history website as they are fund-raising for renovation.

Thanks, Todd

Hi Todd,

PL is okay.

Hugh

[jchesnut]

Here is a short description of Charles Dickens and his works:

Title: Dickens the Foremost of Novelists
Author: George Hamlin Fitch (1852 - 1925)
MP3 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_dickenstheforemostofnovelists_fitch_jc.mp3
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19222/19222-h/19222-h.htm#Foremost_of_Novelists
Duration: 11:42

Jeff Chesnut

[tekksavvy318]

Hello Tekksavvy318,
Thank you for being the first to post a selection to volume 30 of the nonfiction collection. Both I, as book coordinator, and our dedicated proof listener, HughGil listened to your upload. We appreciate your efforts, but we are unable to accept this for Vol. 30.

Your selection is a “community text” from archive.org. Librivox only accepts recordings of published works in the public domain, usually meaning public domain works published prior to 1922. Quoting from the Librivox Wiki on the subject of copyright (http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Copyright_and_Public_Domain):

Is this a published work?
• If No: We're sorry, but we cannot include your recording at this time. LibriVox is currently only accepting recordings of published works.

Also, your selection contains a laugh track. This is what the Librivox Wiki has to say about sound effects: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Music_Rules

May I add incidental music or sound effects to my recordings?
No.
LibriVox's mission is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the Internet. Adding music or other effects makes it harder for us to achieve our objective by introducing complicated copyright issues, adding work for our MCs, and by occasionally obscuring the reading of the text.
If you would like to add music or creative effects to your recording, we encourage you to send an enhanced version separately to another host such as Archive.org.

The best source for readings that you can be certain are in the public domain is Gutenberg.org. Gutenberg has a “book shelf” devoted to humor:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/44.

We would welcome a different contribution from you that meets copyright criteria and does not have any sound effects! Thank you,

In that case..here's the another nonfiction...this one an essay on Gardening...Enjoy! You may decide not to upload this to MW, its totally up to you!
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_essaysofgardens_Francis%20Bacon_ts.mp3
15:31

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Tekksavvy, I'm glad to see you back with such an interesting selection from Francis Bacon! . This reading is a fine fit for the nonfiction collection. Our dedicated proof listener, Hugh, will be along shortly to listen.

I've entered a reading source for you selection, from Bacon's Essays, which is available on Gutenberg, but if you would be so kind in the future please give us the source. The info on how to do this is under point no. 4 in the instructions above.

Thank you for your contribution!

[Sue Anderson]

Here is a short description of Charles Dickens and his works:

Title: Dickens the Foremost of Novelists
Author: George Hamlin Fitch (1852 - 1925)
MP3 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_dickenstheforemostofnovelists_fitch_jc.mp3
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19222/19222-h/19222-h.htm#Foremost_of_Novelists
Duration: 11:42

Jeff Chesnut

Jeff, Thanks so much for contributing some background on Dickens; this should be of interest to lots of Librivoxers! Hugh will be along shortly to proof listen, and I've got it downloaded for a listen myself tomorrow on the holiday.

[HughGil]

Here is a short description of Charles Dickens and his works:

Title: Dickens the Foremost of Novelists
Author: George Hamlin Fitch (1852 - 1925)
MP3 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/snf030_dickenstheforemostofnovelists_fitch_jc.mp3
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19222/19222-h/19222-h.htm#Foremost_of_Novelists
Duration: 11:42

Jeff Chesnut

Hi Jeff,

PL is okay.

Hugh