Cooke, John Esten (1830–1886)

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99-102	June 1884 Article Grace Sherwood. The one Virginia witch By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Sherwood, Grace; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Witchcraft); Witches PDF IMAGES
111-114	June 1879 Article Alexander Spotswood By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Spotswood, Alexander; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 PDF IMAGES
337-356	August 1878 Article The White Sulpher Springs By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Health resorts; Springs; Sulphur springs; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
211-216	July 1876 Article The writer of the Declaration: A familiar sketch By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Portraits; Jefferson, Thomas PDF IMAGES
1-15	June 1876 Article Virginia in the Revolution By John Esten Cooke PDF IMAGES
523-528	March 1861 Article A joyous Frenchman in Virginia By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Diaries; Journeys—Virginia; Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de PDF IMAGES

106-110	December 1884 Fiction Toinette By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Horses; Missing children PDF IMAGES
867-880	November 1881 Fiction The sumac-gatherers By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Blue Ridge Mountains; Mountain whites (Southern States) PDF IMAGES
426-431	August 1880 Fiction A boating adventure By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Age PDF IMAGES
380-390	February 1879 Fiction Moonshiners By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Distilling, Illicit; New Yorkers; Veterans PDF IMAGES
199-211	July 1878 Fiction Owlet By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Inheritance and succession; Poor women PDF IMAGES
677-686	April 1877 Fiction Old Wiley By John Esten Cooke PDF IMAGES
227-243	January 1877 Fiction A craniologist By John Esten Cooke SEE ALSO: Craniology; Detective and mystery stories PDF IMAGES

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Poem

A dream of the cavaliers

By John Esten Cooke

SEE ALSO: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Byrd, Evelyn; Smith, John; Pioneers; Pocahontas; Poem; Raleigh, Walter, Sir; Berkeley, William; Byrd, William; Women pioneers

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837-855	May 1887 Article The recent movement in Southern literature By Charles Washington Coleman SEE ALSO: Ryan, Abram Joseph; Rives, Amélie; American literature; Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin; Tucker, Beverley; Craddock, Charles Egbert; Criticism and interpretation; Poe, Edgar Allan; Baylor, Frances Courtenay; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Stockton, Frank Richard; Cable, George Washington; King, Grace Elizabeth; Edwards, Harry Stillwell; Allen, James Lane; Harris, Joel Chandler; Cooke, John Esten; Kennedy, John Pendleton; Magruder, Julia; Hearn, Lafcadio; McClelland, M.G. (Mary Greenway); Preston, Margaret Junkin; Tiernan, Mary Spear; Magill, Mary Tucker; Thompson, Maurice; Harrison, Burton, Mrs.; Hayne, Paul Hamilton; Portraits; Johnston, Richard Malcolm; Wilson, Robert Burns; Peck, Samuel Minturn; Lanier, Sidney; Page, Thomas Nelson; Simms, William Gilmore; Hayne, William Hamilton; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
156	June 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: A life of General Robert E. Lee (Book); Algebra; Generals; Humor; Cooke, John Esten; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) PDF IMAGES
156	June 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: A life of General Robert E. Lee (Book); Buttermilk; Generals; Humor; Cooke, John Esten; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) PDF IMAGES

970-975	May 1884 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson); Atlas (Book); Croker, B.M. (Bithia Mary); Bonnybell Vane. Embracing the history of Henry St. John, gentleman (Book); Moore, Charles Herbert; Moore, Charles Leonard; Bell, Clara; Lowell, Edward Jackson; Eckstein, Ernst; Examples for elementary practice in delineation; designed for the use of schools and isolated beginners (Book); Fleming, George; Lathrop, George Parsons; Litchfield, Grace Denio; Harper's pictorial history of the Great Rebellion (Book); Alden, Henry Mills; Tuttle, Herbert; History of Prussia to the accession of Frederick the Great (Book); Cooke, John Esten; Green, John Richard; Notley, Frances Eliza Millett, Mrs.; Riddell, J.H., Mrs.; Newport (Book); Only an incident (Book); Schaff, Philip; Poems antique and modern (Book); Pretty Miss Neville. A novel (Book); Prusias; a romance of ancient Rome under the republic (Book); Red Riding-Hood. A novel (Book); Buchanan, Robert Williams; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Susan Drummond. A novel (Book); The conquest of England (Book); The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary war (Book); The new Abelard: a romance (Book); The world's opportunities and how to use them (Book); Vestigia (Book); Shedd, William Greenough Thayer PDF IMAGES
807-812	April 1884 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A short history of our own times, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the general election of 1880 (Book); Roman, Alfred; Beatrix Randolf; a story (Book); Felicitas. A romance (Book); Dahn, Felix; Hester: a story of contemporary life (Book); Payn, James; Harwood, John Berwick; Cooke, John Esten; Hawthorne, Julian; McCarthy, Justin; Little Loo. A novel (Book); Jennings, Louis John; Safford, Mary J.; “Mercedes,” and later lyrics (Book); Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); One false, both fair; or, a hard knot (Book); Oregon: the struggle for its possession (Book); Byers, S.H.M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Greene, Sarah Pratt McLean; Some other folks (Book); The canon's ward. A novel (Book); “The Happy Isles,” and other poems (Book); The military operations of General Beauregard in the War between the States, 1861 to 1865 (Book); The millionaire. A novel (Book); Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Virginia: a history of the people (Book); Barrows, W. (William); Russell, William Clark; Shedd, William Greenough Thayer PDF IMAGES
147-155	June 1883 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A biography of William Cullen Bryant, with extracts from his private correspondence (Book); A daughter of the Philistines (Book); A history of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War (Book); Pinner, Adolf; An introduction to the study of organic chemistry (Book); Bek's first corner (Book); Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem, and the fight of Finnsburg (Book); Spurgeon, C.H. (Charles Haddon); Daisy Miller; a study; and other stories (Book); Emerson at home and abroad (Book); Marshall, Emma; Robinson, F.W. (Frederick William); Fanchette (Book); Lathrop, George Parsons; James, Henry; History of the Pacific states of North America. Volume 4-9, Mexico (Book); Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth; Bancroft, Hubert Howe; Froude, James Anthony; Garnett, James Mercer; Nasmyth, James; James Nasmyth, engineer; an autobiography (Book); Carlyle, Jane Welsh; McMaster, John Bach; Cooke, John Esten; Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (Book); Life of Lord Lawrence (Book); Willson, Marcius; Conway, Moncure Daniel; Mosaics of Bible history; the Bible record with illustrative poetic and prose selections from standard literature (Book); Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Godwin, Parke; Austen, Peter T. (Peter Townsend); Smith, R. Bosworth (Reginald Bosworth); Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Willson, Robert Pierpont; Smiles, Samuel; Cox, Samuel Sullivan; Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon (Book); The correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 (Book); The cruise of the canoe club (Book); The day spring (Book); The hands of justice. A novel (Book); “The Seige of London,” “The Pension Beaurepas,” and “The Point of View” (Book); The wreck of the “Grosvenor.” An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas (Book); Carlyle, Thomas; Alden, W.L. (William Livingston); Why we laugh (Book); Russell, William Clark PDF IMAGES
308-316	July 1880 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Whitney, A.D.T. (Adeline Dutton Train); Alaska, and missions on the North Pacific Coast (Book); Card essays, Clay's decisions, and card-table talk (Book); De Kay, Charles; Warner, Charles Dudley; Northend, Charles; Brooks, Charles Timothy; Clara Vaughan. A novel (Book); Democracy: an American novel (Book); Gibbon, Edward; Burritt, Elihu; Elihu Burritt; a memorial volume containing a sketch of his life and labors, with selections from his writings and lectures and extracts from his private journals in Europe and America (Book); Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Ticknor, Francis Orray; From generation to generation (Book); Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen; Putnam, George Palmer; Adams, Henry; Milman, Henry Hart; Jones, Henry; Hesperus, and other poems (Book); History of the city of New York (Book); Furness, Horace Howard; Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin); Strong, James; Symonds, John Addington; Cooke, John Esten; McClintock, John; Jones, Julia Clinton; King Lear (Book); Noel, Augusta, Lady; Lord Beaconsfield; a study (Book); Louisiana (Book); Guizot, M. (François); Grant, Maria M.; Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise); Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.; Sturge, G.(George), Mrs.; New variorum edition of Shakspeare: “King Lear” (Book); Odd, or even? (Book); Prince Hugo. A bright episode (Book); Blackmore, R.D. (Richard Doddridge); Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D.D. (Book); Rue's helps (Book); Shakespeare's history of King Henry the Fourth, parts I and II (Book); Jackson, Sheldon; Sketches and studies in Southern Europe (Book); Studies of Irving (Book); The life and work of Mary Carpenter (Book); The manliness of Christ (Book); The poems of Frank O. Ticknor, M.D. (Book); The Virginia Bohemians; a novel (Book); Hughes, Thomas; Valhalla: the myths of Norseland; a saga, in twelve parts (Book); Rolfe, W.J. (William James); Fetridge, W. Pembroke (William Pembroke); Irving, Washington; Bryant, William Cullen; William Ellery Channing (Book); Smith, William George; Shakespeare, William; Works of Washington Irving (Book) PDF IMAGES
467-475	August 1879 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: A life worth living. Memorials of Emily Bliss Gould, of Rome (Book); Bain, Alexander; An attic philosopher in Paris; or, a peep at the world from a garret (Book); Trollope, Anthony; Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy); Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron; Basildon. A novel (Book); Caesar; a sketch (Book); Color-blindness; its dangers and its detection (Book); Swing, David; Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Education as a science (Book); Souvestre, Emile; Essays of today: religious and theological (Book); Faith and rationalism (Book); Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Eliot, George; Fisher, George Park; Half-hour history of England; being an intruductory volume to “Epochs of English history” (Book); Stanley, Helen; Gréville, Henry; Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Book); Froude, James Anthony; Cooke, John Esten; John Halifax, gentleman (Book); Macduff, John R. (John Ross); Ruskin, John; Cook, Joseph; McCarthy, Justin; Lane, Laura M.; Lectures on the history of ancient philosophy (Book); Bacon, Leonard Woolsey; Lord Bacon (Book); Creighton, M. (Mandell); Markof, the Russian violinist (Book); Marriage, with preludes on current events (Book); Vincent, Marvin Richardson; Crommelin, May; Miss Crespigny (Book); Montaigne (Book); Motives of life (Book); Mr. Grantley's idea (Book); Hunt, Alfred William, Mrs.; Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); My sister's keeper; A story for girls (Book); Orange Lily. A novel (Book); Palms of Elim; or, Rest and refreshment in the valleys (Book); Prior, Gay, Pope, Hogarth, Smollett, Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith (Book); Ruskin on painting: with a biographical sketch (Book); Stranger and guest (Book); Swift, Congreve, Addison and Steele (Book); Thackeray (Book); The four Georges (Book); Theo (Book); Thompson, W.H. (William Hepworth); Butler, William Archer; Thackeray, William Makepeace; Newton, William Wilberforce PDF IMAGES
303-312	July 1879 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: “Airy fairy Lilian” (Book); Kinglake, Alexander William; Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton); Hoppin, Augustus; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg; Hoppin, Benjamin; Shakespeare, Charles; Yonge, Charlotte Mary; Hill, David Jayne; Duchess; Hayward, Edward F. (Edward Farwell); Zola, Emile; Eothen; or, Traces of travel brought home from the East (Book); Hassaurek, F. (Friedrich); Falconberg (Book); “For a dream's sake” (Book); Le Goff, François; Tarver, Francis Batten Cristal; Greek hero stories (Book); Ballard, Harlan H.; Flipper, Henry Ossian; Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth; In the mist (Book); Payn, James; Symonds, John Addington; Burroughs, John; Shairp, John Campbell; Cooke, John Esten; Motley, John Lothrop; Seiss, Joseph Augustus; Beerbohm, Julius; L'assommoir. A novel (Book); Letters from Florida (Book); Locusts and wild honey (Book); Brooks, Maria Gowen; Molière (Book); Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs.; Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.; Martin, Herbert, Mrs.; Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside (Book); Church, R.W. (Richard William); Renaissance in Italy. The fine arts (Book); Jefferies, Richard; Robert Burns (Book); Porter, Rose; Thayer, S. Proctor; Morris, Lewis, Sir; Spenser (Book); St. Paul at Athens (Book); Stories of the gods and heroes of Greece (Book); Stories of the old dominion, from the settlement to the end of the revolution (Book); Tessa Wadsworth's discipline (Book); The colored cadet at West Point (Book); The epic of Hades, in three books (Book); The fairy-land of science (Book); The life of Louis Adolphe Thiers (Book); The secret of the Andes: a romance (Book); Stanton, Theodore; Under one roof: an episode in a family history. A novel (Book); Voices from Babylon; or, the records of Daniel the Prophet (Book); Wanderings in Patagonia; or, life among the ostrich-hunters (Book); Washington Irving (Book); Wild life in a southern county (Book); Damon, William Emerson; Willoughby (Book); Young folks; history of England (Book); Gustafson, Zadel Barnes Buddington; Zophiël; or, the bride of seven (Book) PDF IMAGES
782-787	October 1870 Editor's literary record/Review Editor's literary record SEE ALSO: Alaska and its resources (Book); Barnes, Albert; Lefèvre, André; Anderson, Benjamin J.K.; Hingston, Edward P. (Edward Peron); Robinson, F.W. (Frederick William); Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes); Peterson, Henry; Clarke, J.F. (James Freeman); John, a love-story (Book); Cooke, John Esten; Kavanagh, Julia; Figuier, Louis; Maternity; a popular treatise for young wives and mothers (Book); Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret); Narrative of a journey to Musardu, the capital of the western Mandingoes (Book); Porter, Noah; Primitive man (Book); Rocks and shoals. Lectures to young men (Book); Scenes and incidents in the life of the apostle Paul, viewed as illustrating the nature and influence of the Christian religion (Book); Silvia (Book); Steps to belief (Book); The American colleges and the American public (Book); The genial showman (Book); The heir of Gaymount; a novel (Book); The modern Job (Book); The new Timothy. A novel (Book); True to herself (Book); Verdi, Tullio Suzzara; Dall, William Healey; Baker, William M. (William Mumford); Wonders of architecture (Book) PDF IMAGES
556-558	September 1859 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: American wit and humor (Book); Paine, Caroline; Lever, Charles James; Mackay, Charles; Gerald Fitzgerald, “the chevalier” (Book); Henry St. John, gentleman, of “Flower of Hundreds,” in the county of Prince George, Virginia. A tale of 1774-'75 (Book); Stuart, I.W. (Isaac William); Cooke, John Esten; McLenan, John; Life and liberty in America; or, Sketches of a tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8 (Book); Life of Jonathan Trumbull, sen., governor of Connecticut (Book); Moulton, Louise Chandler; Tent and harem: notes of an Oriental trip (Book); The life of Jabez Bunting, D.D., with notices of contemporary persons and events (Book); Bunting, Thomas Percival PDF IMAGES
547-551	September 1855 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A visit to the camp before Sevastopol (Book); Atlas of the world (Book); Benauly; Beecher, Catharine Esther; Baird, Charles Washington; Cone Cut Corners: the experiences of a conservative family in fanatical times; involving some account of a Connecticut village, the people who lived in it, and those who came there from the city (Book); Guernsey, Egbert; Ellie: or, The human comedy (Book); Eutaxia; or, Presbyterian liturgies: historical sketches (Book); Bungener, Félix; Female life among the Mormons (Book); Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth); History of the Council of Trent (Book); Pray, Isaac C. (Isaac Clarke); Abbott, Jacob; Cooke, John Esten; McClintock, John; Learning to think (Book); Letters to the people on health and happiness (Book); Ward, Maria; Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett and his times (Book); Moredun; a tale of the twelve hundred and ten (Book); Panama in 1855. An account of the Panama rail-road, of the cities of Panama and Aspinwall, with sketches of life and character on the Isthmus (Book); Pardoe; McCormick, Richard C. (Richard Cunningham); Tomes, Robert; Rollo learning to read (Book); Rollo learning to talk (Book); Scott, Walter, Sir; The jealous wife (Book) PDF IMAGES
857-860	November 1854 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A complete treatise on artificial fish-breeding (Book); Baskerville, Alfred; Lamartine, Alphonse de; An address before the Louisville Horticultural Society (Book); Empirical psychology; or, the human mind as given in consciousness (Book); Giles, Henry; Harbaugh, Henry; Herbert, Henry William; Ida Norman; or, Trials and their uses (Book); Illustrations of genius, in some of its relations to culture and society (Book); Wood, J.G. (John George); Howson, J.S. (John Saul); Jerusalem and its vicinity (Book); Cooke, John Esten; Whittier, John Greenleaf; Hart, John S. (John Seely); Later years (Book); Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus); Life's lesson. A tale (Book); Literary recreations and miscellanies (Book); Thomas, M.M. (Martha McCannon); Memoirs of celebrated characters (Book); Memorable women—the story of their lives (Book); Crosland, Newton, Mrs.; Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs.; Poems (Book); Trench, Richard Chenevix; Sermons for the people (Book); Spenser and the Fairy Queen (Book); Synonyms of the New Testament; being the substance of a course of lectures addressed to the theological students, King's College, London (Book); Stockton, T.H. (Thomas Hewlings); The birds of the Bible (Book); The captains of the Roman republic, as compared with the great modern strategists (Book); The female prose writers of America (Book); The illustrated natural history (Book); The life and epistles of St. Paul (Book); The poetry of Germany (Book); The Virginia comedians: or, old days in the old dominion. Ed. from the mss. of C. Effingham, esq. [pseud.] (Book); Bell, Theodore Stout; Parsons, Thomas William; Prime, William Cowper; Fry, William Henry; Odenheimer, William Henry; Conybeare, William John PDF IMAGES
569-572	September 1854 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: Stimson, A.L. (Alexander Lovett); Bertha and Lily; or, the parsonage of Beech Glen (Book); Easy Nat (Book); Perkins, Edward T.; Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince; Fifty years in both hemispheres; or, Reminiscences of the life of a former merchant (Book); Gan-Eden; or, Pictures of Cuba (Book); Riley, Henry Hiram; History of Cuba; or, Notes of a traveller in the Tropics. Being a political, historical, and statistical account of the island, from its first discovery to the present time (Book); History of Pyrrhus (Book); Abbott, Jacob; Cooke, John Esten; Ballou, Maturin Murray; Na Motu; or, reef-rovings in the South seas (Book); Puddleford, and its people (Book); The American cottage builder; a series of designs, plans, and specifications from $200 to $20,000 (Book); The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, and machinist's and engineer's drawing companion: forming a complete course of mechanical, engineering, and architectural drawing (Book); The youth of Jefferson (Book); Nolte, Vincent; Hurlbert, William Henry; Johnson, William; Armengaud, aîné (Jacques-Eugène); Bullock, John, architect PDF IMAGES
425-428	August 1854 Literary notices/Review Literary notices SEE ALSO: A history of Illinois, from its commencement as a state in 1818 to 1847 (Book); Livermore, Abiel Abbott; Mills, Abraham; Africa and the American flag (Book); Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull); Atherton, and other tales (Book); Lever, Charles James; Daniel Boone and the hunters of Kentucky (Book); Discourses (Book); Burritt, Elihu; Footprints of famous men (Book); James, G.P.R. (George Payne Rainsford); Bates, George Washington; Harper's statistical gazetteer of the world (Book); Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin); Cooke, John Esten; Edgar, John G. (John George); Leather stocking and silk; or, Hunter John Myers and his times (Book); Ware, Mary G. (Mary Greene); Mitford, Mary Russell; Sandwich Island notes. By a Häolé (Book); Sir Jasper Carew, knt.; his life and experiences (Book); The elements of character (Book); The hive of “The bee-hunter”: a repository of sketches, including peculiar American character, scenery, and rural sports (Book); The master's house; a tale of southern life. By Logan [pseud.] (Book); The poets and the poetry of the ancient Greeks; with an historical introduction, and a brief view of Grecian philosophers, orators, and historians (Book); Thorpe, Thomas Bangs; Ford, Thomas; Thoughts and things at home and abroad (Book); Ticonderoga (Book); Bogart, W.H. (William Henry) PDF IMAGES

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