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...w me to bear you. If I am reproached for impotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism a book which seeks to give, in the lucid trans... ... this book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the m... ...t, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of those sculptured balustrades, carved ... ...eze between the prison-walls of rock against which it surges, the country- people call the little bay a “fiord,”—a word which geogra- phers of every n... ... rising sheer from the fiord on one side, slopes gradually downward to the east, where it joins the declivities of the Sieg and forms a series of terr... ...illed soil yielded rye and hemp and vegetables, which necessity taught the people to protect against the severity of the cold and the fleeting but ter... ...ough the maritime defiles that guard the entrance to the bay, hinder these people from growing rich by the sale of their timber. It would cost enormou... ...e the earth, but which are lost in the spaces of a world that hath neither east nor west. “Canst thou comprehend, my poor beloved T ried-one, that unl... ...sher,’ the Book of the Righteous, mentioned by Joshua, was in existence in Eastern Tartary, together with the doctrine of Correspondences. A Frenchman...

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...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...the interest of womanhood was in a region of life almost infinitely remote from his statecraft. They were the vehicle of children, but only Imperial R... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...p coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest. The agricultural placiditi... ...n, which used to be three miles to the west, and Blamely four miles to the east of Bromstead, were experiencing similar distensions and proliferations... ... a place where I slept and read, and the mooning explorations of the south-eastern 51 H G Wells postal district which occupied the restless evenings ...

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...d. They spread out into a pattern. They were like the little monks who run from St. Jerome’s lion in the picture by Carpaccio. Then one zealot rushed ... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...ere had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John’s Gos... ...e bed rested upon these evidences of his episcopal dignity. Then he turned from them to the watch at the bedside. He groaned helplessly. 8 The Soul o... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ... when the heather was not in flower it must have been a black country. Its people were dour uncandid individuals, who slanted their heads and knitted ... ... militancy of human nature. It was a day under 18 The Soul of a Bishop an east wind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-n... ...the two species. They haven’t even a common speech between them. One looks east and the other looks west. How can you expect them to agree? Of course ... ...nd dissentient bodies in Britain and America, and with the churches of the East. But of that no more now. “And in conclusion, my dear Scrope, let me i...

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...ry- ing their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the g... ...sar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appea... ...nd the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and heard herself speaking from the doorway and also from her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...that belonged to his trade. At a period when nothing was talked of but the East, to name any sort of cosmetic the “Paste of Sultans” thus di- vining t... ... of Roses” to westward, the house of A. Popinot was rising, radiant in the eastern splendors of success. By the advice of Gaudissart and Finot, Anselm... ...re used and spent at every hour. Honor was to Cesar a corpse, for which an Easter morning might yet dawn. This hope kept his sorrow incessantly active...

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... brief. The poems printed in this book need no preliminary com- mendations from me or anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impr... ...nt French poet, Laurent T ailhade, to whom he showed his early verses, and from whom he received considerable encouragement. In 1915, in spite of deli... ... to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from December 1916 to June 1917, when he was invalided home. Fourteen month... ...uld last, I might have used proper names; but if the spirit of it survives Prussia, — my ambition and those names will be content; for they will have ... ...ied. Hooray!” 18 Poems Exposure I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us … Wearied we keep awake because the night is silen... ...nly know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of g... ...rs who’d run amok. He’d seen men shoot their hands, on night patrol, Their people never knew. Yet they were vile. “Death sooner than dishonour, that’... ...w save under France). Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week, And people in whose voice real feeling rings Say: How they smile! They’re hap... ... they come? 27 Wilfred Owen The End After the blast of lightning from the east, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne, After the drums of t...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ...es as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Ten- nessee. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script ... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. ... ...ble information being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East Tennessee, under circumstances render- ing it probable that the Union ... ...eeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of wors...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...he long vacations were spent some- times with the Judge’s relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Re... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...d in the public examination for the Newcastle scholarship, just before the Easter holidays, and it is a great testimony to a boy’s ability 26 Life of... ...ontinuous industry. I have perhaps for one half or two (for instance, last Easter half ) worked hard, but I have not been continuously improving, and ...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...as not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving... ...d all I ever received from you; and certainly one since my return from the East. Opinions here, as to the prospect of Douglas being nomi- nated, are q... ...e ground that I think is right—right for the North, for the South, for the East, for the West, for the whole country. And in doing so I hope to feel n... ...ve. I shall endeavor to take the ground I deem most just to the North, the East, the West, the South, and the whole country. I shall take it, I hope, ...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...ess was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their ... ...s it rolled gigantic and majestic in a vast 64 The Pit flood from West to East, here, like a Niagara, finding its flow impeded, burst suddenly into t... ... arranged pa- per bags half full of samples of grains, stretched along the east wall from the doorway of the public room at one end to the telephone r... ...p one could overhear the words: “Seizure of custom house,” “ul- timatum,” “Eastern question,” “Higgins-pasha incident.” It was the rumour of the day, ...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustabl... ...rol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street ... ...pike-fishing was better on the west shore of Lake Minniemashie than on the east—though it was indeed quite true that on the east shore Nat Hicks had c...

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... Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preser... ... selff Gode of Inglonde, or rather an Inglyssh Gode, yf we consydyr and pondyr welle alle Hys procedynges with us from tyme to tyme. He hath over cumm... ...ett us alle pray for hys preservatione. Ande I for my partt wylle wyssh that hys Grace allways have, and evyn now from the begynynge, Governares, Inst... ... England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy. Mere... ...o explain and enlarge upon them. His dreamings and read- ings worked certain changes in him, by-and-by. His dream-people were so fine that he grew to ... ...monious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow now, day by day... ...begging tour, he tramped 10 Mark Twain despondently up and down the region round about Minc- ing Lane and Little East Cheap, hour after hour, bare- f... ...lapperdogeons and maunders, counting the dells and doxies and other morts.* Most are here, the rest are wandering eastward, along the winter lay. We f... ...panions. 99 The Prince and the Pauper “That was he, truly. Black Bess, his dell, is of us yet, but absent on the eastward tramp; a fine lass, of nice...

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...PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE THE IDEA of this tale was taken from The Mariners’ Chronicle, compiled by a person named Scott early in the... ...ntry in a war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two e... ...h. The imbecility of the Abbe is merely 4 A Modern Telemachus a deduction from his helplessness, but of course this may have been caused by illness. ... ...s life in banishment, and think of our dear home and 19 Yo n g e our poor people, I am tempted to wonder whether it were indeed a duty, or whether th... ...man, with keen eyes, and a sort of sparkle of manner, and power of setting people at ease, that made her the more charming the older she grew. An expe... ..., as he made the first step, that Spain lay to the west of them—not to the east. He distinguished the cry from the Genoese sailors, ‘Ii Moro—Il Moro,’... ...other with suppressed shrieks, but which somehow, even in the midst of his Eastern salaam, gave the Countess a sense that he was acting a comedy, and ... ...govern by the consent of a divan, but was prac- tically as despotic as any Eastern sovereign; and the Aga of 46 A Modern Telemachus the Janissaries w... ...lysse to his sister. ‘See, what are they doing?’ cried Estelle. ‘There are people— don’t you see, white specks crowding down to the water.’ There was ...

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...as far gone in the respectable stages of antiquity and seemed indissoluble from the green garden in which it stood, and that yet was a sea-traveller i... ...ther in those days the story of Braddock, and how, as he was carried dying from the scene of his defeat, he promised himself to do better another time... ...n Monterey, charged with tender greetings. Pray you, take him in. He comes from a house where (even as in your own) there are gathered together some o... ...e-bells – these were the recollections of the Grunewald tourist. North and east the foothills of Grunewald sank with vary- ing profile into a vast pla... ...Bohemia, celebrated for its flowers and mountain bears, and inhabited by a people of singular simplicity and ten- derness of heart. Several intermarri... ...f the two) it was already so far forward in the spring, that when mountain people heard horns echoing all day about the north-west corner of the princ... ...t on the firm white high-road. It lay downhill before him, with a sweeping east- ward trend, faintly bright between the thickets; and Otto paused and ... ... old man, nodding, ‘a very pleasant state, and a fine race, both pines and people. We reckon ourselves part Grunewalders here, lying so near the borde... ... corruption. The Princess has a lover – a Baron, as he calls himself, from East Prussia; and the Prince is so little of a man, sir, that he holds the ...

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... sense of honour and independence, and an obstinate refusal to take advice from those who really wished to befriend him; nor should it be forgotten th... ...The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew 5 Rousseau The... ...n its shadows and blemishes; let us not, then, seek to “draw his frailties from their dread abode.” His greatest fault was his renunciation of a fathe... ...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ... with the most ample instructions, and we departed on the Wednesday before Easter. The day following, my father arrived at Annecy, accompa- nied by hi... ...d not relinquish the plea- sure of leaving his tyrants embarrassed for the Easter feast, at which time he knew they stood in greatest need of him. He ... ... by desire of the bishop, that he might superin- tend the music during the Easter holidays, and that he pro- posed returning that way in a few days. T...

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...? I have 4 V anity Fair – V olume Three dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drink... ..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ... Europe has produced—the Duc de la 5 Thackeray Jabotiere, then Ambassador from the Most Christian King, and subsequently Minister to that monarch. I ... ...is in our noble and admirable society slang), but some of the best English people too. I don’t mean the most virtuous, or indeed the least virtuous, o... ...he stupidest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis,... ...or the present festivities. Y oung Bedwin Sands, then an elegant dandy and Eastern traveller, was manager of the revels. An Eastern traveller was some... ... Mesrour the Nubian appears, with bare arms, bangles, yataghans, and every Eastern ornament—gaunt, tall, and hideous. He makes a salaam before my lord... ...of her costume. The second part of the charade takes place. It is still an Eastern scene. Hassan, in another dress, is in an attitude by Zuleikah, who...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ...Joseph Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of... ...e appeared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley W ollah, an honourable and luc... ...ry way— what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise...

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... the Quarterly Review, in 1817. The particulars were derived by the Critic from the Author’s information. Afterwards they were published in the Prefac... ...principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated... ... At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person. From him, also, he received a posi- tive refusal. He then limited his reque... ...r have anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consig... ...th a set of subordinate characters from the elegantes of Queen Anne Street East, or the dashing heroes of the Bow Street Office? I could proceed in pr... ...w and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.’ Sir Everard had done his best to correct this... ...e of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Angus-shire, where his regi- ment was then quartered. He n... ...isaffected, and, showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such a... ...us ease at home, look out for amusement abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely examined, was far from exhibiting the indifferenc...

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...hern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little river-port of Saint-Thibault thrives on the ... ...re wine is shipped and oak staves are landed, with all the produce brought from the up- per and lower Loire. At the period when this story begins the ... ...ion bridges at Cosne and at Saint-Thibault were al- ready built. Travelers from Paris to Sancerre by the southern road were no longer ferried across t... ...her unseen superiority was genuine. This whimsical medley is commoner than people think. Dinah, who was ridiculous from the perversity of her clever- ... ...place of second-rate ideas, in- difference to dress, the culture of vulgar people, swamp the sublimer essence hidden in the youthful plant; all is ove... ..., and the town is proud of her; but everybody sees her every day, and when people meet every day their percep- tion is dulled. If, like Madame de la B... ... on the north by proposed marriages, on the west by jealousies, and on the east by sour remarks. “And so,” she went on, striking an attitude, “you see... ...ry Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; he spoke of her as a quite exceptional woma...

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...Excerpt: The wolf and the lamb. Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.? ?Indeed,? bleated the Lamb...

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...LF AND THE L ION ....................................78 THE B IRDS, THE B EASTS, AND THE B AT .................78 THE S PENDTHRIFT AND THE S WA... ...ge Fyler Townsend THE W OLF AND THE L AMB WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find som... ... a short time died of hunger. THE L ION AND THE M OUSE A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught... ...u ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repay ment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible... ... was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were as... ...he Countryman A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would hand somely reward any pe... ... a bridge near the entrance to the town. This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor t... ...uch zeal as to bring on him suspicion and persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church. Planudes has been exposed to a two fold accusation. He is... ...iterature of Christendom, is to be looked for in the West rather than in the East. The calamities gradually thickening round the Eastern Empire, and t...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... is tear- ful-boastful leave-taking; irregular marching on the Great North-Eastern Road. Marseillese sing their wild To Arms, in chorus; which now all... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ... the Prussian batteries were playing their briskest at Longwi in the North-East, and our dastardly Lavergne saw nothing for it but surrender,— south-w... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...engers; are met by gloomy answers. Of Sardinia rising to invade the South- East, and Spain threatening the South, we do not speak. But are not the Pru...