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...e generation as Cervantes; “Don Quixote” had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Ce... ...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelto... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...writing, no record of his conversation, no character of him drawn ... by a contemporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the bi... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous... ... that being so, the usage should in justice extend to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he writes in his own lan- gua...

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...hrough the In- solvent Court many times. But to those who did not know his history intimately there was some difficulty in identifying him with the in... ...What Mr. Howard Walker’s age was at the time of the com- mencement of this history, and, indeed, for an indefinite period before or afterwards, it is ... ...h, it is more with characters than with astounding events that this little history deals, and Mr. W alker is one of the principal of our dramatis pers... ...ch an immense sensa- tion, of songs and ballet-musics innumerable. He is a German by birth, and shows such an outrageous partiality for pork and sausa... ...instance, Thrum would say Baroski had spoiled her irretrievably; while the German would regret “Dat dat yong voman, who had a good organ, should have ... ...ligence the Hammersmith Observer will question the next week, as thus:— ”A contemporary, the Brentford Champion, says that Blazes is engaged to give S... ... to meet him. The signal being given to descend to the salle-a-manger, the German composer was invited by his noble host (a bachelor) to lead the way....

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...n her lap. 22 The Europeans There, for a quarter of an hour, she read the history of the loves of the Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura. A... ...xing upon the young girl his bright, expressive eyes. “She is married to a German prince—Prince Adolf, of Silberstadt- Schreckenstein. He is not the r... ...he child of his own father’s daughter. The idea that his niece should be a German Baroness, married “morganatically” to a Prince, had already given hi... ...ctive, order; and indeed it is no small part of the purpose of this little history to set forth her struggle. What seemed paramount in this abrupt enl... ...haps, that nothing that she said was wholly true. She wrote to a friend in Germany that it was a return to nature; it was like drinking new milk, and ... ... very fond of pictures; but it must be con- fessed, in the fierce light of contemporary criticism, that his walls were adorned with several rather abo... ...sk a woman for dates.” “Why, I should think that when a woman was relating history” .... Acton answered. “And now he wants to break it off?” “They wan...

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...e, in the flaccid phase of a trance, but a trance unprecedented in medical history. Trances had lasted for as much as a year before—but at the end of ... ...iled him. The man with the flaxen beard hesitated. “I’m not very strong in history, sir,” he said weakly, and glanced at the others. “That was it, sir... ...d again as the costume of the common people. He had no doubt the story was contemporary, and its intense realism was undeniable. And the end had been ... ...r. The music was unfamil- iar. But the rendering was realistic, and with a contemporary unfamiliarity. Tannhauser did not go to a Venusberg, but to a ... ... with the trend of a social convulsion. “To explain it I must tell you the history of a gross and a half of years,” protested Howard. “The thing is th... ...sbury. Such things as these, simple statements of fact though they were to contemporary men, strained Graham’s imagination to picture. And when he gla... ...ave as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway—German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at ... ...ge of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo. And everywhere now... ... as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably of enormous weight. Th...

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...nt to the same school till Magdalen had been sent away to be fin- ished in Germany. “Dear Sophy, I wish you had the good fortune, too!” “Oh! my galleo... ...y brawling stream descended from the moor amid rocks and brushwood. If the history of the place were told, it had been built for a shooting box, then ... ...en she wanted to start on the same level with them, and be more like their contemporary than their authority. They all stood on the terrace, watching ... ...y one or two observations had betrayed so much ignorance alike of Samuel’s history and of the Gospel of St. Luke, that she had resolved to endeavour a... ...was not pos- sible while a missionary memoir was being read aloud, but the history of Mother Constance, once Lady Herbert Somerville, but then head at... ... the Goyle. Hubert 106 Modern Broods was eager for assistance in learning German and Italian, and read and discussed books of interest; and even when... ...ismayed at what all regarded as a tri- fling ailment, even if dignified as German. Angela owned that she regarded it as a relief, since infection migh...

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... then, in these words:— INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his origi... ... antiquarian interest. It was Mr. Train who brought to my recollection the history of Old Mortality, al- though I myself had had a personal interview ... ...n correspondent (a lady), [The late Mrs. Goldie.] who favoured me with the history of the upright and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of ... ...swain, of somewhere inclining to sixty could resist the advances of a fair contemporary? So we allowed the full degree of kind- ness to the meeting—ho... ...lt on what I, had said about Mr. Timmerman, as she was pleased to call the German philosopher, and sup- posed he must be of the same descent with the ... ... the service. The old general, however, who had been regularly bred in the German wars, stuck to his own opin- ion, and gave out in orders that the fi...

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...of admiration as to leave no welcome for even the less elaborate work of a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray. As regards “Doctor Grimshawe’s Secre... ...ese fresh acres. Here, too, the sods had covered the faces of men known to history, and reverenced when not a piece of distinguishable dust re mained... ...or, man and boy, I have seen it a thousand times.” He continued the family history, or tradition, or fantastic legend, whichever it might be; telling ... ...the old English family, and was con tinually giving new details about its history, the scenery in its neighborhood, the aspect of the mansion house; ... ...e you now are, and to times previous to the Stuarts.” “Ah! it is to you, a contemporary, what reading the news paper is to other men,” said the stran... ... was the same smell of tobacco, and on the mantel piece of a chimney lay a German pipe, and an old silver tobacco box into which was wrought the leopa...

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...behavior to Daniel d’Arthez; she received, in short, a version of Lucien’s history, colored by the personal feeling of a clever and envious dandy. Ras... ...ny illusions had she not bade farewell? And now let us trace out the whole history of the bill and the account of expenses in the business world of Pa... ...r. Unluckily for the fame of the young forensic Figaro, the writer of this history is obliged to pass over the scene of his exploits in as great a hur... ...f the speci- men sent from Paris, will no doubt suffice for the student of contemporary manners. Let us follow the example set us by the Bulletins of ... ...! even so the Italian is jealous and a poisoner, the Frenchman fickle, the German frank, the Jew ignoble, and the Englishman noble. Reverse these verd... ...igion is accepted, they have lent money to the Holy Father himself! As for Germany, a foreigner is often asked whether he has a contract in writing, a...

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...s whose name, glorious in the Crusades, figured in the chief events of the history of Le Berry. The story must be told. In the time of Louis XIV . a c... ...ns in Paris. This will also throw light on certain mysterious phenomena of contemporary history, and the underground difficulties in matters of politi... ...This will also throw light on certain mysterious phenomena of contemporary history, and the underground difficulties in matters of politics which hamp... ...f brilliant effects produced by defying the Muse under pretext of adapting German, English, and Romanesque mannerisms. The poem began with this ballad... ... This social phenomenon, I am told, may be seen in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany; but in France, as in every country where there is but one capital,... ...l the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the romances of the Middle Ages, the History of France, and of Rome, etc., etc. Excepting Bossuet’s Histoire des... ...inguish art from practical dexterity. Criticism, after the pattern of most contemporary leader-writers, is the expression of judgments formed at rando... ...in sooner or later to desert the second. Adolphe is, in fact, a tow-haired German, who has not spirit enough to be false to Ellenore. There are Adolph...

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... so lost without you and Val. It is so unhomish, and there’s that dreadful German Fraulein, who was not at home last time.’ ‘If you told mamma, perhap... ...me. I shall make mamma a beautiful crewel cushion, with all the battles in history on it. And won’t she be surprised!’ ‘I think mamma meant more than ... ...ed Primrose. ‘I did think of getting to translate one of mamma’s favourite German stories quite through to her without wanting the dictionary or stumb... ...three; and Val’s is a crewel battle cushion and not crying; and Mysie’s is German stories and manners; and what’s yours, Gill?’ ‘Gill is so grown up, ... ...him in solitary grandeur in the brougham,’ said Miss Ada. Gillian held the history of the pea-shooting as a confidence, even though Aunt Jane seemed t... ...ew desperate, and at her tete-a-tete meal with Aunt Ada, related the whole history of the Whites, and her great desire to show kindness to her father’... ... and excite some suspicion. When she actually brought down a number of the Contemporary Review instead of Friendly Work for the edification of her G.F... ...taste, resolved to content herself with two tiny maidens, Primrose and the contemporary Hablot, her own goddaughter, who, being commonly known as Bell...

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...fter the title of Paine’s volume, the man of Dundee was something like his contemporary shipowner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, whose sympathies, a... ...e of the 21 Herman Melville seats of their common ancestor, a hero in the German wars of the seventeenth century, in which poem occur the lines, “Thi... ...s treating of actual men and events no mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and conv... ... fore-chains— the one so abruptly ended there by Billy—noth ing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated. Els... ...e British captives, living trophies, made to march in the Roman triumph of Germanicus. Quite as much so as those later barbarians, young men probably,...

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...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ...and Miss Stackpole, the definite array of contributions to Isabel Archer’s history. I recognised them, I knew them, they were the numbered pieces of m... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...alian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on, “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heeding ... ...ld Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider. She’s a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of Sa... ...heavy to her, 302 The Portrait of a Lady but that of something altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue. H... ... friend; the Count- ess could see at a glance that this lady was much more contemporary; and she received an impression of the improvements that were ...

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...im were the current Whitaker’s Almanac, an open note-book, a book from the Contemporary Science Series, and the Science and Art Department’s Directory... ... the art of marriage according to the best authorities. (The book from the Contemporary Science Series was Professor Letourneau’s “Evolution of Marria... ... any chance of lodgers stopping for a shorter period.) Something happened (German) and now he kept his carriage—apparently an outcome of his stay. She... ...rdid import, that its list of items in an illegible mixture of English and German was lengthy. “1 kettle of coals 6d.” occurred regu- larly down that ... ... tory and lucid, but unhappily bi-lingual, and at all the cru- cial points German. Mr. Lewisham’s natural politeness re- strained him from too close a... ... Science Schools rising fair, and tall across the gar- dens of the Natural History Museum. He looked back to- wards it regretfully. He was quite sure ... ...at’s all over too. Everything’s over.” Presently the corner of the Natural History Museum came between him and his receding Alma Mater. He sighed and ...

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...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ... Rosamund Culling that he thought the parsons happy in having time to read history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our C... ...d and foot to sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators,... ...rom welcoming you. I have telegraphed to him; he is at one of the Baths in Germany, and will come assuredly, if there is a prospect of finding you her... ...g counsel, in council, with men upon public affairs, like the women in the Germania! Mr. Austin, if this time he talked in earnest, deemed that Englis... ... his laughter more than fun. He seemed to acquiesce in some of the current contemporary despair of our immoveable England, though he winced at a satir...

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... and had taken up what was then called the Langued’oui, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French. On this day, Duke Will... ... Norway was educated by Ethelstane of England. It was Foulques le Bon, the contemporary Count of Anjou, who, when derided by Louis IV. for serving in ... ...saying it were foul wrong to both King Louis of France, and Kaiser Otho of Germany, to take from them their vassal. They took leave of each other in a... ...” cried Richard, starting forward; for to his childish fancy this dreadful history was more like one of Dame Astrida’s legends than a reality, and at ... ...te clavete De sol itant ert tresorier Kar nul tresor n’vait plus cher. The history of the adventures of Jumieges is literally true, as is Martin’s ref... ...ichard. “And it was!” said Abbot Martin. Then the good Abbot told them the history, part of which was already known to some of them. About five or six... ...e it was who made me King— it was he who gained me the love of the King of Germany; he stood godfather for my son—to him I owe all my wealth and state...

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...tainly—fifty more if you like to hear ‘em—strange life mine—rather curious history—not extraor dinary, but singular.’ In this strain, with an occasio... ...gle and Miss Wardle, for reasons of sufficient importance in this eventful history to be narrated in another chapter. CHAPTER IX A DISCOVERY AND A CH... ...s which remain at the close of this, to nar rate, with great brevity, the history of the antiquarian dis covery. Charles Dickens 147 It appears fro... ...hey were. Such leading articles, and such spirited attacks!—’Our worthless contemporary, the Ga zette’—’That disgraceful and dastardly journal, the ... .... That gentleman took it up, and read as follows:— ‘Our obscure and filthy contemporary, in some disgusting observations on the recent election for th... ...efeat, we will add, our future member, Mr. Fizkin. What does our dastardly contemporary mean? What would the ruffian say, if we, setting at naught, li... ...emainder of the company smiled, and looked on in si lence. ‘T alk of your German universities,’ said the little old man. ‘Pooh, pooh! there’s romance...

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...ly there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous man- ners and morals, dictates this precautionar... ...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...s for family interests, a whole region for a man.” Simon then reviewed the history of the Arcis elections for the last twenty years. While approving t... ... and position had been frankly declined when, about six months before this history begins, he had privately pre- sented himself to Madame Beauvisage a... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ... in future years.” It would be difficult to mark the precise moment in our contemporary habits and customs when a new species of re- ligion, which mig...

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...e generation as Cervantes; “Don Quixote” had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Ce... ...anish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is in- structive. Shel... ...nd comely volumes hold out to every lover of Cervantes. From the foregoing history of our translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there ar... ...n of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it hap- pens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventee... ...he real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of ... ...ld, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer George, a knight of the hous...

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...les, Frank, the Parent’s Assistant, and later, Croker’s Tales from English History, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of a Grandfather, and the Riv... ... an antiquarian friend of my father, Mr. Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the Museum library all I could discove... ...E OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE VIII—THE OLD HOUSE ‘Your history whither are you spinning? Can you do nothing but describe? A house ... ...ed down many traditions to her great-niece. The old lady’s father had been contemporary with the Margaret of ghostly fame, so that the stages had been... ...ly what Miss Fordyce called the sword of her rescue. She had been learning German—rather an unusual study in those days, and she narrated to us most e... ...ue or the Black Death, and thought of its victims as doomed. That terrible German engraving, ‘Death as a Foe,’ which represents the grisly form as inv... ...od, but devoted the long vacation of the ensuing year to a walking tour in Germany, with one or two congenial spirits, who shared his delight in scene...

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...en they were at home; he knew about a great many things—about mathematics, history, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turne... ...d. “And you’ll find yourself some employment, eh? Scales, French, a little German, eh? There’s Mr. Pepper who knows more about separable verbs than an... ...ere she would sit for hours playing very difficult music, reading a little German, or a little English when the mood took her, and doing—as at this mo... ...as told, invent reasons for anything she said. The shape of the earth, the history of the world, how trains worked, or money was invested, what laws w... ...ll never forget my first Parsifal—a grilling August day, and those fat old German women, come in their stuffy high frocks, and then the dark theatre, ... ...” “It’s the continuity,” said Richard sententiously. A vi- sion of English history, King following King, Prime Minis- ter Prime Minister, and Law Law ... ...e bastard waltz and spurious polka which have ousted them most unjustly in contemporary popularity—when the waiters gently pushed him on to his table ...