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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ived there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to repub- lish so... ...ed at making a popular – or shall we say vulgar? – sort of society verses, comical and prosaic, written, you would say, in taverns while a supper part... ...oks with which Whitman had bedecked his pages. The book teems with similar comicalities; and, to a reader who is de- termined to take it from that sid... ...ld get evil from so healthy a book as the Leaves of Grass, which is simply comical wherever it falls short of nobility; but if there be any such, who ... ...s so different; and while the big drums are beaten every day by perspiring editors over the loss of a cock-boat or the rejection of a clause, and noth...

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...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged t... ... daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing t... ...matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- tude of him who v... ...his two accomplices. Dutocq was a great knave, and Cerizet had once been a comic actor; they were both experts in humbug. A motionless face like Talle... ...e care of that,” said Barbet. “I am on the best of terms with the managing editors; they say the devil is in me, and that I remind them of Ladvocat in... ...anager, editorial staff, and so forth.” “A name, we have one made to hand; editors, they are you and I and a few young fellows who grow on every bush ... ...vre,” where a heated discussion was going on. The article by which the new editors of every newspaper lay before the public their “profession of faith... ...” “He’ll rate you finely,” said Minard, laughing. “I never saw anything so comical as his wrath last night.” Felix, as he read the letter, smiled to h...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...istory of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and... ...promoter of those harmless quarrels which tend rather to the production of comical than tragical incidents. The serjeant asked Partridge whither he ... ...espear himself was, and, perhaps, thou may’st be no wiser than some of his editors. Now, lest this latter should be the case, we think proper, before ... ...st not as grossly misunderstand and misrep resent us, as some of the said editors have misunderstood and misrepresented their author. First, then, ... ... young lady’s delicacy. Accidents of this kind we have never regarded in a comical light; nor will we scruple to say, that he must have a very inadequ... ...scribe his barbarity? To my fondness he was cold and insensible. My little comical ways, which you, my Sophy, and which others, have called so agreeab...

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... VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ......................................

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........................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ................................................. .......................................................................... 58 BOOK 2.II.NANCI .............................................................. .......................................................................... 84 BOOK 2.III. THE TUILERIES .................................................... ...l: with facts and few commentaries; official, safe in the middle:—its able Editors sunk long since, recoverably or irrecoverably, in deep dark- ness. ... ...reat days there should be a Pacte des Ecrivains too, or Federation of Able Editors. (See Newspapers, &c. (in Hist. Parl. vi. 381-406).) Beautiful to s... ...ibly along the streets, a Deputation of Patriots, ‘to expostulate with bad Editors,’ by trustful word of mouth: singular to see and hear. The bad Edit... ...ee long- contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico-tragical collision; acting and reacting openly to the eye. Constitut... ...or-mania and royal blazonry of Cordwainery. Except indeed that this is not comic; ah no, it is comico-tragic; with bound Couriers, and a Doom hanging ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and ten...

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...IRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; an... ...ING AWAY I SHALL NEVER FORGET the one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morn ing of the third of January ... ...ity as I have now, and could no more help laughing than I can at any other comical incident, happening under circumstances the most favourable to its ... ...out the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors, who boarded ships in person (as one gentleman in a worsted comfort... ...ss and simplicity; the work she had knit ted, lay beside her; her writing book was on the desk American Notes – Dickens 35 she leaned upon. — From ... ... exercise was that of imitation and memory. She recollected that the label book was placed upon a book, and she repeated the process first from imitat... ...illes and burlesques. It is singularly well con ducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet American Notes – Dickens 102 humour and origin...

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...over of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called T ales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slight-... ...as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short storie... ... Kipling had made his astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-gla... ... that is now scattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. ... ...m a book. “‘Smiles’ ‘Elp Yourself,’ it’s called,” said Jane; “but it ain’t comic. It tells you how to get on in the world, and some what William read ... ..., always having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she w... ...y. A rather “touristy” friend of his took him away at times. He complained comically to Miss Winchelsea. “I have only two short weeks in Rome,” he sai...

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...work in his teacher’s way, he over- worked himself in his own by devouring books; and was sent home at fourteen in such a state of health that his gra... ...ing his probation—indeed he is said, and we can easily believe it from his books, to have acquired a very solid knowledge of law, especially in bankru... ...lzac’s cool use in his acknowledged work of the title “Lord Dudley”). This book begins so well that one ex- pects it to go on better; but the inevitab... ...h which he seems always to have regarded it; and in writing to publishers, editors, creditors, and even his own family, it was too obviously his inter... ...never entirely , those miscellaneous writ- ings—reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, “physiologies” and the like...

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...gouleme. Following this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS P... ...willingly,” replied the Baron, “but we live with human beings and not with books. There, dear Nais! I see how it is, there is nothing between you yet,... ...he vicissitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. “Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller’s lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at ... ...oliere would have celebrated it if it had been in existence in his day, so comically appropriate is the name. Flicoteaux still subsists; so long as st... ...uture friend was on the staff of a small newspa- per, and wrote reviews of books and dramatic criticism of pieces played at the Ambigu-Comique, the Ga... ...stant,” burst out Michel Chrestien, looking at Lucien’s head, and sniffing comically. “Y ou were seen driving about in a very smart turn- out with a p... ... my opinions will necessarily undergo a transfor- mation when I accept the editorship of a review of which the politics are known to you, my convictio... ...lutely obliged to speak of a man whom you do not like, for proprietors and editors are sometimes under compulsion, you bring out a neutral spe- cial a... ...d to say—to transact business which could not be ar- ranged elsewhere. The editorship had been promised to Hec- tor Merlin. Lucien, Merlin’s intimate,...

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...edition of Shelton’s “Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy... ... into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford ... ...dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only dis... ... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ... it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given even a passing thou... ... are inadmissible, a good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors. The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a re... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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...premacies, became a Liberal, and attempted to reach celebrity by writing a book; but he learned, to his cost, to regard talent as he did nobility. Hav... ... by the fortunes of ambitious capitalists, or by the wit and shrewdness of editors. Meantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from li... ...ver. From time to time Monsieur Alain and Monsieur Joseph consulted a note-book, turning over its leaves. “See the faubourg,” said Madame de la Chante... ...ted. His per- plexity did not last long, for she presently returned with a book in her hand. “Here, my dear child,” she said, “are the prescriptions o... ... end of six months. His hopes, he said, were now fixed on the success of a comic opera called ‘Les Peruviens.’ When he said that I began to tremble. M...

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...I had come with a grievance upon me—the grievance of the pirated En- glish books. Then a reporter leaped aboard, and ere I could gasp held me in his t... ...ven-storied warren of humanity with a thousand rooms in it. All the travel books will tell you about hotel arrangements in this country. They should b... ...s, their ancestors. It grieves me now that I cursed them (in the matter of book piracy), because I perceived that my curse is working and that their s... ...to the gentlemen who run the grimy reality. I’m sick of interviewing night editors who lean their chair against the wall, and, in response to my deman... ...ot appear in the invoice. The type- writer is an in-stitution of which the comic papers make much capital, but she is vastly convenient. She and a com... ...n cloth tops! Not till I wandered about this land did I understand why the comic papers belabor the Anglomaniac. Certain young men of the more idiotic...

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...RTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle [1831] BOOK I CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY C onsidering our present advanced state of cul... ...t have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Log- books can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds has grown more c... ... and then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of th... ...ave reached a height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No ch... ...cation, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for their own behoof. To the First Chapter... ...there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great... ...erican Review, No. 89, October, 1835. 216 Sartor Resartus IV. NEW ENGLAND EDITORS. “The Editors have been induced, by the expressed desire of many pe...

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...of Diana of the Crossways is to be read as fiction. DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS BOOK 1 CHAPTER I OF DIARIES AND DIARISTS TOUCHING THE HEROINE AMONG THE DIA... ...perceptions and imaginative avenues, her rapid summaries, her sense of the comic, demanded this aerial freedom. We have it from Perry Wilkinson that t... ...its first slough. Idea is there. The funny part of it is our finding it in books of fiction composed for payment. Manifestly this lady did not ‘chamel... ... island of chills and fogs, coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, the comic and other percep- tions are dependent on the stirring of the gastric ... ...mps below. They kick it for pastime; they are intelligences perverted. The comic of it, the adventurous, the tragic, they make devilish, to kindle the... ...ed Lon- don. Her friend bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and the... ...ours of veiled loveliness; whispers, of a gen- eral anticipation; and also Editors can jog them. Redworth was rising to be a Railway King of a period ... ...ed the astonished pub- lishers before the book was advertized. Speaking to editors, Redworth complimented them with friendly intimations of the real a... ...of such a book. ‘Mrs. Warwick? Mrs. Warwick?’ said the most influential of editors, Mr. Marcus T onans; ‘what! that singularly handsome woman? . . The...

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...g and gibber- ing what they call their judgment on him! “The sin of Hare’s Book,” says one of my Correspondents in those years, “is easily defined, an... ...rvation of what it was, is it successfully delineated or summed up in this Book. The truth is, nobody that had known Sterling would recognize a featur... ...ing would recognize a feature of him here; you would never dream that this Book treated of him at all. A pale sickly shadow in torn surplice is presen... ... can remember the name Vetus, as a kind of editorial hacklog on which able-editors were wont to chop straw now and then. Nay the Letters were collecte... ...with all its miscellaneous contents. I suppose we are to thank you for the Comic Almanac, which, as usual, is very amus- ing; and for the Book on Watt... ...sts. Coeur-de-Lion, a new and more elaborate attempt in the mock-heroic or comico- 200 The Life of John Sterling didactic vein, had been on hand for ...

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...their stiff wooden pillows—then on through the wood path—and here I find the mysterious white man (poor devil!) with his twenty years’ certificate of ... ...and news. That is a 5 V ailima Letters picture of a letter. I have been hard at work since I came; three chapters of The Wrecker, and since that, eig... ...nd about and in between, a hatful of verses. Some day I’ll send the verse to you, and you’ll say if any of it is any good. I have got in a better vein... ...n) of V ailima; he was also, in his character I suppose of overseer, compared to a po- 138 Robert Louis Stevenson liceman—Belle had that day been the... ...n, beginning with Simele, every one came up to the table, laid his hand on the Bible, and repeated clause by clause after me the following oath— I fea... ...iendly with them, and intensely friendly of course with our own Curacoas. But it is other guess work on the beach. Some one has employed, or subsidise...

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...edition of Shelton’s “Don Quixote,” which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be one—for whom Shelton’s racy... ... into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford ... ...dant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only dis... ... decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book that cannot be made too comic. To attempt to improve the humour ... ... it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given even a passing thou... ... are inadmissible, a good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors. The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a re... ...ond time, would very likely have tried to im- prove him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or virtu- ous. But Cervantes was too true an arti... ...these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory ar...

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...al inter- est in seeing men whose names had been long before the public in books and periodical journals. The first measure of the Seceders was to for... ... mirrors are alluded to by Job, xxxvii. 18. But it appears from the Second Book of Moses, xxxviii. 8, that in that age, copper must have been the meta... ...sure to rise up more or less to view, just as fans or the colored edges of books with us are made to exhibit landscapes, &c. capable of great varietie... ...ult of his act an emotion of curiosity. But all curiosity is allied to the comic, and is not an ennobling emotion, ei- ther for him who feels it or fo... ... with that which rightfully belongs to a faithful study of the author. The editors of Pope are not all equally careless, but all are careless; and, un... ... have even dimly guessed at the meaning of a situation in comedy where the comic rested upon arbitrary rules and conventional propri- eties. In all sa... ...ut in that one of her many shapes which to Pope had always seemed the most comic as well as the most hate- ful. Instantly Pope’s ancient malice is rek... ...reader. On this account it is that the late Mr. Roscoe figures amongst all editors of Pope as by far the most agreeable. He has a just tenderness for ...

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...never get their moneys in, and had an immense number of bad debts in their books. As is usual, there was a great deal of truth and a great deal of mal... ...up and brushed, spick-and-span, at seven o’clock; and had gone through his books, and given out the work for the journeymen, and eaten a hearty breakf... ...er, Mrs. Captain Walker, to the box-opener; and Melvil Delamere (the first comic), Canterfield (the tyrant), and Jonesini (the celebrated Fontarabian ... ...nd upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had ornamented ... ...r-cellars afterwards, neither the liquor, nor the play, nor the delightful comic songs at the cel- lars, could drive Mrs. Walker out of his head, and ... ...e whole green-room. “They had me up one day,” said Montmorency, “to sing a comic song, and give my recitations; and we had champagne and lobster-salad... ...e may have invited to give their opinion regarding his prodigy, what other editors of papers he may have pacified or rendered favourable, who knows? O... ...he Courier, to propitiate the favour of the critic of the day, and get the editors of the me- tropolis into a good humour,—above all, to have the name... ...is curious to see what a prodigious number of Irishmen exist among the sub-editors of London. When the Liberator enumerates the services of his countr...

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...ty. 3 George Meredith THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter mont... ...dventures of Harry Richmond was of enormous size, like the giants of fairy books: for as he stood a little out of the doorway there was a peep of nigh... ...nstruc- tions on the piano, and exercises in early English history and the book of the Peerage, I became the wonder of the house. I was put up on a st... ...id the old gentleman; he had frowning eyebrows and a merry mouth ‘you’re a comical character.’ I felt interested in him, and asked him what he was. He... ...uth. Dumpy children, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. We observed one young u... ... of fourteen or fifteen—ay, Richie, have your fun out. A youngster saw the comic side of her. Do you know, that child has a remarkable character? Her ... ...ion, you attributed to me a design to corrupt you. Protest nothing, I beg. Editors are human, after all. Now, my object is, that as you write of me, y...