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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ite man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instructions while dying -- Finding of a skeleton i... ... Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands... ...diles with serpents -- Descriptions which he gives of the creatures -- How the natives capture them -- The Tartar robbers -- Means they employ to prev... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ...

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...e are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, noveli... .... If Adler said we need to overcome our feelings of inferiority, we can find ample evidence of that need in the West. But is it true among the native... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... pointing out that people can feel and act for their country in a positive way. Immigrants often love their adopted country far more than the native... ..., for example, Bretons, Basques, Walsers, Cornishmen, Eskimos and many other ethnic groups take pride in their ethnicity. In North America the Native...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ....Therefore that one covetous and insatiable cormorant and very plague of his native country may compass about and enclose many thou- sand acres of gro... ...has just moved into a new area, a huge, unexplored plain. (Again, assume the native inhabitants have conveniently disappeared.) Some of the colonists ... ...hen, and each time it was also extended retrospectively. Artists, musicians, novelists, and filmmakers who had created their works on the understanding... ...emia. She was discovered by scientific ‘gene hunters,’ engaged in seeking out native peoples whose lives and cultures are threatened with extinction. T...

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...ecific instances. There fore, when he had laid down the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance,... ... strong in death seems to establish once for all the good old truth that the American cares only for money making; and it was clever of the critic to ... ...an ones as well. It is probable that not a day passes in which the observant American new to France does not reach conclusions as tempting, but as wid... ...ntry, are more eager than the Germans to adopt its ways, and to be taken for native born citizens. The Germans in Germany are very different; though, ... ...oman is totally different from the person depicted under that name by French novelists and dramatists; but in truth every literature, in its main line...

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...s in the evening, went to church—no less—at the white and half- white church—I had never been before, and was much in- terested; the woman I sat next ... ...ble green country all round—gorgeous little birds (I think they are humming birds, but they say not) skirmish- ing in the wayside flowers. About a qua... ...itten six more chapters of the book, all good I potently believe, and given up, as a decep- tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down... .... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...n Eu- rope, therefore, that it should insist upon and secure respon- sible native ownership of every newspaper and news and book distributing agency, ... ..., must be either reduced to the po- sition of a study supplementary to the native tongue, or brought up to an honest level of efficiency. French and G...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...too small for its exhibition. Brave soldiers lead- ing Zionists, deserving novelists, noble ladies, congested the narrow passage and thrust distinguis... ... I tell you, sir, a foreigner, or, for the matter of that, an unaccredited native, can’t get within four miles of Lydd nowadays—not to mention our lit... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ...y were intensely patriotic, that is to say, they were ardently against any native politician who did not say, threaten, and do harsh and uncompromisin... ...d both were foreign soldiers, if neither perhaps had adequate English? His native Cockney freedom flowed too generously for him to think of that, and ...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...g a judgment that had been so delib- erately delivered. Such a tribunal of native Spaniards being satisfied, there was no further opening for demur. T... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...s things were,—a delay with which I had nothing to do myself,—this and the native character of my mind had thrown the whole arrangement awry. For the ... ...for the moral qualities, the unrivalled energy and persever- ance, of that native Lancashire population, as yet not much alloyed with Celtic adulterat...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...ar. He had been a very small boy when his father, Daniel Tracy Touchett, a native of Rutland, in the State of Ver- mont, came to England as subordinat... ..., after which, as he struck his father on his return as even re- dundantly native, he was placed for some three years in residence at Oxford. Oxford s... ...tic mother, his friends (Lord Warburton in especial), his adopted, and his native country, his charm- ing new-found cousin. “I keep a band of music in...

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...re born so. He was wan. I knew he was over his belt in money borrowed from natives; besides a lot av other matthers which, in re- gard for your presin... ...l-boat. Another officer did the same thing, but he went for a boat full of natives, and they whacked him on the chest with oars, so he had some diffic... ...l.) Jack’s an ass. There’s enough brass on this to load a mule—and, if the Americans know anything about anything, it can be cut down to a bit only. ‘... ...f life their preachers lead; speak to the Racine Gospel Agency, those lean Americans whose boast is that they go where no Englishman dare follow; get ... ...o jungle. 191 Rudyard Kipling AT HOWLI THANA His own shoe, his own head. —Native Proverb. AS A MESSENGER, if the heart of the Presence be moved to so... ...mine English educa- tion—out-casted, and made up name Dana Da—England with American thought-reading man and—and—you gave me ten rupees several times—I... ...ould rave over and paint amid impossible sur- roundings—a face that female novelists would use with de- light through nine hundred pages. In reality h...

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...jected edition de luxe of one of the writers of our day— the rarest of the novelists—who, long neglected by the multitudinous vulgar, and dearly prize... ...month, and after I had given him to understand several times over that his native exuberance would presently con- stitute an insurmountable barrier to... ...y with the highest circles. They had dipped into the most brilliant of our novelists with- out deciphering many passages. I still took an hour from th... ...g too hard. But if you can’t read 55 Henry James the novel of British and American manufacture, heaven knows I’m at one with you. It seems really to ... ...ries out and nine descriptive articles. His three or four portraits of fat American ladies—they were all fat, all ladies and all American—were a poor ... ...n for a stool in an uncle’s counting-house, met, admired, wooed and won an American girl, of due attrac- tions, domiciled at that period with her pare... ... iridescent fish for the glazed expo- sure of an aquarium—as afloat in her native medium. He left his letter open on the table, but, looking it over n... ...n expected till seven. No lesson, none the less, could prevail against his native art. He pleaded fatigue, her, the maid’s, dreadful de- pressing Lond...

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...in India, and whom the Colonel had married from the house of her mother, a native. There were some singular rumours abroad regarding this latter lady’... ...this latter lady’s history: it was reported that she was the daughter of a native Rajah, and had been carried off by a poor English sub- altern in Lor... ...not pass a month in the year with him, but spent most of her time with her native friends. I wonder how she could have given birth to so lovely a crea... ...his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 46 Major Gahag... ...he dollars: do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my pipe for me, and then departe...

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...ng the rulers of states and the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifest... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...t might prove the first of their mutual services by making him look at his native city objectively. Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telesco... ...w that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors, were as sought after a... ...ed, he was purse-proud; but the cir- cumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally ... ...Y ork?” he stammered, utterly unable to imagine what lucrative opening his native city could offer to a young man to whom good conversation appeared t...

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.... He became a missionary. He landed in a pagan country ill and helpless. A native widow took him into her humble home and nursed him back to convalesc... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...O.M. Ambushed behind your born temperament, and waiting for a chance. Your native warm temper suddenly jumped to the front, and for the moment its i... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ers, asserting that it was so nourishing and so strength giv ing that the native of the mountains of the Madeira region would tramp up hill and down ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m...

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...lective edi- tion.] He was (as I think I have somewhere already stated) a native of the parish of Closeburn, in Dumfriesshire; and it is believed tha... ...s visible has been cleared away; and the Great Unknown—the minstrel of our native land—the mighty magician who has rolled back the current of time, an... ...hetic song. Sir Walter Scott apologized for having so long forgotten their native land. He would now give “Scotland, the land of Cakes.” He would give... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...ons of love, and he felt in himself none of that uprush of emo- tion which novelists described; he was not car- ried off his feet in wave upon wave of... ... was difficult for an Englishman to know more than quite superficially any native inhabit- ants of the city in which he dwelt. Indeed, many of the stu... ...his English was fluent and natural, it had not quite the intonation of the native. Philip knew that he was flirting with Mildred, and he was horribly ... ...ple don’t commit suicide for love, as you’d expect, that’s just a fancy of novelists; they com- mit suicide because they haven’t got any money . I won... ... he had loved her. She felt hu- miliated and angry , but she had a sort of native insolence which carried her through. He needn’t think she was in lov...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ... that, despite the enthusiastic young writ- ers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones. She discovered t... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ...n finance in New York at last become weary of smart women, return to their native towns, as- sert that cities are vicious, marry their childhood sweet... ...e millionaire president of the Velvet Motor Car Company of Boston, the one native son who was always to be mentioned to strangers. For two weeks there...

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...Red Sea towards Mecca in the festival month, there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure; ... ... negroes were by nature a singularly cheerful race; no one ever heard of a native-born African Zimmermann or Torquemada; that even from religion they ... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ...pe, his disease? For you, if you have no confi- dence, and, thanks to your native health, can get along with- out it, so far, at least, as trusting in... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch...

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...ope, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lo... ...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ng upon honest Sambo, the black footman of Bloomsbury, as one of the queer natives of the place. But when Amelia came down with her kind smil- ing loo... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...or was French music at all equal, in her opin- ion, to the melodies of her native country. She favoured her friends with these and other opinions in a... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...ed at random. Mr. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two, as novelists are inclined to observe, and at this remark he smiled, and made i... ...—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not singular.” “No, we haven... ...he Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...ewriters already at work, disseminating their views upon the protection of native races, or the value of cereals as foodstuffs, quick- ened Mary’s ste... ...f on a camel’s back, in the desert, while Ralph commanded a whole tribe of natives. “That is what you can do,” she went on, moving on to the next stat... ... house than I’d any notion of,” she said. “On the ground floor you protect natives, on the next you emigrate women and tell people to eat nuts—” “Why ... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ...

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...l his genius as a painter of Russian panorama, peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in comic relief. “The comic,” exp... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...ving set up a team of three horses and a tilt waggon, left your home, your native hovel, for ever, and departed to cart merchandise to market? Was it ... ...n opinion. But see here. There once lived in a remote corner of Russia two natives of the region indicated. One of those natives was a good man named ...

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...ope, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lo... ...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ng upon honest Sambo, the black footman of Bloomsbury, as one of the queer natives of the place. But when Amelia came down with her kind smil- ing loo... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ..., whence skilled mechanics, engineers, millwrights, and carpenters were fleeing as from the native country of starvation. Fitly enough, we slid off on... ...it was in all its weakness. I gave up the point, but proceeding to give illustrations of my native jargon, I was met with a new mortification. Of all ... ... not entirely human. Nothing would put them at their ease but the irresistible gaiety of my native tongue. Between the old lady and myself I think the... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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...in the foot, thick in the leg,” for all they had endured. A neat packet of American cloth behind the saddle contained his change of raiment, and the b... ...ramatic situations, crucial dialogues, the return of Mr. Hoopdriver to his native village, for instance, in a well-cut holiday suit and natty gloves, ... ...ned. Her motives are bookish, written by a haphazard syndicate of authors, novelists, and biographers, on her white inexperience. An artificial overso... ...ou,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. He waited until he caught her eye, then with his native courtesy smiled, raised his cap, and wished her good evening. 60 Th... ... avern with a steak Mr. Hoopdriver ordered, done to a cinder long ago, his American-cloth parcel in a bedroom, and his own proper bicycle, by way of g... ...t him, I hope I may explain, be- cause his night-shirt was at Bognor in an American-cloth packet, derelict. He yawned a third time, rubbed his eyes, s... ...aid. “I know. It’s a queer habit, I know. But out there, you know, there’s native servants, you know, and—it’s a queer thing to talk about—but one has...

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...f her expression that could moderate their fire. Only those races that are native to deserts have in the eye the power of fascinating everybody, for a... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...ck,” the Spaniard put in, reversing Esther’ s name. “Madame is a Jewess, a native of Holland, the widow of a merchant, and suffering from a liver-comp... ...dead,” she would reply. Old Canquoelle bore a perpetual certificate of his native province in his accent. He spoke of une estatue (a statue), le peubl... ... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the...

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... baffling shades of the mental life, which in the hands of many latter-day novelists build up characters far too thin and too unconvincing, in the han... ...as, with clearer eyes than any man before or since. If T olstoi is a purer native expression of Russia’s force, T urgenev is the personification of Ru... ...inquired Zoya in German. When she was taken un- awares she always used her native language. Elena drew her- self up. Shubin looked at her with a playf... ...’ answered Insarov; ‘and even now I am not quite strong yet: but I hope my native air will make me perfectly well again.’ ‘Ah—Bulgaria!’ murmured Anna... ... of the French school; he has had a great many orders from the English and Americans. Of late, there has been much talk about a Bac- chante of his; th...

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...not of the confraternity. The sentimental old maid is a commonplace of the novelists; and he must be rather a poor sort of human being, to be sure, wh... ...ind on p. 7, “that those who can converse with Irish peasants in their own native tongue form far higher opinions of their appreciation of the beautif... ...y) takes his determination, votes for the six- pences, and in the emphatic Americanism, it “goes for” them. And while such an one is ploughing distres... ... yet, when one comes to think upon it calmly, the situation of these South American citizens forms only a very pale figure for the state of ordinary m... ...imself with subsequent imaginings. It would be easy to leave them in their native cloudland, where they figure so prettily – pretty like flowers and i...

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...or was French music at all equal, in her opin- ion, to the melodies of her native country. She favoured her friends with these and other opinions in a... ... society, this young woman had got up the genteel jar- gon so well, that a native could not speak it better; and it was only from her French being so ... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ... the army that had gone out to meet the Emperor Napoleon. This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. The troops of his nation signalis... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...e heart of the continent, when he was betrayed into the hands of a hostile native tribe. Then, stripped of all that he had, for two years he led a wan... ...a single duchess trampled the proprieties underfoot as you have just done. Novelists and scribblers brought the reign of Louis XV into disrepute. Do n... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...author of the “Scarlet Letter” I regard as certainly the first of American novelists. I know what men will say of Mr. Cooper,—and I also am an admirer... ...eld in durance. The question of the war with En- gland is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York. I know what Englishmen will say in an...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...osperous classes have some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have ... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...of mankind. This greater social life we put, then, as the only real alter- native to the Normal Social Life from which man is con- tinually escaping. ... ...table, and of a most subtle and nimble dishonesty . Moreover, he is imagi- native, adventurous, and inventive. His nature and instincts are as much in... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w...

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...ty green, smoke-begrimed, dusty walls of his little room, with the mahogany chest of drawers and chairs, the table painted red, the sofa covered with American leather of a reddish color with little green flowers on it, and the clothes taken off in haste overnight and flung in a crumpled heap on the sofa, looked at him familiarly....

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...ny chest of drawers and chairs, the table painted red, the sofa covered with American leather of a reddish colour with little green flowers on it, and... ...t first. It’s wonderful, it’s really wonderful! And, you know, you are not a native of these parts, are you, Yakov Petrovitch?” “No.” “He is n... ...the most part?” “You said … you say, Anton Antonovitch, that he is not a native of these parts?” “No, he is not. And indeed how strange it is!... ...he seems to be a capable man. He says his name is Golyadkin, that he’s not a native of this district, and that he’s a titular councillor. He had a per... ...se, and finally die, following the example of some wretched German poets and novelists. Is that it, madam? But, to begin with, allow me to tell you, a...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...f inherited disease, whether he will be passionate or phlegmatic or imagi- native or six-fingered or with a snub or aquiline nose. And not only that, ... ... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...merican people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their native speech. T o this neglected and most significant limitation the amoun... ...e of things. He calls the shopman “Sir,” and makes no struggle against his native accent. In his heart he despises the middle class, the mean tip-give...

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... LENGTH, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord, weighed anchor in this river port; for Concord, too, li... ...lender threads, we weighed anchor again, and were soon out of sight of our native village. The 18 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers land seemed to ... ... which stand out from the head, are transparent and colorless. Seen in its native element, it is a very beautiful and compact fish, perfect in all its... ...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting...

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... said gayly to a little negro with a silver collar (he spoke to him in his native tongue of Dongola); and welcome to our snuggery, my Codlingsby. We a... ...chibouque with Saladin at Acre. But enough of this. Tell me of home—of our native valley—of my hearth, and my lady-mother, and my good chaplain—tell m... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...tes made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of his native woods. Knowing his place as Minister of a sovereign state, (yielding... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...

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...is only one of many thousands of men and women who have sloughed off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue. But the thing has to be done sci... ...uman being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native lan- guage is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; a... ...ching would be impossible unless pupils were sacred. I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best look- ing women in ... ...his chap has a certain natural gift of rhetoric. Observe the rhythm of his native woodnotes wild. “I’m willing to tell you: I’m wanting to tell you: I... ...he lid on me right enough. Just give him the chance he wanted to show that Americans is not like us: that they recognize and respect merit in every cl... ...ional people in a small way were odious to her. She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and...

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...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...- tween a London populace and that of the most frequented 35 V olume Five American city. A second turn brought us into a square, bril- liantly lighte... ... 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity. In t... ...leased,—but I forbear, merely personal de- tails may be left to historical novelists,- they are beneath the moral dignity of matter-of-fact. I have sa... ...ntly, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy...

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...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...rth; Innumerable dogs that bark; Some air, some weather, and some earth; A native race – God save the mark! – A race that works, yet cannot work, Yode... ...D GOSSE PITLOCHRY, PERTHSHIRE, JUNE 6, 1881 MY DEAR WEG, – Here I am in my native land, being gently blown and hailed upon, and sitting nearer and nea... ...188 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 The best of the present French novelists seems to me, in- comparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very ...

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...n—I can say of mine that, however sharp a tug it took to pluck it from its native ground, it struck at once an easy, and a deep and lasting root into ... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ...annot conceal from you, although my face will so soon be turned towards my native land, and to all that makes it dear, that it is a sad consideration ... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma...

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... it you found on the shelf in your bedroom not only the books of poets and novelists, but of revolutionary biologists and even economists. Without at ... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre... ...iminal court, and have all our family affairs in the papers! If you were a native, and Hastings could order you a good beating and send you away, I sh... ...s the necessary pow- ers, and a good supply of bamboo to bring the British native to his senses: he will save the country with the greatest ease. CAPT...

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... to put our best foot foremost, the wisdom of which is fully recognized by novelists, myself among the number. It can hardly be expected that any one ... ...permitted to be sold. It was sold, and sold well, by private contract to a native of Barchester, who, having risen from the world’s ranks, had made fo... ...lence. This was one Scatcherd, a great railway contractor, a man who was a native of Barchester, who had bought property in the neighbourhood, and who... ...uld bring his violence to bear. With this view he was about to contest his native borough of Barchester, in the hope of being returned in opposition t... ... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and...

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...here is the tone elevated, diffusive, and interjectional. Some of our best novelists patronize this tone. The words must be all in a whirl, like a hum... ...said, a beautiful flower, which will live when pulled up by the roots. The natives suspend it by a cord from the ceiling and enjoy its fragrance for y... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...

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...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ... thought, and the perfection of style, there is no inferior ity. Our best novelists in point of composition, and of the management of detail, have mo... ...happiness, to ex aggerate by differences of education whatever may be the native differences of the sexes. If the married pair are well bred and well...