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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ...elves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetland Islands, and directly became the most adventurous...

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...............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................................................................................................. 132 PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA (1).............................................................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ransla... .................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA ......................................................... ...ard Wagner’s operatic Ring Cycle is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Origina... ...cated man, but no trouble has been taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue. Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon... ..., Cicero, or Pericles, would be hard bestead were he asked about the great peoples from whom we sprang; the warring of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; ... ...imes has been altered in a thousand ways by foreign influence, even as the peoples and their speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Icel... ...those times than is now anywhere accessible. Viking earldoms also were the Orkneys, Faroes, and Shetlands. So late as 1171, in the reign (5) A Collect... ...ga of Henry II., the year after Beckett’s murder, Earl Sweyn Asleifsson of Orkney, who had long been the terror of the western seas, “fared a sea-rovi... ...may bear sway over that kingdom as freely and fully as King Eric over (6) “Orkneyinga Saga”. 9 The V olsunga Saga the realm of Sweden, or King Gorm o...

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...me when King Arthur was at London, there came a knight and told the king tidings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king?s true liege people. If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood. It is truth, said the knight, fo...

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...dings how that the King Rience of North Wales had reared a great number of people, and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king’s true ... ..., and were entered into the land, and burnt and slew the king’s true liege people. If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate ... ...s they seemed best, there was come a damosel the which was sent on message from the great lady Lile of Avelion. And when she came before King Arthur, ... ...great lady Lile of Avelion. And when she came before King Arthur, she told from whom she came, and how she was sent on message unto him for these caus... ...id within man’s person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment. By God, sa... ... sword again. Nay, said Balin, for this sword will I keep, but it be taken from me with force. Well, said the damosel, ye are 6 Sir Thomas Malory not... ...m you. CHAPTER X How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Mer- lin, and how twelve kings wer... ...th the most part of his people, and Merlin came to King Lot of the Isle of Orkney, and held him with a tale of prophecy, till Nero and his people were... ... had been slain than King Arthur. Now what is best to do? said King Lot of Orkney; whether is me better to treat with King Arthur or to fight, for the...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on th...

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...IENT AND FAMOUS metropolis of the North sits over- looking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more comman... ...ng for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the ... ...s out of the east, and powdered with the snow as it comes flying southward from the Highland hills. The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shift... ...ind among her chimney-tops! And yet the place estab- lishes an interest in people’s hearts; go where they will, they find no city of the same distinct... ...r and among breweries and gas works. It is a house of many memories. Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons and grave ambassadors, played th... ...rs in this par- ticular of a tolerant and peaceful life. Again, meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the ... ...or Co’monell; there is not one of the two hundred who were drowned off the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the Ameri...

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...England, and would have married the queen, his father?s wife As Sir Mordred was ruler of all England, he did do make letters as though that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so...

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... was ruler of all England, he did do make letters as though that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain i... ...fore Sir Mordred made write writs to all the barony of this land, and much people drew to him. For then was the common voice among them that with Arth... ... us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term. And so fared the people at that time, they were better pleased with Sir Mordred than they we... ... better pleased with Sir Mordred than they were with King Arthur; and much people drew unto Sir Mordred, and said they would abide with him for better... ...say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thought to beat his own father from his lands; and the most part of all England held with Sir Mordred, the... ...now have I lost my joy of you both; wherefore all mine earthly joy is gone from me. Mine uncle King Arthur, said Sir Gawaine, wit you well my death- d... ... that ever I heard of or saw by my days, I, Sir Gawaine, King Lot’s son of Orkney, sister’s son unto the noble King Arthur, send thee greeting, and le...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court, and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping and was taken. Soon after that King Arthur was come from Rome into England, then all the knights of the Table Round re sorted unto the king, and made many jousts and tourna...

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...Table Book Six BOOK VI CHAPTER I How Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionel departed from the court, and how Sir Lionel left him sleeping and was taken. S oon a... ...nel left him sleeping and was taken. S oon after that King Arthur was come from Rome into England, then all the knights of the Table Round re sorted u... ...first knight that the French book maketh mention of after King Arthur came from Rome. Wherefore Queen Guenever had him in great favour above all other... ...d low, make great sorrow. Fair damosel, said Sir Launcelot, I may not warn people to speak of me what it pleaseth them; but for to be a wedded man, I ... ...ad unto the paps. At the end of the bridge was a fair village, and all the people, men and women, cried on Sir Launcelot, and said, A worse deed didst... ...him thought was a fair place to fight in. So he looked about, and saw much people in doors and windows that said, Fair knight, thou art unhappy. 20 S... ...t du Lake, which is the vi. book. Here followeth the tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney that was called Beaumains by Sir Kay, and is the seventh book. To re...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...at him in his father’s chair, though not with the voice and welcome of the people. The archbishop who should have anointed the king with oil was dead,... ...d granted him the lordship. Now three princes, by name Gonfal, King of the Orkneys, Doldamer, King of Gothland, and Romarec, King of Finland, heard th... ...of the Danes; Lot, who was King of Norway, and Gonfal, jarl of the lawless Orkneys, from whence sail the pirates in their ships. From the parts beyond... ...he lords of the isles, Ireland, Gothland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway and the Orkneys, promised for their part one hundred and forty thou sand men, arme...

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...And ever she made Merlin good cheer till she had learned of him all manner thing that she desired; and he was assotted upon her, that he might not be from her....

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...thing that she desired; and he was assotted upon her, that he might not be from her. So on a time he told King Arthur that he should not dure long, bu... ...for he told him how the sword and the scabbard should be stolen by a woman from him that he most trusted. Also he told King Arthur that he 4 Sir Thom... ...crafts that misadventure. Nay, said Merlin, it will not be; so he departed from the king. And within a while the Damosel of the Lake departed, and Mer... ...with those kings in a fair field, that I make mine avow; for my true liege people shall not be destroyed in my default, go with me who will, and abide... ...to King Pellinore, and prayed him in all haste to make him ready with such people as he might lightliest rear and hie him after in all haste. All the ... ...nd he is so courageous of himself that he is come to the field with little people, and therefore let us set upon him or day and we shall slay down; of... ...d, I am of the court of King Arthur, and his sister’s son, and King Lot of Orkney was my father, and my name is Sir Gawaine. And then he said, My name...

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...h delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advanc ing, gives me a foretaste of... ... I resolved on my present un dertaking. I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise. I commenced by in... ...athematics, the theory of medi cine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advan ... ... “I have, doubtless, excited your cu riosity, as well as that of these good people; but you are too considerate to make inquiries.” “Certainly; it wo... ...and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then. They had not been long marrie... ...r, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva. The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the cong... ...tra versed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the re motest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours. It was a place fitted for such a work... ...ath. The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnig...

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...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...nd without any more words he hurled unto Sir Tristram, and smote him clean from his saddle to the earth, and hurt him on the left side, that Sir Trist... ... a great part of his complaint: he cried and wept, saying: O fair Queen of Orkney, King Lot’s wife, and mother of Sir Gawaine, and to Sir Gaheris, and... ...his father, King Pellinore, for we deemed that he slew our father, King of Orkney. And for the despite of Pellinore, Sir Lamorak did us a shame to our... ...side Camelot; and all was to that intent to slay Sir Lamorak. The Queen of Orkney was there but a while, but Sir Lamorak wist of their being, and was ... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ...ark and his brother, that was called the good Prince Boudwin, that all the people of the country loved passing well. So it befell on a time that the m...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...as she was coming over to England she fell sick, and landing on one of the Orkney Islands, died there. A great commo tion immediately began in Scotla... ...o act upon this contract. But, two of his men being taken prisoners at the Orkney Islands, the Gov ernment became aware of his intention, and was abl...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...e was never a duke welcomed from a stranger place of exile. Half-way between Orkney and Shetland, there lies a certain isle; on the one hand the Atlan...

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... and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but t... ...as Malorie occurred among those of a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Ma... ...Wars of the Roses might have inspired them in any one, come most naturally from an author who was a Lancastrian knight. If the Morte Darthur was reall... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...ried in a morning with great mirth and joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and King Nentres of ... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond... ...him at the city of Carlion. Unto the feast came King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney, with five hun- dred knights with him. Also there came to the feast ... ...ing Arthur rode into Carlion. And thither came to him, King Lot’s wife, of Orkney, in manner of a mes- sage, but she was sent thither to espy the cour...

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... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ...that was reeling before the enemy, brought these and twenty squad- rons of Orkney’s back upon them, and drove the French across the river, again leadi...

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...s, of your great goodness, for ye have rescued me of my life, and saved me from my death. What is your name? said Sir Tristram. He said: My name is Si... ...is tower, there came out Sir Breuse Saunce Pité, and suddenly he struck me from my horse. And then or I might recover my horse this Sir Breuse slew th... ...nd without any more words he hurled unto Sir Tristram, and smote him clean from his saddle to the earth, and hurt him on the left side, that Sir Trist... ... a great part of his complaint: he cried and wept, saying: O fair Queen of Orkney, King Lot’s wife, and mother of Sir Gawaine, and to Sir Gaheris, and... ...his father, King Pellinore, for we deemed that he slew our father, King of Orkney. And for the despite of Pellinore, Sir Lamorak did us a shame to our... ...side Camelot; and all was to that intent to slay Sir Lamorak. The Queen of Orkney was there but a while, but Sir Lamorak wist of their being, and was ... ...oath, they withdrew them to the Castle of Tintagil with great slaughter of people; and the Sessoins followed on fast, that ten of them were put within... ...hus they fought till it was night, and for great slaughter and for wounded people everych party drew to their rest. And when King Mark was come within... ...ark and his brother, that was called the good Prince Boudwin, that all the people of the country loved passing well. So it befell on a time that the m...

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...se of the Old Bailey would be included in the package of books we received from London; among these my husband found and read with avidity:— The Trial... ...n country, meeting with various ad- ventures and misadventures by the way. From the trial of James Stewart my husband gleaned much valuable material f... ...for his novel, the most important being the character of Alan Breck. Aside from having described him as “smallish in stat- ure,” my husband seems to h... ...s account, that minded for nothing either in heaven or earth; one that, as people said, would “crack on all sail into the day of judgment;” rough, fie... ...ing north-about round Scot- land, and were now on the high sea between the Orkney and Shetland Islands, having avoided the dangerous currents of the P... ...” said I; and then, thinking that a man with so fine a coat must like fine people, I added for the first time, “of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to... ... at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting. Why, my poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay,...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a... ...der various pretences, a thousand dag- gers betwixt the Land’s-End and the Orkneys.” The venerable Judge thus ended what, to judge by his ap- parent e...

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...ncelot du Lake when he came first into this court, and full few of us knew from whence he came; and now is he proved the man of most worship in the wo... ...cture was there none in that shield. When King Arthur saw her he asked her from whence she came and what she would. Sir, she said, I have ridden long ... ...here Sir La Cote Male Taile hurt and wounded him passing sore, and put him from his horse as he had been dead. So he turned unto him that met him afor... ...k Nine to that, said Sir Lamorak, I say nay thereto, for Queen Morgawse of Orkney, mother to Sir Gawaine, and his mother is the fairest queen and lady... ...the world, and Sir Lamorak said nay thereto, for he said Queen Morgawse of Orkney was fairer than she and more of beauty. Ah, Sir Lamorak, why sayest ... ...lady Queen Guenever, be fairest in your eye, wit ye well Queen Morgawse of Orkney is fairest in mine eye, and so every knight thinketh his own lady fa... ...ir Palomides, and how Launcelot overthrew two knights. T hen they saw much people of the country salute Sir Palomides. And within a while after there... ...d and renowned than an he had overthrown five hundred knights; and all the people wholly for this gentleness, first the estates both high and low, and...

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...ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of the captain next in rank to him,... ...er was a spy; that Atterbury was a spy; that letters were constantly going from that house to the Queen at St. Germains; on which Esmond, laughing, wo... ... the church of his country, and to that he chose to remain faithful: other people were welcome to worship and to subscribe any other set of articles, ... ... finding, on going to England, his country cold towards him- self, and the people in a ferment of High Church loyalty, the Duke comes back to his army... ... Break this news to ‘em gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for their rents, and send me the ryno anyhow. Clotilda sings, and pl... ...d Viscount Bolingbroke, one of her Majesty’s Secretaries of State, my Lord Orkney, that had served with us abroad, being of the party. His Grace of Ha...

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... distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane... ...s- lator hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for a... ...ould be arrived at. Yet the translator hopes that what trifling deviations from the text or corrections in foot notes he is responsible for, will have... ...eturn should be the first news of it.” “Do you really think there are many people bold enough?” said I. “Certainly; who would hesitate to acquire such... ...he Valkyria turned her lead towards the Faroe Islands, passing between the Orkneys and Shetlands. Soon the schooner encountered the great Atlantic swe... ...it with all our luggage, the abundance of which rather astonished the good people of Rejkiavik. “Well, Axel,” said my uncle, “we are getting on, and n... ...t the little lake between the house of the bishop and other non-commercial people. I had soon explored these melancholy ways; here and there I got a g...

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...re nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar fac... ...Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an inter- val of... ...ed in the pa- pers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to th... ...e form of the dilemma. Either we do know all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not. If we do not know them all—if Nature has s... ...lled in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!” “As you say, Conseil. I fancy we shall run a fair c... ...ngs, gave free vent to his indignation. “Confound it!” cried he, “here are people who come up 38 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to the Scotch for hospi... ...ns. On the 15th of March we were in the latitude of New Shetland and South Orkney. The Captain told me that formerly numerous tribes of seals inhabite...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...bout with me an inward wound, and I was indignant, that the name of my own people, formerly fa- mous and distinguished, should sink into oblivion, and... ...istory of the Britons, edited by Mark the anchorite, a holy bishop of that people. 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Ro- man co... ...rable, built of brick and stone. Its inhabitants consist of four different people; the Scots, the Picts, the Saxons and the ancient Britons. 8. Three ... ...lled Eubonia or Man; and another di- rectly north, beyond the Picts, named Orkney; and hence it was anciently a proverbial expression, in reference to... ...val of not less than eight hundred years, came the Picts, and occupied the Orkney Islands: whence they laid waste many regions, and seized those on th... ...without loss of men, he at length conquered Britain. He next sailed to the Orkneys, which he likewise conquered, and afterwards rendered tributary. No...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...go since Sir Hiram Maxim made the first machine that could lift its weight from the ground, and I well remember how the clumsy quality of that success... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ...land would end in a dispersed, deflated state, chiefly in the seas between Orkney and Norway—though I say it who should not. But these aeroplanes can ...

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...Excerpt: It was seven o?clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day?s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cu...

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...CLOCK of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one... ... making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish- heaps. But they are afraid of him too, because 5... ...s myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he... ...deed, in- deed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.” Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is... ... a man’s would be if he tried to fight in a barrel. “The Wolves are a free people,” said Father Wolf. “They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and... ...of Shere Khan crying: “The cub is mine. Give him to me. What have the Free People to do with a man’s cub?” Akela never even twitched his ears. All he ... ...r, where he was nearly baked to death; he went to the Georgia Islands, the Orkneys, Emerald Island, Little Nightingale Island, Gough’s Island, Bouvet’...

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...endent on a printed text. Caxton?s story of how the book was brought to him and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but to some extent its editor also, dividing Malory?s work into twentyone books, splitting up the books into chapters, by no means skilfully, and supplying...

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... and he was induced to print it may be read farther on in his own preface. From this we learn also that he was not only the printer of the book, but t... ...as Malorie occurred among those of a number of other Lancastrians excluded from a general pardon granted by Edward IV . in 1468, and that a William Ma... ...Wars of the Roses might have inspired them in any one, come most naturally from an author who was a Lancastrian knight. If the Morte Darthur was reall... ...t many pavilions, and there was great war made on both par- ties, and much people slain. Then for pure anger and for great love of fair Igraine the ki... ...ried in a morning with great mirth and joy. And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse that was Gawaine’s mother, and King Nentres of ... ...surped upon him, and did a great battle upon his men, and slew many of his people. Sir, said Merlin, ye may not lie so as ye do, for ye must to the fi... ...s of arms, and King Uther’s men overcame the Northern battle and slew many people, and put the remnant to flight. And then the king returned unto Lond... ...him at the city of Carlion. Unto the feast came King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney, with five hun- dred knights with him. Also there came to the feast ... ...ing Arthur rode into Carlion. And thither came to him, King Lot’s wife, of Orkney, in manner of a mes- sage, but she was sent thither to espy the cour...

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...r slough the dross of Earth — E’en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So... ...waddy chills, An’ a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our ... ... SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER SOLDIER, SOLDIER “Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don’t you march with my true love?” “We’re fresh from of... ...us Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him. . . . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — ma... ... 1889 to 1896 129 And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.” And all the people praised him… . Then he died. Read here the story of Evarra — man — ... ...ding their neighbours’ tails: — “Our fathers lived in the forest, Foolish people were they, They went down to the cornland To teach the farmers to p... ...old blow! By the might of our cable-tow (Take hands!), From the Orkneys to the Horn, All round the world (and a little loop to pull it...

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...tevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Fo... ...er-Clerk to the Privy Council, and liked being so extremely. I gather this from his conduct in September 1681, when, with all the lords and their serv... ...ack in my father’s garden, and a whole February in the open fields not far from Camragen, and this I did without the least prejudice from the night ai... ... text indicates, and occurs from Dumfries and Berwickshire to Aberdeen and Orkney. 9 Records of a Family of Engineers scribed of the clan MacGregor, ... ...inburgh Spearman, were in court, he must have been tempted to applaud. The people of that land were his abhorrence; he loathed Buonaparte like An- tic... ... ask the bereaved family to seek her a new place. It is extraordinary that people should have been so deceived in so careless an impostor; that a few ... ...od men. The natives of London are in general not so tall and strong as the people of Edinburgh, because they have not so much pure air, and instead of... ...upon the whole have made a good passage, leaving many vessels behind us in Orkney. I am quite well, my dear; and Captain Wemyss, who has much spirit, ... ...in Aberdeenshire, at the east- ern elbow of the coast; North Ronaldsay, in Orkney, to keep the north and guide ships passing to the south’ard of Shetl...

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...of the time in which I was absent, I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute and con- nected as to have the appe... ...ertheless, 5 V olume Three one of the principal causes which prevented me from comply- ing with the suggestions of my advisers. Among those gentlemen... ...up, in his own words, a narrative of the earlier portion of my adventures, from facts afforded by myself, publishing it in the “Southern Messenger” un... ...e to share my dreary solitude, and render me comfort by his caresses. Most people love their dogs—but for Tiger I had an affection far more ardent tha... ... or any thing of that kind; but windmills, ships, large birds, bal- loons, people on horseback, carriages driving furiously, and similar moving object... .... In about an hour after we first discovered her, we could clearly see the people on her decks. She was a long, low, and rakish- looking topsail schoo... ...egion bounded on the north by Georgia, east by Sandwich Land and the South Orkneys, and west by the South Shetland islands. In 1822, Captain James Wed... ...d south on a meridian to the east of Georgia, Sandwich Land, and the South Orkney and Shetland islands.” My own experience will be found to testify mo...

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..., a mind as thine, Thou noble Father of her Kings to be, Laborious for her people and her poor— Voice in the rich dawn of an ampler day— Far-sighted s... ...pass Thee, The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, Till God’s love set Thee at his side again! The Coming... ... isle, and ever waging war Each upon other, wasted all the land; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarmed overseas, and harried what was l... ...r said That there between the man and beast they die. Shall I not lift her from this land of beasts Up to my throne, and side by side with me? What ha... ...h day the morning star. So when the King had set his banner broad, At once from either side, with trumpet-blast, And shouts, and clarions shrilling un... ...ing Brandagoras of Latangor, With Anguisant of Erin, Morganore, And Lot of Orkney. Then, before a voice As dreadful as the shout of one who sees To o... ...ne: And daughters had she borne him,—one whereof, Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bellicent, Hath ever like a loyal sister cleaved To Arthur,—but a s... ...d no king, Or else baseborn.” Yet Merlin through his craft, And while the people clamoured for a king, Had Arthur crowned; but after, the great lords... ...iard, With Gawain and young Modred, her two sons, Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bellicent; Whom as he could, not as he would, the King Made feast f...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...gues with us, and some books. We will have a strong built vessel, and some Orkney men to navigate her. We must build a tolerable house: but we may car...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...that was reeling before the enemy, brought these and twenty squad- rons of Orkney’s back upon them, and drove the French across 247 Thackeray the riv... ...d Viscount Bolingbroke, one of her Majesty’s Secretaries of State, my Lord Orkney, that had served with us abroad, being of the party. His Grace of Ha...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...Sterlins, even unto the frozen sea. This done, they conquered the Isles of Orkney and subdued Scotland, England, and Ireland. From thence sailing thro...