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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is... ...he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed ... ...Wilkinson gives us two or three; one on the authority of a personal friend who witnessed the scene; at the Warwick whist-table, where the fair Diana w... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...r, and empty of inhabitants. How a brilliant and beautiful girl could have committed this rashness, was the perplexing riddle: the knottier because th... ...and him, to the world. Ireland, or else America, it is a guiltless kind of suicide to bury myself abroad. He has my letters. They are such as I can ow... ... to dip in at her pleasure; yet she, to escape so small an obligation, had committed the enormity for which she held the man blameless in spurning her...

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...: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Al...

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..., and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that... ...lluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an in- fatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the... ... to live in Paris for a twelvemonth dropped along the road. Like other men who combine great intellec- tual powers with the charming simplicity of chi... ... as that nowadays. Mortifications and want only fall to the lot of unknown writers; as soon as a man’s name is known, he grows rich, and I will be ric... ... finally, paint Charles IX. for us as he really was, and not as Protestant writers have made him. Ten years of persistent work, and fame and for- tune... ...His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promise. D’Arth... ...his study of the Convention, ‘No one individual is responsible for a crime committed collec- tively,’ sums up the whole significance of a phenomenon, ... ...nd the trick suc- ceeds. 248 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris “You are committed to some risky venture, which might easily be written down in a se... ...e walked home slowly, so oppressed and out of heart that he felt ready for suicide. Coralie lay in bed, looking white and ill. “She must have a part, ...

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... that she has inherited from you the most precious gifts of womanhood, and who will cer- tainly enjoy during her childhood and youth all those happine... ... cashmere, the tint of the hangings, the work of one of those upholsterers who have just missed being artists. A silver lamp studded with tur- quoise,... ...te de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution of July. This mar- riage o... ...e this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the w... ...eceived illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the... ...r salon, brought there by one of the wittiest, but also one of the laziest writers of that epoch, Emile Blondet, celebrated behind closed doors, highl... ...s him.” “And she makes no secret of it,” said Madame d’Espard. CHAPTER VII SUICIDE IN THE MONTH OF MAY Vandenesse took his wife, as usual, to their co... ...ing her to keep absolute silence as to 93 Balzac the mistake she had just committed. “Provided the cashier does not tell Nucingen,” she said. A few m... ...een seduced in your position. How absurd we should be, we men, we who have committed a thousand follies through a score of years, if we were not willi...

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...ent day. A woman had her chapel as she now has her opera-box. The families who hired these privi- 6 Maitre Cornelius leged places were required to de... ... had she been wicked, she would certainly have dissimulated. The personage who thus alarmed the lovers was a little old man, hunchbacked, nearly bald,... ...hose of men whose habit it is to believe nothing, to weigh all things, and who, like misers chinking their gold, search out the meaning and the value ... ...ce in his house, and judicial inquiry showed that the crime must have been committed by one of its inmates. The old miser had his two valets and the s... ...on looking at it, his attention was excited by a sort of vision, which the writers of those days would have called “cornue,”—perhaps with ref- erence ... ...ster’s face. The two men were a picture in themselves. History and romance-writers have consecrated the brown camlet coat, and the breeches of the sam... ...t pay for one drop of mine; do you hear me? By our Lady of Clery! you have committed crimes of lese-majesty. Did I give you such a pretty wife to make... ...ung man?” “Enough!” said the king; “this is only one more blunder you have committed. I do not like persons to meddle in my affairs without my knowled... ...s passion for gold had turned to his own injury, —a species of uncompleted suicide which kept him at once in the miseries of life and in those of deat...

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...r- eign armies. According to Monsieur de la Billardiere, the functionaries who represent the city of Paris should make it their duty, each in his own ... ...re our enemies. They all say , ‘Birotteau has had luck; Birotteau is a man who came from nothing: yet here he is deputy-mayor; everything succeeds wit... ... debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demands the help of our intelligence, we a... ...te event induced Constance to shut her eyes to the follies which Birotteau committed for her sake in fitting up the new appartement. The perfumer had ... ...on horseback at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of the... ...ought, might have become an honest man; his previous fault might have been committed for some mistress in distress or from losses at cards; the public... ...ulties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to the salutary voice. Cesar Birotte... ...ceived the vigilance of his porter, Rue Saint-Honore. Monsieur Gendrin had committed infa- mies worthy of Marat,—obscene drawings at which the po- lic... ...arious ways. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents...

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...h, pooh!” replied the colonel, interrupting his sister, “I’ll name you ten who cannot and ought not to come. First,” he said, beginning to count on hi... ...owerful it is assuredly you. In 1815—” “In 1815,” said the little old man, who was wonderfully well preserved, “I did not have to speak; I simply wrot... ...Arcis, that’s all.” These words were in keeping with the whole life of him who said them. Colonel Giguet was one of the most respected officers in the... ... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ...hat is what I intend to find out in the course of a few days, for now I am committed to your programme, and to-morrow Monsieur and Madame de l’Estorad... ... me rather reluctantly her permission to profit by the audacious larceny I committed at her expense. I have, therefore, taken upon myself to change th... ...ay he could go back to his studies. I had taken a club to kill a flea, and committed all sorts of enormities to get there at an hour when the entire e... ... influence of their grief. Rousseau has said, in his famous letter against suicide: “Sadness, weariness of spirit, regret, despair are not lasting sor...

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...med—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house... ...gs against the gold patina of sky, and fumbled for sleep as for a drug. He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested ... ...pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and wa... ... business, and they’d go—Why do you suppose there’s so many ‘mysteri- ous’ suicides? Why do you suppose so many Substantial Citizens jumped right into... ...two excellent thoughts on the use of two-cent stamps on circulars. Then he committed an offense against the holy law of the Clan of Good Fellows. He b... ...th a private garden), but if one was a Bad Man, that is, if he murdered or committed burglary or used cocaine or had mistresses or sold non-existent r... ...ewis he settled down he tried to look pompous and placid. Then the thought—Suicide. He’d been dreading that, with- out knowing it. Paul would be just ... ...iend of a woman!)—she’d probably succeeded at last, and driven Paul crazy. Suicide. Out there in the lake, way out, beyond the piled ice along the sho... ...e to ruin this business than all the plots and stuff that these fool story-writers could think up in a month of Sundays.” That afternoon, when the old...

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...sight the lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness ... ...e lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness is only ... ...y the unceasing conspiracy of those whom we term weak against those others who fancy themselves strong,—that of the peasant against the proprietor. It... ...n the midst of the present demo- cratic ferment, into which so many of our writers blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who ... ...our writers blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who renders Law inapplicable, and who has made the ownership of land to be ... ...f battles should be something more than the dry particulars of tech- nical writers, who for the last three thousand years have told us about left and ... ...was quietly help- 76 Sons of the Soil ing to hide the traces of a robbery committed upon you this very morning. I came to speak to you about it, gene... ...f “pickings” was, alas! the cause of Paul-Louis Carter’s assassination; he committed the mistake of advertis- ing the sale of his estate and allowing ... ...aithful devotion which made your own egotism blush, “They must surely have committed some crime together”? After an administration of twenty-five year...

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...towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always more concerned with facts and dates than with the truer hist... ... awak- ens a thousand memories in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splendid jewel of feudality lies ... ...m. The whiteness of the linen worn by the paludiers (the name given to men who gather salt in the salt-marshes) con- trasts vigorously with the blues ... ...rnalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of all writers,—so the post- master says, and he’s a juste-milieu man who reads th... ...iterature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his philos... ...me, gently; saying she might very well be my mother; that a woman of forty committed a sort of crime against nature in loving a minor, and that she he... ...rather be a man of genius like Rossini than a performer like Rubini. I had committed the folly of attaching myself to him, and I was determined and re... ... the ranks of the bourgeoi- sie, to which we owe the greater number of our writers. “Which way did you come?” asked Mademoiselle des T ouches, colorin... ...’s love. I expected the impression you would make upon him, but I have not committed the mistake of seeming jealous; that would only have added fuel t...

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...the greater part heeded them not at all. Yet they were of the blood of him who had first dreamt of attacking the mammoth; every one of them was of his... ...ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 SUCH A MAN was that Leonardo da Vinci, who went about the court of Sforza in Milan in a state of dignified abstrac... ...f his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it was first b... ...crap the mint, you fellows, come and scrap the mint!’ In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous recor... ...t came to be called the ‘Modern State’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thou... ... his return his father, who was a widower, an- nounced himself ruined, and committed suicide by means of an unscheduled opiate. 42 The World Set Free... ...n his father, who was a widower, an- nounced himself ruined, and committed suicide by means of an unscheduled opiate. 42 The World Set Free At one bl... ...lities, a pal- impsest of inherited dispositions. It was the habit of many writers in the early twentieth century to speak of competi- tion and the na... ...one comes to the latter nineteenth and the earlier twenti- eth century the writers are much more acutely aware of secu- lar change than their predeces...

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... the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, t... ...rful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual reve... ...bittered one, he gathers experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting i... ...ejdanov and not Solomin; the part is cast in the woman’s figure of Mariana who broke the silence of “anonymous Russia.” Ivan T urgenev had the underst... ...cobins, “of whom there could hardly be any in Servia,” but might have been committed by some of the followers of the Karageorgievsky party, enemies of... ...ples set by men such as Quintin Johnson, Karrelius, Sverlitskov, and other writers and statisticians. Then he went on to talk of himself again, of his... ...e sure whether to thank or arrest him. He gave them all the details of the suicide, regaled them with Swiss cheese and Madeira, but as for the whereab... ...ana and hide for a time. Nothing was revealed by the inquiry held over the suicide. The body was buried. Sipiagin gave up searching for his niece. Nin...

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...most mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks you could find, I suspect, some sort of answering resp... ...se correspondence with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses an... ...o the Emperor William, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller... ...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...at—or if things drift to dissolution I shall stand again.” “It’s political suicide.” “Not altogether.” “I can’t imagine you out of Parliament again. I... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ... ...” “She’s too little to be seen,” she said. “Can you see the sins they once committed?” “I can only see you here beside me, dear—for ever. For all my l...

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...CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession ... ...ast moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about... ...that White, though he knew Benham with the intimacy of an old schoolfellow who had renewed his friendship, and had shared his last days and been a wit... ...ad still to reckon with stupidity. He believed in the statecraft of leader-writers and the sincerity of political programmes. And so regarded, what an... ...ming merely an 105 H G Wells intellectual like those wordy Fabians, those writers, poseurs, and sham publicists whose wrangles he had attended? And, ... ...f those unfortunate victims of religious mania who are convinced they have committed the Sin against the Holy Ghost. (Why had he gone there to lunch? ... ...portance that Amanda’s father was a convicted swindler who had com- mitted suicide. Never was a resolved and conscious aristo- crat so free from the h...

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...table tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should other- wise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by spe... ... wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle. So... ...h. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile child who must be cloaked with understanding kindness. “Psy- chic,” the girls whi... ...e devoted herself to admiring the spinsterish Miss Villets—and immediately committed an- other offense against the laws of decency. “We haven’t seen y... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i... ... so confound- edly unhappy that it’s a wonder they don’t all up and commit suicide. But they seem to struggle along some- how!” “They don’t know what ...

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...e life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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... gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality. Yet again I say—May God grant it! DE BAL... ...d. Before de- scribing this house it may be well, in the interest of other writers, to explain the necessity for such didactic preliminar- ies,—since ... ...nce they have roused a protest from certain ignorant and voracious readers who want emotions without undergo- ing the generating process, the flower w... ... powerful Guild of Weavers. When the great city revolted under Charles V., who tried to suppress its privileges, the head of the Claes family was so d... ...l- sions which give to the eyes an infinitude of shades; the promptings to suicide caused by a word, dispelled by an in- tonation; trembling glances w... ...mands from indi- viduals: every hour it commits crimes, but the crimes are committed in words; it paves the way for evil actions with a jest; it degra... ...with the earnestness of a man who sees a fortune escaping him, “you commit suicide; you fling your mother’s property into a gulf. Well, I will prove t...

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...Excerpt: My Dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, ...

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...riter to the Signet. My Dear Charles, IT IS THE FATE OF SEQUELS to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick h... ...gh (for one so ignorant of defence) it might be called an added danger. The porter, who was naturally a man of some experience, judged my accoutrement... ...nced on the right door. The ordinary course was to hire a lad they called a caddie, who was like a guide or pilot, led you where you had occa- sion, a... ..., to be recognised, to wear city clothes and a sword to my side, all to commit mere suicide at the last end of it, and the worst kind of suicide, besi... ... return. I had no thought but to be done with the next stage, and have myself fully committed; to a person circumstanced as I was, the appearance of c... ...said my say into their faces too. But what kind of a crime would this be that I had committed? or what kind of a process is this that I am fallen unde... ...d Miller. “A revolution, if you like, and I think I can promise you that historical writers shall date from Mr. Balfour’s cause. But properly guided, ... ...o this cause of Mr. Balfour’s, as you call it. Sheriff Miller tells us his- torical writers are to date from it, and I would not wonder. It is only my...

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... are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained analysis of this or tha... ...e for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, su... ...it. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,—all men indeed who are not spe- cialized students of philosophical subjects,—even if their... ...ts; classes entirely analogous, from the point of view of evidence, to the writers of history and memoirs. I question profoundly whether the word “sci... ... transparent device, and one is surprised to find thoughtful and reputable writers off their guard against such bad analogy. But indeed it is impossib... ...ear malice nor cherish anger nor seek revenge, you will never turn towards suicide as a relief from intolerable things; in- deed there will be no into... ... I may perhaps call specialist fatigue and impatience. It is very easy for writers like myself to deal in the broad generalities of Socialism and urge... ...ate abandonment of private prop- erty we have already discussed, a sort of suicide that helps the world nothing. Or she may “strike,” refuse marriage ... ...right in pointing out that there is much more social toleration for an act committed under the sanction of a group than for an isolated act that may b...

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...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good ... ...r grounds of separation, must, at the very threshold, by warning off those who dis- sent from them, so far operate to limit your audience. To take my ... ...from the journal, and reprinted? In the neglect to do this, some there are who will read a blamable carelessness in the author; but, in that carelessn... ...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...nd lands of the enemy; which enemy was these fair girls. The warrior stood committed to universal destruction. Neither sex nor age, neither the smiles... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...pathy with which the public always pursue the fate of any criminal who has committed a murder of this class, even though tainted (as generally it is) ... ...een Anne granting you a general redress, upon proof that a piracy had been committed, you, the party relieved, were bound to express your sense of thi...

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...raw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of fourteen miles to the Coast-g... ...and weeks, in the performance of the forlornest offices that Man can render to his kind; of his having most tenderly and thoroughly devoted himself to... ...y, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was not a great price. The people were none the richer for the wreck, for it was the season o... ...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...enheim when he tore the breast of his (the warrior’s) little coat open, and shook all his ten fingers in his face, as if they were ten thousand. When ... ...of the old-fashioned houses in the High-street as they shake the town. I have not the honour of Pickford’s acquaintance, but I felt that he had done m... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...e resolution that he would exert his utmost self-devotion and use his utmost efforts, to get Carlavero pardoned. If the prisoner had been a brigand an... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange...

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...substantial im- provements, though somewhat after the fashion of a husband who makes his wife presents out of her marriage portion. Excepting that par... ...round a champion at the next election, in the person of one of the two men who so gloriously represented Sancerre in Paris circles. This idea was extr... ... the fact that France has a per- fectly enormous number of superior women, who have, how- ever, till now been so generous as to leave the field to the... ... an absolute sinecure. So the worthy La Baudraye, who was supposed to have committed a finan- cial blunder, had, in fact, done very good business in t... ...souls in three departments of France is enough to revive the enthusiasm of writers as to the Furia Francese, which nowadays is more apt to expend itse... ...ious to Lousteau again. Have you never observed what great meanness may be committed for small ends? Thus the haughty Dinah, who would not sacrifice h... ...onor as a journalist, I have launched above a hundred articles against the writers you speak of; but I confess that in attacking them it was to attemp... ...h a tragedy. It was told me—and how delight- fully!—by one of our greatest writers, the finest literary mu- sician of our day, Charles Nodier.” “Well,... ...e!” cried Clagny, “of the ten or twelve startling crimes that are annually committed in France, quite half are mixed up with circumstances at least as...