...nly a minute 22 The Secret Places of the Heart or so before been a decent British citizen. He made some blind lunges at the tremulous but obdurate ca... ... labour and finance. The sooner we scrap this nonsense about an autonomous British Empire complete in itself, contra mundum, the better for us. A worl... ...d years old or even more. It is the most important historical relic in the British Isles. And the most neglected. “ They exchanged archaeological fact... ... lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car ... ...rcumvallation that was al- ready two thousand years old before the dawn of British his- tory; a great wall of earth with its ditch most strangely on i... ... prob- lem of his daughter might have been the face of a pickled head in a museum, for any indication it betrayed of the flow of thought within. He la...

... “The Petrified For- est. Proprietor: C. Evans,” ran the legend. Within, on a knoll of sward, was the house of the proprietor, and an- other smaller h... ...Pine Flat, on the Geysers road, that we had come first to Calistoga. There is something singularly enticing in the idea of going, rent-free, into a re...

...d desire. She had read natural history, and looked at birds stuffed in the British Museum, or alive at the Zoological Gardens, on the rare days when h... .... She had read natural history, and looked at birds stuffed in the British Museum, or alive at the Zoological Gardens, on the rare days when her fathe... ...er. Bessie declined altogether; Sam had lent her his beautiful book of The British Songsters, and she was hard at work at the table copying a tom-tit,...

...dent became the wisdom of impenetrability. It is within the right of every British citizen, provided he does not commit damage nor indecorum, to appea... ...y learnt as much of these things as a Zulu in London would learn about the British corn supplies in the same time. It is clear, however, that these ve... ... honey in their distended abdomens. The lunar Somerset House and the lunar British Museum Library are collections of living brains… 159 H. G . Wells ... ...n their distended abdomens. The lunar Somerset House and the lunar British Museum Library are collections of living brains… 159 H. G . Wells “The les...

...fair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the ot... ...e between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can s... ...e. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we get cables before noon that the British War Office had sent an ulti- matum.” And very naturally a few minut... ...d who had just re- ceived a despatch from some one “in the know,” that the British Secretary of State for War had forwarded an ulti- matum to the Port... ...nd—they did not get to the Continent—had been a disappointment to her. The museums, art galleries, and cathedrals were not of the least interest to Ja...

... and a School of Art, and a School of Cookery, and National Schools, and a British School, and a Board School, also churches of every height, chapels ... ...gled her shoulders, though her voice was a trifle lowered. ‘If it were the British Museum now, or Westminster Abbey.’ ‘Or the Alps,’ chimed in a quiet... ... shoulders, though her voice was a trifle lowered. ‘If it were the British Museum now, or Westminster Abbey.’ ‘Or the Alps,’ chimed in a quieter voice... ...ondon to-morrow—London, which she so much wished to see—Westminster Abbey, British Museum, All Saints, National Gallery, no end of new dresses. 56 Nu... ...-morrow—London, which she so much wished to see—Westminster Abbey, British Museum, All Saints, National Gallery, no end of new dresses. 56 Nuttie’s F...

...leaners, and all the other signs of civilization; that our library and art museum are well supported and housed in convenient and roomy buildings; tha... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an... ...biggest statesmen in the world—Lord Wycombe, frinstance—you know, this big British nobleman. My friend Sir Gerald Doak told me that Lord Wycombe is on...

...ht enable him to do it justice,—I mean my friend Mr. Francis Douce, of the British Museum, whose usual kindness will, I hope, par- don my mentioning h... ...e him to do it justice,—I mean my friend Mr. Francis Douce, of the British Museum, whose usual kindness will, I hope, par- don my mentioning his name ...

...te de Lanty, and they have long wanted to buy this statue which the Albani museum won’t give up at any price. They have tried to have it copied, but t... ...ut they never got anything satisfactory. Now, you know the director of the museum well. Get him to let you make a copy of it. I give music-lessons to ... ...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified...

...t of boot-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to sell h... ...more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations. ... ...iot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took a walk through the Museum, where I could not help observing how much Steerforth knew, on an in...

...osite the old Ajaib Gher the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab,... ... a great piece of magic–such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue and white Jadoo Gher–the Magic House, as we name th... ...e a rude remark to the native policeman on guard over rows of shoes at the Museum door. The big Punjabi grinned toler antly: he knew Kim of old. So d... ...r on the dry road from his goat skin bag. So did Jawahir 6 Kim Singh, the Museum carpenter, bent over new packing cases. So did everybody in sight ex... ...orthern Power that there was a leakage of news from their territories into British India. So those Kings’ Prime Ministers were seriously annoyed and t... ... of a royal house who had been brought to book for kidnapping women within British territory. The Moslem Archbishop had been emphatic and over arrogan... ...ial faceelities by the Government. Of course, we always do that. It is our British pride.’ ‘Then what is to fear from them?’ ‘By Jove, they are not bl... ...raid that in his drunken ness he might have been indiscreet. He loved the British Gov ernment–it was the source of all prosperity and honour, and hi... ...rders of Nahan, where the Rahah of that State mistook them for de serting British soldiery. Hurree Babu explained the greatness and glory, in their o...

...e of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

...f Balzac at Tours; there is only, in one of the chambers of the melancholy museum, a rather clever, coarse bust. The description in “La Grenadiere,” o... ...ttle suggestion, in the untended aspect of walk and lawns, of the vigilant British gardener. The manor of Azay, as seen to-day, dates from the early p... ...nder the mirror behind the comptoir, was a much more civilized spot than a British public-house, or a “commercial room,” with pipes and whiskey, or ev... ...me to go to the Musee; the more so that I have a weakness for pro- vincial museums,—a sentiment that depends but little on the quality of the collecti... ...cap, who pulls aside a faded curtain to show you the lustreless gem of the museum,—these things have a mild historical qual- ity, and the sallow canva... ...d the sallow canvases after all illustrate something. Many of those in the museum of Nantes illustrate the taste of a successful warrior; having been ... ...s of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado invented, British invalids travelled down through France in the post-chaise or the pu... ...f no less a person than Charles Edward Stuart, the second pretender to the British crown. Surely no woman ever was associated sentimentally with three... ...ous Albion that they order this matter best! How many a time did the eager British mercenary, clad in vel- veteen and clinging to the door of the carr...

...vidualities, and Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant... ...; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his bo... ...on. T o us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank- notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, thi... ...f labour. This most excellent idea does, as a matter of fact, underlie the British institution of the work- house, but it is jumbled up with the relie... ...of begging. 94 A Modern Utopia There will need to be, in the place of the British casual wards, simple but comfortable inns with a low tariff—con- tr... ... of the Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank.... ...Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A fooli... ...offer the card of the T .C.F . I follow up that blow with my green British Museum ticket, as tattered as a flag in a knight’s chapel. “You’ll get foun... ...rld of to-day, or the cataloguing of such libraries as that of the British Museum, or such collections as that of the insects in Cromwell Road. Such a...

...m mounted or nine afoot in a box for a small price. We three like those of British manufac- ture best; other makes are of incompatible sizes, and we h... ...ady zoological garden, the town hall, a railway tunnel through the hill, a museum (away in the extreme right-hand corner), a church, a rifle range, an... ...Haldane, enters its high portal. Passing the cathedral, we continue to the museum. This museum is no empty boast; it contains mineral speci- mens, she...

...t was only manifest they were splendid and were further- more conclusively British. They constituted an order and abounded in rare material—precious w... ...ther had been, in strange countries, in twenty settlements of the English, British chaplain, resident or occasional, and had had for years the unusual... ...had much con- tributed: she copied, patient lady, famous pictures in great museums, having begun with a happy natural gift and taking in betimes the s... ...uivocal quan- tity was what had haunted her during their previous days, in museums and churches, and what was again spoiling for her the pure taste of... ...ets and 133 Henry James suburbs oddly interesting to Milly, as well as of museums, monuments, “sights” oddly unfamiliar to Kate, while their elders p... ...am of her compatriots. She was struck with the circumstance that the great museum, early in August, was haunted with these pilgrims, as also with that... ...ey might surmise, it was rather more than they wanted. In the porch of the museum she expressed her preference for a four-wheeler; they would take the...

...California—which, as most people know, was before it was discovered in the British colony of Australia—I was in the West Indies, trading among the Isl... ...ur hand held up before you at noon day. There was Californian gold in the museums and in the goldsmiths’ shops, and the very first time I went upon ‘...

...lked about the neighbor- ing streets. The early dusk of waning summer was coming on, but the heat was still very great. The pavements were hot even to... .... “My dear fellow,” said his companion, “you are very far gone.” PART II I n point of fact, as Percy Beaumont would have said, Mrs. Westgate disembark... ...heir opportunities for conversation were such only as were offered by the deferential London shopmen. Bessie Alden, even in driving from the station, ... ...p a host of old impressions and preconceptions, and she found herself fitting a history to this person and a theory to that, and making a place for th... ...ee that.” The young girl meditated a moment. “Do you mean that they spy upon him—that they interfere with him?” “I don’t know what power they have to ... ...possibly sometimes not so success- ful as it might have been, for the result of it was occa- sionally a vague irritation, which expressed itself in ho...

...the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appear to have been no longer accidenta... ...OLD IR Y OF OLD IRON ON ON ON ON AS ONE GOES into the South Kensington Art Museum from the Brompton Road, the Gallery of Old Iron is overhead to the r... ...e student pays for the finer emotions. And in the spacious solitude of the museum gallery de- 80 Love and Mr. Lewisham voted to the Raphael cartoons ... ...w. Why mean? Why should she think it mean? He grew angry again. The portly museum policeman who had been watching him furtively, wondering why a stude... ...ith her for her failure to see things as he did. He would wander about the museum conducting imaginary discussions with her and making even scathing r... ...served by Smithers in the big Education Library reading in a volume of the British Encyclopaedia. Beside him were the current Whitaker’s Almanac, an o... ...ame of mind; nothing could be further from the normal indigna- tion of the British landlady. She was very voluble, gesticula- tory and lucid, but unha...

...n an exceptionally marked degree the glazed and expressionless mask of the British domestic de race. I saw with dismay that if I hadn’t known him I sh... ...Beatrice. As I never insisted, in such situations, on the blankness of the British domestic, I reflected that he had the making of a servant—and I nee... ...ench one?” “I’m afraid.” “Do you carry them by the dozen—?” “Into innocent British homes?” Maud tried to remem- ber. “I believe I brought three—seeing... ...ke everything 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 seem... ...hat then cradled, and that continued to cradle, so many of their kind. The British capital was a strange grey world to him, where people walked, in mo... ...n him in Italy, in Spain, confronted at last, in dusky side-chapel or rich museum, with great things dreamed of or with greater ones unexpectedly pres... ...ently do. He would close the door on his impression, treat it as a private museum. He would see that he could lounge and linger there, live with wonde...

...rt to be re- garded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprint... ...t years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing ... ...much leisure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coexten... ...sure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coextensive wit... ... peril than any analogous one that has been proved to exist at Waterloo. A British surgeon, indeed, in a work of two octavo volumes, has endeavored to... ...ained blowing up of tumbrils, under the miserable purpose of shak- ing the British steadiness. But the evidences are not clear; whereas my brother ins... ...atomy, it is a well- established fact, that oftentimes the most scientific museum admitted as genuine fragments of the human osteology what in fact be... ...he nation, and which has since gone to swell the collection at the British Museum, had been formed (as I was often assured by persons to whom the whol... ...nted by the great endowed libraries of the seven universities, the British Museum,” &c., &c. But prima facie, this was that selling of justice which i...