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... the beasts and the rest of mankind. (But they were forbidden to touch the women of the tribe, they had to go out and capture women for themselves, an... ...awyers and town craftsmen and territo- rial lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-east... ...must have seen steam, seen it incuriously for many thousands of years; the women in particular were always heating water, boiling it, seeing it boil a... ... 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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...; 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 ... ...tness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath dec... ...thed meant to be teachers. Of these there were two sorts: care- less young women who admitted that they intended to leave the “beastly classroom and g... ...f a beautiful town remained. When she encountered an item about small-town women’s clubs or a photograph of a straggling Main Street, she was home- si... ...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... ...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...

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...ittle Norah.” “I got excited,” she said. “They began turning out the other women—roughly. I was indignant.” “You didn’t go to interrupt?” he asked. Sh... ...ved every one in a common call for devotion. For a great number of men and women who had been born and bred in security, the August and September of 1... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...ng how rare and precious a thing it is to find intelligent friend- ship in women. More particularly when they were dazzlingly charming and pretty . It... ... tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...I was afterwards familiarly known among the natives,—the men, that is. The women had a softer appel- lation for me, and called me ‘Mushook,’ or charme... ...st words of Lord Lake to me, as I left him, were, ‘Gahagan, I commit those women to your charge. Guard them with your life, watch over them with your ... ...occasioned by my words. The men stood irresolute and mute with terror; the women, trembling, knew scarcely whither to fly for refuge. ‘Who are yonder ... ...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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...is as tender as it is refreshing. About a question of marriage I have seen women who hate each other kiss and cry together quite fondly. How much more... ... quite impossible to describe in print. But who has not beheld these among women, and recognised the presence of all sorts of qualities in them, even ... ...me better regiment soon, and to get his wife away from those damned vulgar women. But this vulgarity of being ashamed of one’s society is much more co... ...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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...ward, Hoopdriver,” no more hasty meals, and weary attendance on fitful old women, for ten blessed days. The first morning is by far the most glorious,... ...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... .... The glory of life had departed. Bloomin’ Dook, in- deed! These unwomanly women! There was a soft whirr, the click of a brake, two footfalls, and the... ...d what manner of girl she might be. Probably she was one of these here New Women. He had a persuasion the cult had been maligned. Anyhow she was a Lad... ...ned. Her motives are bookish, written by a haphazard syndicate of authors, novelists, and biographers, on her white inexperience. An artificial overso... ... 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...

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...om where the English tongue is spoken. The explanation is usually that our women have not the skill to cultivate it—the art to direct through a smilin... ... had indeed, at the most, been capable of one of those sacrifices to which women are deemed peculiarly apt: he had recognised—under the influence, in ... ...h Brooksmith. Several times the door of the room opened and mysterious old women peeped in and shuffled back again. I don’t know who they were; poor B... ...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... ...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...

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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 ... ...eadiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most popular married women of the “younger set,” in which it was the recognised custom to attrac... ...es with a lot of lashes. Well, I’ll tell you the sort: when he wasn’t with women he was collecting china. Paying any price for both, I understand.” Th... ...dest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women’s coiffures, and on the glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fre... ...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... ...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...

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...o much as reached the shore of the island, it is doubtful whether the holy women kneeling in the cloisters grasped the reality of his dream-like progr... ...ne which nothing had changed; the purity of its rule had attracted unhappy women from the furthest parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, ... ...sting to him. He informed himself as to the manner of life led by the holy women. Were they allowed to go out of the convent, or to see visitors? “Sen... ...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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... showin’ across the parade ground, an’, by this an’ that, the way thim two women worked at the bundles an’ thrunks was a caution! I was dyin’ to help,... ...! They say they’re comin’ down here to wake us up. What will we do wid our women-folk?” ‘“Fetch my throlly!” sez I; “my heart’s sick in my ribs for a ... ...e Captain’s wife. She had to be put in by main force. You’ve no notion how women can struggle. The other woman was the wife of an officer going to mee... ...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 ... ...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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...g, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (other qua... ...er loneliness taught her to feign. She had never mingled in the society of women: her father, repro- bate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversa... ...ching herself to Amelia? The happinessthe superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy. “What airs... ...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... ...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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... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... .... The platforms ran with a roar and the people were shouting. He perceived women and girls with flowing hair, beautifully robed, with bands crossing b... ...eyond, a waving, incessant con- fusion of crowded, shouting faces, men and women together, waving pale blue garments, extended hands. Many were standi... ...that host were bearded men, old men, youths, flut- tering robed bare-armed women, girls. Men and women of the new age! Rich robes, grey rags fluttered... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa... ...w they work, marry, bear children, die—” “Y ou get that from our realistic novelists,” suggested Ostrog, suddenly preoccupied. “I want reality,” said ...

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.... 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... ...sterday morning. Christmas Day I wish you could have seen our party at table. H. J. Moors at one end with my wife, I at the other with Mrs. M. , be... ...onsulate; it was a lovely night with a full moon; and as I got round to the hot corner of Matautu I heard hymns in front. The balcony of the dead man’... ...ll fed with facts, true to the manners, and (for once in my works) rendered pleasing by the presence of a heroine who is pretty. Miss Uma is pretty; a... ...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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...s the central figure of the novel. In comparing her with T urgenev’s other women, the reader will remark that he is allowed to come into closer spirit... ...ritual con- tact with her than even with Lisa. The successful portraits of women drawn by men in fiction are generally figures for the imagination to ... ... 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... ...ailed to correlate them with the national life; and yet, while her men and women were acting and thinking, Trafalgar and Waterloo were being fought an... ... 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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...are to be classed among the good or evil attributes of our nature. Men and women are under the influence of them both, but men oftenest undergo the fo... ...under the influence of them both, but men oftenest undergo the former, and women the latter. They are ambition and enthusiasm. Now Mrs. Talboys was an... ...ess, we used to fancy that she had no repug- nance to impropriety in other women,—to what the world generally calls impropriety. Invincibly attached h... ...We had at that time a small set at Rome, consisting chiefly of English and Americans, who habitually met at each other’s rooms, and spent many of our ... ...rs in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, nov... ...dea of taking lessons in modelling. In all our circle Conrad Mackinnon, an American, was, perhaps, the person most qualified to be styled its leader. ... ...“and if there was any landed property—” “Landed property! and that from an American!” “The children are English, you know.” “Landed property! The time...

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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... ...iferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s suffrage, she had been struck by the possibility of these reefs cro... ...an who’s done anything. Y ou’ll hear the same story. All we have we owe to women. They are the species, sorr. Man is but a dream. He comes and goes. T... ...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... ...liday people abroad upon the roads. There were quantities of young men and women on bicycles and motor-bicycles, and a majority of gyroscopic motor-ca... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF...

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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... ...fall in love,” he added, by way of explanation, to his father. “The pretty women themselves may be sent flying!” Lord Warburton exclaimed. “No, no, th... ... by means of telegrams, and her telegrams are rather inscrutable. They say women don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered t... ...er. He slightly inclined himself, smiling; he had an excellent manner with women. The girl appreciated it in an instant; she had not forgotten that th...

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... his egg. They knew that he must have an egg for his voice, there were two women in the house, and no one had the least regard for his comfort. Mrs. C... ... , 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... ... the evenings when they did 119 W. Somerset Maugham not go out, the young women sang little songs in the green velvet drawing-room, while Fraulein An... ... 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... ... was real life. It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair ... ...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... ...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...

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...- 7 H. G . Wells promised at length on the science course at the Tredgold Women’s College—she had already matriculated into Lon- don University from ... ... But he was not a father one could make much of. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he tho... ... classes had to be kept apart even in thought and remote from one another. Women are made like the potter’s vessels—either for worship or contumely, a... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...il in Marylebone. So the talk went on, and presently they were criticising novelists, and certain daring essays of Wilkins got their due share of atte...

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...thing that Don Quixote was a bachelor and Marcus Aurelius married ill. For women, there is less of this danger. Marriage is of so much use to a woman,... ...enefit. It is true, however, that some of the merriest and most genuine of women are old maids; and that those old maids, and 7 Virginibus Puerisque ... ...ten most of the true motherly touch. And this would seem to show, even for women, some narrowing influence in comfortable mar- ried life. But the rule... ...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... ...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...