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... which the retiring Judge was regarded. John Patteson’s reply, read with a voice broken by emo- tion, is so touching in its manly simplicity and humil... ...dsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for music. We hired a piano for our sitting-room; a... ... for our sitting-room; and, though I failed to induce him to cultivate his voice, and join me in taking lessons, he sang some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ...s. There is a botanical garden here with a very good collection of all the Australian trees and shrubs, and with many New Zealand and many semi-tropi-... ...Your affectionate cousin, ‘J. C. Patteson.’ This meeting was called by the Australian Board of Mis- sions to receive information or propositions conce... ...ions to receive information or propositions concerning the missions to the Australians and Melanesians. Bishop Barker of Sydney was in the chair, and ... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec...

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...eg’lar lion when I’ve got the law backing me.” He spoke in a queer, wheezy voice, like a cracked flute, combined with the effect of an ill-resined fid... ...nthony responded, “she hasn’t got such a pretty sort of a sweet blackbirdy voice as you’ve got.” The girl blushed scarlet. “Oh, she can mount them col... ... a young gentleman who had hailed a cab for her at the station, had a nice voice. He was fair. “I am dark,” came a spontaneous reflection. She undress... ...No wonder, then, that his dream was of prairies, and primeval forests, and Australian wilds. He believed in his heart that he would be a man new made ... ...urs, was the reply. Robert had an impulse to rush by the stolid little fe- male liar, but Percy’s recent lesson to him acted as a restraint; though, h... ...ll take the point of view of science, be the stage carpenters, and let the actors move on and off. By this, we shall learn to take a cer- tain pride i...

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...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...es, than I have read in anathematising discourses (albeit put to press with enormous flourishing of trumpets), in all my life. I heard more of the Sac... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ... lashing and tearing coming upon her? And whether this young woman, God help her, gives herself up then and drops like a coach-horse from the moon? I ... ...abit should affect the tonsils and uvula; but, I have always observed that Refracto- ries of both sexes and every grade, between a Ragged School and t... ...ered by a most intelli- gent master. I remarked in it, an instance of the collateral harm that obstinate vanity and folly can do. ‘This was the Hall w... ...dems and robes of kings are made. I noticed that some shops which had once been in the dramatic line, and had struggled out of it, were not getting on... ... waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of ... ...es meet in ‘um middle, FOUR gents goes round ‘um ladies, Four gents passes out under ‘um ladies’ arms, swing—and Lemonade till ‘a moosic can’t play no...

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...O THE OWNER OF WNER OF WNER OF WNER OF WNER OF THE THE THE THE THE V V V V VOICE OICE OICE OICE OICE THERE ARE WORKS, and this is one of them, that ar... ...tri- dency; and all that is not, as these words are, in Italics, is in one Voice. Now, this Voice, and this is the peculiarity of the matter, is not t... ...oice, and this is the peculiarity of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible au- thor who fathers these pages. You have to clear... ... see the whole little drama, rather clearer than his words gave it me, the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...nist inclines. The second type includes, amidst its energetic forms, great actors, and popular politi- cians and preachers. Between these extremes is ... ...kind. Is there, however, an all-round inferior race in the world? Even the Australian black-fellow is, perhaps, not quite so entirely eligible for ext... ...eligible for extinction as a good, wholesome, horse- racing, sheep-farming Australian white may think. These queer little races, the black-fellows, th...

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...m; and while threats were passing among the boys, Margaret asked, in a low voice, “Did you ask him to come with us?” “Yes, he said he should like it o... ...n her finger—”’tis not hurt.” “Pax! Pax!” cried Norman, over all, with the voice of an au- thority, as he leaped up lightly and set Tom on his legs ag... ...“Is not your eldest brother coming home to-day?” said Miss Winter in a low voice to Flora, who shook her head, and said confidentially, “He is not com... ...d he was the only gentleman so engaged, except the two clergymen—the other male teachers being a formal, grave, little baker, and one or two monitors.... ...e Fiord. Its beauty and tricks were duly displayed, and a most beauti- ful Australian parrot was exhibited, Mrs. Larpent taking full interest in the t... ...hinking Cocksmoor was the excuse!” “Spectators are more philosophical than actors, Ethel. Oth- ers have not been tying parcels all day.” “I had rather... ...ppositions as to her deten- tion, adding besides, that no one believed the Australian paper whence the report was taken. He had seen the Alcestis, kne... ...ut in a way that seemed to have called for the reproof of the more earnest actors. “Ethel! Ethel!” screamed the children, with one voice, and, while t...

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...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ...re too; but it would not accept pursuit. ‘A pretty scud overheard?’ said a voice at his ear. 15 George Meredith ‘For fine!—to-day at least,’ Mr. Radn... ...ied to a stranger; and gazing on the face of his friend Fenellan, knew the voice, and laughed: ‘You?’ He straightened his back im- mediately to cross ... ...trikes her attitude for song, and positively, almost with the Sanfredini’s voice—illusion of it, you know,—trills us out more than I could have believ... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ...g in my service an inveterate pugilist—who breaks the law from patriotism! Male or fe- male, these very respectable persons—the people your show was m... ...o greet her being shown. Colney Durance came in, bringing the rumour of an Australian cantatrice to kindle Europe; Mr. Peridon, a seeker of tidings fr... ... one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians. Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his eyelids indicated ... ...s of the merchant’s wealth, and the miner’s, and the gigantic American and Australian million- aires, high rank is of necessity vowed, in peril of utt...

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...diverse forms and different speech, The world’s humanity is one. O may her voice have power to say How soon the wrecking discords cease, When every wa... ...to the shore. The pebbles speak low In the ebb and the flow, As I when thy voice came at intervals, tuned to adore: Nought other stirred Save my heart... ...s majestic, That look with their eye-daring summits deep into the sky. The voice of great Nature; sublime with her lofty conceptions, Y et earnest and... ...a fly, In a queer sort of meditative mirth. XX I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice and, daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for heav... ...rench novel? T ell me why. You think it quite unnatural. Let us see. The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband, and wife, and lover. She—b... ... pallid hour T o come: a river dried of waters glad. VII For which of his male issue promised grip T o stride yon people, with the curb and whip? Thi... ...rm remaining. Was the curtain’s rent T oo wide? he but a man of that herd male? She saw him as that herd of the forked head Butting the woman harrowe... ...rvious to beak and claws, T radition’s ruinous Whitebeard was; Of whom, as actors in old scenes, Had grannam weavers warned their weans, With word, th... ... 487 That truth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust b...

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...ooked on with savage admiration at the show, and as savage a hatred of the actors. A regiment of the Old Guard, reviewed on a summer’s 35 Melville da... ...ly had I completed these arrangements when my name was sung out by a dozen voices, and I sprung upon the deck, where I found all the party in the boat... ...e morning of the creation; and as we advanced through this wilderness, our voices sounded strangely in our ears, as though human accents had never bef... ...t a word out of him. It would have been some consolation to have heard his voice, but he lay shiver- ing the live-long night like a man afflicted with... ...s of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is now used by the natives in their intercourse with foreigne... ...to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. T o destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins, drop by drop, the blood w... ... concentrated; and to have seen it filled with a crowd of the natives, all males, conversing in animated clusters, while multitudes were continually c... ... my most unexpected es- cape may be very briefly stated. The captain of an Australian vessel, being in distress for men in these remote seas, had put ...

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...ne another. Father, sister, son, and brother,” opens to receive the vilest malefactor; by which the church symbolically expresses her maternal willing... ...he far Atlantic, the multitude of the isles, and the generations unborn in Australian climes, even to the realms of the rising sun (the greek: anatola... ... dignity, brought into stronger relief by the mercenary employments of her male connections, and the feminine gentleness of her voice and manners, exh... ...ry employments of her male connections, and the feminine gentleness of her voice and manners, exhibited under the same advantages of contrast, oftenti... ...ng Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable metropolitan actors were natives of Stratford. These would be well known to the elder Sh... ...otorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming into any town, to seek, in the first place, from the ch... ...r plummet sound.” Nay, it is even ominous, that in this play, and from the voice of Prospero, issues that magnificent prophecy of the total destructio... ...verbalance of favorable suffrages, as by ac- clamation; not so much by the voices of those who admire him up to the verge of idolatry, as by the acts ... ...e, and the Mahommedan consecration of its threshold against the ingress of males, had been trans- planted from Asia into Greece thousands of years per...

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...of an undying gift of life, an inheritor under con- ditions, the momentary voice and interpreter of a being that springs from the dawn of time and liv... ...ace, is so simple, so obvious, that in every age I suppose there have been voices asking in amaze- ment, why the thing is not done? It is so usual to ... ...r. Stuart Menteath also makes a most admirable suggestion with re- gard to male and female geniuses who are absorbed in their careers. Although the ge... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ...direct cost of rear- ing. Obviously the minimum wage for a civilized adult male should be sufficient to cover the rent of the minimum tene- ment permi... ...ings come spontaneously; with the merest rough encouragement of things and voices about the child, they are evoked. But every day the inherent impulse... ... for the teacher’s pocket and reputation. Just as there are plays that, as actors say, “act themselves,” so, with a profession that is rarely at its b... ... vernacular teaching, one finds in the schools—at any rate the schools for males—over a large part of the world, a second element, which is always the...

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...top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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... for Two Veterans......................327 Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice .....................................................329 I Saw Old ... ....................536 Life and Death..................................536 The Voice of the Rain........................537 Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil... ...et Came......553 Osceola...............................................554 A Voice from Death...........................554 A Persian Lesson............. ...e Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for ... ...smissing it, I stand in my place with my own day here. Here lands female and male, Here the heir ship and heiress ship of the world, here the flame of... ...it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality, And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other, And sexual org... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...ss –Whitman 527 DEATH OF G ENERAL G RANT As one by one withdraw the lofty actors, From that great play on history’s stage eterne, That lurid, parti... ...ace, 497 As if a phantom caress’d me, 460 As one by one withdraw the lofty actors, 528 As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique records to 541 As t...

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...he boys. Strollers on the common could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing foot- steps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, whe... ...hel Byron. Presently a door was heard to open below, and a buzz of distant voices became audible. The doctor fidgeted and tried to think of something ... ...umbly, shedding fresh tears. “Please let me go,” he added, in a suffocated voice, trying to turn his face toward his cap- tor. But Wilson twisted him ... ...doorpost a card on which was writ- ten in a woman’s handwriting: “WANTED A MALE AT- TENDANT WHO CAN KEEP ACCOUNTS. INQUIRE WITHIN.” The smoker was a p... ...nce of Lucian’s statement that the tenant of the Warren Lodge had a single male attendant. It was impossible that this glo- rious vision of manly stre... ...esterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-tennis player. She vanquished the Australian champion last year.” It seemed that Byron, after all, was someth... ...ng of a court- ier; for he displayed great astonishment at this feat. “The Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-t... ...hat Jews, Irishmen, Chris- tians, atheists, lawyers, doctors, politicians, actors, artists, flesh-eaters, and spirit-drinkers are all of necessity deg...

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... 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 throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it...

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...al 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 subme... ...ame to speak to Mr. Grahame-White, or he to me, that I discovered that our voices had become almost infinitesimally small. And so it was I went up int... ... nor the overthrow of Napoleon; it is here and now. It falls to them to be actors not in a remi- niscent pageant but a living conflict, and the sooner... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...phlet full of mis- representation and bad argument against Socialism by an Australian Jew, published by the Single-Tax people appar- ently in a disint... ... soul. The hands are the hands of Plato, the wide- thinking Greek, but the voice is the voice of a humane, pub- lic-spirited, but limited and very pra... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ion. It may be that this is incorrect, and that in devotion to an accepted male and his children most women do still and will continue to find their g...