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...of North Amerion opennd on November 22 with addresses by Hon, James Bryoe, British ambassador to the United States, Governor Glenn of North Carolina a... ...timulate interest in the "Purple Cow" and rouse the la- tent talent of the humorists who must surely be in our midst. Although the art work of the cur...

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... from its capsule of cloth. “Wood is dear,” he said to Grassou. “Ah!” “The British are after me” (slang term for creditors) “Gra- cious! do you paint ... ...n Betty The Middle Classes Cousin Pons Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Bachelor’s Establishment A Start in Life Honorine Cousi... ...ernment Clerks Modeste Mignon The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn...

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...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction for itself. “I never saw ... ... the D. H. and P . G., the Old Firm, the German Firm, the Firm, and (among humorists) the Long Handle Firm. Even from the deck of an approaching ship,... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...upplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the British; for wherever there is a sound of ... ... “newly-formed place” in Australia, where the AL- BATROSS was lying, and a British ship, which he knew to be a man-of-war “because the officers were n...

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... to the Admiralty, was made the basis of a remonstrance on the part of the British government with Spain on the subject of its cruelties. Sir Charles ... ...ber for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Brambourg, Comte de (Title of Philippe Bridau, later... ...ourg, Comte de (Title of Philippe Bridau, later Jo- seph) The Unconscious Humorists Bridau, Philippe Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Bridau, Joseph ... ...vincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gerard, Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron Beatrix Giraud, Leon A Dis... ...tinguished Provincial at Paris The Secrets of a Princess The Unconscious Humorists Giroudeau A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Start in Life G... ...een The Seamy Side of History Cousin Pons Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Start in Life Pierre Grassou Honorine 277 Balzac Cousin Be...

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...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s... ...he Member for Arcis A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet (Judge) Jealousies of a Country T own Bro... ...sette, Abbe The Peasantry Cadine, Jenny Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Cambremer, Pierre A Seaside T ragedy Can... ...he Magic Skin Another Study of Woman A Start in Life The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Casteran, De The Chouans The Seamy Sid... ...hed Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Unconscious Humorists Gaillard, Madame Theodore Jealousies of a Country T own 293 Be... ...achelor’s Establishment Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Unconscious Humorists Galathionne, Prince and Princess (both not in each story) The S...

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...t—the most interesting of all of which, I think, is the mention of certain British products as “mufflings.” “Muf- fling” used to be a domestic joke fo... ...Gaudissart II. Gaudissart II. Les Comediens sans le savoir The Unconscious Humorists The Unconscious Comedians Histoire des T reize: The Thirteen: F...

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...un- powder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen. You know, don’t you, that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, a... ...agic Skin 155 Balzac Another Study of Woman Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Cardot, Jean-Jerome-Severin Lost Illusio... ... Middle Classes 157 Balzac Cousin Betty Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Bachelor’s Establishment Pierre Grassou Honorine Cousin... ...ernment Clerks Modeste Mignon The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists Serizy, Comte Hugret de A Bachelor’s Establishment Honorine ...

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...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified... ... Cousin Betty Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Virginie Jealousies of a Country Town The... ...Brides Cousin Betty Cadine, Jenny Cousin Betty Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Camps, Octave de Madame Firmiani Camps, Madame Octave de Madame... ...ic Skin Another Study of Woman A Start in Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Carigliano, Duchesse de At the Sign of the Cat and Racket A Dis... ...e Mystery 339 Balzac The Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de Father Goriot Lost Illusion... ...Arcis Modeste Mignon Beatrix Cousin Betty Cousin Pons The Unconscious Humorists Suzon A Man of Business Tillet, Ferdinand du Cesar Birotteau T...

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... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country T own A ... ...ishment The Thirteen Collin, Jacqueline Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Collin, Jacques Father Goriot Lost Illusions A Distinguishe... ... Distinguished Provincial at Paris 491 Balzac Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gaillard, Madame Theodore Jealousies of a Country Town A Dist... ...ovincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gaudissart, Felix Cousin Pons Cesar Birotteau Honorine Ga... ...ince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des The Muse of the Department 494 S...

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...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ...n d’Esgrignon was with her. And besides, de Marsay was one of those savage humorists who delight in mischief, as Turkish women in the bath. So when he... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran... ...he Seamy Side of History Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley 139 Balzac F...

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...f the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the British, bringing his convoy safe into port after an en- gagement with supe... ... from a Courtesan’s Life Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...inary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Portenduere, Vicomte Savinien de The Ball at Sceaux Scenes fr... ...cis The Secrets of a Princess Cousin Betty Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de Cesar Birotteau The Ball at S...

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...the Emperor would have paid the nation for his election by the ruin of the British power. The camp at Boulogne had just been raised. Napoleon, whose s... ...) The Member for Arcis Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...e Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Regnier, Claude-Antoine A Second Home Simeuse, Admiral de Bea...

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...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...etty meekly, sniggering a bit, sentimentalising a bit, like—like Cambridge humorists… . I mean to know what I’m doing.” He paused to drink, and I thin... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ... bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain. There wa... ...“Things are being done?” “Oh!—no doubt of it. It’s one of the parts of the British machinery—that doesn’t show… . But nobody else could do it. “Two pe... ...Baileys’ one extravagance, they loved to think of searches going on in the British Museum, and letters being cleared up and precis made overhead, whil...

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...r of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian eyelids with lashes of very un-British length, hair blacker than 32 Albert Savarus black; and under this ... ...Albert Savarus Modeste Mignon The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists Tinti, Clarina Massimilla Doni To return to the Electronic Clas...

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...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ...Establishment Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Granson, Athanase The Government Clerks (mentioned only) Lenonc...

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...ince the Conquest, married to one of the most distinguished old men of the British peerage, it was nevertheless evident that these advan- tages were m... ...or look has reached them; to them, the people are as if they were not. The British present an image of their own island, where law rules everything, w... ...at the fall of its highest angel. Lady Dudley aban- doned her place in the British empyrean, gave up her wealth, and endeavored to eclipse by her sacr... ...ves it the eloquent gravity, the tone of pompous conviction with which the British hide the absur- dities of their life of prejudice. French wit and h... ...which I described to you, she opens and shuts her heart with the ease of a British mechanism. She possesses an impenetrable mask, which she puts on or... ...ment A Daughter of Eve Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman Father Goriot Jealousies of a Countr...

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...ness, how the immortal idea happened to occur to him; and as is the way with humorists of his breed, he was still laughing at it after everybody else ... ... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ...d the founder of your great line lift him self to the sacred dignity of the British nobility?” “He built a brewery.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Art... ...d: “What was the rank and condi tion of the great grandmother who conferred British nobil ity upon your great house?” “She was a king’s leman and di...

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... might seem dishonor- able in me under my present circumstances. I owe the British Islander six louis, which I lost at cards; don’t fail to pay him— “... ...inary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de 171 Balzac Father Goriot The T...

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...dge of English, and his accent was oddly tinged with the cockneyism of the British metropolis. But his learning had grown rusty with disuse, and his v... ...78 The American glish without an accent, or rather with that distinctively British accent which, on his arrival in Europe, had struck Newman as an alt... ...used him to heighten the color of the episode. Newman had sat with Western humorists in knots, round cast-iron stoves, and seen “tall” stories grow ta... ... Bellegarde looked hard at him, and returned his hand-shake with a sort of British positiveness which reminded him that she was the daughter of the Ea... ... whiskers were fair and glossy, and he had a large dimple, of unmistakably British origin, in the middle of his handsome chin. He was “distinguished” ... ... been a sufficient assurance that she was not a Frenchwoman; a cap of pure British compo- sition. She had a pale, decent, depressed-looking face, and ...

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...ck,’ Victor replied hurriedly. ‘He got a drenching of all the damns in the British service from his. Generalissimo one day at a Review, for a trooper’... ...ell of the fairtressed Delphica’s phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets. Assisted by Mr. Semhians, he begins to imagine, that he has,... ...a theme. He is a colonel of Companies. But those are his diversion, as the British Army has been to the warrior. Puellis idoneus, he is professedly a ... ...lities were noth- ing other than dupes of a New-York Syndicate of American Humorists, not without an eye on the mainchance; and he was sure they would... ...ss. ‘When a man’s feelings get entangled!’ ‘Oh! a man’s feelings! I’m your British Jury for, a woman’s.’ ‘He has married her?’ She declared to not kno... ...the Service, and left it at his convenience, for our poor patch and tatter British Army to take in his place another young student, who’ll grow up to ...

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... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Spec... ...ld, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...like a charm upon the crew. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British gov- ernment was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whal...

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...it off the ‘improper’ excel- lently well when he said that such-and-such a British peer did not dare to cross his legs when he sat alone before his ow... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country T own A ... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de Father Goriot The Thirteen Eu... ...Mystery 73 Balzac Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Taillefer, Jean-Frederic Father Goriot The Magic Skin The R... ... A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Toby (Joby, Paddy) The Secrets of a Princess Werbrust Cesar B...

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... Throughout the eighties at least, and probably for some years before, the British Museum reading room was used daily by a gentleman of such astonishi... ...d about the forgeries of the Pentateuch which were offered for sale to the British Museum, and about litera- ture and things of the spirit generally. ... ...sumption that he was to me a mere name among the thousands of names in the British Museum catalogue. Therefore I make it clear that I had and have per... ...ause I happened to be one of them myself, were all, in their various ways, humorists. “Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother” And now to return to Shakes... ...ppose they are merely a record of observed fact. John Stuart Mill told our British workmen that they were mostly liars. Carlyle told us all that we ar... ...incorporation of Whig principles of individual liberty. Shakespear and the British Public I have rejected Mr Harris’s view that Shakespear died bro- k...

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...ise in a large way of practice over both England and Scotland, nor had any British engineer anything approaching their experience. It was about this n... ... life, and humours the caprices of the tyrant. But the potentate, like the British in India, pays small regard to the character of his willing client,... ...but it is an old, insu- lar, home-bred staginess; not French, domestically British; not of to-day, but smacking of O. Smith, Fitzball, and the great a... ...ld deform the attitudes he loves to study, and change his sitters from the humorists of ordinary life to the brute forces and bare types of more emoti...

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...will, and how to strike. See how we stand politically. My father is in the British ministry; we shall have close relations with Spain through the Evan... ...lley A Daughter of Eve Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot...

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...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Braulard A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Cousin Betty Bri... ... Life Honorine Florent Cousin Betty Fontaine, Madame The Unconscious Humorists Gaudissart, Felix Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Cesar Birott... ...e Mignon Beatrix The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Thouvenin Cesar Birotteau Vinet Pierrette The Member for Ar...

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...rd, and beast, in as grotesque a landscape. These pictured people were odd humorists, in a 69 Hawthorne world of their own,—a world of vivid brillian... ... him to solicit, or enable him to purchase, that elevated dignity from the British monarch. Lord Pyncheon!—or the Earl of Waldo!—how could such a magn...