...ary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the passengers increased. T wo of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have suppose... ...hurricane deck, and the rest knitting arms or taking hands, we made a ring to sup- port the women in the violent lurching of the ship; and when we wer... ...Strathspey time. A white- faced Orpheus was cheerily playing to an audience of white- faced women. It was as much as he could do to play, and some of ... ...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

...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... ...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... ...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine...

...ed at random. Mr. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two, as novelists are inclined to observe, and at this remark he smiled, and made i... ...—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not singular.” “No, we haven... ...e saw a drawing-room, very empty and spacious; he heard low voices, he saw women’s figures, he could even smell the scent of the cedar log which flame... ...he Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These... ...Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These being now either dead or se-... ...harine had her moments of despondency. The glorious past, in which men and women grew to unexampled size, intruded too much upon the present, and dwar... ... it all, that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India, when their thoughts turned to ...

...desmen have ours? But which is the best? Not theirs assuredly. As to their women, it is a little different: they cultivate beauty from childhood upwar... ...feel disposed for refreshment after walking nobody knows how far on such a Canadian night as this; but it shall not be brandy- and-water, and it shall... ...ved he had all a Frenchman’s, all a Parisian’s notions about matrimony and women. I sus- pected a degree of laxity in his code of morals, there was so... ...so, and I strove to believe her; she was now ugly, as only continental old women can be; perhaps, though, her style of dress made her look uglier than... ...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life....

...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...was massed in front, trampling down the flower-beds. There were also a few women among them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Orthodo... ...tern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess at- tended by the women of her own household; the head gouvernante, our dear, corpulent Franc... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur... ...and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These are, perhaps, strong w...

...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...ampling down the 60 Some Reminiscences flower-beds. There were also a few women amongst them. He was glad to observe the village priest (of the Ortho... ...- tern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess attended by the women of her own household: the head gourvernante, our dear, corpulent Fran... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur... ...and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These are, perhaps, strong w...

...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... ...e; I have been as jolly as a sand-boy as usual at sea. The Amanuensis sits opposite to me writing to her off- spring. Fanny is on deck. I have just su... ...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...

............................................ 277 CHAPTER XVIII: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...f burdened with much nervous anxi- ety at my first introduction to men and women in Boston. I knew what the feeling there was with reference to En- gl... ...lubs, but one rather rejoicing in the rustle of petticoats. I like to have women in the same room with me. But at 29 Trollope these hotels I found my... ...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n... ...author of the “Scarlet Letter” I regard as certainly the first of American novelists. I know what men will say of Mr. Cooper,—and I also am an admirer...

...: CAMBRIDGE AND LOWELL ............................................................................................. 277 CHAPTER XVIII: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN ............................................................................................... 292 CHAPTER XIX: EDUCATION ...................................................................................................

...e too tolerant of dull, well- meaning and industrious men and arrogant old women. It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it ... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...e care that was to be taken of them, and they went down, and most of their women 38 An Englishman Looks at the World and children went down with the ... ... of industry. And then, last but not least, there is self-respect. Men and women are capable of wonders of self-discipline and effort if they feel tha... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

...of fools?” whispered Jane, giggling. “They cannot help their sex. They say women are fools, and so they are; but thank Heaven they are not quite so ba... ...nd, for she’s only a common woman—as common a one as ever you see. But few women rise above the common. Last Sunday, in yon village church, I heard th... ...te, he said, of his own great losses. Then he bought new machines; and, as women and children could work these as well as men, and were cheaper and mo... ...nce was welcome, and Miss Ward allowed him to put on her skates. She was a Canadian, and could skate well. Jane, the first to follow her, was anxious ... ...e childishness that delights in the tales told by grownup children such as novelists and their like! An end to the silly confusion, under the one name... ...nscanadian Railway Company, having got a great deal of spare land from the Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle ... ...etry of despair will not outlive despair itself. Your nineteenth cen- tury novelists are only the tail of Shakspere. Don’t tie your- self to it: it is...

...the appearance of any other beauty. The men were raving with love, and the women with jealousy. Her eyes, her beauty, her wit, her grace, her ton, cau... ... red stockins and i-eeled drab shoes, and beautiful snowy air. All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the p... ...ing on the terrace of V ersailles; the fairest, not only of Queens, but of women, hung fondly on the Royal arm; while the children of France were indu... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...

...als.” Another, that “all the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stan... ... pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the uni ve... ...able with warrant, travellers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar. There stands a gig in the gray... ... a naturalness, an un pretending and cold life in this traveller, as in a Canadian winter, what life was preserved through low temperatures and front... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting...