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...medies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when they were reduced to the ordeal of the mantle....

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...terature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputab... .... And were there more in this posi- tion, Comic genius would flourish. Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be im- aged in the person of a bl... ...acing-yacht. Morality is a duenna to be circumvented. This was the view of English Comedy of a sagacious essayist, who said that the end of a Comedy w... ...gh he is drawn in light outline, without any forcible human colouring. Our English school has not clearly imagined society; and of the mind hovering a... ...vershadows Mirabel, 12 An Essay on Comedy the sprightliest male figure of English comedy. But those two ravishing women, so copious and so choice of ... ...in society; for who are cheerfuller, brisker of wit, in the fields, and as explorers, colonisers, backwoodsmen? They are happy in rough exer- cise, an...

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...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...ss. Here is a case of a bird and a stranger as related by a naturalist. An Englishman saw a bird flying around about his dog’s head, down in the groun... ... the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, t... ...ed by French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German explorers, on the other, is too great to escape attention. That difference ... ..., pirates, conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, n...

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...hite and half- white church—I had never been before, and was much in- terested; the woman I sat next looked a full-blood native, and it was in the pre... ...God, they may now stay! Perhaps you may suppose the day now over; you are not the head of a plantation, my juvenile friend. Politics suc- ceeded: Henr... ...had to sit down and write to you to keep my temper. Let me sketch my lads. —Henry—Henry has gone down to town or I could not be writing to you— this w... ... But will he be ‘his sometime self throughout the year’?Anyway, he has deserved of us, and he must disap- point me sharply ere I give him up. —Bene—or... ...keep no check, beyond a very rough one; marching in with a cloudy brow, and the day-book under his arm; tackling decimals, com- ing with cases of cons... ...the main body, who had now been left alone for perhaps forty minutes in the bush. The return was effected in good order, but unhappily I only arrived ...

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... a great ally’s diet; but the French have not yet found out that millions of Englishmen have eaten blackberries for generations without having “the fe... ...aving “the fever.” Even if they did find it out they would probably say: “The English are dif ferent. Blackberries have always given us the fever.” Or... ... blackberries in France with as much enjoyment, and as little harm, as their English neighbours. But one could no more buy a blackberry in a French ma... ...of unstable dialects. Or, if an instance nearer home is needed, the lover of English need only note what that rich language has shrunk to on the lips,... ...d an Academy, nor could ever conceivably have had one, and that whatever the English of America has become, the English of England is still the langua... ...tistic and civic development unknown to the races found by the first European explorers. But the origin and date of these vanished societies are as yet...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ve done. Here, in the illustra- tion, is such an archipelago ready for its explorers, or rather on the verge of exploration. There are altogether four...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tion for Kim–he had kicked Lala Dinanath’s boy off the trunnions–since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as ... ...n field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and’ dropping into English–‘nine hundred devils.’ ‘Ah,’ said Kim, ‘I shall remember. A Red Bul... ...eways among the cases of the arts and manufacturers wing. A white bearded Englishman was looking at the lama, who gravely turned and saluted him and ... ...is the little door through which we bring wood before winter. And thou–the English know of these things? He who is now Abbot of Lung Cho told me, but ... ... true. It concerned all manner of out of the way mountain principalities, explorers of nationali ties other than English, and the guntrade was, in ... ...hold!’ He drew from his breast a bottle of cheap whisky–such as is sold to explorers at Leh–and cleverly forced a little be tween the lama’s teeth. ‘...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...han leading University men, for the impress they leave is on the flower of English youth, at the very time of life when thought has come, but action i... ...e at the same time with the cham- 36 Life of John Coleridge Patteson pion English eleven, one of the most noted professional crick- eters, meeting hi... ...nsequently anyone who knows Hebrew knows something about it), as German to English, e.g., Bahlom (Arab.), Beel (Syr.), Baal (Heb.), are the same word,... ...to remain at hand, or whether he might be called to minister in some great English manufacturing town. Early in 1854, it became known that the Bishop ... ..., on August 20, a horrible sight presented it- self to the eyes of the two explorers when they walked inland with about eighteen most obliging and cou... ...ding of what they were destined to become to that small party of Christian explorers. Young Atkin made no entry in his diary of those days, and could ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...perversity, Mr Vladimir changed the language, and began to speak idiomatic English without the slightest trace of a foreign accent. “Ah! Y es. Of cour... ...aris. Then by his Excellency’s instructions I settled down in London. I am English.” “Y ou are! Are you? Eh?” “A natural-born British subject,” Mr V e... ... Vladimir began, with an amazingly guttural intonation not only utterly un-English, but absolutely un-European, and startling even to Mr V erloc’s exp... ...ience of cosmopolitan slums. “Y ou dare! Well, I am go- ing to speak plain English to you. V oice won’t do. We have no use for your voice. We don’t wa... ...s incredulously. “I can’t con- ceive where I could have seen him.” “At the Explorers, I should say,” dropped the Assistant Com- missioner calmly. At t... ...g such an unsavoury and disturbing fact. It revolutionised his idea of the Explorers’ Club’s extreme selectness, of its social purity. Toodles was rev... ...imself did not turn into the 165 Joseph Conrad noble building. It was the Explorers’ Club. The thought passed through his mind that Mr Vladimir, hono...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ce; on the other hand it was much bolder than the face of the usual pretty Englishwoman. “Oh, Rachel, how d’you do,” she said, shaking hands. “How are... ...y, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority up... ...r hours playing very difficult music, reading a little German, or a little English when the mood took her, and doing—as at this moment—absolutely noth... ...ffian had trapped, “because one hates to think of anything in a cage where English people lie buried,” the diary stated. Their tour was thoroughly unc... ...ither hut nor house, but trees and grass, which were seen only by hunters, explorers, or merchants, march- ing or sailing, but making no settlement. B...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ur of the Voice. So much by way of portraiture is necessary to present the explorers of the Modern Utopia, which will unfold itself as a background to... ...it will be a coalesced language, a synthesis of many. Such a lan- guage as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Nor... ...nd hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already pre- sents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast ... ...ly a matter for his doctor and his own private con- science. I doubt if we explorers shall meet any drunken men, and I doubt not we shall meet many wh... ...y when every government had in it the near possibility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one... ...r- tips and shake my index-finger in my friend’s face. “By Jove!” I say in English. “They’ve got our doubles!” The botanist snaps his fingers. “Of cou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lmayer had left his home with a light heart and a lighter pocket, speaking English well, and strong in arithmetic; ready to conquer the world, never d... ...or purposes of trade and dissipation. The Dutch merchants called those men English pedlars; some of them were undoubtedly gentlemen for whom that kind... ...itement, disclosed his regret at the non- 27 Joseph Conrad arrival of the English, “who knew how to develop a rich coun- try,” as he expressed it. Th... ...severe displeasure, and the half-finished house built for the reception of Englishmen received on that joyous night the name of “Almayer’s Folly” by t... .... We get visitors from Macassar or Singapore sometimes—traders, agents, or explorers, but they are rare. There was a scientific explorer here a year o...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...scending scale of long drawn melody, like the sound of the ebbing sea to the explorers of a cave. In a few moments all was silence, interrupted only b... ...igour beyond the law in maintaining wholesome discipline over the refractory English. The ignorant impatience of the swinish multitude with these frui... ...improbable, when we consider that Robin Hood and Little John could shoot two English miles and an inch point blank, Come scrive Turpino, che non erra....

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...and unblemished hearts…. She was reminding them of their great heritage as English children, rulers of more than one-fifth of mankind, of the obligati... ...tell his fa- ther where he had been. He would read tales about hunters and explorers, and imag- ine himself riding mustangs as fleet as the wind acros... ...ars, on Monday evening. They would come over the hills out of the pleasant English country-side in which they had wandered, and see Port Burdock sprea... ...hills behind Port Burdock is all that an old-fashioned, scarcely disturbed English country-side should be. In those days the bicycle was still rare an... ...feeling over this step in the dormitory. There is no country-side like the English country-side for those who have learnt to love it; its firm yet gen...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nd I think of lank and coaly steamships heaving on the grey rollers of the English Channel and darkling streets wet with rain, I recall as if I were b... ...d Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound ... ...ays had charge of the scientific and artistic education of the mass of the English population, and had thrown himself into sci- ence teaching and the ... ...reek like passionate missionar- ies, as a progressive Chinaman might teach English to the boys of Pekin, clumsily, impatiently, with rod and harsh ur-... ...rille, who had seen service in South Africa, who had travelled and hunted; explorers, keen mo- torists, interested in aviation, active in army organis...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who rallied faithfully round their English chiefs. The Company’s lightermen, too, natives of the Republic, beh... ...o be burnt; and I bent my knee to him. No! he must run at the heels of his English.” She seemed to think that Nostromo’s mere pres- ence in the house ... ... had made for him- self by the waterside, along the railway line, with the English and with the populace of Sulaco. To his face, and even against her ... ... is all he cares for. To be first somewhere—somehow—to be first with these English. They will be showing him to everybody. ‘This is our Nostromo!’” Sh... ...there was something so indelible in all these ancestral Goulds—liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists—of 48 Nostromo Costa...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ith me. I have decided to keep Miss Griffith, who was rec- ommended by the English ambassador. Miss Griffith is the daughter of a clergyman; her mothe... ...mily, and she is perfectly well bred. She is thirty-six, and will teach me English. The good soul is quite handsome enough to have ambitions; she is S... ...omise. A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Valdez took ship on an English vessel. For myself, no sooner did I see the cause of my beloved Spa... ... takes with our fellow-countrymen the place which Galignani holds with the English in Paris. This man has found eight 35 Balzac pupils for me at thre... ...tion which, in the domain of sentiment, corresponds to those where so many explorers have perished, whether in the sands or at the hands of natives. Y...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lf-way through it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get m... ...for it, she felt robbed of her work. It was the advice of the professor of English which led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work... ...t of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished scholars. V... ... Miss Sherwin in the high school is a regular wonder—reads Latin like I do English; and Sam Clark, the hardware man, he’s a corker— not a better man i... ...sue?” Carol whispered to Kennicott. (“Whether this old duck Biggins had an English setter or a Llewellyn. They’ve been arguing it all evening!”) Dave ... ...er known in their days of absorption in college. They were distin- guished explorers, and they remarked, in great mutual esteem, “I bet Harry Haydock’... ...e Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fictional explorers and aviators. Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tor, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the lad’s deftness in English composition, and his struggles with mathematics. The following year... ...the Continent, and the Holy Land, partly to superintend the publication of English editions of his works, and partly for recreation. A pronounced feat... ...ness for discussing such matters is pointed out by Hawthorne also, in the ‘English Note Books.’ This habit in- creased as he advanced in years, if pos... ...th them alone; for, in spite of the melodramatic declarations of vari- ous English gentlemen, Melville’s seclusion in his latter years, and in fact th... ...ll retain their charm; and this in spite of endless variations by mod- ern explorers in the same domain. A faint type of both char- acters may be foun...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...e monaster ies, burnt Fisher and another bishop or two, and was getting his English reformation and his harem effectively started. When De Soto stood... ...hakespeare was not yet born; a hun dred long years must still elapse before Englishmen would hear the name of Oliver Cromwell. Unquestionably the dis... ... were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving and con verting them; higher up, the English were trading beads and blankets to them for a consideration, and ... ...emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Vir ginia. Chapter 2 The River and Its Explorers LA S ALLE HIMSELF SUED FOR CERTAIN HIGH PRIVILEGES, and t... ...e would name it Conception, in her honor. He kept his word. In that day, all explorers traveled with an outfit of priests. De Soto had twenty four wit... ...rn in his lap, and I cried, too, from sympathy. He said he was the son of an English nobleman—either an earl or an alderman, he could not remember whi...

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...’west,” he answered, slowly and me thodically, as though groping for his best English, and rigidly observing the order of my queries. “The schooner G... ... world for I knew not how many weeks or months. The sailors, in the main, were English and Scandinavian, and their faces seemed of the heavy, stolid o... ... were represented, and I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in tw... ...Metcalf’s, and Reed and Kellogg’s; and I smiled as I saw a copy of “The Dean’s English.” I could not reconcile these books with the man from what I ha... ... task. “It is a shame,” I heard Johnson growling in painfully slow and correct English. He was standing by the main rigging, a few feet away from me. ... ...reakfast was a success, and we sat about the fire much longer than enterprising explorers should have done, sipping the hot black coffee and talking ov...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... It is now quite unusual to see any adequate criticism of short stories in English. I do not know how far the decline in short- story writing may not ... ... two years, and in Brazil seven. Then I went to Madagascar.” “I know a few explorers by name,” I said, anticipating a yarn. “Whom did you collect for?... ... something, but the messenger could make nothing of the black’s incoherent English, and hurried on to the shed. The machines were all noisily at work,... ...s at these meetings as vestry-meeting squabbles. Yet the great hate of the English and Scotch geologists has lasted now half a century, and has “left ... ...her glowing from the fire- light—and heard them talking together in pigeon-English— for they came from different provinces. Hooker had caught the drif... ...e been the work of the insect conquer- ors of those human habitations. The explorers pulled past the jetty, and became aware of a human skeleton weari...

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...um was all gone. He had been up two or three times: he had planted letter, — English, German, French, &c. These men were slightly clad in shirt and pa... ...The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke... ...ned, and fair as they can ever be. These are not the artificial forests of an English king, — a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but ... ...ed a history world wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even 5... ...female among them: a St. Francis Indian, with his canoe and moose hides, two explorers for lumber, three men who landed at Sandbar Island, and a gentl... ...not been to the head of it for twenty one years. He faces the other way. The explorers had a fine new birch on board, larger than ours, in which they h... ... large iron pot lay permanently on the bank. This we did in company with the explorers. Both Indians and whites use a mixture of rosin and grease for ... ...their axes, or by the knots. I did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amus... ...dth. There were about one hundred acres cleared here. He cut seventy tons of English hay this year on this ground, and twenty more on another clearing...

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...By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...................................................... 254 5 H. G . Wells AN ENGLISH- MAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon... ...is is a good five years before my reckoning of the year before last. 6 An Englishman Looks at the World We all, I think, regret that being so near we... ...t has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like G...

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...nd then they flitted to other places because they couldn’t get on with the English for one reason or another. There was only one Old Thing, I remember... ... and Hugh limped after me, whistling dolorously (that is a cus- tom of the English), and we came upon the three Saxons that had bound me. They were no... ...hould. I kept the roof on the hall and the thatch on the barn, but ... the English are a bold people. His Saxons would laugh and jest with Hugh, and H... ...pirates years ago,’explained Una. 39 Rudyard Kipling ‘We’re nearly always explorers now. Sailing round the world, you know.’ ‘Round?’ said Sir Richar... ...her half wait to see which way the game shall go. They say Henry is overly English for their stomachs, because he hath married an English wife and she... ... spilt, and thus he spoke: “‘William crammed us Norman barons full of good English acres after Santlache. I had my share too,” he said, and clapped Hu...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...or pul- monary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching breath by good luck, like dogs at bones abo... ...ns, confident of the ludicrous to come. So confident that their grip of an English gentle- man, in whom they have spied their game, never relaxes unti... ...e circumstance of their having a Patterne in the Marines. But how then! We English have ducal blood in business: we have, genealogists 9 George Mered... ...t natural grand pose possible without ceasing for a moment to be the young English gentle- man he is. Alcibiades, fresh from a Louis IV perruquier, co... ...! it was a naughty Court. Y et have we dreamed of it as the period when an English cavalier was grace incar- nate; far from the boor now hustling us i...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...me. Our foe was no sulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,) His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never... ...tter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there. The English believe he comes of their English stock, A Jew to the Jew he seem... ... It glitter’d in the sun in full sight of the army. Twas a bold act then—the English war ships had just arrived, We could watch down the lower bay whe... ...man airs of friendship, wine and love, Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles, Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o’er the rest, Ita... ...e lands to be welded together. A worship new I sing, You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours, You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours, You, ... ...sessors, The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese, The firs...