...er to imply her differences in sensibility and re- sponse from the hardier male. Her hesitation marked the full gravity of her reply. “It’s just that,... ...ively unemployed minds during those first dramatic days, the days when the Germans made their great rush upon Paris and it seemed that France was down... ...edless, for catastrophic unemployment. The war prob- lem and the puzzle of German psychology ousted for a time all other intellectual interests; like ... ...several sermons upon Ger- man materialism and the astonishing decay of the German character. He also read every newspaper he could lay his hands on—li... ... 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...

...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...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...

...thematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in a desk near... ...d gave it to me. “Can you read that?” he asked. 16 The Professor It was a German commercial letter; I translated it; I could not tell whether he was ... ...t may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the for- eign corresponde... ...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... ...ly soothed her. Juanna T rista remained in Europe long enough to repay, by malevolence and ingratitude, all who had ever done her a good turn; and she... ...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.... ... teeth, complexion, shape, which hold at bay the admiration of the boldest male cham- pions of intellect (for women can love a downright ugly man if h... .... I thought it represented a very handsome and very individual-looking fe- male face, with, as he had once said, “straight and harmonious features.” I...

... to deal, selecting the game to be played. 5 Balzac Spanish, English, and German, with sufficient fluency to lead one to suppose that they had lived ... ...ing to those persons who were addicted to the fantastic. Occasionally some German would take for realities these ingenious jests of Parisian evil- spe... ...see in the stranger some great criminal, the possessor of enormous wealth. Novelists described the old man’s life and gave some really interesting det... ...Sarrasine came to Paris to seek a refuge against the threats of a father’s malediction. Having one of those strong wills which know no obstacles, he o... ...s frantic admiration could not long escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing ... ...e red facets sparkled merrily. He recognized the singers from the theatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists...

...ead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disas... ... val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life... ...ed beyond his reach. Or sud- denly he became aware of the scent of another male and rose up roaring, his roars the formless precursors of moral admo- ... ...crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which were largely i... ... of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and us... ...her. From the day when man contrived himself a tool and suf- fered another male to draw near him, he ceased to be alto- gether a thing of instinct and... ...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...

...was no game-preserver, and could be popu- lar whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river, a fast-handed Whig and terr... ...themselves look as much like the public as it was pos- sible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom al- 35 George Meredith ready felt Adrian’... ...e defied. A summer-shower of cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contem... ... attribute their successes and reverses. They are useful impersonations to novelists; but my opinion is sufficiently high of flesh and blood to believ... ... dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham. Joy and blessings unto all! as the German poet sings. Lady Judith accepted the hand of her decrepit lord that ... ...ne awaits him fruitful within. We heard of him last that he was trying the German waters—preparatory to his undertaking the re- lease of Italy from th...

...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ng up the blind the servant was startled by the dis- covery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the flow... ...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... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ... ...he Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grinding at German, perhaps; but I was not past the age of admission, and in other resp...

...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ling up the blind the servant was startled by the discovery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the 60 ... ...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... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ... ... Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grind- ing at German, perhaps, but I was not past the age of admission, and in other resp...

...o stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants of thi... ... French—mind her accents, though!—and she needn’t attempt any of the nasty German—kshrra-kouzzra- kratz!—which her pretty lips can’t do, and won’t do;... ...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... ...n—it must be a quarter past. Or, a three quarters to the next hour, as the Germans say.” “Odd!” Robert ejaculated. “Foreigners have the queerest ways ...

...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ...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... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow...

...ellion, on consideration of his own age and that of his wife, had set up a male domestic, aged fifteen, his son having by that time entered upon his d... ... harpy which is but the trumpet of envy and calumny, the pretext seized by malevolence to belittle all that is great, soil all that is immaculate and ... ...e in winter. The hour of the great Market, which so many of his cli- ents, male and female, attended, was the determining cause of Cerizet’s early hou... ...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem... ... of the insurrection in Hungary our ears were battered by the press and by novelists about the famous citadel of Komorn; and la Peyrade knew that by a...

...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...e than Bixiou’s, I would have chosen it. As it was, I have profited by the malevo- lent curiosity which induces that amiable lepidopter to in- sinuate... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ...him to the spirit of party; shall you silence him every time he makes some malevolent insinuation about Monsieur de Sallenauve, and denies his honor a... ...s, recalled so little the week-day Desroches, dining in cafes with all the male and female viveurs of renown, that one of them, Malaga, a circus-rider... ...le; there is no such fertile source for com- pilers of causes celebres and novelists. In the eyes of the law, you must remember, the counterfeiting of...

... transmit my orders or translate my censures. And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own un-... ...d. (Remember that the last third of my road, about a mile, is all made out of a bridle-track by my boys—and my dollars. )It was supposed a white man h... ...lked late, and it was arranged I was to write up for Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission Ho... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... ...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...

...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...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... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...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... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ...

...ave as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway—German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at ... ...ge of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo. And everywhere now... ... as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably of enormous weight. Th... ...w they work, marry, bear children, die—” “Y ou get that from our realistic novelists,” suggested Ostrog, suddenly preoccupied. “I want reality,” said ... ...stly muscles was taken by some dexterous machine. The latter-day labourer, male as well as female, was essen- tially a machine-minder and feeder, a se...

... detect anything in the nature of a meal among this pleasing people; they seem to peck and trifle with viands all day long in an amateur spirit: tenta... ...ind my heart beat at the thought of this one. ’Tis to fail in life, but to fail with what a grace! That is not lost which is not regretted. And where ... ...aning than an oath or a salutation. We are so much ac- customed to see married couples going to church of a Sun- day that we have clean forgotten what... ...iation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensi- tive people; and their hearts are still hot,... ...asant little village, gath- ered round a chateau in a moat. The air was perfumed with hemp from neighbouring fields. At the Golden Sheep we found exce... ...ar in reality!’ He particularised a complaint for every joint in the landlady’s body. Timon was a philanthropist alongside of him. And then, when he w... ... digging and hoe- ing and making dinner, this company of coquettes under arms made quite a surprising feature in the landscape, and convinced us at on...

...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...s and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten ... ... and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous app... ...son, entirely inno- cent of English, adding heartily to the general effect. And perhaps the German mason is but a fair example of the sin- cerity with... ...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...

...pirit. Romeo and Juliet were very much in love; although they tell me some German critics are of a different opinion, probably the same who would have... ...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... ...TORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus was going down at the head of the legions into a dangerous river... ...gions into a dangerous river – on the opposite bank the woods were full of Germans – when there flew out seven great eagles which seemed to marshal th... ...so in a negative sense; in short, they are the typical young ladies of the male novelist. To say truth, either Raeburn was timid with young and pretty... ...them well enough for the purposes of art. Take even the very best of their male creations, take Tito Melema, for instance, and you will find he has an...

... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...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... ... it’s a man, isn’t it?” “Why?” asked Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat a... ...aging, and friendly . Like everyone connected with hospitals he found that male patients were more easy to get on with than female. The women were oft... ...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...

...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...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... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...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... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...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... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...re—qui brenoit des sangviches dans la voiture,” said the courier in a fine German French. Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold...

...lle squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scotch, Danes; Santa Fé traders in striped blankets, and Broadway b... ...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ...ence-Man “Begone! Just in that voice talked to me, not six months ago, the German doctor at the water cure, from which I now return, six months and si... ... Injuries IN A KIND OF ANTE-CABIN, a number of respectable looking people, male and female, way-passengers, recently come on board, are listlessly sit... ...t I should ever be ac- commodated. No, no. Look you, as I told that cousin-german of yours, the herb-doctor, I’m now on the road to get me made 114 T... ...he faces, but ransacking the lives of several thousands of human be- ings, male and female, of various nations, both employers and employed, genteel a... ...to the moral. Are we right there, sir? Now, sir, take a young boy, a young male infant rather, a man-child in short—what sir, I respectfully ask, do y...

...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... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ...alian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on, “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heeding ... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...

...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... ...people beyond the family circuit, just as it was part of his plan to learn German this autumn, and to review legal books for Mr. Hilbery’s “Critical R... ...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... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ...onclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from i... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q...

...y incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some High- land maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele’s reception ... ...lt on what I, had said about Mr. Timmerman, as she was pleased to call the German philosopher, and sup- posed he must be of the same descent with the ... ...et terrible in their tenor, used frequently to extort, through fear of her maledictions, the relief which was denied to her necessities; and the tremb... ... his mother, in the first burst of her impatience, showering after him her maledictions, and in the next invoking them on her own head, so that they m... ... the service. The old general, however, who had been regularly bred in the German wars, stuck to his own opin- ion, and gave out in orders that the fi... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...

...will be first Secretary to an Embassy; later, he shall be Minister at some German Court, and God, or I—better still—helping him, he will take his seat... ...ne as a diplomate, and he would probably be accredited as Minister to some German Court. For the last three years Lucien’s life had been regular and a... ...ayfarers. The footman, seated be- hind, was snoring like a wooden top from Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...ical feeling—the Marechale d’Ancre and the Queen of France, Semblancay and Malesherbes, Damien and Danton, Desrues and Castaing. Fouquier-Tinville’s p...

...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ...neral resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst of- 65 Sir Walter Scott fer him injury. At such mee... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...elin was well aimed—I heard it whizz through the air with all the wrathful malevolence of him who cast it, and it quivered after it had pitched in the... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d... ...dered thy nearest and dearest—who shed the blood of infancy, rather than a male of the noble house of T orquil Wolfganger should survive—with him hast... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

...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... ... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...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... ... master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated children with an... ...nly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limited rang... ...l, and the confusion of reconstruction is world-wide among our vowels. The German w of Mr. Samuel Weller has been oblit- erated within the space of a ... ... 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...

...darlings were carried about from London to Brighton, from Brighton to some German baths, from the German baths back to Torquay, and thence—as regarded... ... to put our best foot foremost, the wisdom of which is fully recognized by novelists, myself among the number. It can hardly be expected that any one ... ...to dispose of the property as he pleased. Any doubt as to its going to the male heir had never hitherto been felt. It had occasionally been encumbered... ...ere came a rector, and a rector’s sister; and with the latter Mary studied German and French also. From the doctor himself she learnt much; the choice... ...he temptation should not be resisted. The squire, therefore, and the elder male guests soon found them- selves alone round their wine. ‘Upon my word, ... ...s always a danger in delay. The Greshams—of course she alluded only to the males of the family—were foolishly soft-hearted; no one could say what migh...

... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ges, daily becoming more important in the business of life,—the French and German. I find that there is a class for drawing, a chemical class, subdivi... ...ning and evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; ... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

...nd. Long before Europe was familiar with the engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (... ...he trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Germans have been spending and making the world spend the comfort, the luxu... ...sources, arrest of material progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...ely. It has not only killed and wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male population of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wea... ...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...asted your substance—contemptuously. Now, mark you, you have multitudes of male children between the ages of nine and nineteen running about among you...

...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...in the play was to be taken by a certain Monsieur Poplevin, and another *A German dramatist (1761-1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of... ...ity, and, like the average Russian, such a de- sire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. To what the reader already knows concerning the per... ...e the lazy one a cut with his whip. “You know your business all right, you German pantaloon! The bay is a good fellow, and does his duty, and I will g... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ...

...les, the T urkish historian, which is exposed so severely by Spittler, the German, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of Eng... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...entury, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ War; but, for us, they are in the last de... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...ng Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who had every ... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

...intimated that she was secretly engaged to that popular character whom the novelists and versifiers call Another, and that such a marriage would make ... ...ciously with his dessert-knife. Mortimer proceeds. ‘We must now return, as novelists say, and as we all wish they wouldn’t, to the man from Somewhere.... ...rted, and re- turned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two fe- male domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table ... ...dwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. One of those shambling male human creatures, born to be indiscreetly candid in the revelation of b... ..., but simply Mr Lammle’s room, so it would have been hard for stronger fe- male heads than Georgiana’ s to determine whether its frequent- ers were me... ... which you have no control, interpose obstacles between yourself and Small Germans, you can’t do better than bring a contented mind to hear on’— again... ...ard-grained face of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had n...

... of a certain sum; and he entailed the estate of la Chanterie on the heirs male of the marriage. “But the Revolution,” said Monsieur Alain in a parent... ... called Champ-Landry, these criminals, obeying the impulse which leads all male- factors into the blunders and miscalculations of crime, threw their g... ...d he studied much and observed much, but he had travelled in every part of Germany, Russia, Persia, and Turkey, whence he had gath- ered many a tradit... ...time with Hedenius of Dresden, Chelius of Heidelburg, and the cel- ebrated German doctors, all the while holding his hand closed, though it was full o... ...up in bronze representing Cupid playing with Death, the present of a great German sculptor whom Halpersohn had doubtless cured. On the mantel-shelf wa... ...so scenes of a sublimity which surpasses all the inven- tions of our great novelists.” “Nature, especially moral nature, is always greater than art, j...

...f pioneers of agriculture— those frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ru... ...nfusion—so much so that the Western towns appear to have been peopled with Germans. I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And ... ...ed the fact that hired labor is chiefly done by fresh comers, by Irish and Germans, who have not as yet among them any combination sufficient to prote... ...self is that seen from the wood. And here again I would point out that any male visitor should walk the channel of the river up and down. The descent ... ...ion as that of landlord and tenant as regards agricultural holdings. Every male citizen of New York may vote who is twenty- one, who has been a citize... ...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... ... places are sup- plied by younger relatives. A large proportion of the fe- male population of New England has been employed at some time in manufactur...

...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... ...ssons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she... ...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... ...rs. The occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in A... ... then, if you care to come. At nine o’clock, Herr Abendgasse, a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine, will read us a paper on ‘The ... ...eath of the morbid introspection and womanish self-consciousness of poets, novelists, and their like. As to artists, all the good ones are married; an...

...open his mouth without making some other English- man hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible ... .... I’ve half solved it already. MRS. HIGGINS. No, you two infinitely stupid male crea- tures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards. HI... ...ional people in a small way were odious to her. She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and... ...lasses, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the el- ementary schools, let me not dwell. There wer...

... the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South A... ...ly!)— until nine—which is late for us—then went upstairs, Jean’ s friendly German dog following. At my door Jean said, “I can’t kiss you good night, f... ...stressed and said I must think of Clara. Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for fo... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m...

...e the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics is not a fact... ...arch. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learns German or gets more than a misleading smattering of physical science. Most ... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... ...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... ...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... ...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...

...upassant was probably the most versatile and brilliant among the galaxy of novelists who enriched French literature between the years 1800 and 1900. P... ...ing on it, just as it took his fancy. When he had read his letters and the German newspapers, which his baggage-master had brought him, he got up, and... ...tto and Sub-lieutenant Fritz, who pre-eminently possessed the grave, heavy German countenance, said: “What, Captain?” He thought for a few moments, an... ...pot, which he filled with gunpow- der, and carefully introduced a piece of German tinder into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this... ...st enter into details. “We had only been there about five minutes when our male neighbor’s float began to go down two or three times, and then he pull... ...rom the cowhouse and had been found the next morning in front of Pros- per Malet’s mill, looking at the sails turning, or about a hen’s egg which had ... ... ven- ture to, and continued: ‘Do you know anyone among your parishioners, male or female, whom I could invite as well?’ He hesitated, reflected, and ...

...ies of the Ninety-ninth, and Sixty-sixth, and the Grenadier Brigade of the German Legion began to advance up the echelon. The devoted band soon arrive... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ... ... exploit before Ascalon, by the Emperor Maximilian, and a reference to the German Peerage of that day, or a knowledge of high families which every gen... ...he latter rushed into his arms, grown to be one of the finest young men in Germany: tall and exces- sively graceful in proportion, with the blush of h...

...the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly attached to the Emperor of Germany; or whether she was obliged to fight out the quarrel of William of ... ...Bavarian service; and when, after the battle of Blenheim, two regiments of Germans came over to the winning side, Gustavus Adolphus Maximilian found h... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ... She have killed, they say, nine gentlemen at supper, and have strangled a German prince in bed. She have robbed him of twenty thousand guineas, and h... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ...onged to have colds in order to partake of the remedy. Some of our popular novelists have compounded their drugs in a similar way, and made them so pa...