...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...untains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley—since I began a laboured and futile imitation o... ... to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but t... ...nd the cracks and spaces of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember wit... ...ox of bricks to be made by an out-of- work carpenter, not the insufficient supply of the toyshop, you understand, but a really adequate quantity of br... ...adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, I... ...that would, according to the beliefs of that time, in- evitably ensure the Supply. An industry of “Grant earning” 18 The New Machiavelli was created,...

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...uggled back toward his dream. He could see only her face now, beyond misty waters. The furnace-man slammed the basement door. A dog barked in the next... ...s done, his round face smooth and streamy and his eyes stinging from soapy water, he reached for a towel. The family towels were wet, wet and clammy a... ... Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a supply of new leads) which belonged in the righthand upper vest pocket. Wit... ... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ...e-glass and new yellow brick; gro- ceries and laundries and drug-stores to supply the more immediate needs of East Side housewives. The market gar- de... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Se... ...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... which I am prone to identify myself, began. It presents itself to me as a history of a perception of the world of facts opening out from an accidenta... ...t until it took me through the mineral and fossil galleries of the Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science,... ...ll not enter here. Any proper text book of physiology or psy- chology will supply a number of instances of the habitual deceptions of sight and touch ... ... common with the general run of men I had supposed that logic professed to supply a trustworthy science and method for the investi- gation and express... ...ave in specified exceptional circumstances, the Samurai must bathe in cold water and the men shave every day; they have the precisest directions 83 H... ...s, my rules, they are made for my campaigning needs, like the knapsack and water-bottle of a Cockney soldier invading some stupendous mountain gorge. ...

...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

...Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...g-top so as it will never tumble down, and will turn an engine for drawing water,’ was the prompt answer of Fergus. ‘What nonsense!’ said Val; ‘you’d ... ...me. I shall make mamma a beautiful crewel cushion, with all the battles in history on it. And won’t she be surprised!’ ‘I think mamma meant more than ... ...ised by mamma, of the career of a true knight—from pagedom upwards—in pale watery Prussian-blue armour, a crimson scarf, vermilion plume, gamboge spur... ...him in solitary grandeur in the brougham,’ said Miss Ada. Gillian held the history of the pea-shooting as a confidence, even though Aunt Jane seemed t... ...king the pump which stood in its own trough of water, receiving a reckless supply from the tap in the passage. The maid’s scream of ‘What will your au... ...n you a very cheering Christmas letter. ‘There is a great question about a supply of water to the town. Much excitement is caused by the expectation o...

...Excerpt: A Dispersion. ?A telegram! Make haste and open it, Jane; they always make me so nervous! I believe that is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some a...

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ed at the door; she asked him, without coming in, if he could pour out the water himself. Then she went down- stairs and rang the bell for tea. The di... ...r. She paid for a dozen photographs. She was obliged to ask for a glass of water in the middle of the sitting; and the assistant, see- ing she was ill... ...make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the history lesson in construing for them the passage of Livy which had been se... ...Shelley’s treatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by... ...te. This was before the time of the sixpenny reprints. There was a regular supply of inexpensive fiction written to order by poor hacks for the consum... ...tirely of his own family. Each company had a bin-man, whose duty it was to supply it with strings of hops at their bins (the bin was a large sack on a...

...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, ...

...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... irregularly-shaped car- pet of grass before the eyes; a meadow constantly watered by the mountain streams that keep it fresh and green at all sea- so... ...easants’ huts. Nothing lies between them but the torrent, roaring over its waterfalls be- tween two lofty walls of granite that rise above it, their s... ... provision for man and horse among the wealthier classes. His own personal history lay buried beneath the deepest reserve. Like almost every military ... ... both cases without discus- sion. If the conversation turned on science or history, he was wont to become thoughtful, and to confine his share in it t... ... there was a sufficiency of cooking pots within its precincts, this lavish supply was Jacquotte’s doing—Jacquotte who had formerly been the cure’s hou... ...y through the working of the social law by which the need and the means of supply- ing it are correlated. Herein lies the whole story. Races who have ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the mar...

... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the page... ...bull. To guard against such contingencies she frequented the more populous water- ing-places, where she installed herself impersonally in a hired hous... ...ontingencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life. She was like a water-plant in the flux 50 House of Mirth of the tides, and today the whol... ...leapt into her brain before she was conscious of reading them, told a long history—a history over which, for the last four years, the friends of the w... ...able. He gave, at any rate, no sign of resenting it and seemed prepared to supply in his own manner all the ease that was lacking in hers. His object ... ... made her an adept at creating artificial demands in response to an actual supply. In the pursuance of this end she at once started on a voyage of dis...

...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing i...

... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... social and political activity. This is one man’s proposal, his attempt to supply a need that has oppressed him for many years, a need that he has not... ...r less than the need of religion, that a properly formulated religion does supply a trustworthy guide at every fork and labyrinth in life. By my allus... ... much more spacious, it is not only that it has opened out from the little history of a few thou- sand years to a stupendous vista of ages, but, in ad... ...s the terrible ravages of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives in great abundance. He infers from th... ...gs. That large, naked, virtuous, pink, Natural Man, drink- ing pure spring water, eating the fruits of the earth, and liv- ing to ninety in the open a... ...e assisting until the Sinbad of Charity broke down. And quite early in the history of Charities it was found that a very grave impediment to their ben...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... Bruno or Shelley have walked there in the past. To the prophetic mind all history is and will con- tinue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will ste... .... Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enter... ...ics. By doing so it may presently bring about a state of affairs that will supply just the lacking elements that are needed for the development of a w... ...an old-fashioned monastery, living upon the produce of its own farming and supplying all its own labour, would be least embarrassed amidst the general... ...esses, champagne, pâté de foie gras and enclosed parks, instead of gin and water, bank holiday outings and Virginia shag, is less likely to come from ... ...ictive greed of the landowners that blackened the history of England after Waterloo, and brought Great Britain within sight of revolution, must not be...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...k to the ladies in order to stand at the edge of the veranda and shake the water out of his hat. Josephs came next, shrinking from the damp contact of... ...er in his arms. “Quick,” he said to Agatha, “she is fainting. Run for some water. Run!” And he bent over Henrietta, who clung to him frantically. Agat... ... “You have a noble ‘art, lady; but you’re flying in the face of the law of supply and demand. If you keep payin’ at this rate, there’ll be a rush of l... ...ause all this indispensable plant, and the materials for producing a fresh supply of it, had been appro- priated by earlier comers. So they found them... ...n of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a much better j... ...r a man to be a hero in this nineteenth century, which will be infamous in history as a time when the greatest advances in the power of man over natur...

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...did it than the manager of a hotel which began as a Hydropathic has of the water cure. Or you can buy a cheaper plate inscribed KINDERGAR- TEN, and im... ...sky fell we should all catch larks. But I do not propose to bother about a supply of specific genius which does not exist, and which, if it did exist,... ...on, unless its publicly active citizens know a good deal of constitutional history, law, and political science, with its basis of econom- ics. If as m... ...ce. And if we cannot devise fresh wants as fast as we develop the means of supplying them, there will come a scarcity of the needed, cut-and-dried, ap... ...d me to read the budget of stupid party lies that served as a text-book of history in school, I remember reading Robertson’s Charles V . and his histo... ... an academic contempt for Wellington, he would not have left the attack at Waterloo to Ney and D’Erlon, who, on that field, did not know when they wer...

Excerpt: A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw.

...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r too dirty a task for their own hands) we proceeded in search of a little water for personal use. B. speedily finished his ablutions. I was strolling... ...” They did not smile and said: “Directly.” I smiled and said: “I want some water, if you please.” They shut the door, saying “Later.” Klang and footst... ...ver I should see the Gestionnaire and make arrangements for drawing on the supply of ready cash which the gendarmes who took me from Gré had con- fide... ...odly injection of checkerberry— for the simple reason that the Cook had to supply our captors and especially Apollyon with real coffee, whereas what h... ...en were upstairs after the second promenade (which gave the writer of this history an exquisite chance to see an atrocity at first-hand), Lena was tak... ...as indeed he had been cheerfully expecting for some time. If he reads this history I hope he will not be too angry with me for whatever injustice it d...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ...t- tee, I offered to have this statement printed at my own expense, and to supply the members with cop- ies. The offer was accepted; and the copies su... ...Committee had cost me quite enough already, and that I was not prepared to supply the members of the Committee, or anyone else, with extra copies mere... ...ogy, and the bathers in the second act of Les Huguenots, to the ballets of water nymphs in our Christmas pantomimes and at our variety theatres, the s...

...us tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a ... ...cs Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sking them to read the gospels and state what they have gathered as to the history and views and character of Christ. THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE T... ... the task of going steadily through them, unless you know something of the history of the human imagination as applied to religion. Not long ago I ask... ...There is as much evidence that the miracles occurred as that the battle of Waterloo occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through En... ...cles, and reject the feeding of the multitude. T o some the walking on the water will be a legendary exaggeration of a swim, ending in an ordinary res... ...t money; and that requires an elaborate municipal organization of the food supply, rate supported. Being members one of another means One Man One Vote... ...ould be quite practicable in a village where production was limited to the supply of the primitive wants which nature imposes on all human beings alik...

Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY ...

...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ......................................................... 165 “BREAD UPON THE WATERS” ...................................................................... ...pport the last of the girders as those were riveted up. In the little deep water left by the drought, an overhead-crane travelled to and fro along its... ... “Help! Oiler! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young a... ...entirely changes the situa- tion. We have found, for the first time in the history of ship- building, that the inward pull of the deck-beams and the o... ...ould have done; and when Bukta appeared in the morning with a most liberal supply of food, said nothing of the over- night desertion. Bukta would have... ...d you’ll never see Poona again, my friend.” “There is not sufficient ample supply of vaccination for all this population,” said the man. “They destroy...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nvolving the ruthless destruction or subjection of its competitors for the supply (assumed to be limited) of subsistence available. We 9 GB Shaw taug... ...e like to such an extent that it may be doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- ... ...r vilest passions and most abject terrors. Ever since Thucydides wrote his history , it has been on record that when the angel of death sounds his tru... ...ganization of several millions of fighting men and of the workers who were supplying them with provisions, muni- tions, and transport, and that this c... ...ry signally refuted by the event. As Sir Douglas Haig has pointed out, its Waterloos lasted months instead of hours. But there would have been nothing... ...rs, forgetting everything we professed to fight for, are sitting down with watering mouths to a good square meal of ten years revenge upon and humilia...

...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

...MAN AND SUPERMAN A Comedy and a Philosophy by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...uperman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... adulterate the product with aph- rodisiacs nor dilute it with romance and water; for I am merely executing your commission, not producing a popular p... ...ction leaves them free to play with the diluted and misapprehended message supply them with a pleasant par- lor game which they call style. I can pity... ...ing one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity of mine over which you make... ...stance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanc- tif... ...th me. I am not discuss- ing literature: the book about the bee is natural history. It’s an awful lesson to mankind. You think that you are Ann’s suit... ... men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between th...

...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

... Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... but for other reasons that cannot be helped: because the leaves fall, the water flows, the clock ticks with that horrid pitiless solem- nity which yo... ... of late he had been dictating; but I know that his mind is steeped in the waters flowing from the fountain of intellectual youth. The thing—a privile... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ... they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless distances ahead as if the supply of rather roughly finished mechani- cal toys were inexhaustible in s...

Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind t... ... skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French ... ...t, it cannot drop things without sending it- self up like a bubble in soda water. An armada of navigables sent against this island would end in a disp... ...e, and for the sake of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a st... ...and industri- ous administrators and legislators; but have we any adequate supply of really creative ability? Let me apply this question to one matter... ...must signify all that breadth of thought and outlook no localised life can supply. Only so is it possible to establish and maintain the wide understan...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................