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...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ... ...til in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu, where they were met by the imperial courtiers of Kubia Khan who conducted them to Cambaluc. Though... ... active service under the Emperor. In the year 1277, Marco was attached to the Imperial Council, and was soon afterward sent by Kubia Khan on a missio... ...h they yielded, and which none were permitted to drink except they were of the imperial lineage of Zingis-Khan, or of one family called Boriat, which ... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe... ... of ice that disputed his further passage northward. In the harbor was a small Russian village and garrison, and to this place the remains were taken ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...people with whom he has no connection at all by walking arm-in-arm with an Imperial aide-de-camp; another’s may be that of possessing a hand able to c... ...where with their pleasant manners they would so charm the company that the Imperial Govern- ment, on learning of their merits, would raise the pair to... ...“good” madeira) invariably doctor the stuff with copious dashes of rum and Imperial vodka, in the hope that Russian stomachs will thus be enabled to c...

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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ... it you found on the shelf in your bedroom not only the books of poets and novelists, but of revolutionary biologists and even economists. Without at ... ...ith trial on a capital charge of fighting for his country against England; Imperial Romanoff, said to have perished miser- ably by a more summary meth...

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...ure of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Christian sect or church has ever repudiated war; most ha... ...ul if we should find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous... ...struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling their differ... ...on of the dream of national conquest. The Ger- mans are a national, not an imperial people. France has learnt that through suffering, and Britain and ... ...suffering, and Britain and Russia because for two centuries they have been imperial and not national sys- tems. The German conception of world peace i... ...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... ...n, claiming to be Caesar, and flaunt- ing a flat black eagle borrowed from Imperial Rome; and also she was the most scientific and socialist of states...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett A Penn ... ...sity. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON:... ...T o the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl’s soul; but to ... ... baffling shades of the mental life, which in the hands of many latter-day novelists build up characters far too thin and too unconvincing, in the han... ...ociety. From his youth he had been absorbed by two ideals: to get into the Imperial adjutants, and to make a good mar- riage; the first ideal he soon ...

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... I have forgot- ten. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow of the great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...e Man of St. Helena in view of his deplorable levity in the conduct of the Russian campaign. It was during the memorable retreat from Moscow that Mr. ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier my- self I u... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ...g so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidites of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...lievers in the right of conquest, as a reprehensibly sensitive guardian of Imperial greatness. On the other hand, I am in a position to state the name... ...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...

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...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... ...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...y reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury,... ...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... ...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...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... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard marched up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to ...

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...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... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...u- miliations. Hence it was that Ledyard, the traveller, speak- ing of his Russian experiences, used to say that some of his miseries were such, that ... ...mbition, and even bloodier would have been the blood- polluted line of the imperial successions. Prudence, there- fore, it was, and state policy, not ... ... circulat- ing amongst the people warned him that, if he left the cycle of imperial powers incomplete, if he suffered the galvanic battery to remain i... ...giment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on the Russian staff. Thus brilliantly accomplished for conferring lustre and ben-... ...d to be in some secret connection of fatal sympathy with the growth of the Russian cross. Perhaps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main s... ...ir bloody overthrow in 1664, at St. 205 Thomas de Quincey Gothard, by the imperial General Montecuculi. In 1673 they received another memorable defea...

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...n. Over all this hung the oppressive shadow 31 Joseph Conrad of the great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national... ...because, being a separate organisation, it took no part in the wars of the Russian Empire against Persia or Tur- key. Its first campaign, against Russ... ...Mr. Nicholas B. received these communications with outward phlegm, but the Russian showed a warm sympathy for his prisoner. “As a soldier myself I und... ...ece of furniture was smashed and there lay exposed in a drawer eighty half-imperials. Gold coin was a rare sight in Russia even at that time; it put t... ... so carefully. Without wishing to treat with levity the just timidities of Imperialists all the world over, I may allow myself the reflection that a w... ...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...

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...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ...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...

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...nourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon the hills o... ...distances upon a scale that made the one sole precedent, the corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between ... ...s feet. And he was guiding France, France so long a resent- ful exile from imperialism, back to her old predominance. It seemed to her beyond the dese... ...at thoroughfare that fell like an indicating beam of light straight to the imperial headquarters. There, plain enough, was the Thiergarten; beyond ros... ...e. And prominent upon it, and indeed for a time quite dominating it, was a Russian named Karenin, who was singular in being a congenital cripple. His ... ...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... ...nce? I should have been an embittered, spiteful, downtrodden member of the Russian Intelligenza, a conspirator, a prisoner, or an assassin. You, my de...

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...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... ...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... ...at Melbury House, in their flounces and furbelows, so calm and stately and imperial (and the monkey and the little black dwarf following be- hind), as... ... masculine, handsome lady, whose head the photographer had adorned with an imperial crown. “Ah, you wretch!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed, “what a wicked ol... ... of the color of the sky, 142 Night and Day and of the decorations on the Imperial Hotel, when she ought to have been shepherding her colleagues, and... ...ce’!” she echoed, in a tone of derision. “I confess I don’t understand the Russians.” “Shake hands! Shake hands!” boomed Uncle Aubrey from across the ... ...air in the course of her conversation; she was dressed more or less like a Russian peasant girl. She sat down again in a chair which looked as if it h...

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...nsieur Alain; “for it is connected with one of the most terrible events of Imperial policy. It was through my friend Bordin that I first knew Madame. ... ...en the least important, whether political or individual. The system of the Imperial government was that of all absolute govern- *Chauffeurs. This name... ...tice for the Department 77 Balzac of the Orne The attorney-general to the Imperial Court of Caen, ap- pointed to fulfil his functions before the Spec... ...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... ... sur- prise only lasted for an instant, for he had seen among Ger- man and Russian Jews many instances of the same contrast between apparent misery an...

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...omist—upon the skull. She discovered a desire to enter as a student in the Imperial College at Westminster, where Russell taught, and go on with her w... ...re. You know—if you want freedom. Just an idea of mine. You know how those Russian students do? In Russia. Just a formal marriage. Mere formality. Lib... ...he meant to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial College; and, thirdly, she was, as an immediate and decisive act, ... ...il in Marylebone. So the talk went on, and presently they were criticising novelists, and certain daring essays of Wilkins got their due share of atte... ...hing? Make yourself worth a decent freedom. Go on with your studies at the Imperial College, for example, get a degree, and make yourself good value. ...

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...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...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... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard 76 V anity Fair – V olume Two marched up the hill of Saint ... ...circumstances of the interview between Rebecca Crawley, nee Sharp, and her Imperial Master, it does not become such a feeble and inexperienced pen as ...

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...a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten days to one small iron ... ...ccordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with gen... ...as entertainment in the man’s demeanour. You might call him a half-educated Irish Tigg. Our Russian made a remarkable contrast to this impos- sible fe... ...on; the new ideas, ‘Wie eine feine violine,’ were audible among the big empty drum notes of Imperial diplomacy; and he looked to see a great revival, ... ...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...

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...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... ...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair – V olume One the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury,... ...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...

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...n to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internationale. It cannot be reported that Caro... ...oss the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capi... ...peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the ... ...erature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church). Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot r... ...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... ...s sin and the overclouding of august favor. The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spoo...

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... know, why that old coat is a little better than the chamberlain’s key and Imperial gold bees which you bear on yours, to the great despair of Madame ... ...s a virgin that clings to earth only by her woman’s shape; within raged an imperial Messalina. 41 Balzac She alone knew the secret of this struggle b... ...eyes of this old man, petted by his vices, and as calm as Vitellius, whose imperial and portly stomach reap- peared in him palingenetically, so to spe... ... 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... ...by Louise de Savoie to Semblancay; a War Office clerk sold the plan of the Russian campaign to Czernitchef; and these traitors were more or less rich.... ...chasseur with his plumes and an uniform of green and gold as dazzling as a Russian General’s, proclaiming a lady of aristocratic rank and almost royal... ...e the trick, you ought to have had a Rus- sian passport, have made up as a Russian prince, bought a fine coach with a coat-of-arms on it, have boldly ...

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...e served him well. He accustomed himself 13 Balzac to practise, under the imperial regime, a passive obedience which pleased his superiors; and it wa... ...15 Balzac at a ministry and wore the livery of Louis XVI.; he resembles an imperial diplomatist or a sub-prefect. Now, not only did Mademoiselle Thuil... ...aint-Dominique. But his weary face, on which there still reigned an air of imperial haughtiness, mingled with a certain contentment, the con- ceit of ... ...ce she made a proposal to her as follows: ‘A friend of mine,’ she said, ‘a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splen... ...s had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seemed T urkish. Was... ...rnments employ as agents? Suppose the tale, more or less probable, of that Russian princess forced to sell her furniture to Brigitte were also that of... ... 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...

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...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.... ...the amiable Pertinax: who only last night 87 Charles Dickens had left the Imperial affairs in a state of great confusion, by falling a victim to the ... ... the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair-brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking-horse, Mrs Podsnap, majes- tically skittish. Here, too, ar... ...t may not be generally known) originated in twins and a wolf; and ended in Imperial marble: wasn’t built in a day.’ ‘Did I say it was?’ asked V enus. ... ...corner of state backward, and sat down: like a frozen article on sale in a Russian market. ‘In short, dear Ma,’ said Bella, taking off the depreciated...

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...he Golden Horn; where the yellow Tiber flows under broken bridges and over imperial glories; where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-... .... The Bashee had refused fifty thousand tomauns from Count Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador, for that little marvel. When his head was taken off, th... ...ardos, and fifty of the master-pieces of the patron of Julius and Leo, the Imperial genius of Urbino, covered the walls of the little chamber. Divans ... ... believe it in Eu- rope. Y ou understand me, Count Grogomoffski?” “But his Imperial Majesty said four millions, and I shall get the knout unless—” “Go... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...

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... present. Local administration falls al- most entirely—and the decision of Imperial affairs tends more and more to fall—into the hands of that dwindli... ...almost indifferent abstinence from the broad processes of our national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and abo... ...cks to which it must be subjected This is the primary question for British Imperialism; everything else is secondary or sub- ordinated to that. There ... ...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... ...in the ballot box. Our liberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The h...

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... is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in thei... ...leased,—but I forbear, merely personal de- tails may be left to historical novelists,- they are beneath the moral dignity of matter-of-fact. I have sa... ...l of Leicester! We’ll have him at the wedding. ’Tis his first visit To the imperial city. Aless. What! Politian Of Britain, Earl of Leicester? Di Brog... ... Of Love’s serenity; Thy classic brow, like lilies white And pale as the Imperial Night Upon her throne, with stars bedight, Enthralled my soul to...

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...nified noisiness that nowadays distinguishes the popular rejoicings of our imperial people, are simply a proof of the earnest preoccupation of our jud... ...on as the new generation requires. One hears of Liberty, of Compromise, of Imperial Destinies and Imperial Unity, one hears of undying loyalty to the ... ... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...tal (suppressed in 1835) had a mortality of eighty per cent. The two great Russian institutions are, I gather, about equally deadly with seventy- five... ...s, our suburban “white niggers,” with a thousand a year and the conceit of Imperial destinies. They live in our mother-tongue as some half-civilized i...

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...upassant was probably the most versatile and brilliant among the galaxy of novelists who enriched French literature between the years 1800 and 1900. P... ...toi from an adverse critic into a warm admirer of the author. To quote the Russian moralist upon the book: “ ‘Une Vie’ is a romance of the best type, ... ...h woman, she also possessed high linguistic attainments, and spoke Polish, Russian, French, German, English, and Ital- ian, with almost equal fluency ... ... opposite to her at the table d’hote, in very animated conversation with a Russian lady; only his hair had turned black since she had seen him last. E... ...ther. “No doubt they both took me for a spy from the ‘Third Section of the Imperial Chancellery.’ In that case, they must have thought me very clever ...

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...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting... ... crownings. As the youth studied minutely the order and the degrees in the imperial proces sion, and suffered none of its effect to be lost on him, s...

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..., with their scanty population and still young civilization, chafe against imperial interference, will they submit to it when they feel within their v... ...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... ...All this had come upon us with very quick steps since the beginning of the Russian war. But if fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special g... ... fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special grief at fighting a Russian. That the In- dian mutiny should be put down was a matter of course...