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...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be mor...

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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

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...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ... wild. Some years before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our univers... ...nversation is known to be so good that the other guests have been invited to listen to him. Even so, he must give them a chance now and then, and it i... .... But above all they are not to air their views in the presence of men worth listening to. The French care passionately for ideas, but they do not exp... ...nless there is a Duke or an Ambassador or a Bishop present; and these rules, comic enough where peer meets prelate, become more humorous (and also gro... ...ivable to them that any one should consider it superfluous, and even slightly comic, to know a great deal, to know the best in every line, to know, in ... ...raw precisely this comparison between France, the country of all the old sex conventions, and America, which is supposedly the country of the greatest...

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...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ... Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, ... ...undred in notes,” he said. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note book and handed it to him. “And Mademoiselle’s address?” he asked. “Is ... ...om I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to.” “And what of Irene Adler?” I asked. “Oh, she has turned all... ...im home a dozen times from Serpentine mews, and knew all about him. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Brio... ... my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. You have shown your r... ...d I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face be hind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other conside... ... sir, for a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity.” With a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and strode ...

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...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Volume I 3 Book I 3 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Book II 69 Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...s in the clean glass held up to so many of the “short stories” of our long list and yet after all never a whit to the prejudice of his being just as ... ...ether better literary manners of “The Ambassadors” and “The Golden Bowl”—a list I might much extend by the mention of several shorter pieces. Inevitab... ...d even how he had been struck with her word. “’Funny’?” “Oh I don’t mean a comic toy—I mean some little thing with a charm. But absolutely right, in i... ...nner exploit the anomaly, treat it perhaps as romantic or possibly even as comic?—show at least that they need n’t mind even though the vast table, dr... ...s out of the power of other persons to make either less or greater. Common conventions—that was what was odd—had to be on this basis more thought of; ...