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...The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao. A study of Taoism and the history of T’ang China, with biographies of the poets Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu, and new translations of their poetry....

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...nt Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ...tlement in America -- The courtship of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the ... ...e of the expedition -- Discovery of Van Dieman's land -- The first view of New Zealand -- Tasman's ship surrounded by hostile New Zealanders -- Murder... ...ans -- A desperate fight in the sea -- Discovery of other islands north of New Zealand -- A profitable intercourse with the natives -- Hospitable but ... ...leasurable entertainment -- Costumes of the dancers -- First conflict with New Zealanders -- Killing of a chief -- Strange beliefs of the natives -- A... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al...

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...on itself wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the ... ...tunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup But, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promi... ...except Dompsoy's 'pep- per mill.' The senior committee has provided, as in New York theaters, safe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two i... ...one in many islands of the South Sea, such as in the islajids of Zoma, New Zealandand Hawaii. CALENDAR FRIDAY, APRIL 18 8. 30 p. 111.—New York Alumni ... ...tric lighting. Dr. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, has pur- sued scientific studies in England, France and Germany, a... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab...

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...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ive happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ---―That adds some new evidence. I still couldn‘t go for it because of my traditional beliefs... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list ... ...ies by their absence of corruption. Finland is number one, Denmark and New Zealand are tied for second with the UK at number 10 and the U.S. at 16. L... ...al decisions? ―I remember a case of a dolphin, I think it was in New Zealand. The dolphin would guide ships through the narrow inlet to the por...

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... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...r that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patteson... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the afternoon. Coley was far more affected than he then had 20 ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...ters from Australia, Newfoundland, &c. 21 Yo n g e When the Bishop of New Zealand came to take leave, he said, half in earnest, half in playfulness, ... ...s dull, and Livy apparently easy and really very hard. So, again, with the poets; and most of all I found no interest (fancy!) in Plato and Aristotle....

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...n with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very great... ...iled and failed and was still to be tested again and rejected again in the New World; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specia... ...hem. For a time they could not make instruments sound enough to stand this new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first gun... ... from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at th... ...but life lengthens out now and the mind of adult humanity detaches itself. Poets who used to die at thirty live now to eighty-five. You, too, Kahn! Th... ...ike a hammer that has lost its anvil, it plunges through hu- man life. You poets, you young people want to turn it to delight. Turn it to delight. Tha... ...between men and women that is not a common evil,’ said Karenin. ‘It is you poets, Kahn, with your love songs which turn the sweet fellowship of comrad...

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.... In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alte... ...house, sometimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry... ...11 Robert Louis Stevenson came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new posses- sion. “We have long been wanting a boat,” said they. “Give us t... ... can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have been enlivened ... ...e than once is- sued orders forbidding Samoans to take money from “the New Zealand firm.” These, when they were brought to his notice, Brandeis disown... ...o bring German despatches to Apia. The rumour came along with her from New Zealand that in these despatches Knappe would find himself rebuked, and Fle... ...amoa of the Natives’ Advocate. He was succeeded pro tempore by a young New Zealander, E. W. Gurr, not much more versed in law than himself, and very m...

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...is more, the beautiful creature can talk.’ He wondered, for she was young, new to society. Subsequently he is rather ashamed of his wonderment, and ac... ... on the spin when he said, ‘Who is she?’ Sir Lukin did not know. ‘She ‘s a new bird; she nodded to my wife; I’ll ask.’ He manoeuvred a few steps cleve... ...n…. ‘I could call him my poet also,’ Mr. Redworth agreed with her taste in poets. ‘His letters are among the best ever writ- ten—or ever published: th... ...onth to have sight of an Irish Beauty …. ‘Think war the finest subject for poets?’ he exclaimed. ‘Flatly no: I don’t think it. I think exactly the rev... ...to live to her end. It seemed remote, where an invigorating upper air gave new bloom to her cheeks; but she kept one secret from her friend. 38 Diana... ...d scored, disfig- ured … a sort of barbarous Maori visage—England in a New Zealand mask. You may call it the sentimental view. In this case, I am deci... ...she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity ...

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...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...inally he found himself examining it. From that moment his progress in his new trend was steady and rapid. He became a believ ing Christian. And now ... ...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...y temper. Quarternions, a bird with a flat beak and no bill, living in New Zealand. Quarternions, the name given to a style of art practiced by the Ph... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th...

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...ds the close of ’89. By that time gratitude and habit were beginning to attach me to the is- lands; I had gained a competency of strength; I had made ... ... By 8 In The South Seas the same step I had journeyed forth out of that comfort- able zone of kindred languages, where the curse of Babel is so easy ... ...ce these were in the same convulsive and transitionary state as the Marquesans of to-day. In both cases an alien authority enforced, the clans disarme... ...mon to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Polynesian words:— House. Love. T... ...without with such a mental and implicit awe, and, when examined from within, should present so many apparent evidences of design. We read in Dr. Campb... ... doubtless thought bad taste to expatiate on what was ugly in the practice. Cannibalism is traced from end to end of the Pacific, from the Marquesas t... ...ound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a landing- place in the Arabian Nigh...

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...sting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concret... ...elow the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into ... ...st spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes clumped toward the immensity of new factories, sheets of glass and hollow tile, glittering shops where five... ...solutely, with figures all in rows and with precedents from Poland and New Zealand, that the street-car company loved the Public and yearned over its ... ...nd hand-shaking house- organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business. He had painfully written out a first draft, and he inton... ... The only thing is: I wonder if it sells the goods? Course, like all these poets, this Prince Albert fellow lets his idea run away with him. It makes ... ...ie Swanson. “You ought to get him easy, Mr. Frink, you and he being fellow-poets,” said Louetta Swanson. “Fellow-poets, rats! Where d’ you get that st...

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...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...provided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars ... ...ided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars of s... ...icity, and may the god of gales, who took him away so abruptly between New Zealand and the Horn, let his soul rest in some Paradise of true seamen, wh... ...ind and sea, once lost her propeller down south, on her passage out to New Zealand. It was the wintry, murky time of cold gales and heavy seas. With t... ...tery. The sides of his overcoat bulged out with pocket editions of various poets. When not engaged in reading Virgil, Homer, or Mistral, in parks, res...

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...his phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phr... ...ssible to retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independen... ...em also in America. Or else we have to call them Virginians, Californians, New Englanders, and so forth. Their legal and nominal separateness weighs n... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ... ... problem would be if we had that now!—but such countries as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, directly they are involved in the future in a war again...

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...e belonged to him, also four shops in the High Street, and a moiety of the new row of genteel villas (so called in the advertisements), built out- sid... ... parish of Plumstead Episcopi. ’Tis only when he has ex- changed that ever-new shovel hat for a tasselled night- cap, and those shining black habilime... ...m under the comfortable bed-clothes. ‘There’s 15 Anthony Trollope nothing new in that. ’ ‘No, my dear, there’s nothing new—I know that; but, at the p... ...know, watch, and chronicle the doings of everyone? From a bishopric in New Zealand to an unfortunate director of a North-west passage, is he not the o... ...er, ’ said he, ‘slaughtered par- tridges a score of brace to each gun, and poets gauging ale-barrels, with sixty pounds a year, at Dumfries, are not t... ...oud-speaking friend, tell me, if so much be in you, what is the demand for poets in these king- doms of Queen Victoria, and what the vouchsafed sup- p...

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... months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought before the public. It was then no longer a scien- ti... ...tached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My dep... ...e invited to put their finger on the wound of the Scotia. On my arrival at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island,... ... nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her t... ... on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand 94 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and New Caledonia, and from thence... ...ill October. Then he quitted Vanikoro, and directed his course towards New Zealand; put into Calcutta, 7th April, 1828, and returned to France, where ... ...aint such pictures, one must have the pen of the most illustri- ous of our poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. I have said that Captain Nemo...

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...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loom... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ’balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, a... ...a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looki... ...ing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head — a ghastly thing enough — and crammed it down into the bag. H... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...es a man who regards them both with equal eye. Chapter 86 The Tail O ther poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lov...

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...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the les... ... just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ‘balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ‘em but one, a... ...a word till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looki... ...ing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head—a ghastly thing enough—and crammed it down into the bag. He no... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo...

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...hat ink might assist him to ease his mind. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. A... ...ever more be troubled with Its hideous presence. Strong in the sense of my new-found security, I proposed a ride at once; and, by preference, a canter... ... pos- sible to forejudge the conversation of the Damned on the advent of a new soul in their abode, I should say that they would speak as Gunga Dass d... ...hat they cannot pay for their advertisements, but on their return from New Zealand or Tahiti will do so with interest; inven- tors of patent punka-pul... ...omething of it. When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his word... ...had she seen them—and launched into his sea dreams. Again I cursed all the poets of England. The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid, col...

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...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...usage, solely and merely upon your own spontane- ous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag... ...cted upon the Danish commercial shipping, or by the dreadful havoc made in Zealand, would show some- thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great bo...

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...nwel- come; while I have tried to make the story stand indepen- dently for new readers, unacquainted with the tale in which Lady Merrifield and her br... ...hem, I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then t... ... I believe; but she has married a sailor captain and gone to settle in New Zealand, and I have not seen her since I was a very little girl. Then there... ...ndia. Come along, Dora,’ grasping her hand. ‘My name isn’t Dora,’ said the new-comer, as they went down the passage. ‘No,’ said Mysie, in a low voice;... ...ad been time for letters to come from Mr. Mohun, posted from Auckland, New Zealand, where he had made a halt with his sister, Mrs. Harry May, otherwis... ...ore freely and unreservedly than to any one else. So the day after the New Zealand letters came, just as the historical reading and needlework were in... ...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente...

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...back of a building, in which there sat at a desk a greasy gentleman with a new hat on one side of his head, who might perhaps be about forty years old... ... WHARTON ON THAT SAME DAY Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progres... ...he Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open hardly more than three years; but still i... ...one lover to another, by change of scene. Taking her to Dresden,—or to New Zealand, would only confirm in her passion such a girl as Emily Wharton. No... ...an. We have learned the lesson from the divines, the philosophers, and the poets. Post equitem sedes atra cura. Thus was Ferdinand Lopez mounted high ... ...n him for the last week. They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand. Lopez had reasons for thinking that Kauri gum must have a great ri... ...bbing the revenue, there is a dash of chivalry about him worthy of the old poets. To him a woman, particularly his own woman, is a thing so fine and s... ...gh to talk of me. And he has a much higher chiv- alry than that of the old poets. They, or their heroes, watched their women because they did not want...

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...e or censure, failure or success. Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude. Y outh has turned to gods we of an ear- lier day knew not, an... ...-bearers will presently yield their place also. There is no last word. The new evan- gel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky. These g... ...uplets. Then came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed... ...n came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. ... ... Strickland’s idea was to ship on some vessel bound for Aus- tralia or New Zealand, and from there make his way to Samoa or Tahiti. I do not know how ...

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...ming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others wh... ...t that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frank- ness, what its wr... ... was about men and things, and threw what must have been a strange kind of new light on many matters but darkly understood. Above all, the es- sayist ... ...s, as, for example, in my use of the word fortune, in quot- ing historical poets, in my apology for Julian, in my animad- version on the theory that h... ... of expressing such a degree of sorrow. Which is also the rea- son why the poets feign the miserable mother, Niobe, hav- ing first lost seven sons, an... ...overeign virtue, namely, that the public opin- ion condemns them; that the poets, and all other sorts of writers, relate horrible stories of them; a r... ...r counsels and correct them? Isabel, Queen of England, having to sail from Zealand into her own kingdom,—[in 1326]—with an army, in favour of her son ...

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...sked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 Of Human Bondage “ Y ou’ve got a new dress on.” It was in eighteen-eighty-five, and she wore a bustle. Her g... ...s sister; and while the ladies talked of parish matters, the curate or the new bonnet of Mrs. Wilson—Mr. Wilson was the richest man in Blackstable, he... ...lip had behaved properly; and Mrs. Carey re- marked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr . Cox was not in church, and somebody thought that Miss Phil... ...ith the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty ... ... immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about.... ... discourse on the subject that beauty is put into things by paint- ers and poets. They create beauty . In themselves there is nothing to choose betwee... ...rials was disguised by ill-made sauces: plaice masqueraded as sole and New Zealand mutton as lamb. The kitchen was 594 Of Human Bondage small and inc...

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...Rockstone, and I don’t see why Mysie should always go everywhere, and wear new frocks, and I go to the butchers and bakers and wear horrid old ones.’ ... ... it as such a curi- osity after a few days’ experience of Rockquay, as her new friends told her. Kitty V arley went to the High School, which greatly ... ... with Mrs. Hablot than daw- dling about here and amusing themselves in the new Sunday fashion. Mind, I am not going to have them racketing about the h... ...erval between Mysie’s brains and her pen, and saying nothing about the New Zealand report. The se- lection of lace was much approved, and the next day... ...did one with the 129 Beechcroft At Rockstone same for poor Dolores in New Zealand. Uncle William was here yesterday, and he said dear little Primrose... ...voice opprest!’ ‘Oh, Harry, can’t we stay and see Henry VII.’s Chapel, and Poets’ Corner, and Edward I.’s monument?’ pleaded the sis- ter. ‘I am afrai...

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...needna be feared—I never saw ony mysell, and we’re just at the door o’ the New Place.” Accordingly, leaving the ruins on the right, a few steps brough... ...r and with- drawing room, full of all manner of cross lights. This was the New Place of Ellangowan, in which we left our hero, better amused perhaps t... ...n, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?” “Communis... ...lieves Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the ... ...positions of these luminaries their probable effects on the destiny of the new-born infant, as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded, o... ... is a d-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madd... ... which my youthful mind experienced in gazing on the levels of the isle of Zealand, than on any- thing which preceded that feeling; but I am confident... ...ue, as you say,” replied Glossin. “And yet if she could be carried over to Zealand, or Hamburg, or—or— anywhere else, you know, it were as well.” Hatt...

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...’s charge. The joy of her love for it was written on its lustrous beds, as poets write. She had the poetic passion for flowers. Perhaps her taste may ... ...ldren to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants... ... transported nearer to see the show, and stood like friends anxious to re- new acquaintance. Dahlia and Rhoda taught the children to perceive how they... ...do,” thought the farmer in an interval of his wrath; and the wrath is very new which has none of these cool intervals. The pas- sions, do but watch th... ...had to be packed up and despatched. Rhoda lived on abashed by the adorable new refinement of Dahlia’s features, and her heart yearned to her uncle for... ...oda to read; good authors, she emphasized, and named books of history, and poets, and quoted their verses. “For my darling will some day have a dear h... ...ks, you ought. And you ought to make him marry the girl, and be off to New Zealand, or any of the upside-down places, where he might begin by farming,...

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...roned, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the lati... ...ike a torch in the bark of some fisherman,’ which is the shining star of a new world. Bruce is caged in Abyssinia, surrounded by the gory horrors whic... ...ney he acquired an inappeasable relish for his dreadful food. He urged the new man away, expressly to kill him and eat him. In the pockets on one side... ...d in these later days (of course) of the Praiser There. No, no, civilised poets have better work to do. As to Nookering Umtargarties, there are no pr... ... gines, and Telegraphs; the chairman has erected mills and bridges in New Zealand. The usher at Our School, who was considered to know everything as ...

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...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ...aid Richard. “I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beate... ...assure you I know heaps like that—well, they seem to me really nobler than poets whom every one worships, just because they’re geniuses and die young.... ...ith fixed eyes, she burst out: “So that’s why I can’t walk alone!” By this new light she saw her life for the first time a creeping hedged-in thing, d... ... books on the table. They lay heaped one upon another. “We shall want some poets too,” he remarked. “Not Gib- bon; no; d’you happen to have Modern Lov... ...e letters brought her news of the failure of last year’s fruit crop in New Zealand, which was a serious matter, for Hubert, her only brother, made his...

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...r grandfather’s poems—”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 sin... ...he train towards Highgate. Although thus supported by the knowledge of his new possession of considerable value, he was not proof against the familiar... ... have the time. Why do you ask?” “It might be a good thing, to get to know new people, that’s all.” “Poor Ralph!” said Joan suddenly, with a smile. “Y... ...flower that any family can boast, a great writer, a poet eminent among the poets of England, a Richard Alardyce; and having pro- duced him, they prove... ...nd fasting in the Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of ... ...resent surroundings and, needless to say, by her surpassing ability in her new vocation. When she was rid of the pretense of paper and pen, phrase-mak... ...stical diagram showing the proportion of married women to spinsters in New Zealand; or that the net profits of Mrs. Hipsley’s Bazaar had reached a tot...

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... fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melvil... ...father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an extensive traveller fo... ...sequently resi- 6 Typee dents of Albany, N.Y. Herman Melville was born in New Y ork on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city. ... ...riven to de- spair; nothing but the utter ruin of my ‘face divine’, as the poets call it, would, I perceived, satisfy the inexorable Mehevi and his ch... ... * * There is little more to be related. T oby left this vessel at New Zealand, and after some further adventures, arrived home in less than two y...

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...resents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ... SANDGATE, July, 1903. I I I I I THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NEW REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC TOLERATION TO-DAY ... ...Wage will be found in W.P . Reeves’ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 47 et seq. 69 H G Wells rents, by promoting the orga... ... outside their range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they re...

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... to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious...

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... Ta. Ha. 56 26 The Poets 57 15 Hedjr 58 19... ...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ... assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard t... ...ically a case in which originality consists not so much in the creation of new materials of thought as in the manner in which existing traditions of v... ...12 The Koran TO SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, K.T., D.C.L. LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, WITH SINCERE FEELINGS OF ESTEEM FOR HIS ... ...day is as it were divided. 30 Supply, we will not believe. SURA XXVI.–THE POETS 1 [LVI.] MECCA.–228 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, th... ...hey impart what they have heard; 22 –but most of them are liars. It is the POETS 23 whom the erring follow: 139 The Koran Seest thou not how they ro...

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...t is about half-way down this shore – no, six-sevenths way down – that the new breakwater extends athwart the bay. Certainly Wick in itself possesses ... ... | +——————\ A\ \ B\ 11 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 C D is the new pier. A the schooner ashore. B the salmon house. She was a Norwegian: c... ...Some of the waves were twenty feet high. The spray rose eighty feet at the new pier. Some wood has come ashore, and the roadway seems carried away. Th... ... couldn’t get it off. Awfully nice man here to-night. Public servant – New Zealand. Telling us all about the South Sea Islands till I was sick with de... ... good and bright piece of work, and recognised a link of sympathy with the poets who ‘play in hostelries at euchre.’ – Believe me, dear sir, yours tru...

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...me one going off as a Sea-King, with all his friends, and trying to gain a new home in some fresh country. One great party of Northmen under a very ta... ...st any one killing his game. The place he thus cleared is still called the New Forest, though it is a thousand years old. An old Norman law that the E... ...olar; and Richard, who was still a lad when he was killed by a stag in the New Forest. Robert, the eldest, was a wild, rude, thoughtless youth; 21 ... ...me when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of her coun... ...nd went to settle in Canada, and Australia, and Van Dieman’s Land, and New Zealand, making, in all these distant places, the new English homes called ...

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...rquhart’s trans- lation of Book III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s re... ...used, and they dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is... ...at breed miscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one c... ... tions we must set the privilege of Francis I. of September, 1545, and the new privilege granted by Henry II. on August 6th, 1550, Cardinal de Chatill... ...ssed to Cardinal de Guise, and in 1552 the fourth book was dedicated, in a new prologue, to Cardi- nal de Chatillon, the brother of Admiral de Coligny... ...chance Show’d a drunk slave, teach children temperance; Thus did the later poets nobly bring The scene to height, making the fool the king. And, noble... ... you Brit- tany, Normandy, Flanders, Hainault, Brabant, Artois, Hol- land, Zealand; they have passed the Rhine over the bellies of the Switzers and la...

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... both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species, this relation is often broken: as one instance of this I may m... ...lt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes (Edin. New Philos. Jour., Jan 1830) likewise frequent them. As these circum- stanc... ...ted in the museum of the Zoological Society. Mr. Gould, in describing this new species, has done me the honour of calling it after my name. Among the ... ... the steamer as paddles, and the os- trich as sails: and th Apteryz of New Zealand, as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, pos- sess... ...termined to take him back to the Beagle; and ultimately he was left at New Zealand, where his brother was a missionary. From the time of our leaving, ... ...ived at a far higher grade than another branch of the same people, the New Zealanders, — who, al- though benefited by being compelled to turn their at... ...the valley of Quillota. The country was exceedingly pleasant; just such as poets would call pastoral: green open lawns, sepa- rated by small valleys w... ...austless delight of anticipating the long wished-for day of return. If, as poets say, life is a dream, I am sure in a voyage these are the visions whi...

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... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ... wine drank in Great Britain, is clandes- tinely imported from Holland and Zealand. If there was either a free trade between France and England, or if... ...letters. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the oth... ...bliged it to contract great debts. The sin- gular countries of Holland and Zealand, besides, require a consid- erable expense even to preserve their e...

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...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpillar... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...ense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to star- board, and rushed headlong...