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...Contents ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI ............................ 4 DE JUVENTUTE.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19...

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...ENTUTE .......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19 4 Thackeray Some Roundabout Paper... ...many in the peerage-books. Peerage-books and pedigrees? What does she know about them? Battles and victories, treasons, kings, and beheadings, literar... ...oads seven or eight hundred years younger. “Don’t talk to me your nonsense about Exhibitions, and Prince Dukes, and toads in coals, or coals in toads,... ... and Whitworth will bowl at them with light field-pieces next), there were novels — ah! I trouble you to find such novels in the present day! O Scotti... ... cocked hats, coming from the opera — very much as gentlemen in waiting on royalty are habited now. There they are at Almack’s itself, amidst a crowd ...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and pr...

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...nd New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of... ... La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with abou... ...pter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways ... ...ed books for that kind of people; and the moment they get their hands on the royalty—maybe it’s three thousand, maybe it’s two thousand—” “What busine... ...s a penny to bless themselves withal. Such are the actual facts; and not all novels have for a base so telling a situation. Chapter 50 The Original J...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five wo...

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...“Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or f... ...cterize him, I think, better than at least some of the volumes I have read about him, and supply, when they are properly understood, the most valuable... ...le because of the way in which the word “genius” is too commonly ban- died about. As a matter of fact, there is not so very much genius in the world; ... ...ause the pirates could not inter- fere with its profits) of any one of his novels. And to expen- sive fashions of composition and complicated accounts... ...n, in reviewing La T ouche’s Fragoletta, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and “ungraspable” looseness of construction and st... ..., no doubt, the necessity for the monarchical prin- ciple. Catholicism and Royalty are twin principles. As to the limits within which these two princi...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There...

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...MALADY OF THE AGE ON A FINE EVENING in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from whic... ...istin- guishing himself in any way, his mind now turned to the magistracy. About this time his father died. His mother, who contented herself in her o... ...uses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he was about to fall back into the fatal irresolution of persons without will, whe... ...r fortunes, by that whirlwind of forty years, which overthrew religion and royalty, and dispersed the ele- ments of all that made old France. Words th... ...ncy, monsieur, my dear old father invents wonderful stories when I have no novels to read; he often puts me to sleep in that way. His voice lulls me, ...

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...o promptly the one measure of the worth of a given subject, the ques- tion about it that, rightly answered, disposes of all oth- ers—is it valid, in a... ... his “moral” reference. All this is a long way round, however, for my word about my dim first move toward “The Portrait,” which was ex- actly my grasp... ...is it open to their destiny to be, at the most, that we should make an ado about it? The novel is of its very nature an “ado,” an ado about something,... ...rary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. Pra... ... don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the... ...ovels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once... ... he was preoccupied, and with good reason. Miss Molyneux—as if he had been Royalty—stood like a lady- in-waiting. “Well, I never, Miss Molyneux!” said...

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... John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned... ...instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First ... ...act that it has less spirit, less of what we generally understand by “go,” about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the ... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...ook completed that time twelvemonth. But more than poems, or pastorals, or novels, it was his dra- matic ambition that engrossed his thoughts. The sam... ...ntes was essentially sanguine. The portrait he draws in the preface to the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth untroubled forehe... ... when it spread to distant cities, and even made its way into the halls of royalty and reached the ears of people of every class, who came from all si...

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... closely watched. With ingenuity beyond her years, the child used to stray about among the soldiers, who were rather kind to her, and thus seize the m... ...ned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second vol- ume, were doomed to guide the hero, or ... ...of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scorn to tyranniz... ... gaffers, by whose hard and horny hands it was generally worn to pieces in about a month after its arrival. This slow succession of intelligence was o... ...he boy’s inactivity, at an age when all his ancestors had borne arms; even Royalty itself had deigned to inquire whether young Waverley was not now in... ...cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, of those readers who take up novels merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned p... ... Walter Scott him too much honour in supposing him an emissary of ex- iled royalty, he explained his actual business. The man of books, with a much mo... ... itself, at once a castle and palace, where valour received the prize from royalty, and knights and dames closed the evening amid the revelry of the d...

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...n the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I sup- pose a desire not to shock the sceptical r... ...nc is still possible, the ques- tion whether it is still possible to bring about an outbreak of creative sanity in mankind, to avert this steady glide... ...eget after the manner of all that belongs to the fellowship of the beasts. About him, hidden from him by the thinnest of veils, were the untouched sou... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...ense,’ said the king, as Firmin prepared to speak. ‘I am going to fling my royalty and empire on the table—and declare at once I don’t mean to haggle.... ...He had been going to say ‘talking.’ He substituted ‘ideas.’ ‘That world of royalty!’ the king went on. ‘In a little while no one will understand it an... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ...

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...ing, infuriated figures multiplied to an innumerable assembly , they drove about like snowflakes in a gale, they whirled in argu- 4 The Soul of a Bis... ...lves were painted with a symbol—some symbol—also? But was that disputation about the Trinity at all? Wasn’t it rather about a chalice and a dove? Of c... ...,” he had said…. And still one’s poor brains disputed and would not rest…. About the T rinity…. 5 H G Wells The brain upon the pillow was now wearily... ...and order you to botanize and prescribe tranquillizing reading; Trollope’s novels, the Life of Gladstone, the works of Mr. A. C. Benson, memoirs and s... .... In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man who knew the novels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and had the minutest and most unsparing... ...ts—violent stimulants. In the highest quarters. Terrible. Exalted persons. Royalty! Anxious to be given war work and become anonymous…. Horrible! He’s...

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... escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad ... ..., actuated by the same desire to make a civilized mortal of me, flourished about my head a great pair lie imminent jeopardy of both ears, and the 5 M... ...ral pieces of a blanket. A battered tin can was then handed me, containing about half a pint of “tea”—so called by cour- tesy, though whether the juic... ...om of the whole affair—go outside, sir.” I retired as from the presence of royalty; backing out with many bows. The evident prejudice of Wilson agains... ...ves; and, one day—joy to us!—Po- Po brought in three volumes of Smollett’s novels, which had been found in the chest of a sailor, who some time previo... ...o meet in her evening walk on the Broom Road. The arrival and departure of royalty were always announced at the palace by the court artilleryman—a fat...

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...ination, and having looked at the characters, she and I composed a history about them, which was recited to the little folks at night, and served as o... ...ney, my dear; and you may as well order your- self bracelets while you are about the necklace, Mrs. V .’ Her Majesty, or Mrs. V ., as the monarch face... ... Her Majesty, or Mrs. V ., as the monarch facetiously called her (for even royalty will have its sport, and this august family were very much attached... ...live, he would certainly will the crown from his own son in order to bring about such a desirable union. Thus easily do we deceive ourselves! Thus do ... ...io heard these atrocious sentiments, he forgot the respect usually paid to Royalty, lifted up the warming-pan, and knocked down the King as flat as a ... ... back and breast plates, swords, etc., just like in Mr. G . P . R. James’s novels; and that evening three cavaliers might have been seen issuing from ...

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...e a number of inners and outers, and some clean misses. Much that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were st... ...now proposes to treat. In this book he intends to hazard certain forecasts about the trend of events in the next decade or so. Mechanical novelties wi... ...high explosives, poison gas and submarines, there could be no doubt at all about the response. “Give peace in our time, O Lord,” is more than ever the... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who... ...papers were by no means sugges- tive of an abject worship of authority and royalty for their own sakes. The teaching of all forms of morality and sent... ...s a pleasure to repudiate. He or some kindred regent will be the symbol of royalty in Ger- many through all those years of maximum stress and hard- sh...

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...arburton.” “He’s sick of life; he was just telling me so; going on fearfully about it,” said Lord Warburton’s friend. “Is that true, sir?” asked the o... ...eem to affect his spirits. I’ve hardly ever seen him when he wasn’t cheerful—about as he is at present. He often cheers me up.” The young man so descr... ...nterested: is that what you say?” Lord Warburton asked. “I’m not at all keen about marrying— your son misrep resented me; but there’s no knowing what... ...ibrary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. P... ... I don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe t... ... novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal of ability, but I don’t suppose they’re very acc... ...r; he was preoccupied, and with good reason. Miss Molyneux—as if he had been Royalty— stood like a lady in waiting. “Well, I never, Miss Molyneux!” sa...

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...Af- ter much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878. I ... ...o little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some... ...ights. All seemed pleasure, joy, and roguish gaiety, only one of the numerous guests had a gloomy exte- rior; but exactly the black armor in which he ... ... bravo! More thunder! more lightning! turn on more rain!” The thunder boomed, the lightning glared, the storm-winds raged, the deluge poured down. The... ...urse. His daughter was the “catch” of 107 A Tramp Abroad the region, and she may be already entering into immortal- ity as the heroine of one of Auer...

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...ith them, and the conversation naturally fell upon the tour Mr. James was about to take. The Peninsular and Oriental Company had arranged an excursio... ... that the pleasant morning-watch effected; but there are a set of emotions about which a man had best be shy of talking lightly,—and the feelings exci... ...ove was cloudless and shining; the vast dark ocean smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praisin... ...t. It is best to read about wars comfortably in Harry Lorrequer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteer... ... he was received as a Syrian Prince, and treated with great hospitality by Royalty itself. I don’t know what waggish propensity moved one of the offic...

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...lly recommend a man to the unconscious judg- ment of his acquaintance. But about the mouth and chin of this man there was a something of a softness, p... ...asy gentleman with a new hat on one side of his head, who might perhaps be about forty years old. The place was very dark, and the man was turning ove... ... ‘Then why don’t you hybernate?’ said Lopez. ‘Business is too good. That’s about it. A man has to stick to it when it does come. Everybody can’t do li... ...ay, which he was sometimes ashamed to have seen by his clients,—poetry and novels, and even fairy tales. For there was nothing Mr Wharton could not re... ...tree should be assured. But the world was chang- ing around him every day. Royalty was marrying out of its 70 The Prime Minister degree. Peers’ sons ... ...uch defalcation, and had passed their mornings comfortably dozing over new novels. The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his pr... ...manned by one or two unfortunates each, who consoled themselves by reading novels at their desks. Half the cab-drivers had gone apparently to the seas...

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...e writer. I wrote that book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not k... ...ggressive. Him you must imagine as sitting at a table reading a manuscript about Utopias, a manuscript he holds in two hands that are just a little fa... ...table, the manuscript in his hand, and the expansion of his ratiocinations about Utopia conscientiously resumed. The entertainment before you is neith... ... back to the sea again it will come at last, debouching in ground rent and royalty and license fees, in the fees of travellers and profits upon carryi... ... contributor to any ma- terially valuable invention, and paid or charged a royalty on its use that went partly to him personally, and partly to the re... ... free to become samurai. Here, too, it will be manifest there is scope for novels and the drama of life. In practice, it seems that it is only men of ...

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...hat’s worse.” Ben, however, had now got the “red pot” in his hand, and was about to begin writing his inscription, making, by way of preliminary, an i... ...e, Ben, lad,” said Seth, in a persuasive tone, “don’t let’s have a quarrel about it. Y ou know Adam will have his way. Y ou may’s well try to turn a w... ...day’s earnings y’ ever made.” “All i’ good time for that, Seth; I’ll think about that when I’m a-goin’ to settle i’ life; bachelors doesn’t want such ... ...ure that she should be dressed so: she is clearly one of those children of royalty who have never doubted their right divine and never met with any on... ...ne to excursion-trains, art museums, peri- odical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scientific theorizing and cursory peeps through micro...

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... law of its make permits and compels it to do. There is nothing personal about it; it cannot choose. In this process of “working up to the matter” i... ...” is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in the perfor ma... ...ives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching ... ...d they cover with derision every argument that can be invented in favor of royalty by the most ingenious casuist. In his time the husband of this prin... ... third rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. We do not mind one or ...

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...ption of the last few months, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing about on the wide ocean. Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days s... ...us waves at sea, moun- tain high, of the masts bending like twigs, and all about Havre and Liverpool.’ The death of his father in reduced circum- stan... ...p between the author’s family and that of Justice Shaw having been renewed about this time. Mr. Melville became engaged to Miss Elizabeth Shaw, the on... ...felt impelled to write Mr. Russell in regard to one of his newly published novels, and received in answer the following letter: July 21, 1886. My Dear... ...nd his consort. As they ap- proached, we paid them all the honours clue to royalty;— 25 Melville manning our yards, firing a salute, and making a pro... ...e with his eyes, making him look as if he wore a huge pair of goggles; and royalty in goggles suggested some ludicrous ideas. But it was in the adornm... ...ross it; or if, like a true courtier, I chose to model my style on that of royalty, I might wear a sort of freemason badge upon my countenance in the ...