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...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...e a particu- larly good thing of the books. A number of competing firms of publishers sprang into existence specialising in Science and Art Department... ...can the organisation survive. Every month there came to my mother a little magazine called, if I remember rightly, the Home Churchman, with the combin... ...e fed and clothed and educated… . I had the curiosity to buy a copy of his magazine after- wards, and it seemed much the same sort of thing that had w... ...and our literary flowerings led very directly to the revival of the school magazine, which had been comatose for some years. But there we came upon a ... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ...ye, and before 1911 was out, the Blue W eekly was printing twenty pages of publishers’ ad- vertisements, and went into all the clubs in London and thr...

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...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ily men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had failed to place themselves in life, and people who had seen better days. Mildness was the prevaili... ...re a shipful of failures, the broken men of England. Yet it must not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, w... ...s Stevenson the reply, indicating, I fancy, a shade of difference in the social scale. When people pass each other on the high seas of life at so earl... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ... to grow damp on the inside. I went to banks, post-offices, rail- way-offices, restaurants, publishers, booksellers, money-chang- ers, and wherever I ... ...ntunefully 145 Robert Louis Stevenson enough through the figures of a singing quadrille. A magazine club supplies you with everything, from the Quart...

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...ly into saying the thing that is not. They won’t wait an hour for you in a magazine or a review; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason wit... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ... these shams, and perhaps the most uncandid, are to be looked for amongst “publishers and print- ers,” of whom, it seems, “the great majority” are mer... ...anced guard, well armed with muskets, (pillaged, be H observed, from royal magazines hastily deserted,) com- menced a tumultuous assault. Less than 30...

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... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...r below-stairs, or in one of the bedrooms above. Immedi- ately a stream of people poured down into the kitchen, where at once they saw the cradle—but ... ...hunted through all sorts of tortures, yields a break- fast roll that (as a Scottish baker observed to me) is ‘not just that bad.’ Certainly not: not e... ... regret their non-familiarity with that drama. It is a thing well known to publishers, through remarkable results, and is now show- ing itself on a sc... ... never said the thing ascribed to him here as any formal judgment, or what Scottish law would call deliver- ance, upon the ‘Hyperion.’ As to what he m... ...e of that sort of ubiquity ascribed to him by a witty writer in the London Magazine: I met him and shook hands with him under Somerset-house, telling ... ...ve) from the East India Company; and from the abstract given in the London Magazine of the Mem- oir by his relation, I have since learned that he appl... ... age, so in the encyclopaedias it has become a matter of ambition with the publishers to retain the most eminent writers in each several department. A...

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... tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There was a vast mass... ...age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me he knew... ...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...antern-Bearers, Random Memories. There was a paper called the Old Pacific Capi- tal in Fraser, in Tulloch’s time, which had merit; there were two on F... ...ards, and plenty duties. And the sooner a man sees that and acts upon it like a gentleman or a fine old barbarian, the better for himself. There is my... ...m look up our first corre- spondence, and he will see I reserved explicitly, as was my habit, the right to republish as I choose. Had the same ar- ran... ...o the Chief Justice. I see in looking up Longman’s letter that it was as usual the letter of an obliging gentleman; so do not trouble him with my remi... ...this Anglo-Saxon world; I usually get out of it by not having any women in it at all; but when I remem- ber I had the Treasure of Franchard refused as... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter...

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... war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate people subsequent to the reign of William the Second; yet the great nationa... ... legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scottish Highlander. T o make the jacket sit yet more close to the body, it... ...d, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commisera... ...ippers of Mahound and T ermagaunt have so greatly the ad- vantage over the people once chosen of Heaven.” “He shall sit with thee, Wamba,” said Cedric... ...ell whether the Saxon war-cry was not heard as far within the ranks of the Scottish host as the cri de guerre of the boldest Norman baron. To the memo... ...ce of Godfrey’s quali- ties should not be bound by the ordinary rules. The Scottish Nisbet, and the same Ferne, insist that the chiefs of the Cru- sad... ...reathing?—No! Front- de-Boeuf, there is another cause—Rememberest thou the magazine of fuel that is stored beneath these apartments?” “Woman!” he excl... .... After a considerable part of the work had been finished and printed, the Publishers, who pretended to discern in it a germ of popularity, remonstrat...

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...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...ver, the resemblance ceases, for Whitman’s forebears, while worthy country people of good descent, were not prominent in public or private life. Melvi... ..., but without success. It has been suggested that he might have accepted a magazine editorship, but this is doubtful, as he could not bear busi- ness ... ...outh Sea sketches; but the editions are not equal to those of the American publishers. Your reputation here is very great. It is hard to meet a man wh... ...me dis- tinction very carefully in an excellent article contributed to the Scottish Art Review. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declar... ...elville contributed several short stories to Putnam’s Monthly and Harper’s Magazine. Those in the former periodical were collected in a volume as Piaz...

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... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

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...HAPTER III: OLD MORTALITY .................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER IV: A COLLEGE MAGAZINE ...................................................................................... 28 CHAPTER V: AN OLD SCOTCH GARDENER ............................................................................. 36 CHAPTER VI:...

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.................................................... 20 CHAPTER IV: A COLLEGE MAGAZINE ..................................................................... ...lready in The Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three are here in print for the f... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...s in the least breath of time one of those 25 Memories and Portraits rich magazines of life on which we drew for our supply – when he who had first d... ...r against the University building – had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjunct editors and, what was the main poin...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ...nd or seven thou- sand or fifty thousand of each book he required. And the publishers would, of course, give him very special prices, more especially ... ...f supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines. He would consider that all that was needed for his library was, ... ...ct with the pedagogic intelligence through the medium of three educational magazines. A certain morbid habit against which I struggle in vain makes me... ...y writes a “Life of Gladstone” or ex-President Roosevelt is delivered of a magazine article, there is the same sort of excessive admiration as when a ...

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... thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national... ...f it pleases me a good deal, but I fear it is quite unfit for any possible magazine. However, I wish you to see it, as you know the humour in which it... ...k less of it than ever. However, of course, I shall send you a copy of the Magazine without fail, and you can be as disappointed as you like, or the r... ...r Idlers’ is in proof for the Cornhill. I have ‘Villon’ to do for the same magazine, but God knows when I’ll get it done, for drums, trumpets – I’m en... ...ld word with them. P. G. himself promised to help me in my bar- gains with publishers, which, said he, and I doubt not very truthfully, he could manag... ...y merits. ‘ENGLISH, THE: – a dull people, incapable of compre- hending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scot... ...it will be good, but I think it ought to sell in spite of the deil and the publishers; for it tells an odd enough experience, and one, I think, never ... ...once I have studied and written these two vols., The Transformation of the Scottish Highlands and Scotland and the Union, I shall have a good ground t... ...ere, of course, comes the hitch. I do not know Mr. Bentley, and I fear all publishers like the devil from legend and experi- ence both. However, when ...

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...ery generation has to educate another which it has brought upon the stage. People who readily accept the responsibility of parentship, having very dif... ... ing, and how to walk through a quadrille. But, you may tell me, the young people are taught to be Christians. It may be want of penetration, but I ha... ...ins the cause. And thus you find Christ giving various counsels to varying people, and often jealously careful to avoid definite precept. Is he asked,... ...ted and his views of the world brighter. If Mr. Mallock, on his way to the publishers, should have his skirts pinned to a wall by a javelin, it would ... ...very different affair was the Lapsus Linguae from the Edinburgh University Magazine. The two prospec- tuses alone, laid side by side, would indicate t... ... as a gorge in Peru, a haunt of German robbers, and a peaceful vale in the Scottish borders. There is a sad absence of strik- ing argument or real liv... ...d by J. Basire. No further information is anywhere vouchsafed; perhaps the publishers had judged the work too unimportant; and we are still left ignor...

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...N ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Honorable Wil... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...ed (and who as regards mere lineage are no better than a dozen English and Scottish houses I could name), was prouder of his post about the Court than... ...took possession of the enemy’s ammunition in the arsenals, his stores, and magazines. Five days afterwards a great “Te Deum” was sung in Prince Lewis’... ...egroom. Duke Hamilton, then Earl of Arran, had been educated at the famous Scottish university of Glasgow, and, coming to London, became a great favor... ...y from the original creation. His Grace took the oaths and his seat in the Scottish parliament in 1700: was famous there for his patriotism and eloque...