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...lle squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scotch, Danes; Santa Fé traders in striped blankets, and Broadway b... ...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ...ence-Man “Begone! Just in that voice talked to me, not six months ago, the German doctor at the water cure, from which I now return, six months and si... ... Injuries IN A KIND OF ANTE-CABIN, a number of respectable looking people, male and female, way-passengers, recently come on board, are listlessly sit... ...t I should ever be ac- commodated. No, no. Look you, as I told that cousin-german of yours, the herb-doctor, I’m now on the road to get me made 114 T... ...he faces, but ransacking the lives of several thousands of human be- ings, male and female, of various nations, both employers and employed, genteel a... ...to the moral. Are we right there, sir? Now, sir, take a young boy, a young male infant rather, a man-child in short—what sir, I respectfully ask, do y...

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...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...Portrait of a Lady had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very different from her... ...en, for a Frenchwoman; but extended observation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ...alian, as if it needed to be translated. “Yes,” the other went on, “he’s a German, and we’ve had him many years.” The young girl, who was not heeding ... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...

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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... ...people beyond the family circuit, just as it was part of his plan to learn German this autumn, and to review legal books for Mr. Hilbery’s “Critical R... ...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... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ...onclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to unlock, and took from i... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q...

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...y incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some High- land maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele’s reception ... ...lt on what I, had said about Mr. Timmerman, as she was pleased to call the German philosopher, and sup- posed he must be of the same descent with the ... ...et terrible in their tenor, used frequently to extort, through fear of her maledictions, the relief which was denied to her necessities; and the tremb... ... his mother, in the first burst of her impatience, showering after him her maledictions, and in the next invoking them on her own head, so that they m... ... the service. The old general, however, who had been regularly bred in the German wars, stuck to his own opin- ion, and gave out in orders that the fi... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...

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...will be first Secretary to an Embassy; later, he shall be Minister at some German Court, and God, or I—better still—helping him, he will take his seat... ...ne as a diplomate, and he would probably be accredited as Minister to some German Court. For the last three years Lucien’s life had been regular and a... ...ayfarers. The footman, seated be- hind, was snoring like a wooden top from Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... 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... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...ical feeling—the Marechale d’Ancre and the Queen of France, Semblancay and Malesherbes, Damien and Danton, Desrues and Castaing. Fouquier-Tinville’s p...

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...r Scott CHAPTER III Then (sad relief!) from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar, deep-blooming, strong, And yellow hair’ d, the blue-eyed... ...neral resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst of- 65 Sir Walter Scott fer him injury. At such mee... ...uperstitions which his ances- tors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany. He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a peop... ...elin was well aimed—I heard it whizz through the air with all the wrathful malevolence of him who cast it, and it quivered after it had pitched in the... ...th Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, d... ...dered thy nearest and dearest—who shed the blood of infancy, rather than a male of the noble house of T orquil Wolfganger should survive—with him hast... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...r. Stuart Menteath also makes a most admirable suggestion with re- gard to male and female geniuses who are absorbed in their careers. Although the ge... ... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...direct cost of rear- ing. Obviously the minimum wage for a civilized adult male should be sufficient to cover the rent of the minimum tene- ment permi... ... master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated children with an... ...nly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limited rang... ...l, and the confusion of reconstruction is world-wide among our vowels. The German w of Mr. Samuel Weller has been oblit- erated within the space of a ... ... vernacular teaching, one finds in the schools—at any rate the schools for males—over a large part of the world, a second element, which is always the...

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...darlings were carried about from London to Brighton, from Brighton to some German baths, from the German baths back to Torquay, and thence—as regarded... ... to put our best foot foremost, the wisdom of which is fully recognized by novelists, myself among the number. It can hardly be expected that any one ... ...to dispose of the property as he pleased. Any doubt as to its going to the male heir had never hitherto been felt. It had occasionally been encumbered... ...ere came a rector, and a rector’s sister; and with the latter Mary studied German and French also. From the doctor himself she learnt much; the choice... ...he temptation should not be resisted. The squire, therefore, and the elder male guests soon found them- selves alone round their wine. ‘Upon my word, ... ...s always a danger in delay. The Greshams—of course she alluded only to the males of the family—were foolishly soft-hearted; no one could say what migh...

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... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ges, daily becoming more important in the business of life,—the French and German. I find that there is a class for drawing, a chemical class, subdivi... ...ning and evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; ... ...the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope that they ma... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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...nd. Long before Europe was familiar with the engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (... ...he trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Germans have been spending and making the world spend the comfort, the luxu... ...sources, arrest of material progress, the killing of a large moiety of the males in nearly every European country, and universal loss and unhappiness?... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...ely. It has not only killed and wounded an unprecedented proportion of the male population of all the combatant nations, but it has also destroyed wea... ...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... ...asted your substance—contemptuously. Now, mark you, you have multitudes of male children between the ages of nine and nineteen running about among you...

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...g circumstance, that there was not a single place where *Essays on Russian Novelists. Macmillan. *Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature. Duckwort... ...in the play was to be taken by a certain Monsieur Poplevin, and another *A German dramatist (1761-1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of... ...ity, and, like the average Russian, such a de- sire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. To what the reader already knows concerning the per... ...e the lazy one a cut with his whip. “You know your business all right, you German pantaloon! The bay is a good fellow, and does his duty, and I will g... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...women,” “pet- ticoats,” and others of a nature peculiarly offensive to the male sex. Also, however much they might arm themselves and take the field, ...

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...les, the T urkish historian, which is exposed so severely by Spittler, the German, who, again, is himself miserably superficial in his analysis of Eng... ...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... ...entury, or between the privileged cities and the un- privileged country of Germany down to the Thirty Years’ War; but, for us, they are in the last de... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o... ...ng Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who had every ... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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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.... ...rted, and re- turned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two fe- male domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table ... ...dwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. One of those shambling male human creatures, born to be indiscreetly candid in the revelation of b... ..., but simply Mr Lammle’s room, so it would have been hard for stronger fe- male heads than Georgiana’ s to determine whether its frequent- ers were me... ... which you have no control, interpose obstacles between yourself and Small Germans, you can’t do better than bring a contented mind to hear on’— again... ...ard-grained face of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had n...

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... of a certain sum; and he entailed the estate of la Chanterie on the heirs male of the marriage. “But the Revolution,” said Monsieur Alain in a parent... ... called Champ-Landry, these criminals, obeying the impulse which leads all male- factors into the blunders and miscalculations of crime, threw their g... ...d he studied much and observed much, but he had travelled in every part of Germany, Russia, Persia, and Turkey, whence he had gath- ered many a tradit... ...time with Hedenius of Dresden, Chelius of Heidelburg, and the cel- ebrated German doctors, all the while holding his hand closed, though it was full o... ...up in bronze representing Cupid playing with Death, the present of a great German sculptor whom Halpersohn had doubtless cured. On the mantel-shelf wa... ...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...

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...s of each, including his slaves. In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages ela... ... arise; and (the general progress of society assisting) the slavery of the male sex has, in all the countries of Christian Europe at least (though, in... ..., is in this case not confined to a limited class, but common to the whole male sex. Instead of being, to most of its supporters) a thing de sirable ... ...nglish, the Irish with the Swiss, the Greeks or Italians compared with the German races, so women compared with men may be found, on the average, to d... ... thought, and the perfection of style, there is no inferior ity. Our best novelists in point of composition, and of the management of detail, have mo... ...ntries which have produced first rate composers, even of the male sex, are Germany and Italy— countries in which, both in point of special and of gen ... ...three centuries have not produced fifty emi nent male composers either in Germany or in Italy. There are other reasons, besides those which we have n...

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...f pioneers of agriculture— those frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ru... ...nfusion—so much so that the Western towns appear to have been peopled with Germans. I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And ... ...ed the fact that hired labor is chiefly done by fresh comers, by Irish and Germans, who have not as yet among them any combination sufficient to prote... ...self is that seen from the wood. And here again I would point out that any male visitor should walk the channel of the river up and down. The descent ... ...ion as that of landlord and tenant as regards agricultural holdings. Every male citizen of New York may vote who is twenty- one, who has been a citize... ...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... ... places are sup- plied by younger relatives. A large proportion of the fe- male population of New England has been employed at some time in manufactur...

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...he Double – Dostoevsky 17 “Really?” “T o a cook, to a disreputable German woman from whom he used to get his dinners; instead of paying what... ...Would you believe it, Krestyan Ivanovitch? A low Ger man, a nasty shameless German, Karolina Ivanovna, if you know …” “I confess, for my part …” ... ... its entirety. “As for your hints concerning a certain person of the fe male sex, concerning the intentions, calculations and vari ous designs o... ...imself on the forehead, opening his eyes wider and wider; “so in that filthy German woman’s The Double – Dostoevsky 101 den the whole power of evil ... ...se, and finally die, following the example of some wretched German poets and novelists. Is that it, madam? But, to begin with, allow me to tell you, a...

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...doorpost a card on which was writ- ten in a woman’s handwriting: “WANTED A MALE AT- TENDANT WHO CAN KEEP ACCOUNTS. INQUIRE WITHIN.” The smoker was a p... ...ssons than those which had made her acquainted with the works of Greek and German philosophers long before she under- stood the English into which she... ...nce of Lucian’s statement that the tenant of the Warren Lodge had a single male attendant. It was impossible that this glo- rious vision of manly stre... ...rs. The occasion will be a special one, as Herr Abendgasse, a remark- able German socialist and art critic, is to deliver a lecture on ‘The T rue in A... ... then, if you care to come. At nine o’clock, Herr Abendgasse, a celebrated German art critic and a great friend of mine, will read us a paper on ‘The ... ...eath of the morbid introspection and womanish self-consciousness of poets, novelists, and their like. As to artists, all the good ones are married; an...

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...open his mouth without making some other English- man hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible ... .... I’ve half solved it already. MRS. HIGGINS. No, you two infinitely stupid male crea- tures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards. HI... ...ional people in a small way were odious to her. She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and... ...lasses, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the el- ementary schools, let me not dwell. There wer...

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... the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South A... ...ly!)— until nine—which is late for us—then went upstairs, Jean’ s friendly German dog following. At my door Jean said, “I can’t kiss you good night, f... ...stressed and said I must think of Clara. Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for fo... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ... ...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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...e the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics is not a fact... ...arch. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learns German or gets more than a misleading smattering of physical science. Most ... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...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... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ion. It may be that this is incorrect, and that in devotion to an accepted male and his children most women do still and will continue to find their g...

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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... ...ing on it, just as it took his fancy. When he had read his letters and the German newspapers, which his baggage-master had brought him, he got up, and... ...tto and Sub-lieutenant Fritz, who pre-eminently possessed the grave, heavy German countenance, said: “What, Captain?” He thought for a few moments, an... ...pot, which he filled with gunpow- der, and carefully introduced a piece of German tinder into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this... ...st enter into details. “We had only been there about five minutes when our male neighbor’s float began to go down two or three times, and then he pull... ...rom the cowhouse and had been found the next morning in front of Pros- per Malet’s mill, looking at the sails turning, or about a hen’s egg which had ... ... ven- ture to, and continued: ‘Do you know anyone among your parishioners, male or female, whom I could invite as well?’ He hesitated, reflected, and ...

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...ies of the Ninety-ninth, and Sixty-sixth, and the Grenadier Brigade of the German Legion began to advance up the echelon. The devoted band soon arrive... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... ...ving heart had nothing to cling to. Her splendid mansion was a convent; no male person even entered it, except Franklin Fox, (who counted for nothing,... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ... ... exploit before Ascalon, by the Emperor Maximilian, and a reference to the German Peerage of that day, or a knowledge of high families which every gen... ...he latter rushed into his arms, grown to be one of the finest young men in Germany: tall and exces- sively graceful in proportion, with the blush of h...

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...the Spanish throne; or whether she was tenderly attached to the Emperor of Germany; or whether she was obliged to fight out the quarrel of William of ... ...Bavarian service; and when, after the battle of Blenheim, two regiments of Germans came over to the winning side, Gustavus Adolphus Maximilian found h... ...he village maidens, who love soldiers as flies love treacle; presently the males began to arrive, and lo! the parson of the parish, taking his evening... ...er on certain days;—all which circumstances commonly are expunged from the male brain immediately after they have occurred, but remain fixed with the ... ... She have killed, they say, nine gentlemen at supper, and have strangled a German prince in bed. She have robbed him of twenty thousand guineas, and h... ...and our commission is to apprehend all able- 60 Catherine: A Story bodied male persons who can give no good account of them- selves, and enrol them i... ...onged to have colds in order to partake of the remedy. Some of our popular novelists have compounded their drugs in a similar way, and made them so pa...