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...thers. She was a meagre little Miss Churm, but she was an ample heroine of romance. She was only a freckled cockney, but she could represent everythin... ... for you. That means she can’t turn round.” “She’ll do for the fashionable novels.” “Oh yes, she’ll do for them!” my model humorously de- clared. “Ain... ...nt, I couldn’t get the edi- tor of the Cheapside to publish a really royal romance, “A Tale of Buckingham Palace.” Sometimes, however, the real thing ... ...Beatrice. As I never insisted, in such situations, on the blankness of the British domestic, I reflected that he had the making of a servant (and I ne...

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...gh-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poe... ...enough to induce him to risk himself within the dangerous precincts of the British capital. This appears from Dr. King’s Anecdotes of His Own Times. ‘... ... efusa est sicut aqua—non crescat. He goeth to dancing-houses, and readeth novels—sat est.’ I endeavoured to parry these texts by observing, that the ... ... that the dancing-houses amounted only to one night at La Pique’s ball—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jone... ...fety and future for- tunes, from visiting England; every other part of the British dominions, and a tour, if I pleased, on the Continent, being left t... ...ge of the circle to which it is limited by its halter. Do not accuse me of romance for obeying this impulse towards the South; nor suppose that, to sa... ...e came across me; and I could have been well contented to have swapped the romance of my situation, together with the glorious inde- pendence of contr... ...t; this is all which it is neces- sary for you at present to know.’ ‘Every British subject has a right to know why he suffers restraint,’ I replied; ‘...

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...tunate. I have examined many fine and apparently self sacrificing deeds in romances and biographies, but— O.M. Under searching analysis the ostensible... ..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...r—were the other three. They were all of a sentimental cast; they were all romance read ers; they all wrote poetry, such as it was; they were all vai... ... 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 ... ...nd and tradition—and, oh, all the darling tribe are clothed in mystery and romance, and we read about them with deep interest and discuss them with lo...

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...all have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I would be... ...ndifferent to literary fame, that he did not care about the success of his romance, republished under its real title, L’Archer de Charles IX., or the ... ... proposed to him one of those infernal bargains which are heard of only in romances, but of which the hideous possibility has often been proved in cou... ... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...f inimi- cal and warring tribes, of which Cooper made such good use in his novels, was here associated with the petty details of Paris life. The foot-...

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...ad once been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the fles... ...g.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of their workpeopl... ...gible confu- sions that were matter of fact to their fathers. Here were we British, forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably a... ... for once of the sons of the Secure, “would find it difficult to run their romances on a pawnshop basis. However, we must manage it.” I felt the day w... ...ace of all its matter-of-fact queerness, its sense of aimless materialism, romance returned to me, and passion, and my thoughts of honor and revenge. ... ...ully , so far as people of the “permanent official” class saw them, in the novels of Mrs. Humphry Ward. All these books are still in this world and at...

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...tional, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in co... ...uch title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here presen... ... us to that joint-stock ve- hicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Lit- erature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...rn-boots, and other riding and fighting gear have been bepainted in modern Romance, till the whole has acquired somewhat of a sign-post character,—I s... ....” So ends, abruptly as is usual, and enigmatically, this little incipient romance. What henceforth becomes of the brave Herr Towgood, or Toughgut? He... ...BE DEJECIT [sub dato]; POSTREMUM [sub dato]. 96 Sartor Resartus CHAPTER V ROMANCE “For long years,” writes Teufelsdrockh, “had the poor He- brew, in ... ...ret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and oth... ... appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directin...

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...to do, ex- cept a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She thought study would b... ...ging. Daugh- ters were not like sons. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions.... ...Wells about so much.” “Y es. That’s about the beginning. It’s these damned novels. All this torrent of misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the ... ...or a kiss, and touching hands lights fires that burn up lives—the world of romance, the world of passionately beautiful things. But that other world, ... ...enly into another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. Had romance to be banished from life? … It was hard to part with romance, but s... ...ot look to right or left again. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea- Table Company shop to get some tea. And as she was yet waiting... ...awdry conceptions of pas- sion and desire were in that blond cranium, what romance- begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure! but they sufficed, when... ...erself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essa... ... nity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist m...

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...his story) a poet, though he had never written a line of verse. Or perhaps romancer will describe him better. Like I know not how many of those who do... ...and if he had faced it as realistically as such people do in Mr. Gissing’s novels, he would probably have come by way of drink to suicide in the cours... .... His entire life, you must understand, 35 H G Wells was not a continuous romance, but a series of short stories linked only by the general resemblan... ...m the beginning, expunging the statements that Hoopdriver was a poet and a romancer, and saying instead that he was a playwright and acted his own pla... ... and purple masses of Hindhead, where Mr. Grant Allen writes his Hill T op Novels day by day. The sun shone, and the wide blue hill views and pleasant... ...world. Less than you think. But you will learn. Before you write all those novels we have talked about, you will have to learn. And that’s one point—”... ... ally a girl. She knew the thing to do was to have a flat and to go to the British Museum and write leading articles for the daily p,tpers until somet... ... Ringwood, and had told him everything forthwith, having met him once at a British As- sociation meeting. He had immediately constituted himself 146 ...

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...ncouragement to many others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impover... ...others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impoverishing of book selle... ...ons who have scrupled to aim at both: and if we examine the ro mances and novels with which the world abounds, I think we may fairly conclude, that m... ...demands numbers, or something like numbers: whereas, to the composition of novels and ro mances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with ... ...prehension of this contempt that hath made us so cautiously avoid the term romance, a name with which we might otherwise have been well enough content... ...s gener ally understood a creative faculty, which would indeed prove most romance writers to have the highest pretensions to it; whereas by invention... ...n the mystery of boxing: where the whole theory and practice of that truly British art, with all the various stops, blows, cross buttocks, &c., incid...

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...d heart-searching. It is an industry which, like other industries, has its romance, its honour and its rewards, its bitter anxieties and its hours of ... ...f pencilled lines without a meaning. But in that maze there lurked all the romance of the “overdue” and a menacing hint of “missing.” “We had three we... ... perfectability. How will they feel on seeing the illustrations to the sea novels of our day, or of our yesterday? It is impossible to guess. But the ... ...aftiness and profound duplicity. The narrow seas around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean... ... the eye. When one talks of the Thames docks, “beauty” is a vain word, but romance has lived too long upon this river not to have thrown a mantle of g... ...er men there were ready and able to add to the trea- sure of victories the British navy has given to the nation. It was the lot of Lord Nelson to exal... ...all this glory. Exalt! the word seems to be created for the man. XLVII THE BRITISH NAVY may well have ceased to count its victories. It is rich beyond...

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...he form of a fictitious narrative of the voyage of one Mr. Pye, an English traveller, and his conversation with a chief; there are touches of satire ... ... to Egypt and we’ll meet at Shepheard’s Hotel, and you’ll put me in my place, which I stand in need of badly by this time. Lord, what bully times!I su... ...rein; two of my old stories, ‘Delafield’ and ‘Shovel,’ are incorporated; it is to be told in the third person, with some of the brevity of history, so... ...a horse; Thursday I was better, but still out of ability to do aught but read awful trash. This is the time one misses civilisation; I wished to send ... ...is the first realistic South Sea story; I mean with real South Sea character and details of life. Everybody else who has tried, that I have seen, got ... ...f Wrecker since the mail left, which must be my excuse, and the bother I’ve had with it is not to be imagined, you might have seen me the day before y... ...but when I remem- ber I had the Treasure of Franchard refused as unfit for a family magazine, I feel despair weigh upon my wrists. As I know you are a... ...ng by next mail, and must go again at the History. Is it not characteristic of my bro- ken tenacity of mind, that I should have left Davie Balfour som... ...d already) right at Lady Jersey’s shoulder. She started in fine style. —‘There,’ I said, ‘we have been giving you a chap- ter of Scott, but this goes ...

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...that curious nondescript whaleback they had come suddenly to the edge of a romance—a romance that had been lived through be- fore they were born. Then... ...Y ou haven’t read any of them yet?” “Not a one. I’ve been reading only the novels we take up in the Wednesday class.” “Lord!” muttered Condy. Condy’s ... ...is—that’s the main point—just keeping those people apart, spoiling a whole romance. Maybe ruining their lives. It’s quite possible; really it is. Just... ... * * * Condy had intended to call his diver’s story “A Sub- marine Romance,” but Blix had disapproved. “It’s too ‘T wenty Thousand Leagues Und... ...ace, called “The Exiles,” made up chiefly of “younger sons” of English and British-Canadian families, every mem- ber possessed of a “past” more or les... ...downright mental travail and anguish that fall to the lot of the writer of novels. T o write a short story with the end in plain sight from the beginn...

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...ling and punctuation have been largely brought into conformity with modern British usage. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY This lit... ... in meeting in defi- ance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Y es, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and imp... ...wit, and taste to recommend them. “I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels— It is really very well for ... ...ould never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.” “No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison hers... ...it is not a trifle that will support a family nowadays; and after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money. I only wonder John coul... ...me she ran off to her own room. 151 Jane Austen CHAPTER 25 THE VISIONS of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, shor... ...t use. The anxieties of common life began soon to succeed to the alarms of romance. Her desire of hearing from Isabella grew every day greater. She wa...

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...s, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been pub... ... rela- tively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed onl... ...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... ...ool of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec- tive, and foolis... ... pity in that crew of Godless, Vivisecting Prigs?’ cried this last king of romance. ‘Do you think, Pestovitch, they understand anything of a high ambi... ...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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... legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become... ...iters who take a malicious pleasure in rep- resenting the great figures of romance as pat- *This was described in Christie’s catalogue as follows: “A ... ...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ... Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members... ...s that came down from Mudie’s Library brought with them not only their own romance, but the romance of London. She had a real passion for reading (rar... ...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir...

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...e is at this very time (1854), and has been for twenty years, passing over British society. Multitudes of per- sons are becoming ashamed of saying, ‘m... ...a successful flight, and, there- fore, for the following revolution in the romance of his own abominable life. He had in his pockets above a hundred p... ...dle out; put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a muti... ...he seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they ... ...ar more playful and genial than Swift’s; something of this is shown in his romance of ‘Idris,’ and oftentimes in his prose. But what the world knows W... ... what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of voluptuousne... ...for unrealizing the effects of dramatic situations: 1. We may see, even in novels and prose comedies, a keen attention paid to the inspiriting and dre...

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...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...ur? Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chos... ...alid. When he met Miss Briggs coming home from the library with a cargo of novels under her arm, Mr. Crawley blushed in a manner quite unusual to him,... ...id business with his lawyers there, and sold off all Miss Crawley’s French novels to a bookseller out of Bond Street. Becky had reasons of her own whi...

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...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...ess homes in which so many find themselves, a going out towards something, romance if you will, beauty, that has suddenly be- come a need—a need that ... ...y to all that had hith- erto seemed nonsense about love. I took to reading novels, and if the heroine could not possibly be like her, dusky and warm a... ... pursuing such interests, went so far as to read political memoirs and the novels of Disraeli and Mrs. Humphry Ward. From gossip, example and the illu... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ...age, I too was for leaving them alone. I developed a dread and dislike for romance, for emotional music, for the human figure in art—turning my heart ... ...sed people—people overshadowed by a situation. We shall be an elopement, a romance—all our breadth and meaning gone! People will always think of it fi...

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... and one of the young men took his turn there was often half an hour during which she could pull out a bit of work or a book—a book from the place whe... ...ted that Cocker’s should have been one of the bigger offices where telegrams arrived as well as departed, there were yet ways in which, on the whole, ... ...d to Jordan. Little by little, to her own stupefaction, she caught that he was trying to take it as she meant it and that he was neither astonished no... ...n between them. She quite thrilled herself with thinking what, with such a lot of material, a bad girl would do. It would be a scene better than many ... ...d as to there being on the whole no decent pretext to justify her flitting casually past at three o’clock in the morning. That was the hour at which, ...

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... (din- ing-room) table heroes; of the epic of the pewter platoons, and the romance-cycle of “Gaston Le Fox,” which we in- vented, maintained, and foun... ... 4 The Pit The T rilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the fol- lowing novels: The Octopus, a Story of California. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. Th... ...alifornia. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. The Wolf, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected with each other... ...ons, tragic, in a sense vaguely por- tentous,—the coiffure of a heroine of romance, doomed to dark crises. On this occasion at the side of the topmost... ... together in a single, barely audible murmur, vibrating with emotion, with romance, and with sentiment, she heard, in a hoarse, masculine whisper, the... ...ry carefully,” he assured her. “Say,” he added, “where are all your modern novels? You’ve got Scott and Dickens and Thackeray, of course, and Eliot—ye... ...fair? You remem- ber that row between England and Turkey. They tell me the British agent in Constantinople put it pretty straight to the Sultan the ot... ...e between England and Turkey over the Higgins-Pasha incident, and that the British Foreign Office has threatened the Sultan with an ultimatum. I can s... ...e. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we get cables before noon that the British War Office had sent an ulti- matum.” And very naturally a few minut...