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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French ... ...e, and for the sake of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a st... ...future. And the last thing it will be able to do will be to legislate. The history of the immediate fu- ture will, I am convinced, be very largely the... ...east coast harbour, a refuge liable to aeroplanes, or to the west coast of Ireland—and the real naval war, which, as I have argued in an earlier chapt... ...e majority of people detest the preposterously clumsy attempts to amputate Ireland from the rule of the British Parliament which have been going on si... ...on of A’s. Such a situation actually oc- curs in both Ulster and Home-Rule Ireland. But now let us suppose another arrangement, and that is that the w...

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