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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...l, and Miss Watson very well, and with the power of singing difficult part music at sight, they did so for the same reason that the lark sings, and ch... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...s a baffled visionary, whose favorite conceit had suddenly exploded like a rocket into smoke and stench, is more than we know. But, at all events, the... ...ng description, which Mr. Gor- don gives us, of Hydra: “Built on a sterile rock, which does not offer, at any season, the least trace of vegetation, i... ...re able- bodied seamen.” The other islands were, with few exceptions, arid rocks; and most of them had the inestimable advantage of being unplagued wi...

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... along that road are in the habit of rest- ing. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fant... ...t sumptuous, dress of a few individuals dispersed here and there among the groups, where they shone like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of ... ...eads defiantly. They covertly examined the woods, and paths, and masses of rock which flanked the road, after the manner of a dog with his nose to the... ...not resist pausing to admire it again, like those dilettanti who enjoy all music the more when fa- miliar with its construction. From the summit of La... ...n their declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of whi... ... the 13 Balzac stranger was like that of a tom-tom in the midst of tender music. But the word “harangue” is insufficient to reproduce the hatred, the... ...old blockhead. A pretty time to choose to let fools sail the ship! English rockets from all the head- lands, and those cursed Chouan cockchafers in th... ...th a scoffing look. “That’s all very fine,” he said; “but I don’t like the music. You will come with me to headquarters.” “Why do you take him there?”... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ...iently to explore its recesses. These sacred niches are scooped out of the rock, and will give you an impres- sion if you cannot do without one. You w... ...admirable bridge, and leaning, behind, as it were, against the pedestal of rock on which the dark castle masses itself. The town is so small, the pede... ... castle so high and striking, that the clustered houses at the base of the rock are like the crumbs that have fallen from a well-laden table. You pass... ...ng was of the best, and I became as fat as a monk. We made a great deal of music, and acted comedies.” This is the only description that Rousseau give... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...had not come over the spirit of the people. They seemed to me as silent as Americans when Americans have not been “introduced,” and infinitely less ad... ...re has a voice as well, but it lingers on the ear of time with a different music. The Roman theatre at Arles seemed to me one of the most charming and... ...ectory) dur- ing which the treasure could not be shown. The purpose of the musical chimes to which I had so artlessly listened was to usher in this fr...

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... The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this planet or that—it was a... ...h will ever see, that under the blaze of the day the harsh outlines of the rocks and ravines of the plains and crater floor grew gray and indistinct u... ...oot of the cliff, and showed a disordered escarpment of drab and gray- ish rock, lined here and there with banks and crevices of snow. This was perhap... ..., and the surface of the moon is showing. We are lying on a bank of earthy rock. Here and there bare soil is exposed. A queer sort of soil!” It occurr... ...at began the century, arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. Hi... ...e of bearers, attendants, shouters, parachute-carriers, and so forth—queer groups to see. The experts for the most part ignore me completely, even as ... ...limbs moved with a rustling murmur. “As I entered the penultimate hall the music rose and ex- panded into an imperial magnificence of sound, and the s... ...f the giant stairs. Then began a vast throbbing hum, that mingled with the music. The two Selenites dis- mounted, but I was bidden remain seated—I ima... ...mounted, but I was bidden remain seated—I imagine as a special honour. The music ceased, but not that humming, arid by a simultaneous movement of ten ...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...nvoirlich’s head, The deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging ... ...ught the wild heaths of Uam-Var. III. Yelled on the view the opening pack; Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back; T o many a mingled sound at once The... ...up the margin of the lake, Between the precipice and brake, O’er stock and rock their race they take. VIII. The Hunter marked that mountain high, The ... ...s enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’... ...s the Franciscan steeple reel? And see! upon the crowded street, In motley groups what masquers meet! Banner and pageant, pipe and drum, And merry mor... ...ee, she lifts her head; The window seeks with cautious tread. What distant music has the power T o win her in this woful hour? ‘T was from a turret th... ...at is, each pause in the singing. In Marmion, ii. 11, according is used of music that fills the intervals of other music: “Soon as they neared his tur...

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...me, and in a thou- sand permutations and combinations, belong to four main groups. We have (1) SOLDIERS, and with these I class sail- ors, railway por... ...of a strip of cardboard. Their own island, the one to the south-left, is a rocky wilderness containing caves. Their chief food is the wild-goat, but i... ...atures of wood, in happier days the inhabitants of that Swiss farm. Sunken rocks off this island are indicated by a white foam which takes the form of... ... comes the island nearest to the reader on the left. This also is wild and rocky, inhabited not by negroid blacks, but by Indians, whose tents, made b... ...lities. Zulus and foreign-looking persons, such as East Indian cavalry and American Indians, are also disfranchised. So are riderless horses and camel... ...race. The town guard pa- rades in their honor, and up the hill a number of musicians (a little hidden by trees) ride on gray horses towards them. Pass... ... performing dogs, who are, as the guide-book would say, “discoursing sweet music.” In neither ward of the city does there seem to be the slightest res... ... of the city does there seem to be the slightest restraint upon the use of musical instruments. It is no place for neurotic people. The gardens contai...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...ce a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games. But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often bo... ...th diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne s... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...h songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams, and ta... ...evada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific—its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile. S... ...satch Mountains. It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American en- gineers found the most formidable dif... ..., avoided its difficulties by wind- ing around, instead of penetrating the rocks. One tunnel only, fourteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in or...

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...an was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed with a rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, livi... ... rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, living in small family groups, killed by some younger man so soon as his first virile activity dec... ...en, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron ore and the promise of sword and spear; he froze to deat... ...ry; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of volcanoes like cricket balls and blowing pumice into foam, and... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ... informant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his way to the Alhambra music hall. Barnet became aware of an excitement in the newspaper kiosks at... ...roadways; and everywhere in solitary steadings, amidst ricks and barns, in groups by the wayside, in straggling villages, each with its fine old churc...

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...of elegant models; their excessive whiteness, as contrasted with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the pu... ...o hot to have a hand laid on them comfortably. We went, first of all, up a rocky height, to the cathedral: where Mass was performing to an auditory ve... ...om into crisp blue fire. The air was so very clear, that distant hills and rocky points appeared within an hour’s walk; while the town im mediately a... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ... a po lite way of begging for a contribution towards the expenses of some music in the Saint’s honour, so we gave him what ever it may have been, an... ...k between four and five feet high, but are really much smaller; for when a musician in the orchestra hap pens to put his hat on the stage, it becomes... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...aly, France, the United States, Japan, and this country will send separate groups of representatives, with separate instructions, unequal status, and ... ...about the fifth standard level, plus a little French, German, Italian, and music—who do so much to make our England what it is at the present time, up... ...d the like, in Eastern Europe, grouped together if possible into congenial groups—crowned republics it might be in some cases, in the case of the Serb... ...m that he will be able to satisfy himself that there is not an inch of the rock anywhere that is not within five miles or less of Spanish land, and th... ...h land, and that there is rather more than a semicircle of hills round the rock within a range of seven or eight miles. That is much less than the ran... ...oreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does could be discharged at any ship that approache...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ..., Austrian shells began to come over. They do not use shrapnel because the rocky soil of Italy makes that unneces- sary. They fire a sort of shell tha... ...te crags, making perhaps a hundred metres of ascent each day, hiding under rocks and in holes in the daylight and receiving fresh provisions and ammun... ...held out invincibly; this was the Castelletto, a great natural fortress of rock standing out at an angle of the mountain in such a position that it co... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...y not “army men” at all. One finds that the apparent subaltern is really a musician, or a musical critic, or an Egyptologist, or a solicitor, or a clo... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...g out the cavalry, the brewing and distilling industries, the theatres and music halls, and the like unproductive occupations. The under-staff- ing of... ...r their alli- ances, we may count it that the matter rests now between two groups of Allies and one neutral power. So that while on the one hand the d...

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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ...scorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic ... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ... the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and... ...hel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo oop! S... ...ding to my strength! Blood’s my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen!—and lay low and hold you... ...they happened to be fiddling down below, and we just caught the sound of the music in time to sheer off, doing no serious damage, unfortunately, but c... ...oars; it is lovely to see the white foam stream away from the bows; there is music in the rush of the water; it is deliciously ex hilarating, in summ...

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...el, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly ... ... patient work of countless ages. O.M. You could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You woul... ... the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built—but along with a ... ... father. He had a young sister with a remarkable voice—he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self supporting might be grat... ... comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Quite seriously. Yes. O.M. The sister’s music lessens had to stop? Y.M. Yes. O.M. The young brother’s education—wel... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...law by which it automatically hammers out of a piano an elaborate piece of music, with out error, while the man is thinking about something else, or ... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a...

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...on shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bordered it, and, sitting beneath their shelter, wrote the... ...eezes sweep. _55 Floating on waves of music and of light, The chariot of the Daemon of the World Descends in sile... ...e mountain’s loftiest peak Was traced a line of lightning. Now far above a rock the utmost verge Of the wide earth it flew, ... ...e billowy mountain clouds, Edged with intolerable radiancy, T owering like rocks of jet Above the burning deep: ... ...too enamoured of that voice, _65 Locks its mute music in her rugged cell. By solemn vision, and bright silver dream 42 V o... ...voice was like the voice of his own soul Heard in the calm of thought; its music long, Like woven sounds of streams and breezes, held ... ...sible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting fami... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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...icult an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sCha... ... the mysteri ous page, and read it so skilfully that it sounded like wild music. It seemed as if the forest leaves were singing in the ears of his au... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...ip, and gave him directions how to find the very spot. It was on a reef of rocks, a few leagues from Porto de la Plata. On his arrival in England, the... ...boat. The boat was intended for the purpose of going closer to the reef of rocks than a large vessel could safely venture. When it was finished, the c... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... ... than to wear red coats and march in stately ranks to the sound of regular music. Still was heard the beat of the drum, rub a dub dub! And now a host... ...quiet descendants of the Puri tans were shocked by the uproar of military music; the drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voice...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...e tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that ro- mantic and picture... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ... themselves. CHAPTER III “All that thou see’st is Natures handiwork; Those rocks that upward throw their mossy brawl Like castled pinnacles of elder t... ... Like castled pinnacles of elder times; These venerable stems, that slowly rock Their towering branches in the wintry gale; That field of frost, which... ...ot a rhyme for the last line yet. Well, old John, what do you think of the music? as good as one of your war-songs, ha?” “Good!” said Mohegan, who had... ...lack head to gray.’ —Hear how old John turns his quavers. What damned dull music an Indian song is, after all, Major! I wonder if they ever sing by no... ...into the low, quavering sounds that seemed to compose the character of his music. The attention of the company was now much divided, the men in the re...

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...e other he holds the fragment of a pipe, or some such sylvan instrument of music. His only garment—a lion’s skin, with the claws upon his shoulder— fa... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...h are shaggy with wa- ter-weeds; or they tumble like natural cascades from rock to 54 The Marble Fawn rock, sending their murmur afar, to make the qu... ...easant to see how the green and blue lizards, who had beta basking on some rock or on a fallen pillar that absorbed the warmth of the sun, scrupled no... ...Miriam’s fair hands with flowers, and lead her along in triumph, “there is music somewhere in the grove!” “It is your kinsman, Pan, most likely,” said... ...m puff out his rough cheeks and pipe his merriest air! Come; the strain of music will guide us onward like a gayly colored thread of silk.” “Or like a... ...h careful art and ordered irregularity, a broad and broken heap of massive rock, looking is if it might have lain there since the deluge. Over a centr...

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...ows, but man departs,’ says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage ... ...ined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and mulberry in growth, and bearing a flower like a great yellow poppy with a m... ...nderstudy) would be fluting in the thickets overhead. A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence sp... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...gise for the smallness of their repertory. They were only young folk present, they said, and it was only the old that knew the songs. The whole body o... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...y years of Europe . . .’ Farther on, the floor of the valley is flat and green, and dotted here and there with stripling coco-palms. Through the midst... ...he cockpit, study for a while my shapeless scrawl and encourage me with a heart- felt ‘Mitai!—good!’ So might a deaf painter sympathise 88 In The Sou...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ... All at once we got into a strong current, which swept us rapidly toward a rocky promontory forming one side of the harbour. The wind had died away; s... ...efore this could be done, the eddies were whirling upon all sides, and the rock so near that it seemed as if one might leap upon it from the masthead.... ...t, the many stories I had heard of ships striking at midnight upon unknown rocks, with all sail set, and a slum- bering crew, often recurred to me, es... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ... strange, hollow little notes of laughter, that sounded like the bass of a music-box, playing a lively air with the lid down. Now, I knew not that the... ...st, where a stranger is always welcome. A good loud squeal, therefore, was music in our ears. It showed something going on in that direction. Breaking... ...s, alas! as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal; one of those who make no music unless the clapper be silver. In the course of a few days, the sailor...

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...” Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ... Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven, To hang their momentary fires Amid the vault of hea... ...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust health... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... ...om the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a ne... ...e corn when you may,say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here comes the music; now for it! Azore sailor. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up... ...rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funereal music. Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this 18...