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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and the Future by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...le and immortal Prisoner of W ar of Mr. Arthur Green—or such admirable war correspondents’ work as Mr. Philip Gibbs or Mr. Washburne has done. Some of... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ...

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...might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate p... ...ke his companion, but a strong hack- ney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a ch... ... a black varnish of soot. On the sides of the apartment hung implements of war and of the chase, and there were at each corner folding doors, which ga... ... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ... ...ation of the present enormous rates, some favour might not be shown to the correspondents of the principal Literary and Antiquarian Societies. I under...

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... and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins? suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works....

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.......................................................................................................................................... 94 Answers to Correspondents ............................................................................................................................................ 96 REVIEW ..............................................................

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............................................................... 94 Answers to Correspondents ............................................................... ...he Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled ... ...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ... Cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the ... ...d out how to steer dirigible balloons. Magniac invented his rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went o... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him....

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...more fully soon. Will say now that all your despatches to the Secretary of War have been promptly shown to me. Have done and shall do all I could and ... ...coln: V ol Six By order of the President: EDWIN M. STANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, b... ...he Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL RUFUS SAXTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, May, 24 1862. 2 P.M. GENERAL SAXTON: Geary reports Jackson ... ...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...homestead, is our ample resource. Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. In... ...SHINGTON, June 1, 1863. COLONEL LUDLOW, Fort Monroe: Richardson and Brown, correspondents of the Tribune cap- tured at Vicksburg, are detained at Rich...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an... ...d Hulker’s house, Devonshire Place (Hulker, Bullock, and Co. were long the correspondents of her house in the West Indies), and the girls had made the... ...t one, as my respected friends Hulker and Bullock will vouch, who were the correspondents of your late lamented father. Y ou’ll find us a united, simp...

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...the hall, and the atom, after a pause to assure herself that all danger of war was past, went out, to weep bitterly on Amomma’s neck. 6 The Light Tha... ...andahar, ridin’ two an’ two. —Barrack-Room Ballad. ‘I’M NOT ANGRY with the British public, but I wish we had a few thousand of them scattered among th... ...ghting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of the many deserts; there were yet... ...sed and thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picture... ...ch were worth telegraphing home at eighteenpence the word. There were many correspondents with many corps and columns,—from the veterans who had follo... ...hern Syndicate in the cam- paign, as he had represented it in the Egyptian war, 17 Rudyard Kipling and elsewhere. The syndicate did not concern itsel... ... 18 The Light That Failed He rode away swiftly through the Gate of the Two War-Ships, rattled across the causeway into the town, and wired to his synd... ... political, Dick was made free of the New and Honourable Fraternity of war correspondents, who all possess the inalienable right of doing as much work... ...had talked not too wisely in the veranda of Shepherd’s Hotel, hurrying war correspondents, skip- pers of the contract troop-ships employed in the cam-...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an... ...d Hulker’s house, Devonshire Place (Hulker, Bullock, and Co. were long the correspondents of her house in the West Indies), and the girls had made the... ...t one, as my respected friends Hulker and Bullock will vouch, who were the correspondents of your late lamented father. Y ou’ll find us a united, simp... ...oyhood are. We have said how the two Misses Dobbin and Amelia, the Major’s correspondents in Europe, wrote him letters from England, Mrs. Osborne cong...

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...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ... word, the deluge of blows began, but before long the surgeon once more inter- fered—for the only reason which ever permits him to inter- fere—and the... ...bering him in his needs and delivering sun- dry such cargoes into his hands at times when only special providences could have relieved him. He was a d... ... the cause of humanity, and so find a worthy death and a blessed reunion with the brave true heart whose love had more honored him than all his victor... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ... ...is, so that the authorities can find him when they want to hang him. Stars, crosses, triangles, squares, half-moons, suns—such are some of the signs u...

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...ume One which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of liter- ary war before known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy... ...ication of his letters. It seems that, in 1729, Pope had recalled from his correspondents the letters he had written them, of many of which he had kep... ...rilegious hands; Secure from flames, from envy’s fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving age. See from each clime the learn’d their incense b... ...When love was all an easy monarch’s care; 21 Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensio... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g...

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...ctitious composi- tion, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation wi... ...rmy, were an ancient and high-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon... ...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. ‘... ... circumstances, and from his being one of that unfortunate person’s chosen correspondents. He, as well as other men of sense and observation, began to... ...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... ...med to avoid human society, and to remain un- perturbed amid the elemental war, it seemed that to speak to him at that moment would have been to addre... ...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; ‘... ...eir dinner till three, that they may have full time to answer their London correspondents.’ ‘London correspondents!’ said Mr. Maxwell; ‘and pray what ... ...r W alter Scott the devil have the people of Auld Reekie to do with London correspondents?’ [Not much in those days, for within my recollection the Lo...

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...rt to be re- garded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprint... ...t years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing ... ...blication, it now became a duty of gratitude and respect to these numerous correspondents, that I should either republish the papers in question, or e... ...upon medical men as people privileged, and naturally commissioned, to make war upon pain and sickness, I never had a misgiving about the result. I gri... ...much leisure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coexten... ...nce! Such a disproportion, it seems, might exist, in the case of a ghostly war, between the harvest of possible results and the slender band of reaper... ...mory furnishes, was the brother who now first laid open to me the gates of war. The occasion was this. He had resented, with a shower of stones, an af... ...t the Sultan of Turkey, whilst credulously supposing themselves honor- ary correspondents of a learned body for reviving the arts and literature of At...

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... But not at all adapted to my rhymes. Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war, And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d; There ‘s no mo... ... for accomplishments of chivalry, In case our lord the king should go to war again, He learn’d the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how t... ...o spreads, they say ‘T is grown high time to thin it in its turn, With war, or plague, or famine, any way, So that civilisation they may lea... ...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...Cape Matapan, Among his friends the Mainots; some he sold To his Tunis correspondents, save one man Toss’d overboard unsaleable (being old);... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t...

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...riends under the tents, who like a jolly fellow, and laugh at a melancholy war- rior always sighing after Dulcinea at home. Both the ladies of Castlew... ...re- sistance, such as had never met us in the course of their ag- gressive war. Had the battle been more successful, the con- queror might have got th... ...rightful day of carnage, the general cry was, that there was enough of the war. The French were driven back into their own boundary, and all their con... ... we of the new world submit much longer, even nominally, to this an- cient British superstition? There are signs of the times which make me think that... ...y, as good? God save the King! and, if the monarchy fails us, God save the British Republic!” He filled another great bumper, and tossed it up and dra... ... dare to molest the Prince should he come among us, and fling himself upon British generosity, hospitality, and honor? An in- vader with an army of Fr... ... The town swarmed with friends of the Prince’s cause; there were scores of correspondents with St. Germains; Jacobites known and secret; great in stat...

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...require to look at them before answering that question.” “I’ve been to the British museum—there are many of his letters there. I’ve obtained permissio... ...hem and preserved them? Who are the persons mentioned in them? who are the correspondents, the parties to the nefarious transac- tions? You say the tr... ...al presence, took a long walk on the Em- bankment. His impressions were at war with each other— he was flurried by possibilities of which he yet denie...

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...o the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance o... ...giving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of this ... ... Lady puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about En- gland, about the British constitution, the English char- acter, the state of politics, the m... ...o amused themselves, time and again, with talk- ing of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it;... ...Then when he had fallen into the trap, “It’s a pity you can’t see me in my war-paint and feathers,” she remarked; “if I had known how kind you are to ... ...that he might have ridden, on a plunging steed, the whirl- wind of a great war—a war like the Civil strife that had overdarkened her conscious childho... ...e diffusion of lively journalism and in consolidating the position of lady-correspondents as it was on the part of his companion to suppose that the c...

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... station, and I reflected. I had heard, more than once, of men personating correspondents of newspapers and bleeding small Native States with threats ... ... light on their peculiar methods of government, and do their best to choke correspondents with champagne, or drive them out of their mind with four-in... ...“Y ou’re another,” and Mister Gladstone is calling down brimstone upon the British Dominions, and the little black copyboys are whining, “kaa-pi chay-... ...chey!’ At that he puts on his crown and I puts on mine,—I was doing Senior War- den,—and we opens the Lodge in most ample form. It was an amazing mira... ...ere was any fighting to be done in small villages. That was his Council of War, and the four priests of Bashkai, Shu, Khawak, and Madora was his Privy... ..., turning his head from right to left: “The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner stream...

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... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... long array of thrones: De Montforts, Gavestons, Mortimers, Villierses; the war mak ing, campaign directing wantons of France, and Charles the Seco... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ...ed, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literar... ...d the circus began. It was beautiful to hear the lad lay out the science of war, and wallow in details of battle and siege, of supply, transportation... ...e Interdict made no impression, got no grip, while the war lasted. I had war correspondents with both armies. I will finish that battle by reading you...

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... they call their judgment on him! “The sin of Hare’s Book,” says one of my Correspondents in those years, “is easily defined, and not very condem- nab... ...a Scot- tish Gustavus-Adolphus soldier, whom the breaking out of the Civil War had recalled from his German campaignings, and had before long, though ... ...ty he did; had not Tredah Storm proved ruinous, and the neck of this Irish War been broken at once. Doubt- *Commons Journals, iv. 15 (l0th January, 16... ... far-seen smoke or confla- gration; and whole fleets, that might have been war-fleets to conquer kingdoms, are consumed (too truly, often), amid “fame... ...t has got notice of what is going on; the Spanish Envoy, and of course the British Foreign Sec- retary, and of course also the Thames Police. Armed me... ...r,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Gov- ernor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown. As ... ...o anything. The fated, gallant-minded, but too headlong man. At length the British Governor himself was obliged, in official decency and as is thought... ...man, we now hear nothing more; of Church matters, and that only to special correspondents, less and less. Strauss, whom he used to mention, had intere...

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...mentary flare out of the candle, as that the ba- bies—Hindoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cat... ...a larger house, have many matters to arrange, and be beset by num- bers of correspondents. If you would try me as your Secre- tary—’ ‘ As what?’ cried... ...ursued Mr Podsnap, with dignity , ‘Many Evidences that Strike Y ou, of our British Constitution in the Streets Of The World’s Metropolis, London, Lond... ... Mr Podsnap explained, as if he were teaching in an infant school.’ We Say British, But You Say Britannique, You Know’ (forgivingly, as if that were n... ...tterly ruined now, but they would be more utterly ruined then. Among these correspondents are several daughters of general officers, long accustomed t... ... (ex- cept spelling), who little thought, when their gallant fathers waged war in the Peninsula, that they would ever have to appeal to those whom Pro... ...gain.’ In those very same moments, Bella was thinking, ‘Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon com- pulsion, what I knew all ... ...e, if I could get enough for it.’ And so she would come round again to the war with herself. A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole ov...

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...g in it), looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatc... ...o be paid down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lo... ...bers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British and For- eign Soap Company, the celebrated attorneys Kite and Levis... ... said he would get him the nominal rank of Captain, the fees at the Panama War Office were five-and-twenty pounds, which sum honest Eglantine produced... ...he Captain’s exchequer was rather low at that moment, and the fees at the “War Office” were pe- remptory. Meanwhile His Highness left Regent Street, w... ...se of the Life Guards, and a few more. Can you tear yourself away from the war of wits, and take a quiet dinner with a few mere men about town?” The l... ...: puffs of the English school of music appeared perpetually in “Notices to Correspondents” in the Sunday prints, some of which Mr. Slang commanded, an...