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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...ng up the blind the servant was startled by the dis- covery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the flow... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur...

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...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...ling up the blind the servant was startled by the discovery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the 60 ... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur...

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...feel disposed for refreshment after walking nobody knows how far on such a Canadian night as this; but it shall not be brandy- and-water, and it shall... ...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...ly soothed her. Juanna T rista remained in Europe long enough to repay, by malevolence and ingratitude, all who had ever done her a good turn; and she... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.... ... teeth, complexion, shape, which hold at bay the admiration of the boldest male cham- pions of intellect (for women can love a downright ugly man if h... .... I thought it represented a very handsome and very individual-looking fe- male face, with, as he had once said, “straight and harmonious features.” I...

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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... ...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... ... it all, that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India, when their thoughts turned to ... ...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... ... 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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...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... ...e; I have been as jolly as a sand-boy as usual at sea. The Amanuensis sits opposite to me writing to her off- spring. Fanny is on deck. I have just su... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n... ...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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...irits. The girls formed parties among themselves, which were reinforced by male deserters from the previous levies. Miss Wilson then went indoors and ... ..., trudged beside the white horse that towed the barge. “Come up!” he added malevolently to the horse. “I want to get on board, and go up to Lyvern wit... ...nce was welcome, and Miss Ward allowed him to put on her skates. She was a Canadian, and could skate well. Jane, the first to follow her, was anxious ... ...n’t do any harm, and she is wel- come to amuse herself by trotting out her male acquaintan- ces for my approval. Hush! Here she comes.” Gertrude subsi... ...e childishness that delights in the tales told by grownup children such as novelists and their like! An end to the silly confusion, under the one name... ...nscanadian Railway Company, having got a great deal of spare land from the Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle ... ...etry of despair will not outlive despair itself. Your nineteenth cen- tury novelists are only the tail of Shakspere. Don’t tie your- self to it: it is...

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...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...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... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t... ...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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...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,... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...