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...bated Am- herst last fall. Troy Concert . ' The management of the inusioal clubs has arranged for a concert to be given in Troy, N, Y., on April 10. T... ...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ... Henry Root, A. M., one of the most widely known members of the Washington county medical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a ban... ...ub, at Sjjringfield. May 27-8-9—New England In- tercollegiates, atLongwood Cricket club, Brookline. June 1—Cornell, at Ithaoo,N, Y. Juno 8—Amherst, at... ...rnament of the N. E. I. L.T, A. will be held on the courts of tha Longwood Cricket club, Boston, on the three days beginning next Monday. Each college... ... E. I. L. T. A. were played last Tues- day on th« courts of the Long- wood Cricket club, Boston, rain having prevented the play-off of the matches sch... ...goal from placement on tlie 18- yard line. Dartmouth's defense against New Hampshire was poor. During the last 10 minutes of play the Springfield Trai... ... Aunapolis 12 Maryland A. C. THECRIMSON SATURDAY CALENDAR Dartmonth 10 New Hampshire State Harvard the Tennis Champion By winning both the singles and...

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...toric Muse, which has learnt to esteem those brawny sturdy giants marching club on shoulder, independent of hench- man, in preference to your panoplie... ...name in a newspaper—letter on the subject. He was gen- erally safe for the cricketing days.’ Lady Dunstane kindly appeared to call it to mind, and she... ...ilent or discourse humorously. The residence of Sir Lukin Dunstane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian service... ...her ladyship that he was half a Sussex man, though not exactly born in the county; his parents had removed to Sussex after the great event; and the Do... ...: ‘Naw; the Sheers.’ Emerging from deliberation, the old man said: ‘Ah’m a Hampshireman.’ ‘A capital county!’ ‘Heigh!’ The old man heaved his chest. ‘... ...ing from deliberation, the old man said: ‘Ah’m a Hampshireman.’ ‘A capital county!’ ‘Heigh!’ The old man heaved his chest. ‘Once!’ ‘Why, what has happ... ...w. And down heer’ll be no better soon, I tells ‘em. When ah was a boy, old Hampshire was a proud country, wi’ the old coaches and the old squires, and... ... Andrew Hedger, as he stated his name to be, would never show the same old cricketing commons it did when he was a boy. Old England, he de- clared, wa... ...s in the dishes, when the ceiling came down, and we all sprang up merry as crickets. It led to a pretty encounter and a real prize-shot.’ ‘Does that s...

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...irs. They talked about them over their pints of beer at their public-house clubs to other clerks of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attor... ...giment, and daughter of Fitzjurld Ber’sford de Burgo Malony of Glenmalony, County Kildare.” “And Muryan Squeer, Doblin,” said the lady with calm super... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ... ...iven himself up entirely to his bad courses, to the great scan- dal of the county and the mute horror of his son. The ribbons in Miss Horrocks’s cap b... ...he family coach-and-four to Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, every week, as his son did in speechless agony, tha... ...r her noble husband’s demise, that her son was a member of several worldly clubs, had lost largely at play at Wattier’s and the Cocoa Tree; that he ha... ...ped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen’s Crawley. Hampshire and Sussex lie very close to- gether, and Mrs. Bute had friends i... ...e decorations of the Curzon Street House was a print of Queen’s Crawley in Hampshire, the seat of Sir Walpole Crawley, Baronet, who was represented in... ...A Cynical Chapter OUR DUTY NOW TAKES US BACK for a brief space to some old Hampshire acquaintances of ours, whose hopes respecting the disposal of the...

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...w the House—dinners that ended with shrill division bells, I think of huge clubs swarm- ing and excited by the bulletins of that electoral battle that... ... London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness of our modern ideas of th... ...ge, and the local gentry would occasionally enliven the place with valiant cricket matches for a hundred guineas a side, to the vast ex- citement of t... ...an hour of my bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a pretty voracious appetite for miscellaneo... ...urch- man. It was at one of the weekly dinners of that Fleet Street dining club, the Blackfriars. I heard the paper’s name with a queer little shock a... ...ade of the huge adjustments of the nineteenth century? Flack was the chief cricketer on the staff; he belonged to that great cult which pretends that ... ... belonged to that great cult which pretends that the place of this or that county in the struggle for the championship is a matter of supreme impor- t... ... to boys. He obliged us to affect a passionate interest in the progress of county matches, to work up unnatural en- thusiasms. What a fuss there would... ...as very elo- quent about the Cornish fishermen, and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private f...

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...shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despi... ... sir, break the bottle?” says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. The boy had been instructed to get over the playgro... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...and in the morning is locked up in his study, or else rides to Mudbury, on county business, or to Squashmore, where he preaches, on Wednesdays and Fri... ...ad not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining bar- onets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalli- ance. Never mind the comm... ...s Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at... ...mired of the great lexicographer of our coun- try! If you ever travel into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural di... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ...

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... in- tended to become missionaries, over painting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine. She was on t... ...er to a book on village-improvement—tree-planting, town pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, ... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ...- try,” wished to be taken for Yankees. James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Sweden, both proved that they were free ... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...quito, a heat-weary conversation starting and dying, the precise rhythm of crickets, the thud of moths against the screen—sounds that were a distilled... ...udios, with orange curtains and pots of mignon- ette; marble houses on New Hampshire Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fi... ... and Elman’s violin. They’ll be only the lovelier against the thrumming of crickets in the stubble on an autumn day. “I can laugh now and be serene…I ...

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...ma.” All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be exces- sively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and u... ...shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despi... ... sir, break the bottle?” says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. The boy had been instructed to get over the playgro... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...and in the morning is locked up in his study, or else rides to Mudbury, on county business, or to Squashmore, where he preaches, on Wednesdays and Fri... ...ad not the preference in the marriage, and the remaining bar- onets of the county were indignant at their comrade’s misalli- ance. Never mind the comm... ...s Mr. Crawley would remark with a sigh), and in his day beloved by all the county for the constant drunkenness and hospitality which was maintained at... ...mired of the great lexicographer of our coun- try! If you ever travel into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural di...

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...he squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire heath-country; a lonely circle of enclosed brook and pasture, wit... ...s sister, Miss Bannerbridge, who said they hoped they would have news from Hampshire very early, so that the poor child might be taken away by the fri... ...n advance of him wearing crape rosettes, as did the horses. We were in the cricket-field, where Dipwell was playing its first match of the season, and... ... to troop away while the game was hot, and sur- round my father, flung the cricket-ball into the midst and hit two or three of the men hard. My father... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...im, ‘I’ve an uncle-I mean a grandfather-of enormous property; he owns half Hampshire, I believe, and hates my father like poison. I won’t stand it. Yo... ...mpany for a couple of days, if I was for Hampshire, which I stated was the county I meant to visit. ‘Well then, here now, come along, d ‘ye see, look,... ...t woman alive, with a voice sweeter than flutes. There was a saying in the county that to marry a Beltham you must po’chay her. A great-aunt of mine, ... ... I die. Old blood always wins that race, I swear. We ‘re the oldest in the county. Damn the mixing. My father never let any of his daugh- ters marry, ...

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...d 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked h... ..., after the race out to tea at a distant village, too late in the year for cricket, too early for regular football, suited Matey, going at long stride... ...m he stationed beside himself, rather off his battle-front, as at point at cricket, not quite so far removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. ... ...nd replied: “Come to me for six days; you shall have the best mount in the county.” An editor devoid of malice might probably have forborne to print a... ...the southern heights about London, round away to the south- western of the Hampshire heathland, were accurately mapped in the old warrior’s brain. He ... ...ok at the sheet of water to which little Jane had given celebrity over the county. The girl stood up to her shoulders when she slid off the bank and m... ... would not believe him capable of doing that in his family home and native county; so, then, her shrewd wits had noth- ing or little to learn. But her... ... their comfortable progress, and expectations of crossing the borders into Hampshire before sunset. Morsfield and Cumnock shrugged at the bumpkin arti... ...th for tea and eggs. She made offer of bacon as well, homecured. She was a Hampshire woman, and understood the rearing of pigs. Her husband had been a...

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...all of this entry was hung all over with a hea- thenish array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling iv... ...ical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green V ermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are most... ...ale, men?” “Sing out for him!” was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices. “Good!” cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones; ob- ... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ... or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gi- gantic ghostliness ove... ... talk. ‘Thun- der away at it!’ ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like f... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...er whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only perfect specimen o...

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... wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with glittering teeth re sembling ... ...mical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostl... ...hale, men?” “Sing out for him!”was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices. “Good!” cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones; obse... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ... or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over ... ...s talk. ‘Thunder away at it!’ “‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fi... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...er whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only perfect specimen o...

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... Absworthy Bearne Feverel, Baronet, of Raynham Abbey, in a certain Western county folding Thames: a man of wealth and honour, and a some- what lamenta... ... in the course of the day his uncle Algernon was driven home from Lobourne cricket-ground with a broken leg. Then it was rec- ollected that there was ... ...d were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. He preached it over the county, struggling through laborious literary compositions, addressed to sp... ...terary compositions, addressed to sporting news- papers, on the Decline of Cricket. It was Algernon who wit- nessed and chronicled young Richard’s fir... ...ved to be, though not in the manner marked out. Already archery-booths and cricketing-tents were rising on the lower grounds towards the river, whithe... ...n your explorations yesterday, Magians. Now, if I were a magistrate of the county, like Sir 34 Ordeal of Richard Feverel Miles Papworth, my suspicion... ...cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contemplated were mostly those of ... ...aster Ralph out of a scrape. Our Richard has just been elected member of a Club for the promotion of nausea. Is he happy? you ask. As much so as one w... ... her love as her reflections warmed. A storm of wind came howling over the Hampshire hills, and sprang white foam on the water, and shook the bare tre...

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...dings are very fine, but it is not like our own hills.’ ‘No, it is hard on Hampshire downs to compare them to Cumberland mountains.’ ‘But it is so sun... ...oing into the town on an errand.’ ‘Just the moment I wanted you. There’s a cricket match in the College Meads. Come along.’ And with her arm in his, V... ...der than the house.’ ‘It is. My father built the house, but we were an old county family long before. The old Admiral, the first lord, had the peerage... ...en potted and preserved in Sir Roger de Coverley’s time. No neighbours, no club-books, no anything! One managed to vegetate through the morning by the... ... instructed the dumb boy, talked to the curate, and took her share of such county gaieties as were not beneath the house of Martindale; but at every t... ...gitated haste to change the conversation, called out to ask her about some club-book. For once she did not attend; and while Theodora came forward and... ...d expected. Not that her sober sense enjoyed or ap- proved; but in her own county she was used to be the unde- niable princess of her circle, and she ... ...ffective experiment. I was thenceforth known by the name of Grandfather of Clubs, and Brown always manoeu- vred me into sleeping across the entrance o...

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..., than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one proper source, there can be n... ...h most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of the separation. It then became,... ... having obtained a sufficient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of 1783. It lies among those low s... ...paste. Major Hartmann wore a coat of sky-blue, with large brass buttons, a club wig, and boots; and Mr. Richard Jones had set off his dapper little fo... ...he season, Richard, however, boasted for many a year of his shot with the “cricket;” and Benjamin gravely asserted that he thought they had killed nea... ... feet, though it was eight long miles to its banks. I saw the hills in the Hampshire grants, the highlands of the river, and all that God had done, or...

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...ntelligible Whig. He inherited the estate of Holdesbury, on the borders of Hampshire and Wilts, and espoused that of Steynham in Sussex, where he gene... ...y dear. He comes of five gen- erations of lawyers, and he ‘s as old in the county as Grancey Lespel. Hitherto he has always been to be counted on for ... ...rds us, I would venture to say, the advantages without the seductions of a Club. I rank it next— at a far remove, but next-the church.’ Lord Palmet br... ...r giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, pup- pet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds... ...r, huge, bush-bearded man, with a voice of unvarying bass: a squire in his county, and energetic in his pursuit of the pleasures of hunting, driving, ... ...iot of yours, a M. Ducie, who assured us you must be with an uncle in your county of Sussex. Of course we ran the risk of the letter missing you, but ... ...ions of the letter of Commander Beauchamp’s correspondent were read at the Club, under the verandah, and the question put, whether a man who held thos... ...eflected. ‘ And now,’ said he to Palmet, ‘we might be crossing over to the Club if I hadn’t to go about that stupid business to Holdesbury to-morrow m... ...wer. Mr. Romfrey was of those who said to his countrymen, ‘Go yachting; go cricketing; go boat-racing; go shooting; go horseracing, nine months of the...

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...l and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in th...

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... reached a sec- ond edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotati... ...lliam Heathcote needed to be recorded in their relations to the parish and county. This has, therefore, here been attempted, together with a record of... ... to whatever was required of him. He had been member of Parliament for the county of Hants, and had been placed at the head of the list of his father’... ...emains of a cusp at the top of the arch. The bells were in one of the true Hampshire weather-boarded square towers, of which very few still exist in t... ... by his widow Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Charles Wyndham, in the county of Southampton. Mrs. White thus lost her husband and her mother in t... ...y must be added, from a speech of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge at Nobody’s Club. I looked at him from another point of view, and I can tell you only h... ...re Shady spots and nooks, where we Yet may flourish, safe and free. So old Hampshire still may own (Charm to other shires unknown) Bays and creeks of ... ...d a cutting made through it. The Cranbury side of the road has the village cricket ground on it, though bur- rowed under by the concentric brick-work ... ...ts the green expanse for donkeys and children, including the more youthful cricketers, not yet pro- moted to matches. From the top of the hill extends...

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... come upon us sitting together at one of the little tables in front of the club house, let us say, at Homburg, taking tea of an afternoon and watching... ... don’t, I mean, as a rule, get it all so superlatively together. To be the county family, to look the county family, to be so appropriately and per- f... ...t remark of hers the remark of a harlot, or is it what every decent woman, county family or not county family, thinks at the bottom of her heart? Or t... ...istrate, a first rate soldier, one of the best landlords, so they said, in Hampshire, England. To the poor and to hopeless drunkards, as I myself have... ...common sense about martingales and his— still sentimental—experiences as a county magistrate; and with his intense, optimistic belief that the woman h... ...e communication cord and the ready sympathy of what I believe you call the Hampshire Bench, that kept the poor devil out of Winches- ter Gaol for year... ...ey asked questions about it in the House of Commons; they tried to get the Hampshire magistrates degraded; they suggested to the War Ministry that Edw... ... eight, was occupied with his regiment from nine until one; played polo or cricket with the men when it was the season for cricket, till tea-time. Aft... ... dark and gentie and tall and modest. I understand also that he was a good cricketer. He was employed by the real-estate agents who col- lected my ren...

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... the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely sp... ...rches, its avenues of beeches, and fre- quent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which perva... ...s and groceries, ribbons and fire-shovels; in which mar- kets are held and county balls are carried on; which return members to Parliament, generally—... ...relations. It is true that he still called himself a Tory, belonged to the club of which his father had been one of the most honoured members, and in ... ...village, and each gate was guarded by the effigies of two huge pagans with clubs, such being the crest borne by the family; from each entrance a broad... ...brupt rise in the ground. At the entrance there were four savages and four clubs, two to each por- tal, and what with the massive iron gates, surmount... ...as not fit to be their companion except on such open occasions as those of cricket-matches and boat-races. Boys, in this respect, are at least as excl... ... his rock of Gibraltar, of which he thought much more than of any ordinary Hampshire or Wiltshire which had always been within his own kingdom. He was...

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...it’s house, a wonderful road that was made by the Kings of Mercia—tennis—a cricket match—bridge and at night we squeeze up in this lovely house. The w... ... fam- ily was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and mo- tor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I should find nothing behind it but panic and em... ...the most terrible morning. Paul disliked me more and more, and Evie talked cricket averages till I nearly screamed. I cannot think how I stood her all... ...Albert Fussell have known one an- other some time. They belong to the same club, and 69 EM Forster are both devoted to golf. Dolly plays golf too, th... ...ledge of culture slight, and she was not interested in the New English Art Club, nor in the dividing-line between Journalism and Literature, which was... ...destination. And Leonard had reached the destina- tion. He had visited the county of Surrey when dark- ness covered its amenities, and its cosy villas... ...Howards End it? and if Westmoreland can be missed, it will fare ill with a county whose delicate structure particu- larly needs the attentive eye. Her... ...at, repeating that she only had to give the word, and he would whip up the county families for twenty miles round. Whether Sir James, who was Garden S... ...s, but at the end of them was a red rust. “You see that in Surrey and even Hampshire now,” she continued. “I can see it from the Purbeck Downs. And Lo...

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...’s invitation to him goes for nothing.’ ‘Rose? inviting the Count? down to Hampshire?’ The diplomatist’s brows were lifted. ‘No, I mean the other,’ sa... ...elyn—”I shall not fail in hastening to pay my re- spects to your family in Hampshire.” You will remember to do it, in the exact form I speak it.’ Evan... ...—all this with singular rustic com- parisons, racy of the soil, and in raw Hampshire dialect, the waggoner came to a halt opposite the stone, and, whi... ... to one behind him, ‘ And you shall have little Rosey !’ They were clad in cricketing costume, and exhibited the health and manners of youthful Englis... ...olmate to the winds, in the pres- 108 Evan Harrington ence of these young cricketers; for he had a prognostication. The door was open, and the compan... ... was demanded. Mr. Raikes addressed the meeting. The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety. It did not offend... ...company. For there are ladies in carriages here, there are cavaliers; good county names may be pointed out. The sons of first-rate families are in the... ...ot interfered with; fond of the table, and brimful of all the jokes of the county, the accent of which just seasoned his speech. He had somehow plunge... ...er and introduced to the Count- ess de Saldar. ‘So the oldest T ory in the county is a fox?’ she said, in allu- sion to the hunt. Never did Caroline S...

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...o the new perception of affairs, to the real drift of life, as the game of cricket with the wheel as a wicket would have to the des- 23 H G Wells tin... ... where it is lowest, in the year 1900, in Dorsetshire, a reason- ably good county, and in Lancashire, the worst in England, for the same year. Each en... ...on of labour, and, as the able lady who writes as “L’amie Inconnue” in the County Gentleman has pointed out in a very helpful criticism of the origina... ...le call Yankee intonation are to be found in perfection in the cottages of Hampshire and West Sussex— are being quickened, perhaps from the same sourc... ...xample, or the decision of some great inter- national issue at baseball or cricket. This, one would say, we have made out of that, and so point the Ne... ...ed, ill-planned teaching, and years of preoccupation with rowing-boats and cricket. The more extreme examples of this type will say in a tone of manly... ...ys watching his school matches, and thumbs and muddles over the records of county cricket to an amazing extent. But these things are indeed only sympt... ...nto the catalogue, and discover per- haps a few publications of the Cobden Club, Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, J. S. Mill’s Autobiography, Rusk... ...e must do just exactly what we should not do if we were electing men for a club, we must include rather than exclude. I am told that Americans re- mar...

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...and in complaining the rest of his 43 Emerson life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, ... ...f exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! B... ...e Abolition-convention, or the Tem- perance-meeting, or the Transcendental club into the fields and woods, she says to us, ‘So hot? my little Sir.’ We... ...ence between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, ... ...ious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm, or in the log-hut of the backwoods, or in the narrow lodgin... ... that we should be her fools and playmates. We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy. Direct strokes she never ... ... of truths. I should feel it pitiful to demand a re- sult on this town and county, an overt effect on the in- stant month and year. The effect is deep... ...in property are very unequal. One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the p...