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...any aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei...

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...miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it i... ...n space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven ninths; the L... ...e. EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not ... ...s above the mouth)—about fifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the ... ...ed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so in this instance. Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the riv... ...! Whoo oop! Stand back and give me room according to my strength! Blood’s my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your e... ...away mezzotints; also, Ossian; “Alonzo and Melissa:” maybe “Ivanhoe:” also “Album,” full of original “poetry” of the Thou hast wounded the spirit tha...

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...f hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in...

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...ower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only dis- tances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze a... ... the nature of a curly ostrich feather, or an acanthus flower, that had in its less faded moments a sort of dingy gaiety. There were several big plast... ...t that, after the lamp’s trimming, dust and paraffin had been smeared over its exterior with a reckless generosity. The uneven floor boards of this ap... ...iron fender that confessed the gray stone of the hearth. No fire was laid, only a few scraps of torn paper and the bowl of a broken corn-cob pipe were... ...ghtest degree. I took all this grimy unpleasantness as if it were the most natural and proper setting for existence imaginable. It was the world as I ... ...ed on certain qualities in every love affair and greatly intensified one’s natural desire for them, perfect trust, perfect loyalty, lifelong devotion.... ...e under the window was littered with photo- graphic material and the later albums of his continental sou- venirs, and on the American cloth trimmed sh... ...ps eight hundred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was ...

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... the writing. So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all my books, I like thi... ...d or falsified by the result. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I ... ...ress tucked up, and her hands folded on one knee. You were speaking about its being a girl, said Miss Betsey. I have no doubt it will be a girl. I ... ... back. She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those super- natural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and n... ...he touch of Peggotty s forefinger as she used to hold it out to me, and of its being roughened by needle- work, like a pocket nutmeg-grater. This may ... ...me, because he had never come to our house since the night I was born, and naturally he had the advantage of me. But our intimacy was much advanced by... ...he must be all right. I give em away to the young ladies. They put em in albums, I believe. Ha! ha! ha! Upon my life, the whole social system (as ...

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... business as it is to mind her poor little sisters. Oh dear! if Papa could only afford us a governess!” “I am sure I should not like it at all; beside... ...esides, it is wrong to wish to be richer than one is.” “I don’t wish; I am only thinking how nice it would be, if some one would give us a famous quan... ...as left of her only sister, and had a nursery of her own, it had been most natural that Kate should remain at St. James’s Parsonage; and Mr. Wardour h... ...er ease than with her aunts, and answered, “Not at all, thank you,” in her natural tone. “Was it a long journey?” Kate had been silent so long, that h... ...re to know. Kate had not yet any notion of caring for other people’s spir- its and feelings; she never knew what to do for them, and so tried to forge... ...the mere fixing of those great dark eyes was suf- ficient to cut off Pa—at its first syllable, and turn it into a faltering “my uncle;” and that, thou... ...th her own performance, and thought it quite worthy of a little ornamental album, where she could write out the verses and gum in the drawings. “Pleas... ...d Kate began to lament. “If she could only have gone to the bazaar for her album! It was very hard!” “Eh,” Josephine said, “why should they not go? Th...

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...shed so long ago, that the young readers of this generation certainly will only know it if it has had the good fortune to have been preserved by their... ...t has had the good fortune to have been preserved by their mothers. It was only my second book, and in looking back at it so as to preserve consistenc... ...ooking back at it so as to preserve consistency, I have been astonished at its crudeness. It will explain a few illusions to state that it is the stor... ...row, but that her dark hair was cut square over it, so as to take off from its height, and give a heavy over-hanging look to the upper part of the fac... ...brush, or of tiny leaves carefully dried and gummed. And mamma had kept an album, with names and dates, into which all these home efforts were inserte... ...as with her to be with other children, and the most laughingest of all are naturally yours, old Lily.’ Meanwhile Jasper, risen on his stocking soles, ... ...lves; and, as if to make the contrast still more provoking, Fly, who had a natural affinity for all animals, insisted on trying to attract them, calli...

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...ne for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist....

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...hat country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influenc... ...ttle sofa, and which his lady, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than ... ...py com panionship that yet remained to them — in persons so situated, the natural transition from these first surprises was obviously into peals of h... ... spirits of each member of the little party having as much likeness to his natural mirth, as hot house peas at five guineas the quart, resemble in fla... ...s; of course I don’t know why. I tried to thank him, but couldn’t. I could only point to my boots — or wherever I supposed my boots to be — and say in... ...fering, when ever I was recommended to eat anything, an amount of anguish only second to that which is said to be en dured by the apparently drowned... ...copy nor extract the remarks and poetical effusions from the registers and albums kept here.’ But for this intimation, I should have let them lie upon...

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... able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent....

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...s of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent. There is a brain that will endure but one ... ... the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 4 times by both: and, to speak naturally, it very seldom hap pens among men to fall out when all have eno... ...rth to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though we may allo... ...of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, which in its original seems to be an institution of the many, that the whole state i... ...f pulling down that of the Ancients; to the former of which they would not only give licence, but also largely contribute. All this was rejected by th... ...ass; her teeth fallen out before, her eyes turned inward, as if she looked only upon herself; her diet was the overflowing of her own gall; her spleen... ...he stars, till in the year 1686 a man of quality showed me, written in his album, that the most learned astronomer, Captain H , assured him, he would ...

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...erant outpouring of historical allusions, which, how- ever, were perfectly natural among the set of girls from whom my experience was taken: but these... ... of Katherine and Helen, darted in, looking full of indignation, which she only wanted to pour forth, without much caring whether it was listened to w... ...ve,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘if he was, I should not mind it so much, but it is only Mrs. Hazleby and the girls, for she has the grace to bring Lucy, on Ma... ...ot achieve; and his wife and daughter had taken nearly as much interest in its progress as the ardent Eliza- beth herself. Anne eagerly read Elizabeth... ...so that it suited most people’s ideas of comfort better just then, than in its usual state. A num- ber of books and papers had been cleared from the t... ...gether they amount to a considerable sum, I can tell you. There has been a natural antipathy, an instinctive dislike, between Mrs. Major Hazleby and m... ...re you doing there?’ ‘A slight sketch,’ said he, ‘to be placed in Lizzie’s album as a companion to a certain paragraph which I believe she has studied...

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...a vision that made the idea of writing something subtle about Neil Paraday only the more inspiring. I would be as considerate as even Mr. Deedy could ... ...ate as even Mr. Deedy could have wished, and yet I should be as present as only Mr. Pinhorn could conceive. My allusion to the sequestered manner in w... ...ol on her return from her fiasco in the States. Hadn’t we published, while its freshness and flavour were unimpaired, Miss Braby’s own version of that... ...ware that Neil Paraday’s new book was on the point of appear- ing and that its approach had been the ground of my original appeal to Mr. Pinhorn, who ... ...was confident that I should be the first in the field. A great interest is naturally felt in Mr. Paraday’s surroundings,” he heavily observed. “I hadn... ...Obsessions, by Miss So-and-so, ’ would look a little odd, but men are more naturally indelicate. Have you peeped into ‘Obsessions’?” Mr. Morrow contin... ...reeze among flowers. Putting her book on the table she showed me a massive album, showily bound and full of autographs of price. The collection of fad... ...and Hannah More. She met this argument, to my surprise, by throwing up the album without a pang. It wasn’t even her own; she was respon- sible for non...

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...ous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heard you, t... ...of Social Medicine, a veterinary sur- geon for incurable maladies. Were it only to lay a token of 4 Cousin Betty gratitude at the feet of my cicerone... ...ve you the control of the two Cham- bers to carry out the text which found its commentary in 1814, in the decree of Louis XVIII. May your wit and the ... ...t- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original state, beyond the courtyard curtailed by half its extent. Only... ...dren. “Then between two old daddies, such friends as—as we were, what more natural than that we should think of our children marrying each other? —Thr... ...s in the garden. Hortense was like her mother, with golden hair that waved naturally, and was amazingly long and thick. Her skin had the lustre of mot... ...aris and nowhere else, which reveal the woman and an- nounce her presence: albums bound in enamel or embroi- dered with beads, saucers full of pretty ...

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... cities put on their best clothes in summer, but New Y ork seems to sit in its shirtsleeves.” Her eyes wan- dered down one of the side-streets. “Someo... ... think I’ve ever seen it before.” She looked across at the flat-house with its marble porch and pseudo- Georgian facade. “Which are your windows? Thos... ...re just as one likes, and give all the horrors to the ash- man. If I could only do over my aunt’s drawing-room I know I should be a better woman.” “Is... ...upposed she would waste her powder on such small game; but perhaps she was only keeping her hand in; or perhaps a girl of her type had no conversation... ... pay so dearly for her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice? S... ... in rubric and presented to every clergyman in the dio- cese; and the gilt album in which their letters of thanks were pasted formed the chief ornamen... ...ving as though one were much richer than one’s bank-book denoted. Lily was naturally proud of her mother’s aptitude in this line: she had been brought...

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...ivors, to do for it what we judged fittest, if indeed doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me....

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... seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me. After some consultation on it, a... ...irtues of that eminent and amiable man. In one respect, however, if in one only, the arrangement had been unfortunate. Archdeacon Hare, both by natura... ...n one only, the arrangement had been unfortunate. Archdeacon Hare, both by natural tendency and by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editi... ...mpetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: who in this miserable figure would recognize the ... ...s all dust does if you leave it well alone? Much obscuration would thus of its own accord fall away; and, in Mr. Hare’s narrative itself, apart from h... ...) upon the minds of many men: so that he could not be forgotten, and could only be misremembered, as matters now stood. Whereupon, as practical conclu... ...is own score. Puer bonae spei, as 30 The Life of John Sterling the school-albums say; a boy of whom much may be hoped? Surely, in many senses, yes. A...

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...sion, other persons to join the ranks of our As- sociation. but, sir, I am its chief. Y ou will find, sir, your ap- pointment signed by me; and in lik... ... Go from us, sir!—leave us—quit a family that can no longer receive you in its bosom! Mr. Swinney, I have wept— 12 The History of Samuel Titmarsh and... ...whenever Mr. Brough made any- thing like a joke: not that they were jokes; only we used to know it by his face. “Oh, by-the-bye, Roundhand,” says he, ... ...d have thought of seeing Tit, in the name of goodness?” “Why,” said I, “we only came in by the merest chance.” At this word there was another tremendo... ...ond floor, and there, on the table, between our two flutes on one side, my album, Gus’s “Don Juan” and “Peerage” on the other, I saw as follows:— 1. A... ..., viz., as members of noble families, or as footmen or hangers-on thereof, naturally understand their subject a great deal better than a poor young fe... ... punished for worshipping the mammon of unrighteousness and forgetting our natural feelings for the sake of my aunt’s paltry lucre. “Well, Amen!” said...

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... politics, the “Bootjack” stuck to the good old Conservative line, and was only frequented by such persons as were of that way of thinking. There were... ... fine loud voice, which, if not always in tune, made up for that defect by its great energy and activity; and Morgiana was not content with singing th... ...l was all nonsense; that he was a partner, certainly, in the firm, but had only a sixteenth share; and that the firm could never get their moneys in, ... ...ugh the latter went to the best makers, he never could get a peruke to sit naturally upon him and the unhappy epithet of Mr. Wiggins, applied to him o... ...ard a guitar. “‘I heard a guitar, On the blue waters clear, And knew by its mu-u-sic, That Selim was near!’ Y ou remember that in the ‘Bagdad Bells... ...e among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pincushions, the albums they labo- riously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practis... ...red (“Lady Bullblock does not play herself;” Sir Thomas says, “but she has naturally the finest ear for music ever known!”); what evi- dences of slave... ... Berry. It was, “Mr. Butts, have you finished that drawing for Lady Pash’s album?” and Butts produced it; and, “Did you match the silk for me at Delil...

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...as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five ... ... sixpence, the price of a badly constructed Belgian revolver. Maisie could only contribute half a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred... ...ed on his clothes, and, partly through thoughtless- ness, partly through a natural desire to pain, — she was a widow of some years anxious to marry ag... ...o a billy- goat. Being well fed and the adored of his mistress, Amomma had naturally swallowed two loaded pin- fire cartridges. Maisie hurried up to a... ...seen kisses exchanged before. The yel- low sea-poppy was wiser, and nodded its head ap- provingly. Considered as a kiss, that was a failure, but since... ...mselves. It was not an easy life in any way, 19 Rudyard Kipling and under its influence the two were drawn ver closely together, for they ate from th... ...m. Once, and only once, when she had left the studio, Maisie showed him an album that held a few poor cuttings from provincial papers,—the briefest of...

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...aunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a companion for life. In spite of the blandishments of a rich but revolutionary parvenu, who valued the alliance at a high figure, he married Mademoiselle de Kergarouet, witho...

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...peror Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a compan- ion for life. I... ...cious of his mas- ters, to whom the Count had supposed himself to be known only by name, came to shake hands with him, and spoke of him as the most th... ...monarch’s benevolence. It occurred to him to mention 8 The Ball at Sceaux only one by one, these virgins eager to light their torches. The King had t... ...enchantment of life contin- ued. The luxury of Paris seemed to her just as natural as a wealth of flowers or fruit, or as the rural plenty which had b... ... Her beauty was so remarkable that, for her, to appear in a room was to be its queen; but, like sovereigns, she had no friends, though she was everywh... ...by the T urks. She thus dazzled shal- low persons; as to deeper minds, her natural tact enabled her to discern them, and for them she put forth so muc... ...arpened her pencils for the scenes she proposed to sketch in her satirical album. Sun- day could not come soon enough to satisfy her impatience. The p...

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... and I had been her master, he would have bought her. But I told him I was only mate, and that she belonged to the firm of Morrel & Son. ‘Ah, yes,’ he... ... cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after that; only be back again in three months, for the Pharaon,” added the owner, patt... ...is day. Whence it came no one knew, and it spoke an unknown tongue. One of its chiefs, who un- derstood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to... ...nal customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language. Our readers will follow us along the only street of this litt... ... increased to half a million at her father’s death. These con- siderations naturally gave Villefort a feeling of such complete felicity that his mind ... ... and more of his innocence. This lad, for he was scarcely a man, — simple, natural, eloquent with that eloquence of the heart never found when sought ... ...o 404 gels and women with the features of a virgin; sketches torn from the album of Dauzats’ “Travels in the East,” that had been made in a few second... ...bray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album. Lucien had found time, preparatory to the count’s arrival, to relate...

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...ly he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her last remark, ?You imply that you do tell fibs. Perhaps that is one.? ?Oh no; there is nothing wonderful in my ...

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...anding there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook ... ... of the friendly face which he bent upon his hostess’s deputy, and which, in its thinness, had a deep dry line, a sort of premature wrinkle, on either... ...teeming expanse of the cotton field. Mrs. Luna looked up at all this, but saw only a part of it; otherwise she would not have replied in a bantering ma... ...t you?’ ‘No, I haven’t been anywhere. Has your sister?’ ‘Yes; but she stayed only an hour or two. She hates it; she would like to abolish 6 The Bosto... ...as domiciled in New York. This last remark he made at a venture, for he had, naturally, not devoted any supposition whatever to Mrs. Luna. His dishone... .... It was the usual things of life that filled her with silent rage; which was natural enough, inasmuch as, to her vision, almost everything that was us... ...ept him— did it because he was making a collection of such episodes—a mental album of declarations, blushes, hesitations, refusals that just missed im...

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... spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...ll rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of t... ...eart Marya Dmitrievna more than once regretted her pretty Pokrovskoe, with its babbling brook, its wide meadows, and green copses; but she never oppos... ...to think of his having the rank of a councillor! T o be sure, though, he’s only a village priest’s son.” “Every one has faults, auntie; that is his we... ... if there’s such a man to be found in the world. I know Fedya well; he was only to blame in being too good to his wife. To be sure, he married for lov... ...d the books I bring you, for the wretched sketches with which I adorn your album, and so forth. I might do all that—and be an egoist all the same. I v... ...er name? I have forgotten... will be more propi- tious to me. Where’s your album? I remember, my landscape there is not finished.” Lisa went into the ... ...gentle crea- 36 ture, torn, God knows why, like an uprooted tree from its natural soil and at once thrown down with its roots in the air; she had fad... ...to perfection. Music, as a pur- suit unworthy of a man, was discarded. The natural sciences, international law, mathematics, carpentry, after Jean-Jac...

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...re due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended author....

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...ed to a plain tale with few pretensions. T o the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. T o my Publishers, f... ... are definite: so are certain generous critics who have en- couraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling s... ... appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the wor... ...under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally, I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him—if he wi... ...n, a more attractive and sprightly manner—something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she really must ex- clude me from privileges intended o... ...s too often wont to do. Bessie Lee must, I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and had a remark- able ... ...ngram pair? She is standing alone at the table, bending gracefully over an album. She seems waiting to be sought; but she will not wait too long: she ... ...; and each, in turn, sat for a pencil outline. Then Georgiana produced her album. I promised to contribute a water-colour drawing: this put her at onc...