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...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...usage, solely and merely upon your own spontane- ous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...the nobler benefits of wealth, with extra means of health, of intellectual culture, and of elegant enjoyment, on the other hand, we knew nothing of it... ... The school which professes to teach grammatica, professes, therefore, the culture of lit- erature in the widest and most liberal extent, and is oppos... ...dioms, and verbal peculiarities belonging to the primitive ages of Ro- man culture were to be found still lingering in the old Ro- man settlements, bo... ...cted upon the Danish commercial shipping, or by the dreadful havoc made in Zealand, would show some- thing of the same bitter spirit. But the great bo...

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...back of a building, in which there sat at a desk a greasy gentleman with a new hat on one side of his head, who might perhaps be about forty years old... ... WHARTON ON THAT SAME DAY Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progres... ...he Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open hardly more than three years; but still i... ...one lover to another, by change of scene. Taking her to Dresden,—or to New Zealand, would only confirm in her passion such a girl as Emily Wharton. No... ... It could exist without intel- lect, without heart, and with very moderate culture. It was compatible with many littlenesses and with many vices. As f... ...n him for the last week. They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand. Lopez had reasons for thinking that Kauri gum must have a great ri... ...a Prime Minister should never go beyond generalities about commerce, agri- culture, peace, and general philanthropy. Of course he should have the gift...

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... Miss Mary. ‘So it was with the last regime’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very f... ...ldren, with Miss Headworth and the German nurse, and our being told of our new sister. Uncle Alwyn and his yacht were there, and we went on board once... ...st, here joined the party, and the whole story was laid before him. He was new to Micklethwayte, having suc- ceeded a somewhat distant kinsman, and di... ...such a manner as to convince him that cramming had more to do than general culture with success. He had a certain consciousness that most people thoug... ...migrate!’ ‘Ah, if we could!’ said Annaple. ‘Ronald is doing so well in New Zealand, but I don’t think my mother could spare me. She could not come out...

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...e or censure, failure or success. Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude. Y outh has turned to gods we of an ear- lier day knew not, an... ...-bearers will presently yield their place also. There is no last word. The new evan- gel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky. These g... ...n came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. ... ...e that there was in that genteel Bohemia an 13 Somerset Maugham intensive culture of chastity , but I do not remem- ber so crude a promiscuity as see... ... Strickland’s idea was to ship on some vessel bound for Aus- tralia or New Zealand, and from there make his way to Samoa or Tahiti. I do not know how ...

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...Rockstone, and I don’t see why Mysie should always go everywhere, and wear new frocks, and I go to the butchers and bakers and wear horrid old ones.’ ... ... it as such a curi- osity after a few days’ experience of Rockquay, as her new friends told her. Kitty V arley went to the High School, which greatly ... ... with Mrs. Hablot than daw- dling about here and amusing themselves in the new Sunday fashion. Mind, I am not going to have them racketing about the h... ...erval between Mysie’s brains and her pen, and saying nothing about the New Zealand report. The se- lection of lace was much approved, and the next day... ...insincerity; and that girls of Lily’s class are about at the same stage of culture as the young la- dies of whom her namesake in the Inheritance is th... ...did one with the 129 Beechcroft At Rockstone same for poor Dolores in New Zealand. Uncle William was here yesterday, and he said dear little Primrose...

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...hundred tons, Yankee-built and very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a ... ...haleboats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in ... ...boats were gone: and of the four harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the ... ..., and ran about the decks mak- ing himself heard at all hours. Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, w... ...d ran about the decks mak- ing himself heard at all hours. Bembo, the New Zealand harpooner, held little intercourse with anybody but the mate, who c... ...th. As may be believed, Bembo was a wild one after a fish; indeed, all New Zealanders engaged in this business are; it seems to harmonize sweetly with... ...in; and, henceforth, the hardy young plant thrives apace; and need- ing no culture, pruning, or attention of any sort, rapidly advances to maturity. I...

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...sked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 Of Human Bondage “ Y ou’ve got a new dress on.” It was in eighteen-eighty-five, and she wore a bustle. Her g... ...s sister; and while the ladies talked of parish matters, the curate or the new bonnet of Mrs. Wilson—Mr. Wilson was the richest man in Blackstable, he... ...lip had behaved properly; and Mrs. Carey re- marked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr . Cox was not in church, and somebody thought that Miss Phil... ...not realise that he was merely putting up in its stead the other fetish of culture. They wandered up to the castle, and sat on the terrace that overlo... ...Philip. “I see the better course, but do not follow it. Miss Price, who is cultured, will remember the Latin of that.” “I wish you would leave me out ... ...On the other hand, in mind he did not seem to have changed at all, and the culture which had impressed Philip at eighteen aroused somewhat the contemp... ...rials was disguised by ill-made sauces: plaice masqueraded as sole and New Zealand mutton as lamb. The kitchen was 594 Of Human Bondage small and inc...

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...ched shed. This was Prissy’s house. Fifty yards away was the pretty little new cot- tage which he had built for his daughter Magdalen, with the vegeta... ...ld-like delight in verse, in sweet poetry, and in the delightful game of a cultured home. His blood was strong even to coarseness. But that only made ... ...ooded people, true English, as holly-trees and hawthorn are English. Their culture was grafted on to them, as one might perhaps graft a common pink ro... ...ld. She was like a little poem in herself. But nevertheless, she brought a new difficulty. Winifred must have a nurse for her. Yes, yes, there must be... ...st hardly perceptible. But it was there. In the first place Winifred had a new centre of interest. She was not going to adore her child. But she had w... ...?—on the ship?’ ‘No,’ bellowed the other. ‘No. That was in Wellington, New Zealand. I was bad, and got lower an’ lower—couldn’t think what was up. I c...

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...ming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others wh... ...t that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frank- ness, what its wr... ... was about men and things, and threw what must have been a strange kind of new light on many matters but darkly understood. Above all, the es- sayist ... ...is not to be blamed if he did not reap fruits answerable to so exquisite a culture. Of this, two things were the cause: first, a sterile and improper ... ...of ours, in several fruits wherein those countries abound with- out art or culture. Neither is it reasonable that art should gain the pre-eminence of ... ...r counsels and correct them? Isabel, Queen of England, having to sail from Zealand into her own kingdom,—[in 1326]—with an army, in favour of her son ...

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...ed at entrance, as if supposing the old man asleep; and at a slow pace the new-comer crossed the hall to the chimney, where he stood by the fire, warm... ... a voucher for the guest. The drawbridge had already been lowered, and the new-comer was crossing it upon a powerful black steed, guided by Father Nin... ...he keen au- burn eye fell on him, and the cheery kindly voice said, ‘Ha! a new book—a romance? Well may that drive out other thoughts.’ ‘Had he ears t... ...pindle side!’ ‘What are her lands?’ asked Malcolm. ‘Hainault, Holland, and Zealand,’ replied the lady. ‘Her father was Count of Hainault, her mother t... ...dy.’ ‘Then,’ cried Kennedy joyfully, ‘you will give yourself. Learning and culture turned to God’s service, for this poor country’s sake, in one of bi...

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...he train towards Highgate. Although thus supported by the knowledge of his new possession of considerable value, he was not proof against the familiar... ... have the time. Why do you ask?” “It might be a good thing, to get to know new people, that’s all.” “Poor Ralph!” said Joan suddenly, with a smile. “Y... ...resent surroundings and, needless to say, by her surpassing ability in her new vocation. When she was rid of the pretense of paper and pen, phrase-mak... ... in a visit to a picture gallery, balancing his social work with an ardent culture of which he was secretly proud, as Mary had very soon divined. So t... ...stical diagram showing the proportion of married women to spinsters in New Zealand; or that the net profits of Mrs. Hipsley’s Bazaar had reached a tot... ... was naturally right and steady, as his had never been in spite of all his culture. And then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of ...

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...???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WAT...

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...ER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATE... ... . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DE... ...O AGAIN—A DESCENT—HURRIED DEPARTURE—A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 NEW SHIPMATE CHAPTER XXV — RUMORS OF WAR—A SPOUTER—SLIPPING FOR A . . .... ...ve that he was eaten, and that, they cannot endure to be taunted with.—‘‘New Zealand Kanaka eat white man;— Sandwich Island Kanaka,—no. Sandwich Isl... ...e hundred thousand inhabitants, with all the accompaniments of wealth and culture, and now (in 1859) the most quiet and well governed city of its s...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ...ifferent instincts, different appetites, different morals, and a different culture. It is well for one man to say that slavery has caused the separati... ...alk alone. It is exactly the same with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys... .... Surely it is absurd on our part to quarrel with Caffre warfare, with New Zealand fighting, and the rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an anci... ...y, nor ragged, nor rough. They have about them no signs of want, or of low culture. Many of us also know the appearance of those girls who work in the...

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...resents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ... SANDGATE, July, 1903. I I I I I THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NEW REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC TOLERATION TO-DAY ... ...Wage will be found in W.P . Reeves’ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 47 et seq. 69 H G Wells rents, by promoting the orga... ...who has lived at all broadly, meet- ing and talking with people of diverse culture and tradition, but knows how much our intercourse is cumbered by he... ...hat the exhaustive teaching of a language so that it may serve as a key to culture is a second function in the school. We find in a broad survey of sc... ...in the mother tongue (as in the Roman schools of Latin oratory), or in the culture tongue (as in Roman schools of Greek oratory), and we find the same...

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...10 OFF THE CHAIN........................................................................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................................................................... 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ............................................................................

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................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................... ...e experimen- talists in gliding one strong enough and light enough for the new purpose. And here we are! Or, rather, M. Blériot is! What does it mean ... ...g; there is no intellectual guide or stir in them; and to that we owe this new generation of nicely behaved, unenterprising sons, who play golf and do... ...of a man with the heart and arteries of a mouse. Then here, again, are New Zealand and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Ea... ...On the other hand, all these states have other special preoccupations. New Zealand, for example, having spent half a century and more in sheep- farmin... ...he full thought of the race should come. T o the lonely youth upon the New Zealand sheep farm, to the young Hindu, to the trapper under a Labrador til... ... that that is the work for which he is fitted by his inferior capacity and culture, that these others are a special and select sort, very specially tr... ...mity to consuming markets, it may present the con- centration of intensive culture. There may be an adjacent Wild supplying wood, and perhaps controll... ...s- tined to develop into a great distinctive nation with a char- acter and culture of its own. Humanly speaking, the United States of America (and the...

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... to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious...

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...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ... assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard t... ...ically a case in which originality consists not so much in the creation of new materials of thought as in the manner in which existing traditions of v... .... The liter- ary compositions to which he had ever listened were the half- cultured, yet often wildly powerful rhapsodies of early Ara- bian minstrels... ...12 The Koran TO SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, K.T., D.C.L. LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, WITH SINCERE FEELINGS OF ESTEEM FOR HIS ... ...ime, study, and meditation, and pre- sumes a far greater degree of general culture than any ortho- dox Muslim will be disposed to admit. In close conn...

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...re still debatable and may finally be rejected. The scientific mind holds opinions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light....

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...n- ions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are man... ...such abnormalities of the mind as are called “criminal” is a comparatively new idea. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the standpoint of... ...d to follow down the beaten path; they strayed into the wilderness seeking new and bet- 10 ter ways. Sometimes others have followed and a shorter pat... ...r people grew more homogeneous and orderly she sent her anti-social to New Zealand and to Vir- ginia. In New Zealand with its opportunities these outc... ...nt. Often the fact is pointed out that great progress has been made in the culture of plants and the breeding of animals. This is true. No intelligent... ...crubs and taking a chance on results. The effect of selective breeding and culture is beyond dispute, and to many it seems obvious that all that is ne...

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..................................... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ..................... ...For big returns.” “Big. That’s good. Go on, Aleck. What is it?” “Coal. The new mines. Cannel. I mean to put in ten thou sand. Ground floor. When we o... ... and even in that way could not express all his joy and thankfulness. This new access of gratitude and affection carried Aleck quite beyond the bounds... ...nition every time, which showed me that she had more presence of mind than culture, though I said nothing, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 34 o... ...tell a cow from a horse by the like process, the result of observation and culture. I should ex plain that I am speaking of legitimate verbs, those v... .... For instance, he would say eagerly, excitedly, “I once knew a man in New Zealand who hadn’t a tooth in his head”— here his animation would die out; ...

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...ng under the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. Matthew’s w... ...zing how far life is from having its final crisis over at one-and-twenty . New Sisters came in, old ones went to found fresh branches; stricter rules ... ...elegram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible ... ...ul person as ever I saw. We tell my father that if she were not out in New Zealand we should all begin to be jealous, he is so enthusiastic about Phyl... ...is a high object not to alienate Gerald, as would certainly be done by the culture of the ugly—” “Or rather of that which pretends to be the reverse, ... ...o to twelve years old, and one cousin, Dolores Mohun, with a father in New Zealand. “Won’t you be in the Mouse-trap?” presently asked num- ber three, ... ...iving with the Merrifields for a year, had been taken by her father to New Zealand, where he had an appointment. He was a man of science, and she had ...

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...ical Succession of Organic Beings On the slow and successive appearance of new spe- cies — On their different rates of change — Species once lost do n... ... principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will b... ...lear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and th... ...n inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture. It is not that these countries, so rich in species, do not by a st... ...and pistils alone in another flower or on an- other plant. In plants under culture and placed un- der new conditions of life, sometimes the male or- g... ...e in this country; and at my request Dr. Hooker tabulated the trees of New Zealand, and Dr. Asa Gray those of the United States, and the result was as... ...degree of perfection attained under nature. The endemic productions of New Zealand, for instance, are perfect one compared with another; but they are ... ...cular animal will breed under con- finement or any plant seed freely under culture; nor can he tell, till he tries, whether any two species of a genus... ...inary manner in which European productions have re- cently spread over New Zealand, and have seized on places which must have been previously occu- pi...

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...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...h and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of climate. Superst... ...ious savages. The natives of the Society and the Friendly Isles, or of New Zealand, and other favored spots, had, and still have, an art of cookery, t... ...flictions of our human state that spring up as inevitably without separate culture and in defiance of all hostile culture, as verdure, as weeds, and a... ...ably distant. Even now, from considerations connected with China, with New Zealand, Borneo, Australia, we may say, that already the fields are white f... ...rom the bosom of war itself. Gradu- ally the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened i...

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... both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species, this relation is often broken: as one instance of this I may m... ...lt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes (Edin. New Philos. Jour., Jan 1830) likewise frequent them. As these circum- stanc... ...ted in the museum of the Zoological Society. Mr. Gould, in describing this new species, has done me the honour of calling it after my name. Among the ... ... the steamer as paddles, and the os- trich as sails: and th Apteryz of New Zealand, as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, pos- sess... ...s evident in this case, how naturally, in a race a little more advanced in culture, the elements would become personified. What the “bad wild men” wer... ...termined to take him back to the Beagle; and ultimately he was left at New Zealand, where his brother was a missionary. From the time of our leaving, ... ...ived at a far higher grade than another branch of the same people, the New Zealanders, — who, al- though benefited by being compelled to turn their at...

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...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...Ruth’s portion, the despairing stoicism of her race, and Male mute Kid adding new lines to his face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, ... ...ts. He was an ordinary man, 26 JACK LONDON with a bank account as deep as his culture, which is saying a good deal. He had no reason to embark on suc... ...Howkan, whose inherent barbarism gripped hold of him, and who lost his mission culture and veneered civilization as he caught the savage ring and rhyt... ...nown record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort. He never talked shop out of class and co... ...the youngsters on him. There was that bloke, Sandel. He had come over from New Zealand with a record behind him. But nobody in Australia knew anything...

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... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ...n had, it seems, been little more than sufficient to pay the extraordinary culture and the expense of watering; for in countries so near the sun, it w... ...ng that he had examined the land, and that it was inca- pable of any other culture. The pretence of this order was the scarcity of corn and pasture, a... ...f soils than any other fruit-tree. From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. This flavo... ... wine drank in Great Britain, is clandes- tinely imported from Holland and Zealand. If there was either a free trade between France and England, or if... ...bliged it to contract great debts. The sin- gular countries of Holland and Zealand, besides, require a consid- erable expense even to preserve their e...

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...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...nt for Bedouins or Malays. The state of different communities, in point of culture and development, ranges downwards to a condition very little above ... ...ven of speculative, and much more of practical, talent. The intel lectual culture compatible with the other type is of that feeble and vague descript... ...ial, therefore, that in all wars, save those which, like the Caffre or New Zealand wars, are incurred for the sake of the particular colony, the colon...

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... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ...Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpillar... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...ense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to star- board, and rushed headlong... ...pecuniary resources, might, while retaining the neces- sary idea of art or culture, or, as our author expresses it, of interest, so imbue his designs ... ...d beauty, magnificence, and strangeness, shall convey the idea of care, or culture, or su- perintendence, on the part of beings superior, yet akin to ... ...s, deli- cacy, daintiness, voluptuousness, and a miraculous extremeness of culture that suggested dreams of a new race of fairies, labori- ous, tastef...