...ad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...t profitable ditch. Then a great pall of smoke sent out by countless steam-boats was spread over the restless mirror of the Infinite. The hand of the ... ...town, Lingard thought himself alone on the quay. He roused up his sleeping boat-crew and stood wait- ing for them to get ready, when he felt a tug at ... ...ome with me, in that brig there?” The boy moved without a word towards the boat and scrambled into the bows. “Knows his place,” muttered Lingard to hi... ... adventurers; ambitious men of that place and time; the Bohemians of their race. In the early days of the settlement, before the ruler Patalolo had sh... ...ind already some semblance of organization amongst the settlers of various races who recognized the unobtrusive sway of old Patalolo, and he was not p... ...east, from those parts where no white man ruled, and to be of an oppressed race, but of a princely family. And truly enough he had all the gifts of an...

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... Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...a cast is taken to search the depth of water on which she floats. A lashed boat, a spare spar, a cask or what not secured about the decks, is “cast ad... ... the crew’s eyes, is announced by the brisk order of the chief mate to the boatswain: “We will get the an- chors over this afternoon” or “first thing ... ...may happen there. There, too, on the approach to the land, assisted by the boatswain and the carpenter, he “gets the an- chors over” with the men of h... ...more. And I do not pretend to any interest in the enumeration of the great races of that year. As to the 52-foot linear raters, praised so much by the... ...Obviously, a 25 Joseph Conrad humbug, thinking only of winning his little race, would stand a chance of profiting by his artifices. Men, professors o... ...hing from a teacher of high morality to a bagman—who have won their little race. But I would like (though not accustomed to betting) to wager a large ...

...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is ...

...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

...ics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... nature of man and the nature of things together; we should make the whole race wise, tolerant, noble, per- fect—wave our hands to a splendid anarchy,... ...ess; and so we must needs face the fact that we are to have differences of race. Even the *Vide an excellent article, La Langue Francaise en l’an 2003... ... Wells lower class of Plato’s Republic was not specifically of differ- ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and blac... ...s of travelling. There will be rivers, for example, with a vast variety of boats; canals with diverse sorts of haulage; there will be lakes and lagoon... ...it is not necessary to enforce this separation.* About such islands patrol boats will go, there will be no freedoms of boat building, and it may be ne... ...it. 92 A Modern Utopia a government man or so stands there to receive the boat and prevent a rush, but beyond the gates a number of engagingly smart-...

...entures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1... ...HE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World ... ...th only their Sprit sail out before the Wind. Towards Evening the Mate and Boat Swain begg’d the Master of our Ship to let them cut away the Foremast,... ...to let them cut away the Foremast, which he was very unwilling to: But the Boat Swain protesting to him, that if he did not, the Ship would founder, ... ...e Storm was so violent, that I saw what is not often seen, the Master, the Boat Swain, and some others more sensible than the rest, at their Prayers, ... ... As if the Kingdom of Spain were particularly Eminent for the Product of a Race of Men, who were without Principles of Tenderness, or the common Bowel...

...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exce...

Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly ov... ... us with inquiring eyes. And well they might. To say nothing of the savage boat’s crew, panting with excitement, all gesture and vociferation, my own ... ... Nukuheva, and making short tacks until morning, we then ran in and sent a boat ashore with the natives who had brought me to the ship. Upon its retur... ...his vocation than John Jermin. He was the very beau-ideal of the efficient race of short, thick- set men. His hair curled in little rings of iron gray... ...addition to these articles, they merely wore the ordinary costume of their race—a slip of native cloth about the loins. Indecorous as their behaviour... ... we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits, and peopled by a race almost wholly unsophisticated by in- tercourse with strangers. In orde...

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...THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...espeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of Cymbeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus. Scoe... ...cena Quarta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Scena Quinta. - i - The Tragedie of Cymbeline zz3 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 ... ...231 And Sidnus swell’d aboue the Bankes, or for 1232 The presse of Boates, or Pride. A peece of Worke 1233 So brauely done, so rich, that ... ..., and roaring Waters, 1400 With Sands that will not beare your Enemies Boates, 1401 But sucke them vp to’th’ Top- mast. A kinde of Conquest 1... ...other doubts, by time let them be cleer’d, 2789 Fortune brings in some Boats, that are not steer’d. Exit. Scena Quarta. 2791 Enter Belar... ...ope; looke, 3117 looke out, no longer exercise 3118 Vpon a valiant Race, thy harsh, and potent iniuries: 3119 Moth. Since (Iupiter) ou...

...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Cymbeline; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter two Gentlemen. Gent. You do not meet a man but Frownes. Our bloods no more obey the Heavens Then our Courtiers: Still seeme, as do?s the Kings. Gent. But what?s...

...Table of Contents: The Tragedie of Cymbeline, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 3 -- Scena Tertia., 6 -- Scena Quarta., 7 -- Scena Quinta., 8 -- Scena Sexta., 12 -- Scena Septima., 14 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 20 -- ...

... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ld not be doubted. But how admit that the con- struction of this submarine boat had escaped the public eye? For a private gentleman to keep the secret... ...of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance... ...with it. “Well, Mr. Land,” asked the captain, “do you advise me to put the boats out to sea?” “No, sir,” replied Ned Land; “because we shall not take ... ...taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon become extinct. Captain Nemo’s companion took the beast, th... ... them easily; they were true Papuans, with athletic fig- ures, men of good race, large high foreheads, large, but not broad and flat, and white teeth.... ...his devotion to a human being, a repre- 151 Jules Verne sentative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea. Whatever he might say, this strang...

...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...hrew a sudden flare over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded... ..., but the wind now came in sudden claps and capfuls, not without danger to a boat so badly ballasted as ours; and we crept over the river in the darkn... ...cal, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their contribu- tion. Pekin is in the s... ...rove in a thousand conde- scensions that I was no sharer in the prejudice of race; but I assure you I put my patronage away for another occasion, and ... ..., the rest discussing privately the se- crets of their old-world, mysterious race. Lady Hester Stanhope believed she could make something great of the... ...the more delicate is their sense of modesty. A clean man strips in a crowded boathouse; but he who is unwashed slinks in and out of bed without uncove...

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...gainst Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse. Bonds were issued, and made their ap- pearance on ‘Change; “Phi... .... A number of fishing- 24 Around the World in 80 Days smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, were disc... ...of the Mongolia. The porters and fellahs rushed down the quay, and a dozen boats pushed off from the shore to go and meet the steamer. Soon her gigant... ...icturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay. Fix took up a position, and carefully examin... ...n. The aspect of the country, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the... ...account of the victim, who, he said, was a celebrated beauty of the Parsee race, and the daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant. She had re- ceived a t...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...m, great agility, and high spirit made him excel. Cricket, riding, running-races, all the school amusements were his delight; fireworks for the 5th of... ... good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work was conscientiously ac... ...George May Coleridge; and here the brothers and sisters climbed the rocks, boated, fished, and ran exquisitely wild in the summer holi- days. Christma... ...at the dinner annually given by the eleven of cricket and the eight of the boats at the hotel at Slough. A custom had arisen among some of the boys of... ...ies, and even the different families, (e.g., the Indo-Germanic and Semitic races,) is not only interesting, but very useful. I wish I had made myself ... ...ion. These were regarded as less quick but more steady than the Polynesian race, with somewhat the same difference of character as there is between th...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

...Frank Norris A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hree years before this time Ross Wilbur had pulled at No. 5 in his varsity boat in an Eastern college that was not accustomed to athletic discomfiture... ... on the afternoon you receive this. Will hit the town on the three o’clock boat. Get seats for the best show going—my treat—and arrange to assimilate ... ...Herrick. He decided that it would be best to meet Jerry as he came off the boat and tell him how matters stood. Then he resolved, since no one that he... ... from the nor’west, the ebb tide rushing out to meet the ocean like a mill-race, at every moment the Golden Gate opened out wider, and within two minu... ...ory, with that extraordinary absence of curiosity which is the mark of the race, did not glance a 32 Moran of the Lady Letty second time at the survi... ...ere already drawing, and un- der all the spread of her canvas the “Bertha” raced back toward the shore. But by the time she was within the head of the...

...pt: Shanghaied This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes ?coming out? that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender...

...Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...very manner of merchandise. T aking one of a great number of lively little boats with gay striped awnings, we rowed away, under the sterns of great sh... ...sterns of great ships, under tow ropes and cables, against and among other boats, and very much too near the sides of vessels that were faint with ora... ...s of small palaces (but very large palaces for all that), with marble ter races looking down into close by ways—the magnificent and innumerable Churc... ...ong the olive woods, and rocks, and hills, upon the margin of the Sea. The Boat which started for Nice that night, at eight o’clock, was very small, a... ...ning of which, some hundred or two of men and women represented our mortal race before the refinements of the arts and sciences, and loves and graces,... ...ng the dragoons begin to clear the street. How it ever is cleared for the race that takes place at five, or how the horses ever go through the race, ...

...ed by Rudyard Kipling A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ags, indeed! Hi! you pilot man there! lend me all the sails for that whale-boat.’ A fez-crowned head bobbed up in the stern-sheets, divided itself int... ... his clumsy sewing, while Dick chuckled over the sketch. Some twenty whale-boats were nuzzling a sand- 15 Rudyard Kipling bank which was dotted with ... ...oldiery of half a dozen corps, bathing or washing their clothes. A heap of boat-rollers, commissariat-boxes, sugar-bags, and flour—and small-arm-ammun... ...n.’ There was no answer, save the incessant angry murmur of the Nile as it raced round a basalt-walled bend and foamed across a rock-ridge half a mile... ...ike those quick-closing vistas in a Kentish hop-garden seen when the train races by at full speed; and the infantry fire, held till the oppor- tune mo... ...ers of less 25 Rudyard Kipling reputable trades. He had choice of all the races of the East and West for studies, and the advantage of seeing his sub...

...ught us? We oughtn?t to have it, you know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Mai...

...ic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...r the amelioration of the world, or rose so superior to the preju- dice of race; nor have any ten years left so lasting a trace upon the history of th... ...s, sometimes encamping in the woods, sometimes crossing the lakes in small boats. Many 27 Yo n g e ladies were among them, and their summer life had ... ...Ethiopian, and over all these ruled the keen-witted, active native Persian race, the conquerors of all the rest, and led by a chosen band proudly call... ...of the Aegean sea, the land army would cross the Hellespont on a bridge of boats lashed together, and march southwards into Greece. The only hope of a... ...Delphi that Sparta should be saved by the death of one of her kings of the race of Hercules. He was allowed by law to take with him 300 men, and these... ...e perishing around them, this brave shepherdess embarked alone in a little boat, and guiding it down the stream, landed beyond the Frankish camp, and ...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed thei...

...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ille The Confidence-Man By Herman Melville CHAPTER I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi AT SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, sudd... ...ions—quite in the wonted and sensible order of things—of the barber of the boat, whose quarters, under a smok- ing-saloon, and over against a bar-room... ...ladder there leading to a deck above, up and down which ladder some of the boatmen, in discharge of their duties, were occasionally going. From his be... ...peaker himself. He added that negroes were by nature a singularly cheerful race; no one ever heard of a native-born African Zimmermann or Torquemada; ... ...ather of the man’, is, besides implying an unchari- table aspersion of the race, affirming a thing very wide of—” “—Your analogy,” like a snapping tur... ...ceptional case, that general law of distrust systematically applied to the race. He revolves, but cannot comprehend, the operation, still less the ope...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-...

...ics Series Publication Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...amilton must be conveyed. Most of the locomotion in these parts is done by boats, and the residents look to the sea, with its narrow creeks, as their ... ...stasia Bergen, nor had the young men of St. George been wont to stay their boats under the window of Crump Cottage in order that they might listen to ... ...nown in those parts as the idlest, most dishonest, and most useless of his race. On this occasion, however, Danny Lund became important, and every one... ...orning, while they were all searching for their victim, they had brought a boat up into this very inlet among the rocks; and the same boat had been at...

...Excerpt: I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, and say that no one has so accounte...

...Worlds by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...on animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The T asmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swe... ... in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race. I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy, t... ... and horseflesh. The respectable inhabitants of the place, men in golf and boating costumes, wives prettily dressed, were pack- ing, river-side loafer... ...women to pack a little cart. The Wey has a treble mouth, and at this point boats are to be hired, and there was a ferry across the river. On the Shepp... ...ot grown to a panic, but there were al- ready far more people than all the boats going to and fro could enable to cross. People came panting along und... ...n the houses on each side and across the road, and behind in the Park Ter- races and in the hundred other streets of that part of Marylebone, and the ...

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... Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ion. The young men rejoice in the days of their youth. They gamble, yacht, race, enjoy prize-fights and cock-fights, the one openly, the other in secr... ...went under in the days of construction. To this nucleus were added all the races of the Continent—French, Italian, Ger- man, and, of course, the Jew. ... ...ty the natives of India. “Heathens,” he called them—this woolly one, whose race has been the butt of every comedy on the native stage since the beginn... ... were those of a Zanzibar stick dance, such as you see at Aden on the coal-boats, and even as I watched the people, the links that bound them to the w... ...nder his ponderous belly 35 Rudyard Kipling than he backed like a torpedo-boat, and the snarl of the reel told me that my labor was in vain. A dozen ... ...ing it. There are her companies of infantry in a sort of port there. A gun-boat brought over in pieces from Niagara could get the money and get away b...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who ca...

...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 Th...

...es Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...other prisoners from a penal settlement. It is an island, and they seize a boat, and get to the main land. Their way is by a rugged and precipitous se... ...work. A little time, and he tempts one other prisoner away, seizes another boat, and flies once more—necessarily in the old hopeless direction, for he... ...ver the side of the Bounty, and turned adrift on the wide ocean in an open boat, by order of Fletcher Christian, one of his officers, at this very min... ..., but no family; and he loves to drill the children of his tenants, or run races with them, or do anything with them, or for them, that is good natur... ...remely delightful. For fivepence a head, we have on these occasions donkey races with English ‘Jokeis,’ and other rus tic sports; lotteries for toys;... ...lly introduced into the trade by the new school: a profligate and inferior race of impostors who took jobs at almost any price, to the detriment of th...

...Contents THE LONG VOYAGE ...................................................................................................................... 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER .................................................................

...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ccessfully work out a problem of the highest importance to the whole human race. To represent me as viewing America with ill nature, cold ness, or a... ...ss. For every gallant ship was riding slowly up and down, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the... ... he will have the goodness to mention it. What have we here? The captain’s boat! and yonder the captain himself. Now, by all our hopes and wishes, the... ...y are away, and never said, Good b’ye. Ah now they wave it from the little boat. ‘Good b’ye! Good b’ye!’ Three cheers from them; three more from us; t... ...dishing some heavy weapon, and answered, as he let it fall again, that his race were losing many things besides their dress, and would soon be seen up... ...amber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that ceased to be, thou sands of years ago, he was very attentive, an...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existenc...