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All for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present WarAll for a Scrap of Paper: A Romance of the Present War"I then said that I should like to go and see the Chancellor. . . I found the Chancellor very agitated. His Excellency began a harangue which lasted about twenty minutes. He said...
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The Pomp of YesterdayThe Pomp of Yesterday"Far famed our Navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire, Lo, all the pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre. God of the Nations, spare us yet! Lest we forget, lest we forget." RUDYARD KIPLING. "Let...
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Baboo Jabberjee, B.ABaboo Jabberjee, B.A.Sir, I am an able B.A. of a respectable Indian University, now in this country for purposes of being crammed through Inns of Court and Law Exam., and rendering myself a completely fledged Pleader or Barrister in the Native Bar of the...
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The Tiger HunterThe Tiger HunterDuring one of many journeyings through the remote provinces of the Mexican republic, it was my fortune to encounter an old revolutionary officer, in the person of Captain Castaos. From time to time as we travelled together, he was good enough to...
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SusâniSusâni - 1901 A few weeks ago I was reading a charmingly written book by a lady (the wife of a distinguished savant) who had spent three months on Funafuti, one of the lagoon islands of the Ellice Group. Now the place and the...
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Over the Fireside with Silent FriendsOver the Fireside with Silent FriendsDraw your chair up nearer to the fireside. It is the hour of twilight. Soon, so very soon, another of Life's little days will have silently crept behind us into the long dim limbo of half-forgotten years. We are...
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SarréoSarréo - 1901 "Well, there's niggers an' niggers, some just as good as any white man," said Mr. Thomas Potter as he, the second mate of the island-trading barque Reconnaisance, and Denison the supercargo, walked her short, stumpy poop one night, "though when I...
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PâkiaPâkia - 1901 Late one evening, when the native village was wrapped in slumber, Temana and I brought our sleeping-mats down to the boat-shed, and spread them upon the white, clinking sand. For here, out upon the open beach, we could feel a breath...
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The Romany RyeThe Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro'Lavengro and The Romany Rye are one book, though the former was published in 1851 and the latter not until 1857. After a slumber of six years the dingle re-awakes to life, Lavengros hammer shatters the stillness,...
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Officer and ManOfficer and Man - 1901 The anchor of her Majesty's ship Hannibal was underfoot and the captain on the bridge, and Rear-Admiral Garnet had shaken hands with the last of the leading Fijian white residents, who always did the welcoming and farewelling when distinguished...
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In the Far NorthIn the Far North - 1901 Jack Barrington, nominal owner of Tinandra Downs cattle station on the Gilbert River in the far north of North Queensland, was riding slowly over his run, when, as the fierce rays of a blazing sun, set in a...
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The Brothers-In-Law: A Tale of the Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun of the BuccaneersThe Brothers-In-Law: A Tale of the Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun of the Buccaneers - 1901 There, said Tvita the teacher, pointing with his paddle to a long, narrow peninsula which stretched out into the shallow waters of the lagoon, there, that is...
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Foster's Letter of Marque: A Tale of Old SydneyFoster's Letter of Marque: A Tale of Old Sydney - 1901 One by one the riding-lights of the few store-ships and whalers lying in Sydney Harbour on an evening in January, 1802, were lit, and as the clear notes of a bugle from the...
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The Adventure of Elizabeth Morey, of New YorkThe Adventure of Elizabeth Morey, of New York - 1901 In the sea story of Australia, from the days of Captain Phillip in 1788, to the end of the "fifties" in the present century, American ships and seamen have no little part. First they...
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War and the WeirdWar and the Weird[11] "Do you think there is anything in it?" He was a clean-set six-foot specimen of English manhood, an officer of the R.F.A. wounded at Mons, who spoke. "I mean I haven't studied these subjects muchin fact, I haven't studied them...
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Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth CenturyBristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth CenturyThe incidents in the life of Thomas Chatterton which are introduced into this story are gathered chiefly from Mr Masson's exhaustive essay and a biography of the poet by Mr Chatterton Dix. In these books full details...
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A Son of the ImmortalsA Son of the ImmortalsOn a day in May, not so long ago, Joan Vernon, coming out into the sunshine from her lodging in the Place de la Sorbonne, smiled a morning greeting to the statue of Auguste Comte, founder of Positivism. It would...
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The House of SoulsThe House of SoulsIt was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume...
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The Strange Adventure of James ShervintonThe Strange Adventure of James Shervinton - 1902 The night was close and stifling, and the dulled bellowing of the surf on the weather side of the island told me that the calm was about to break at last, and in another hour or...
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An Old Man's LoveAn Old Man's LoveThis story, "An Old Man's Love," is the last of my father's novels. As I have stated in the preface to his Autobiography, "The Landleaguers" was written after this book, but was never fully completed. Mr William Whittlestaff was strolling very...
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