text:
Page:Further India; (IA furtherindia00clif).pdf/428

 adventure, lawlessness and rediscovery of ancient lands came the age of the great trading companies of Britain and of Holland, an epoch which, though trade reigned supreme and political supremacy was sought after as merely a road to riches, has a romance of its own because of the mighty over-seas empires of which these commer- cial ventures were the beginning. Lastly we have traced the gradual extension of European influence throughout the lands of south-eastern Asia—in Burma, in Malaya, in Siam, and in French Indo-China—of all of which to-day Siam alone retains its ancient independence, though it too has had its administrative system materially altered and improved by contact with the nations of the West. It is to this last period-the nineteenth century, and more especially the concluding half of that century—that the detailed exploration of Chryse the Golden belongs, and it now remains for us to take a rapid survey of the information acquired and of the work which remains to be accomplished.

The coast-line of the great Indo-Chinese peninsula, from the mouths of the Ganges to the boundary between Tongking and China, has now been surveyed and charted with an accuracy that leaves nothing to be desired, and the same may be said for almost the whole of the neigh- bouring archipelago of Malaya. The outline, as it were, has been traced with the utmost exactitude: what is the extent to which that outline has been filled in?

The most important geographical feature of these lav- ishly watered lands is their immense river-systems, and it will be convenient, in the first place, to see what is the state of our present knowledge with regard to these.


text:
Page:Further India; (IA furtherindia00clif).pdf/429

 The Red River of Tongking, commonly called the Song-Koi, but named Song-tao by the Tongkingese, was, as we have seen, first descended from Yun-nan by the Frenchman Dupuis, who afterwards ascended it with a cargo of warlike stores from Hanoi. Its navigability for anything bigger than native poling-boats was long disputed, but in August, 1890, the steam-launch "Yun- nan," drawing 70 centimetres, was taken up as far as Laokai, thus proving the practicability of using vessels of shallow draught upon the river. As a trade-route, however, the Song-Koi is admittedly unsatisfactory, and the French Government has decided that railways, not rivers, are to be regarded as the only possible means of opening up communication with the southern provinces. of China. The actual sources of the Red River have not been located with accuracy, though the main branch is believed to take its rise in the mountains to the east of King-tung, in Yun-nan, in approximately 24° N. lat. and 103° E. long. The eastern branch rises partly in the mountains between Tongking and Kwang-si, and partly in the latter province, while the western branch, the Song-Bo, or Black River, has its source in the hills to the westward of Tsu-hiung, in Yun-nan. Beyond the Tongkingese boundary none of these branches has been explored or surveyed in detail for any great portion of its course.

The Song-Ma, the next important river to the south, has been traced to its source in the mountains of Uei- bak, which divide its basin from that of the Nam U, a left-bank tributary of the Mekong which falls into that river above Luang Prabang; this was part of the work

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


text:
Page:Further India; (IA furtherindia00clif).pdf/430

 performed by M. Pavie's mission. Similarly the Song Ka, still farther to the south, has been traced to its rise in the mountains which divide Tongking from the valley of the Mekong.

We come now to the Mekong itself, the immense river with the exploration of which we have been so much engaged in the pages of this work. Garnier, it will be remembered, arrived unwillingly at the conclusion that the Mekong was impracticable for navigation by steam- launches above the Khong rapids, but since his day the construction of shallow-draught river-craft has under- gone an immense development, such as he may well be excused for having failed to foresee. The most formid- able obstacle in the Sombor flight of rapids was the fall known as Preatapang, which Garnier himself had made two several attempts to examine, and had pronounced impossible for steam-launches. In 1883, however, Cap- tain Réveillère succeeded after much difficulty in forcing a launch up the flight, and in the course of examinations made during 1891 and 1892, Lieutenant Robaglia discov- ered a channel some six metres in width which is practic- able for steam-launches at all seasons of the year. He further discovered that the island of Khon is in fact a cluster of small islands, and in one of the channels divid- ing these it has been found possible to dig a canal, pro- tected by locks, which gives easy access to the river above the falls. Steam communication between Saigon and the reaches immediately above Khon is thus at last assured. In 1893 an expedition under the command of Lieutenant Simon and Ensign Le Vay was sent with three steamers, the Ham Luong, the Massie and the La Grandière, to


text:
Page:Further India; (IA furtherindia00clif).pdf/431

 attempt the navigation of the Mekong as far as Luang Prabang. A start was made from Khon, and after a short halt at Bassak, Simon and Le Vay reached Vien Chan in 15 days with the Ham Luong and the Massie, arriving at the ancient capital of Laos on November 27th. Two years later, in August and September, 1895, Simon took the La Grandière up-stream to Luang Prabang with- out mishap, and thence proceeded as far as Keng Hoi. This rapid fairly beat him, and he was forced to return to Luang Prabang, but on October 15th he returned to the charge, and after five days of incessant struggle suc- ceeded in reaching Chieng Khong, having counted no fewer than forty-seven rapids on the way, many of which he describes as exceedingly dangerous. From Chieng Khong he pushed on to Chieng Hsen, above which point he found the stream shallow, but much easier to navigate, and on October 25th he arrived at Tang- Ho, which is distant one day's march from Chieng Lap. In 1898 Ensign Mazeran explored the reaches above. Tang-Ho for a distance of about five and thirty miles, and it appears to be probable that launches may yet be conveyed up-stream as far as Chieng Hong, the highest point on the river attained by McLeod and by the De Lagrée-Garnier expedition. Up to the present time, the distance up-stream which steam-launches have been taken by French officers—from the mouth of the Me- kong to a point five and thirty miles above Tang-Ho—is 1,600 miles. The fact should not be lost sight of, however, that this is a feat that cannot be regarded as of much practical utility. Even below Luang Pra- bang the navigation of the river is fraught with immense


text: Index:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu


text:
Page:Further India; (IA furtherindia00clif).pdf/432

 difficulty; above that point it is excessively dangerous; and therefore it may safely be averred that there is little probability of the trade of the Hinterland of Indo-China being diverted from its ancient channels by means of a steam flotilla plying upon the waters of the Mekong.

The actual sources of the Mekong are still to some extent in doubt, though the upper reaches of the river have been explored in some detail by Prjévalsky, by the Pundit Krishna who was sent on an exploring expedi- tion by the Government of India, by Dutreuil de Rhins in 1893, and by Prince Henri of Orleans and Lieutenant E. Roux in 1895. The best information at our disposal leads to the belief that the main or western branch of the river rises on the slopes of Dza-Nag-Lung-Mung in about 33° N. lat. and about 93° E. long., at an altitude of 16,760 feet above sea-level, close to the point indi- cated by Prjévalsky. This stream is called the Lung- Mung until it unites its waters with that of the Nor-Pa- Chu, when it assumes the name of Dza-Nag-Chu and flows through deep ravines, the surrounding country being sparsely inhabited by Tibetan Gejis, a wild tribe in a primitive state of civilisation. Lower down it receives the waters of the Dza-Gar-Chu and is called the Dza-Chu, the name by which it is known throughout the remainder of its Tibetan course. Immediately below this point of junction it forms a rapid of tremendous force, its waters flowing so swiftly that even in winter no ice is able to form upon them. It is none the less an insignificant stream, for lower down, just above the monastery of Tachi-Gonpa, the Dza-Chu measures barely thirty yards from bank to bank and is less than three


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/1


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/2


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/3


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/4


text:
Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/5

 THE ALDINE EDITION

OF THE BRITISH

POETS.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF

SAMUEL ROGERS.


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/6


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/7


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/8


text:
Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/9

 THE POETICAL WORKS OF

SAMUEL ROGERS.

WITH A MEMOIR

BY EDWARD BELL, M.A.

TRIN. COLL., CAMBRIDGE.

REVISED EDITION.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN,

AND NEW YORK.

1892.


text: Further India

title: Further India


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/10


text: Further India/Chryse the Golden and the Chersonesus Aurea


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/11


text:
Page:Tolstoy - Tales from Tolstoi.djvu/199

Rh down, the old man dragged himself towards the bench and sat down. The effort of getting to the bench had quite exhausted him. After coughing out his cough, the old man leaned on the table for support, and said:

"Well, have they given judgment?"

Ivan answered: "The sentence is twenty stripes with birches."

The old man shook his head. Tis a bad job thou hast done, Ivan," said he. "Oh, bad indeed! Not to him but to thine own self hast thou done badly. Come now! Does it ease thy shoulder at all to bend his back?"

"It will not happen again," said Ivan.

"It will not happen again, sayest thou? How has he ever done thee a worse turn?"

Ivan grew angry. "How? Do you mean to say he has never wronged me? He nearly beat my old woman to death! And now he threatens to burn me out. I suppose I am to bow low to him for that, eh?"

The old man sighed, and said: "Thou, Ivan, dost go and walk about the world quite freely, and I lie on the stove the whole year through—thou think'st that thou seest everything, and I see nothing. No, little one! Thou seest nothing, for an evil eye of vengeance blinds thee. Others' sins are right before thee, thine own behind thy back. Why say, He has done wrong? If he only had done wrong, no evil need have come of it. As if the ill-will between people arises from the fault of one side only! Evil arises from the fault of two. His wrong-doing is plain before thine eyes, but thine own thou seest not at all. If only he had been evil, and thou hadst been 149


text: Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/12


text:
Page:Tolstoy - Tales from Tolstoi.djvu/200

Tales from Tolstoi good, nothing of bad could have come of it Who pulled his beard? Who stole away his hayrick? Who dragged him before the courts? Thou livest amiss, hence the evil! I, my son, used not to live so, nor have I taught thee the like. Did we of the olden time live thus, my father and his father? How did we live! Like neighbours. Did he want meal—his old woman would come: 'Uncle Frol, we want some meal!' 'Dost thou, young woman? then go to the barn and take out as much as thou dost want.' Or there would be no one with him to take out the horses. 'Go thou, Vanyatka, and take out his horses.' And if anything was wanted with me I would go to him. 'Uncle Gordy, we want this or that' 'Take it Uncle Frol.' Thus fared it with us. And thou also wouldst find thy life light and easy if lived thus. But now? Dost thou mind the soldier who told us all about Plevna the other day? There's a worse war going on than this Plevna. Is not life a greater war? and sin? Thou art a muzhik, thou art the head of a household: ask thyself this thing. What dost thou teach thy women-kind and children? To lead a cat-and-dog life! The other day Taraska, and a loafer he is, reviled Aunt Arina, his mother being by, and she only laughed at him. Dost call that a good sign? Ask thyself that question. Turn it over in thy mind. Should these things be? Thou throwest a word at me, I throw thee back two; thou wrongest me, I requite it thee doubly. No, little friend, Christ did not go about the world to teach

150


text: Page:Poems Osgood.djvu/77

title: Page:Poems Osgood.djvu/77


text:
The Phantom of the Opera

 * The Phantom of the Opera (1911), unsourced version translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, published by Grosset & Dunlap, illustrated by André Castaigne (currently missing illustrations)
 * The Phantom of the Opera (c. 1925), same as above but with stills from the 1925 film added

Adaptations

 * The Phantom of the Opera (1925), starring Lon Chaney and directed by Rupert Julian

title: The Phantom of the Opera


text:
Page:The chemistry of paints and painting.djvu/70

36 the dimensions of the canvas vary. As the contraction on drying and the expansion on taking up moisture are not the same in the direction of the warp as in that of the woof, there is an unequal strain upon the layers of paint upon the surface. These may, therefore, become irregularly fissured, and even loosened. The importance of selecting a canvas so woven as to expand nearly equally in both directions is evident, but the maintenance of a uniform temperature, and of a suitable degree of moisture in the atmosphere where pictures are hung, is also obvious. The absorption of moisture by canvas occurs through the back, unless that be also protected by paint. With the moisture deleterious gases may also be absorbed, and these may easily pass through and affect the priming, even the picture. Canvas protected by panel behind, or coated at the back with a layer of white lead which has been ground up with starch paste, escapes this injury in great measure, as the sulphuretted hydrogen, etc., are then intercepted. The colouring-matter of the fibre and size of the canvas may move towards the front and discolour the priming and even the picture. An excess of damp and a high temperature are the chief causes of this movement. When the first priming coat contains size, though it may adhere firmly to the sized canvas, it may not hold the subsequent oil-painting quite so tenaciously. Canvas is liable to accidental injuries from mechanical causes: a double canvas mitigates the evil. The elasticity of the priming may not suffice, when the canvas is rolled up, to prevent cracking. A small addition of a non-drying oil, such as almond or olive oil, to the linseed oil used in the priming coats, proves useful, but such addition


text:
Page:First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect.djvu/240

 LESSON CXI.

泡 phàu; to soak soft. 額 hîah; forehead; fixed. ？ sìn; sîn; the sinciput. 鬢 pìn; hair on the temple. 頰 * kih; side of face; cheeks. 仁 jîn; humanity; kernel.

腎 sĭen; kidneys. 齦 n̂gn; the gums. 齦 * ngoih; to crunch. 喉 âu; throat; windpipe. 嚨 lêng; aesophagus. 起 khí; sort; class.

1 ŭ ngán bɵ̂ cu. âu lêng. 2 ngán côiⁿ ŭ sʉ̄, mẽ? 3 hòng ngán. pìn piⁿ. 4 hɵ́ ngán lât. hîah sìo. 5 thóiⁿ m̄ cĭeⁿ ngán. 6 ngán sîn. âu lêng kíaⁿ. 7 hîah mīn sîn. hîah kak. 8 îeh tah pìn piⁿ. 9 sien nâng thâu. 10 mâk ciu jîn. pêh jîn. 11 mâk chì mɵ̂. hîah kĕ. 12 sìn mn̂g; hîah sìn. 13 ŭ hîah a bɵ̂ hîah? 14 kih kau. o jîn. 15 jîn ài. thɵ̂ jîn, tāu jîn. 16 sĭen cí īeⁿ. sim sĭen. 17 khí n̂gn. ngoih khí. 18 âu lêng thìaⁿ. âu ta. 19 âu seⁿ gɵ̂. koi nn̆g jîn. 20 ngẽ âu. nńg âu. 21 lʉ́ kâi âu bɵ̂ siaⁿ sĭ ŵn in lʉ́ pek chiet kāng nâng sie jíang. 22 hŭam àiⁿ cîah kâi mûeh pit àiⁿ kùe âu lêng. 23 tàⁿ ūe tɵ̆ âu lêng tói. 24 cí khí, hʉ́ khí, m̄ tâng īeⁿ.

1 Undiscriminating. Throat. 2 Have you immediate business? 3 Long, narrow eye. The temple. 4 Quick perceptions. Legal number. 5 Look upon with contempt. 6 Expression of the eye. Palate. 7 The forehead. Above the temple. 8 Stick medicine on the temple. 9 The image in the eye. 10 The eyeball. White of the eye. 11 The eyelashes. Forehead low. 12 The fontanel in a babe. 13 Is there a fixed rate? 14 The cheeks. The iris. 15 Benevolence. Meat of peach-stone, and pea-nut. 16 Oval. The heart and reins. 17 The gums. Grate the teeth. 18 Throat sore. Thirsty. 19 Quinsy. Yolk of an egg. 20 Windpipe. Aesophagus. 21 You are hoarse because you have been so vehemently scolding. 22 Whatever is eaten must pass down the throat. 23 Talk in a whisper. 24 The two sorts are unlike.


text:
Page:History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North.djvu/524

506 Rickert, M. B., 19.

Ridderstad, K. F., 398.

Rigsmál, 24.

Rode, G., 195.

Römer., O., 165.

Rondeletius, J. P., 327.

Rosenhane, G., 304.

Rosenstein, N., 371.

Rosselet, 59.

Rothe, T., 206.

Rudbek, O., 339.

Rudén, T., 335.

Rühs, 39.

Rumohr, T. W., 278.

Runeberg, J. L., 7, 403

Runes, 14.

Runius, J., 337.

Rydberg, V., 399.

Rydelius, A., 343.

Rygh, O., 53.

Sahlstedt, A., 353.

Sæmund, 23-49.

de Saint Aubain, 270.

Samsöe, O. J., 224.

Sander, C. L., 224.

Sars, J. E., 309.

Sars, M., 308.

Sätherberg, H., 400.

Säve, C., 26.

Saxo Grammaticus, 25-29, 101.

Schandorph, S., 283.

Scheele, W., 251.

Schjern, F., 291.

Scholander, F. V., 407.

Schöring, G., 204.

Schouw, J. F., 289.

Schultze, H. H., 302.

Schytte, A., 207.

Sehlstedt, E., 402.

Sexe, S. A., 308.

Sibbern, F. C., 288.

Sighvat Thordarson, 43.,

Sigurdsson, J., 86.

Silfverstolpe, G., 400.

Sjöberg, E., 381.

Skavlan, O., 195.

Skáldskapamál, 33, 36.

Skjoldunga Saga, 66.

Skulason, T., 79.

Smith, C. W., 195.

Smith, S. B., 155, 188.

Sneedorf, J., 207.

Snoilsky, J. G., 408.

Snorre Sturleson, 31-60.

Sommelius, G. L., 400.

Sondén, P. A., 350.

Sorterup, J., 196.

Sparre, P. G., 397.

Spegel, H., 337, 342.

Sperling, O., 175.

Stagnelius, E. J., 379.

Staffeldt, A. W. S., 241.

Starkad, 30.

Steenstrup, J., 289.

Stefanius, S., 174.

Steffens, H., 231.

Stenback, 406.

Stenersen, P., 211.

Stenersen, S. J., 308.

Stensen, N., 166.

Stephens, G., 14, 68, 319.

Stephenson, O., 86.

Stephenson, M., 86.

Sthen, H., 154, 177.

Stjernhjelm, G., 332.

Stjernhöök, J., 343.

Stjórn, 70.

Storm, E., 223.

Storm, G., 29, 59, 69.

Strandberg, C. W., 407.

Strengleikar, 69.

Strinnholm, A. M., 408.

Stub, A., 197.

Sturla Thordarson, 45.

Sturlunga Saga, 50.

Sturzenbecker, O. P., 401.

Suhm, P. F., 203.

Sundt, E., 308.

Svaning, 173.

Sunesön, A., 99.

Svart, P., 325.

Svedberg, J., 342.

Svedenborg, E., 343.

Sveinsson, B., 79.

Swedish Academy, 355.

Syv, P., 175, 182.

Talis Qualis, 407.

Tausen, H., 145.

Tegel, E. G., 325.

Tegnér, E., 7, 80, 386.


text:
Page:First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect.djvu/242

 LESSON CXII.

蒂 lih; tih; rootlets; stems. 腭 ngâk; roof of the mouth. 肩 koiⁿ; the shoulder. 胸 heng; the thorax. 坪 phîaⁿ; beach; flats. 嶺 nía; a ridge; range.

臂 pì; forearm. 節 coih; festival; term. 節 cak; joint; restrain. 肘 * thn̆g; elbow. 膝 chek; the knee. 脇 hîap; side of the body.

1 jíang kàu âu bɵ̂ siaⁿ. 2 lʉ́ ìn tap m̄ kong. úa kāi i cɵ̀ tong pɵ́. 3 tong kìⁿ. 4 ŭ nŏ khí, cêk khí sĭ tîam, cêk khí si kîam. 5 mâk kha phûe. heng côiⁿ. 6 âu lêng kńg. âu lêng lih. 7 heng côiⁿ kut. kʉn lih. 8 pn̄g sî kut; koiⁿ kah. 9 kue sêk, lih lɵ̂h. heng kuaⁿ côiⁿ. 10 tiah tīo lih. 11 cīeⁿ ngâk. koiⁿ thâu. 12 khui heng saⁿ. 13 koi heng; ku heng. 14 tûi heng. sim heng. 15 sim heng khuah. chek ĕ. 16 i kâi sim heng lêng ūaⁿ kio nâng m̄ tâng. 17 hái phîa. khoi phîa. 18 suaⁿ nía. nía thâu. kùe nía. nía lō. nía kha. kîaⁿ kàu pùaⁿ nía hiah hêk. nía téng. 19 chíu pì. sî coih. 20 chíu thăng. cńg kah. 21 phah chek kŭi.

1 Scream till hoarse. 2 Your answer is not to the point. I will be bail for him. 3 An intermediate agent. 4 There are two kinds, one is sweet and one is salt. 5 Eyelids. The breast. 6 The tonsils. The palate. 7 The breast bone. Rootlets. 8 Shoulder blade. 9 The melon being ripe the stem falls off. The breast. 10 Pick off the stems. 11 Roof of the mouth. Shoulder. 12 Jacket opening in front. 13 A projecting breast bone. 14 Beat the breast. Disposition. 15 Magnanimous. One's children. 16 His disposition is different from other people's. 17 Flats by a sea or river. 18 Mountain range. High peaks. To pass. The pass. Foot of the pass. Went half up the steep and stopped to rest. Highest point. 19 The arm. Stated times. 20 Elbow. Thumb-nail. 21 Bend the knees.


text: Index:The Phantom of the Opera.webm

title: Index:The Phantom of the Opera.webm


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/1

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/1


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/2

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/2


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/3

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/3


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/4

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/4


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/5

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/5


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/6

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/6


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/7

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/7


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/8

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/8


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/9

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/9


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/10

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/10


text:
Page:The New York Times, 1918-11-11.pdf/14

TWO CENTS in Metropolitan District (50 mile radius). Three Cents within 200 miles. Four Cents elsewhere. Sunday, Five Cents, City; Seven Cents elsewhere.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein.

All rights of reproduction of all other matter herein are also reserved.

No great empire ever before came to so sharp an ending, no mighty potentate was ever so ignominiously hurried sprawling from his throne. Germany, the greatest military autocracy on earth, was given over in a day to Socialist revolution, characterized as yet, happily, by no great violence, and even if, by reason of delayed communications, the terms of the armistice be not yet signed, defeat is acknowledged in the proclamation of Prince, and of surrender there is no longer a doubt. Whipped by nations devoted to peace in its own special business of war for which it was eternally drilling and arming, jeered at, repudiated and overthrown in the moment of defeat by that proletariat class it had always held to be fit only for servitude and soldiering, the powerful German Empire was already writhing in most undignified throes of dissolution when its humbled emissaries set out for the spot where the firm voice of Marshal was to declaim to them the terms of surrender. And the Hohenzollern, the last of an ancient line, had to receive from the hands of one of the most despised of his knavish tools the summons to renounce his crown and sceptre.

Germany's pride is the true measure of Germany's humiliation. That mountain-high, impenetrable concit of Kaiser, of Junkerdom, of people, and of German wanderers outside the gates was humbled and crushed out in a trice. That is a minor incident of the Empire's disaster, to be noted, certainly, with some natural human satisfaction by men of other races who have so long endured the German haughtiness. But it soon gives way to consideration of the larger aspects of an achievement so momentous in the world's history. Amid the universal rejoicings that victory and peace succeed to long years of combat and misery we may, with a feeling of gratitude even more profound, take note of the great place of these events in the story of human society. They mark the end, not merely of a war and of an empire, but of a contest that comes down to us from the beginnings of history and beyond, the struggle for acceptance between two irreconcilable notions of government, autocracy and the commonwealth, the rule of all by one and the rule of the people over themselves. Out of those opposing ideas grew this great war. Autocracy dies with the Hohenzollern, for the Romanoff and the last puny Hapsburg had already been swept into the dustheap of time. The hour of doom struck late for these lingering adherents of an outworn creed, bu their fate was foreordained. They were fools not to see and understand that the world long ago had outgrown them. They sought to perpetuate in Western lands an Oriental form of government, fit only for the ignorant and superstitious. "Asia begins at the Landstrasse," said. He was mistaken. Vienna and all the dominions of the Hapsburgs, Potsdam and the whole of Germany—it is even truer of the Germany of our day—were Asiatic, altogether Oriental in their government, in the ideas of their Princes.

When the first bonds of society were fashioned it was a matter of rudimentary political tactics and chicane to make the people believe that the laws laid upon them by the King had divine sanction, were made known from on high to be proclaimed by the Lord's anointed on earth; for so obedience to the King's mandate became a religious duty. In express terms the last German Kaiser preached this doctrine of his authority. German behavior, German jurisprudence, all German institutions, were shaped to the belief that law must come down to the people from the high authority. We have ordered it differently in Europe and America, and some Kings' necks have come under the axe in the ordering of it. "There is only one law, my law, the law which I myself lay down," thundered this little man, now a fugitive from his realm and so impotent, while he still strutted in his military coat, helmet on head and sabre at his side. Stupid, supine Germany believed him. If instead of trusting to a pious fraud and the sword to rule his people he had trusted his people to rule themselves he would still wear a constitutional crown.

It is over. On the splintered thrones of Kings no new thrones are built. The tide of democracy rises, sweeps resistlessly onward, gains the world for its domain. This last struggle and the wounds were terrible, they were not in vain. With the arrogance of a Titan, of Hohenzollern challenged the world, and the world has made an end of him, for which today it devoutly thanks Heaven. The work of restoring their desolate homes, their shattered edifices, their rend and blackened fanes, will now engage the peoples who have destroyed the Prussian power. In Germany rehabilitation, political and material, will have to await the passing of this new fever that has seized upon the people and stirred them to uprisings in every German city. There are omens of evil in the character of the revolt. The red flag is everywhere, the Bolshevist spirit rages, there is a general strike, and in place of government we see Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils; Socialists are everywhere to the fore. That virus of the proletariat pestilence with which the Imperial Government infected Russia at the cost of millions of marks now courses through German veins. A Socialist is made Chancellor, Barvaria lends ear to talk of a Socialist President of the new republic that is to succeed the ancient Wittelsbach monarchy. Revolt against authority at first takes the form of the class struggle. In spite of the awful warning of Russia, now given over to anarchy and starvation, the German insurgents set out upon the road that leads to the tyranny of one class over all others, that ends inevitably in social disorganisation, the horror of indiscriminate murder and ruit, until reason and law resume their sway. Russing ignorance has no counterpart in Germany; it is to be hoped that the sober sence of the people will set limits to the ravages of the Red mobs. As in the case of Austria, we may presume that the terms of the armistice provide for police protection and the maintenance of order in Germany by the Allies. The war organization of the countries united against Germany must evidently be maintained until the Germans have a responsible Government.

Judge sounded the keynote of the United War Work Campaign when he said at the great meeting in Madison Square Garden one week ago yesterday, spiritually the most inspiring of the war, that the raising of $170,500,000 by the federated associations would require the "greatest volutary altruistic effort which any people was every called upon to make." And there can be no doubt that the appeal will not be made in vain. Men and women of all faiths and creeds, "the unified moral forces of America," as Secretary described them, will respond with full hands.

America as a combatant has been fortunate in this war. She has sent 2,000,000 of her young men overseas, the flower of the nation, and with the loss of a small percentage they will return physically sound to the United States, in the event of early peace, which now seems assured. But what havoc the war has played with the manhood of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Serbia! A million and a half Frenchmen, killed in battle or dead of wounds, have been lost to the State, and of the blind and mutilated, who will be of deplorably diminished use to society, there must be a host. Much the same story can be told of Great Britain, Italy, and ill-starred but redeemed Serbia. in His Heaven has been kind to America. Hers not the supreme sacrifice; hers, in fact, the advantage and the gain, for society and industry will benefit by the ordeal of war.

America's manhood, trained for battle and sent to the field, will be stronger physically and cleaner spiritually for the lessons it has learned, for the discipline it has submitted to, and for the experience gone through, unless—and this is the significance of the response that must be made to the United War Work campaigners—there should be a failure by the American people to guard the health and the morals of their armies up to the very day when the men are restored to civil life and society. War has been an education, war has been salvation to the young men of America assembled in her armies and fighting the battle of civilization on foreign soil.

What a throwing away of splendid opportunity, what a tragedy, it would be if the young soldiers of America were abandoned to the license of the camp because the war draws to a close! More than ever it is the duty of the people at home to maintain the organizations that have ministered to the comfort of our soldiers, helped to keep them clean in body and clean in thought, inspired them to be worthy of the great Republic at all times. These organizations cannot be maintained unless they are supplied with the money asked for. We are all proud of heh American Army in France. Let us prove that it is not a sentiment reflecting only our self-esteem by subscribing generously to the fund of the seven federations, the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A., the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Board for Welfare Work, the American Library Association, the War Camp Community Service, and the Salvation Army. It was a happy thought to group them together in such a cause, thereby merging creeds and strengthening the appeal. Who can hesitate to give, be his church or faith what it may?

As was said at the meeting in Madison Square Garden, "there can be but one rivalry, and that is as to which will be first 'over the top, Jew or Gentile, Protestant or Catholic. Every dollar of the amount to be divided will be needed and spent wisely, whether the war stops before Christmas or continues into 1919. In any event it will be two years before all our soldiers can be brought home and held in the home camps until they can be honorably discharged from service. Those two years would be the most perilous and critical of all if the comfort, the recreations, and the morals of our soldiers should be neglected by the American people.

Are you glad that the war is over? You said so last Thursday, when you gave yourself up to that great tide of brotherhood that flowed irrepressibly through our streets. Was it cheap joy? Or was it real and deep, the kind of joy that seeks earnestly some way to pay for its creation?

And who created it? The soldiers and sailors who offered their lives that your dearly bought freedom might be bought over again. Many of them sold their lives to save that freedom. It was due to them and to those who so freely offered to sell their lives, but who still live, that you were so joyful last Thursday and are so secure and comfortable in your homes now. It is due to them that there are not now and never will be, as far as we can see into the future, any broken Belgiums on this side of the Atlantic. From Canada to the Argentine this hemisphere is safe—thanks to them.

All this you know, and you showed it on Thursday when you raised soldiers and sailors over your heads and paraded them through the thrilled streets. Well, is that all? Does it stop there? Are you going to give them one cheer, turn your backs on them, and leave them, for the year or more that they must remain in Europe, to go to the devil if they choose, at any rate to have no more of the stanch backing they have had from you while yet you were in danger?

That is not the American way. Let it not be said of America that she abandoned her saviors to luck, good or bad, when once they had saved her. Come up to the support of the United War Work Campaign, come up with your dollars, and show whether your joy is counterfeit coin or not. You have lent your money to the Government, now give to the boys; give to the boys who drove the Hun out of France, give to the boys who drove the submarine from our coasts. Give, every one of you, in full measure for their welfare and protection while they remain in a foreign land, idle after having dared the last peril to save America and the world from the new barbarians.

The disclosure of the nature and the extent of the tricks played on buyers of real estate in Nassau County has been considered mostly as a local affair, of no general interest. As a matter of fact the sales by tax officials which deprived owners of their property in a manner little short of robbery with official connivance were made under a general law covering the State. Attention is also called to other and graver irregularities of particular harm to this city. In opposing the application for an injunction against the continuance of the sales of property for trivial amounts of taxes, the attorney for Nassau County defended its good name. He informed the court that all which was done was done regularly, under a statute covering the State, and dating back to 1828, with amendments from year to year making the tax sale law of present application. He contended that the law was mandatory, and that the court could not stop its execution.

This defense of the county is an accusation against the State. The court, through Justice, said that there was no question about the law. The question was whether the law was not executed in a manner shocking to the conscience of the community and the court, in which case the court had power to intervene, especially for the protection of absent soldiers and their dependents. Justice 's words were confined to the cases before him, but all familiar with the tax laws know that they are imperfect, and that they are administered imperfectly. The particular defect is the discrimination between city and country valuations, with the effect of putting the burdens of the State taxes disproportionately upon the cities. The personal questions raised in Nassau County will serve a useful purpose in attracting attention to the public issues raised in vain by too many commissions to leave any doubt of the trouble and the root of the trouble.

As Justice said, the trouble is more in the administration than in the law. The existing laws could be administered so that there need be no personal scandal, nor any prejudice between sections of the State. Unfortunately the result of maladministration is to encourage a crop of quack remedies, instead of fastening attention upon better enforcement of existing laws. The reformers make all sorts of promises about the good effect of their proposals, blandly ignored the fact that these are as much liable to maladministration as the laws which they propose to displace by innovations of wide and unknown bearing. There have been betterments in administration of tax laws in recent years. There should be many more. The deman increases with the State's demand for taxes. In the nineties the State debt was $660. Now it is a quarter billion, and the State needs revenues by scores of millions. The direct tax, which had disappeared, has reappeared as a permanency. That revives and increases cities' interst in the manner of laying and collecting taxes everywhere. The Nassau County scandal could not have occurred if the taxes had been laid and collected as they should be in every county, and something in the manner shown in the counties of this city in recent years.

Field Marshal reported on Saturday that "the fortress of Maubeuge has been captured by the Guards and Sixty-second Divisions." So, after four years and three months of war, the British Army is advancing in triumph over the ground where the "Contemptibles" first saw the flash of the enemy's guns and retreated, fighting desperately, before superior forces. If Sir had blundered at Maubeuge in the last week of August, 1914, his army would have been destroyed or captured, and through the gap made by its elimination the Germans would have poured in an ever-swelling flood of men and guns, rolling up the flanks of two French armies and confronting  with a problem, the saving of his main body and the defense of Paris, for which he might not have been able to find a solution. Small as was the British Expeditionary Force, consisting of no more than 80,000 men, its units checked the German advance from day to day by tenaciously holding on to positions prepared overnight until scarcely an officer or private was left to tell the story. Never did the British Army, which has always known how to die, fight such stubborn rearguard actions. These covering operations made it possible for Sir to save a part of his army, and on Sept. 8 it crossed the Marne by the bridges between Lagny and Meaux. These bridges were blown up by the rearguard.

Maubeuge figured in that critical retreat when Sir, engaged in his battle at Mons, his right resting on Binche and his left on Condé, and the fight going against him, received "a most unexpected message" from General. It was a belated message: the British commander should have known its ominous tidings hours before. While he was defending the Mons position against a force at least twice as strong as his own, the Germans had thrown back the Fifth French Army on his right and were driving across the Sambre between Namur and Charleroi. At the same time the enemy was making a wide enveloping movement around his left at Tournai. The British supports were gone, had been gone for several hours, and when the message reached Sir the Fifth French Army was retreating before 's Second German Army.

The British commander knew the terrain in his rear intimately, for he was an authority on the French campaigns of the past. His decision was quickly made: he would fall back upon the line Maubeuge-Jenlain, and that very night preparations were made for retirement while he continued to defend the Mons position as if he knew nothing of what had befallen Lanrezac, Langue, and Ruffey. Back went the heavy transport to clear the roads, and the ambulances carrying the wounded followed. In the morning 's First Corps counterattacked to cover the retirement of 's Second Corps. The feint deceived the enemy, who reasoned from the steady fire of 's 120 guns that the British has been reinforced. When had fallen back five miles from the Condé Canal he took up a strong defensive positions, Frameries-Querouble, to give the British right an opportunity to retire to Maubeuge, a fortress of the first class on the Sambre.

To the left of the British force the enemy had crossed the frontier, but the British right resting on Maubeuge would have been secure if the French had made a junction with it. This, however, was out of the question. The Fifth Army was not in touch with it and had no alternative but to retire to new positions. 's design was to outflank the British left and tempt Sir to give battle under the protection of the Maubeuge forts. That would have been fatal to the expeditionary force without support. It would have been Sedan over again. The British Army was of about the same strength as the French Army that surrendered at Sedan in the late Summer of 1870.

The British commander, left to his own resources by the irresistible "drive" of the Germans against the French on his right, rejected the plan of giving battle on the Maubeuge-Jenlain line and ordered a retreat past the great forest of Mormal, the 1st Corps marching to the east of it, the 2d Corps to the west of it, for in its way the forest of Mormal was as dangerous to a small army as the fortress of Maubeuge. It is not necessary to follow the fortunes of the hard-pressed British Army falling back to one position after another through Le Cateau, Landrecies, Valenciennes, Cambrai, and St. Quentin. The worst was over when the 2d Corps reached the Somme.

The British are at last back in Maubeuge, retracing the line of their retreat. They have passed through the same towns that saw them staggering and bleeding and beaten from the fierce German onslaughts in 1914. They have thrown back the enemy in and around the forest of Mormal. They are again in the vicinity of Mons, where they fought the first battle of the war. They are flushed with many victories. They will never taste defeat again, and the Germans will never know anything else. But it is not to be doubted that if Sir had blundered at Maubeuge in those crowded hours in August, 1914, the British would never have returned as victors in the closing days of the great war.

 What a spectacle for gods and men! The mightiest military monarch of earth, proud as Lucifer, a most famous swaggerer, he who went his way and trod under food all who opposed him, takes to his heels like a scared schoolboy and takes shelter in Holland from the wrath of his so lately loyal and servile people. And that Son of Thunder, the Crown Prince, accompanies his parent in this flight to a place of safety.

So difficult is it to imagine any real reason why the German "plenipotentiaries," as they call themselves, should have been blindfolded on reaching the French lines, that one's inclination is to suspect that the thing was done simply out of regard for ancient custom—that it was the conventional "gesture" without which such a reception of delegates from one army in the field to another would not be in accord with the established proprieties.

Marshal could hardly have had anything to hide from the German visitors, for they could have seen only that he was thoroughly well provided with men and weapons for the effective continuance of the war. The military members of the delegation knew the ground in and around the town where the momentous interview was held at least as well as the French, as they had occupied and studied it for more than four years, and there were no secrets of the terrain for them to learn. On the other hand, the more they saw of French strength—of which there must have been much to see—the more likely were they to realize the hopelessness of getting what the Germans calla "good peace."

Viewed from this distance, therefore, the blindfolding seems to have been little or nothing more than a formality, and that it was performed with great care does not seem very probable. Certainly the situation was very different from the one that often exists when enemy envoys are admitted within opposing lines or a beleaguered city. But this is reasoning based on less then full knowledge of the facts—always a dangerous process, and one especially dangerous when it concerns a man who knows his business as thoroughly as does Marshal.

More safely, perhaps, can wonder be expressed at the use by the German envoys of the word "plenipotentiaries," as they did, in a wireless dispatch to the Imperial Chancellor and the German high command, announcing that a courier had been sent to get further instructions. Men who have to do that evidently are not intrusted with plenary powers and in effect are little more than couriers themselves. With their authority so limited there is some justification for doubt that their mission had any other object than that of gaining time for their principals—a device that would have all the familiar characteristics of German diplomacy.

<section end="Topics of the Times" /> <section begin="Pacifists Grieved by Peace" /> Anybody with available sympathy for which he has no other use might well devote it to the little group of Americans whose conscientious objections to going to war were so strong that they quietly but hurriedly departed for Mexico, going, as the saying is, "between two days." These victims of a self-imposed exile could not have fled to a country where their mental peculiarities would be less understood or less respected than in Mexico, for, whatever other faults the inhabitants of that land may have, one of them is not either the fear or the disinclination to risk life and limb in any cause they consider good, or even promising of profit, and there is hardly a Mexican who would not interpret pacifism as cowardice, and judge it, as cawardice always is judged by people to whom war is something between a national sport and a business, at least better than hard work.

Naturally, therefore, our conscientious objectors, who knew all this, went ot Mexico because they had nowhere else to go, and it is natural, too, that neither their antagonism to the American Government nor their oblique support of Germany was enough to make them welcome visitors, even to the Mexicans, who disliked the United States and liked the one way the Germans have had to win foreign friends. From the beginning the experiences of these fugitive Americans in Mexico have been unpleasant and humiliating, and it is not surprising to learn from the dispatches that the near approach of peace has made their situation still more difficult. To go home is to face a trial, the almost inevitable result of which will be a conviction carrying a long term of imprisonment, for it will be long before the evasion of military service will be regarded here as a venial offense. It is reported that where they are nobody will give them employment, and that for associates they have only one another—a companionship which apparently they do not much enjoy, probably because no two of them are of exactly like minds and they are folk of the kind that magnify differences of opinion into chasms unbridged and unbridgeable.

What is to become of them is a mystery. Over the clearing up of that mystery not many will lie awake o' night in desperate search for the key. For the leisure class, however, it has interest.

<section end="Pacifists Grieved by Peace" /> <section begin="Docility Under Compulsion" /> Considerable light on what conditions in Germany as regards food have been is thrown by the brief comment made by the Vorwärts of Berlin on a story about a conscientious German professor that had come to its attention. This estimable person, it seems, had determined from the very beginning of the war strictly to observe all the restrictions imposed by the Government on the distribution and consumption of foods, and he and his family have gone so through all the weary years. That such an exhibition of virtuous docility has been more than rare in Germany, and rare in more than one way, is closely indicated by the Socialist paper's exclamation, "Good Lord, is this man still alive!"

Therein lies not only a confession that obedience to the governmental regulations meant starvation, or something close to it. Also the words show that practically no Germans did abide by those regulations except from inability to evade them. That being the case, what a revision must be made of the belief that Germans are notable respectful of authority, that they heed "verboten" signs as other people do not—in short, that they are well disciplined and therefore superior to the lawless folk in other lands!

Always, however, there has been some reason to doubt the truth of that belief. Germans here are at least as fond of personal liberty as anybody else and as vehement in resenting infringements of it. The chances are that their docility, at home as abroad, is much like that of the rest of us—perfect when resistance is impossible, and shading off in exact ratio with the weakening of authority.

<section end="Docility Under Compulsion" /> <section begin="Community Peace Celebrations" />

To the Editor of The New York Times:

By this time the least optimistic must be convinced that peace is near at hand. Without doubt the conclusion of the greatest war in human history—a conclusion which is likely to be reasonable satisfactory to the American people—will be welcomed by nation-wide celebrations of victory. It should not be regarded as premature to suggest that these celebrations be community affairs rather than the getting together in large centres of population. We have gained our victories because every one has helped, and one of the finest things about the entire situation has been the manifest purpose of the smallest communities to do their share. When the proper time comes let us have a celebration in every city, village, hamlet, and plantation in the United States. Where the population is only a few hundred or a few score it would afford a lesson in patriotism never to be forgotten if the community should get together for such a purpose.

Citizens would not be lacking who could speak of the origin and development of the war, and the thoroughly unselfish part our country has played in it. Let us have a nation-wide celebration in which no community shall be lacking.

JAMES S. STEVENS.

University of Maine, Orono, Nov. 8, 1918.

<section end="Community Peace Celebrations" /> <section begin="Robert J. Collier" />

To the Editor of The New York Times.

Some ten or more years ago the American weekly reached its height of artistic excellence, and Robert Collier was the first one to foresee that the old illustrations of the olden days were not in keeping with the modern spirit. Young and enthusiastic, Mr. Collier with rare intelligence gathered about him the best painters and draftsmen of America. His high-spirited enthusiasm helped them to produce the most brilliant artistic pages in the history of American weekly journalism. Robert Collier fought for high ideals, good art, good reproductoins, and better printing. He championed the fine arts and not commercialism. The American artists owe him a lot. Proudly they lay a wreath at his bier.

HENRY REUTERDAHL.

New York, Nov. 9, 1918.

<section end="Robert J. Collier" /> <section begin="With Peace Impending" />

ARTHUR STRINGER.

<section end="With Peace Impending" /> <section begin="Victims of the Bulgarian Fury" />

To the Editor of The New York Times:

On Oct. 26 William G. Shepherd published in several newspapers a curious letter containing some strangely paradoxical statements concerning the Bulgars. For instance: "It is Bibles, not bullets, that have whipped Bulgaria." "As soon as the United States declared war on Germany the people of Bulgaria realized that they themselves were on the wrong side, and from that time on the doom of King Ferdinand was sealed." "Bulgaria is an American-made nation," &c.

No one, of course, can prevent Mr. Shepherd from giving free scope to his imagination, but would it not be better if he would kingly put some restraint upon his utterances? The phrase last mentioned, "An American-made nation," would lead one to conclude that he entertains but a very poor opinion of Americanization, since, if Bulgaria is really American-made, the actions of her citizens do not rebound to the credit of her alleged creator—the United States.

Anything more appalling than the cruelty and bloodthirstiness displayed by the Bulgars throughout the war cannot well be conceived. Indeed, according to dispatches received from Saioniki, the English officers who were prisoners of war in Bulgaria until the recent cessation of hostilities deposed before the British authorities immediately upon their arrival in that city that they had personally witnessed almost unbelievable atrocities perpetrated by the Bulgars upon the persons of Serbs, Rumanians, and Greeks imprisoned or deported by them. Greek bishops were hung by the feet, head downward, above braziers of flame. Serbian parents were nailed to posts while their daughters were handed over to the soldiery and publicly defiled. Mutilations of the most revolting character and all manner of tortures, including eventration, are among the "details" contained in the reports of these honest officers, who were powerless to interfere or even to plead with the torturers at work on their pleasurable and varied undertakings.

A delegation of the Red Cross Convention of Geneva that has just returned from Eastern Macedonia has also brought back heartrending reports of the devastations of the "Furia Bulgarica." Villages were burned to the ground after being ruthlessly pillaged of every vestige of foodstuff, growing crops in the surrounding fields and gardens were wantonly destroyed, cattle were carried off or else uselessly slaughtered, and the wretched owners were left to starve where they once lived in comfort and plenty. As a matter of fact, if help is not procured at once for these unfortunates, shelter, food, clothing, and medical assistance—for pestilence has followed in the track of famine—the complete extermination of whole populations, so efficiently planned and confidently expected by the Bulgars, will shortly be accomplished.

How in the face of these facts it is possible to express the opinion that the American spirit is the inspiring power among the Bulgars and that it is "Bibles, not bullets, that have conquered" these savage hordes must remain a mystery between Mr. Shepherd and his Maker! The splendid influence exercised by the United States in Cuba and the Philippines superabundantly proves that Mr. Shepherd's assertions go for nothing at all and are likely only to do much hard to those who are ignorant of the real question under discussion.

It would be better to admit that the missionaries sent by the United States to uplift Bulgaria found that this undertaking was far beyond any human strength and skill. Her sluggish atmosphere is refractory to any wind of civilization, and it is idle to pretend that today, though defeated and disarmed, her people are other than the fierce barbarians they always have been. As the Turk found them so the Turk left them!

Equally false is the declaration that Bulgaria changed her politics as soon as the United States entered the field in 1917. She has just surrendered to overwhelming force, after having lost, besides thousands upon thousands of killed and wounded, 90,000 prisoners and 2,000 cannon. She never, until compelled to do so, altered her political aims nor abated one single item of her Teutonic program of loot at any time since she joined forces with the Huns.

Because she has benefited so greatly by the American missions and has become so conversant with the American Bible, (a book, by the way, that has about as wide a circulation within her borders as a snowflake in the infernal regions,) Bulgaria is to be relieved from all the blame of her evil courses. That blame is to rest solely upon King Ferdinand and not at all upon his gentle and delicate-minded subjects. Does Mr. Shepherd realize that, until his projects resulted in utter defeat, the entire Bulgar nation stood solidly behind their King, and without one dissenting voice from press or people—save only and excepting the silent voice of M. Panaretoff, the Bulgar envoy to the United States, who appears from his own statements to have supported the sordid and treacherous schemes of his sovereign, though hoping all the while in his innermost heart that they would miscarry?

The Bulgar is sick, so the Bulgar a monk would be! His case is so bad that he and his friends would fain beguile the good sense of the American people by flattering their religious predilections and fulsomely praising the work of the American missionaries. Can they not pursue their propaganda with a trifle more dignity and a little more regard for the truth?

GEORGE ROUSSOS.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Greece to the United States.

Nov. 5, 1918.

<section end="Victims of the Bulgarian Fury" /> <section begin="A Workable League" />

To the Editor of The New York Times:

It has been said that there is no clock which strikes the passing of historic eras, but not many of us will accept that view after peace has been made with Germany on the Allies' terms. That will mark a greater change than did the capture of Constantinople in 1453, for it will mean nothing less than the end of attempts to create another world empire, the end of autocratic government and the beginning of an age of security for free States, great and small. The clock of the eras is striking loudly, and should announce one thing more—a mighty league of nations as a present fact.

With a reign of terror in Russia, with disturbance elsewhere and with the task of drawing new national boundaries on its hands, the world will not lack grave problems, but the greatest of them all is whether it will have a league of nations that can preserve the peace which the war has won. This league is usually thought of as a great new human institution that has been dreamed of for centuries with small hope of being realized. We now hope that we may soon be able to create it, but we still think of it as a thing of the future almost too great and good to be gained. If we have already worked for it, this is because it is so supremely important that we ought to lavish time and labor on it, though there were not one chance in twenty of success.

This whole attitude seems strangely wrong. We have realized the dream of the ages and do not know it. Events have given us our league and the problem is whether we shall keep it. We may easily let it slip away, although the chance of keeping it is worth infinitely more than that of forming any new union. The present league is supremely good, vast, and firmly united. The Entente—meaning the union of nations fighting Germany—is far greater and better than anything that a single one of us would have dared to hope for a few years ago. Most of the population of the world is now in it and, if we could be sure that it would never break, the peace of the world would be assured. The "balance of power" in the world would have taken a very simple form—on the one hand a great combination devoted to peace and, on the other, detached nations too few to think of opposing the peace-loving combination. To let the close bonds which now unite the Allies become weakened and the combination dissolve would be the most criminal blunder that statesmanship is capable of committing.

The weakest of possible leagues would be one composed of elements that repel each other as do French and Germans, Italians and Austrians. There is small doubt that the war will end leaving the German Empire incapable of being at once combined in an intimate league whose members must trust each other. It may be brought into a combination of some sort that will serve a good purpose during an interregnum and that may conceivably ripen later into a closer league, but according to all appearances a goodly number of years will be required for the ripening. The Entente nations cannot today afford to form a league with their present enemies, except under the same conditions that are necessary for an armistice—the Entente must keep its preponderance of power. Until it can trust Germany it can make only such a compact with her as enemies make when both of them wish to stop fighting. All the belligerents might join in adopting a plan for arbitration and a world court, and this provisional measure might help to keep the peace for a score or two of years. The hatred of Germany for her savagery and the distrust excited by her treachery might gradually disappear, provided the wrongs and the treachery were not repeated. To go further now and establish many common institutions—to try to direct the commerce, industry and finance of all the warring countries in a friendly, live-and-let-live way—would be a crowning achievement indeed, but it would absolutely demand a reform of Germany that would reach her heart and life as no formal change of her imperial constitution will do. She must become just, human, trustworthy and more than formally democratic.

Democratizing Prussia may do more than democratizing the empire, but both of these together would fall short of the change that is needed to make Germany a fit member of a brotherhood of nations—a close union cemented by confidence and good-will. WE have that now without Germany. Not till she has passed through a period of probation will it be safe to have her in our family. If democracy shall gradually cause conquering ambition to disappear, the situation will be radically changed and there will be a place in the intimate circle for Germany; but we need positive evidence that it has so disappeared before trusting her. A sham repentance and temporary changes in her Government would be quite in her recent line. It would be dealing recklessly with the future of the entire world to stake lives and fortunes of nations on any unproved assumption as to what the changes now in progress will do. When humanity embarks in one ship of State it must know what materials it is made of. There must be proof that its keel was well laid, its "ribs of steel" well wrought. If we know that a part of the material already "made in Germany" is full of flaws, our course is clear—we must wait till she can give us something better. We must wait till democracy has done its work and not stake our fortunes on the chance that it will do it.

The Entente is not as yet a treaty-made union. England was not bound by a formal compact with France or Russia to go into the war, still less was America so bound, and Italy had a defensive alliance with the common enemy of these three countries, from which she was quickly absolved by the open aggressions of the Central Powers. Nearly a score of nations that have fought shoulder to shoulder are held together by something deeper and stronger than a formal bargain, namely, a common sense of justice, common interests and great peril impending over them all. United by these ties they have become a brotherhood in arms and have fought for and won the freedom of the world. To break up their union would be to risk—probably to sacrifice—what they have shed their blood to gain, namely, peace and freedom for States great and small. No treaty that could today be made with Germany could create such a union as the Entente is, though it were fortified by as many scraps of paper as there are people in the empire.

There is no measure the value to the world of the union that has evolved through the war or the calamity that would follow a breaking or weakening of the bonds that hold it together. The problems of peace will at best be difficult enough to test any league and, in advance of their appearance, we have golden moments in which to consolidate the Entente and develop its power. Ultimately we shall need Germany in the league, and immediately we should make treaties of arbitration with her. That will put her in the vestibule of the home of fraternal nations. Good friends, questionable friends and enemies may go as far as that, but only a clear proof of a change of heart can make the present Prussia or the empire that she rules a safe member of the family about the hearth. the priceless opportunity that is now with us and will not long wait is the opportunity so to strengthen the league of nations that has won a war for freedom as to fit it for meeting all coming dangers. What was has joined together let not peace put asunder.

JOHN BATES CLARK.

New York, Nov. 9, 1918.

<section end="A Workable League" />


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/11

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/11


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/12

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/12


text:
Page:First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect.djvu/244

 LESSON CXIII.

膕 * wt; hinge joint. 腕 ẃn; the wrist. 籬 lî; fence or wattle. 臁 lîam; calf of the leg. 跟 * teⁿ; heel of the foot. 胃 ūi; the stomach.

盂 u; a porringer. 脉 mêh; the pulse. 痰 thâm; phlegm. 汗 kūaⁿ; perspiration. 腸 tn̂g; intestines. 腋 * kɵh; arm-pit.

1 cí kâi nía kûiⁿ căi; lîen cío àiⁿ pue kùe khʉ̀ hŵn sĭ ɵh. 2 kùe cí kâi nía hìaⁿ pôiⁿ m̄ cai sih mih tī kài. 3 hŭ úa cêk pì kâi lât. 4 cɵ̀ coih. kùe coih. 5 cak ēng. cak khĭam. 6 cńg thâu kong; kha cńg thâu kong; kha cńg kíaⁿ; cóiⁿ kah; kha cńg kah. 7 chíu cóiⁿ, kha cóiⁿ. 8 chíu cńg thâu, kha cńg thâu. 9 chíu cak. 10 hiap ě. thâu khak chúe. 11 ka kī kâi hueh mêh. 12 kha tn̂g tó. thâm kẁn. 13 sío jîn khì. kha ău teⁿ. 14 i bɵ̂ sih mih khì lât. l5 lâi cɵ̆ úa kha thâu u. 16 lâu kūaⁿ. sim heng ôih. 17 àn mêh. chíu ẃn. 18 ẃn lât. phîaⁿ lî kut. 19 tek lî. tāu lî. 20 kha lîam kut. sim tn̂g. 21 hɵ́ sim tn̂g. cêk mêh. 22 mêh lí. 23 hwt kūaⁿ îeh. pío kūaⁿ.

1 This is a lofty ridge; it would be difficult for even a bird to fly over it. 2 It is unknown what country is beyond this range. 3 Lend us a hand. 4 Keep holiday. Spend holiday. 5 Economize. Be frugal. 6 The thumb; the big toe; small toes; finger nails; toe nails. 7 The fingers and toes. 8 All the fingers and toes. 9 A finger ring, finger joint. 10 The side. The brains. 11 One's own kith and kin. 12 Calf of the leg. Spittoon. 13 Ill-bred. The heel of the foot. 14 He has not much energy. 15 Come sit on my knee. 16 Perspire. Illiberal. 17 Feel the pulse. The wrist. 18 Strength of wrist. The ribs. 19 Bamboo fence. Trellis for peas. 20 Shin bone. Bowels. 21 Kindly disposed. Of one blood. 22 Philosophy of the pulse. 23 A sudorific. Produce sweat.


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/13

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/13


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/14

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/14


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/15

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/15


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/16

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/16


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/17

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/17


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/18

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/18


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/19

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/19


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/20

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/20


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/21

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/21


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/22

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/22


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/23

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/23


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/24

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/24


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/25

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/25


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/26

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/26


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/27

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/27


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/28

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/28


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/29

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/29


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/30

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/30


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/31

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/31


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/32

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/32


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/33

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/33


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/34

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/34


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/35

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/35


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/36

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/36


text: Page:Poems Osgood.djvu/78

title: Page:Poems Osgood.djvu/78


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/37

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/37


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 6

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 6


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/38

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/38


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/39

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/39


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/40

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/40


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/41

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/41


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/42

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/42


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/43

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/43


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/44

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/44


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/45

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/45


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/46

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/46


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/47

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/47


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/48

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/48


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/49

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/49


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/50

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/50


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/51

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/51


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/52

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/52


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 7

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 7


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/53

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/53


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/54

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/54


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/55

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/55


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/56

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/56


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/57

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/57


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/58

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/58


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/59

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/59


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/60

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/60


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/61

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/61


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/62

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/62


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/63

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/63


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/64

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/64


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/65

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/65


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/66

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/66


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/67

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/67


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/68

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/68


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/69

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/69


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/70

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/70


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/71

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/71


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/72

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/72


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/73

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/73


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/74

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/74


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/75

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/75


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/76

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/76


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/77

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/77


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/78

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/78


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/79

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/79


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/80

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/80


text:
Page:กม ร ๘ - ๒๔๗๗.pdf/9

Whereas the King, His Highness Prince Ananda Mahidol, is still a minor and incapable of handling His royal burdens, the House of People's Representatives, exercising the power under the dispositions of section 10 of the Constitution, passed a resolution on the 7th day of March 2477 BE to establish a Council of Regency consisting of—

Colonel, His Royal Highness the Prince of Krommamuen Anuwat Chaturon, as President;

Lieutenant Commander, His Highness Prince Aditya Dibabha;

Chaophraya Yommarat (Pan Sukhum);

with an agreement that the majority rule shall be observed when passing a resolution or ruling upon a matter of discussion and the signatures of at least two Members of the Council of Regency shall be required when signing a public document.

It is therefore announced for general knowledge.

title: Page:กม ร ๘ - ๒๔๗๗.pdf/9


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/81

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/81


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/82

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/82


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/83

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/83


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/84

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/84


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/85

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/85


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/86

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/86


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/87

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/87


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/88

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/88


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/89

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/89


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/90

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/90


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/91

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/91


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/92

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/92


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/93

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/93


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/94

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/94


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 8

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 8


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/95

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/95


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/96

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/96


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/97

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/97


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/98

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/98


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/99

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/99


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/100

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/100


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/101

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/101


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/102

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/102


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/103

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/103


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/104

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/104


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/105

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/105


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/106

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/106


title: User:Dave314159/common.js


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/107

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/107


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/108

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/108


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/109

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/109


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/110

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/110


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/111

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/111


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 9

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 9


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/112

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/112


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/113

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/113


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/114

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/114


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/115

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/115


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/116

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/116


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/117

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/117


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/118

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/118


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/119

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/119


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/120

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/120


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/121

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/121


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/122

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/122


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/123

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/123


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 10

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 10


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/124

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/124


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/125

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/125


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/126

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/126


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/127

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/127


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/128

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/128


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/129

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/129


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/130

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/130


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/131

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/131


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/132

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/132


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/133

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/133


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/134

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/134


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/135

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/135


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/136

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/136


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/137

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/137


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/138

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/138


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/139

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/139


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/140

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/140


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 11

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 11


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/141

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/141


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/142

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/142


text:
Template:Tom Jones/book heading/doc

{	"params": { "1": {			"label": "Book number", "description": "Arabic numeral corresponding to the Book", "example": "7", "required": true, "type": "string" },		"2": {			"label": "Book title", "required": true, "description": "Title of the Book", "type": "string" }	},	"description": "Book heading for the 1749 edition of Tom Jones, found in both the Table of Contents and at the beginning of each book." }

title: Template:Tom Jones/book heading/doc


text:
Template:Tom Jones/book heading

 Book.

title: Template:Tom Jones/book heading


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/143

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/143


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/144

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/144


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/145

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/145


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/146

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/146


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/147

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/147


text: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/148

title: Page:The Phantom of the Opera.webm/148


text: The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film, Eastman print)


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 12

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 12


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 13

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 13


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 14

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 14


text:
Page:Ginzburg - The Legends of the Jews - Volume 1.djvu/29

 the world through me!” The first to step forward was the letter Taw. It said: “O Lord of the world! May it be Thy will to create Thy world through me, seeing that it is through me that Thou wilt give the Torah to Israel by the hand of Moses, as it is written, ‘Moses commanded us the Torah’” The Holy One, blessed be He, made reply, and said, “No!” Taw asked, “Why not?” and God answered: “Because in days to come I shall place thee as a sign of death upon the foreheads of men.” As soon as Taw heard these words issue from the mouth of the Holy One, blessed be He, it retired from His presence disappointed.

The Shin then stepped forward, and pleaded: “O Lord of the world, create Thy world through me, seeing that Thine own name Shaddai begins with me.” Unfortunately, it is also the first letter of Shaw, lie, and of Sheker, falsehood, and that incapacitated it. Resh had no better luck. It was pointed out that it was the initial letter of Raʿ, wicked, and Rashaʿ, evil, and after that the distinction it enjoys of being the first letter in the Name of God, Raḥum, the Merciful, counted for naught. The Ḳof was rejected, because Ḳelalah, curse, outweighs the advantage of being the first in Ḳadosh, the Holy One. In vain did Ẓadde call attention to Ẓaddik, the Righteous One; there was Ẓarot, the misfortunes of Israel, to testify against it. Pe had Podeh, redeemer, to its credit, but Peshaʿ, transgression, reflected dishonor upon it. ʿAin was declared unfit, because, though it begins ʿAnawah, humility, it performs the same service for ʿErwah, immorality. Samek said: “O Lord, may it be Thy will to begin the creation with me, for Thou art called Samek, after me, the Upholder of all that fall.” But God


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 15

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 15


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 16

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 16


text:
Page:The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers (1892, revised Aldine edition).djvu/13

HIS edition of the Poems of Samuel Rogers has been reprinted by permission, from the one last published, which gives the latest alterations or additions made by the author. An occasional variation amongst the many given by earlier editions has been noted at the foot. For the materials of the Memoir the writer is very greatly indebted to the biographical notice by Mr. Samuel Sharpe (the nephew of the poet) which is prefixed to the last edition: the "Recollections, by Samuel Rogers" (edited by Mr. Wm. Sharpe), and the "Recollections of the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers" [edited by the Rev. A. Dyce], have also been largely consulted. A few errors in names or dates have been corrected for the present reissue of the Aldine edition.


text:
Page:The history of Tom Jones (1749 Volume 1).pdf/29

 xviii  A hort Decription of Squire Allworthy, and a fuller Account of Mis Bridget Allworthy his Siter. Page 6.  An odd Accident which befel Mr. Allworthy'', at his Return home. The decent Behaviour of Mrs. Deborah Wilkins, with ome proper Animadverions on Batards.'' p. 10.  The Reader’s Neck brought into Danger by a Decription, his Ecape, and the Condecenion of Mis Bridget Allworthy. p. 17.  Containing a few common Matters, with a very uncommon Obervation upon them. p. 22.  Mrs. Deborah'' is introduced into the Parih, with a Simile. A hort Account of Jenny Jones, with the Difficulties and Dicou-''


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 17

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 17


text:
Page:TheTreesOfGreatBritainAndIreland vol02B.djvu/256

352 Alps varies from 6500 to 8000 feet, and in the Engadine is 7622 feet; on Mont Blanc 7218 feet; at Zermatt 7874 feet; in Northern Switzerland, Salzburg, and the Bavarian Alps, 6400 feet; in the Venetian Alps 6700 feet. The lower limit to which the larch descends in the Alps is 1400 feet at Martigny, 2300 feet at Castasegna, 2000 feet at Chur, 3000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, 2000 to 2300 feet in the South Tyrol, 1300 feet in Lower Carinthia, and 1600 feet in Lower Austria.

The Larch occupies on the boundary between Silesia and Moravia a small area, about 30 German square miles, lying between the rivers Mohra and Oppa, and occupying a zone on the mountains between 1170 and 2840 feet elevation; but only occurring in a very scattered condition above 2600 feet. It grows here in mitre with spruce, silver fir, and beech; and appears to be indifferent to soil, as it is met with on primitive schists, grauwacke, and basalt: it occurs also on all aspects. It is absent from the adjacent high mountain of Altvater, which rises to 4900 feet, and is clothed with spruce and mountain ash. According to Cieslar, the Alpine larch has been unadvisedly introduced into Silesia, and it will be difficult in the future to obtain pure seed of the Silesian variety. Cieslar considers this form to be entirely distinct from the larch of the Alps, as it has a cylindrical stem, with slender branches and twigs which are directed upwards, and form a very narrow slender crown. The Alpine larch has stouter branches and twigs, which are directed horizontally, and form a much more spreading crown of foliage, the stem being much more tapering. Introduced into cultivation at low elevations, the Silesian larch is later to come into leaf, and sheds its leaves earlier in autumn, grows much faster, is less liable to damage from snow, and can, on account of its narrow pyramidal form, be planted much more densely. The Alpine larch will not bear crowding, according to Cieslar, and is an inferior tree for planting in every respect.

In Russian Poland, the larch is mainly met with on the hilly land of Lysa Gora, where it forms large forests on sandy soil between Konskie and Szydlowice, near Samsonow. It also extends over the right bank of the Weichsel into Galicia. According to Vrzozowski, the larch at one time was spread over the governments of Piotrkow and Warsaw, as churches and manor houses built 300 to 500 years ago of larch wood are still standing. The distribution of the larch in ancient times must also have extended considerably to the eastward, as a church built of larch in 1419 is reported to exist at Slucz in the government of Minsk in West Russia. Count Dzieduszycki's forester at Poturzyca, near Sokal, in Galicia, reports that larch occurs there between 600 and 800 feet elevation,

The larch occurs also, but not extensively, in the Tatra mountains, between Hungary and Galicia, where it grows on southwest slopes up to 5200 feet, reaching a somewhat higher altitude than the spruce and not ascending as high as the Cembra pine. Cieslar finds no reliable evidence for the larch being wild in the Carpathians east of the Tatra mountains; and does not credit its occurrence in Transylvania.

Prof. Huffel of Nancy states that the larch occurs, but is very rare, in Roumania, where he saw it in the mountains which separate the valleys of the Ialomitza and Prahova at 6300 to 6600 feet elevation, Here it was growing either in mixture


text:
Page:TheTreesOfGreatBritainAndIreland vol02B.djvu/258

354 Another reason has been assigned, with some probability, to the apparently greater liability to disease of larch now than formerly, namely, that the cones are often gathered too early, and exposed to too much heat in the kilns in order to extract them. The cone of the larch does not open of its own accord usually until spring; often in this climate so late that the seedlings make little growth the first year, and the seed cannot be extracted without heat, or by breaking up the cones in a mill, which bruises and destroys many seeds; and in the climate of Scotland they do not often ripen so early or thoroughly as in the drier, colder, and sunnier climate of its native Alps: therefore it seemed to me desirable to make experiments with larch seed from abroad, in order to find out whether there was any real difference in the vigour of foreign and home-grown seedlings; and though my experience in this way now extends over fifteen years, I cannot say that I have solved the question.

On many occasions I have sown seed from Scotland, the French Alps, and the Tyrol, and have found that on my poor calcareous soil, which, though it grows larch very well, is not at all suitable for raising it, a large proportion of these seedlings from all sources either perished in infancy, or grew so slowly in the first two years that they were far inferior to seedlings raised in Scotland on a better soil and climate, and probably on manured land. But many of these weaklings have afterwards grown into robust young trees, and the difference in their liability to suffer from spring frost, which is their greatest enemy, is not sufficiently marked to enable me to form a sound opinion as to which are best.

What I have learnt, however, is that, though seedlings cannot be raised as cheaply or as rapidly at Colesborne as in a Scotch nursery, they are more satisfactory in other ways, because it is better to eliminate the weaklings before they are planted out than to have to replant them afterwards; and I believe that the greater the risk of disease the more careful one must be, not only in the selection of seed, but also in their nursery management. Another point in favour of home raising is that the seedlings are not exposed in their younger stages to the extreme drying of the roots which arises from the careless way in which they are often lifted and packed by nurserymen, and from the long delays in transit on the railway; and, finally, the transplantation in a private nursery is more carefully done, and the roots are better developed and more able to endure the severe check of final transplantation to a soil which is less favourable to their growth than that of the nursery.

Mr. J.P. Robertson, forester to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, writes me as follows with regard to the comparative hardiness of larch raised from native and foreign seed in 1903:—

"We have two nurseries, one at an elevation of 900 feet, the other at about 600. In botha large quantity of larch from home seed have been put in this spring, while in each a break of the Tyrolese, 10,000 in number of similar size, has been placed. These last were from two different nurserymen. In both nurseries the home variety has suffered severely from the strong white frosts that we had in Easter week, while the Tyrolese in each case is practically untouched."

But on inquiry in 1905 whether this apparent superiority was still the case, he wrote:—


text:
Page:First Lessons in the Swatow Dialect.djvu/246

 LESSON CXIV.

島 táu; island; rock. 谷 kok; ravine; gulch. 洞 tāng; cave; gorge. 穴 hŵt; den; cavern. 巢 châu; tàu; nest. 曠 khùang; vacant.

野 ía; desert; wild. 壩 pà; low banks. 埠 po; mart; port. 禦 gʉ̆; cause to desist. 鳴 mêng; to cry out; buzz. 温 un; tepid; genial.

1 kɵh tháng ĕ. un cúi. 2 cúi ūi kháu. hái táu. 3 ũi kháu khui. un sêk. 4 khʉ̀ ūi húe. un pó. 5 khui ūi. kha lîam phīⁿ. 6 m̄ khui ūi. suaⁿ kok. 7 hâng ūi. hẃn ūi. 8 ūi ngân. un ūi 9 un cʉ. un pá. 10 suaⁿ mêng kok èng. 11 khong kok. kok kháu. 12 mêng wn. ía sèⁿ. 13 cío mêng, bé mêng, têk mêng. mêng kó. 14 sien tāng. tāng hŵt. 15 tāng pâng hue cek. 16 hĭa hŵt. cío tàu. 17 tît tît khʉ̀ phah chât kâi châu hŵt. 18 put jîp hóⁿ hŵt uaⁿ tit hóⁿ cʉ́. bɵ̂ châu hŵt. 19 khùang ía. pêh hwt. 20 cháu ía. chân ía. 21 ía jîn. suaⁿ pà. 22 po thâu. îam po. 23 tòa po thâu. kɵh ĕ. 24 bɵ̂ nâng gʉ̆ i tit cŭ.

1 The arm-pit. Tepid water. 2 Pit of the stomach. Islet. 3 Have an appetite. Familiarize. 4 Cleanse the blood. Tonics. 5 Excite an appetite. Shin. 6 Not appetizing. Valleys. 7 Indigestion. Turn the stomach. 8 Weak stomach. Warm the stomach. 9 Review studies. Warm and fed. 10 The vales echo the hills. 11 A gorge. Bed of a torrent. 12 Cry out for redress. Restive. 13 The cry of a bird, a horse a deer. Sound a drum. 14 Fairy grotto. Cavern. 15 The nuptial chamber. 16 Ant-hole. Bird's nest. 17 Straightway go and destroy the robber's den. 18 You do not enter a tiger's den and quietly take the cubs. Houseless. 19 Wilderness. Self-sown. 20 Desert. A common. 21 A rustic. Low banks. 22 A port. A salt depot. 23 A great mast. Arm-pit. 24 Nobody can withstand him.


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 18

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 18


text:
Page:Ginzburg - The Legends of the Jews - Volume 1.djvu/30

 said: “Thou art needed in the place in which thou art; thou must continue to uphold all that fall.” Nun introduces Ner, “the lamp of the Lord,” which is “the spirit of men,” but it also introduces Ner, “the lamp of the wicked,” which will be put out by God. Mem starts Melek, king, one of the titles of God. As it is the first letter of Mehumah, confusion, as well, it had no chance of accomplishing its desire. The claim of Lamed bore its refutation within itself. It advanced the argument that it was the first letter of Luḥot, the celestial tables for the Ten Commandments; it forgot that the tables were shivered in pieces by Moses. Kaf was sure of victory. Kisseh, the throne of God, Kabod, His honor, and Keter, His crown, all begin with it. God had to remind it that He would smite together His hands, Kaf, in despair over the misfortunes of Israel. Yod at first sight seemed the appropriate letter for the beginning of creation, on account of its association with Yah, God, if only Yeẓer ha-Raʿ, the evil inclination, had not happened to begin with it, too. Ṭet is identified with Ṭob, the good. However, the truly good is not in this world; it belongs to the world to come. Ḥet is the first letter of Ḥanun, the Gracious One; but this advantage is offset by its place in the word for sin, Ḥaṭṭat. Zain suggests Zakor, remembrance, but it is itself the word for weapon, the doer of mischief. Waw and He compose the Ineffable Name of God; they are therefore too exalted to be pressed into the service of the mundane world. If Dalet had stood only for Dabar, the Divine Word, it would have been used, but it stands also for Din, justice, and under the rule of law without love the world would have fallen to ruins. Finally, in spite of reminding one of Gadol, great,


text:
Page:กม ร ๘ - ๒๔๗๗.pdf/10

In response to the abdication of the royal throne by His Majesty the King, the Government would like to state to the public for its general knowledge as follows: Since the country of Siam changed its administration from an absolute monarchy to an administrative regime in which the monarch is under the constitution, the Government had been able to administer the Country in an orderly manner through the transcendent authority of His Majesty the King.

Later in 2476 BE, His Majesty the King informed the Government of His desire to go abroad for the second time for the treatment of His eyes.

Having learnt such an idea of His Majesty, the Cabinet met to discuss and passed a resolution that, during the said period of time, a rebellion had just been concluded, the Nation had not yet been restored to law and order, and the return of His Majesty the King to stay in Bangkok Metropolis filled the public with great warmth. Thus, if He were to go abroad for the treatment of His eyes at this moment, it would cause

title: Page:กม ร ๘ - ๒๔๗๗.pdf/10


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 19

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 19


text:
Template:Tom Jones/toc chapter/s

.

title: Template:Tom Jones/toc chapter/s


text:
Page:History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North.djvu/525

507 Terkelsen, S., 181, 199.

Terserus, J., 343.

Tessin, K. G., 352.

Thaarup, F., 223.

Thaarup, Chr., 196.

Thangbrand, 18.

Thiele, J. M., 273.

Thjodolf of Hvin, 40.

Thjodrek the Monk, 56.

Thomsen, C., 290.

Thor, 30-40.

Thorbjörn Hornklofi, 46.

Thorarensen, B., 89.

Thordarson, J., 90.

Thoresen, A. M., 307.

Thorfin Karlsefne, 60.

Thorild, T., 367.

Thorlakson, G., 76.

Thorlakson, J., 89.

Thormod Kolbrunarskáld, 44.

Thorodd Runemaster, 33, 47.

Thortsen, P. G., 109.

Tholt, B., 169.

Tjämann, N., 343.

Tode, J. C, 223.

Tomas of Strengnäs, 319.

Topelius, Z., 398, 406.

Torfæus, 80.

Tresehow, N., 308.

Triewald, S., 336.

Tristram, 69.

Trojel, P. K., 223.

Trojamanna Saga, 69.

Tullin, C. B., 212.

Ulfeldt, Leonara Christina, 169.

Ulfljot, 70.

Unger, C. R., 59, 67, 69, 70, 73, 310.

Vafthrudinsmál, 23.

Valerius, J. D., 359.

Vatsdæla Saga, 60.

Vapnfirdinga Saga, 54.

Vecksell, J., 406.

Vedel, A. S., 170.

Veigere, H., 152.

Velschow, J., 106.

Verelius, O., 339.

Vidalin, J. T., 77.

Vidalin, P. J., 83.

Vidström, U. K., 370.

Viga Glums Saga, 54.

Viga Styrs Saga, 53.

Vigfusson, G., 40, 54, 55.

Vilkina Saga, 65.

Vinie, A. O., 302.

Vinland, 60, 81.

Vitalis, 381.

Volsunga Saga, 63.

Völuspá, 23.

Vormordsen, F., 139.

Wadman, J. A., 401.

Wadskjär, C. F., 198.

Wallenberg, J., 350.

Wallin, J. O., 375.

Welhaven, J. S., 222, 296.

Wennerberg, G., 402.

Wergeland, H. A., 294.

Werlauff, E. C, 48, 82, 195, 291.

Werwing, J., 341.

Wessel, J. H., 217.

Wetterbergh, K. A., 396.

Wexels, W. A., 308.

Wibe, J., 222.

Widekindi, J., 341.

Wilster, 278.

Wimmer, L., 24.

Winther, C, 257.

Worm, J., 182.

Worm, O., 165.

Worsaae, J., 290.

Ynglingasaga, 40.

Ynglingatal, 40.

Zeipel, K. S. F., 397.

Zetlitz, J., 222.


text: Template:Tom Jones/toc chapter/e

title: Template:Tom Jones/toc chapter/e