text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/10

Rh

(2) The number of constituencies in Scotland shall not be less than 71.

(3) The number of constituencies in Wales shall not be less than 35.

(4) The number of constituencies in Northern Ireland shall not be greater than 18 or less than 16, and shall be 17 unless it appears. to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland that Northern Ireland should for the time being be divided into 16 or (as the case may be) into 18 constituencies.

2. Every constituency shall return a single member.

3. There shall continue to be a constituency which shall include the whole of the City of London and the name of which shall refer to the City of London.

4.—(1) So far as is practicable having regard to rules 1 to 3—
 * (a) in England and Wales,—
 * (i) no county or any part of a county shall be included in a constituency which includes the whole or part of any other county or the whole or part of a London borough,
 * (ii) no London borough or any part of a London borough shall be included in a constituency which includes the whole or part of any other London borough,
 * (b) in Scotland, regard shall be had to the boundaries of local authority areas,
 * (c) in Northern Ireland, no ward shall be included partly in one constituency and partly in another.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) above “area” and “local authority” have the same meanings as in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

5. The electorate of any constituency shall be as near the electoral quota as is practicable having regard to rules 1 to 4; and a Boundary Commission may depart from the strict application of rule 4 if it appears to them that a departure is desirable to avoid an excessive disparity between the electorate of any constituency and the electoral quota, or between the electorate of any constituency and that of neighbouring constituencies in the part of the United Kingdom with which they are concerned.

6. A Boundary Commission may depart from the strict application of rules 4 and 5 if special geographical considerations, including in particular the size, shape and accessibility of a constituency, appear to them to render a departure desirable.


text:
Page:On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground.pdf/6

Rh And it seems as if periodic alterations with the time of observation occurred in his series. On what circumstance these alterations with the time depend one can only make vague conjectures: probably the clearness of the sky may have altered within a long period of observation, although this could not be detected by the eye. In order to eliminate this irregular variation, I have divided the observations into four groups, for which the mean quantities of carbonic acid ($\text{K}$) and of water-vapour ($\text{W}$) were $$1.21$$ and $0.36$, $$2.21$$ and $0.86$, $$1.33$$ and $1.18$, and $$2.22$$ and $$2.34$$ respectively. With the help of the mean values of the heat-radiation for every group of rays in these four groups of observations, I have roughly calculated the absorption coefficients ($x$ and $y$) for both gases, and by means of these reduced the value for each observation to the value that it would have possessed if $$\text{K}$$ and $$\text{W}$$ had been $$1.5$$ and $$0.88$$ respectively. The 21 values for the different rays were then summed up, so that I obtained the total heat-radiation for every series of observations, reduced to $$\text{K}=1.5$$ and $\text{W}=0.88$. If the materials of observation were very regular, the figures for this total radiation should not differ very much from one another. In fact, one sees that observations that are made at nearly the same time give also nearly equal values, but if the observations were made at very different times, the values differ also generally very much. For the following periods I have found the corresponding mean values of the total radiation: –

In order to reduce the figures of Langley to comparability with one another, I have applied the reduction factors tabulated above to the observations made in the respective periods. I have convinced myself that by this mode of working no systematic error is introduced into the following calculations.

After this had been done, I rearranged the figures of Langley's groups according to the values of $$\text{K}$$ and $$\text{W}$$ in the following table. (For further details see my original memoir.)

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


text:
Page:CTRL0000034607 - Deposition of Ali Alexander, (Dec. 9, 2021).pdf/49

49 around you as you were walking to the Capitol?

I'm not sure, but that's probably captured better on video than any verbal testimony I could give here today.

And you were saying that you were trying to get to the Capitol complex to deescalate. Can you help me understand that assertion with the fact that you were walking to the Capitol, chanting things such as "Stop the Steal"? So help me understand. Like you're getting to deescalate, yet you're leading the crowd in a chant of "Stop the Steal."

Stop the Steal is a legally permitted, First Amendment chant in the same way that Black Lives Matter is, in the same way that so many other political issues are.

And I just want to say I kind of—I kind of resent, kind of offended by the, you know, the implication that you can't yell, "Stop the Steal." This was a movement that had 500 events, and all were peaceful. And yelling, "Stop the Steal," is about election integrity. And yelling, "Stop the Steal," even when we did the Jericho March with the Christians, before a broader, you know, theft in a spiritual sense. And you'll see her 12:56, I said we are deescalating. Before this, I talked about deescalating.

So my—so by chanting political phrases, we are gathering people to us. It is a tool of rhetoric and of speakers to use to get attention so that we can then move people where they belong.

So once you arrive at the Capitol complex, what did you observe?

If you could be specific, it seems overbroad to me.

Once you get to the Capitol, what do you see?

I see people.

What are those people doing?

Some people are filming. Some people are walking. You know,


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/11

10c. 56

General and supplementary 7. It shall not be the duty of a Boundary Commission to aim at giving full effect in all circumstances to the above rules, but they shall take account, so far as they reasonably can—
 * (a) of the inconveniences attendant on alterations of constituencies other than alterations made for the purposes of rule 4, and
 * (b) of any local ties which would be broken by such alterations.

8. In the application of rule 5 to each part of the United Kingdom for which there is a Boundary Commission—
 * (a) the expression “electoral quota” means a number obtained by dividing the electorate for that part of the United Kingdom by the number of constituencies in it existing on the enumeration date,
 * (b) the expression “electorate” means—
 * (i) in relation to a constituency, the number of persons whose names appear on the register of parliamentary electors in force on the enumeration date under the Representation of the People Acts for the constituency,
 * (ii) in relation to the part of the United Kingdom, the aggregate electorate as defined in sub-paragraph (i) above of all the constituencies in that part,
 * (c) the expression “enumeration date” means, in relation to any report of a Boundary Commission under this Act, the date on which the notice with respect to that report is published in accordance with section 5(1) of this Act.

9. In this Schedule, a reference to a rule followed by a number is a reference to the rule set out in the correspondingly numbered paragraph of this Schedule. SCHEDULE 3 The Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 1.—(1) Section 28 of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) for the words “section 2(1) or (3) of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949” there shall be substituted the words “section 3(1) or (3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”.

(3) In subsection (3) for the words “Act of 1949” there shall be substituted the words “Act of 1986”.

(4) In subsection (4) for the words from the beginning to “in report)” there shall be substituted the words “Sections 3(4) and (5),


text: Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/9


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/285

Rh The number of males of all ages is 35,961, and the number of females of all ages is 29,851, giving a proportion of 100 males to 83 females.

The number of males above 14 years of age is 23,224, and the number of females of the same age is 21,192, giving a proportion of 100 males to 91·2 females above 14.

The number of males between 14 and five years of age is 8,368, and the number of females of the same age is 5,041, giving a proportion of 100 males to 60·2 females between 14 and five.

The number of males below five years of age is 4,369, and the number of females of the same age is 3,618, giving a proportion of 100 males to 82·8 females below five.

The number of persons male and female, above fourteen years of age, is 44,416, and the number of persons, male and female, below five, is 7,987, amounting together to 53,403; the number of persons, male and female, between fourteen and five, is 13,409; and the proportion of the population, above fourteen and below five to the population between fourteen and five is as 100 to 25·5.

First.—The number of villages mentioned is the number of actual settlements of people or assemblages of houses inhabited by families at a greater or less distance from similar settlements or assemblages; and it is different from the number of mauzas or villages recorded in the Magistrate and Collector’s office as belonging to the respective thanas. It is probable that the latter were all originally inhabited villages, but through various causes some of them have ceased to be so, while in other instances the number of inhabited villages has increased without any increase in the official enumeration. The difference, therefore, between that enumeration and the ascertained number of inhabited villages occurs in the way


text:
Page:CTRL0000034607 - Deposition of Ali Alexander, (Dec. 9, 2021).pdf/50

50 there's—there's—the crowd gets dense. And, again, I can't see the conflict, but I already known about it minutes prior, whatever, from Twitter or a text message.

So when you got to the Capitol, did you see any of this conflict that you just mentioned? Did you see it—

No, I actually just said I didn't see it because the crowd was so dense toward the fronts.

Got it.

But they were in a spot they shouldn't have been in. I saw no barricades. I saw no police officers. And I were like—and I was, like, what the hell are people doing on the inauguration side? We hadn't been there in December. We hadn't been there in November. Stop the Steal had never been on the inauguration side. So who directed these people? Who pushed these people here? Who let these people in? Where were the barricades? Those were the first questions that popped in my head when I'm observing this dense situation in the context of a text message that I received about conflict.

So going back to exhibit 26 on page 170, you there? I just want to make sure you're there.

Yes, sir.

Ms. Wren says to you, "I think you should leave. This will come down on you hard." Help us understand why this would come down on you hard.

I was the guy who started Stop the Steal as a protest movement, which is separate from people chanting it, which is separate than the origin of the phrase. So I led an organization, and she—it looks like out of concern that the media would characterize what happened there prior to me getting there as my fault and other activists' fault. But I, you know, because this is a text message from one person to


text: Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/11


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/12

Rh

4 and 5(1) (implementation of recommendations in report of Boundary Commission and publication of notice of proposed report)”.

(5) For subsection (5) there shall be substituted—
 * “(5) An Order in Council under the said Act of 1986 for giving effect, with or without modifications, to the recommendations contained in a report or supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland may make amendments consequential on giving effect to those recommendations in section 1(1) of and in the Schedule to the said Act of 1973”.

2. The said section 28 shall (notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1979) continue to have effect with the substitution for subsection (6) of—
 * “(6) The coming into force of any such Order in Council shall not affect any election to the Assembly before the next general election to the Assembly or affect the constitution of the Assembly then in being.”

The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 3. In Part III of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 for the words “Part I or Part II of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949” there shall be substituted the words “Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”. The Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 4. In Part III of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 for the words “Part I or Part II of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949” there shall be substituted the words “Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”.

The European Assembly Elections Act 1978 5.—(1) Schedule 2 to the European Assembly Elections Act 1978 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1—
 * (a) for the words “section 3 of the 1949 Act” there shall be substituted the words “the 1986 Act”, and
 * (b) for the words “section 2(1)”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “section 3(1)”.

(3) In paragraph 3—
 * (a) for the words “section 3 of the 1949 Act” there shall be substituted the words “the 1986 Act”, and
 * (b) for the words “section 2(3)” there shall be substituted the words “section 3(3)”.


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/13

12c. 56

(4) For paragraph 4 there shall be substituted—
 * “4. A supplementary report of a Boundary Commission under this Schedule showing the Assembly constituencies into which they recommend that any area should be divided shall state, as respects each Assembly constituency, the name by which they recommend that it should be known.
 * 4A—(1) Where the Boundary Commission for any part of Great Britain intend to consider making a supplementary report under this Schedule, they shall, by notice in writing, inform the Secretary of State accordingly, and a copy of the notice shall be published—
 * (a) in a case where it was given by the Boundary Commission for England or the Boundary Commission for Wales, in the London Gazette, and
 * (b) in a case where it was given by the Boundary Commission for Scotland, in the Edinburgh Gazette.
 * (2) As soon as may be after a Boundary Commission have submitted a supplementary report to the Secretary of State under this Schedule, he shall lay the report before Parliament together, except in a case where the report states that no alteration is required to be made in respect of the part of Great Britain with which the Commission are concerned, with the draft of an Order in Council for giving effect, whether with or without modifications, to the recommendations contained in the report.
 * 4B—(1) The draft of any Order in Council laid before Parliament by the Secretary of State under this Schedule for giving effect, whether with or without modifications, to the recommendations contained in a supplementary report of a Boundary Commission may make provision for any matters which appear to him to be incidental to, or consequential on, the recommendations.
 * (2) Where any such draft gives effect to any such recommendations with modifications, the Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament together with the draft a statement of the reasons for the modifications.
 * (3) If any such draft is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament, the Secretary of State shall submit it to Her Majesty in Council.
 * (4) If a motion for the approval of any such draft is rejected by either House of Parliament or withdrawn by leave of the House, the Secretary of State may amend the draft and lay the amended draft before Parliament, and if the draft as so amended is approved


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/14

Rh

 * (5) Where the draft of an Order in Council is submitted to Her Majesty in Council under this Schedule, Her Majesty in Council may make an Order in terms of the draft which (subject to paragraph 8 below) shall come into force on such date as may be specified in the Order and shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any enactment.
 * (6) The validity of any Order in Council purporting to be made under this Schedule and reciting that a draft of the Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament shall not be called in question in any legal proceedings whatsoever.”

(5) After sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5 there shall be inserted—
 * “(3) Where a Boundary Commission revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under this paragraph the Commission shall publish a further notice under this paragraph in relation to the revised recommendations, as if no earlier notice had been published.”

(6) After paragraph 5 there shall be inserted—
 * “5A—(1) A Boundary Commission may, if they think fit, cause a local inquiry to be held in respect of any Assembly constituency or constituencies.
 * (2) Where, on the publication of the notice under paragraph 5 above of a recommendation of a Boundary Commission for the alteration of any Assembly constituencies, the Commission receive any representation objecting to the proposed recommendation from an interested authority or from a body of electors numbering five hundred or more, the Commission shall not make the recommendation unless, since the publication of the notice, a local inquiry has been held in respect of the Assembly constituencies.
 * (3) Where a local inquiry was held in respect of the Assembly constituencies before the publication of the notice mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above, that sub-paragraph shall not apply if the Commission, after considering the matters discussed at the local inquiry, the nature of the representations received on the publication of the notice and any other relevant circumstances, are of opinion that a further local inquiry would not be justified.
 * (4) In sub-paragraph (2) above, “interested authority” and “elector” respectively means, in relation to any recommendation, a local authority whose area is wholly


text: Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/17


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/15

14c. 56

 * (a) in England and Wales, the council of a county, London borough or district, and
 * (b) in Scotland, the council of a region, islands area or district.”

(7) In paragraph 6 for the words “paragraph 4” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 5A”.

(8) In paragraph 7 for the words “paragraph 4” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs 4A and 4B”.

(9) In paragraph 8 for the words “the provisions applied by paragraph 4 above”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “this Schedule”.

(10) In paragraph 11—
 * (a) for the words from “the 1949 Act”, in the first place where they occur, to “Act 1958” there shall be substituted the words—
 * “‘the 1986 Act’ means the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”, and
 * (b) for the words “established by the 1949 Act” there shall be substituted the words “provided for by the 1986 Act”.

(11) In paragraph 12 for the words “section 2(4) of the 1949 Act” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 4A above”. The Finance (No. 2) Act 1983 6. In section 7(1) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1983 for the words “section 3 of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949” there shall be substituted the words “the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”.


text:
Index:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/styles.css

._ba2021_sched2 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 th:nth-child(n+2), ._ba2021_sched2 td:nth-child(n+2) { border-left: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 th { border-top: 1px solid black; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched2 td { text-indent: -1.5em; padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; vertical-align: top; }

._ba2021_sched4 { margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; }

._ba2021_sched4 th:nth-child(n+2),

._ba2021_sched4 th { font-weight: normal; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }

._ba2021_sched4 td { padding-left: 2.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; vertical-align: top; }


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/289

Rh The first remark which occurs here respects the obvious difference in the first and second columns between the proportions of the Bengal and those of the Behar thanas. I am wholly unable to offer any explanation of the difference. The second remark is the great excess of males between 14 and five above females of the same age both in the Bengal and Behar districts, as exhibited in the third column. This may, with some probability, be accounted for by supposing that, from doubt or suspicion of the object of the inquiry, the number of females of that age was often purposely diminished either by actual suppression or by transfer to the preceding column which, in the Bengal districts especially, contains an excessive proportion of females above 14. I am not, however, perfectly satisfied with this explanation, for the uniformity of the effect in all the districts as well as in the city of Moorshedabad seems to require a cause of more uniform operation than mere doubt or suspicion.

Sixth.—The proportion of the numbers above 14 and below five, i. e., of those who have not yet attained the age of school instruction, and who have passed beyond it, to the number between 14 and 5, i. e., of those who are of the teachable age, is subjoined—

If we could be sure of an approximation to truth in these results, the advantage of it would be that we should possess the means of comparing the ascertained amount of instruction with the ascertained number of those who are of an age to receive it, and of proportioning the supply to the wants of society without allowing excess in one place or deficiency in another.

Seventh.—I have not attempted to estimate the number of inhabitants to the square mile, because I had not the means of ascertaining the superficial extent of the localities in which a census of the population was taken.

The subject of domestic instruction was noticed in the Second Report, to which reference should be made.

City of Moorshedabad.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is 216, of which 147 are Hindu and 69 are Musalman families. The number of children receiving domestic instruction is 300, of whom 195 are Hindu and 105 are Musalman children.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/20

 he trod upon a hand, not even looking there because of the awfulness of an unburied head, and not till my dream was packed full of horror did I see him pitch forward on his knees as he reached safety, if it was that. For on the war-films I have seen men slip down as softly from the trench-parapet, and none but the grimmer philosophers could say that they had reached safety by their fall. And when I escaped into wakefulness it was only to lie stiff and think of stories I had heard in the boyish voice of the modern subaltern, which rings indomitable, yet has most of its gay notes flattened: "We were all of us in a barn one night, and a shell came along. My pal sang out, 'Help me, old man; I've got no legs!' and I had to answer, 'I can't, old man; I've got no hands!'" Well, such are the dreams of English-women to-day. I could not complain, but I wished for the return of our soldier. So I said:


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/16

Rh

SCHEDULE 4


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/21

 "I wish we could hear from Chris. It is a fortnight since he wrote."

And then it was that Kitty wailed, "Ah, don't begin to fuss!" and bent over her image in a hand-mirror as one might bend for refreshment over scented flowers.

I tried to build about me such a little globe of ease as always ensphered her, and thought of all that remained good in our lives though Chris was gone. I was sure that we were preserved from the reproach of luxury, because we had made a fine place for Chris, one little part of the world that was, so far as surfaces could make it so, good enough for his amazing goodness. Here we had nourished that surpassing amiability which was so habitual that one took it as one of his physical characteristics, and regarded any lapse into bad temper as a calamity as startling as the breaking of a leg; here we had made happiness inevitable for him. I could shut my eyes and think of innumerable proofs


text: Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/79


text: Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/191


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/17

16c. 56 TABLE OF DERIVATIONS Note: The following abbreviations are used in this Table:—


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/18

Rh

PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. J. SHARP, CB


text: Page:The Orange Fairy Book.djvu/1

title: Page:The Orange Fairy Book.djvu/1


text:
Page:Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.pdf/19

c. 56 {{Center|{{Smaller|LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE}}

{{Smaller|£2.90p net}}

{{xx-smaller|{545668)}}

{{Smaller|ISBN 0 10 545686 1}}}}


text: Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986

title: Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986


text:
Page:A budget of paradoxes (IA cu31924103990507).pdf/510

496 Now, if possible, let $${a \over b} {{}\atop+}\ {c \over d} {{}\atop+}$$ &c. be $$\frac{A}{B}$$ at the limit; $$A$$ and $$B$$ being integers. Let

$$P$$, $$Q$$, $$R$$, &c. being integer or fractional, as may be. It is easily slown that all must be integer: for

&c., &c. Now, since $$a,B,b,A,$$ are integers, so also is $$P$$; and thence $$Q$$; and thence $$R$$, &c. But since $$\frac{A}{B}, \frac{P}{A}, \frac{Q}{P}, \frac{R}{Q},$$ &c. are all between $$-1$$ and $$+1$$, it follows that the unlimited succession of integers $$P,Q,R,$$ are each less in numerical value than the preceding. Now there can be no such unlimited succession of descending integers: consequently, it is impossible that $${a \over b} {{}\atop+}\ {c \over d} {{}\atop+}$$ &c. can have a commensurable limit.

It easily follows that the continued fraction is incommensurable if $$\frac{a}{b}, \frac{c}{d},$$ &c., being at first greater than unity become and continue less than unity after some one point. Say that $$\frac{i}{k}, \frac{l}{m}, \ldots$$

Let $$\phi z$$ represent

Let $$z$$ be positive: this series is convergent for all values of $$a$$, and


text: The Return of the Soldier (West)

title: The Return of the Soldier (West)


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/159

 air in this small clearing than anywhere else in the world. I stood up, with my back against a birch and said negligently, knowing now that nothing could really threaten them:

"There is a doctor coming at half-past four who wants to see you both."

It cast no shadow on their serenity. He smiled upward, still lying on his back, and hailed me, "Hallo, Jenny." But she made him get up and help her to fold the rug.

"It's not right to keep a doctor waiting in these times," she declared, "so overworked they are, poor men, since the war." As I led the way up through the woods to the house I heard her prove her point by an illustrative anecdote about something that had happened down her road. I heard, too, their footsteps come to a halt for a space. I think her gray eyes had looked at him so sweetly that he had been constrained to take her in his arms.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/160

, I remember with the little perk of self-approbation with which one remembers any sort of accurate premonition even if its fulfilment means disaster, a cold hand close round my heart as we turned the corner of the house and came on Dr. Gilbert Anderson. I was startled, to begin with, by his unmedical appearance. He was a little man with winking blue eyes, a flushed and crumpled forehead, a little gray mustache that gave him the profile of an amiable cat, and a lively taste in spotted ties, and he lacked that appetiteless look which is affected by distinguished practitioners. He was at once more comical and more suggestive of power than any other doctor I had ever seen, and this difference was emphasized by his unexpected


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/146

 of his beard, an old man with a smile at once lewd and benevolent, repulsive with dirt and yet magnificent by reason of the Olympian structure of his body. I think he is the soul of the universe, equally cognizant and disregardful of every living thing, to whom I am not more dear than the bare-armed slouchy woman at the neighboring door. And Chris is leaning on the counter, his eyes glazed. (This is his spirit; his body lies out there in the drizzle, at the other end of the road.) He is looking down on the two crystal balls that the old man's foul, strong hands have rolled across to him. In one he sees Margaret, not in her raincoat and her nodding plumes, but as she is transfigured in the light of eternity. Long he looks there; then drops a glance to the other, just long enough to see that in its depths Kitty and I walk in bright dresses through our glowing gardens. We had suffered no transfiguration, for we are as we are, and


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/132

 he will see her face, her hands." But although it was a long time before I looked again, they were still clinging breast to breast. It was as though her embrace fed him, he looked so strong as he broke away. They stood with clasped hands looking at one another. They looked straight, they looked delightedly! And then, as if resuming a conversation tiresomely interrupted by some social obligation, they drew together again, and passed under the tossing branches of the cedar to the wood beyond. I reflected, while Kitty shrilly wept, how entirely right Chris had been in his assertion that to lovers innumerable things do not matter.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/133

the automobile had taken Margaret away Chris came to us as we sat in the drawing-room, and, after standing for a while in the glow of the fire, hesitantly said:

"I want to tell you that I know it is all right. Margaret has explained to me."

Kitty crumpled her sewing into a white ball.

"You mean, I suppose, that you know I'm your wife. I'm pleased that you describe that as knowing 'it's all right,' and grateful that you have accepted it at last—on Margaret's authority. This is an occasion that would make any wife proud."

Her irony was as faintly acrid as a


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/94

 little room you'd understand that I can't say, 'Yes, Kitty's my wife, and Margaret somehow just nothing at all."' " [sic]

"Of course you can't," I murmured sympathetically.

We gripped hands, and he brought down on our conversation the finality of darkness.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/95

morning it appeared that the chauffeur had taken the car up to town to get a part replaced, and Margaret could not be brought from Wealdstone till the afternoon. It fell to me to fetch her. "At least," Kitty had said, "I might be spared that humiliation." Before I started I went to the pond on the hill's edge. It is a place where autumn lives for half the year, for even when the spring lights tongues of green fire in the undergrowth, and the valley shows sunlit between the tree-trunks, here the pond is fringed with yellow bracken and tinted bramble, and the water flows amber over last winter's leaves.

Through this brown gloom, darkened now by a surly sky, Chris was taking the


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/75

 He turned away with an assenting mutter; but I saw that deep down in him, not to be moved by any material proof, his spirit was incredulous.

"Tell me what seems real to you," I begged. "Chris, be a pal. I'll never tell."

"M-m-m," he said. His elbows were on his knees, and his hands stroked his thick tarnished hair. I could not see his face, but I knew that his skin was red and that his gray eyes were wet and bright. Then suddenly he lifted his chin and laughed, like a happy swimmer breaking through a wave that has swept him far inshore. He glowed with a radiance that illuminated the moment till my blood tingled and I began to rub my hands together and laugh, too. "Why, Monkey Island's real. But you don't know old Monkey. Let me tell you."


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/76

told the story lingeringly, in loving detail. From Uncle Ambrose's gates, it seems, one took the path across the meadow where Whiston's cows are put to graze, passed through the second stile—the one between the two big alders—into a long straight road that ran across the flat lands to Bray. After a mile or so there branched from it a private road that followed a line of noble poplars down to the ferry. Between two of them—he described it meticulously, as though it were of immense significance—there stood a white hawthorn. In front were the dark-green, glassy waters of an unvisited backwater, and beyond them a bright lawn set with many walnut-trees and a few great chestnuts, well lighted with their candles,


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/44

 slow you don't see what it means. Either it means that he's mad, our Chris, our splendid, sane Chris, all broken and queer, not knowing us— I can't bear to think of that. It can't be true. But if he isn't—Jenny, there was nothing in that telegram to show he'd lost his memory. It was just affection—a name that might have been a pet name, things that it was a little common to put in a telegram. It's queer he should have written such a message, queer that he shouldn't have told me about knowing her, queer that he ever should have known such a woman. It shows there are bits of him we don't know. Things may be awfully wrong. It's all such a breach of trust! I resent it."

I was appalled by these stiff, dignified gestures that seemed to be plucking Chris's soul from his body, tormented though it was by this unknown calamity.

"But Chris is ill!" I cried.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/45

 She stared at me.

"You're saying what she said."

Indeed, there seemed no better words than those Mrs. Grey had used. I repeated:

"But he is ill!"

She laid her face against her arms again.

"What does that matter?" she wailed. "If he could send that telegram, he is no longer ours."


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/46

sorry the next morning that the post comes too late at Harrowweald to be brought up with the morning tea and waits for one at the breakfast table; for under Kitty's fixed gaze I had to open a letter which bore the Boulogne postmark and was addressed in the writing of Frank Baldry, Chris's cousin, who is in the church. He wrote:

 * You will have to break it to Kitty and try to make her take it as quietly as possible. This sentence will sound ominous as a start, but I'm so full of the extraordinary thing that has happened to Chris that I feel as if every living creature was in possession of the facts. I don't know how much you know about it, so I'd better begin at the beginning. Last Thursday I got a wire from Chris, saying that he had had concussion, though not seriously, and was in a hos-


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/47

 pital about a mile from Boulogne, where he would be glad to see me. It struck me as odd that it had been sent to Ollenshaws, where I was curate fifteen years ago. Fortunately, I have always kept in touch with Sumpter, whom I regard as a specimen of the very best type of country clergymen, and he forwarded it without unnecessary delay. I started that evening, and looked hard for you and Kitty on the boat; but came to the conclusion I should probably find you at the hospital.

After having breakfasted in the town,—how superior French cooking is! I would have looked in vain for such coffee, such an omelet, in my own parish,—I went off to look for the hospital. It is a girls' school, which has been taken over by the Red Cross, with fair-sized grounds and plenty of nice dry paths under the tilleuls. I could not see Chris for an hour, so I sat down on a bench by a funny, little round pond, with a stone coping, very French. Some wounded soldiers who came out to sit in the sun were rather rude because I was not in khaki, even when I explained that I was a priest of God and that the feeling of the bishops was strongly against the enlistment of the clergy. I do feel that the church has lost its grip on the masses.


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/48

 Then a nurse came out and took me in to see Chris. He is in a nice room, with a southern exposure, with three other officers, who seemed very decent (not the "new army," I am glad to say). He was better than I had expected, but did not look quite himself. For one thing, he was oddly boisterous. He seemed glad to see me, and told me he could remember nothing about his concussion, but that he wanted to get back to Harrowweald. He talked a lot about the wood and the upper pond and wanted to know if the daffies were out yet, and when he would be allowed to travel, because he felt that he would get well at once if only he could get home. And then he was silent for a minute, as though he was holding something back. It will perhaps help you to realize the difficulty of my position when you understand that all this happened before I had been in the room five minutes!

Without flickering an eyelid, quite easily and naturally, he gave me the surprising information that he was in love with a girl called Margaret Allington, who is the daughter of a man who keeps the inn on Monkey Island, at Bray on the Thames. He uttered some appreciations of this woman which I was too upset to note. I gasped, "How long has this been going on?" He laughed


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/290

230 Thana Daulatbazar.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is 354, of which 201 are Hindu and 513 are Musalman families. The number of children receiving domestic instruction is 326, of whom 265 are Hindu and 61 are Musalman children.

Thana Nanglia.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is 207, of which 197 are Hindu and 10 are Musalman families. The number of children receiving domestic instruction is 285, of whom 267 are Hindu and 18 are Musalman children.

Thana Culna.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is 475, of which 414 are Hindu and 61 are Musalman families. The number of children receiving domestic instruction is 676, of whom 595 are Hindu and 81 are Musalman children.

Thana Jehanahad.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is 360, of which 295 are Hindu and 65 are Musalman families. The number of children receiving domestic instruction is 539, of whom 435 are Hindu and 104 are Musalman children.

Thana Bhawara.—The number of families in which domestic instruction is given is,235, of which 223 are Hindu and 12 are Musalman families, the number of children receiving domestic instruction is 288, of whom 275 are Hindu and 13 are Musalman children.

First.—When I was in the Rajshahi district I ascertained the number of families only in which domestic instruction was given to the children, without noting the number of children in each such family. In the localities subsequently visited, this omission, it will have been seen from the preceding section, was supplied, and the average number of children receiving domestic instruction in each family is subjoined—


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/49

 at my surprise, and said, "Ever since I went down to stay with Uncle Ambrose at Dorney after I'd got my B.Sc." Fifteen years ago! I was still staring at him, unable to believe this barefaced admission of a deception carried on for years, when he went on to say that, though he had wired to her and she had wired a message in return, she hadn't said anything about coming over to see him. "Now," he said quite coolly, "I know old Allington's had a bad season,—oh, I'm quite well up in the innkeeping business these days,—and I think it may quite possibly be a lack of funds that is keeping her away. I've lost my check-book somewhere in the scrim, and so I wonder if you'd send her some money. Or, better still, for she's a shy country thing, you might fetch her."

I stared. "Chris," I said, "I know the war is making some of us very lax, and I can only ascribe to that the shamelessness with which you admit the existence of a long-standing intrigue; but when it comes to asking me to go over to England and fetch the woman—" He interrupted me with a sneer that we parsons are inveterately eighteenth century and have our minds perpetually inflamed by visions of squires' sons seducing country wenches, and declared


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/50

 that he meant to marry this Margaret Allington. "Oh, indeed!" I said. "And may I ask what Kitty says to this arrangement?" "Who the devil is Kitty?" he asked blankly. "Kitty is your wife," I said quietly, but firmly. He sat up and shouted: "I haven't got a wife! Has some woman been turning up with a cock-and-bull story of being my wife? Because it's the damnedest lie!"

I determined to settle the matter by sharp, common-sense handling. "Chris," I said, "you have evidently lost your memory. You were married to Kitty Ellis at St. George's, Hanover Square, on the third, or it may have been the fourth"—you know my wretched memory for dates—"of February, in 1906." He turned very pale and asked what year this was. "1916," I told him. He fell back in a fainting condition. The nurse came, and said I had done it all right this time, so she at least seemed to have known that he required a rude awakening, although the doctor, a very nice man, Winchester and New, told me he had known nothing of Chris's delusions.

An hour later I was called back into the room. Chris was looking at himself in a hand-mirror, which he threw on the floor as I entered. "You


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/51

 are right," he said; "I'm not twenty-one, but thirty-six." He said he felt lonely and afraid, and that I must bring Margaret Allington to him at once or he would die. Suddenly he stopped raving and asked, "Is father all right?" I prayed for guidance, and answered, "Your father passed away twelve years ago." He said, "Good God! can't you say he died," and he turned over and lay with his back to me. I have never before seen a strong man weep, and it is indeed a terrible sight. He moaned a lot, and began to call for this Margaret. Then he turned over again and said, "Now tell us all about this Kitty that I've married." I told him she was a beautiful little woman, and mentioned that she had a charming and cultivated soprano voice. He said very fractiously: "I don't like little women, and I hate anybody, male or female, who sings. O God, I don't like this Kitty. Take her away!" And then he began to rave again about this woman. He said that he was consumed with desire for her and that he would never rest until he once more held her in his arms. I had no suspicion that Chris had this side to his nature, and it was almost a relief when he fainted again.

I have not seen him since, and it is evening; but I have had a long talk with the doctor, who


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/52

 says that he has satisfied himself that Chris is suffering from a loss of memory extending over a period of fifteen years. He says that though, of course, it will be an occasion of great trial to us all, he thinks that, in view of Chris's expressed longing for Harrowweald, he ought to be taken home, and advises me to make all arrangements for bringing him back some time next week. I hope I shall be upheld in this difficult enterprise.

In the meantime I leave it to you to prepare Kitty for this terrible shock. I could have wished it were a woman of a different type who was to see my poor cousin through these dark days, but convey to her my deepest sympathy. Indeed, I never realized the horror of warfare until I saw my cousin, of whose probity I am as firmly convinced as of my own wantonly repudiating his most sacred obligations.

Yours ever,

.

Over my shoulder Kitty muttered:

"And he always pretended he liked my singing." Then she gripped my arm and shrieked in a possessive fury: "Bring him home! Bring him home!"


text: The Return of the Soldier (West)/Chapter 1


text: The Return of the Soldier (West)/Chapter 2


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/10


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/11


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/237

 moods as pass through the mind of a lonely man, during long hours in a place where the outside world does not disturb him and he lives on memory and pure reflection, are symbolised by those changes on the surface of the sea. Now it is one thing and now another; the growth is imperceptible and those moods that have passed are as hard to reconstruct as the links of a long, fluctuating reverie. For the most part it is grey, a grey full of meditation and discontent.

The heathland changes with the sea. Both take their thoughts and fancies from the sky. For this is a world of clouds; earth and sea are made by them what they are. They make the sea, and they make the little pools, blue, silver or grey, among the gorse. The clouds are always there; inhabiting a dome that is about fifty miles from the horizon up and down to the opposite horizon; and yet they are never the same.

Where do the clouds go?

The large white clouds, mountainous and of alabaster and with looks of everlastingness. I see them in the north at midday, making the hills seem level with the plain. I turn away my eyes and when next I look they are gone. They vanish like childish things. One day I made an appointment with another child to play marbles on the next morning; I never went; I forgot; I never saw the boy again, and I remember it now, for I never played marbles after that.

The high white halcyons of summer skies.

The distant, icy ranges of rounded pearl down which, in terrace after terrace, the sun walks like a king to the sea in May. As I watch they grow big like roses in the sun,

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/237


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/13


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/7


text:
Page:Tristram.djvu/8

 {| style="margin:0 auto; border:double 4px;"
 * By EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
 * Avon’s Harvest Captain Craig The Children of the Night Lancelot The Man Against the Sky Merlin The Town Down the River The Three Taverns
 * }
 * Avon’s Harvest Captain Craig The Children of the Night Lancelot The Man Against the Sky Merlin The Town Down the River The Three Taverns
 * }
 * }

title: Page:Tristram.djvu/8


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/238

 and they change and vanish and reappear beneath the restless sculptor's hand. If a man loves what is passing away, he loves then.

Those little dove-like clouds that for a moment stain the dusky clouds after an April storm—are they a metamorphosis of the Pleiades? They are gone like music; for sometimes the memory of them equals the reality and sometimes they are not to be recalled.

Those Elysian, white sierras in the east, which, at the end of a day of frowns and humours, stretch far away in still and lucid air, their bases lost in blue, making the world immense, as if it were to be thus for ever and the gods to walk again.

The cliffs that hold the moon imprisoned in their clefts and lure the mind to desire useless things.

The flocks that go down into the sea or behind the mountains, and thrill the heart with adventurousness and yet never move it to an adventure, but rather persuade us to care greatly for nothing except to muse and mesmerise ourselves with that old song—

The parcels of aerial gold which at sunset make one canopy as of a golden-foliaged tree planted over the world. The night does not believe that they were ever there.

Those caravans that go down the blue precipices of night intently; those dragons, lean and black, that prepare the dawn and ruin the morning star.

They change, they tarry, they travel far, they pass

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/238


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/239

 away, they dissolve, they cannot die. Up there, do they think, or do they watch, or do they simply act? and is it pleasant simply to act? Have all the sunsets and dawns and thunderstorms done nothing for them? I suppose that up there also nothing matters but eternity; that up there also they know nothing of eternity.

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/239


text:
Page:Tristram.djvu/9

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1927

title: Page:Tristram.djvu/9


text: The Heart of England/Chapter 43

title: The Heart of England/Chapter 43


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/293

Rh proportions are those of thana Jehanabad in South Behar and thana Daulatbazar in the Moorshedabad district where there are about six children in every 100 who receive some instruction, leaving 94 wholly uninstructed; and those of thana Nanglia in the Beerbhoom district and the city of Moorshedabad in which there are about eight children in every 100 who receive some instruction, leaving 93 wholly uninstructed. While ignorance is so extensive, can it be a matter of wonder that poverty is extreme, that industry languishes, that crime prevails, and that in the adoption of measures of public policy, however salutary and ameliorating their tendency. Government cannot reckon with confidence on the moral support of an intelligent and instructed community? Is it possible that a benevolent, a wise, a just Government can allow this state of things any longer to continue?

Fifth.—It has been already shown that the schools for girls are exclusively of European origin; and I made it an object to ascertain in those localities in which a census of the population was taken whether the absence of public means of native origin for the instruction of girls was to any extent compensated by domestic instruction. The result is that, in thanas Nanglia, Culna, Jehanabad, and Bhawara, domestic instruction was not in any one instance shared by the girls of those families in which the boys enjoyed its benefits, and that in the city of Moorshedabad and in thana Daulatbazar of the Moorshedabad district I found only five and those Musalman families, in which the daughters received some instruction at home. In one of these instances a girl about seven years of age was taught by a Kath Molla the formal reading of the Koran; in another instance two girls, about eight and ten years of age, were taught Persian by their father, a Pathan, whose object in instructing his daughters was stated to be to procure a respectable alliance for them; and in the three remaining families four girls were taught mere reading and writing. This is another feature in the degraded condition of native society. The whole of the juvenile female population, with exceptions so few that they can scarcely be estimated, are growing up without a single ray of instruction to dawn upon their minds.

Sixth.—In the account given of school instruction it has been shown, with considerable minuteness, to what classes of society, in respect of religion and caste, the children belong; but in the account of domestic instruction the only distinction drawn


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/15


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/294

234 is between Hindus and Musalmans. The following are the results at one view:—

The account given in the Second Report of the classes of Hindu society to which those families belong that give domestic instruction to the children is, I believe, in general correct, viz., zemindars and talookdars, shop-keepers and traders, gomashtas and mandals, pandits and priests; but I have been led to conclude that the pandits or learned brahmans constitute a much larger proportion than any other class and probably than all the other classes put together. Few of them send their children to Bengali or Hindi schools where accounts are the chief subject of instruction. Most content themselves with giving their children a knowledge of mere reading and writing at home which is the sole qualification to enable them to begin the study of Sanscrit.

Seventh.—With regard to the subject matter of domestic instruction, the mere reading and writing of the vernacular language is all that is taught in the families of brahman pandits, but in other Hindu families I have found Persian taught. Thus in three families belonging to one village I found three boys who had completed their Bengali education, receiving under the domestic roof instruction in Persian. In another village, of five children who were receiving, domestic instruction one was learning Persian and four Bengali. Again, seven boys in one village who were receiving domestic instruction were the sons of Kath Mollas, and were merely taught the formal reading of the Koran; while four Musalman children in another village were taught Bengali reading and writing. There can be no doubt that the instruction given at home is in general more crude and imperfect, more interrupted and desultory, than that which is obtained in the common schools.

The state of school-instruction and of domestic instruction shows the nature and amount of the means employed to instruct


title: Page:Tristram.djvu/16


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/225

night was dark and solid rain tumultuously invested the inn. As I stood in a dim passage I could see through the bar into the cloudy parlour, square and white, surrounded by settles, each curving about a round table made of one piece of elm on three legs. A reproduction of "Rent Day" and a coloured picture of a bold Spanish beauty hung on the wall, which, for the rest, was sufficiently adorned by the sharp shadows of men's figures and furniture that mingled grotesquely. All the men but one leaned back upon the settles or forward upon the tables, their hands on their tankards, watching the one who sang a ballad—a ballad known to them so well that they seemed not to listen, but simply to let the melody surge about them and provoke what thoughts it would.

At some time, perhaps many times in his life, every man is likely to meet with a thing in art or nature or human life or books which astonishes and gives him a profound satisfaction, not so much because it is rich or beautiful or strange, as because it is a symbol of a thing which, without the symbol, he could never grasp and enjoy. The German archers making a target of Leonardo's sculptured horse and horsemen at Milan; the glory of purple that has flown from a painted church

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/225


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/295

Rh the juvenile population. The state of adult instruction will contribute to show the effect which is produced by these means on the general condition of society. The general condition of society in respect of instruction may be estimated by the kinds and degrees of instruction existing in society and by the number of persons possessing each kind and degree. The following results have been obtained in attempting to form this estimate:—

In this city the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is 33, of whom 24 are Hindus and nine are Musalmans.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 75, of whom 58 are Hindus and 17 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 60, of whom 42 are Hindu teachers of Bengali and Hindi schools, two are Hindu teachers of English in the Nizamat College, 15 are Musalman teachers of Persian schools, and one is a Musalman teacher of a Bengali school.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 4,767, of whom 4,079 are Hindus and 688 are Musalmans. Of the Hindus, 3,082, in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing, are acquainted with Bengali accounts, 592 with Hindi accounts, 342 with Bengali accounts and Persian, 55 with Bengali accounts and English, and eight with Bengali accounts, Persian, and English. Of the Musalmans, 192, in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing, are acquainted with Bengali accounts, 88 with Persian, 399 with Bengali accounts and Persian, and nine with Bengali accounts, Persian and English.

There are five Native Christians who, besides a colloquial knowledge of the native vernacular languages, have some knowledge of English reading, writing and accounts.

The number of adults who can merely read and write is 1,700, of whom 1,555 are Hindus and 145 are Musalmans. One of the Hindus is a woman.

The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 715, of whom 660 are Hindus including two women, 53 are Musalmans including three women, and two are Native Christian women.


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/226

 window and settled upon a peasant's shoulders for an hour; the eloquence, as of an epigram rich in anger and woe, of one bare branch that juts out from a proud green wood into the little midnight stars and makes them smaller with its splendid pang; a woodman felling one by one the black and golden oak trees in the spring and slaying their ancient shadows; or, in a discreet and massive crowd, one jet of laughter, so full of joy or defiance or carelessness that it seems to cut through the heavy air like the whistle of a bullet—the world is one flame of these blossoms, could we but see. Music has many of them in her gift. Music, the rebel, the martyr, the victor—music, the romantic cry of matter striving to become spirit—is itself such a symbol, and there is no melody so poor that it will not at some time or another, to our watchful or receptive minds, have its festal hour in which it is crowned or at least crucified, for our solemn delight. "Dolly Gray" I have heard sung all day by poor sluttish women as they gathered peas in the broad, burning fields of July, until it seemed that its terrible, acquiescent melancholy must have found a way to the stars and troubled them.

And of all music, the old ballads and folk songs and their airs are richest in the plain, immortal symbols. The best of them seem to be written in a language that should be universal, if only simplicity were truly simple to mankind. Their alphabet is small; their combinations are as the sunlight or the storm, and their words also are symbols. Seldom have they any direct relation to life as the realist believes it to be. They are poor in such detail as reveals a past age or a country not our own. They are in themselves epitomes of whole generations, of a

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/226


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/227

 whole countryside. They are the quintessence of many lives and passions made into a sweet cup for posterity. A myriad hearts and voices have in age after age poured themselves into the few notes and words. Doubtless, the old singers were not content, but we, who know them not, can well see in their old songs a kind of immortality for them in wanderings on the viewless air. The men and women—who hundreds of years ago were eating and drinking and setting their hearts on things—still retain a thin hold on life through the joy of us who hear and sing their songs, or tread their curving footpaths, or note their chisel marks on cathedral stones, or rest upon the undulating churchyard grass. The words, in league with a fair melody, lend themselves to infinite interpretations, according to the listener's heart. What great literature by known authors enables us to interpret thus by virtue of its subtlety, ballads and their music force us to do by their simplicity. The melody and the story or the song move us suddenly and launch us into an unknown. They are not art, they come to us imploring a new lease of life on the sweet earth, and so we come to give them something which the dull eye sees not in the words and notes themselves, out of our own hearts, as we do when we find a black hearthstone among the nettles, or hear the clangour of the joyous wild swan, invisible overhead, in the winter dawn.

In the parlour of the inn the singer stood up and sang of how a girl was walking alone in the meadows of spring when she saw a ship going out to sea and heard her true love crying on board; and he sailed to the wars and much he saw in strange countries, but never came back;

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/227


text: Index:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu

title: Index:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu


text:
Index:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/styles.css

.chapter { text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 120%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; }

.chapter-subtitle { text-align: center; font-size: 92%; font-variant: all-small-caps; margin-bottom: 1.5em; }

.envoi { text-align: center; font-size: 92%; font-variant: all-small-caps; }

.poem { font-size: 92%; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; }

.section { text-align: center; }

.wst-toc-table { max-width: 25em; font-size: 92%; }


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/1

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/1


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/2

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/2


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/3

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/3


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/4

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/4


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/5

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/5


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/6

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/6


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/7

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/7


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/8

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/8


text:
Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/9

This collection of verse relating to the University of Illinois is an attempt to gather into poetical form some of the Illini traditions; to preserve old university landmarks, and to give the atmosphere of the campus of the present day.

It is hoped that this little book will have an appeal not only for the alumni and students but, also, for the many friends throughout the state who have helped make the University of Illinois the great institution that it is today.

Thanks are due Mr. Carl Stephens of The Alumni News and Mr. Richard Atwater of The Chicago Evening Post for their kind permission to reprint some of these poems. I wish, also, to express my gratitude and indebtedness to Mr. Francis E. Johnston for his helpful criticism.

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/9


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/10

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/10


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/11

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/11


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/12

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/12


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/13

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/13


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/14

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/14


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/15

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/15


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/16

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/16


text:
Page:The return of the soldier (IA returnofsoldier00west2).pdf/201

 "Jenny! Jenny! How does he look?"

"Oh,"—how could I say it?—"every inch a soldier."

She crept behind me to the window, peered over my shoulder and saw.

I heard her suck in her breath with satisfaction.

"He's cured!" she whispered slowly. "He's cured!"


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/17

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/17


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/18

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/18


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/19

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/19


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/20

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/20


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/21

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/21


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/22

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/22


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/23

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/23


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/24

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/24


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/25

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/25


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/26

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/26


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/27

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/27


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/28

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/28


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/228

 and still she walks in the meadows and looks out to sea, though she is old, in the spring. He sang without stirring, without expression, except in so far as light and darkness from his own life emerged enmeshed among the deep notes. He might have been delivering an oracle of solemn but ambiguous things. And so in fact he was. By its simplicity and remoteness from life the song set going the potent logic of fancy which would lead many men to diverse conclusions. It excluded nothing of humanity except what baseness its melody might make impossible. The strangeness and looseness of its framework allowed each man to see himself therein, or some incident or dream in his life, or something possible to a self which he desired to be or imagined himself to be, or perhaps believed himself once to have been. There were no bounds of time or place. It included the love of Ruy Blas, of Marlowe, of Dante, of Catullus, of Kilhwch, of Swift, of Palomides, of Hazlitt, of Villon… And that little inn, in the midst of mountains and immense night, seemed a temple of all souls, where a few faithful ones still burnt candles and remembered the dead.

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/228


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/29

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/29


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/30

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/30


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/31

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/31


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/32

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/32


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/33

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/33


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/34

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/34


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/35

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/35


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/36

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/36


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/37

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/37


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/38

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/38


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/39

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/39


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/40

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/40


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/41

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/41


text: The Heart of England/Chapter 40

title: The Heart of England/Chapter 40


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/42

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/42


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/43

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/43


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/44

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/44


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/45

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/45


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/46

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/46


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/47

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/47


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/48

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/48


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/49

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/49


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/50

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/50


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/51

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/51


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/52

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/52


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/53

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/53


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/54

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/54


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/55

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/55


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/56

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/56


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/57

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/57


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/58

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/58


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/59

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/59


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/60

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/60


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/61

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/61


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/62

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/62


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/63

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/63


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/64

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/64


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/65

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/65


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/66

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/66


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/67

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/67


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/68

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/68


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/69

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/69


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/70

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/70


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/71

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/71


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/296

236

In thana Daulatbazar of this district there ace no adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 13, who are all Hindus.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 25, of whom 23 are Hindu teachers of Bengali schools and 2 are Musalman teachers of Persian schools.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 555, of whom 501 are Hindus and 54 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who can merely read and write is 614, of whom 553 are Hindus including one woman, and 61 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 565, of whom 474 are Hindus and 91 are Musalmans.

In thana Nanglia of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is two, who are Hindus.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 12, who are all Hindus.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 34, of whom 30 are Hindu teachers of Bengali schools, 1 a Hindu teacher of a Persian school, and three are Musalman teachers of Persian schools.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 352, of whom 335 are Hindus, and 17 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who can merely read and write is 593, of whom 586 are Hindus and seven are Musalmans.


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/72

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/72


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/73

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/73


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/74

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/74


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/75

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/75


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/76

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/76


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/77

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/77


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/196

morning air of autumn smelt like the musky, wild white rose. The south wind had carried hither all the golden and brown savours from Devon and Wiltshire and Surrey; and the strong sweetness made the walker snuff deeply at it, with uplifted upper lip. Church bells two miles away, deep among the woods that lay around narrow gulfs of meadow on every side, called and called, as if they had wedded this perfume and all the gold and brown of the wide land. Not the last willow wren in the oak, nor the cooing dove, spoke more melodiously of autumn and repose than the bells. So when I came to the church, under a cavernous beech wood, I paused beneath the low tower and sate in the cool nave.

Parts of the windows were still rich with old colour, the rest might seem to have flown into the woods as the sounds from the genial bells were still flying thither and through the autumn land. The church was the lovely home of the dead of several fair families still living near. A helmet with motionless crest jutted over the nave. Several bright, crude effigies flaunted their crimson and blue in one aisle. The walls were still half covered by paintings of varying clearness.

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/196


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/297

Rh The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 620, of whom 601 are Hindus and 19 are Musalmans.

In thana Culna of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is 38, of whom 37 are Hindus and one is a Musalman.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 99, of whom 80 are Hindus and 19 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 93, of whom 82 are Hindu teachers of 72 Bengali schools; 71 for boys and one for girls; nine are Musalman teachers of six Persian, two Bengali, and one English school; and two are Native Christian female teachers of a girls’ school.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, are 2,424, of whom 2,271 are Hindus and 153 Musalmans.

The number of adults, who can merely read and write, is 2,304, of whom 2,115 are Hindus and 189 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who can merely decipher writing or sign their names is 2,350, of whom 2,100 are Hindus and 244 Musalmans.

In thana Jehanabad of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is six, of whom one is a Hindu and five are Musalmans.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 19, of whom nine are Hindus and 10 are Musalmans.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 53, of whom 26 are Hindu teachers of Nagri schools and 27 are Musalman teachers of Persian schools.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/78

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/78


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/79

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/79


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/80

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/80


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/81

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/81


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/82

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/82


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/83

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/83


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/84

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/84


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/85

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/85


text:
Page:Adam's reports on vernacular education in Bengal and Behar, submitted to Government in 1835, 1836 and 1838.djvu/298

238 possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 992, of whom 727 are Hindus and 265 are Musalmans. Of the Hindus, 503, in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing, are acquainted with Hindi accounts, and 224 with Hindi accounts and Persian. Of the Musalmans, two, in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing, are acquainted with Hindi accounts, and 263 with Hindi accounts and Persian.

The number of adults, who can merely read and write, is 761, of whom 644 are Hindus and 117 Musalmans.

The number of adults, who can merely decipher writing or sign their names, is 1,004, of whom 927 are Hindus and 77 are Musalmans.

In thana Bhawara of this district the number of adults who have received a learned education, and are engaged in the business of teaching, is seven, who are Hindus.

The number of adults who have received a learned education, and who are not engaged in the business of teaching, is 27, who are Hindus.

The number of adults who have not received a learned education, and who are engaged in the business of teaching with attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is six, of whom five are Hindus and one is a Musalman.

The number of adults who have neither received a learned education, nor are engaged in the business of teaching, but who possess attainments superior to a mere knowledge of reading and writing, is 425, of whom 409 are Hindus and 16 Musalmans. Of the Hindus 375, in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing, are acquainted with Hindi accounts, and 34 with Hindi accounts and Persian. Of the Musalmans, two in addition to a knowledge of reading and writing are acquainted with Hindi accounts, and 14 with Hindi accounts and Persian.

The number of adults, who can merely read and write, is 303 of whom 302 are Hindus and one is a Musalman.

The number of adults, who can merely decipher writing or sign their names, is 265, of whom 262 are Hindus and three are Musalmans.

First.—The proportion of the instructed to the uninstructed juvenile population has been shown, and it now remains to deduce


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/86

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/86


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/87

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/87


text: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/88

title: Page:Illinois Verse (1926).djvu/88


text: Illinois Verse

title: Illinois Verse


text: Illinois Verse/Illinois Salute

title: Illinois Verse/Illinois Salute


text: Illinois Verse/Burrill Avenue

title: Illinois Verse/Burrill Avenue


text: Illinois Verse/The College Chimes

title: Illinois Verse/The College Chimes


text: Illinois Verse/The Auditorium Steps

title: Illinois Verse/The Auditorium Steps


text: Illinois Verse/Within the Auditorium

title: Illinois Verse/Within the Auditorium


text: Illinois Verse/Once Upon a Time

title: Illinois Verse/Once Upon a Time


text: Illinois Verse/Passing of the Bone-yard

title: Illinois Verse/Passing of the Bone-yard


text: Illinois Verse/Thomas Arkle Clark

title: Illinois Verse/Thomas Arkle Clark


text: Illinois Verse/The Old Clock

title: Illinois Verse/The Old Clock


text: Illinois Verse/The Rock Garden—Spring

title: Illinois Verse/The Rock Garden—Spring


text: Illinois Verse/The Rock Garden—Summer

title: Illinois Verse/The Rock Garden—Summer


text: Illinois Verse/Homecoming

title: Illinois Verse/Homecoming


text: Illinois Verse/And He Is Ours

title: Illinois Verse/And He Is Ours


text: Illinois Verse/Senior Hobo Parade

title: Illinois Verse/Senior Hobo Parade


text: Illinois Verse/Stuart Pratt Sherman

title: Illinois Verse/Stuart Pratt Sherman


text: Illinois Verse/The Senior Bench

title: Illinois Verse/The Senior Bench


text: Illinois Verse/Ballade of the May-pole Dance


text: Illinois Verse/The Circus—Interscholastic


text: Illinois Verse/Talbot Portrait

title: Illinois Verse/Talbot Portrait


text: Illinois Verse/The Gregory Boulder

title: Illinois Verse/The Gregory Boulder


text: Illinois Verse/Illinois Field

title: Illinois Verse/Illinois Field


text: Illinois Verse/Red Grange

title: Illinois Verse/Red Grange


text: Illinois Verse/A Tradition

title: Illinois Verse/A Tradition


text: Illinois Verse/The Snyder Bust

title: Illinois Verse/The Snyder Bust


text: Illinois Verse/Burning of the Freshmen Caps


text: Illinois Verse/Triolet—Gold Feathers

title: Illinois Verse/Triolet—Gold Feathers


text: Illinois Verse/Triolet—Orange and Blue Feathers


text:
Page:Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys (IA huntingtrappings00pric).pdf/188

 The is a splendid little creature, typifying wild, careless gayety and absurd shrewdness and gravity. It is common all over Southern Europe and especially so in England. It lives in small numbers in the beech and fir woods, or near the great oaks. Its size is about that of an overgrown kitten. Its eyes are bright and black, while its ears, which are large and upright, have a tuft of hair on the ends. Its tail is large and bushy and is usually carried curled over its back. Like the dormouse, it sits upright when eating or playing sentinel.

The squirrel builds a nest which at a distance looks like a crow's. In fact, it sometimes uses an old crow's nest instead of building one of its own. The nest is carefully lined with moss and leaves, and here the young squirrels are born and brought up. They are the prettiest little creatures, very gentle, and make excellent pets, but are hard to raise in cages. In the early morning, the squirrel comes down from the trees to feed on the wind-blown chestnuts and acorns. Then, as the sun gets higher, it goes back to the trees. The squirrel rarely comes to the ground except to feed. If alarmed, it races along the ground with a jumping gallop, but when it reaches the trees nothing can follow it. It springs from branch to branch with astounding leaps. If, by any chance, it misses its footing, it spreads out its bushy tail and comes sailing down as light as a feather.

The squirrel has many enemies. The game-keeper shoots it for gnawing the bark from the young trees. Then the weasel and stoat are ever on the watch to pounce upon it while feeding, and up in the branches there is always a danger of being swooped down upon by the sparrow-hawk. Last of all is the persistent small boy. Throughout all parts of rural England it is considered great sport to hunt the squirrel. The usual method is to wait


text: Illinois Verse/The Sun-dial

title: Illinois Verse/The Sun-dial


text: Illinois Verse/The Fountain

title: Illinois Verse/The Fountain


text: Illinois Verse/Zuppke—Two Sketches

title: Illinois Verse/Zuppke—Two Sketches


text: Illinois Verse/Illinois Union

title: Illinois Verse/Illinois Union


text: Illinois Verse/The Woman's League

title: Illinois Verse/The Woman's League


text: Illinois Verse/The Changing Forestry

title: Illinois Verse/The Changing Forestry


text: Illinois Verse/University Band

title: Illinois Verse/University Band


text: Illinois Verse/The Y's

title: Illinois Verse/The Y's


text: Illinois Verse/Mortar Board

title: Illinois Verse/Mortar Board


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/197

 Here and there a sword stood out quite clear, or the head of a woman or a youth, a coat of armour, an aureole that some head had lost, a curve of vesture, or a mere whisper of colour, red like old blood, or a few words, such as "olim magnificus putcherrimus"—"periit"—"resurget"; things that survived there much as events in human memories, and as incidents and expressions may actually survive our death, and painfully strive for integration in a dim world of fragments that shall be strangely arrayed again.

The clerk stood looking out of a little open window that revealed a piece of green meadow and yellow maple that might have belonged to the ancient glass.

One by one the men came in, two old labourers past work, a neighbouring farmer, his cowman and carter, a gamekeeper, and the women and children in twos and threes, and lastly the squire—perhaps twenty-five altogether. In hymn and psalm and prayer all voices save those of the rector and one sweet-voiced child were so faint that the church was undisturbed. The old men were still, the young restless, the women and children interested in one another; but they were fainter than the figures on the wall, being so like thousands of others, all but a red and fair-haired man of fifty who might have been a Bacchus hastily metamorphosed for some jolly purpose.

With the sermon the silence became immense, as if it must flower suddenly or crumble away in a roar. The preacher spoke slowly as one who scorned time, and in the intervals could be heard the masticating of horses in the meadow outside. He spoke of the

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/197


text: Illinois Verse/Ma-wan-da

title: Illinois Verse/Ma-wan-da


text: Illinois Verse/Open House

title: Illinois Verse/Open House


text: Illinois Verse/Sachem Calls

title: Illinois Verse/Sachem Calls


text:
Author:Thomas Arkle Clark

Works

 * When You Write a Letter (1921)

Essay collections

 * The Fraternity and the College (1915)
 * The Sunday Eight O'Clock (1916)
 * The Fraternity and the Undergraduate (1917)
 * The High School Boy and His Problems (1920)
 * Discipline and the Derelict (1921)

Individual essays

 * "After the Pledging" (1917)
 * "Alma Mater" (1916)
 * "And Some Must Work" (1921)
 * "The Athlete" (1921)
 * "Books and Reading" (1920)
 * "The Borrower" (1921)
 * "Bread and Butter Letters" (1916)
 * "Building a Chapter House" (1917)
 * "The Chapter Letter" (1917)
 * "Choosing a Profession" (1920)
 * "Civic Pride" (1916)
 * "A Clean Tongue" (1916)
 * "College Activities" (1915)
 * "College Spirit" (1915)
 * "Commencement" (1916)
 * "Concerning the Brothers in Town" (1915)
 * "The Course" (1920)
 * "The Cribber" (1921)
 * "Cucus and Courtesy" (1916)
 * "The Day's Work" (1916)
 * "Discipline and the Derelict" (1921)
 * "Doing What We Like" (1916)
 * "Examinations and Grades" (1920)
 * "Examinations" (1916)
 * "Extra-fraternity Organizations" (1915)
 * "False Faces" (1916)
 * "Fraternity Expansion" (1917)
 * "Fraternity Finances" (1915)
 * "Fraternity Home Life" (1915)
 * "Fraternity Ideals" (1915)
 * "The Fraternity and Its Alumni" (1915)
 * "The Fraternity and Its Underclassmen" (1915)
 * "The Fraternity and Scholarship" (1915)
 * "The Fraternity and the College" (1915)
 * "The Fraternity and the Undergraduate" (1917)
 * "The Freshman" (1916)
 * "The Freshman's Time and Money" (1917)
 * "The Fusser" (1921)
 * "The Future of the Fraternity" (1917)
 * "Getting in to Things" (1916)
 * "Going to College" (1920)
 * "Good Resolutions" (1916)
 * "The Good of the College" (1916)
 * "The Greatest Thing" (1916)
 * "The Greek and the Independent" (1917)
 * "Happiness" (1916)
 * "The High School Boy" (1920)
 * "The High School Fraternity" (1915)
 * "His Job" (1916)
 * "His Recommendation" (1916)
 * "Horse Play and Rough House at Initiations" (1915)
 * "The House Party" (1917)
 * "The Joiner" (1916)
 * "Keeping Cool" (1916)
 * "The Leisure Hour" (1920)
 * "The Liar" (1916)
 * "The Loafer" (1916)
 * "The Loafer" (1921)
 * "Looking Through the Fence" (1916)
 * "Mac" (1916)
 * "The Man Who Does not Join" (1917)
 * "Manners" (1916)
 * "Manners and Morals" (1920)
 * "The Men Who Do not Graduate" (1917)
 * "Mother" (1916)
 * "On Time" (1916)
 * "The Paper From Home" (1916)
 * "Photo Plays and Vaudeville" (1917)
 * "Playing the Game" (1916)
 * "The Politician" (1921)
 * "Profanity" (1916)
 * "Redeeming the Time" (1916)
 * "Respect for Books" (1916)
 * "The Reunion" (1916)
 * "Rushing and the Rushee" (1917)
 * "Short Change" (1916)
 * "The Snap" (1916)
 * "Social Activities" (1920)
 * "Spring" (1916)
 * "Studies and Other Things" (1920)
 * "Stung" (1916)
 * "Taking the Stranger in" (1916)
 * "The Team" (1916)
 * "Telephone Courtesy" (1916)
 * "The Test" (1916)
 * "The Transfer" (1917)
 * "Trifling Irritations" (1916)
 * "Two Points of View" (1916)
 * "The Uncertain Mail" (1916)
 * "The Undergraduate and Graft" (1921)
 * "Vacations" (1916)
 * "Virtue and Reward" (1916)
 * "What?" (1916)
 * "Who Pays?" (1916)
 * "Wholesome Neglect" (1916)
 * "Youngest Sons and Only Children" (1921)

Works about Clark

 * "Thomas Arkle Clark" (1926), a poem by Anna Shattuck Palmer

title: Author:Thomas Arkle Clark


text: Illinois Verse/Torch

title: Illinois Verse/Torch


text: Illinois Verse/Experiment Strips

title: Illinois Verse/Experiment Strips


text: Illinois Verse/At the Mum Show

title: Illinois Verse/At the Mum Show


text: Illinois Verse/Sonnet to M. L.

title: Illinois Verse/Sonnet to M. L.


text: Illinois Verse/Military Day

title: Illinois Verse/Military Day


text: Illinois Verse/Illini Corner

title: Illinois Verse/Illini Corner


text: Illinois Verse/The Eyrie

title: Illinois Verse/The Eyrie


text: Illinois Verse/The Old Library

title: Illinois Verse/The Old Library


text: Illinois Verse/President Kinley

title: Illinois Verse/President Kinley


text: Illinois Verse/Illinium—Element 61

title: Illinois Verse/Illinium—Element 61


text: Illinois Verse/Farewell

title: Illinois Verse/Farewell


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/198

 necessity of "drawing near to God "—by a life of piety, by private prayer, by communion, by worshipping in this house. His rich, gentle voice saying murmurous things fell upon me as one of sleep's forerunners, and I had just heard him asking the squire and the Bacchus and the rest whether they had not, at the Communion, had visions of "those tabernacles above," when I began to dream a dream which the parson could not have inspired without the help of some very different elf who now lay under the pavement of the nave, or was painted on the wall, or had sat among the rushes when the church was beautiful and young as a country bride. For it seemed that I saw these men and women in a kind of heaven where all day long for ever they did those things which had pleased or most taken hold of them in life. I saw them like the figures painted on the wall, some bright and clear, some dim or broken, some known by hardly more than a defacement of the large light that dwelt there.

There the grave and cheerful carter went home at evening, looking ahead steadily, without sorrow, or alarm, or lassitude, and sometimes turning to his undulating team, noting their still bright harness and speaking to them by name: "Ho! Violet"—"Smiler"—"Darling"—"Swallow." He was even now hungry, a little tired, thinking of his inn at nightfall. Heaven had caught him and made of him a picture of strength, contentment and evening which, in that luminous land, was pleasing yet to mortal men.

There the cowman was leading out the bull, and making the ring jar in its nostrils. Still his back and

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/198


text:
Page:Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys (IA huntingtrappings00pric).pdf/256

 Dogs can roughly be divided into four classes. There are the hunting dogs; the toy or pet dogs; the working dogs and the big dogs which are neither workers nor hunters, and last but not least the noble army of nondescript mongrels.

Now it is impossible to say which is the greatest of dogs, for the simple reason that one breed is thought more of in one country, while the people of the next nation prefer another kind of canine. Each has its uses and is great in its own place.

Let us first look over some of the hunting dogs. Every one who has done much shooting knows what a treasure a good dog is. The pointers and setters go entirely by nose, a proof of which is that when puppies they chase shadows of birds and never look overheard for the cause. Again, when first taken into the field to point game birds, they are likely to walk right over the crouching coveys. The spaniels and retreivers are the best water dogs, but they are not as much in vogue in the United States as in England. Otter hounds are another class of water dogs and you will find an account of them in the otter stories. We have also spoken of fox hounds in the stories upon hunting.

"GENE"

Two enormous hunting dogs are the wolf hounds and stag hounds. The former are much prized in wolf-infested Russia, on account of their great speed, endurance and strength, for it takes a powerful dog to hunt a wolf. The stag hounds are of two classes. The least known are the great shaggy fellows, sometimes found in Scotland, which closely resemble in buid their Russian cousins. The staghounds however that are mostly used in England are smooth skinned and look something like the fox hounds, only they are more heavily built.

In Germany the dachsund is a great favorite. This dog is not large, has a long body, short legs and no speed, but it seems to have its uses and is very popular. Years ago in England, when clock work machinery for turning roast meat before a fire was unknown, there was used instead a dog called a "Spitz" a close relation of the dachsund. This small dog was put inside a large wheel like a squirrel's and made to run. The wheel was connected with a running belt which turned the meat before the fire.


text:
Page:The Heart of England.djvu/199

 knees were bent as he cursed out "Jimmy," his face still moulded and unmoulded by faint-hearted lust, vexation, fear, perplexed by the home where his eleven children were, with his pigs and his fledgling magpies.

His wife was near, but almost invisible, and as it were a wraith of pitiful maternity, neither bitter nor glad, but bearing her burdens, one still beneath her girdle, one in her arms, and others demanding her anxiety, winning her tenderness, on this side and on that.

The gamekeeper stood, with smoking gun barrels, and a cloud of jay's feathers still in the air and among the May foliage about him. Pride, stupidity, servility clouded his face as in his days of nature, and above him in the oaks innumerable jays laughed because beauty, like folly, was immortal there.

The squire, more faint, and whether to his joy or not I could not discern, was standing under a bough on which hung white owls, wood owls, falcons, crows, magpies, cats, hedgehogs, stoats, weasels, some bloody, some with gaping stomachs, some dismembered or crushed, some fleshless, some heaving like boiling fat, and on them and him the sun shone hot.

The red-faced man sat drinking ale, and with him it seemed always evening, and his stomach fathomless.

Five boys—four of them with blackened faces and sticks or swords, and one of them dressed as a woman and carrying a bag—played the Pace-Egging Play in blue Easter weather in a daffodil lane before a ripe grey farmhouse.

A little girl nursed something musingly, whether a mole or a cluster of rags I could not tell.

title: Page:The Heart of England.djvu/199