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 In conformity with his own wish, his father consented to send him to Cambridge, where it was his intention to take a medical degree with the view of practising in the metropolis. Close application to his studies, however, threw him out of health, and, with a view to re-establishing his strength, he accepted the appointment of travelling physician to Lord Oxford. While abroad he mastered Italian, and acquired a great admiration for Italian literature, but no greater liking for medicine than before. On the contrary, he determined to abandon it; but returning to Cambridge, he took his degree; and that he worked hard may be inferred from the fact that he was senior wrangler of his year. Disappointed in his desire to enter the army, he turned to the bar, and entered a student of the Inner Temple. He worked as hard at law as he had done at medicine. Writing to his father, he said, "Everybody says to me, You are certain of success in the end—only persevere'; and though I don't well understand how this is to happen, I try to believe it as much as I can, and I shall not fail to do everything in my power." At twenty-eight he was called to the bar, and had every step in life yet to make. His means were straitened, and he lived upon the contributions of his friends. For years he studied and waited. Still no business came. He stinted himself in recreation, in clothes, and even in the necessaries of life; struggling on indefatigably through all. Writing home, he "confessed that he hardly knew how he should be able to struggle on till he had fair time and opportunity to establish himself." After three years' waiting, still without success, he wrote to his friends that rather than fbe a burden upon them longer, he was willing to


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 honourable pursuit of the legal profession than by any other. No fewer than seventy British peerages, including two dukedoms, have been founded by successful lawyers. Mansfield and Erskine were, it is true, of noble family; but the latter used to thank God that out of his own family he did not know a lord. The others were, for the most part, the sons of attorneys, grocers, clergymen, merchants, and hardworking members of the middle class. Out of this profession have sprung the peerages of Howard and Cavendish, the first peers of both families having been judges; those of Aylesford, Ellenborough, Guildford, Shaftesbury, Hardwicke, Cardigan, Clarendon, Camden, Ellesmere, Rosslyn; and others nearer our own day, such as Tenterden, Eldon, Brougham, Denman, Truro, Lyndhurst, St. Leonards, Cranworth, Campbell, and Chelmsford.

Lord Lyndhurst's father was a portrait painter, and that of St. Leonards a perfumer and hair-dresser in Burlington Street. Young Edward Sugden was originally an errand-boy in the office of the late Mr. Groom, of Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, a certificated conveyancer; and it was there that the future Lord Chancellor of Ireland obtained his first notions of law. The origin of the late Lord Tenterden was perhaps the

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 * "Modern Love", a fragment of poetry by John Keats
 * "Modern Love", a poem by George Meredith

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10. 1849.] NOTES AND QUERIES;

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This Publication, as everybody's common-place book, will be a depository for those who find such materials, and a resource for those who are in search of them; and if the Editor is enabled by the inter-communication of his literary friends, to realise his expectations, it will form a most useful supplement to works already in existence,—a treasury for enriching future editions of them,—and an important contribution towards a more perfect history than we yet possess of our Language, our Literature, and those to whom we owe them.

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[No. 27. upon his face, 'The cramps are leaded, and they may pull to doomsday.' The cramps are the iron bolts fastening the statue to the pedestal. The attempt was soon abandoned."

Hyde Park Corner.—"There were cottages here in 1655; and from the middle of the reign of George II. till the erection of Apsley House, the small entrance gateway was flanked on its east side by a poor tenement known as 'Allen's stall.' Allen, whose wife kept a moveable apple-stall at the park entrance, was recognised by George II. 1. as an old soldier at the battle of Dettingen, and asked (so pleased was the King at meeting the veteran) 'what he could do for him.' Allen, after some hesitation, asked for a piece of ground for a permanent apple-stall at Hyde Park Corner, and a grant was made to him of a piece of ground which his children afterwards sold to Apsley, Lord Bathurst. Mr. Crace has a careful drawing of the Hyde Park Corner, showing Allen's stall and the Hercules' Pillars."

Pall Mall.—"Mr. Fox told Mr. Rogers, that Sydenhamwas sitting at his window looking on the Mall, with his pipe in his mouth and a silver tankard before him, when a fellow made a snatch at the tankard, and ran off with it. Nor was he overtaken, said Fox, before he got among the bushes in Bond Street, and there they lost him."

Lansdowne House.—"The iron bars at the two ends of Lansdowne Passage (a near cut from Curzon Street to Hay Hill) were put up late in the last century, in consequence of a mounted highwayman, who had committed a robbery in Piccadilly, having escaped from his pursuers through this nariov passage by riding his horse up the steps. This anecdote was told by the late Thomas Grenville to Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis. It occurred while George Grenville was Minister, the robber passing his residence in Bolton Street full gallop."

Newcastle House.—"The old and expensive custom of 'vails-giving,' received its death-blow at Newcastle House. Sir. Timothy Waldo, on his way from the Duke's dinner table to his carriage, put a crown into the hand of the cook, who returned it, saying: 'Sir, I do not take silver.' 'Don't you, indeed?' said Sir Timothy, putting it in his pocket; 'then I do not give gold.' Hanway's 'Eight Letters to the Duke of ,' had their origin in Sir Timothy's complaint."

Red Lion Square.—The benevolent Jonas Hanway, the traveller, lived and died (1786) in a house in Red Lion Square, the principal rooms of which he decorated with paintings and emblematical devices, 'in a style,' says his biographer, 'peculiar to himself.' 'I found,' he used to say, when speaking of these ornaments, 'that my countrymen and women were not au fait in the art of conversation, and that instead of recurring to their cards, when the discourse began to flag, the minutes between the time of assembling and the placing the card-tables are spent in an irksome suspense. To relieve this vacuum in social intercourse and prevent cards from engrossing the whole of my visitors' minds, I have presented them with objects the most attractive I could imagine and when that fails there are the cards.' Hanway was the first man who ventured to walk the streets of London with an umbrella over his head. After carrying one near thirty years, he saw them come into general use."

Downing Street.—"Baron Bothmar's house was part of the forfeited property of Lee, Lord Lichfield, who retired with James II., to whom he was Master of the Horse. At the beginning of the present century there was no other official residence in the street than the house which belonged, by right of office, to the First Lord of the Treasury, but by degrees one house was bought after another: first the Foreign Office, increased afterwards by three other houses; then the Colonial Office; then the house in the north corner, which was the Judge Advocate's, since added to the Colonial Office; then a house for the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and lastly, a whole row of lodging-houses, chiefly for Scotch and Irish members."

Whitehall.—"King Charles I. was executed on a scaffold erected in front of the Banqueting House, towards the park. The warrant directs that he should be executed 'in the open street before Whitehall.' Lord Leicester tells us in his Journal, that he was 'beheaded at Whitehall Gate.' Dugdale, in his Diary, that he was 'beheaded at the gate of Whitehall;' and a single sheet of the time preserved in the British Museum, that 'the King was beheaded at Whitehall Gate.' There cannot, therefore, be a doubt that the scaffold was erected in front of the building facing the present Horse Guards. We now come to the next point which has excited some discussion. It appears from Herbert's minute account of the King's last moments, that 'the King was led all along the galleries and Banqueting House, and there was a passage broken through the wall, by which the King passed unto the scaffold.' This seems particular enough, and leads, it is said, to a conclusion that the scaffold was erected on the north side. Wherever the passage was broken through, one thing is certain, the scaffold was erected on the west side, or, in other words, 'in the open street,' now called Whitehall; and that the King, as Ludlow relates in his Memoirs, 'was conducted to the scaffold out of the window of the Banqueting House.' Ludlow, who tells us this, was one of the regicides, and what he states, simply and straightforwardly, is confirmed by an engraving of the execution, published at Amsterdam in the same year, and by the following memorandum of Vertue's on the copy of Terasson's large engraving of the Banqueting House, preserved in the library of the Society of Antiquaries:—'It is, according to the truest reports, said that out of this window King Charles went upon the scaffold to be beheaded, the window-frame being taken out purposely to make the passage on to the scaffold, which is equal to the landing-place of the hall within side.' The window marked by Vertue belonged to a small building abutting from the north side of the present Banqueting House. From this window, then, the King stept upon the scaffold.

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Modern Love (Keats)

 * "Modern Love", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
 * "Modern Love", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder

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MAY 4. 1850.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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I have great pleasure in forwarding to you an anecdote of the captivity of Charles I., which I think will be considered interesting to your readers. Of its authenticity there can be no doubt. I extract it from a small paper book, purchased some fifty years since, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, which contains the history of a family named Douglas, for some years resident in that town, written by the last representative, Eliza Douglas, at the sale of whose effects it came into my grandfather's hands. There are many curious particulars in it besides the anecdote I have sent you; especially an account of the writer's great-great-grandfather (the husband of the heroine of this tale), who "traded abroad, and was took into Turkey as a slave," and there gained the affections of his master's daughter, after the most approved old-ballad fashion; though, alas! it was not to her love that he owed his liberty, but (dreadful bathos!) to his skill in "cooking fowls, &c. &c. in the English taste;" which, on a certain occasion, when some English merchants came to dine with his master, "so pleased the company, that they offered to redeem him, which was accepted; and when freed he came home to England, and lived in London to an advanced age; so old that they fed him with a tea-spoon."

After his death his wife married again; and it was during this second marriage that the interview with King Charles took place.

E. V.

The rector of Slimbridge, in the diocese of Gloucester, is bound to pay ten pounds a year to Magdalen College, for "choir music on the top of the College tower on May-day." (See Rudder's Gloucestershire.) Some years ago a prospectus was issued, announcing as in preparation, "The Maudeleyne Grace, including the Hymnus Eucharisticus, with the music by Dr. Rogers, as sung every year on May Morning, on the Tower of Magdalene College, Oxford, in Latin and English. With an Historical Introduction by William Henry Black." Can any of your readers inform me whether this interesting work ever made its appearance? I am inclined to think it did not, and have an indistinct recollection that the original MS. of the "Grace" was lost through the carelessness of the lithographer who was entrusted with it for the purpose of making a fac-simile.

Whilst making some researches in the library of Christ Church, Oxford, I accidentally met with what appears to me to be the first draft of the "Grace" in question. It commences "Te Deum Patrem colimus" and has the following note:—"This Hymn is sung every day in Magdalen College Hall, Oxon, dinner and supper throughout the year for the after grace, by the chaplains, clarkes, and choristers there. Composed by Benjamin Rogers, Doctor of Musique of the University of Oxon, 1685." It is entered in a folio volume, with this note on the fly-leaf,—"Ben Rogers, his book, Aug. 18. 1673, and presented me by Mr. John Playford, Stationer in the Temple, London." The Latin Grace, Te Deum Patrem colimus, is popularly supposed to be the Hymnus Eucharisticus written by Dr. Nathaniel Ingelo, and sung at the civic feast at Guildhall on the 5th July, 1660, while the king and the other royal personages were at dinner; but this is a mistake, for the words of Ingelo's hymn, very different from the Magdalen hymn, still exist, and are to be found in Wood's collection in the Ashmolean Museum. The music, too, of the Te Deum is in a grand religious style, and not of a festal character.

The custom of addressing almost every man above the rank of an artizan or a huckster as "Esquire," seems now to be settled as a matter of ordinary politeness and courtesy; whilst the degradation of the gentleman into the "Gent," has caused this term, as the title of a social class, to have fallen into total disuse. Originally, they were terms that had their respective meanings as much as Duke, Knight, Yeoman, or Hind; but now they simply mean courtesy or contempt towards


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LONDON, Nov. 10.—Both the former German Emperor and his eldest son, Frederick William, crossed the Dutch frontier Sunday morning, according to advices from The Hague. His reported destination is De Steeg, near Utrecht.

The former German Emperor's party, which is believed to include Field Marshal von Hindenburg, arrived at Eysden, [midway between Liége and Maastricht,] on the Dutch frontier, at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning, according to Daily Mail advices.

Practically the whole German General Staff accompanied the former Emperor, and ten automobiles carried the party. The automobiles were bristling with rifles, and all the fugitives were armed.

The ex-Kaiser was in uniform. He alighted at the Eysden station and paced the platform, smoking a cigarette.

Many photographs were taken by [of?] the members of the Imperial party. On the whole the people were very quiet, but Belgians among them yelled out "En voyage a Paris." (Are you on your way to Paris?)

Chatting with the members of the staff, the former Emperor, the correspondent says, did not look in the least distressed. A few minutes later an imperial train, including restaurant and sleeping cars, ran into the station. Only servants were aboard.

The engine returned to Visé, Belgium, and brought back a second train, in which were a large number of staff officers and others, and also stores of food.

The preparations began for the departure at 10 o'clock this morning, but at 10:40 o'clock the train was still at Eysden. The blinds of the train were all drawn.

The Daily Mail remarks that, if the party arrived in Holland armed, all of them must be interned.

While other dispatches con-

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LONDON, Nov. 10.—A Havas dispatch from Basle says:

"Wilhelm II., the reigning King of the monarchy of Württemberg, abdicated on Friday night."

A Wolff Bureau dispatch from Stuttgart, by way of Amsterdam, says that the King has issued a proclamation saying that his person would never serve to hinder the development of the wished of the people.

According to a report received from Berne, the German Socialists are demanding that every dynasty in Germany be suppressed and all the Princes exiled. It is reported that the Kings of Bavaria and Saxony intend to abdicate soon.

Here is a list of the rulers, until several days ago, of the various parts of the German Empire. Those who have abdicated and those reported to be on the point of abdication are marked by an asterisk:

ANHALT—Duke Edward, son of the late Duke Friedrich of Anhalt and of Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenberg. Succeeded his brother April 18, 1861.

BADEN—Friedrich II., succeeded to

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LONDON, Nov. 10.—The crews of the German dreadnoughts Posen, Ostfriesland, Nassau, and Oldenburg, in Kiel Harbor, have joined the revolution, says a Copenhagen dispatch. Marines occupied the lock gates at Ostmoor and fought down a coast artillery division which offered resistance.

According to the British Wireless Service three German destroyers have anchored outside of Stockholm. All the guardships in the Baltic, it is said, have joined the revolutionary movement.

Six more cruisers flying the red flag arrived at Hamburg last night, says a Wolff News Agency dispatch received in Copenhagen.

An Amsterdam dispatch states that the Berlin Vossische Zeitung and Vorwärts confirm the fact that the inception of the revolution at Kiel was mistaken for the idea that a cruise had been ordered and that it was intended to give battle to the British fleet.

Up to Friday night the number of persons killed at Kiel was twenty-eight, according to information re-

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LONDON, Nov. 10.—The greater part of Berlin is in control of revolutionists, the former Kaiser has fled to Holland, and Friedrich Ebert, the new Socialist Chancellor, has taken command of the situation. The revolt is spreading throughout Germany with great rapidity.

Dispatches received in London today announce these startling developments. The Workmen's and Soldiers' Council is now administering the municipal government of the German capital.

The War Ministry has submitted, and its acts are valid only when countersigned by a Socialist representative. The official Wolff telegraphic agency has been taken over by the Reds.

The red flag has been hoisted over the royal palace and the Brandenburg Gate. The former Crown Prince's palace is also in possession of the revolutionists.

There was severe fighting in Berlin between 8 and 10 o'clock last night and a violent cannonade was heard from the heart of the city.

A Copenhagen dispatch states that Dr. Liebknecht, the famous Socialist, who spent many months in prison for antagonizing the German Imperial Government and who was recently released, has issued the following announcement in Berlin in behalf of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council:

"The Presidency of the police, as well as the Chief Command, is in our hands. Our comrades will be released."

A dispatch from Berne states that the Burgomaster of Berlin has placed himself and his staff at the disposal of the new Government.

Some German newspapers describe the movement as Bolshevism. The people are shouting "Long live the Republic!" and singing the "Marseillaise."

When revolutionary soldiers attempted to enter a building in Berlin in which the supposed that a number of officers were concealed shots were fired from the windows. The Reds then began shelling the building. Many persons were killed and wounded before the officers surrendered.

When the cannonade began the people thought the reichsbank was being bombarded, and thousands rushed to the square in front of the Crown Price's palace. It was later determined that other buildings were under fire. Among those killed in the fighting at the "Cockchafer" Barracks was one of the workmen's leaders known as "Comrade" Habersroth.

The Reds, at last reports, were maintaining order.

Berlin was occupied by forces of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Councils on Saturday afternoon, according to a Wolff Bureau report received in Copenhagen. News of Emperor William's abdication was received in the city on that afternoon with general rejoicing, which was tempered by the fear that it had come too late.

How far the example of the Russian Bolsheviki influenced the German upheavel is an interesting question. Red flags figured frequently in the various risings and Chancellor Ebert's motor car floats the international emblem.

The shoulder straps were torn from the uniforms of officers in a number of German cities and even the soldiers' insignia were stripped from them. Russian prisoners played a part in the demonstrations in two or three towns.

Delegates of the revolutionary German navy arrived in Berlin on Friday, according to a dispatch from Copenhagen. They conferred for several hours with the Minister of Marine and with members of the Reichstag majority parties.

It is states that Hugo Hanse, a Socialist leader in the Reichstag, has the situation at Hamburg in hand.

It is officially announced from Berlin, according to a Copenhagen dispatch, that the War Ministry has placed itself at the disposal of Chancellor Ebert. This action was for the purpose of assuring the provisioning of the army and assisting in the solution of demobilization problems.

Serious food difficulties are expected in Germany, owing to the stoppage of trains. The Council of the Regency will take the most drastic steps to re-establish order.

In the new German Government there will be only three representatives of the majority parties, namely, Erzberger, Gothein, and Richthofen, says a dispatch from Copenhagen. The other posts will be occupied by Socialists and independents.

BERLIN, Nov. 9, (German Wireless to London, Nov. 10)—(Associated Press.)—The German People's Government has been instituted in the greater part of Berlin. The garrison has gone over to the Government.

The Workmen's and Soldiers' Council has declared a general strike. Troops and machine guns have been placed at the disposal of the Council. Guards which had been stationed at the public offices and other buildings have been withdrawn.

Friedrich Ebert (Vice President of the Social Democratic Party) is carrying on the Chancellorship.

The text of a statement issued by the People's Government reads:

"In the course of the forenoon of Saturday the formation of a new German People's Government was initiated. The greater part of the Berlin garrison, and other troops stationed there temporarily, went over to the new Government.

The leaders of the deputations of the Social Democratic party declared that they would not shoot against the people. They said they would, in accordance with the People's Government, intercede in favor of the maintenance of order. Thereupon in the offices and public buildings the guards which had been stationed there were withdrawn.

The business of the Imperial Chancellor is being carried on by the Social Democratic Deputy, Herr Ebert.

It is presumed that, apart from the representatives of the recent majority group, three independent Social Democrats will enter the future Government."

Deputy Scheidemann, (leader of the majority Socialists in the Reichstag,) in a speech today, said:

"The Kaiser and the Crown Prince have abdicated. The dynasty


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 endure an unvaried tête-à-tête, though with the first and only man in the world? No; rather than be without a confidential friend, she took to a serpent.”

Rubezahl having made these judicious reflections, forthwith hastened into the fields, tore up a dozen fresh turnips, arranged them in a very pretty covered basket, and brought them to Emma, whom he found musing in a solitary bower, unconsciously tearing a rose to pieces, and giving its leaves to the breeze.

“Fairest of Earth’s fair daughters,” he murmured, “let ennui and chagrin be banished from thy soul; let thy heart expand to the pleasure of social converse: thy palace and thy gardens shall no longer be a solitude to thee; this basket contains all that is necessary to make thy abode agreeable. Take this wand, touch these turnips with it, and at thy word each shall assume whatever form thou namest.”

This said he withdrew. Emma immediately opened the basket, and taking out the first turnip that came to hand, struck it with her wand, and exclaimed: “Brinhilda, dear Brinhilda, appear!” And instantly Brinhilda, her eyes overflowing with tears of joy, knelt at her mistress’s feet, embracing her knees with transport.

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I wish I was in Dixie's Land

 * I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
 * Old times dar am not forgotten;
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
 * In Dixie Land whar I was born in,
 * Early on one frosty mornin,
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
 * In Dixie Land, I'll took my stand,
 * To lib an die in Dixie,
 * Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie,
 * Away, Away, Away down south in Dixie.

 * Old Missus marry "Will-de-weaber,"
 * Willium was a gay deceaber;
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
 * But when he put his arm around'er,
 * He smilled as fierce as a forty-pound'er,
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * His face was sharp as a butchers cleaber,
 * But dat did not seem to greab'er;
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
 * Old Missus acted de foolish part,
 * And died for a man dat broke her heart.
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * Now here's a health to the next old Missus,
 * And all de galls dat want to kiss us;
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
 * But if you want to drive 'way sorrow,
 * Come an hear dis song to-morrow.
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * Dar's buck-wheat cakes an 'Ingen' batter,
 * Makes you fat or a little fatter;
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
 * Den hoe it down an scratch your grabble,
 * To Dixie land I'm bound to trabble.
 * Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

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 ceived by the apparition of a vain phantom. None the less, however, did she surrender herself to the most heartfelt delight, and immediately commenced promenading the gardens with this beloved companion, pointing out to her admiration all their beauties in detail, and gathering some of the finest of the golden apples for her. She then led her through all the apartments of the palace, large and small, until they came to the dressing room, where they found so much to amuse them that they remained in it till sun-set. Robes, veils, girdles, jewels, were passed over and over again in review by this feminine committee, tried on, and criticised. The fictitious Brinhilda played her part to admiration, and showed so much taste, so much tact, so profound an erudition in costume and trinkets, that though, in truth, she was nothing but a turnip, everybody must have deemed her the very pink and pearl of handmaidens.

The gnome, who stood by invisible, intently watching the pair, was excessively delighted and vain-glorious at the success of his scheme; although a mere tyro in the study of human nature, he already began to deem himself very far advanced in the knowledge of the fair sex. Never had Emma appeared to him so lovely, so gracious, so tender, so every way fascinating, as at that moment. She, meantime, lost no time, in animating, by the aid of her magic wand, the whole stock of turnips contained


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Dixie's Land (early manuscript)

 * I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
 * Cinnamon seed an sandy bottom,
 * Look away look away, Dixie Land,
 * In Dixie land whar I was born in,
 * Early on one frosty mornin,
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land,

 * (Chorus)

 * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Horray, Hooray,
 * In Dixie's land, we'll took our stand, To lib an die in Dixie,
 * Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
 * Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

 * Old missus marry Will de Weaber,
 * William was a gay deceaber;
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.
 * When he put his arm around'er,
 * He look as fierce as a forty pound'er.
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * His face was sharp like a butchers cleaber,
 * But dat did not seem to greab'er;
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.
 * Will run away missus took a decline, O'
 * Her face was de color ob bacon rhine, O'
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * While missus libbed she libbed in clover,
 * When she died she died all ober;
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.
 * How could she act such a foolish part, O'
 * An marry a man to break her heart, O'
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land...

 * (Chorus)

 * Buck-wheat cakes an stony batter,
 * Makes you fat or a little fatter;
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.
 * Here's a health to de next old missus,
 * An all de galls dat wants to kiss us.
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.

 * (Chorus)

 * Now if you want to drive 'way sorrow;
 * Come an hear dis song to-morrow;
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.
 * Den hoe it down an scratch y'er grabble,
 * To Dixie's land I'm bound to trabble
 * Look away look away, away Dixie Land.

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 Rh the antiquities of that part of the Khanate which, he says, was formerly known as 'Kara Khitai.'

In attempting to make clear the condition of Moghulistan and the neighbouring regions of Central Asia, perhaps the chief perplexity is experienced in unravelling the nomenclature of places and people. The names of countries and towns not only changed with time, but different nations applied, frequently, a different designation to one and the same place. Thus, names often arose at a certain period, were employed by writers for a time, and again fell out of use. The Mongols, for instance, during their ascendency, gave names of their own to many places which, after the decline of their power, became obsolete. In the same way, the conquests of Timur seem to have given birth to names that are peculiar to that period alone, and were perhaps only in vogue among those connected with the conqueror's court or his armies. This circumstance, in addition to the habit of applying nicknames to tribes and nations, may account for many of the difficulties that surround the identification of names mentioned by various authors, and should act as a warning, in the case of the tribes, not to attach too readily a racial significance to every name that is met with.

To the Chaghatais of Mávará-un-Nahr and the west, Moghulistan was known, in the 13th and 14th centuries, by the name of Jatah, and though this was only a term of depreciation, or a nickname (as will be explained below), it is employed in the gravest way by several Persian authors of the Timuri period, whose works have become standards of historical reference. What is perhaps more curious to remark is, that the name of Bishbálik, which so often occurs in mediæval histories and travels, and in the Chinese historical annals, is that by which the Chinese knew the Khanate of Moghulistan, during the earlier part of the period over which Mirza Haidar's history extends. This name had originally no connection with the Moghuls or their dominion, but was a survival from the days when the region had belonged to the Uighurs. Properly it was the name of a city only, which had been built by the Uighurs, and, having become their capital, had lent its name to the whole kingdom. The meaning, in Turki, is 'Five Cities,' and seems, possibly, to have indicated the capital of the five divisions, or provinces, into which the country of the Uighurs, at that time, (about the middle of the ninth century) was divided; or otherwise, it may have meant that the tribe was divided into five


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Dixie War Song

 * Hear ye not the sounds of battle,
 * Sabres' clash and muskets' rattle?
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * Hostile footsteps on our border,
 * Hostile columns tread in order;
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * (Chorus)
 * Oh, fly to arms in Dixie!
 * To Arms! to Arms!
 * From Dixie's land we'll rout the band
 * That comes to conquer Dixie,
 * To Arms! To Arms!
 * and rout the foe from Dixie!
 * To Arms! To Arms!
 * and rout the foe from Dixie!

 * See the red smoke hanging o'er us!
 * Hear the cannon's booming chorus!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * See our steady columns forming,
 * Hear the shouting! hear the storming!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * Gird you loins with sword and sabre,
 * Give your lives to Freedom's labor!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * What though every hearth be saddened?
 * What though all the land be reddened?
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * Shall this boasting, mad invader
 * Trample Dixie and degrade her?
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * By our fathers proud example!
 * Southern soil they shall not trample!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * Southrons, meet them on the border!
 * Charge them into wild disorder!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * Hew the Vandals down before you!
 * Till the last inch they restore you!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * Through the echoing hills resounding,
 * Hear the Southern bugles sounding!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!
 * Arouse from every hill and valley,
 * List the bugle! Rally! rally!
 * To Arms! to Arms, to Arms in Dixie!

 * Southrons, hear your country call you,
 * Up, lest worse than death befall you!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted,
 * Let all hearts be now united!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * (Chorus)
 * Advance the flag of Dixie!
 * Hurrah! Hurrah!
 * In Dixie's land we take our stand,
 * And live or die for Dixie!
 * To arms! To arms!
 * And conquer peace for Dixie!
 * To arms! To arms!
 * And conquer peace for Dixie!

 * Hear the Northern thunders mutter!
 * Northern flags in South winds flutter!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Send them back your fierce defiance!
 * Stamp upon the cursed alliance!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * Fear no danger! Shun no labor!
 * Lift up rifle, pike, and sabre!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Shoulder pressing close to shoulder,
 * Let the odds make each heart bolder!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * How the South's great heart rejoices
 * At your cannon's ringing voices!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * For faith betrayed and pledges broken,
 * Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken,
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * Strong as lions, swift as eagles,
 * Back to their kennels hunt these beagles!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Cut the unequal bonds asunder!
 * Let them hence each other plunder!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * Swear upon your country's altar
 * Never to submit or falter
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Till the spoilers are defeated,
 * Till the Lord's work is completed!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * Halt not till our Federation
 * Secures among earth's powers its station!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Then at peace and crowned with glory,
 * Hear your children tell the story!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

 * If the loved ones weep in sadness,
 * Victory soon shall bring them gladness
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
 * Exultant pride soon vanish sorrow;
 * Smiles chase tears away to-morrow!
 * To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!

title: Dixie War Song


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Union Dixie

 * Away down South in the land of traitors,
 * Rattlesnakes and alligators,
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.
 * Where cotton's king and men are chattels,
 * Union boys will win the battles,
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.

 * (Chorus)

 * Then we'll all go down to Dixie,
 * Away, away,
 * Each Dixie boy must understand
 * That he must mind his Uncle Sam,
 * Away, away,
 * And we'll all go down to Dixie.
 * Away, away,
 * And we'll all go down to Dixie.

 * I wish I was in Baltimore,
 * I'd make Secession traitors roar,
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.
 * We'll put the traitors all to rout.
 * I'll bet my boots we'll whip them out,
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.

 * (Chorus)

 * Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave
 * Forever o'er the free and brave,
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.
 * And let our motto ever be --
 * For Union and for Liberty!"
 * Right away, come away, right away, come away.

 * (Chorus)

title: Union Dixie


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ʾA′bid, 158.

Abu-Dáúd, 56.

Ahádís, 12.

Ahl-i-Kitáb, 11.

A′khiri Chahár Shambah, 167.

Alfáz, 31.

ʾAlim, 157.

Al-kitáb, 15.

Allah, 67.

ʾAmm, 31, 64.

Ansár, 24, 62.

ʾAqáid, 161.

Arbʾáa-ul-Akhír, 167.

ʾAsar, 114.

Asháb, 62.

ʾAshiq, 229.

ʾA′shúráʾa, 168.

ʾA′shúr-Khána, 164.

Attahíyat, 110.

ʾAúzobillah, 107.

A′yat, 28.

Ayyám-ul-Tashríq, 135.

A′zád, 234.

Azán, 105, 116.

Azráíl, 79.

Bahisht, 91.

Bait-Ullah, 133.

Baqr-i-ʾId, 173.

Bára-Wafát, 168.

Ba Sharaʾ, 234.

Be Sharaʾ, 234.

Bint-i-Labún, 126.

Bint-i-Mukház, 126.

Bokhárí, 58.


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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[No. 6.

As to Sir Christopher Hatton, I would refer, and all others whom it may concern, to Sir Harris Nicolas's ably written Memoirs of the "Dancing Chancellor," published in 1846. Hatton had ample means for the building of Holdenby, as he was appointed one of the Gentlemen Pensioners in 1564, and between that time and his appointment as Vice-Chamberlain in 1577 (five years prior to the period referred to by ), he received numerous other gifts and offices.

It may not perhaps be generally known that the early printers were accustomed to place devices or verses along with their names at the end of the books which they gave to the public. Vigneul-Marville, in his Mélanges d'Histoire et de Littérature, relates that he found the two following lines at the end of the "Decrees of Basle and Bourges," published under the title of "Pragmatic Sanction," with a Commentary by Côme Guymier,—Andre Brocard's Paris edition, 1507:—

The printers, it would appear, not only introduced their own names into these verses, but also the names of the correctors of the press, as may be seen in the work entitled, Commentariis Andreæ de Ysernia super constitutionibus Siciliæ, printed by Sixtus Ruffingerus at Naples in 1472:—

G. J. K.

Mr. Editor,—Perhaps the subjoined note, extracted from M. Collin de Plancy's Bibliothèque des Légendes, may not be without its value, as tending to correct an error into which, according to his account, modern historians have fallen respecting the origin of the surname "Martel," borne by the celebrated Charles Martel, son of Peppin of Herstal, Duke of Austrasia, by his Duchess Alphéide :—

From a legend on this subject given by M. de Plancy, it would appear that Charles received the second name, Martel, in honour of his patron saint St. Martin.

Not having at present an opportunity of consulting the works of our own modern writers on early French history, I am ignorant if they also have adopted the version given in the Chronicle of St. Denis. Mr. Ince, in his little work, Outlines of French History, states, that "he received the surname of Martel, or the Hammerer, from the force with which he hammered down the Saracens—martel being the name of a weapon which the ancient Franks used, much resembling a hammer,—and from his strokes falling numberless and effectual on the heads of his enemies." Query.—Which of the two is the more probable version? Perhaps some one of your numerous correspondents may be enabled to throw additional light on this disputed point.

Referring to 's note at p. 29, I beg to observe that the dedication negativing Bodenham's authorship of Politeuphuia is not peculiar to the edition of 1597. I have the edition of 1650, "printed by Ja. Flesher, and are to be sold by Richard Royston, at the Angell in Ivye Lane," in which the dedication is addressed as follows:—"To his very good friend Mr. Bodenham, N. L. wisheth increase of happinesse." The first sentence of this dedication seems to admit that Bodenham was something more than patron of the work:—"What you seriously begun long since, and have always been very careful for the full perfection of, at length thus finished, although perhaps not so well to your expectation, I present you with; as one before all most worthy of the same: both in respect of your earnest travaile therein, and the great desire you have continually had for the generall profit."

In Brydges' Censura Literaria, Bodenham is spoken of as the compiler of The Garden of the Muses, and editor of the Wit's Commonwealth, the


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 32 and many respectable white inhabitants, from the distance of two and three miles round, attended the funeral. After the sermon, the Indian children rose up and sang the following hymn:—

Six little girls carried her coffin from the chapel to the grave; four following, bearing in their hands sprigs of evergreen, which they threw on the coffin after it was lowered into the ground.


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Joshua Tree NP VSP Visitor Study

Figure 56: Quality of assistance from roving rangers

Figure 57: Quality of self-guided trail brochures


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Figure 58: Quality of visitor center sales publications

Figure 59: Quality of ranger-led programs


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Figure 60: Quality of travelers information radio station

Figure 61: Quality of web site use before or during visit


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Figure 62: Quality of orientation video

Figure 63: Quality of Junior Ranger Program


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Figure 64: Combined “good” and “very good” quality ratings for information services and facilities


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Joshua Tree NP VSP Visitor Study

During this visit to Joshua Tree NP, the most used visitor services and facilities were directional road signs-inside the park (86%), restrooms (85%), and paved roads (81%), as shown in Figure 65. The least used service was access for disabled persons (1%).

Figure 65: Visitor services and facilities used


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Joshua Tree NP VSP Visitor Study Visitor groups rated the importance and quality of each of the visitor services and facilities they used. The following five-point scales were used in the questionnaire.

The average importance and quality ratings for each visitor service and facility were determined based on ratings provided by visitors who used each service and facility. Figures 66 and 67 show the average importance and quality ratings for each of the park services and facilities. All services and facilities were rated above average in importance and quality. Note: access for disabled persons was not rated by enough visitors to provide reliable data.

Figures 68-78 show the importance ratings that were provided by visitor groups for each of the services/facilities. The services/facilities receiving the highest proportion of “extremely important” or “very important” ratings included campgrounds (96%), trails (92%), and restrooms (91%). The highest proportion of “not important” ratings was for unpaved roads (3%).

Figures 79-89 show the quality ratings that were provided by visitor groups for each of the services/facilities. The services/facilities receiving the highest proportion of “very good” or “good” ratings included trails (87%), overlooks/pullouts (85%), and garbage disposal (84%). The facility receiving the highest “very poor” rating by visitor groups was unpaved roads (3%).

Figure 90 combines the “very good” and “good” quality ratings and compares those ratings for all of the visitor services and facilities.


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Figure 66: Average importance and quality ratings for visitor services and facilities

Figure 67: Detail of Figure 66


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"What can I do to drive away"

 * "To ——", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
 * "Lines to Fanny", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder

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 the partes together, much moyſture is thruſt and wrong out, the which moyſture conteined in ſmall holes and pores, maketh the thing ſad and boyſtous. Then if the moyſture bée away, the thing is more ſubtill, as it is ſéene in a ſkinne that is waſhed and wrong. Alſo though by conſtraining the partes together, and wringing out the ſpirites, maketh a thing kindlye heauie: yet if happeneth that colde maketh a thing light: for by wringing out of moiſture the which greeued, all the thing is made light. Alſo temporate colde kéepeth and ſaueth things aliue. For while by colde moiſture, the incenſing and killing of heate is let, and ſo as the moyſture is reſolued little and little by the powers: euen ſo lyttle and little it is waſted: and ſo heate is let that it may not diſſolue the thing. Alſo, and ſo in colde places, and caues, carrions without ſtinke, through colde lyttle and little are waſted. Alſo ſmall holes and powers bée cloſed by conſtraining of colde: and to the rooted humores bée let that they may not drawe the vtter to the inner, yet accidentlye colde corrupteth and deſtroyeth. For when colde letteth defieng and digeſtion in the ſtomacke, the working of kindlye heate is letted. And corrupte humours be gendered, of the which followeth corruption of the body, while the corrupte humours bée incorporate and knit to the bodye. And that is ſéeneth woundes, to the which bée layde colde ſalues and medicines, which conſtraine and cauſe the powers for to bée ſtopped, and ſo the new ſumoſities make the fleſh ſofte within, and fretting and corrupting it, they make it to rot.

Alſo by kinde, colde cauſeth and maketh things ſo be diſcouloured ill, as we ſee in Winter the heate of the bodie, or of the heart, voiding his contrarie, and leadeth the humour and the ſpirit with him inward. And ſo the vtter ſide of the ſkin made weake, of heate maketh euill couloured. As it appeareth in lippes and cheekes. But it happeneth that cold maketh things well couloured. For it conſtraineth and ſtoppeth the powers. And ſo the humours and the ſpirites be helde in, and by their preſence the vtter ſide of the ſkinne is couloured. And by kind too great colde ſlaieth. For if it conſtraine and ſtop to ſoare, the ſpirites faile in the heart. And ſo if the heart be dead, from the which procéedeth life ſo the other partes, the other parts muſt needes die. Alſo through too greate colde, féeble heat is quenched. And ſo the ſpirit Vitalis, of lyfe, lacketh foode and is ſtifled. But it is ſtraunge in ſhapes, that colde giueth life, as it is ſéene in a manner kinde of birds that grow out of trées, that ſpringeth as it were ſwellings, and burgenen out of trées in ſtéed of fruit. But as long as they be in the trée, they haue no life. And the Commentator Super librū Vegetabilium ſaith, that hapneth through the porroſitie of the trée that draweth the fumoſitie from the rinde. But when the holding breaketh, the birds fall into the water. And the colde ſtoppeth the holes and the powers without, and holdeth the ſumoſitie within: the which beate togethers are pured and made ſubtill, and are turned into a ſpirit. And by the multiplieng and ſpreading of that ſpirit into all the partes, ſhe ſayd birds take lyfe, and turne into a manner kinde of birds. The which be much vnlike to other birds in complection and in kinde. They haue little fleſh and leſſe of bloud: and therefore they bée couenable, ſo ſaith the ſame Commentatour. But to them that marke it well it miniſtreth matter of the praiſing of God ghoſtly: for ſpiritually it repreſenteth them, that the ſpirit of God gendereth by the trée of the croſſe in the water of following: in the which is not great deſire of fleſh and of bloud: the which reléeued by ſpirite, deſire, and couet to flye to heauen with all theyr might and ſtrength. But thereof wée ſhall ſpeake after. Alſo colde is the mother of whiteneſſe and of paleneſſe, as heate is the mother of redneſſe and of blackneſſe. And ſo in hot Countryes, as among. In colde Countryes white men bée borne.

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The Cap and Bells

 * "The Cap and Bells", a poem by John Keats
 * "The Cap and Bells", a poem by William Butler Yeats

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 62 sections, or the town (as one authority has it) into five quarters. However this may be, the Chinese knew the country by its Turki name (which they sometimes translated into its Chinese equivalent—Wu-chêng), while they gave the city itself the Chinese style of Pei-ting, or 'Northern Court'; and subsequently (early in the fifteenth century) changed that of the whole country from 'Bishbálik' into 'Ili-bálik.'

The town of Bishbálik was situated on, or near, the site of the modern Urumtsi, and the country of which it was the chief place, extended to the westward and north-westward, as well as beyond the southern slopes of the Tian Shan. Like the rest of this part of Asia, it fell into the empire of Chingiz Khan, and, after his death, passed to his son Chaghatai. Later again, in the time of the Chinese Mings, the official historians of that dynasty described the limits of the region in such a way, as to leave no doubt that the country they termed Bishbálik was, indeed, Moghulistan. "Bie-shi-ba-li," says the Ming Shi, "is a great empire in the Si Yü [countries of the west]. It is bordered on the south by Yü-tien [Khotan], on the north by the country of the Wa-la [the Oirát Kalmáks], on the west by Sa-ma-rh-han [Samarkand], and to the east it is contiguous with Huo-chou [Kara Khoja]. It is distant [probably the urdu of the Khan is meant] from Kia-Yü-Kuan in the south-east, 3700 li. It is believed that Bie-shi-ba-li occupies the same tracts as, in ancient times, Yenki or Kui-tsz." As a description of the land and people, the Ming history adds:—"The country of Ili-ba-li is surrounded by deserts. It extends 3000 li from east to west and 2000 li from north to south. There are no cities or palace buildings. The people are nomads living in felt tents, and exchanging their abode, together with their herds, in accordance with the existence of water and pasture land. They are of a fierce appearance. Their common food is flesh and kumis. They are dressed in the same fashion as the Wa-la."

Many embassies are recorded in the Ming Shi as having


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The Cap and Bells (Keats)

 * "The Cap and Bells", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
 * "The Cap and Bells", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder

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 Rh passed between Bishbálik, or Ili-bálik, and the Chinese capital, which make it appear that the Khans of Moghulistan and the Dughlát Amirs paid tribute to China. Whether the position of tributaries was imposed upon them by superior force, or whether, as is far more probable, the missions were sent to cultivate the friendship of a powerful neighbour, and to profit by an exchange of presents, is nowhere intimated; but the result remains, that from the time of Khizir Khwája, about the year 1391, down to the reign of Isan Bugha IT. in 1456, each successive Khan (as we have seen in Section II.) sent one or more tribute-bearing missions to the Ming court. After the latter date, it appears to have been settled that 'Ili-bali' was to send tribute every three years, but no further mention is made of any special mission, and it is possible that not long afterwards, the growing weakness of the Mings caused the custom to fall into disuse.

It may be thought strange, perhaps, that Mirza Haidar's history nowhere speaks of intercourse with China, or mentions that the Moghul Khans performed these acts of homage to her Emperors. Whether he omitted any allusion to them, from a feeling that the payment of tribute was derogatory to his ancestors, or whether he thought the subject not worth recording, must remain a matter of conjecture. In all likelihood the latter was the reason, as we shall see, further on, when referring to similar missions from Uighuristán. The proceeding was, presumably, looked upon as a mere form, or indeed a farce, and therefore attracted no attention on the part of the historian. Still, his silence on the point cannot be taken to disprove the statements of the Chinese, for these are explicit and persistent, and can hardly be otherwise than correct as records of bare facts. What is remarkable, however, is that the same Khans and Amirs who were bowing the knee to China, whether in good faith or otherwise, had no hesitation in measuring their strength with so great a soldier as Timur. The fact that his power was near and visible did not inspire them with respect, or deter them from raiding into his territory and otherwise provoking his vengeance. But the Chinese, then as now, seem to have possessed the art of attracting the outward forms of submission from distant States, though they had no power to exact the reality.

Passing now across the mountains to the south-east, an entirely different land and people present themselves, in the province that may be most appropriately and correctly called Alti-Shahr, or the 'Six Cities' of Eastern Turkistan. Here the


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 particles or atoms, and by no one was the atomic theory more firmly maintained than by the contemporary of the later years of Harvey— Isaac Newton. "To me," said he, "it seems probable that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard impenetrable particles of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion as most conduced to the end for which He formed them." By Robert Boyle also, to whom Natural Philosophy in the seventeenth century owed much, the theory was held, though he found the explanation of chemical changes in the differences of atomic structure and arrangement of one single form of matter rather than of different elements—a crude foreshadowing of the present day conception by Sir William Crookes of the fundamental matter or "protyle." As is well known, however, it was not until the early years of the last century that the atomic theory received its practical development by John Dalton, since when it has remained at the foundation of physical and chemical science. "Despite attacks and criticisms," says Prof. Clarke in his recent Wilde Lecture, "Dalton's generalisation still holds the field; and from it, as from a parent

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 stem, spring nearly all the other accepted theories of chemistry." The conception of an atom as the smallest conceivable portion into which an element can be divided, or that can enter into combination, and attaching to the idea of the atom a definite relative weight constant for atoms of the same element but differing with different elements, gave a satisfactory explanation for the laws of definite proportions and of multiple proportions which previously had been but 1ncompletely recognised.

Since, with the exception of a few elementary gases, an atom is always combined with one or more atoms of the same or of other elements, some term is required to denote the smallest portion of the substance capable of a separate existence, and for this the word "molecule" is employed. Built up on these fundamental ideas there has developed among other great generalisations the chemistry of the carbon compounds, and the hypothetical recognition of the relative arrangements of the atoms within the molecule—in short, chemical constitution or chemical structure. Now "the greater the valency of an element the more complicated are its combining ratios and the greater the possibility of its atoms forming numerous compounds with similar and dissimilar atoms." The atoms of carbon, which is the chief element in so-called organic bodies,

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 * "Otho the Great. A Tragedy", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
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 "possess, in a much greater degree than those of any other element, the property of combining with similar atoms whereby a part of their valencies are satisfied." Thus may be formed groups of carbon atoms so linked together that their valencies are in part satisfied among themselves, constituting what are known as carbon nuclei; and the free valencies being satisfied by atoms of other elements molecules are formed in which much energy is accumulated with more or less instability.

Such conceptions as to the fundamental nature of matter, of its molecular structure and arrangement of atoms therein, permitted the laying down of rational or structural formule for chemical compounds; and when the further suggestion was made of linking the atoms in tridimensional space rather than in a single plane a still further extension of the idea of the atomic disposition within the molecule became possible and " stereo-chemistry was born" (Clarke).

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 64 low ranges and open valleys of the steppes, are changed for gigantic mountains on the one hand, and sandy deserts on the other; the aul of felt tents for the town of brown mud-bricks and close-packed bazars; the grazing grounds and hill-side torrents for cultivated fields and irrigation canals; while, above all, the thriftless, irresponsible nomad is replaced by the cultivator and artisan, with all the elements of stability that their industry confers upon a people. Though the area is large, the culturable and habitable spots in it are, out of all proportion, small. One modern traveller describes it as a huge desert fringed by a few small patches of cultivation. Another tells us that a bird's-eye view of the country would show a huge bare desert, surrounded on three sides by barren mountains, along the bases of which would be seen some vivid green spots, showing out sharp and distinct like streaks of green paint on a sepia picture. At the western end, the cultivation is of greater extent and more continuous than in the eastern half, where the oases are small and separated from each other by stretches of desert, which increase in length as the traveller passes eastward; while the eastern extremity is desert pure and simple. The oases, however, are fertile enough in themselves, for every drop of the water brought down by the streams from the mountains, is drawn off into irrigating canals, and made to reach as far as possible toward the desert, for agricultural purposes.

All except the shifting sands of the central waste, appears to require only water to render the ground fertile; but water is precisely the boon that is withheld. Though the monsoon clouds roll in every summer across the mountain masses on the south, they seldom do more than tantalise the cultivator, who watches them in the hope of rain. Indeed, rain but rarely falls, and a Chinese traveller of ancient days' has recorded the incredulity of the people, when told that water for cultivation fell from heaven, onto the favoured soil of his country, and rendered it independent of melted snow from the mountains. They laughed, and cried: "How can heaven provide enough for all?" Snow may be less of a rarity, but so dry is the atmosphere, that when a fall occurs, it evaporates after a few hours, and leaves the surface of the ground scarcely moistened.

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 * "King Stephen", in The Poetical Works of John Keats (1884)
 * "King Stephen: a dramatic fragment", in The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats (1899), edited by Horace Elisha Scudder

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 Rh its weakness as a State is owing to this or to whatever other cause, it has always been an easy prey to invaders, and has seldom had a native ruler within historic times. Its population has been a Turki one for ages past, and the Uighur branch of that race may be regarded (as far as historic times are concerned) as the original owners of the soil, and the parent stock of the bulk of the present inhabitants. That in later times, at least, they were not an aggressive race appears evident from the little we hear of them, and that they had some capacity for crafts and literature seems also to be established. No doubt the tendency of such a people would be to live peaceably under any government strong enough to repel external enemies; so that when Mirza Haidar tells us that Alti-Shahr was "free from the discord of men and the trampling of hoofs, and became an asylum for the contented and the prosperous," he is probably drawing a picture of the country not only true of his own time, but one that serves for several centuries both before and after it.

During the periods that the Dughlát Amirs and Moghul Khans held sway, we hear of expeditions being sent to overrun Badakhshán, Ladak, and other weak States, but these were evidently undertaken by foreign rulers with their foreign troops, and not by the people of the country; indeed, we come much more frequently upon records of invasions which they themselves underwent at the hands of various enemies, such as the Arabs, the Mongols, the Kara Khitai, and even the Kalmáks. In the raids of the Moghuls into Western Turkistan and Mávará-un-Nahr, in their wars with Timur and Ulugh Beg, and their long campaigns with the Uzbegs, it is probable that the natives of Alti-Shahr took little part, for they are never mentioned as combatants. They had, in short (and have still), all the attributes of a lowland and unwarlike people, whose wealth excites the cupidity of aggressive neighbours, but the nature of whose country and customs prevent them from becoming themselves aggressive.

It would be interesting to learn what the armies were composed of, that invaded, in the reigns of Abá Bakr and Sultan Said, Badakhshán, Chitral, etc., Ladak, Tibet and Kashmir. In all likelihood the numbers were very small—to be counted in some instances by hundreds rather than by thousands—while most of the men were probably mercenaries from countries


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 66 other than Alti-Shahr. Mirza Haidar nowhere specifies the races which furnished the rank and file of these forces. When entering on the conquest of Kashghar, in 1514, he gives an analysis of the chiefs of Sultan Said's army, nearly all of whom were Moghuls of various clans, or members of tribes who had long previously thrown in their lot with the Moghuls, and the number of tribal followers that each chief brought with him is specified in each case. If the figures given are correct—and as they are not mere round numbers, they appear as if intended to be exact—it is evident that the tribal following which each chief could muster was a mere handful, for the total of the tribesmen mentioned does not approach that of the entire army of 4700 men, as he states it. The remainder must have been mercenaries and adventurers who were, no doubt, to be found in abundance all over Central Asia in those times, in the persons of Kipcháks, Turkomans, Afghans, Kárluks and what not. On this occasion, too, a great effort was being made and a prize worth winning was at stake; the army was raised, moreover, in Farghána and Moghulistan, and not in peaceful Alti-Shahr. Thus it was probably a much more numerous one than those afterwards employed on distant expeditions beyond the mountains, though it may be fairly conjectured that the composition was very similar in all cases. In the expedition of Sultan Said against Ladak, Kashmir and Tibet in 1532, the author puts the total of the army at the round figure of 5000 men, but in this instance he gives none of the minute particulars that he records with regard to the 4700 and their supports, who invaded Kashghar. The round number is likely, therefore, to be one of the many similar exaggerations in which his book abounds; for it is improbable that as large a force would have been thought necessary for this enterprise as for the wresting of Kashghar and the whole of Alti-Shahr from so formidable an enemy as Mirza Abá Bakr. He tells us, it is true, that Ladak was incapable of supporting the Khan’s army, but this might have been the case with even half 5000 men and their complement of horses.

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of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they come. Or it can be divided as one cuts wood—along the grain: if one thinks that there is a grain. But the two are never the same: the names never come in the same order in actual time as they come in any serious study of a spirit or a tendency. The critic who wishes to move onward with the life of an epoch, must be always running backwards and forwards among its mere dates; just as a branch bends back and forth continually; yet the grain


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8 in the branch runs true like an unbroken river.

Mere chronological order, indeed, is almost as arbitrary as alphabetical order. To deal with Darwin, Dickens, Browning, in the sequence of the birthday book would be to forge about as real a chain as the "Tacitus, Tolstoy, Tupper" of a biographical dictionary. It might lend itself more, perhaps, to accuracy: and it might satisfy that school of critics who hold that every artist should be treated as a solitary craftsman, indifferent to the commonwealth and unconcerned about moral things. To write on that principle in the present case, however, would involve all those delicate difficulties, known to politicians, which beset the public defence of a doctrine which one heartily disbelieves. It is quite needless here to go into the old "art for art's sake"—business, or explain at length why individual artists cannot be reviewed without reference to their traditions and creeds. It is enough to say that with other


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Rh creeds they would have been, for literary purposes, other individuals. Their views do not, of course, make the brains in their heads any more than the ink in their pens. But it is equally evident that mere brain-power, without attributes or aims, a wheel revolving in the void, would be a subject about as entertaining as ink. The moment we differentiate the minds, we must differentiate by doctrines and moral sentiments. A mere sympathy for democratic merry-making and mourning will not make a man a writer like Dickens. But without that sympathy Dickens would not be a writer like Dickens; and probably not a writer at all. A mere conviction that Catholic thought is the clearest as well as the best disciplined, will not make a man a writer like Newman. But without that conviction Newman would not be a writer like Newman; and probably not a writer at all. It is useless for the esthete (or any other anarchist) to urge the isolated individuality of the artist, apart from his attitude to his


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was going along Broad Street in a great hurry. There was something abandoned about her air: she showed almost none of the impressive bearing usual to her on the street. Hunted and harassed, in almost violent haste, she had as it were been able to save only a remnant of her dignity—like a beaten king who gathers what is left of his army about him to seek safety in the arms of flight.

She looked pitiable indeed. Her upper lip, that arched upper lip that had always done its share to give charm to her face, was quivering now, and the eyes were large with apprehension. They were very bright and stared fixedly ahead of her, as though they too were hurrying onward. Her hair came in disorder from under her close hat, and her face showed the pale yellow tint which it always had when her digestion took a turn for the worse.

Her digestion was obviously worse in these days. The family noticed that on Thursdays. And no matter how hard every one tried to keep off the rocks, the conversation always made straight for them and stuck there: on the subject of Hugo Weinschenk’s trial. Frau Permaneder herself led up to it. She would call on God and her fellow men to tell her how Public Prosecutor Moritz Hagenström could sleep of nights. For her part, she could not understand it—she never would! Her agitation increased with every word. “Thank you, I can’t eat,” she would say, and push away her plate. She would elevate her shoulders, toss her head, and in the height of her passion fall back upon the practice, acquired in her Munich years, of taking nothing but beer, cold Bavarian beer, poured into an empty stomach, the

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 age. His attitude to his age is his individuality: men are never individual when alone.

It only remains for me, therefore, to take the more delicate and entangled task; and deal with the great Victorians, not only by dates and names, but rather by schools and streams of thought. It is a task for which I feel myself wholly incompetent; but as that applies to every other literary enterprise I ever went in for, the sensation 1s not wholly novel: indeed, it is rather reassuring than otherwise to realise that I am now doing something that nobody could do properly. The chief peril of the process, however, will be an inevitable tendency to make the spiritual landscape too large for the figures. I must ask for indulgence if such criticism traces too far back into politics or ethics the roots of which great books were the blossoms; makes Utilitarianism more important than Liberty or talks more of the Oxford Movement than of The Christian Year. I can only answer in the very temper of the age of which I


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RV 155 (BUDDENBROOKS) nerves of which were in rebellion and would revenge themselves bitterly. Toward the end of the meal she always had to get up and go down to the garden or the court, where she suffered the most dreadful fits of nausea, leaning upon Ida Jungmann or Riekchen Severin. Her stomach would finally relieve itself of its contents, and contract with spasms of pain, which sometimes lasted for minutes and would continue at intervals for a long time.

It was about three in the afternoon, a windy, rainy January day. Frau Permaneder turned the corner at Fishers’ Lane and hurried down the steep declivity to her brother’s house. After a hasty knock she went from the court straight into the bureau, her eye flying across the desks to where the Senator sat in his seat by the window. She made such an imploring motion with her head that he put down his pen without more ado and went to her.

“Well?” he said, one eyebrow lifted.

“A moment, Thomas—it’s very pressing; there’s no time to waste.”

He opened the baize door of his private office, closed it behind him when they were both inside, and looked at his sister inquiringly.

“Tom,” she said, her voice quavering, wringing her hands inside her muff, “you must give it to us—lay it out for us—you will, won’t you?—the money for the bond, I mean. We haven’t it—where should we get twenty-five thousand marks from, I should like to know? You will get them back—you’ll get them back all too soon, I’m afraid. You understand—the thing is this: in short, they have reached a point where Hagenström demands immediate arrest or else a bond of twenty-five thousand marks. And Weinschenk will give you his word not to stir from the spot—”

“Has it really come to that?” the Senator said, shaking his head.

“Yes, they have succeeded in getting that far, the villains!”

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previous literary life of this country had left vigorous many old forces in the Victorian time, as in our time. Roman Britain and Medieval England are still not only alive but lively; for real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. Even when we improve we never progress. For progress, the metaphor from the road, implies a man leaving his home behind him: but improvement means a man exalting the towers or extending the gardens of his home. The ancient English literature was like all the several literatures of Christendom, alike in its likeness, alike in its very unlikeness. Like all European cultures, it was European; like all European cultures, it was something more


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 than European. A most marked and unmanageable national temperament is plain in Chaucer and the ballads of Robin Hood; in spite of deep and sometimes disastrous changes of national policy, that note is still unmistakable in Shakespeare, in Johnson and his friends, in Cobbett, in Dickens. It is vain to dream of defining such vivid things; a national soul is as indefinable as a smell, and as unmistakable. I remember a friend who tried impatiently to explain the word "mistletoe" to a German, and cried at last, despairing, "Well, you know holly—mistletoe's the opposite!" I do not commend this logical method in the comparison of plants or nations. But if he had said to the Teuton, "Well, you know Germany—England's the opposite"—the definition, though fallacious, would not have been wholly false. England, like all Christian countries, absorbed valuable elements from the forests and the rude romanticism of the North; but, like all Christian countries, it drank its longest


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 Rh both ancient and modern writers, is the central desert with its moving sands and buried towns. It is referred to in Chinese writings of more than 2000 years old, by travellers who gave the region the name of Liu Sha, or 'Moving Sands,' from its chief characteristic and most obvious peculiarity; and it was made known to Europeans through the graphic accounts of it which Marco Polo lett on record. Tie phenomenon of the shifting sands could hardly have escaped Mirza Haidar, and the story he tells of the overwhelming of Katak, with its mosque and minaret, is one of the best pieces of description in his book. It is almost an exact counterpart of that told by Hiuen Tsang in the eighth century, of a town between Khotan and Pima (Pain?) which was said to have been overwhelmed by the same agency, some hundreds of years previously. In this case, neglect in the proper worship of a Buddhist idol was the cause, while in the later one the Musulmans detected the wrath of God. The earlier calamity too, is said to have been predicted by a pious Arhát seven days before it occurred. At first a great storm of wind arose, which carried sand and soil before it, while "on the seventh day," continues the narrative, "in the evening, just after the division of the night, it rained sand and earth and filled the city The town of Ho-lo-lo Kia is now a great sand mound. The kings of neighbouring countries, and persons in power from distant spots, have, many times, wished to excavate the mound and take away the precious things buried there; but as soon as they have arrived at the borders of the place, a furious wind has sprung up, dark clouds have gathered together from the four quarters of heaven, and they have become lost."

Similar stories are in the mouth of nearly every native of the country down to the present time, and several have been recorded by Dr. Bellew and Sir Douglas Forsyth. These travellers themselves visited some of the sand-buried ruins in the neighbourhood of Yangi Hisar. One of them was the fort of a Uighur chief called Tokhta Rashid, which had been destroyed about the eleventh century by Arsalan Khan, and afterwards overwhelmed by the sand. Another was the Mazár, or shrine, of one Hazrat Begum, which had been first swallowed up, and again, at a later date, left free by the receding dunes. The neighbourhood of the latter ruin is described as "a perfect sea


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 68 of loose sand, advancing in regular wave lines from north-west to south-east. The sand dunes are mostly from ten to twenty feet high, but some are seen, like little hills, full a hundred feet high, and in some spots higher, They cover the plain, of which the hard clay is seen between their rows, with numberless chains of two or three or more together in a line, and follow in successive rows one behind the other, just like the marks left by wave ripples on a sandy beach, only on a large scale. Towards the south-east these sand dunes all present a steep bank in the shape of a crescent, the horns of which slope forwards and downwards, in points, to the ground " The process of submergence, Dr. Bellew found to be usually a very gradual one, until the symmetry of the dune, becoming broken by an obstructing object, its loose materials subside, and thus overwhelm the obstruction. In the instance of one of the buildings inspected, it was found that "a chain of three crescentic dunes, side by side, had advanced in line across the plain, till one of the outer crescents had struck the walls of the court of the tenement, and growing up, had, in time, over-topped, and thus overflowed and filled its area by its downfall ; whilst the other two crescents at its side, continuing their unobstructed course, maintained their proper form uninjured." The rate of progression the writer was unable to determine, as it depends on the varying force of the propelling power, the slope of the land, and the obstructions on its surface. The operation, however, is the same as in the well-known instance of Eccles church, on the coast of Norfolk, only on a larger scale. By 1839 the whole of the church, except a portion of the tower, had been buried; by 1862 the tower had nearly emerged again, while in 1892 the whole building rose free from the level of the strand, the dunes having passed to its landward side.

The phenomenon thus seen in operation, explains how the town of Katak, and others mentioned by Mirza Haidar, became engulfed, and confirms the stories still current in Eastern Turkistan of ruined towns, or buildings, now and then appearing for a while and being again submerged. In the extreme east of the country, the sandy desert is found at its worst, and it is in connection with this quarter that most of the tales of weird horrors have their origin. How deeply the superstitious


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 Rh mind of the Asiatic may be impressed by these wastes of moving sands, and how little reason there is to wonder at the stories of ghosts, demons, and visions with which he has invested the region, may be judged by General Prejevalski's vivid description of it. "The effect of these bare yellow hillocks," he writes, "is most dreary and depressing when you are among them, and can see nothing but the sky and the sand; not a plant, not an animal is visible, with the single exception of the yellowish-grey lizards (Phrynocephalus Sp.) which trail their bodies over the loose soil and mark it with the patterns of their tracks. A dull heaviness oppresses the senses in this inanimate sea of sand. No sounds are heard, not even the chirping of the grasshopper; the silence of the tomb surrounds you."

Hiuen Tsang's description scarcely varies from that of the Russian traveller. "These sands," he says, "extend like a drifting flood for a great distance, piled up or scattered before the wind. There is no trace left behind by travellers, and oftentimes the way is lost, and so they wander hither and thither quite bewildered, without any guide or direction. So travellers pile up the bones of animals as beacons. There is neither water nor herbage to be found, and hot winds frequently blow. When these winds rise, both man and beast become confused and forgetful, and then they remain perfectly disabled. At times, sad and plaintive notes are heard and piteous cries, so that between the sights and sounds of this desert, men get confused and know not whither they go. Hence there are so many who perish on the journey. But it is all the work of demons and evil spirits."

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 70 contain. Traditions lose nothing from age or from being often repeated, and no doubt, the stories of hidden treasures are now—and, indeed, were in Mirza Haidar's time—ancient enough to acquire a very strong influence on numbers of the population. From time to time ornaments, vessels, images, and coins of great curiosity are unearthed, but their value to the finders, whose only interest lies in the worth of the metal they are made of, can scarcely be great. Perhaps the only systematic exploitation of the ancient sites, ever undertaken, is that of Mirza Abá Bakr, Amir of Kashghar, so fully described by our author. It may be dated about the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and we may infer that nearly everything of intrinsic value was brought to light, while much that was of antiquarian interest was destroyed, so that when, at some future time, civilised explorers come to investigate the ruins, and find little to reward their labours, they may feel themselves indebted to the cupidity of Mirza Abá Bakr for their disappointment. The tales which the author tells of the riches accumulated by the Mirza, may safely be regarded as, in a great measure, fabulous; but it is precisely tales such as these that have given rise to the inflated estimates of buried wealth so common in the country, even at the present day.

Here and there valuable records of the past may still be forthcoming from the submerged towns, like those obtained in 1874, by Sir D. Forsyth, who enumerates a figure of Buddha of the tenth century, a clay figure of the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman, and Hindu women's ornaments, all pointing to that close intercourse with India which we know, from other sources, to have existed in times before Muhammadanism prevailed and crushed it. He also obtained several Greek coins of great antiquity and interest. Among these is mentioned especially one of Antimachus, dating about 140, and another, of Menander, from about the year 126 , while a third, an iron one of Hermæus, might, it was thought, prove even older than either of these. But it is not necessarily among the ruins buried by the shifting sands, that relics of remote ages will be found. Very ancient remains are known already to exist at various points along the southern spurs of the Tian Shan, though nothing has yet been ascertained as to the age they belong to. It was near the town of Kuchar—the ancient Kuitze of the Chinese—that Captain Bower found the famous birch-bark manuscript, written in Sanskrit and dating from


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 Rh the fifth century, while he also points to ruins of cities which, though buried beneath the present level of the country, have no connection with the shifting sands.

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6 cups good rich chicken stock

½ lb. lean pork, put through a fine chopper twice with several cloves of garlic, and then mixed with white pepper and a teaspoonful of accent.

Thin, white bean threads, enough soaked in water and cut to make 1 cup. (These come from the Chinese Grocery.)

Fungi - dried. Several varieties of these are available at the Chinese Grocery store. The large slat mushrooms are similar to those grown in America; a small variety, that grows on wood in the East, resembles and is called "rat's ears"; another wood-grown variety, tougher than the rat's ears and a little larger as a rule. Any of these should be soaked in water, picked over for wood bits, and broken or cut into convenient size. The small ones swell considerably so don't soak too many. Fresh mushrooms may be used also.

2 large white onions, diced; 3-6 fresh green onions cut into small slices.

Several cloves of garlic chopped finely.

Fish's gravy, for blending and giving salt, to taste.

White pepper to taste.

1 t. or so of Accent.

1 T. finely chopped ginger.

2 T. salt, pickled turnip. (This comes from the Chinese Grocery in tin cans. One can will last many months kept in the refrigerator.

Several plants of Yon-Sai, chopped fine. (Chinese parsley, available in China Town.)

Put chicken stock into large kettle and add white onions. Bring to boil and drop the ground pork gradually into the stock by rubbing it through the fingers. Stir meanwhile.

After several minutes boiling, add garlic, Fish's gravy, Accent, bean threads, turnip, ginger, mushrooms and white pepper. A few minutes before serving add the fresh green onion and the chopped Yon-Sai.

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64 we could see on our right; but none of them attain the limit of perpetual snow.

We now passed through a belt of underwood, soon afterwards succeeded by forests which grow chiefly on the southern slopes; the upper zone was thickly covered with grass. New kinds of plants met our eyes at every step; almost every shot we fired added some fresh specimen to our bird collection; but we had no time to linger over these pleasures, so eager were our companions to reach their destination, and so fearful of Dungans. We could only make the best use of our opportunities as they presented themselves. To add to our difficulties the rain fell incessantly, and the atmosphere was saturated with moisture, rendering it impossible to dry our collections, which were consequently ruined by the damp; and even our guns were rusted by it.

After crossing the pass, the ascent of which is gradual and the descent only a little steeper, we encamped for the night in the mountains. Here another adventure befell us. Our Cossacks, who had gone to fetch wood, observed a fire burning in an adjoining ravine, and some men near it. On hearing this report everyone in camp was on the alert, imagining that they were robbers preparing to attack us by night. We determined to reconnoitre before it became quite dark, and accompanied by eight of the caravan, our friend Randzemba among the number, we cautiously approached the fire; but we were soon observed, and the enemy fled. The lamas at once pursued, yelling at the top of their voices, but


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Cook 2 cups finely diced raw in salted water to cover until just tender. Melt 4 T. in skillet and cook in it 6 leeks or large spring, cut in 1" pieces, tossing lightly for a few minutes. Add 3 cups  and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer until leeks are tender. Add the potatoes to broth and season to taste with ,  and a dash of . (Use about 1 t. salt and about ½ t. freshly ground pepper.) Blend this mixture in blender, in two lots, if you have a blender, or put it through a sieve. Chill. When ready to serve, mix in 1½ cups  and garnish with chopped . Serves 6. Mrs. Martin L. Black, Jr.

Make soup stock with soup meat. Don't get worried that you don't have enough to go around ('cause a couple of extra's have been added to the usual number) sooo...

You add and add more vegetables and potatoes - result - Solid Soup.

 * ¼ cup dried lima beans

¼ cup rice

¼ cup barley

1 T. sugar

Veal soup bones

Noodles

3/4 can tomato paste

1 T. cream of wheat

Diced vegetables

Place soup bones (these should have ½ lb of meat on them) in 6 qts of boiling water. Add ¼ cup dried lima beans and 1 diced onion. Cook & hr. Add rice and barley and cook 1 hr.

Add diced vegetables (celery, carrots, string beans and another onion). Cool one hr. Add 3/4 of small can tomato paste, sugar, noodles and stir in one T. of Cream of Wheat.

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 Simmer another half hour. Mrs. Bernard Bressler

 * 1 pt milk

2 T. flour

2 T. butter

1 t. salt

dash pepper

2 cups tightly packed raw spinach (or 1/3 cup cooked spinach

1 thin sliced onion

½ cup raw celery leaves

4 sprays raw parsley

Make cream sauce of first five ingredients. Put other ingredients in blender and "buzz", then add to the cream sauce and simmer.

The editor got this recipe from Mary Mattingly Walker '59, who got it from her mother.

 * 1 can tomato juice (large)

1 can chicken bouillon

6 cloves

parsley

6 peppercorns

1 T. sugar

½ onion

stalk of celery

Simmer, strain, and serve hot. Wonderful first course for a luncheon. Can be served instead of tea in the afternoon, topped with sour cream. I got this recipe from Mrs. Anderson, Sr., who got it from Mrs. S. D. McPherson, Sr. Nancy Walker Anderson '59

Add lemon juice to canned mushroom soup.

Add curry to pea soup.

Add a little chopped okra to chicken and rice soup.

Add grated apple and skin and small onion to consomme for a new soup.

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Rh owing to the thick underwood, and approaching twilight, could not overtake the fugitives. We all assembled round the deserted camp fire, on which stood an iron bowl containing food, with a bag of provisions lying near it. Judging from the small size of the cooking vessel that the party could not be numerous, and that after all they might not be robbers, our companions began holloaing in Mongolian, Tangutan, and Chinese to invite the strangers to return. The only response vouchsafed was a shot, fired from a clump of bushes on the brow of the hill, which whistled close by us. In return we fired about fifteen times in the direction of the smoke, the lamas joining in, and Randzemba of course taking a leading part. For a long while afterwards he could talk of nothing else but the breechloaders, and on returning to camp in answer to all questions put to him by his companions, he would exclaim, 'Ay lama, lama, lama!' vehemently shaking his head and wringing his hands to express his unutterable astonishment.

We determined to mount guard that night, and lay down to rest with our guns under our heads as usual. Hardly had I fallen asleep when I was roused by the report of a shot close to our tent, followed by a loud cry. Seizing our guns and revolvers, we ran to the door, and found that the sentry had fired into the air. 'Why did you do that?' I asked him. 'To let them know we are watching,' was the answer. The Chinese soldiers frequently did this, at least the militia assembled for