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WELLS (H.G.) An Englishman Looks at the World. Mint...
...make his peace with Elizabeth. The noble earl's visit was impelled more by ardor than discretion, so the old chronicle hath it, for it was early morning and the queen was not in the parlor. Elizabeth received her favorite coldly, and Essex retired, not the first or last Englishman to regret his excursion to the fields of Ulster. Thereafter the Earl only sulked in his tent while the queen's advocate, the saturnine Bacon, polished his vindictive phrases in the office of the Cecils...
...Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their...
...battle-scarred than could have been suspected in the morning half-light. The instructor listened with a faint boredom to the halting translation which mangled one of the better odes of Horace, and from time to time made impatient corrections in the well-modulated clipped syllables which only an Englishman can acquire from Oxford. As he turned the pages with his pale fingers he wondered vaguely what sort of a meal would refresh him at one o'clock...
...Englishman believes that the Socialist party is stronger now than the Labor party was at the beginning. As the Americans are accustomed to quick and radical changes, he feels that it will take but a short time for Socialism to progress in this country...