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diff --git a/26478-h/26478-h.htm b/26478-h/26478-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cc3b87 --- /dev/null +++ b/26478-h/26478-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,8254 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Wallypug in London, by G. E. 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E. Farrow + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Wallypug in London + +Author: G. E. Farrow + +Release Date: August 29, 2008 [EBook #26478] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WALLYPUG IN LONDON *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="box"> + +<p class="notes"><b>Transcriber’s Note:<br /> +Table of Contents added.</b></p> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 408px;"> +<img src="images/imgcover.jpg" width="408" height="600" alt="cover" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>THE WALLYPUG IN LONDON</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<a name="frontis" id="frontis"></a> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 397px;"> +<img src="images/img001.png" width="397" height="600" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">his majesty arrives at windsor. see page <a href="#Page_143"><b>143</b></a></span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<h3>THE</h3> +<h1>WALLYPUG IN LONDON</h1> + +<p> </p> + +<h4>BY</h4> +<h3>G. E. FARROW</h3> +<h5>AUTHOR OF “THE WALLYPUG OF WHY,” “THE MISSING PRINCE,” ETC</h5> + +<p> </p> + +<h4>ILLUSTRATED BY ALAN WRIGHT</h4> + +<p> </p> + +<p style="font-size: 80%;" class="center">METHUEN & CO.<br /> +36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.<br /> +LONDON<br /> +1898</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<h3>CONTENTS</h3> + +<div class='center'> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='right'></td> <td align='left'><a href="#chant">CHANT ROYAL</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'></td> <td align='left'><a href="#preface">PREFACE</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>I</td> <td align='left'><a href="#I">HIS MAJESTY AND SUITE ARRIVE</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>II</td> <td align='left'><a href="#II">THE NEXT DAY’S ADVENTURES</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>III</td> <td align='left'><a href="#III">SUNDRY SMALL HAPPENINGS</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>IV</td> <td align='left'><a href="#IV">LOST</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>V</td> <td align='left'><a href="#V">AN ‘AT HOME’ AND THE ACADEMY</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>VI</td> <td align='left'><a href="#VI">THE JUBILEE</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>VII</td> <td align='left'><a href="#VII">MORE ADVENTURES</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>VIII</td> <td align='left'><a href="#VIII">HIS MAJESTY IS INTERVIEWED</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>IX</td> <td align='left'><a href="#IX">THE WALLYPUG’S OWN</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>X</td> <td align='left'><a href="#X">THE WALLYPUG GOES TO WINDSOR</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>XI</td> <td align='left'><a href="#XI">HIS MAJESTY AT THE SEASIDE</a></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='right'>XII</td> <td align='left'><a href="#XII">THE DEPARTURE</a></td> </tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><a name="chant" id="chant"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 141px;"> +<img src="images/chant.jpg" width="141" height="27" alt="chant royal" title="" /> +</div> + +<p style="font-size: 80%;" class="center">ADDRESSED TO</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA</strong></p> + +<p style="font-size: 90%;" class="center">IN COMMEMORATION OF <span class="smcap">22nd</span> JUNE, 1897</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +<span class="smcap">Victoria!</span> by grace of God our Queen,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To thee thy children truest homage pay.</span><br /> +Thy children! ay, for Mother thou hast been,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And by a mother’s love thou holdest sway.</span><br /> +Thy greatest empire is thy Nation’s heart,<br /> +And thou hast chosen this the better part.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Behold, an off’ring meet thy people bring;</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Hark! to the mighty world-sound gathering</span><br /> +From shore to shore, and echoing o’er the sea,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Attend! ye Nations while our paeans ring—</span><br /> +Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +The grandest sight the world hath ever seen<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thy kingdom offers. Clothed in fair array,</span><br /> +The Majesty of Love and Peace serene,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">While hosts unnumbered loyalty display,</span><br /> +Striving to show, by every loving art,<br /> +The day for them can have no counterpart.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lo! sixty years of joy and sorrowing</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">For Queen and People, either borrowing</span><br /> +From other sympathy, in woe or glee,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Hath knit their hearts to thine, wherefore they sing—</span><br /> +Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +With royal dignity and gracious mien<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thine high position thou hast graced alway;</span><br /> +No cloud of discord e’er hath come between<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thy nation and thyself; the fierce white ray</span><br /> +That beats upon thy throne bids hence depart<br /> +The faintest slander calumny can dart.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Thy fame is dear alike to churl and king,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And highest honour lies in honouring</span><br /> +The Sovereign to whom we bend the knee;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">“God save the Queen,” one strain unvarying—</span><br /> +Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +What prophet, or what seer, with vision keen,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Reading the message of a far-off day,</span><br /> +The wonders of thy reign could have foreseen,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or known the story that shall last for aye?</span><br /> +A page that History shall set apart;<br /> +Peace and Prosperity in port and mart,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Honour abroad, and on resistless wing</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A steady progress ever-conquering.</span><br /> +Thy glorious reign, our glorious theme shall be,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And gratitude in every heart upspring—</span><br /> +Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +Behold, ye tyrants, and a lesson glean<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">How subjects may be governed. Lo! the way</span><br /> +A Woman teaches who doth ne’er demean<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Her office high. Hark! how her people pray</span><br /> +For blessings on the head that doth impart<br /> +So wise a rule. For them no wrongs do smart,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">No cruelties oppress, no insults sting,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nor does a despot hand exaction wring;</span><br /> +Though governed, Britain’s subjects still are free.<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Gaze then—ye unwise rulers wondering—</span><br /> +Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Envoy.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 9.5em;"> +Queen Mother, love of thee doth ever spring<br /> +Within thy children’s hearts, a priceless thing,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nor pomp nor state that falleth unto thee</span><br /> +Can ever rival this grand carolling—<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Victoria’s children sing her Jubilee.</span></p> + + +<p style="margin-left: 25em;"><span class="smcap">G. E. Farrow</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><a name="preface" id="preface"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img002.png" width="600" height="347" alt="preface" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">My dear little Friends</span>,</p> + +<p>You will no doubt be surprised to find +this book commencing with a perfectly serious +poem, and one which probably some of you +will find a little difficulty in understanding. +When you have grown older, however, and +happen to look at this little book again, you +will be glad to be reminded of the historic +event which the poem commemorates. Now, +about ourselves, when I asked in my last book, +<em>The Missing Prince</em>, for letters from my little +readers, I had no idea that I had so many +young friends, and I can hardly tell you how +delighted I have been at receiving such a +number of kind letters from all parts of the +world.</p> + +<p>I do hope that I have answered everyone, +but really there have been so many, and if by +mistake any should have been overlooked, I +hope my little correspondents will write again +and give me an opportunity of repairing the +omission.</p> + +<p>Such charming little letters, and all, I am +happy to find, really written by the children +themselves, which makes them doubly valuable +to me.</p> + +<p>And how funny and amusing some of them +were to be sure! And what capital stories +some of you have told me about your pets.</p> + +<p>Some pathetic incidents too; as, for instance, +that of ‘Shellyback,’ the tortoise, whose little +owner wrote a few months after her first letter +to say that poor ‘Shellyback’ was dead.</p> + +<p>I have been very happy to notice how fond +you all seem of your pets, for I have always +found that children who make friends with +animals invariably have kind and good hearts. +And the poor dumb creatures themselves are +always so ready to respond to any little act +of kindness, and are so grateful and affectionate, +that I am sure it adds greatly to one’s happiness +in life to interest oneself in them.</p> + +<p>One of my correspondents, aged eight, has +embarrassed me very much indeed by suggesting +that I should “wait for her till she grows +up,” as she should “so like to marry a gentleman +who told stories.” I hope she didn’t mean +that I did anything so disgraceful; and besides, +as it would take nearly twenty-five years for her +to catch up to me, she <em>might</em> change her mind +in that time, and then what would become of +me.</p> + +<p>Some of my letters from abroad have been +very interesting. One dear little girl at Darjeeling, +in India, wrote a very nice descriptive +letter, and concluded by asking me to write +“something about the stars,” and speaking of +new stories brings me to another subject that +I wish to talk to you about.</p> + +<p>You know that I spoke in my last book +about writing a school story, and one about +animals. Well, when I found that so many of +you wanted to hear “more about the Wallypug,” +I was obliged to put these two books +aside in order to gratify your wishes. I hope +that you will be as interested in hearing about +his Majesty this time as you were last.</p> + +<p>You will be sure to notice that the pictures +are by another artist, but Mr. Harry Furniss +has been away from England for some months, +and so it has been impossible for him to illustrate +this volume. Some other time, perhaps, +Dorothy and he will give us more of their +work; but in the meantime Mr. Alan Wright +has been very interested in drawing pictures +for this book, and I hope you will be pleased +with his efforts.</p> + +<p>Now, about writing to me next time. When +I asked you to address me under care of my +publishers, I did not realize that in the course +of business I might find it necessary to change +them sometimes, and so to avoid any possibility +of confusion, will you please in future +address all letters to</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span class="smcap">Mr. G. E. Farrow</span>,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 2em;">c/o Messrs.</span> <span class="smcap">A. P. Watt & Son</span>,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hastings House,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Norfolk Street, Strand.</span></p> + +<p>What am I to do with all the beautiful +Christmas and New Year’s cards which I +have received? Will you be vexed if, after +having enjoyed receiving them as I have done +so much, I give them to the poor little children +at the hospitals to make scrap books with? +I happen to know how much they value and +appreciate gifts of this kind, and by allowing +me to bestow them in this way, your pretty +presents will be giving a double happiness.</p> + +<p>Well, I must conclude this rather long letter +now, or I shall be accused of being tedious; +but really it gives me almost as much pleasure +to write to you, as it does to receive your letters. +Good-bye. Don’t forget that many of you +have promised to write to me again, and that +I am always more than glad to welcome any +new friends.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em;"> +Believe me, dear Children,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Yours affectionately,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 8em;">G. E. FARROW</span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span> +<a name="I" id="I"></a></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img003.png" width="600" height="253" alt="The Wallypug in London" title="" /> +</div> + + +<h2>CHAPTER I</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>HIS MAJESTY AND SUITE ARRIVE</strong></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px; margin-top: -.2em;"> +<img src="images/img003a.png" width="200" height="167" alt="A" title="" /> +</div> +<p> most extraordinary thing +has happened; the Wallypug +has been to London! +But there, I am forgetting +that possibly you have +never read <em>The Wallypug +of Why</em>, in which case +you will, of course, know nothing about his +Majesty, and so I had better explain to you +who, and what, he is.</p> + +<p>To begin with, then, he is a kind of king +of a place called Why, which adjoins the +mysterious kingdom of Zum. I am afraid, +though, that if you searched your atlases for +a very long while you might not find either of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> +these places, for the geographers are so undecided +as to their exact position that they +have not shown them on the maps at all. +Some little friends of mine, named Girlie and +Boy, have been there, however, and I can tell +you, if you like, the way they went. This is +the way to Why:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +Just go to bed and shut your eyes<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And count one hundred, one by one;</span><br /> +Perhaps you’ll find to your surprise<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That you’re at Why when this is done.</span></p> + +<p>I say <em>perhaps</em>, because this only happens when +you have been particularly good all day, and +<em>sometimes</em> boys and girls are not quite as good +as they—but there, I won’t say what I was +going to, for I am quite sure that it would not +apply to you. This is the way to Zum:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +Not when the moon is at its full,<br /> +But just a tiny boat-shaped thing,<br /> +You <em>may</em> see Pierrot sitting there<br /> +And hear the little fellow sing.<br /> +If so, just call him, and he’ll come<br /> +And carry you away to Zum.</p> + +<p>There, now, I’ve told you the way to go to +both places, so that, if you wish to, you can +go there whenever you please.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> +I am telling you all this because one day +in the spring Girlie and Boy, who live in +another part of London, came to see me, and +we had been talking about these things for +about the hundredth time, I should think: for +these children are never tired of telling me of +all the strange things which happened to them +when they journey to these wonderful places. +In fact they were just arguing as to which +was the most interesting place to go to, Why +or Zum, when my housekeeper, Mrs. Putchy, +came to the door with the unwelcome news that +the carriage had come for my little friends, and +that it was time to say good-bye. After they +had gone I sat staring into the fire wondering +where Why could be, and if there was really +such a person as the Wallypug, when my little +dog Dick, who had been lying on the rug +before the fire, suddenly jumped up, and +barking excitedly, ran to the other end of the +study, where a picture, which I had bought the +day before at an auction sale, stood leaning +against the wall. Now this picture had been +sold very cheap, because no one could tell at +all what it was about, it was so old and dusty, +and the colours were so dark and indistinct. +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +I had bought it hoping that it might prove +valuable, and there it stood till it could be +sent to be cleaned and restored. Imagine my +surprise then, when, on following Dick across +the study, I discovered that the colours in the +picture had all become bright, and were working +one into the other in the most remarkable +way, red running into green, and blue into +yellow, while a little patch of black in the +centre of the picture was whirling round and +round in quite a distracting manner. What +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +could it all mean? I stared and wondered, +till, out of the confusion, there gradually grew +shapes which bore some resemblance to human +beings, and, presently, I could recognize quite +distinctly, first a young man in knee breeches, +smiling in a particularly self-satisfied way, and +escorting a large fish, who was walking upright, +with slippers on his tail, and who wore +a waistcoat and necktie. Then an amiable-looking +old gentleman, carrying a wand, who +was followed by a curious little person, wearing +a crown and carrying an orb and sceptre. A +particularly stiff and wooden-looking soldier +stood at the back of this strange group. Judge +of my amazement when, quite as a matter of +course, the whole party deliberately stepped +out of the picture into the room, and, before +I could realize what had happened, the old +gentleman with the wand came forward with a +flourish and an elaborate bow, and announced:</p> + +<p>“A-hem! his Majesty the Wallypug of Why +and suite.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 317px;"> +<img src="images/img004.png" width="317" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">with slippers on his tail</span> +</div> + +<p>I was so astonished that for the moment I +could not think what to say, but at last I +managed to stammer, as I made a low bow to +the Wallypug:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +“I am delighted to make your Majesty’s +acquaintance.”</p> + +<p>The Wallypug smiled very affably, and held +out his hand.</p> + +<p>“I have come up for the Jubilee, you know,” +he said.</p> + +<p>“<em>We’ve</em> come up, you mean to say, Wallypug,” +corrected the old gentleman with the +wand, frowning somewhat severely. “I am +the Wallypug’s professional adviser,” he continued. +“I am called the Doctor-in-Law—allow +me to introduce the rest of our party. +This,” he went on, bringing the young man +with the self-satisfied smile forward, “is the +Jubilee Rhymester from Zum; he hopes to +become a minor poet in time. And this,” indicating +the wooden-looking soldier, “is Sergeant +One-and-Nine, also from Zum.” Here the +Doctor-in-Law took me aside and whispered in +my ear, “Slightly cracked, crossed in love; +speaks very peculiarly; capital chap though.” +Then crossing to where the Fish was standing, +he said, “And this is A. Fish, Esq., the celebrated +lecturer on the ‘Whichness of the What +as compared with the Thatness of the Thus.’ +He desired to accompany us here in order to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +find material for a new lecture which he is +preparing upon the ‘Perhapness of the Improbable.’ +He’s awfully clever,” he whispered +impressively.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 413px;"> +<img src="images/img005.png" width="413" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“his majesty the wallypug”</span> +</div> + +<p>“I’m sure I’m delighted to see you all,” I +said, shaking hands with each one till I came +to the Fish, who held out a fin. “Er-er-how +do you do?” I stammered, somewhat taken +aback by this strange proceeding.</p> + +<p>“Quide well with the egscebtiod of a slide +cold id by head,” said the Fish. “I’b subjecd +to theb, you doe. It’s beig id the water so +butch, I fadcy,” and he <em>smiled</em>.</p> + +<p>I don’t know if you have ever seen a fish +smile, but if not I may tell you that it is a +very curious sight.</p> + +<p>“I suppose you can manage to put us up +here for a month or two?” calmly suggested +the Doctor-in-Law after a pause.</p> + +<p>“Dear me,” I exclaimed in alarm, “I don’t +think my housekeeper could possibly—”</p> + +<p>“Why not ask her?” suggested the Doctor-in-Law, +touching the bell.</p> + +<p>A moment or two afterwards a knock at the +door announced that Mrs. Putchy was there.</p> + +<p>“Oh, Mrs. Putchy,” I said, stepping just +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +outside, “these gentlemen, er—that is to +say, his Majesty the Wallypug of Why and +suite, have honoured me with a visit, and +I am anxious if possible to offer them such +hospitality as my poor home affords. Do you +think that we could manage anyhow to find +room for them, for a few days at any rate?”</p> + +<p>Now Mrs. Putchy is a very remarkable +woman, and I have never known her to show +the slightest surprise at anything, and, so far +from seeming alarmed at the prospect of having +to entertain such notable visitors, she seemed +positively delighted.</p> + +<p>“His Majesty of Why, sir? How charming! +Of course we must do our best, and how +fortunate that I put on my best gown to-day, +isn’t it? Dear me, and shall I be presented +to his Majesty?”</p> + +<p>“Certainly, Mrs. Putchy, if you wish it,” I +said. “In fact, if you will call General Mary +Jane, I will introduce you both, as you represent +my entire household.”</p> + +<p>Mrs. Putchy disappeared, returning almost +immediately, followed by the servant, General +Mary Jane, with her mouth wide open, and +accompanied by the cat, who rejoices in the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +extraordinary name of Mrs. Mehetable Murchison. +These members of my household were +duly presented to the Wallypug. Mrs. Putchy +made her curtsey with great dignity, but +General Mary Jane was so overcome at the +thought of being presented to royalty that she +fell flat on her hands and knees in her humility, +while Mrs. Mehetable Murchison, realizing, no +doubt, the truth of the old saying that “a cat +may look at a king,” went up and sharpened +her claws on the Wallypug’s legs in the most +friendly manner possible.</p> + +<p>It was when the cat caught sight of A. Fish, +Esq., that she completely lost her presence of +mind, and with arched back and bristling fur +glared at him in amazement.</p> + +<p>“Priddy pussy, cub alog thed,” said the +Fish, stooping down and trying to stroke her +with one of his fins; but Mrs. Mehetable +Murchison, with a startled glance, tore out of +the room, showing every sign of alarm.</p> + +<p>“And she’s so fond of fish too, as a rule, +ain’t she, mum?” remarked General Mary +Jane, who had somewhat overcome the awe +with which she had at first regarded the presence +of royalty.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +“Fod of fish?” repeated A. Fish, Esq., +inquiringly. “What do you mead?”</p> + +<p>“Why, you see, sir,” explained Mrs. Putchy, +“we often have fish for dinner—er—that is to +say—er—a-hem!”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> +<img src="images/img006.png" width="321" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“priddy pussy”</span> +</div> + +<p>The Fish was glaring at her in a horrified +way, and Mrs. Putchy had become quite +nervous.</p> + +<p>“Let’s change the subject,” suggested the +Doctor-in-Law, to our great relief. “The most +important question for the moment is, where +are we all going to sleep?”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +This gave Mrs. Putchy an opportunity for +exercising her wonderful ability for management, +and after arranging for the Wallypug to +have the spare bedroom, and the Doctor-in-Law +to have my room, I was to have a bed +made up in the study, while the Jubilee Rhymester +was to sleep in the attic, One-and-Nine +was to have a box under the stairs, and there +only remained A. Fish, Esq., to dispose of.</p> + +<p>“There is the bathroom, mum,” suggested +General Mary Jane brilliantly; “we could put +a lid on the bath and make up a bed there.”</p> + +<p>“Bedder sdill, fill id with wadter, ad thed +I could sleeb <em>in</em> id,” suggested the Fish.</p> + +<p>“Oh yes, of course!” said Mrs. Putchy, +“and now I must go and see about the supper.” +And, with a low curtsey to the Wallypug, the +admirable little woman hurried out, followed by +General Mary Jane, who gave a nervous little +bob when she reached the door.</p> + +<p>They had scarcely disappeared before One-and-Nine +came up to me and whispered:</p> + +<p>“I am muchly impressionated by that lady +with the most militaryish name who has just +gone out. Can you kindly inform me is she +detached?”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +“Detached?” I inquired in bewilderment. +“What ever do you mean?”</p> + +<p>“If a person is not attached to anyone else, +they are detached, I suppose, are they not?” +said One-and-Nine rather impatiently.</p> + +<p>“Well, if you put it that way, I suppose they +are,” I replied, laughing. “You mean, has she +a sweetheart? Well, really I don’t know. I +have an idea though that Mrs. Putchy does not +allow followers.”</p> + +<p>“Then I shall considerize my prospectuousness +with great hopefulosity!” remarked the +soldier with considerable dignity, walking back +to the Wallypug’s chair.</p> + +<p>“What does he say?” asked the Jubilee +Rhymester. “He is a little bit cracked, you +know. Could you make out what he was +driving at?”</p> + +<p>“Oh, yes, I could understand within a little +what he meant,” I replied. “He seems to +have fallen in love with General Mary Jane +at first sight, from what I can gather.”</p> + +<p>“Really! Dear me! He is always doing +that sort of thing, do you know, and he +generally asks me to write poems for him +when he gets into that state. I have written +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +as many as 137 odes in one month on his +behalf.”</p> + +<p>“Good gracious,” I replied, “and does he +pay you well for them?”</p> + +<p>“Pay me!” exclaimed the Jubilee Rhymester, +staring at me in surprise. “Of course not. +Do people ever get paid for writing poetry?”</p> + +<p>“Why, yes, to be sure they do,” I answered.</p> + +<p>“Well, I’ve never heard of such a thing in +all my life,” said the Jubilee Rhymester; “I +always thought that poets had to pay to have +their verses used at all, and that that was why +they were always so poor while they were +alive. Of course I knew that people sometimes +made a fuss about them after they were +dead, but I have never heard of such a thing +as a live poet being paid for his work.”</p> + +<p>“Nonsense,” I replied; “I believe that quite +a lot of money is sometimes paid by the +magazines and other papers for poems and +verses.”</p> + +<p>“Well, I am delighted to hear it,” said the +Jubilee Rhymester, “and I shall certainly start +writing to-morrow. I have no doubt whatever +that I shall make my fortune before I go back +to Zum.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +Shortly after this Mrs. Putchy announced +that supper was served, and a little later my +guests retired to rest, being thoroughly tired +out with their long journey. I sat up in my +study a little while longer to smoke a pipe, +but was just thinking of going to bed when +there was a tap at the door and the Doctor-in-Law +entered.</p> + +<p>“I say, I thought I had better come and +arrange with you about money matters,” he +said; “I didn’t like to mention such things +before the others. Now then,” he continued, +“how much are you going to pay us for staying +with you?”</p> + +<p>“Pay <em>you</em>!” I gasped. “What on earth do +you mean?”</p> + +<p>“Well, you see, it will be a great thing +for you to have such distinguished visitors, +don’t you know, and you ought to be quite +willing to pay liberally for the honour,” said +the Doctor-in-Law, smiling amiably.</p> + +<p>Now Girlie had told me what a greedy, +avaricious person the Doctor-in-Law really +was, despite his benevolent appearance, but this +cool cheek almost took my breath away. I +was determined, however, to let him see at +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +once that I was not to be imposed upon, so I +said as firmly as I could, “Now, look here, +Mr. Doctor-in-Law, please understand once +and for all, that as you were all so kind to my +little friend Girlie when she was at Why, I +am quite willing to entertain his Majesty the +Wallypug, and the rest of you, to the very best +of my ability, but as for paying you for being +here, the idea is absurd—impossible!”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img007.png" width="400" height="354" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“id quide gave be a turn”</span> +</div> + +<p>Just then a terrific hullabaloo in the passage +caused us both to run to the door. We could +hear that the noise proceeded from the bathroom, +and, hurrying to the door, we found +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +A. Fish, Esq., sitting up in the water shouting +for help, while Mrs. Mehetable Murchison +and a whole group of her feline friends were +out on the tiles, glaring through the window.</p> + +<p>“Dear be, dear be,” panted the Fish, when +he saw us, “I’b so frighteded, just look at all +those cats. I had beed to sleeb ad was just +dreabig that sobeone was sayig, ‘Mrs. Behetable +Burchison is <em>so</em> fod of fish, and we ofted +have fish for didder,’ whed I woke ub and saw +all those horrible cats lookig id ad the widdow; +id quide gave be a turn. Do drive theb +away please.”</p> + +<p>We soon did this, and, pulling down the +blinds, we left A. Fish, Esq., to his dreams +and soon afterwards retired to rest ourselves.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="II" id="II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE NEXT DAY’S ADVENTURES</strong></p> + + +<p>When I entered the breakfast room the +next morning I found that the Wallypug +and the Doctor-in-Law had been up for some +time, and were both gazing out of the window +with the greatest of interest.</p> + +<p>“I hope your Majesty slept well,” I remarked +to the Wallypug as I approached +them.</p> + +<p>“Very well indeed, thank you,” he replied +smilingly. “The Doctor-in-Law and myself +have just been saying that we are sure to +have an enjoyable visit here. We have been +greatly interested in the man-machines going +past. We have never seen anything like them +before.”</p> + +<p>“The man-machines!” I exclaimed, puzzled +to know whatever he could mean.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +“Yes, the men with wheels instead of legs, +you know.”</p> + +<p>“Oh, you mean the bicyclists,” I replied, +laughing. “Have you really never seen any +before?”</p> + +<p>“No, indeed,” replied his Majesty. “Are +they born with wheels on, or do they grow +afterwards?”</p> + +<p>I laughed, and fortunately just then the +youngster opposite, who always rides to school +on his bicycle, came out of doors wheeling +his machine, and I was able to explain to the +Wallypug the principle upon which they worked.</p> + +<p>“Dear me; the Doctor-in-Law told me that +the machinery was part of the man, but now I +see that it is separate. And he charged me +sixpence for the information too,” he complained, +looking reproachfully at the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“Charged you sixpence!” I cried.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” replied the poor Wallypug. “He +offered to tell me all about them for sixpence, +and as I was really very curious to know I gave +it to him, and then he informed me that they +were a peculiar race of people who came from +Coventry, and who were all born with wheels +instead of legs.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +“Take your old sixpence then, if you are +going to make all that fuss about it,” said the +Doctor-in-Law, crossly, throwing the coin down +on the table and walking out of the room in +a huff. “I’m sure I did read somewhere that +they came from Coventry,” he added, popping +his head in at the door and then slamming it +violently after him.</p> + +<p>The boy opposite was still riding up and +down the road, and I made up my mind that +although I had never spoken to him before, +I would ask him to let the Wallypug examine +his bicycle more closely.</p> + +<p>“With pleasure,” he replied, raising his hat +politely to the Wallypug, when I had explained +who he was; “and if his Majesty would like +to try it he is quite welcome to do so.”</p> + +<p>The Doctor-in-Law’s curiosity had so far +overcome his ill-humour that, when he saw us +talking to the boy, he came forward and offered +to help the Wallypug to mount.</p> + +<p>“I really don’t think he had better,” I said, +“he might damage the machine.”</p> + +<p>“Oh no, he won’t hurt it, I’m sure,” said +the boy generously; and so with our united +assistance the Wallypug got on to the bicycle, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +and after a few preliminary wobblings started +off in fine style. Faster and faster he went, +clinging desperately to the handle-bars, till +we, who were running beside him, could no +longer keep pace with him.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img008.png" width="400" height="341" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the start</span> +</div> + +<p>“I can’t stop,” we heard him shout; and a +moment later he charged straight at a large +stone and half a brick which lay in the middle +of the roadway.</p> + +<p>Poor Wallypug! The sudden impact threw +him right over the handle-bars, and he landed +in a huddled heap on his hands and knees in +the gutter. The machine flew in half, and the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +front portion careered madly away by itself +till stopped by the kerb.</p> + +<p>We hurried up to his Majesty to discover if +he was much hurt, but, with the exception of +a few scratches on his hands and knees and a +thorough shaking, he seemed to have come off +pretty well.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img009.png" width="400" height="273" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the finish</span> +</div> + +<p>“I suppose we can’t stick it together again?” +he inquired, gazing ruefully at the broken +bicycle, and I was obliged to tell him that +there was not much chance of our doing so. +The boy to whom it belonged bravely made +the best of the matter, especially when I told +him that the next half-holiday he had I would +take him to Holborn to choose another one +in its place.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +And when I discovered that he had a half-holiday +that very afternoon, it was arranged +that General Mary Jane should order a carriage +at the livery stable, and that we should +all drive to the city after luncheon.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/img010.png" width="300" height="220" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">hippety-hoppety-plop</span> +</div> + +<p>The Wallypug, after a good wash and a +hearty breakfast, went to his room to lie down +for an hour or two to recover from the effects +of his accident, and I was just answering my +morning letters when there was a knock at +the study door, and the Rhymester entered.</p> + +<p>“I sat up most of the night writing poetry,” +he remarked, “and I +have just brought you +one or two specimens. +The first one is called +‘The Ode of a Toad.’ +Perhaps I had better +read it to you. My +writing is rather +peculiar,” and he began as follows:</p> + +<p class="center">THE ODE OF A TOAD.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 8em;"> +There was once an old toad who lived under a tree,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hippety hop—Flippety flop,</span><br /> +And his head was as bald as bald could be,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +He was deaf as a post and could hardly see,<br /> +But a giddy and frivolous toad was he,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">With his hippety-hoppety-plop.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 8em;"> +And he gambolled and danced on the village green,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hippety hop—Flippety flop,</span><br /> +In a way that had never before been seen,<br /> +Tho’ he wasn’t so young as once he had been,<br /> +And the people all wondered whate’er he could mean,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">With his hippety-hoppety-plop.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 8em;"> +But the old chap kept bobbing about just the same,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hippety hop—Flippety flop,</span><br /> +Till everyone thought he <em>must</em> make himself lame,<br /> +And not a soul ever could find out his aim,<br /> +In keeping up such a ridiculous game,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">As his hippety-hoppety-plop.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 8em;"> +Some said he was mad, tho’ as mild as a dove,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">Hippety hop—Flippety flop,</span><br /> +And as the result of a push or a shove,<br /> +Was a little bit cracked in the storey above,<br /> +<em>But I fancy myself the old boy was in love</em>,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 4em;">With his hippety-hoppety-plop.</span></p> + +<p>“There! What do you think of it?” he +asked when he had finished.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/img011.png" width="250" height="233" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“i love but thee”</span> +</div> + +<p>“Well, candidly, I’m afraid not very much,” +I replied; “and what on earth do you call it +an ode for?”</p> + +<p>“Why, you see, ode went so well with the +word toad. I was going to call it ‘Ode to a +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +Toad,’ but it isn’t <em>to</em> a toad at all, though it’s +about a toad. Ah! by the bye, I might call +it ‘A Toad’s Ode,’ mightn’t +I? I think that sounds +very jolly.” He altered +the title in pencil.</p> + +<p>“I have another which +I think you will say is +very touching.” And after +getting his handkerchief +out in case he should be moved to tears, he +began:</p> + +<p class="center">THE BALLADE OF A BUN.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11.5em;"> +Don’t talk to me of “Sally Lunn,”<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or toasted tea-cake nice and hot,</span><br /> +I do not care for either one<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">A single solitary jot;</span><br /> +My heart is fixed and changeth not,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">In all the world—whate’er I see,</span><br /> +And rich or poor—whate’er my lot—<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Oh! penny bun, I love but thee.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11.5em;"> +For thy dear sake all cakes I shun<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Smeared o’er with jam. No apricot</span><br /> +Or greengage tart my heart hath won;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their sweetness doth but cloy and clot.</span><br /> +What marmalade in fancy pot<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or cream meringue, though fair it be,</span><br /> +Thine image e’er can mar or blot?<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Oh! penny bun, I love but thee.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11.5em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +I vowed to cherish thee, or none<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">(Such love thy simple charms begot),</span><br /> +When first I saw thee, precious one;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And now to some sweet lonely spot,</span><br /> +Some shady dell or mossy grot,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Come let us hasten, you and me,</span><br /> +And I will eat you like a shot;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Oh! penny bun, I love but thee.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Envoy.</em></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11.5em;"> +Small boys or girls that homeward trot<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">From school in time for early tea,</span><br /> +This moral ne’er must be forgot:<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">“Love penny buns, and they’ll love thee.”</span></p> + +<p>“Isn’t it affecting?” he inquired, wiping his +eyes when he had finished.</p> + +<p>“Well, perhaps I didn’t quite appreciate +the pathos of it as I might have done,” I +answered, trying hard not to laugh. “You +see I was paying so much attention to the +scansion. I find that you have altered the +refrain in the Envoy. Surely that’s not correct, +is it?”</p> + +<p>“Oh, you are a great deal too particular,” +remarked the Rhymester crossly. “Why, I +should think from the Doctor-in-Law’s description +of a critic that you must be one.”</p> + +<p>“What did he say a critic was?” I asked.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +“Why, he said a critic was a person who +found fault with another, for not doing what +he was unable to do himself. And he charged +me fourpence three-farthings for the information, +and as I only had fourpence halfpenny I +have to pay him the odd farthing when I sell +some of my poems. Can you tell me how I +can set to work about it?”</p> + +<p>“Well, I hardly know,” I replied, “unless +you send them to the editors of the various +magazines. They may take them, but you +must not be disappointed if some of them are +rejected. You see they cannot possibly print +everything that is sent to them.”</p> + +<p>There were several magazines in the study, +and I suggested that the Rhymester should +make a list of the addresses of the various +editors, and he was busy about that till luncheon +time.</p> + +<p>At half-past two the carriage came to the +door, and goodness only knows what General +Mary Jane must have told the livery stable +people about the Wallypug, for, evidently +anxious to send an equipage worthy of royalty, +they had painted an enormous monogram in +gold on the sides of the carriage, while the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +coachman was resplendent in blue plush and +gold lace, with silk stockings and a powdered +wig.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img012.png" width="600" height="371" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“equipageous grandiosity”</span> +</div> + +<p>The Wallypug was delighted when he saw +this elaborate turn-out, and so were the others, +for I overheard One-and-Nine murmuring +something about “equipageous grandiosity,” +as he climbed up to the seat beside the coachman. +When the Wallypug, the Doctor-in-Law, +A. Fish, Esq., and the Rhymester, were +seated, there was no room left for the boy +and myself, so we followed behind in a modest +dog-cart, which was hurriedly procured from +the livery stable. Many were the wondering +glances bestowed upon the carriage, with its +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +somewhat remarkable burden, as we drove +along through Kensington to the Gardens. +And everywhere our appearance was hailed with +enthusiasm, people being evidently under the +impression that the Wallypug was one of the +royal guests invited to the Jubilee festivities. +Who could he be? That was decidedly the +question which everyone was asking, and I +could not quite determine who was causing the +greater sensation, the Wallypug or A. Fish, +Esq. These two individuals, however, comported +themselves with the calmest dignity, +only the Doctor-in-Law seemed flurried by the +attention which they attracted, and smiled and +bowed right and left, whether the people took +any notice of him or not.</p> + +<p>As we approached Hyde-Park corner attention +was diverted from the Wallypug’s carriage +by the fact that <em>another</em> royal equipage had +entered the Park gates; and as the Princess +passed us, an amused glance and a whispered +conversation with the other occupant of the +carriage showed that the Wallypug’s extraordinary +party had not escaped Her Royal +Highness’s attention.</p> + +<p>After going once round the Park we went +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +out at the Marble Arch and along Oxford +Street to Holborn, our progress through the +crowded streets everywhere attracting the most +excited interest. And when we stopped before +one of the large bicycle <em>depôts</em> in Holborn the +crowd around the carriage was so large that the +policeman had quite a difficulty in preventing +a block in the traffic. Our business was soon +transacted, and, having secured an excellent +machine for the boy in place of the one which +his Majesty had damaged in the morning, we +drove back to Kensington without further adventure.</p> + +<p>The Wallypug’s curiosity, however, was so +awakened by what he had seen that, as soon +as we had been refreshed by a cup of afternoon +tea, he suggested that we should go out for +a walk; accordingly the whole party proceeded +to Kensington Gardens, followed by a curious +and somewhat derisive crowd of small boys, +who would insist upon advising the Wallypug +to “get his hair cut.” Now, I happened to +know, from what Girlie had told me about +her adventures in Why, that the Wallypug, +though a kind of king, had to do as his people +directed and not as he liked, and that when +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +he had presented a petition in Parliament to +be allowed to have his hair cut, they had +divided upon the subject, and so he had only +been allowed to have <em>half</em> of it cut, and as the +long half had by this time grown very long +indeed, he certainly did look rather remarkable; +that was no excuse though for the +street boys’ rudeness, and his Majesty very +wisely took no notice of them. A. Fish, Esq., +came in for the greatest amount of attention, +and when a few drops of rain began to fall, +and he put up an umbrella for fear that he +should get wet, the crowd became so excited +that the Doctor-in-Law wisely suggested that +a return should be made. His Majesty, however, +was bent upon sight-seeing, and so the +party separated, the Doctor-in-Law, A. Fish, +Esq., and One-and-Nine going home, while +the rest of us continued our walk. When we +reached the Gardens, the Wallypug was greatly +interested in seeing the palace where the +Queen was born, and said that he should certainly +petition his Parliament to allow him to +have soldiers walk up and down before the +gates of his palace, like those which he saw +here. He admired greatly Princess Louise’s +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +statue of the Queen, which stands in front of +the palace, and said he couldn’t imagine where-ever +they could have got all the white sugar +from to make it with, and I think that he was +inclined to disbelieve me when I told him that +it was not made of sugar at all, but of white +marble; for he said that if that were the case +he couldn’t think why they wanted to put +such high railings around it, as no one would +wish to carry away a marble statue of that +size, whereas, if it were sugar, as he suggested, +why, of course, the railings were there to prevent +the children from climbing up and breaking +off little pieces to eat.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 501px;"> +<img src="images/img013.png" width="501" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">for fear he should get wet</span> +</div> + +<p>The Round Pond and the little model ships +interested His Majesty most of all though, I +fancy, and he spent quite a long time admiring +them, until, while assisting a small boy to get +his ship ashore, he had the misfortune to slip +into the water himself, and had to be fished +out with the assistance of a boathook.</p> + +<p>His Majesty certainly did not look either +dignified or regal as he stood on the bank +saturated with water, and his royal robes clinging +about him in the most woe-begone manner—and +as the crowd had greatly increased, I +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +was very glad to get the poor Wallypug into +a cab and drive home.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img014.png" width="600" height="364" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">his majesty has an accident</span> +</div> + +<p>On our way there, the Rhymester, being +very much afraid of getting his clothes wet, +sat in the furthest corner of the cab and +amused himself by writing a verse on the subject +of his Majesty’s misfortune, which read +somehow like this:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -.5em;">“King George I’ve heard is King of Greece,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">But since this luckless slipping,</span><br /> + The Wallypug I do declare<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Should be the King of <em>Dripping</em>.”</span></p> + +<p>I think his Majesty thought it rather unkind +of the Rhymester to make fun of him +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +in this way, but before he had time to think +much about the matter, we had arrived at our +destination, and to my great surprise I could +see a vast crowd collected at the doors of the +building in which my flat is situated.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="III" id="III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>SUNDRY SMALL HAPPENINGS</strong></p> + + +<p>Whatever could it all mean? The +Doctor-in-Law stood on the steps, +calling out, “Walk up, walk up, ladies and +gentlemen, and see the Talking Fish,” while +large posters were pasted on the walls, bearing +the words, “Admission Sixpence” and “One +day only.”</p> + +<p>The Commissionaire who usually stands at +the door was looking very surprised and angry, +while the page boy was grinning all over his +face. Whatever was happening? I hastily +paid the cabman, and followed by the Wallypug +made my way through the crowd to the +entrance.</p> + +<p>“Admission sixpence each,” said the Doctor-in-Law, +holding out his hand.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 447px;"> +<img src="images/img015.png" width="447" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“walk up, walk up, ladies and gentlemen”</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> +“What do you mean?” I replied, “and +what is all this crowd doing here?”</p> + +<p>“Admission sixpence each!” repeated the +Doctor-in-Law stubbornly, not taking the least +notice of my questions, and holding his wand +across the doorway so that I could not get in.</p> + +<p>“Nonsense!” I cried; “I’m not going to +pay to go into my own house.”</p> + +<p>“Pay for the Wallypug then and I’ll let +you in free,” said the little man insinuatingly.</p> + +<p>“I shall do nothing of the sort,” I cried, +pushing past him and hurrying up the stairs.</p> + +<p>To my surprise I found my rooms occupied +by strangers. Sergeant One-and-Nine was +reciting some of the Rhymester’s poems in +the dining room to three deaf old ladies, two +of whom had ear trumpets, while A. Fish, Esq., +was holding a kind of <em>levée</em> in my study, seated +in a chair placed on the writing table, and was +surrounded by an admiring crowd of people +who were asking all sorts of questions.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Putchy met me at the door.</p> + +<p>“Oh, sir!” she exclaimed. “I’m so glad +you’ve come home. I haven’t known what +to do with all these people.”</p> + +<p>“But what does it all mean, Putchy?” I +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +inquired. “What are they doing here at +all?”</p> + +<p>“Why, you see, sir!” said Mrs. Putchy, +“Mr. Doctor-in-Law found that A. Fish, Esq., +was attracting a good deal of attention out of +doors, and he thought that it would be a +capital idea to have a kind of show here and +charge sixpence admission to see him; and +if there’s been one, I’m sure there’s been a +hundred people up here this afternoon. The +remarks they’ve been making too, and the +questions they’ve been asking. Why, one old +lady, sir, wanted to know how much you paid +A. Fish, Esq., a week, and if I was <em>quite</em> sure +that you gave him enough to eat. They’ve +broken three chairs too, and that little Venetian +glass vase that stood on the bracket in the +corner. And just now I caught some little +boys tearing pictures out of one of those illustrated +books you brought home last week.”</p> + +<p>Here was a pretty state of affairs. The +strangers had by this time left A. Fish, Esq., +and had collected around the poor Wallypug, +who had been waiting in his wet clothing in +the hall, and I was obliged to politely but +firmly insist upon them at once leaving the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +house, telling them that their money would +be returned at the door.</p> + +<p>“I should think so, indeed,” said one angry-looking +stout lady. “Why, the whole thing +is a fraud and you ought to be thoroughly +ashamed of yourself. Talking fish indeed! I +don’t believe he’s a fish at all—at any rate, +not what I call a ‘fish,’” and she flounced +down the stairs only to return a moment or +two afterwards to say, “I thought you said +that we were to have our money back.”</p> + +<p>“So you are, madam,” I replied.</p> + +<p>“Well, why don’t you see that we get it +then? That man downstairs refuses to give +me any money. The whole thing is a swindle. +But I don’t mean to be defrauded in this way, +I can tell you.”</p> + +<p>I went downstairs and told the Doctor-in-Law +that he must at once return everyone +their money, and this after a great deal of +grumbling he did, while the Commissionaire +and the page boy tore down the posters outside +the door at my request.</p> + +<p>I explained to the Doctor-in-Law that this +sort of thing must not occur again, and made +him promise that he would never again use +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +my rooms as a place in which to hold a +show.</p> + +<p>I really felt rather annoyed about it, for I +could not imagine whatever the neighbours +would think of me for permitting such a scene +to take place in my rooms, but it evidently +was useless now to say anything more about +it.</p> + +<p>The next morning, despite the wetting which +the Wallypug had received at the Round Pond, +his thoughts still ran upon boating, and nothing +would satisfy his Majesty but that he should +go for a row. I suggested Richmond as the +best place to start from, and so we drove +over Hammersmith Bridge and across Barnes +Common.</p> + +<p>Arrived at Richmond we had no difficulty +in securing a nice boat.</p> + +<p>“I’ll row for one,” said his Majesty.</p> + +<p>“And I for another,” said the Rhymester.</p> + +<p>“Very well then,” I replied. “Perhaps the +Doctor-in-Law will steer, and so we will +manage very nicely.”</p> + +<p>Quite a large crowd had collected to see us +start, and perhaps that is what made the +Wallypug so nervous; as it was, as soon as +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +we pushed off, his Majesty fell backwards +with his feet sticking up above the seat, +while the Rhymester stuck one oar deep +down into the water and pulled it with all +his might, while the other flourished about in +the air.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 516px;"> +<img src="images/img016.png" width="516" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">his majesty fell backwards</span> +</div> + +<p>The Doctor-in-Law’s idea of steering consisted +in pulling first one string and then the +other, and so we did not get along very well +just at first.</p> + +<p>When the Wallypug had picked himself up +from the bottom of the boat, however, and the +Rhymester and he made another attempt, I +think we should have got along fairly well if +the Doctor-in-Law, in trying to get out of +the way of a passing boat, had not steered us +into the bank, where we stuck fast in the +mud till someone on the footpath very kindly +pushed us off again. After that I thought it +best to take the oars myself, and his Majesty +steered under my direction. In this way we +managed to get a little way past Teddington +Lock by luncheon time, and having found an +<em>eyot</em> with no one on it we went ashore and +unpacked the hamper of good things which +we had brought with us.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +It was a beautiful day, and I think that we +all enjoyed the picnic immensely. I know +that I did for one, and so, I think, did his +Majesty, for after the meal he laid aside his +crown and royal robes and made himself comfortable +on the grass under the trees, and +looked thoroughly happy with a big cigar in +his mouth.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/img017.png" width="300" height="171" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">his majesty enjoys himself</span> +</div> + +<p>A. Fish, Esq., busied himself in preparing +notes for his lecture on the “Perhapness of +the Improbable,” and the Doctor-in-Law, having +piled all the cushions in the boat at one end, +threw himself upon them and read the newspaper.</p> + +<p>In this way the afternoon passed very comfortably, +and the Rhymester, after scribbling +upon several pieces of paper, came and read +to me a poem which had been inspired by +our beautiful surroundings; he called it</p> + +<p class="center"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +SOUL YEARNINGS.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em;"> +The water’s as wet as wet can be,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the trees, and the grass, are green,</span><br /> +While the little birds sing and the fishes swim;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">’Tis a most delightful scene.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em;"> +It makes me yearn for I don’t know what,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To come from I don’t know where,</span><br /> +And take me away to the thingummybob<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the what-you-may-call-’ems there;</span></p> + +<p>and he told me that beautiful scenery always +affected him in that way.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/img018.png" width="250" height="241" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">an unfortunate volley</span> +</div> + +<p>It was now time for us to be thinking +about getting back, especially as I should +have to do all of the +rowing. So we got +into the boat again, +and I rowed back as +far as Twickenham, +where we stopped at +Eel-pie Island to have +some tea. While we +were waiting for it to +be prepared, we began a game of tennis, +but were obliged to leave off, as an unfortunate +volley of the Doctor-in-Law’s caught the +Wallypug on the nose, and so his Majesty +declined to play any more.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> +We persuaded him to join us at cricket, +though, having found some stumps and a bat +and ball in an outhouse on the Island, and +got on very well for +some time till, at a +shout of “out, leg +before wicket,” the +Wallypug (who had +caught the ball very +nicely on his shin) fell +forward on to the +Doctor-in-Law, crushing his hat well over his +eyes, and ruffling his temper considerably.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/img019.png" width="250" height="199" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“out”</span> +</div> + +<p>In fact, I was very glad that tea was +announced just then, for I feared that there +was going to be a bother, and, as it was, the +Doctor-in-Law kept scowling at his Majesty +very fiercely.</p> + +<p>“I shall make him pay for it,” declared the +little man, and, during tea, which we had at +wicker tables by the river’s edge, he was busy +making out an account, which later he handed +with great solemnity to the Wallypug. His +Majesty apparently could not understand it, +and passed it on to me. On examination, I +found it to be worded as follows:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;"> +<span class="smcap">His Majesty the Wallypug of Why</span>,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">In account with</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;" class="smcap">The Doctor-in-Law.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 3em;"> +To damage of one hat, <span style="margin-left: 5em;">£0</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">7</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">6</span><br /> +” <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Physical injury,</span> <span style="margin-left: 6.7em;">0</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">2</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">0</span><br /> +” <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Moral deterioration,</span> <span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">15</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">6</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">9</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">————</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 13.5em;">£22</span> <span style="margin-left: .7em;">17</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">8</span><br /> + ” <span style="margin-left: 1em;">3 per cent. discount for cash,</span> <span style="margin-left: 1.2em;">3</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">6</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">2</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">————</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 13.5em;">£26</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">4</span> <span style="margin-left: .7em;">11</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 14.5em;">————</span></p> + +<p>“What do you mean by moral deterioration?” +demanded the Wallypug.</p> + +<p>“Oh, I don’t know. Same as other people +do, I suppose,” said the Doctor-in-Law. “It’s +always charged now, I believe. I read something +about it in the papers this afternoon.”</p> + +<p>“But the addition is all wrong,” I expostulated.</p> + +<p>“No, it isn’t,” replied the Doctor-in-Law, +rudely snatching the document from me and +putting it into his pocket-book, “and if it is, +it’s nothing to do with you. I shall charge +it in our expenses, which the people of Why +have undertaken to pay, so there.” And the +avaricious little fellow ran off to the boat, +which we afterwards found he had been +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +letting out on hire to small boys at a penny +a head.</p> + +<p>The return journey was accomplished without +any remarkable incidents, and on reaching +home I found a very pressing invitation from +Girlie’s mother for the whole party to attend +her “At Home” the next day.</p> + +<p>It appears that this lady had called upon +me while we were out, and Mrs. Putchy had +told her of the Wallypug’s arrival.</p> + +<p>His Majesty was good enough to say that +he should be delighted to accept, and so I +wrote off at once to say that she might expect +us.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="IV" id="IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>LOST</strong></p> + + +<p>We had a terrible fright the next morning, +for the poor dear Wallypug got +lost, and for some time we could not imagine +what had become of him.</p> + +<p>It happened in this way: directly after breakfast +his Majesty said that he should like to +go for a walk and look at the shops.</p> + +<p>“I’m not going,” declared the Doctor-in-Law. +“I have some <em>very</em> important letters to +write.”</p> + +<p>We all looked up in surprise, for we did +not know that the Doctor-in-Law had any +other acquaintances in London.</p> + +<p>“Letters from which I hope to derive a +princely income,” continued the little man +grandly; “and, therefore, I have no time for +such foolishness as looking into shop windows.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +“He’s afraid thad he bight have to sped +sub buddy,” remarked A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>“Nothing of the sort,” replied the Doctor-in-Law, +turning very red though.</p> + +<p>“Well, don’t waste time talking about it; +let’s go if we are going,” said the Rhymester; +and so, as I also had some correspondence to +attend to, it was arranged that the Wallypug, +the Rhymester, and A. Fish, Esq., should go +for a little stroll by themselves. I had some +doubts in my own mind as to the advisability +of letting them go alone, but they promised +not to go beyond Kensington Gardens, and +to wait for me there just inside the gates.</p> + +<p>After they had gone I settled down to my +letter-writing, and was getting along nicely +when the Doctor-in-Law interrupted me with:</p> + +<p>“I say, I wish you would let me have about +twenty sheets of note-paper, will you, please?”</p> + +<p>“Twenty!” I exclaimed in surprise.</p> + +<p>“Yes, twenty,” said the Doctor-in-Law. +“Or you had better make it a quire while +you are about it.”</p> + +<p>I thought the quickest way to get rid of +him was to give him the paper, so I got up +and got it for him.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> +“And a packet of envelopes, please,” he +said, as I handed it to him.</p> + +<p>“Anything else?” I asked rather sarcastically.</p> + +<p>“Stamps!” he replied, calmly holding out +his hand.</p> + +<p>“Well, really—” I expostulated.</p> + +<p>“Oh, halfpenny ones will do. You’re surely +not so mean as to mind tenpence, are you?”</p> + +<p>“I don’t think I’m mean, but—”</p> + +<p>“Hand them over then, and don’t waste so +much time talking,” said the little man impatiently, +and so, just to get rid of him, I +gave him the stamps and sat down to my +letters again.</p> + +<p>I had hardly begun when he came back.</p> + +<p>“Don’t you take any other newspapers +than these?” he demanded, showing me a +handful.</p> + +<p>“No, I don’t, and I think it’s rather extravagant +of me to have those,” I replied.</p> + +<p>“Well, then, how do you suppose that I +am going to manage? I want at least five +other papers, and it’s <em>most</em> important that I +should have them.”</p> + +<p>“You might buy them,” I suggested.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> +“They are so dear,” he grumbled.</p> + +<p>“Well, why don’t you go to the Public +Library then?” I suggested. “You know +where it is, and you could see all of the papers +there, you know.”</p> + +<p>“Ah, a capital idea,” he said, putting on +his hat and going out.</p> + +<p>“Now,” I thought, “I shall have peace at +last.”</p> + +<p>I was not left undisturbed long though, for +a few minutes later Mrs. Putchy came to the +door.</p> + +<p>“Oh, please, sir, will you go down? Mr. +Doctor-in-Law is having such a bother with +the postman.”</p> + +<p>I hurried out, and found the little man very +angry indeed.</p> + +<p>“This postman won’t give me a letter,” he +cried when he saw me.</p> + +<p>“Perhaps he hasn’t one for you,” I answered.</p> + +<p>“But I saw him giving them away all down +the street for nothing,” persisted the Doctor-in-Law. +“And when I asked him in a civil +way for one, he refused to give it to me. It’s +no use for him to say he hasn’t one, when he +has a whole packet in his hand now, and a +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> +lot more in his bag, no doubt. Are you going +to give me a letter or not?” he continued, +turning to the postman.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 337px;"> +<img src="images/img020.png" width="337" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“are you going to give me a letter or not?”</span> +</div> + +<p>“No, sir,” continued the man, smiling. “I +haven’t any for you.”</p> + +<p>“Very well, then,” said the Doctor-in-Law +decidedly, “I shall certainly write to the Queen +and tell her that if she employs you any longer +I shall take all my custom away, and I shall +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +not send the twenty letters, that I intended +writing to-day, off at all.”</p> + +<p>I endeavoured to explain to the little man +that the postman could not possibly give him +a letter if he had not one addressed to him.</p> + +<p>“Oh, that’s all nonsense,” he exclaimed, +going off in a huff. “Of course you would +take his part.”</p> + +<p>Before I could settle down to work again +the Rhymester and A. Fish, Esq., returned.</p> + +<p>“Where’s the Wallypug?” I demanded.</p> + +<p>“Oh, he’s coming by the next ’bus,” said +the Rhymester. “Haven’t you had any rain +here?”</p> + +<p>“No,” I replied.</p> + +<p>“Oh, we had quidt a sharb shower,” said +A. Fish, Esq., “ad I was afraid of gettig +wet, so we stopped a ’bus—there was odly +roob for two though, ad the Wallypug said +thad he would cub od by the dext.”</p> + +<p>“I hope he will get home all right,” I said +anxiously. “I don’t think you ought to have +left his Majesty by himself.”</p> + +<p>“Oh! it’s only a little way,” said the +Rhymester; “he’s sure to get home all right.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 546px;"> +<img src="images/img021.png" width="546" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“so we stopped a ’bus”</span> +</div> + +<p>An hour passed and there was no signs of +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> +the Wallypug. I now began to get seriously +anxious.</p> + +<p>It would, of course, be the easiest thing in +the world for his Majesty to take the wrong +’bus, and be taken goodness knows where.</p> + +<p>I couldn’t think what was best to be done. +The Rhymester suggested sending the Crier +out, but I never remembered having seen one +at Kensington, and at last, after searching for +some time ourselves in Kensington Gardens, +and making inquiries in High Street, and failing +to glean any tidings of his Majesty, I +thought it best to go to the Police Station.</p> + +<p>Here I found a very important-looking +official in uniform, with a big book in front +of him.</p> + +<p>“What is it?” he inquired, glaring at me +fiercely.</p> + +<p>“I’ve called to know if you could assist me +in finding a friend who, I fear, has lost his +way,” I replied.</p> + +<p>The official did not answer me, but reached +down another large book.</p> + +<p>“What’s his name?” he inquired gruffly.</p> + +<p>“His name? Oh—er—his name is—er—that +is to say he is the—” I had not the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> +least idea what the Wallypug’s name really +was, so I couldn’t very well say.</p> + +<p>“What’s his name?” shouted the official. +“I’ll ask you what he <em>is</em> presently.”</p> + +<p>“Well, I’m very sorry, but I really do not +know his name.”</p> + +<p>The man glanced at me very suspiciously.</p> + +<p>“You said he was a friend of yours—it’s +a very odd thing that you don’t know his +name. What is he?”</p> + +<p>“He’s a—a—Wallypug,” I stammered. +“That is to say he—er—”</p> + +<p>“Wallypug!” exclaimed the man contemptuously. +“What’s that?”</p> + +<p>“Why, it’s a kind of king, you know,” I +explained, feeling that the explanation was +rather a lame one.</p> + +<p>“A <em>kind</em> of king!” exclaimed the police +officer. “Explain yourself.”</p> + +<p>“Well, I’m afraid I can’t explain more +clearly than that,” I replied. “This gentleman +has been staying with me for a couple +of days, and went out this morning and lost +his way.”</p> + +<p>“Where did he come from?” asked the +man.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +“Why,” I answered.</p> + +<p>“Why? Because I want to know,” he +shouted. “Don’t let me have any further +prevarication. Where did the man, or Wallypug, +or whatever you call him, come from?”</p> + +<p>“From Why. From a place called Why, +you know,” I repeated.</p> + +<p>“I <em>don’t</em> know,” said the officer. “I’ve +never heard of such a place. Where is it?”</p> + +<p>“Well, really,” I said, “I’m very sorry, but +I cannot tell you. I don’t know myself.”</p> + +<p>“This is <em>very</em> remarkable,” said the man, +glaring at me through his glasses. “You +don’t know your friend’s name; you call him +a Wallypug, and can’t explain what that is, +you don’t know where he comes from—perhaps +you can tell me how he reached your +house?”</p> + +<p>I was now really in a fix, for how could I +tell this man that his Majesty had stepped +out of a picture.</p> + +<p>I thought the best thing to do was to hold +my tongue.</p> + +<p>“How did he come?” repeated the officer. +“By train?”</p> + +<p>I shook my head.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> +“By steamer?”</p> + +<p>I shook my head again.</p> + +<p>“Did he drive?—or come on a bicycle, or +walk?”</p> + +<p>I remained silent.</p> + +<p>The police officer stared at me for a moment +or two, waiting for my answer.</p> + +<p>“Look here, young man,” said he at last, +evidently very angry indeed. “It strikes me +that you are having a game with me. You +had better go away quietly or I shall be obliged +to take you in charge as a lunatic.”</p> + +<p>“But I assure you that—”</p> + +<p>“How was your friend dressed?”</p> + +<p>“Oh, he wore a somewhat battered gold +crown, and carried an orb and sceptre, and +was dressed in knee breeches and a velvet +cloak with an ermine collar.”</p> + +<p>The man gave me a keen glance and then +rang a bell. A policeman appeared a moment +or two afterwards, and the officer whispered +something to him, of which I only caught the +words, “harmless lunatic.”</p> + +<p>“Lunatic, sir; yes, sir. Step this way, +please,” said the policeman, and before I could +realize what had happened I was bundled into +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> +a small bare room, and the key was turned in +the lock and I was a prisoner.</p> + +<p>Here was a pretty state of affairs. The +stupid people had mistaken me for a lunatic, +and I was no doubt to be locked up here +till a doctor arrived.</p> + +<p>Of course the only thing for me to do was +to sit still and wait as patiently as I could. +Fortunately the police people thought of telegraphing +to the other stations to find out if +anything was known of an escaped lunatic; +and from Fulham came the reply, “We have +found one ourselves. He calls himself a Wallypug, +and is dressed like a second-hand king.” +This caused inquiries to be made, and eventually +I was taken in a cab to Fulham, where +we found his Majesty in the charge of the +police, he having been found wandering about +the Fulham Road quite unable to give what +they considered a satisfactory account of himself.</p> + +<p>It was most unfortunate that his Majesty +should have taken the wrong ’bus, for, not having +any money with him, he was set down in a +totally strange neighbourhood, and had quite +forgotten my address. Of course, now that +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> +we had been brought face to face, we had no +difficulty in convincing the police people that +we were what we represented ourselves to be, +and were soon, to our great relief, on our way +home again.</p> + +<p>“I don’t think that I should like to be a +policeman,” remarked the Wallypug, on our +way there.</p> + +<p>“No?” I answered. “Why not?”</p> + +<p>“They have to catch dogs for a living?” +remarked his Majesty solemnly. “There were +several brought in while I was waiting, and +the policeman who had caught them seemed +so pleased about it.”</p> + +<p>I explained to the Wallypug as well as I +was able about the muzzling order, and his +Majesty was highly indignant, and when I +pointed out several dogs with muzzles on he +was more indignant still.</p> + +<p>“And are they always obliged to wear those +horrible wire cages over their heads?” he inquired.</p> + +<p>I told his Majesty that in London the order +for wearing them had been in force for some +considerable time, and we had a long talk over +the matter, his Majesty declaring that he +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> +should try and invent a new muzzle which +should be more comfortable for the poor dogs.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/img022.png" width="448" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">unable to give an account of himself</span> +</div> + +<p>“Oh, here we are at last,” he exclaimed, as +we turned the corner near my house. “And +there are the others on the steps!”</p> + +<p>“Here they are! Here they are!” shouted +the Rhymester to the others, and everyone +rushed forward to assist his Majesty to alight, +seemingly very glad to see us back again.</p> + +<p>We were quite as delighted to get back, I +can tell you, and I was so relieved at having +found the Wallypug that I hadn’t the heart +to refuse the Doctor-in-Law’s request that I +would give him ten shillings worth of penny +stamps to put into the letters which he had +been writing while we had been away, although +he would not give me the slightest clue as to +what they were wanted for.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="V" id="V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>AN ‘AT HOME’ AND THE ACADEMY</strong></p> + + +<p>We were quite ready for luncheon, as you +may imagine, after our morning’s adventures, +and directly afterwards his Majesty +set to work on the new dog’s muzzle which +he had promised to invent. In about half an +hour he had constructed one with which he +was intensely delighted, and he persuaded A. +Fish, Esq., to try it on that we might see +the effect.</p> + +<p>It certainly was very simple, but as there +was nothing whatever to go over the mouth, +I felt sure that it could not possibly be very +useful. I did not like to tell his Majesty so +though, for he seemed so thoroughly proud +of his achievement.</p> + +<p>It was now time to go to the ‘At Home,’ +so, wishing to do honour to the occasion, our +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> +‘State Coach,’ as we called it, was sent for, +and we drove off in fine style.</p> + +<p>There were a great many people invited to +meet us, and I could see that there was quite +a little flutter of excitement when the Wallypug +entered.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;"> +<img src="images/img023.png" width="296" height="350" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">it certainly was very simple</span> +</div> + +<p>His Majesty, however, in his simple, good-natured +way soon put everybody at their +ease, and laughed and chattered with the +utmost affability.</p> + +<p>Girlie and Boy had both been allowed to +come into the drawing-room, and Girlie quite +claimed the Wallypug as her own particular +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> +guest, while Boy renewed his acquaintance +with the Rhymester, whom he had met before +at Zum, and despite their mother’s protests +they carried these two members of our party +off in triumph to show them their play-room +and toys and to talk over old times.</p> + +<p>While they were away the Doctor-in-Law +made himself very agreeable to the ladies, +and I watched him bowing and smiling and +chatting, first with one group, then with +another, with great amusement. I found out +afterwards that he had promised several of +them portraits of his Majesty and suite for +2s. 6d. each as soon as they should be taken, +and in every case had asked for the money +in advance; but the great event of the afternoon +was when A. Fish, Esq., wrapped up +in Mrs. Putchy’s pink woollen shawl, borrowed +for the occasion, and surrounded by a group +of young ladies, consented after much pressing +to deliver part of his lecture on the “Perhapness +of the Improbable.”</p> + +<p>“You bust sed for the Rhymebster though +to help be to read id, for by cold is still so +bad thad I can’d do id by byself,” he explained.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img024.png" width="400" height="380" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a. fish, esq., obliges</span> +</div> + +<p>So the Rhymester was sent for, and his +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> +Majesty also came down to hear the wonderful +lecture. It had been turned into verse by the +Rhymester, who, after an affected attempt to +clear his throat, read as follows:</p> + +<p class="center">THE PERHAPNESS OF THE IMPROBABLE.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +If <em>this</em> were that, and <em>these</em> were those,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <em>hither</em> nearer thither,</span><br /> +Why, <em>which</em> might be whate’er it chose,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <em>there</em> be any whither.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +Somehow ’twould be the simpler way<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To <em>dearer</em> be than cheaper,</span><br /> +And that’s why <em>when</em> (each other day)<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Would <em>higher</em> be than <em>deeper</em>.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +So <em>worst</em> would be the <em>best</em> of all,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <em>far more less</em> than either;</span><br /> +While <em>short</em> would certainly be <em>tall</em>,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And therefore thus be neither.</span></p> + +<p>“Beautiful! charming!” echoed all the young +ladies at once when he had finished, while one +lady sitting near me exclaimed, “How sweetly +simple!” For my own part I thought that it +was anything but simple, and caught myself +trying to follow the line of argument with the +most brain-confusing results.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"> +<img src="images/img025.png" width="353" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">absent-mindedly spilt his tea</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +The Wallypug was greatly distressed when +he discovered that while listening to the reading, +and looking at the charming young lady +with whom he had been conversing, he had +absent-mindedly spilt the whole of his cup of +tea over her dress.</p> + +<p>“You see, they didn’t give me a plate +to put my cake on,” I heard him explain +apologetically, “and it <em>was</em> so awkward, for +my cup would keep slipping about on the +saucer.”</p> + +<p>The young lady smiled very sweetly and +assured his Majesty that it didn’t matter in +the least, and shortly afterwards we left, having +stayed, as it was, far beyond the regulation time.</p> + +<p>When we arrived home we found a letter +addressed to the Rhymester in the letter-box, +which in a state of great excitement he tore +open with trembling fingers.</p> + +<p>Upon reading the contents he burst into +tears.</p> + +<p>“Poor man, poor man!” he sobbed. “I +am so sorry to have caused him so much +trouble.”</p> + +<p>“It is a letter from an Editor,” he explained +through his tears, “and he is in great distress +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> +through not being able to publish my poem. +He says he greatly regrets his inability to +make use of it! Poor man, he evidently feels +it very keenly. I must write and tell him not +to be too unhappy about it.”</p> + +<p>I had some letters to write too, one to a +photographer in Regent Street, asking for an +appointment the next morning, for I was determined +that the Doctor-in-Law should send +the promised photographs to the young ladies +without delay.</p> + +<p>The first thing in the morning came a +telegram to say that we could be photographed +at eleven o’clock, so, after my guests had made +themselves as spruce as possible, we started +off and reached there in good time.</p> + +<p>It was suggested that the Wallypug should +be taken by himself, but when he saw the +camera pointed directly at him while the +operator disappeared beneath the black cloth, +he came to the conclusion that it was too +dangerous a machine to be faced with impunity, +so he suddenly turned his back upon it, and +nervously fled from the room.</p> + +<p>It was only by promising that the others +should be taken with him that we could get +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> +him to sit at all, and even then there was a +strained and nervous expression upon his face, +which suggested that he was in momentary fear +that the thing would “go off.”</p> + +<p>The Rhymester insisted upon being taken +with one of his poems in his hand, the Doctor-in-Law +wore his usual complacent smile, and +altogether the group was quite a success.</p> + +<p>As soon as the “operation,” as the Wallypug +would insist upon calling it, was over, we went +downstairs, his Majesty leading the way, while +the Doctor-in-Law stayed behind for a moment +to make some arrangements with the photographer +about commission. We had intended +going home by ’bus, but when we got to the +door his Majesty was nowhere to be seen. +What could have become of him? We looked +up and down the street, but could see no signs +of him anywhere; and at last, after hunting +about for a considerable time, he was discovered +calmly sitting inside a furniture removal van, +waiting for it to start, under the impression +that it was an omnibus.</p> + +<p>“I’m sure this is the right one,” he explained, +“for it has ‘Kensington’ printed in large letters +on it. Come along, there’s plenty of room +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +inside; the conductor and the driver will be +here presently, I suppose.”</p> + +<p>I laughingly explained to his Majesty the +mistake which he had made, and we walked +on as far as Piccadilly Circus, where we found +a ’bus to take us to the Academy, which we +intended visiting on our way home. We had +not gone far though, when I suddenly remembered +that the 22nd June was very close +at hand, and that I had better make arrangements +for seats to view the Jubilee Procession +or I should be too late. So it was arranged +that the Doctor-in-Law should take charge of +the party while I went on to the agents to +see about the seats. They would have no +difficulty in getting home by themselves for +the ’buses ran from just outside the Academy +doors straight to Kensington, so I felt sure +that they would be all right.</p> + +<p>“How much is the entrance fee to the +Academy?” asked the Doctor-in-Law, as I +was getting down from the ’bus.</p> + +<p>“A shilling each,” I replied, and I saw the +little man collecting the money from the others +as the ’bus disappeared from view.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 525px;"> +<img src="images/img026.png" width="525" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">waiting for it to start</span> +</div> + +<p>I was very fortunate at the agents in being +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> +able to secure a capital window in Piccadilly, +and some Stores in the neighbourhood undertook +to provide a luncheon and to suitably +decorate the window for us.</p> + +<p>These arrangements being satisfactorily concluded, +I hurried home, and was greatly relieved +to find my guests there before me.</p> + +<p>“How did you enjoy the Academy?” I +inquired.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;"> +<img src="images/img027.png" width="340" height="350" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">could not understand the catalogue</span> +</div> + +<p>“Not at all!” said his Majesty decidedly.</p> + +<p>“Waste of money, I call it,” said the +Rhymester, sniffing contemptuously.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> +“I was dever so disappointed id edythig id +all by life!” declared A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>“Besides, the catalogue was no good at all,” +complained his Majesty. “We could make +neither head nor tail of it.”</p> + +<p>The Doctor-in-Law was silent, and it was +only by very careful inquiry that I found out +that, after pocketing their money, he had taken +them to an immense hoarding covered with +advertisement posters, and had gammoned them +into believing that <em>that</em> was the Academy, while +it was no wonder that the poor Wallypug could +not understand the ‘catalogue,’ for it was nothing +more nor less than an old illustrated stores +price list.</p> + +<p>It was really too bad of the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="VI" id="VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE JUBILEE</strong></p> + + +<p>The few days which elapsed before the +memorable 22nd of June passed very +quickly, and we were all more or less busy +making preparations for the festival. His +Majesty would insist upon polishing up his +regalia himself in order to do honour to the +occasion, and spent hours over his crown with +a piece of chamois leather and some whitening +till, though somewhat battered by the +rough usage it had sustained, it shone quite +brilliantly. Mrs. Putchy herself suggested +making his Majesty some new red silk rosettes +for his shoes, which he very graciously consented +to accept. The Doctor-in-Law was +always so spick and span that we scarcely +noticed any change in his appearance, but +the Rhymester had made arrangements with +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +General Mary Jane to wash, starch, and iron +his lace collar, and he remained in his room +one entire day while it was being done up. +A. Fish, Esq., purchased a necktie of most +brilliant colouring, and One-and-Nine touched +himself up here and there with some red +enamel where his tunic had +become shabby in places, so +that altogether our party +looked very smart as we +drove at a very early hour to +our seats in Piccadilly. To +avoid the crowd we went by +way of Bayswater Road, and +then passed down Park Lane +and through Berkeley Square, +in order to reach the back +entrance to the house in Piccadilly where I +had booked seats. Our gorgeous carriage was +everywhere hailed with great delight, being of +course mistaken for a portion of the Jubilee procession, +and many were the conjectures heard +on all sides as to who the Wallypug could +possibly be.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 167px;"> +<img src="images/img028.png" width="167" height="300" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">with some red enamel</span> +</div> + +<p>Our window was in the centre of the building +on the first floor, and we had it all to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> +ourselves. A table at the back of the room +was tastefully set out with an excellent cold +collation, and in front of the window, which +was most elaborately decorated with velvet +curtains, flags, and trophies, and which was +surmounted by a device which was understood +to be the Wallypug’s coat-of-arms, a gorgeous, +gilded, high-backed chair was placed as a throne +for his Majesty, and comfortable seats were +also provided for the rest of the party.</p> + +<p>The crowd outside greeted our appearance +with quite a demonstration, as by the enormous +placard outside announcing the name of the +decorators, and stating that they were by +appointment to his Majesty the Wallypug of +Why, of course everybody knew who we were. +Indeed, one learned-looking person in the crowd +was holding forth to an eager audience, and +explaining exactly where Why was situated, +and pretending that he had been there, and +had seen the Wallypug before, ever so many +times.</p> + +<p>As the time approached for the procession +to pass, the Wallypug became very excited +and nervous. “Shall I really see the Queen +of England?” he kept asking over and over +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> +again. “Do you think she will see me? Will +she bow to me? What must I say? Must I +keep my crown on or take it off?” and innumerable +other questions of the same nature.</p> + +<p>Presently the excitement and enthusiasm +reached their height, as amid a confused shouting +of “Here they are,” the Guards in advance +came in sight. Slowly the mighty procession, +with its innumerable squadrons and bands +passed, and at last, after the English and +Foreign princes and Eastern potentates, the +eight cream-coloured Hanoverian horses, drawing +the Jubilee landau, made their appearance, +and the Queen was seen, smiling and bowing +graciously to the cheering populace. The +Doctor-in-Law, in his excitement, scrambled +on to the window ledge in order to obtain a +better view; the Wallypug loyally waved his +crown; while the Rhymester, hurriedly unrolling +a lengthy ode which he had written +especially for the occasion, began reading it +in a loud voice, and, though nobody paid the +slightest attention to him, did not desist until +long after the procession had passed.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 462px;"> +<img src="images/img029.png" width="462" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the wallypug loyally waved his crown</span> +</div> + +<p>The Wallypug was very thoughtful for some +time after the Queen had gone by, and, during +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +the drive home, expressed his great surprise +that her Majesty had not worn a crown, +and apparently could not understand why it +should not be worn on all occasions.</p> + +<p>“I suppose her Majesty has a crown of her +own, hasn’t she?” he asked anxiously.</p> + +<p>“Oh yes, of course!” I replied.</p> + +<p>“Where is it then?” persisted his Majesty.</p> + +<p>“I believe all of the regalia is kept carefully +locked up and guarded in the Tower of +London,” I said.</p> + +<p>“Well, I think it’s very unkind of them +not to let her Majesty have them out on an +occasion like this. I shall see what I can do +about it.”</p> + +<p>The dear Wallypug’s intentions were evidently +so good that I did not say anything +in reply to this, though I wondered to myself +whatever his Majesty thought that <em>he</em> could do +in the matter.</p> + +<p>There were so many people about that we +considered it best to spend the rest of the day +quietly at home, though we did venture out +in the evening to see the illuminations, which +delighted his Majesty exceedingly.</p> + +<p>The next afternoon the whole party, with +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> +the exception of One-and-Nine, drove over the +route taken by the procession, in order to see +the street decorations. I remained at home, +and late in the afternoon there was a knock +at my door, and General Mary Jane entered. +She was nervously wringing a handkerchief +wet with tears, and her eyes were quite red +with weeping.</p> + +<p>“Please, sir,” she began, sniffing pathetically, +“I want to gi—gi—give no—notice.”</p> + +<p>“Why! what ever for?” I asked in surprise, +for General Mary Jane was an excellent +servant, and Mrs. Putchy had always been +very pleased with her.</p> + +<p>“Please, sir, it’s Sergeant One-and-Nine; +he’s broken my ’art, sir, and I can’t bear it +no longer,” and the poor girl burst into a +flood of tears.</p> + +<p>“Bless me!” I cried, “whatever do you +mean?”</p> + +<p>“Well, sir, you see ever since he’s been +’ere, sir, he’s been a making hup to me; +leastwise that’s what I thought he meant, +sir; but this afternoon bein’ my day hout, I +went up to Kensington Gardens for a walk +(him a saying as he would be there), and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> +what should I see when I gets there, but him +a walkin’ about with half-a-dozen of them +nursemaids in white frocks a followin’ of him. +Not that I says as it’s altogether his fault; +they will run after the military; but it’s more +than I can stand, sir, me bein’ that proud at +’avin’ a soldier for a sweetheart, and all,” and +she began to cry again.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img030.png" width="400" height="364" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">they will run after the military</span> +</div> + +<p>I hardly knew what to do, but suggested +that she should not think too seriously about it, +and General Mary Jane, saying she hoped I +would excuse her troubling me in the matter, +decided to go to her married sister at Barnes +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> +and spend the rest of her day out there, and +talk the matter over with her. I had a lot of +writing to do all the afternoon, and the time +passed so quickly that until the gong sounded +for dinner I did not realize that the Wallypug +and his party had not returned. It was now +past seven, and they should have been home +hours since.</p> + +<p>I was so anxious about them that I could +scarcely eat any dinner, and as soon as the +meal was over I hurried to the livery stables +to hear if they knew anything about the +matter.</p> + +<p>The first person I encountered when I arrived +there was the coachman, now divested of his +fine livery, and busy in the yard.</p> + +<p>“Bless you, sir, yes, back hours ago,” said +he. “I set his Majesty and the others down +at your door about five o’clock, and I did +hear them say something about going down +to Hammersmith for a walk.”</p> + +<p>“To Hammersmith?” I echoed in surprise.</p> + +<p>“Yes, sir—they wanted to see the Suspension +Bridge and the river again, so I +told them the way to get there. They’re +all right, sir, I’ll be bound. The Doctor-in-Law +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> +is too wide awake for anything to happen +to them while he is with them.”</p> + +<p>I walked home somewhat easier in my mind +now that I knew the party had returned safely, +though still somewhat anxious as to their +whereabouts.</p> + +<p>About nine o’clock it began to get quite +dark, and I was just setting out to see if I +could find any trace of them when General +Mary Jane returned.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 437px;"> +<img src="images/img031.png" width="437" height="300" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“and donkey rides”</span> +</div> + +<p>“Oh, sir!” she exclaimed directly she saw +me, “what do you think? His Majesty and +the Doctor-in-Law and the others are down +at the fair by Hammersmith Bridge, and they +are ’aving such a lark. I see them all ’aving +a roundabout as I was coming past on my +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> +way ’ome from my sister’s just now; such a +crowd there was a cheering and a hollering. +Cocoa-nut shies, too, a boy told me they had +been ’aving, and old Aunt Sally, and donkey +rides along the towing path.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/img032.png" width="450" height="263" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“they are ’aving such a lark”</span> +</div> + +<p>I hurriedly put on my hat and rushed off +to Hammersmith, for I didn’t know what might +happen to my guests among the rough crowd +which I knew usually gathered there.</p> + +<p>When I arrived on the scene I found the +whole party on the roundabout, and when they +alighted I learned that the Doctor-in-Law had +arranged with one of the show people to share +the proceeds of exhibiting the Wallypug and +A. Fish, Esq., in separate tents, at 3d. a head.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> +I met with considerable opposition from the +show people in my endeavours to persuade +my guests to come home, as they had evidently +been a source of considerable profit to them, +though the man with the cocoa-nut shies declared +that the Doctor-in-Law had claimed a +great many more nuts than he was properly +entitled to.</p> + +<p>The crowd made quite a demonstration when +we departed in a four-wheeler, and the Rhymester +evidently considered it a compliment that +the contents of so many “ladies’ tormentors,” +as the little tubes filled with water are called, +were directed at him. Altogether the whole +party had evidently been delighted with their +evening’s amusement, though, as I explained +to them while we were driving home, it was +highly inconsistent with the dignity of his +Majesty’s position, and calculated to cause him +to be treated with a certain amount of disrespect. +I could see, however, that all I said +had very little effect on any of the party, and +that they were one and all highly delighted +with their adventure.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="VII" id="VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>MORE ADVENTURES</strong></p> + + +<p>“It’s the most contraryish place I’ve ever +seen,” declared One-and-Nine.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” agreed the Wallypug. “There was +no water in the moat.”</p> + +<p>“The Drawbridge didn’t draw,” echoed the +Rhymester.</p> + +<p>“Ad the beefeaters didn’t eat beef,” chimed +in A. Fish, Esq., while the Doctor-in-Law +declared that for his part he “considered the +morning spent there had been entirely wasted.”</p> + +<p>They were talking about the Tower of +London, and were telling Girlie and Boy, who +were spending the afternoon with us, all about +their visit there on the previous day.</p> + +<p>I was sitting in an adjoining room—but +the door being open I could hear all that was +said.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> +“How did you go?” asked Boy.</p> + +<p>“Oh!” exclaimed the Wallypug, “in the +most extraordinary way you can possibly +imagine. We went into a house in High +Street, Kensington, and bought some little +tickets, and then we handed them to a man +at a barrier, who cut a little piece out of each +one as we passed through.”</p> + +<p>“To rebebber us by,” chimed in A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” continued the Wallypug; “and then +we went down two flights of stairs, and by-and-bye +a lot of little houses on wheels came +rushing into the station, and we got into one +of them and before you could say ‘Jack +Robinson’ we were rushing through a big black +tunnel under the ground.”</p> + +<p>“Why, you mean the Underground Railway,” +declared Girlie.</p> + +<p>“Yes,” agreed his Majesty. “And the little +room we sat in had beautiful soft cushions and +a big light in the middle of the roof, and little +texts printed on the wall—”</p> + +<p>“Texts!” exclaimed both of the children.</p> + +<p>“Texts,” repeated the Wallypug. “What +were they? Do you remember?” he asked of +the others.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> +“Oh, one was, ‘You are requested not to +put your feet on the cushions,’” said the +Rhymester.</p> + +<p>“Oh, yes, and ‘To seat five,’ and ‘Wait +till the train stops’—I remember now,” continued +the Wallypug. “Well, we kept rushing +through the tunnel till we came to ‘Holman’s +Mustard,’ and a lot of people got out, and then +we went on again till we came to ‘Smears’ +Soap.’”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img033.png" width="400" height="328" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“holman’s mustard again”</span> +</div> + +<p>“It wasn’t ‘Smears’ Soap,’” contradicted the +Doctor-in-Law. “It was somebody’s Ink.”</p> + +<p>“Well, there were such a lot of names,” +declared the Wallypug, “it was impossible to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> +really tell which was which. I always took +the name opposite to my window to be the +right one. The funniest part of it all was, we +kept coming to ‘Holman’s Mustard’ over and +over again. I can’t think how on earth the +people know when to get out.”</p> + +<p>“Why, those weren’t the names of the +stations at all,” laughed Boy. “They were +advertisements!”</p> + +<p>“Well, where were the names of the stations +then?” demanded his Majesty.</p> + +<p>“Why, in big letters on the walls of course,” +was the reply.</p> + +<p>“They couldn’t have been much bigger +than those of ‘Holman’s Mustard,’” persisted +the Wallypug somewhat ungrammatically.</p> + +<p>“Never mind about that; get on with your +story,” remarked the Doctor-in-Law impatiently.</p> + +<p>“Well, after going through a lot of tunnels +and stopping ever so many times, we got out +at one of the stations and went upstairs into +the light again, and almost opposite the station +we could see a lot of grey stone buildings +with towers and battlements.”</p> + +<p>“I know! You mean the Tower. We’ve +been there,” interrupted Girlie.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> +“Did you see the Lions?” asked the Wallypug +eagerly.</p> + +<p>“Lions! No!” exclaimed the children. +“There weren’t any; you didn’t see any, did +you?”</p> + +<p>“No, we didn’t,” admitted the Wallypug, +“but the Doctor-in-Law told us that there were +some there.”</p> + +<p>“I read it in a book,” declared the Doctor-in-Law. +“But I daresay it was all a pack +of stories, like the rest of the things they said. +Look at the Crown Jewels for instance—bits +of glass and rubbish. That’s why they put +them in an iron cage, so you can’t get at them +to see if they are real.”</p> + +<p>“Oh! I think they <em>are</em> real,” said Boy. +“The Guide told us that they were worth +ever so many thousands of pounds.”</p> + +<p>“Yes, he may have <em>said</em> so,” remarked the +Doctor-in-Law, “but I’ll be bound he wouldn’t +let you take them away and examine them for +yourself. I asked them to let me have one or +two of the crowns and things to take home +and test, but they positively refused, although +I promised to return them within a week. +They are afraid that we should find out that +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> +they are only imitations—that’s what’s the +matter.”</p> + +<p>“There weren’t any kings or queens executed +either the day we were there,” he continued, +grumbling.</p> + +<p>“Well, I’m sure I’m very glad that <em>that</em> +fashion has died out,” declared his Majesty. +“I don’t mind admitting now that I was rather +nervous about going at all, for fear that I should +have <em>my</em> head chopped off, and I should feel +so very awkward without one, you know.”</p> + +<p>“Pooh! You needn’t have been alarmed, +for there wasn’t a Lord High Executioner on +the premises, because I asked,” declared the +Rhymester.</p> + +<p>“No, but do you know,” said his Majesty, +“I’ve found out since, that he lives at the +bottom of our street, and mends shoes for a +living—he does a little executing still on the +sly, for I have seen his bill in the window, +‘Orders <em>executed</em> with promptness and dispatch.’ +I asked him one day what class he executed +most, and he said that his connection was +principally amongst the ‘Uppers.’ He seems +a very kind man though, and not only executes +orders, but heals them too, poor souls! He +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> +charges 1s. 3d. for healing. His education has +been sorely neglected, I am afraid, however, for +he spells it ‘heeling.’”</p> + +<p>“Did you see the Armoury at the Tower?” +asked Boy.</p> + +<p>“Yes, and there was another instance of +deception,” declared the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“What do you mean?” asked Boy.</p> + +<p>“Well, what is an armoury?” inquired the +Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“A place where arms are kept, I suppose,” +replied Boy.</p> + +<p>“Just so, and there wasn’t an arm in the +place except our own,” said the Doctor-in-Law +wrathfully.</p> + +<p>“Why, they call guns and things arms,” said +Boy, laughing.</p> + +<p>“Oh! do they?” remarked the Doctor-in-Law +sarcastically. “Why don’t they call things +by their proper names then? they might as +well call them legs, or turnips, or paraffin oil—bah! +I’ve no patience with such folly!”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/img034.png" width="500" height="413" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“they went for by calves”</span> +</div> + +<p>“I think they bight feed the raveds<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> bedder,” +complained A. Fish, Esq. “They went for +by calves, and if wud of those Beefeaters hadn’d +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> +cub and driven theb away I shouldn’t have had +a leg left to stand up od.”</p> + +<p>“Beefeaters, yes!” remarked the Rhymester, +“and a pretty lot they were. I tried several +of them with a piece that I had brought with +me in a little paper bag, and not one of them +would touch it.”</p> + +<p>“Madame Tussaud’s was better; we went +there in the afternoon,” said his Majesty.</p> + +<p>“Yes, but who was to know which were +wax figures and which were not?” asked the +Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“Well, you made a pretty muddle of it anyhow,” +said the Wallypug. “Do you know,” +he went on, “the Doctor-in-Law made us all +pay sixpence each towards the catalogue, and +then went around with us explaining the +various groups. He had just finished telling +us that several ladies, who were standing together, +were Henry the Eighth’s wives, when +they all marched off looking highly indignant.”</p> + +<p>“Well, how was I to know?” remarked +the Doctor-in-Law pettishly. “I’d never met +a single one of Henry the Eighth’s wives in +my life, and how was I to recognize them?”</p> + +<p>“I don’t think they would have binded so +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> +butch if the Rhymebster hadn’t pinched wud of +theb to see if they were alive or dot,” remarked +A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>“Did you see the Sleeping Beauty?” asked +Girlie.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img035.png" width="400" height="324" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">he could get no answer</span> +</div> + +<p>“Oh, yes! Isn’t it cruel to keep her shut +up in that case,” cried the Wallypug. “I’m +sure she’s alive, for we could see her breathing +quite distinctly. I was so concerned about +it that I asked the Doctor-in-Law to speak +to a policeman who was standing near by +about it. But he could get no answer from +him, and we found out afterwards that he was +only a wax figure.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> +“The best thig of all,” remarked A. Fish, +Esq., “was whed we all pretended that we—”</p> + +<p>“Dear me, it’s very warm!” interrupted +the Doctor-in-Law. “Let’s change the subject.”</p> + +<p>“Pretended that we—” continued A. Fish, +Esq.</p> + +<p>“Hush—sh—sh—!” cried the Doctor-in-Law +in a warning voice.</p> + +<p>“The fact of the matter is,” explained the +Rhymester, “the Doctor-in-Law got us all to +pretend that we were wax figures ourselves, +and he tied little money boxes in front of us +with the words: ‘Put a penny in the slot and +the figure will move,’ written on them, and +when anyone put a penny in we all moved +our heads and rolled our eyes about.”</p> + +<p>“I didn’t!” said the Wallypug.</p> + +<p>“No, I know you didn’t,” replied the +Rhymester. “And the Doctor-in-Law had to +explain that you were out of order, and that’s +how we were found out, for the people wanted +their money back and he wouldn’t give it to +them, so they called the attendant, and we +had to go out as quickly as we could.”</p> + +<p>“Ad wasn’t id beade?” said A. Fish, Esq. +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> +“There were four shillings ad threepedce id +the boxes, ad the Doctor-id-Law wouldn’t +give us a penny of id.”</p> + +<p>“Well, I let you pay my fare home. That +amounted to the same thing,” replied the little +man.</p> + +<p>Just then Mrs. Putchy came in with afternoon +tea, and I joined my guests in the +drawing-room.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="VIII" id="VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>HIS MAJESTY IS INTERVIEWED</strong></p> + + +<p>The next morning we were all seated +around the breakfast table laughing over +our adventures of the evening before, when +we had visited the Earl’s Court Exhibition +together. We had been up in the Great +Wheel, and having passed through the pretty +old English village were walking around the +artificial lake listening to the band playing in +their little pavilion on the island in the middle, +when the Doctor-in-Law declared that he heard +a strange trumpeting sound, and asked me +what it could be. I had not heard it and so +could not tell him, and we were just discussing +the matter when the Wallypug clutched wildly +at his crown, and turning around we saw a +huge elephant lifting it gracefully off his head +with its trunk.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> +Directly his Majesty realized what it was, +he gave a wild scream and took to his heels, +as did all the others, with the exception of the +Rhymester, who tripped against a stone and +lay with his head buried in his arms for some +time, kicking and screaming for help.</p> + +<p>Of course it was only the tame elephant +that carries the children on its back, but to +the unaccustomed eyes of the Wallypug and +his party it seemed, so they told me afterwards, +some strange and awful monster ready +to devour them.</p> + +<p>As I said, we were laughing merrily over +this adventure when the postman arrived, and +the Doctor-in-Law, without asking to be excused +from the table, rushed out to meet him, +and returned a few minutes later with his arms +loaded with a number of little packages and +one rather large box, which had arrived by +Carter Paterson.</p> + +<p>“Dear me, what a lot of letters,” remarked +his Majesty.</p> + +<p>“Yes. Wouldn’t you like to know what +they are all about, eh?” inquired the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“Yes, I should,” admitted the Wallypug; +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> +while the faces of the others all expressed the +same curiosity.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 409px;"> +<img src="images/img036.png" width="409" height="600" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a strange and awful monster</span> +</div> + +<p>“Well, I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said the +Doctor-in-Law. “If you’ll all pay me fourpence +halfpenny each, I will let you open them and +see for yourselves.”</p> + +<p>There was a little grumbling at this, but +eventually the money changed hands, and, +the breakfast things having been removed, +the little packages were opened with great +eagerness.</p> + +<p>Besides a printed circular, each one contained +some little article—a pencil case, a pen +knife, a comb, a sample tin of knife polish, +a card of revolving collar studs, and so on.</p> + +<p>“Ah!” remarked the Doctor-in-Law complacently +as these articles were spread about +the table; “I told you that I expected to +derive a princely revenue from my correspondence, +and now I will explain to you how +it is done. I observed a great number of +advertisements in the daily papers, stating that +‘A handsome income could be earned without +the slightest trouble or inconvenience, and +particulars would be forwarded to any one +sending six stamps and an addressed envelope’; +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> +so I sent off about twenty, and here is the +result. I see by these circulars that I have +only to sell two hundred of these little pencil +cases at half-a-crown each in order to earn +1s. 6d. commission, and for every dozen tins +of knife polish I sell, I shall be paid 1-½d., +besides being able to earn 6d. a thousand by +addressing envelopes for one firm, if I supply +my own envelopes.”</p> + +<p>“What’s in the big box?” inquired the +Rhymester.</p> + +<p>“A dittig bachede,” replied A. Fish, Esq., +who had been busily engaged in opening it.</p> + +<p>“A what?” exclaimed the others.</p> + +<p>“A dittig bachede for dittig socks,” repeated +A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>“Oh yes, of course!” explained the Doctor-in-Law, +“a knitting machine. I was persuaded +to buy it on the understanding that I was +to have constant work all the year round, and +be paid so much per pair for knitting socks +with it. It’s a most interesting and amusing +occupation, and, I’ll tell you what, I don’t +mind letting any one of you use the machine +for sixpence an hour, if you find your own +worsted and give me the socks when they +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> +are finished. There now! nothing could be +fairer than that, could it?”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img037.png" width="400" height="377" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the “dittig bachede”</span> +</div> + +<p>And positively A. Fish, Esq., was so infatuated +with the charms of the “dittig +bachede,” as he called it, that he actually +agreed to these terms, and sent out for some +worsted, and commenced “dittig” with great +enthusiasm. The Doctor-in-Law then set the +Rhymester to work, addressing the envelopes +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> +on the understanding that he was to share +the sixpence per thousand to be paid for +them. And, having bothered the Wallypug +and myself into buying a pencil-case and a +knife each, in order to get rid of him, he +started off to the kitchen to see if he could +do any business with Mrs. Putchy in the knife-polish +or black-lead line.</p> + +<p>His Majesty and myself were just saying +what an extraordinary little man he was, when +he burst in upon us again.</p> + +<p>“Heard the news?” he inquired, his face +beaming with importance.</p> + +<p>“No. What is it?” inquired the others +eagerly.</p> + +<p>“Ah! wouldn’t you like to know?” exclaimed +the Doctor-in-Law. “How much will +you give me for telling you?”</p> + +<p>“How much do you want?” asked the +Rhymester dubiously.</p> + +<p>“A penny each,” was the reply.</p> + +<p>“Come on then, let’s have it,” said the +Rhymester, collecting the pennies from the +others and handing them to the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>“Why—er—er—Queen Anne is dead, and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span> +the Dutch have taken Holland—yah!” And +the little man burst out laughing.</p> + +<p>“Oh! I say, that’s <em>too</em> bad,” grumbled the +Wallypug. “Isn’t it now?” he cried, appealing +to me.</p> + +<p>“Well, really,” I replied, “you shouldn’t +be so silly as to give him money. You ought +to know by this time what to expect from +him.”</p> + +<p>“No, but truly,” said the Doctor-in-Law, +pulling a serious face, “I <em>have</em> got some news, +the other was only my fun. A lady is going +to call on us at eleven, to interview the +Wallypug. I had almost forgotten it.”</p> + +<p>“A lady!” I exclaimed. “Whoever do +you mean?”</p> + +<p>“Oh, she’s the Duchess of something. I +forget her name,” answered the Doctor-in-Law +nonchalantly. “She called the other day +while you were out, and explained that she +was a contributor to one of the latest society +magazines, and was anxious to send an illustrated +interview with the Wallypug, to her +paper; so—a-hem!—after we had come to +terms, I arranged for her to come to-day and +see him. You had better go and make yourself +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> +tidy, hadn’t you?” he continued, turning +to the Wallypug.</p> + +<p>“Well, really,” I interposed, “I think you +might have consulted his Majesty first, before +making these arrangements.”</p> + +<p>“Oh! do you?” said the Doctor-in-Law +rudely. “Well, I don’t see that it’s any +business of yours, my good sir—so there!” +and he bounced out of the room again, rattling +his sample tins.</p> + +<p>It was nearly eleven then, and a few minutes +afterwards a beautifully-appointed carriage drew +up to the door, and Mrs. Putchy brought up a +card inscribed:</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 318px;"> +<img src="images/duchess.jpg" width="318" height="35" alt="Her Grace the Duchess of Mortlake" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>and immediately ushered in a fashionably-dressed +lady, who smilingly offered me the +tips of her fingers.</p> + +<p>“Oh, <em>how</em> do you do? You are the gentleman, +I think, who is to introduce me to his +Majesty, are you not?”</p> + +<p>“Well, really, your Grace, we have only just +heard of the appointment, but his Majesty the +Wallypug will be very pleased to receive you +I am sure.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> +“And is that his Majesty at the other end +of the room?” whispered the Duchess. “Pray +present me.”</p> + +<p>I made the necessary introduction, and the +Duchess gave the regulation Court ‘dip,’ which +the Wallypug gravely imitated, and then in +his usual simple manner offered his hand with +a smile.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/img038.png" width="350" height="280" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">in the most approved fashion</span> +</div> + +<p>Her Grace made a deep presentation curtsey +and bowed over it in the most approved +fashion; but the Wallypug, evidently unused +to being treated with so much ceremony, withdrew +it hastily and remarked nervously but +politely:</p> + +<p>“Won’t you take a seat, madam?”</p> + +<p>“Say, ‘Your Grace,’” I whispered.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> +“What for?” asked his Majesty blankly.</p> + +<p>“Because this lady is a Duchess, and you +must always say ‘Your Grace’ when speaking +to her,” I replied.</p> + +<p>“Oh!” said the Wallypug vaguely—then +going up to the Duchess he solemnly said, +“I’m Grace.”</p> + +<p>“No, no!” I explained. “You don’t understand +me. I mean, when you speak to this +lady you must call her ‘Your Grace.’”</p> + +<p>“Dear me, how stupid of me, to be sure!” +said his Majesty. “I understand now. I beg +your pardon. I meant to say, ‘You are my +Grace,’ madam,” he continued, addressing +himself to the Duchess.</p> + +<p>Her Grace amiably laughed away this little +mistake, and was soon busy asking questions. +The Wallypug, however, got very nervous, +and made a shocking lot of mistakes in his +answers. He couldn’t even say how old he +was.</p> + +<p>“I know I’ve been in the family for years,” +he remarked, “and I fancy I must have come +over with William the Conqueror. Such a lot +of people did that, you know, and it’s so respectable. +I don’t remember it, of course; +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> +but then I’ve been told that I was born very +young, and so naturally I shouldn’t do so.”</p> + +<p>“Does your Majesty remember any of the +incidents of your early life?” asked the +Duchess.</p> + +<p>“I was considered remarkably bald for my +age as an infant,” replied the Wallypug simply. +“And I believe I had several measles, and a +mump or two as a child. But I don’t wish to +boast about them,” he added modestly.</p> + +<p>“Where were you educated, your Majesty?” +was the next question.</p> + +<p>“I wasn’t,” replied the Wallypug with a sigh.</p> + +<p>“Does your Majesty mean that you received +no education at all?” asked the Duchess in +surprise.</p> + +<p>“Oh! I was taught reading, and writing, +and arithmetic, and the use of the globes, and +Latin and Greek, and all that rubbish, of +course,” replied the Wallypug. “But I mean +there were no Universities at Why, where I +could receive a higher education, and be taught +cricket, and football, and rowing, and all those +classical things taught at Oxford and Cambridge, +you know. I was considered the best +boy in my form at marbles though,” he added +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> +proudly. “And I could beat any of the +masters at Hop Scotch.”</p> + +<p>“What is your favourite diet, your Majesty?” +came next.</p> + +<p>“Oh! jumbles, I think—or bull’s eyes. I’m +very fond of hardbake too, and I love cocoa-nut +ice.”</p> + +<p>A few more questions such as these, and +her Grace took her departure, after taking +several snap-shot photographs of various articles +in the drawing room.</p> + +<p>I felt convinced that with such a scanty +amount of information at her disposal the +Duchess would have great difficulty in writing +an article on the Wallypug, and was therefore +the more surprised a few days later to receive +a copy of the magazine which her Grace +represented, with a long and particular account +of the interview, under the heading of, “‘Why +Wallypug and wherefore of Why?’ by a Lady +of Title.” Into it her Grace had introduced the +most preposterous and extravagant statements +about his Majesty.</p> + +<p>We learned with amazement that “The +Wallypug came of a very ancient family, and +had early been distinguished for many remarkable +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> +accomplishments. While at school his +Majesty displayed such a natural aptitude for +learning as to readily out-distance his instructors.”</p> + +<p>“I suppose that’s because I said I played +Hop Scotch better than the masters,” commented +his Majesty, to whom I was reading +the account aloud.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/img039.png" width="300" height="102" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the faithful hound</span> +</div> + +<p>Photographs of various articles in the drawing-room, +which had no connection whatever +with the Wallypug, +were reproduced +with the +most extraordinary +and absolutely +untrue stories +attached to them. Dick and Mrs. Mehetable +Murchison appeared as “The Wallypug’s favourite +cat and dog,” while pathetic stories were +told of how the dog had on several occasions +saved his royal master from an untimely and +watery grave, while the cat had prevented him +from being burned to death while reading in +bed by gently scratching his nose when he +had fallen asleep, and the candle had set fire +to the bed curtains. Sensational illustrations +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> +were also given depicting these incidents, which +of course were purely imaginary.</p> + +<p>It was very remarkable to notice though, +that directly the article of the Duchess’s appeared, +invitations from all sorts of grand +people poured in upon us—and the daily +papers suddenly woke up to the fact that the +Wallypug and his suite were very important +personages, and devoted whole columns to “Our +Mysterious Foreign Guests,” as they called +them.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/img040.png" width="350" height="280" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the sagacious pussy</span> +</div> + +<p>There was always more or less of a crowd +outside the house now, and when his Majesty +drove in the Park, the people all stood up +on the little green seats to get a better view +of him as he passed.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="IX" id="IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE WALLYPUG’S OWN</strong></p> + + +<p>It was shortly after this that the Doctor-in-Law, +hearing what a vast fortune might +be made in literature, decided to start a magazine +of his own.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<img src="images/img041.png" width="345" height="350" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the doctor-in-law was editor</span> +</div> + +<p>After a lot of argument it was thought best +to call it <em>The Wallypug’s Own</em>, as the name +was considered a striking one. The first +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> +number was to be a very elaborate affair, and, +for weeks before it appeared, all of my guests +were busily engaged in its production.</p> + +<p>“There will be a good opportunity for some +of your poems appearing at last,” hinted the +Doctor-in-Law to the Rhymester, which so +delighted the poor little fellow that he set to +work at once upon a number of new ones. +A. Fish, Esq., contributed a very learned +article on the subject of “The Prevalence of +Toothache amongst Fish: its Cause and Treatment”; +while the great attraction of the number +was an historical article by the Wallypug +on the subject of “Julius Caesar,” illustrated +by his Majesty himself. As a special favour, +the original drawing was presented to me by +his Majesty, and I am thus enabled to reproduce +it for your benefit. His Majesty confided +to me that parts of it were traced from a +picture which appeared in the <em>Boys’ Own Paper</em> +some time ago, but of course we did not tell +everybody that.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/img042.png" width="500" height="318" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">from “the wallypug’s own”</span> +</div> + +<p>The essay itself was quite original, and was +worded somehow like this:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“<em>Julius Caesar was a man, and he lived in Rome. +He came over to conquer Britain because he heard +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span> +there was a lot of tin here, and when he arrived he +said in Latin</em>, ‘Veni, vidi, vici,’ <em>which means, ‘I +have come, and thou wilt have to skedaddle’, which +has been the British motto ever since. But the +Ancient Britons who lived here then, didn’t understand +Latin, and so they went for Julius Caesar, and +shook their fists in his face, and tried to drive him +and his followers away. But Julius Caesar and the +Romans were civilized, and had daggers and things, +and shields, and wore firemen’s helmets, and kilts +like Scotchmen, so they soon overcame the Ancient +Britons; and they built London Wall, and made a +lot of combs, and glass tear-bottles, and brooches, and +sarcophaguses, that you can see in the Museum at +the Guildhall; and then they went back to Rome, +and Julius Caesar was stabbed by his friend Brutus, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> +to show how much he liked him; and Caesar, when +he found out he was stabbed, cried out in Latin</em>, ‘Et +tu, Brute,’ <em>which means ‘Oh, you brute,’ and lived +happy ever after. I have drawn the picture of Julius +Caesar landing in Britain—that’s him waving things, +and calling to the others to come on.</em>”</p></div> + +<p>The Doctor-in-Law was editor, and arranged +a number of competitions, and in order to enter +for them you had only to send two shillings in +stamps, while the prizes were advertised as +follows: First prize, £1000 a year for life; +second prize, thirty-six grand pianos and fourteen +bicycles; third prize, a sewing machine and six +cakes of scented soap. The prizes were to be +awarded for the first correct answers received by +post, but the Doctor-in-Law took good care to +write three sets of answers himself, and put +them in our letter-box a half-an-hour before the +first post arrived, so that nobody got prizes but +himself. He made a good deal of money, too, +by pretending to tell your fortune by the creases +in your collar. All you had to do was to send +an old collar and fourteen penny stamps, and +you would receive a letter in reply similar to +this:</p> + +<p>“You are probably either a male or a female, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> +and will no doubt live till you die. You like +to have your own way when you can get it, and +when you can’t you get very cross and irritable. +You are not so young as you were a few +years ago, and you dislike pain of any kind. +You will remain single until you marry, and +whichever you do you will probably wish you +hadn’t.”</p> + +<p>The greatest novelty, however, which the +Doctor-in-Law introduced in his new magazine +was his system of telling your character by your +watch and chain. There was no fee charged, +and all you had to do was to send your watch +and chain (gold preferred), and the Doctor-in-Law +would tell your character, quite correctly. +It generally was as follows:</p> + +<p>“You are a silly donkey, for no one but a +donkey would think of sending his watch and +chain to a stranger, and if you imagine that +you will ever see it again, you are greatly +mistaken.”</p> + +<p>The Rhymester only had one poem in after +all, as, when it came to the point, the Doctor-in-Law +charged him a guinea a verse for printing +it, and the poor Rhymester could not afford +more than one poem at that rate.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span> +This is what he sent:</p> + + +<p class="center">THE NEW ROBIN.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 165px; margin-right: 3em;"> +<img src="images/img043.png" width="165" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em; margin-top: -20em;"> +The North wind doth blow,<br /> +And we ought to have snow,<br /> +If ’tis true what my nurse used to sing,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Poor thing.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 10em;"> +Yet up in yon tree<br /> +Robin Redbreast I see<br /> +As happy and gay as a king,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Poor thing.</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 279px; margin-left: 1em;"> +<img src="images/img043b.png" width="279" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em; margin-top: -20em;"> +Look! as true as I live,<br /> +There’s a boy with a sieve<br /> +And a stick and a long piece of string,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Poor thing.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +But the bird doesn’t care,<br /> +For I hear him declare,<br /> +“Pooh! the old dodge he tried in the Spring,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Poor thing.”</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +“What ridiculous cheek,”<br /> +And he turns up his beak<br /> +Ere he tucks his head under his wing,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 6em;">Poor thing.</span></p> + +<p>The poor Rhymester was very +disappointed at not being able to +publish more of his poems, so the Doctor-in-Law, +to console him, allowed him to contribute +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> +an article on “Fashions for the Month by Our +Paris Model.” He made a frightful muddle +of it though, not knowing the proper terms +in which to describe the various materials +and styles. Here is an extract, which will +show you better than I can tell, the stupid +blunders which he made:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“<em>Hats this season are principally worn on the head, +and may be trimmed with light gauzy stuff wobbled +round the crown mixed up with various coloured +ribbons, and bunches of artificial flowers and fruit.</em></p> + +<p>“<em>Artificial vegetables are not much worn, although +a cauliflower or two and a bunch of carrots, with a +few cabbages, would form a striking and novel decoration +for a hat. If this trimming is considered insufficient, +a few brightly coloured tomatoes stuck round the +brim might be added, and would render the head-gear +particularly ‘chic.’</em></p> + +<p>“<em>Hats for the theatre should be worn large and handsomely +trimmed, but for the economically inclined—a last +year’s clothes basket trimmed with art muslin, which +may be purchased of any good draper at 1-¾d. a yard, +cut on the cross and tucked with chiffons, would form +a sweetly simple hat, and if tied beneath the chin +with an aigrette, and the front filled in with sequins, +it would readily be mistaken for one of the new early +Victorian bonnets which continue to be worn by the +upper housemaids in most aristocratic families.</em></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> +<em>“I hear that dresses are to be worn again this +year by ladies. The most fashionable ones will be +made of various sorts of material.</em></p> + +<p><em>“A charming walking costume suitable for the +Autumn may be made of shaded grenadine, trimmed +with buckram pom-poms, made up on the selvedge +edge.”</em></p></div> + +<p>There was a lot more nonsense of this kind +which I did not at all understand, but which +some lady friends who understood these things +made great fun of.</p> + +<p>You will be surprised, no doubt, to hear +that in a weak moment I allowed myself to +be persuaded into contributing a little experience +of my own.</p> + +<p>The Rhymester told me that it was shockingly +bad rhyme, but I think that he was +jealous because the Doctor-in-Law published +it. Anyhow, here it is, so you can judge for +yourself. I call it</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">HE and I and IT.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + Oh HE was a Publisher<br /> + And I was a Publishee,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And IT was a book</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Which the Publisher took</span><br /> + And pub-l-i-s-h-e-d.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> + The Publisher’s smile it was bland,<br /> + ’Twas a beautiful smile to see,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">As again and again</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">He took pains to explain</span><br /> + How large my “half-profits” <em>might</em> be.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + IT had a capital sale,<br /> + Well reviewed by the <em>Times</em> and <em>D.T.</em>,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a great many more,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">So my friends by the score</span><br /> + Came around to congratulate me.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img044.png" width="400" height="366" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">IT had a capital sale</span> +</div> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + And people I scarcely had met,<br /> + Just “dropped in” to afternoon tea;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">While my aunt, who’s a swell,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Now</em> remembered quite well</span><br /> + That I was related to she.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> + And girls that were rich and plain,<br /> + Or pretty and poor, did agree<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To let me suppose</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That I’d but to propose</span><br /> + To be m-a-r-r-i-e-d.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;"> +<img src="images/img045.png" width="377" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">my friends all turned tail</span> +</div> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + Yes, HE published IT in the Spring,<br /> + That season of frolic and glee;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">“In the Autumn,” HE said,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gravely nodding his head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: -.5em;">“‘Half-profits’ will mean L.S.D.”</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + But Autumn has come and gone,<br /> + And I’m so to say, “All at sea,”<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For HE sobs and HE sighs</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And HE turns up his eyes</span><br /> + When I ask what my “half-profits” be.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> + There are “charges for this, and for that,”<br /> + And for “things that HE couldn’t foresee,”<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And HE “very much fears,”</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">So he says twixt his tears,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: -.5em;">“That there won’t be a penny for me.”</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + Oh! rich is the Publisher<br /> + And poor is the Publishee;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the profits of IT</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I shall touch not a bit,</span><br /> + They are all swallowed up by HE.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 11em;"> + The girls now all treat me with scorn—<br /> + Aunt turns up her n-o-s-e,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And my friends all turn tail,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">While my book they assail</span><br /> + And call rubbish and twad-d-l-e.</p> + +<p>Even One-and-Nine and General Mary +Jane were smitten with a desire to rush into +print, and I overheard them concocting a tragic +Love Story in the kitchen, and they were +highly indignant later on, because the Doctor-in-Law +would not accept it. You can hardly +wonder at it though, for it really was too +bad for anything.</p> + +<p>It was called “The Viscount’s Revenge,” +and in it several characters who had been +killed in the first part of the book kept +cropping up all through the story in a most +confusing manner, while One-and-Nine and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> +General Mary Jane could not agree as to +whether the heroine should be dark or fair, +so in one part of the book she had beautiful +golden hair and blue eyes, and in another she +was described as “darkly, proudly handsome, +with a wealth of dusky hair and eyes as black +as night.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 387px;"> +<img src="images/img046.png" width="387" height="450" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the literary housemaid</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> +At the last moment it was found necessary +to include another poem in the magazine, and, +as all of the Rhymester’s were too long, the +Doctor-in-Law decided to write one himself, +which he called</p> + +<p class="center">COMMERCIAL PROBLEMS.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +Why doth the little busy bee<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Not charge so much an hour,</span><br /> +For gathering honey day by day<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">From every opening flower?</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +And can you tell me why, good sir,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The birds receive no pay</span><br /> +For singing sweetly in the grove<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Throughout the livelong day?</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +Why flow’rs should bloom about the place<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And give their perfume free,</span><br /> +In so unbusinesslike a way,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Seems very odd to me.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +I cannot meet a single cow<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That charges for her milk,</span><br /> +And though they are not paid a sou,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The silkworms still spin silk.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +While ducks and hens, I grieve to find,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Lay eggs for nothing too,</span><br /> +Which is a most ridiculous<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And foolish thing to do.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span> +These problems often puzzle me;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">I lie awake at night,</span><br /> +And think and think what I can do<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To set this matter right.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +I’ve found a way at last, and though<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">It may at first seem funny,</span><br /> +It cannot fail—’tis this: <em>You</em> pay,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <em>I’ll</em> collect the money.</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="X" id="X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE WALLYPUG GOES TO WINDSOR</strong></p> + + +<p>While they were all busy in the preparation +of <em>The Wallypug’s Own</em>, I +thought it an excellent opportunity to run down +to Folkestone in order to make arrangements +for hiring a house, as I intended taking my +guests to the seaside for a few weeks.</p> + +<p>I felt a little anxious about leaving them to +themselves, but hoped that they would be too +busy and interested in the new magazine to +get into trouble.</p> + +<p>It was most unfortunate that I should have +gone just then though, for directly I had left +the Wallypug received a polite letter from one +of the Court officials to say that the Queen +would be pleased to receive his Majesty and +suite at Windsor on the following day.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 259px;"> +<img src="images/img047.png" width="259" height="350" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a royal invitation</span> +</div> + +<p>Of course, as you may imagine, the Wallypug +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> +was in a great state of excitement at +receiving this royal invitation, and wished to +telegraph at once for me to return and advise +them how to act and what to do, on this important +occasion; however, the Doctor-in-Law, +so I have been given to understand, persuaded +his Majesty not to do anything of the sort, +and added that I “was always poking about +and interfering, and was better out of the way”; +so his Majesty, who was very anxious to do +the right thing, consulted Mrs. Putchy as to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> +the proper costume to be worn, and the +etiquette to be observed.</p> + +<p>“Well, your Majesty,” remarked Mrs. Putchy +in reply, “I scarcely know what to advise. +When in my younger days, I acted as lady’s +maid to the Countess of Wembley, I know +her ladyship wore a Court train and carried a +bouquet when she was presented to the Queen.”</p> + +<p>“Where did the engine go?” asked his +Majesty curiously.</p> + +<p>“The engine!” exclaimed Mrs. Putchy.</p> + +<p>“Yes; you said she wore a train, didn’t +you?” said the Wallypug.</p> + +<p>“Oh! but I didn’t mean that kind of train,” +laughed Mrs. Putchy; “I meant a long sort +of cloak fastened on to the shoulders and +trailing along the ground at the back—they +are generally made of satin and velvet, and +are decorated with flowers and feathers and +lace, and that sort of thing. Your Majesty’s +cloak would do nicely if I trimmed it for you.”</p> + +<p>“But are you sure that gentlemen wear +these sort of things?” inquired the Wallypug.</p> + +<p>“Well, I couldn’t rightly say, your Majesty, +but I’m sure I’ve seen pictures of kings and +such like wearing trains which were borne by +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> +pages, so I feel sure your Majesty would be +safe in wearing one.”</p> + +<p>So it was arranged that, after having been +carefully brushed, his Majesty’s velvet cloak +was to be gaily decorated with lace and large +bunches of flowers, and, to make the thing +complete, a large bouquet was tied around +his sceptre, and, at the Rhymester’s suggestion, +little knots of flowers were attached to the +knobs of his Majesty’s crown.</p> + +<p>The little man was highly delighted with +his appearance when all these arrangements +were concluded, and could get but very little +sleep that night for thinking of the great +honour which was to be his the next day.</p> + +<p>The whole household was early astir in +the morning, and at about eleven o’clock the +carriage came to take the royal guests to the +station.</p> + +<p>Arrived at Waterloo, the Doctor-in-Law, +after making various inquiries as to the price +of the tickets, etc., actually had the meanness, +despite the remonstrance of the railway officials, +to insist upon the whole party travelling down +third-class, remarking that he “found the +third-class carriages reached there quite as +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> +soon as the first, and a penny saved was a +penny gained.”</p> + +<p>The station master at Windsor was particularly +put out about it, as, in honour of +his Majesty’s visit, the station had been +gaily decorated and a carpet laid down to the +carriage door. His Majesty, however, made +a brave show as he walked up the platform +preceded by the Doctor-in-Law, his gaily decorated +train borne by the Rhymester, and +followed by A. Fish, Esq., and One-and-Nine, +the latter carrying a mysterious bandbox, +which contained a present from the Wallypug +to her Majesty. (See <a href="#frontis">frontispiece</a>.)</p> + +<p>Inside and out the station was crowded +with curious spectators, all eager to catch a +glimpse of his Majesty and his remarkable +retinue, and cheer after cheer resounded as +the station master, bare-headed and bowing, +ushered the party to the royal carriage with +the red and gold-liveried servants, which had +been sent from the castle to meet them.</p> + +<p>The bells were ringing, and the streets +were crowded as they drove through the old +town, and his Majesty thoroughly enjoyed +the drive, while the Doctor-in-Law was quite +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> +in his element amidst all this fuss and excitement.</p> + +<p>I did not care to inquire too fully into +the details of his Majesty’s interview with +the Queen, but I was given to understand +that the whole party was treated with the +utmost kindness.</p> + +<p>Her Majesty graciously accepted at the +Wallypug’s hands a gilded crown, an exact copy +of the one he wore himself, and which he had +had made expressly for her Majesty, having +been struck by the fact that her Majesty’s +real crown was always kept locked up in the +Tower, and hoping that perhaps this one +would do for second best.</p> + +<p>I could not gather that her Majesty had +actually promised to wear it, but I do know +that the Wallypug was made exceedingly proud +and happy by the gift of a portrait of her +Majesty herself, with the royal autograph +attached, and that he will always remember +the occasion of his visit to Windsor, and the +kindness with which he was treated by everyone, +particularly by the little Princes and +Princesses, her Majesty’s great grand-children, +who led him about the Castle grounds, and +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> +showed him their pets, and the flowers, and +conservatories, and all the wonderful sights of +that wonderful place.</p> + +<p>In the evening there was a dinner party, +at which her Majesty did not appear, and +early the next morning a royal carriage again +drove them to the station <em>en route</em> for London.</p> + +<p>All this I learned on my return from +Folkestone. I also heard of an extraordinary +evening party which had been given at my +house during my absence. It appears that +the invitations had been sent out by the +Doctor-in-Law the very day upon which I left, +and about thirty guests, including the Duchess +of Mortlake, had been invited. Unfortunately, +however, this visit to Windsor had entirely +driven the matter from the Wallypug’s mind, +and the others had forgotten about it too, +and so a pretty confusion was the result.</p> + +<p>It appears that one evening about seven +o’clock they were all in the kitchen making +toffee, having persuaded Mrs. Putchy to let +them have the frying-pan and some sugar and +butter, and it having been cooking for some +time the Doctor-in-Law had just told the +Wallypug to stick his finger in and see if it +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> +was done, when Mrs. Putchy came in to say +that some ladies and gentlemen had arrived, +and were waiting in the drawing-room.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;"> +<img src="images/img048.png" width="378" height="400" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">to see if it was done</span> +</div> + +<p>All of a sudden it flashed upon their minds +that <em>this</em> was the evening upon which they +had invited their visitors to the party. Whatever +was to be done? Not the slightest preparation +had been made—and his Majesty +and the others were all more or less in a +sticky condition, and quite unfit to be seen by +company.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> +A hurried consultation took place, during +which they could hear more and more guests +arriving, and at last, by a brilliant inspiration, +the Doctor-in-Law thought of making it a surprise +party, similar to those given in America.</p> + +<p>“It won’t cost us anything either,” he remarked +complacently.</p> + +<p>“But what is a surprise party?” asked the +others.</p> + +<p>“Never mind, you’ll see presently,” remarked +the little man. “Run and wash your hands now +and make yourselves tidy.”</p> + +<p>A few minutes later the whole party filed into +the drawing-room, the Wallypug looking rather +blank and nervous, and the Doctor-in-Law full +of profuse apologies for having kept the guests +waiting so long.</p> + +<p>“By the way,” he remarked airily, “I suppose +you all know that it’s a surprise party.”</p> + +<p>“Dear me, no,” said the Duchess of Mortlake, +speaking for the others. “Whatever is that; +I don’t think it was mentioned on the cards +of invitation, was it?”</p> + +<p>“Ah! a trifling oversight,” remarked the +Doctor-in-Law. “A surprise party,” he continued +in explanation, “is one at which each +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> +guest is expected to contribute something towards +the supper—some bring one thing and +some another. What have you brought, may +I ask, your Grace?”</p> + +<p>“Well, really,” said the Duchess, “I’ve never +heard of such a thing in my life before. I’ve +not brought anything at all, of course; I’m surprised +at your asking me such a question.”</p> + +<p>“Ah, yes, just so,” remarked the Doctor-in-Law +triumphantly, “just what I told you—a +<em>surprise</em> party, don’t you see! Now, what I +would advise is that you should all go out and +order various things to be sent in for supper; we, +for our part, will provide some excellent toffee, and +then you can come back and help us to set the +tables and all that sort of thing, you know—it’s +the greatest fun in the world, I assure you.”</p> + +<p>And really the little man carried it off with +such gaiety, that entering into the spirit of the +thing the guests really did as he suggested, and +went out and ordered the things, and afterwards +came back, and, amidst great laughter and fun, +the tables were laid, every one doing some share +of the work, with the exception of the Doctor-in-Law, +who contented himself with directing +the others and chatting to the ladies.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img049.png" width="400" height="368" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the wallypug helps</span> +</div> + +<p>The poor dear Wallypug amiably toiled backward +and forward between the kitchen and +dining-room with great piles of plates and other +heavy articles, and A. Fish, Esq., in his eagerness +to help, was continually treading on his +own tail, upsetting himself and the various dishes +entrusted to his charge.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/img050.png" width="350" height="290" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a. fish, esq., upset</span> +</div> + +<p>At last, however, the supper was set, and +the merriest evening you can possibly imagine +was spent by the guests. His Majesty was +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> +in capital spirits, and after supper suggested +a little dancing, which suggestion was hailed +with delight by the others, and, having moved +some of the furniture out of the drawing-room +and pushed the rest away into corners, the +Wallypug led off with her Grace the Duchess +of Mortlake, and quite distinguished himself +in “Sir Roger de Coverley.” Afterwards +there was a little singing and music, several +of the guests contributing to the evening’s +entertainment. Amongst other items was a +song by A. Fish, Esq., rendered as well as his +bad cold would permit, of which the first +lines ran:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +I’b siddig here ad lookig at the bood, love,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ad thinkig ov the habby days of old,</span><br /> +Wed you ad I had each a wooded spood, love,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To eat our porridge wed we had a cold.</span></p> + +<p>Altogether the evening was such a success +that her Grace declared that it should not be +her fault if surprise parties were not the +fashion in Society during the coming winter.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="XI" id="XI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>HIS MAJESTY AT THE SEASIDE</strong></p> + + +<p>I sent Mrs. Putchy and General Mary +Jane down to the house, which I had +engaged on the “Lees” at Folkestone, the day +before we were to go, in order to see that +everything was ready for us.</p> + +<p>“The only thing that is wrong is the kitchen +chimney, and that smokes, sir,” said Mrs. +Putchy, in answer to my inquiry on the night +of our arrival. “I think that we had better +have the sweep in the morning, sir.”</p> + +<p>“Very well, Mrs. Putchy, I’m sure you +know best,” I replied, and thought no more +of the matter.</p> + +<p>Early in the morning, however, I was +awakened by screams and cries proceeding +from the lower part of the house.</p> + +<p>“Help! help! Burglars! Fire and police! +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> +Thieves!” screamed a voice, and hastily dressing +myself, I rushed out into the passage, and +was confronted by the Rhymester, who had +evidently just jumped out of bed, and who, +though it was broad daylight, bore a lighted +candle in one hand, and a pair of fire tongs +in the other.</p> + +<p>His teeth were chattering with fright, and +his knees were knocking together from the +same cause.</p> + +<p>“What’s the matter,” I asked in alarm.</p> + +<p>“Oh! oh! there are burglars in the house,” +he cried excitedly, “and the others have gone +down to them; I’m sure they’ll be killed—I +told them not to go, but they would. Let’s +go and hide under a bed somewhere. Oh! oh, +what will become of us?”</p> + +<p>“Don’t be such a coward,” I cried, hurrying +down stairs, while the poor little Rhymester, +afraid to be left alone upstairs, tremblingly +followed.</p> + +<p>Sure enough there was a sound of struggling +going on, and voices raised in loud +dispute.</p> + +<p>“Oh, that story won’t do for me,” I heard +the Doctor-in-Law exclaim.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span> +“But I tell yez, sor,” chimed in another +strange voice, “I waz only going to——”</p> + +<p>“Never mind what you were going to do, +give up the sack,” said the Doctor-in-Law.</p> + +<p>Then there were sounds of struggling, and +amidst the confusion a voice saying:</p> + +<p>“Hold him down! Sit on him! That’s +right! Now for the sack.”</p> + +<p>And, bursting the door open, a curious sight +met my eyes. A poor sweep lay flat upon the +floor, with the Wallypug sitting upon him, and +One-and-Nine keeping guard; while the Doctor-in-Law +and A. Fish, Esq., examined his bag +of soot in the corner. The poor little Rhymester +summoned up sufficient courage to peep in at +the doorway, and stood there making a piteous +picture, with his white face and trembling +limbs.</p> + +<p>“Whatever is the matter,” I inquired as +soon as I entered.</p> + +<p>“We’ve caught him!” exclaimed his Majesty, +complacently wriggling his toes about.</p> + +<p>“But what’s he been doing,” I asked.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 454px;"> +<img src="images/img051.png" width="454" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“we’ve caught him!”</span> +</div> + +<p>“Av ye plaze, sor,” groaned the man, panting +beneath the Wallypug’s weight, “I have +been doing nothing at all, at all. I waz just +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> +a-finishin’ me warrak of swapin’ the chimneys, +wen one ov the ould gintleman came up an’ +poked me in the nose with a sthick, and the +other ould gintleman knocked me over and +sthole me bag, while the soger hild me down +till the other gintleman sat on me—it’s among +a lot of murtherin’ thaves I’ve got entoirely, +savin’ yer presince, sor.”</p> + +<p>“The man is a burglar,” declared the Doctor-in-Law +emphatically. “I happened to hear a +very suspicious noise down here, and calling to +the others, rushed down just in time to catch +this man making off with a bag of things. I +think he was trying to escape up the chimney, +for his head was half-way up when we entered, +and this bag, which evidently contains plunder +of some kind, is covered with soot too.”</p> + +<p>“Why, the man is a sweep, and was sweeping +the chimney,” I cried, pointing to his +brushes and sticks; and after a lot of explanations +the man was told to get up and his Majesty, +followed by the others, retired to his bedroom, +evidently greatly disappointed that it was not +a real burglar that they had been combating.</p> + +<p>The sweep, who was a very good-natured +Irishman, took it in very good part, and the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> +present of half-a-crown sent him away quite +reconciled to his assailants.</p> + +<p>The Rhymester afterwards made a great +boast that he had not taken any part in the +mélée.</p> + +<p>“Of course I knew all along that he wasn’t +a burglar,” he declared, “and that’s the reason +why I wouldn’t interfere.”</p> + +<p>“You managed to do a good deal of screaming +though, I noticed,” remarked the Doctor-in-Law +grumpily.</p> + +<p>“Ah! that was only for fun,” asserted the +Rhymester.</p> + +<p>This was really about the only remarkable +incident which occurred during our holiday +at Folkestone, which passed very pleasantly +and very quietly. We went for a sea bathe +nearly every day, and his Majesty would +insist upon wearing his crown in the water on +every occasion.</p> + +<p>“No one will know that I am a king if I +don’t,” he declared; and I am bound to admit +that his Majesty did not look very regal in +his bathing costume, particularly when he was +dripping with water and his long straight hair +hung half over his face, and even when he +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span> +wore his crown he was continually catching +bits of seaweed in it, which gave him a singularly +untidy appearance for a king.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;"> +<img src="images/img052.png" width="434" height="450" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">his majesty did not look very regal</span> +</div> + +<p>A. Fish, Esq., with the assistance of a lifebuoy, +nearly learned to swim while we were +down there; but the Doctor-in-Law thought +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> +that hiring bathing machines was a foolish +waste of money, and contented himself with +taking off his shoes and stockings and paddling, +which he could do without having to pay. +One day, however, he was knocked completely +over by an incoming wave, and got wet to +the skin.</p> + +<p>We could never persuade the Rhymester +either, to go out further than just to his +knees; but I rather fancy that that was because +he was afraid of wetting his bathing costume, +of which he was particularly proud, and which +was decorated with smart little bows of ribbon +wherever they could be conveniently put.</p> + +<p>Fear may have had something to do with +it though, for I noticed that he always clung +very tightly to the rope, and never by any +chance went beyond its length.</p> + +<p>The switchback railway was a source of +infinite amusement, and a great deal of time +was spent on it. Boating was not much indulged +in, as it made one or two of the party, +particularly A. Fish, Esq., very ill; but we +all enjoyed the beautiful drives in the neighbourhood. +There was an excellent Punch +and Judy show in the town too, which so +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> +fascinated his Majesty that we could scarcely +tear him away whenever he joined the admiring +crowd which daily surrounded it.</p> + +<p>The fickle One-and-Nine, while we were +here, fell in love with a wax figure exhibited +in a hair-dresser’s window in Sandgate Road. +It represented a beautiful lady with her hair +dressed in the latest fashion, and the wooden +soldier was greatly infatuated. He spent +hours gazing through the window, watching +the lady slowly revolve by clockwork; and he +became frightfully jealous of the hair-dresser, +whom he caught one morning rearranging the +drapery around the lady’s shoulders.</p> + +<p>Eventually, with the assistance of the +Rhymester, he composed the following piece +of poetry—which he stuck, by means of six +gelatine sweets, on to the hair-dresser’s window +with the writing inside, in order that the lady +might see it.</p> + +<p class="center">TO THE BEAUTIFUL LADY IN THE HAIRDRESSER’S WINDOW.</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +I love you, oh! I love you,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I beg you to be mine;</span><br /> +I’m a gallant wooden soldier,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And my name is 1/9.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span> +If you will only marry me,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">’Twill be the greatest fun</span><br /> +To puzzle folks by telling them,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">That we’re both 2/1.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +’Twill be the truth, for man and wife<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are one, I beg to state,</span><br /> +This fact’s as clear as 4/4,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or 2/6 make 8.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +They tell me, dear, you have no feet;<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">But what is that to me?</span><br /> +2 feet be 4/2 behind<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">On animals you see.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +That you have none, is 0 to me,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dear 1/4 your sake,</span><br /> +No trifles such as these shall e’er<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">My true affections shake.</span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 12em;"> +I bought some penny tarts for you,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">But I am much distrest</span><br /> +To tell you by mistake I sat<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">On 1/8 the rest.</span></p> + +<p>One-and-Nine was quite happy in finding +that the paper had disappeared from the shop +window when he passed by a little later, and +declared that it must mean that the lady had +accepted him and his poetry.</p> + +<p>I think the funniest incident of all though, +in connection with our visit to Folkestone, +was when his Majesty and the others went +into Carlo Maestrani’s for some ices.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> +They had never tasted any before, and were +very much surprised to find them so cold. I +shall never forget the expression on the +Wallypug’s face when, having rather greedily +taken a very large mouthful, he could not +swallow it, or dispose of it in any way. +A. Fish, Esq., declared that it gave him a +violent toothache; while the Doctor-in-Law +called for the waiter, and insisted upon him +taking it away.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img053.png" width="400" height="280" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">“it’s not properly cooked”</span> +</div> + +<p>“It’s not properly cooked,” he declared +angrily. “It’s cold.”</p> + +<p>“Cook, sare, no, sare, it is not cook,” agreed +the waiter.</p> + +<p>“Very well, then, take it away and bring +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> +us some that is. Have it warmed up; do +something with it. It’s disgraceful bringing +us stuff like that.”</p> + +<p>And no argument or persuasion would convince +the little man that the ices were as they +should be.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="XII" id="XII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2> + +<p class="center"><strong>THE DEPARTURE</strong></p> + + +<p>We remained at Folkestone till the latter +part of September, and then returned +to London just about the time that the first +number of <em>The Wallypug’s Own</em> made its +appearance.</p> + +<p>It caused quite a sensation in literary circles, +and was mentioned by most of the papers; but +it did <em>not</em> turn out a monetary success, and so +the Doctor-in-Law declared that he must devise +some other means of making money.</p> + +<p>We had been once or twice to the circus, and +I fancy that it must have been his intention to +start something of the sort himself, for I caught +him one day trying to teach his Majesty to +walk the tight-rope; but as he had only tied +the rope between two very light chairs the +result was not very satisfactory, particularly to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> +the poor Wallypug, who came to the ground +with a terrific crash.</p> + +<p>A. Fish, Esq., dressed as a clown, and +certainly looked very funny; but his bad cold +prevented him from speaking his jokes distinctly, +and so the idea was given up.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/img054.png" width="400" height="346" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">the result was not satisfactory</span> +</div> + +<p>In fact it was not till November that the +Doctor-in-Law hit upon a plan which seemed +to give him any great satisfaction. We had +been talking a great deal about Guy Fawkes’ +day and the fireworks at the Crystal Palace, +which we intended going to see in the evening, +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> +and the Doctor-in-Law had been particularly +curious to know all about the day and its +customs. He did not say much about his plans, +but I felt sure that he was up to some of his +tricks, for I caught him several times whispering +mysteriously to the Rhymester and A. Fish, +Esq., and I noticed that they were all particularly +kind and respectful to his Majesty, as +though they wished to keep him in a good +humour.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the fifth, when I came +down to breakfast, I was greatly surprised to +find that the whole party had gone out about +an hour previous, after borrowing from Mrs. +Putchy a kitchen chair, four broomsticks, and +a long piece of clothes-line. Whatever were +they up to?</p> + +<p>I asked Mrs. Putchy if they had left any +message, but no—they had said nothing as to +where they were going, what they were going +to do, or when they would be back; and the +only thing that had struck Mrs. Putchy as +being at all remarkable about their appearance, +was the fact that the Rhymester had added +little bows of coloured ribbon to his costume, +and wore a tall pointed cap gaily decorated with +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span> +streamers, and a deep white frill around his +neck—the others were dressed as usual.</p> + +<p>I felt sure that some mischief was brewing, +and could not settle down to my work for +thinking of them. About eleven o’clock I went +out to see if I could find any traces of my +guests. I had been walking about unsuccessfully +for about an hour, when I heard some boys +shouting, and turning to look in their direction, +I beheld his Majesty calmly seated in a chair +which, by means of long poles attached to it, +was being carried along by the Rhymester and +A. Fish, Esq.</p> + +<p>They were followed by a crowd of people +who were cheering lustily, and the Doctor-in-Law +was rushing about collecting money +in his hat, and entreating the people “not to +forget the fifth of November,” and repeating +some doggerel verse about:</p> + +<p style="margin-left: 5em;"> +<span style="margin-left: -.5em;">“Guy Fawkes guy,</span><br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stick him up high;</span><br /> + Stick him on a lamp-post,<br /> + <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And there let him die,”</span></p> + +<p>while several little boys were dancing about in +great excitement, and shouting, “Holler, boys! +holler! here’s another guy.”</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 503px;"> +<img src="images/img055.png" width="503" height="600" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a triumphal procession</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span> +His Majesty evidently regarded it as a great +compliment to himself, and complacently bowed +right and left with considerable dignity. And +I found out that the Doctor-in-Law had persuaded +him into believing that this triumphal +procession had been arranged solely in his +Majesty’s honour.</p> + +<p>I was naturally very vexed at the poor +Wallypug being imposed upon in this manner, +and spoke very plainly to the Doctor-in-Law +about it on our way home, and I think the +little man must have taken it very much to +heart, for he seemed quite subdued, and +actually himself suggested sharing the proceeds +of the collection with the others.</p> + +<p>We went to see the fireworks in the evening, +and I don’t ever remember seeing the party +in such excellent spirits as they were that +night.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Putchy had prepared a capital supper +for us on our return, and I love to remember +my friends as they appeared sitting around +the supper table talking over the adventures +and excitements of the day. I can see them +now whenever I close my eyes—the dear old +Wallypug at the head of the table, with One-and-Nine +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> +in attendance, and the others all +talking at once about the jolly time they had +had at the Skating Rink in the afternoon, when +A. Fish, Esq., had vainly tried to get along +with roller-skates fastened on to his tail.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/img056.png" width="600" height="382" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">a capital story</span> +</div> + +<p>I say I love to remember them thus, for +it was the last occasion upon which we were +all together. Early the next morning Mrs. +Putchy came to my room, and in a very +agitated voice said, “Please sir, I’m afraid +that there is something wrong; I have knocked +at his Majesty’s door and can get no answer, +and the Doctor-in-Law’s room is empty too.”</p> + +<p>I hurried down, and on the breakfast table +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span> +I found a letter addressed to me, in which +his Majesty, on behalf of the others, thanked +me very heartily for my hospitality, and explained +that State matters of the utmost +importance had necessitated their immediate +return to Why. How they went I have +never been able to discover.</p> + +<p>The outer door of my flat was found to be +locked on the inside as usual, and the windows +were all fastened; besides which, as they were +some distance from the ground, the Royal +party could scarcely have got out that way.</p> + +<p>Altogether the whole affair was involved in +a mystery which I have never been able to +solve to this day. Of course I miss my +strange, but withal lovable visitors, very much, +and I value very highly the several little +mementoes of their visit which remained behind. +Amongst others is a cheque of the +Doctor-in-Law’s for a considerable amount; +which, however, I shall never be able to +cash, as it is drawn upon the bank of, “Don’t-you-wish-you-may-get-it,” +at Why.</p> + +<p>General Mary Jane was inconsolable for +some time after the departure of her soldier +hero, but eventually married our milkman, a +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> +very steady and respectable man in the neighbourhood. +Girlie and Boy and many other +friends of the Wallypug greatly regretted that +they were unable to say good-bye to his +Majesty before he left; and often and often, +as I sit alone in my study, I think about the +simple-natured, good-hearted little fellow, and +his remarkable followers, and wonder if I +shall ever see them again. Who knows?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/img057.png" width="350" height="347" alt="image" title="" /> +<span class="caption">i often think of them</span> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><strong>THE END</strong></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<p style="font-size: 80%;" class="center"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span> +GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY<br /> +ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a> +<a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> He meant +the tame ravens which are kept at the Tower.</p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /> + +<div class="box2"> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1a" id="Page_1a">[Pg 1a]</a></span></p> + + +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"> +<span style="font-size: 140%;">A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS</span><br /> +AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF<br /> +METHUEN AND COMPANY<br /> +PUBLISHERS: LONDON<br /> +36 ESSEX STREET<br /> +W.C.</p> + +<p> </p> + +<h3>CONTENTS</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary=""> + +<tr> <td align='left'></td> <td align='right'><span class="smcap">page</span></td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_2a">forthcoming books,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>2</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_10a">poetry,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>10</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_11a">belles lettres,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>11</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_13a">illustrated books,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>13</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page_14a">history,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>14</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page16a">biography,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>16</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page18a">travel, adventure and topography,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>18</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page19a">general literature,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>19</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page21a">science,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>21</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page22a">philosophy,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>22</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page22a">theology,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>22</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page24a">leaders of religion,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>24</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page25a">fiction,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>25</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#books">books for boys and girls,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>34</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page35a">the peacock library,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>35</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page35a">university extension series,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>35</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#social">social questions of to-day,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>36</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#classic">classical translations,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>37</td> </tr> +<tr> <td align='left'><span class="smcap"><a href="#Page38a">educational books,</a></span></td> <td align='right'>38</td> </tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center"><strong>NOVEMBER 1897</strong></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2a" id="Page_2a">[Pg 2a]</a></span></p> +<p style="text-align: right;"><span class="smcap">November 1897.</span></p> + +<p style="font-size: 180%;" class="center"><span class="smcap"><strong>Messrs. Methuen’s</strong></span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 90%;" class="smcap"><strong>announcements</strong></span></p> + +<p class="center">——————</p> + +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Poetry</strong></p> + + +<p>SHAKESPEARE’S POEMS. Edited, with an Introduction and +Notes, by <span class="smcap">George Wyndham</span>, M.P. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram. 6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is a volume of the sonnets and lesser poems of Shakespeare, and is prefaced +with an elaborate Introduction by Mr. Wyndham.</p> + + +<p>ENGLISH LYRICS. Selected and Edited by <span class="smcap">W. E. Henley</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram. 6s.</em></span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 3em;">Also 15 copies on Japanese paper. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>£2, 2s. net.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">Few announcements will be more welcome to lovers of English verse than the one +that Mr. Henley is bringing together into one book the finest lyrics in our +language.</p> + + +<p>NURSERY RHYMES. With many Coloured Pictures. By +<span class="smcap">F. D. Bedford.</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Small 4to.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book has many beautiful designs in colour to illustrate the old rhymes.</p> + + +<p>THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER. A Translation by <span class="smcap">J. G. Cordery</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Travel and Adventure</strong></p> + + +<p>BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. By Sir <span class="smcap">H. H. Johnston</span>, +K.C.B. With nearly Two Hundred Illustrations, and Six Maps. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 4to.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>30s. net.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml"><span class="smcap">Contents.</span>—(1) The History of Nyasaland and British Central Africa generally. +(2) A detailed description of the races and languages of British Central Africa. +(3) Chapters on the European settlers and missionaries; the Fauna, the Flora, +minerals, and scenery. (4) A chapter on the prospects of the country.</p> + + +<p>WITH THE GREEKS IN THESSALY. By <span class="smcap">W. Kinnaird Rose</span>, +Reuter’s Correspondent. With Plans and 23 Illustrations. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A history of the operations in Thessaly by one whose brilliant despatches from the +seat of war attracted universal attention.</p> + + +<p>THE BENIN MASSACRE. By <span class="smcap">Captain Boisragon.</span> +With Portrait and Map. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This volume is written by one of the two survivors who escaped the terrible +massacre in Benin at the beginning of this year. The author relates in detail his +adventures and his extraordinary escape, and adds a description of the country +and of the events which led up to the outbreak.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3a" id="Page_3a">[Pg 3a]</a></span> +FROM TONKIN TO INDIA. By <span class="smcap">Prince Henri of Orleans</span>. +Translated by <span class="smcap">Hamley Bent, M.A.</span> With 80 Illustrations +and a Map. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 4to.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>25s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">The travels of Prince Henri in 1895 from China to the valley of the Bramaputra +covered a distance of 2100 miles, of which 1600 was through absolutely unexplored +country. No fewer than seventeen ranges of mountains were crossed at altitudes +of from 11,000 to 13,000 feet. The journey was made memorable by the discovery +of the sources of the Irrawaddy. To the physical difficulties of the journey were +added dangers from the attacks of savage tribes. The book deals with many of +the burning political problems of the East, and it will be found a most important +contribution to the literature of adventure and discovery.</p> + + +<p>THREE YEARS IN SAVAGE AFRICA. By <span class="smcap">Lionel Decle</span>. +With an Introduction by <span class="smcap">H. M. Stanley, M.P.</span> With 100 Illustrations +and 5 Maps. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>21s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">Few Europeans have had the same opportunity of studying the barbarous parts of +Africa as Mr. Decle. Starting from the Cape, he visited in succession Bechuanaland, +the Zambesi, Matabeleland and Mashonaland, the Portuguese settlement on +the Zambesi, Nyasaland, Ujiji, the headquarters of the Arabs, German East +Africa, Uganda (where he saw fighting in company with the late Major ‘Roddy’ +Owen), and British East Africa. In his book he relates his experiences, his +minute observations of native habits and customs, and his views as to the work +done in Africa by the various European Governments, whose operations he was +able to study. The whole journey extended over 7000 miles, and occupied +exactly three years.</p> + + +<p>WITH THE MOUNTED INFANTRY IN MASHONALAND. +By Lieut.-Colonel <span class="smcap">Alderson</span>. With numerous Illustrations +and Plans. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>12s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is an account of the military operations in Mashonaland by the officer who +commanded the troops in that district during the late rebellion. Besides its +interest as a story of warfare, it will have a peculiar value as an account of the +services of mounted infantry by one of the chief authorities on the subject.</p> + + +<p>THE HILL OF THE GRACES: <span class="smcap">or, the Great Stone +Temples of Tripoli</span>. By <span class="smcap">H. S. Cowper, F.S.A.</span> With Maps, +Plans, and 75 Illustrations. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A record of two journeys through Tripoli in 1895 and 1896. The book treats of a +remarkable series of megalithic temples which have hitherto been uninvestigated, +and contains a large amount of new geographical and archæological matter.</p> + + +<p>ADVENTURE AND EXPLORATION IN AFRICA. By +Captain A. <span class="smcap">St. H. Gibbons, F.R.G.S.</span> With Illustrations by +<span class="smcap">C. Whymper</span>, and Maps. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>21s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is an account of travel and adventure among the Marotse and contiguous tribes, +with a description of their customs, characteristics, and history, together with the +author’s experiences in hunting big game. The illustrations are by Mr. Charles +Whymper, and from photographs. There is a map by the author of the hitherto +unexplored regions lying between the Zambezi and Kafukwi rivers and from 18° +to 15° S. lat.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4a" id="Page_4a">[Pg 4a]</a></span> +<strong>History and Biography</strong></p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF EGYPT, <span class="smcap">from the Earliest Times to the Present Day</span>. +Edited by <span class="smcap">W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D.</span>, +Professor of Egyptology at University College. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fully Illustrated.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Six Volumes.</em></span> <em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span></p> + +<p style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> V. ROMAN EGYPT. +By <span class="smcap">J. G. Milne</span>.</p> + + +<p>THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. +By <span class="smcap">Edward Gibbon</span>. A New Edition, edited with Notes, +Appendices, and Maps by <span class="smcap">J. B. Bury, M.A.</span>, Fellow of Trinity +College, Dublin. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Seven Volumes.</em></span> +<em>Demy 8vo, gilt top.</em> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>8s. 6d. each.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Vol. IV.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE LETTERS OF VICTOR HUGO. Translated from the +French by <span class="smcap">F. Clarke, M.A.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> +<em>Demy 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d. each.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Vol. II.</em></span> 1835-72.</p> + +<p class="sml">This is the second volume of one of the most interesting and important collection of +letters ever published in France. The correspondence dates from Victor Hugo’s +boyhood to his death, and none of the letters have been published before.</p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, +1845-95. By <span class="smcap">C. H. Grinling</span>. With Maps and Illustrations. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A record of Railway enterprise and development in Northern England, containing +much matter hitherto unpublished. It appeals both to the general reader and to +those specially interested in railway construction and management.</p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY. By +<span class="smcap">H. E. Egerton, M.A.</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>12s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book deals with British Colonial policy historically from the beginnings of +English colonisation down to the present day. The subject has been treated by +itself, and it has thus been possible within a reasonable compass to deal with a +mass of authority which must otherwise be sought in the State papers. The +volume is divided into five parts:—(1) The Period of Beginnings, 1497-1650; +(2) Trade Ascendancy, 1651-1830; (3) The Granting of Responsible Government, +1831-1860; (4) <em>Laissez Aller</em>, 1861-1885; (5) Greater Britain.</p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF ANARCHISM. By <span class="smcap">E. V. Zenker</span>. +Translated from the German. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A critical study and history, as well as a powerful and trenchant criticism, of the +Anarchist movement in Europe. The book has aroused considerable attention +on the Continent.</p> + + +<p>THE LIFE OF ERNEST RENAN. By <span class="smcap">Madame Darmesteter</span>. +With Portrait. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A biography of Renan by one of his most intimate friends.</p> + + +<p>A LIFE OF DONNE. By <span class="smcap">Augustus Jessopp, D.D.</span> With +Portrait. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is a new volume of the ‘Leaders of Religion’ series, from the learned and witty +pen of the Rector of Scarning, who has been able to embody the results of much +research.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5a" id="Page_5a">[Pg 5a]</a></span> +OLD HARROW DAYS. By <span class="smcap">J. G. Cotton Minchin</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A volume of reminiscences which will be interesting to old Harrovians and to many +of the general public.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Theology</strong></p> + + +<p>A PRIMER OF THE BIBLE. By Prof. <span class="smcap">W. H. Bennett</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This Primer sketches the history of the books which make up the Bible, in the light +of recent criticism. It gives an account of their character, origin, and composition, +as far as possible in chronological order, with special reference to their +relations to one another and to the history of Israel and the Church. The +formation of the Canon is illustrated by chapters on the Apocrypha (Old and +New Testament); and there is a brief notice of the history of the Bible since the +close of the Canon.</p> + + +<p>LIGHT AND LEAVEN: <span class="smcap">Historical and Social Sermons</span>. +By the Rev. <span class="smcap">H. Hensley Henson, M.A.</span>, Fellow of All Souls’, +Incumbent of St. Mary’s Hospital, Ilford. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 167px;"> +<img src="images/devotional.jpg" width="167" height="21" alt="devotional series" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p>THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Newly Translated, +with an Introduction, by <span class="smcap">C. Bigg, D.D.</span>, late Student of +Christ Church. With a Frontispiece. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>18mo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>1s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This little book is the first volume of a new Devotional Series, printed in clear type, +and published at a very low price.</p> + +<p class="sml">This volume contains the nine books of the ‘Confessions’ which are suitable for +devotional purposes. The name of the Editor is a sufficient guarantee of the +excellence of the edition.</p> + + +<p>THE HOLY SACRIFICE. By <span class="smcap">F. Weston, M.A.</span>, Curate of +St. Matthew’s, Westminster. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>18mo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>1s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A small volume of devotions at the Holy Communion.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Naval and Military</strong></p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR. By <span class="smcap">C. W. Oman, +M.A.</span>, Fellow of All Souls’, Oxford. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> +<em>Illustrated.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>21s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="center">Vol. II. <span class="smcap">Mediæval Warfare.</span></p> + +<p class="sml">Mr. Oman is engaged on a History of the Art of War, of which the above, though +covering the middle period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the general use +of gunpowder in Western Europe, is the first instalment. The first battle dealt +with will be Adrianople (378) and the last Navarette (1367). There will appear +later a volume dealing with the Art of War among the Ancients, and another +covering the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.</p> + +<p class="sml">The book will deal mainly with tactics and strategy, fortifications and siegecraft, but +subsidiary chapters will give some account of the development of arms and armour, +and of the various forms of military organization known to the Middle Ages.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6a" id="Page_6a">[Pg 6a]</a></span> +A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY, +<span class="smcap">From Early Times to the Present Day</span>. By <span class="smcap">David Hannay</span>. +Illustrated. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2 Vols. Demy 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d. each.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Vol. I.</span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book aims at giving an account not only of the fighting we have done at sea, +but of the growth of the service, of the part the Navy has played in the development +of the Empire, and of its inner life.</p> + + +<p>THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY. By Lieut.-Colonel +<span class="smcap">Cooper King</span>, of the Staff College, Camberley. Illustrated. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This volume aims at describing the nature of the different armies that have been +formed in Great Britain, and how from the early and feudal levies the present +standing army came to be. The changes in tactics, uniform, and armament are +briefly touched upon, and the campaigns in which the army has shared have +been so far followed as to explain the part played by British regiments in them.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>General Literature</strong></p> + + +<p>THE OLD ENGLISH HOME. By <span class="smcap">S. Baring-Gould.</span> +With numerous Plans and Illustrations. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book, like Mr. Baring-Gould’s well-known ‘Old Country Life,’ describes the +life and environment of an old English family.</p> + + +<p>OXFORD AND ITS COLLEGES. By <span class="smcap">J. Wells, M.A.</span>, +Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">E. H. New</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fcap. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Leather.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>4s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is a guide—chiefly historical—to the Colleges of Oxford. It contains numerous +illustrations.</p> + + +<p>VOCES ACADEMICÆ. By <span class="smcap">C. Grant Robertson, M.A.</span>, +Fellow of All Souls’, Oxford. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>With a Frontispiece.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fcap. 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This is a volume of light satirical dialogues and should be read by all who are interested +in the life of Oxford.</p> + + +<p>A PRIMER OF WORDSWORTH. By <span class="smcap">Laurie Magnus</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This volume is uniform with the Primers of Tennyson and Burns, and contains a +concise biography of the poet, a critical appreciation of his work in detail, and a +bibliography.</p> + + +<p>NEO-MALTHUSIANISM. By <span class="smcap">R. Ussher, M.A.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Cr. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book deals with a very delicate but most important matter, namely, the voluntary +limitation of the family, and how such action affects morality, the individual, +and the nation.</p> + + +<p>PRIMÆVAL SCENES. By <span class="smcap">H. N. Hutchinson, B.A., F.G.S.</span>, +Author of ‘Extinct Monsters,’ ‘Creatures of Other Days,’ ‘Prehistoric +Man and Beast,’ etc. With numerous Illustrations drawn +by <span class="smcap">John Hassall</span> and +<span class="smcap">Fred. V. Burridge</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>4to.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A set of twenty drawings, with short text to each, to illustrate the humorous aspects +of prehistoric times. They are carefully planned by the author so as to be +scientifically and archæologically correct and at the same time amusing.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7a" id="Page_7a">[Pg 7a]</a></span> +THE WALLYPUG IN LONDON. By <span class="smcap">G. E. 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Morgan Browne</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>1s. paper;</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. cloth.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book gives, in a clear and complete form, accurate records of the best performances +in all important branches of Sport. It is an attempt, never yet made, to +present all-important sporting records in a systematic way.</p> + + +<p>THE GOLFING PILGRIM. By <span class="smcap">Horace G. Hutchinson.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book, by a famous golfer, contains the following sketches lightly and humorously +written:—The Prologue—The Pilgrim at the Shrine—Mecca out of Season—The +Pilgrim at Home—The Pilgrim Abroad—The Life of the Links—A Tragedy by +the Way—Scraps from the Scrip—The Golfer in Art—Early Pilgrims in the West—An +Interesting Relic.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Educational</strong></p> + + +<p>EVAGRIUS. Edited by <span class="smcap">Professor Léon Parmentier</span> of +Liége and M. Bidez of Gand. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span> +<em>Byzantine Texts.</em></p> + + +<p>THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Translated by +<span class="smcap">A. D. 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Its wealth of illustration is +a marked feature of the book.</p> + + +<p>ESSENTIALS OF COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. By +<span class="smcap">E. E. Whitfield, M.A.</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>1s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A guide to Commercial Education and Examinations.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8a" id="Page_8a">[Pg 8a]</a></span> +PASSAGES FOR UNSEEN TRANSLATION. By <span class="smcap">E. C. Marchant, M.A.</span>, +Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge; and <span class="smcap">A. M. Cook, M.A.</span>, +late Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford: Assistant +Masters at St. Paul’s School. <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book contains Two Hundred Latin and Two Hundred Greek Passages, and +has been very carefully compiled to meet the wants of V. and VI. Form Boys at +Public Schools. It is also well adapted for the use of Honour men at the +Universities.</p> + + +<p>EXERCISES IN LATIN ACCIDENCE. By <span class="smcap">S. E. Winbolt</span>, +Assistant Master in Christ’s Hospital. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>1s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">An elementary book adapted for Lower Forms to accompany the shorter Latin primer.</p> + + +<p>NOTES ON GREEK AND LATIN SYNTAX. By <span class="smcap">G. Buckland Green, M.A.</span>, +Assistant Master at the Edinburgh Academy, late Fellow of St. John’s +College, Oxon. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Cr. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">Notes and explanations on the chief difficulties of Greek and Latin Syntax, with +numerous passages for exercise.</p> + + +<p>A DIGEST OF DEDUCTIVE LOGIC. 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The diagrams are numerous.</p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Fiction</strong></p> + + +<p>LOCHINVAR. By <span class="smcap">S. R. Crockett</span>, Author of ‘The Raiders,’ +etc. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Frank Richards</span>. <em>Crown 8vo.</em> <em>6s.</em></p> + + +<p>BYEWAYS. By <span class="smcap">Robert Hichens</span>, Author of ‘Flames,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE MUTABLE MANY. By <span class="smcap">Robert Barr</span>, Author of ‘In +the Midst of Alarms,’ ‘A Woman Intervenes,’ etc. <em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE LADY’S WALK. 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By <span class="smcap">Gilbert Parker</span>, +Author of ‘The Seats of the Mighty,’ etc. <em>Crown 8vo.</em> <em>3s. 6d.</em></p> + + +<p>A DAUGHTER OF STRIFE. By <span class="smcap">Jane Helen Findlater</span>, +Author of ‘The Green Graves of Balgowrie.’ <em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A story of 1710.</p> + + +<p>OVER THE HILLS. By <span class="smcap">Mary Findlater</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A novel by a sister of J. H. Findlater, the author of ‘The Green Graves of Balgowrie.’</p> + + +<p>A CREEL OF IRISH STORIES. By <span class="smcap">Jane Barlow</span>, Author +of ‘Irish Idylls.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE CLASH OF ARMS. By <span class="smcap">J. 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By <span class="smcap">Norma Lorimer</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>BY STROKE OF SWORD. By <span class="smcap">Andrew Balfour</span>. Illustrated +by <span class="smcap">W. Cubitt Cooke</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A romance of the time of Elizabeth.</p> + + +<p>THE SINGER OF MARLY. By <span class="smcap">I. Hooper</span>. Illustrated +by <span class="smcap">W. Cubitt Cooke</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A romance of adventure.</p> + + +<p>KIRKHAM’S FIND. By <span class="smcap">Mary Gaunt</span>, Author of ‘The +Moving Finger.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE FALL OF THE SPARROW. By <span class="smcap">M. C. Balfour</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p>SCOTTISH BORDER LIFE. By <span class="smcap">James C. Dibdin</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10a" id="Page_10a">[Pg 10a]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><span style="font-size: 110%;"><strong>A LIST OF</strong></span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 180%;" class="smcap"><strong>Messrs. Methuen’s</strong></span><br /> +<span style="font-size: 160%;" class="smcap"><strong>publications</strong></span></p> + +<p class="center">——————</p> + +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Poetry</strong></p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap"><strong>rudyard kipling’s new poems</strong></span></p> + +<p><strong>Rudyard Kipling.</strong> THE SEVEN SEAS. By <span class="smcap">Rudyard Kipling</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram, gilt top.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The new poems of Mr. Rudyard Kipling have all the spirit and swing of their predecessors. +Patriotism is the solid concrete foundation on which Mr. Kipling has +built the whole of his work.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Full of passionate patriotism and the Imperial spirit.’—<em>Yorkshire Post.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The Empire has found a singer; it is no depreciation of the songs to say that statesmen +may have, one way or other, to take account of them.’—<em>Manchester +Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Animated through and through with indubitable genius.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Packed with inspiration, with humour, with pathos.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘All the pride of empire, all the intoxication of power, all the ardour, the energy, +the masterful strength and the wonderful endurance and death-scorning pluck +which are the very bone and fibre and marrow of the British character are here.’—<em>Daily +Mail.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Rudyard Kipling.</strong> BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And +Other Verses. By <span class="smcap">Rudyard Kipling</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Twelfth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Kipling’s verse is strong, vivid, full of character.... Unmistakable genius +rings in every line.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them +with laughter and tears; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered +words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is?’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>“Q.”</strong> POEMS AND BALLADS. By “Q.,” Author of ‘Green +Bays,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘This work has just the faint, ineffable touch and glow that make poetry. ‘Q.’ has +the true romantic spirit.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>“Q.”</strong> GREEN BAYS: Verses and Parodies. By “Q.,” Author +of ‘Dead Man’s Rock,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The verses display a rare and versatile gift of parody, great command of metre, and +a very pretty turn of humour.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>E. Mackay.</strong> A SONG OF THE SEA. By <span class="smcap">Eric Mackay</span>, +Author of ‘The Love Letters of a Violinist.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fcap. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Everywhere Mr. Mackay displays himself the master of a style marked by all the +characteristics of the best rhetoric. He has a keen sense of rhythm and of general +balance; his verse is excellently sonorous.’—<em>Globe</em>.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11a" id="Page_11a">[Pg 11a]</a></span> +<strong>Ibsen.</strong> BRAND. A Drama by <span class="smcap">Henrik Ibsen</span>. Translated by +William Wilson. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The greatest world-poem of the nineteenth century next to “Faust.” It is in +the same set with “Agamemnon,” with “Lear,” with the literature that we now +instinctively regard as high and holy.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>“A. G.”</strong> VERSES TO ORDER. By “A. G.” <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Cr. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d. net.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A small volume of verse by a writer whose initials are well known to Oxford men.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A capital specimen of light academic poetry. These verses are very bright and +engaging, easy and sufficiently witty.’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Belles Lettres, Anthologies, etc.</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>R. L. Stevenson.</strong> VAILIMA LETTERS. By <span class="smcap">Robert Louis Stevenson</span>. +With an Etched Portrait by <span class="smcap">William Strang</span>, and +other Illustrations. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Few publications have in our time been more eagerly awaited than these “Vailima +Letters,” giving the first fruits of the correspondence of Robert Louis Stevenson. +But, high as the tide of expectation has run, no reader can possibly be disappointed +in the result.’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Henley and Whibley.</strong> A BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE. +Collected by <span class="smcap">W. E. Henley</span> and <span class="smcap">Charles Whibley</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A unique volume of extracts—an art gallery of early prose.’—<em>Birmingham Post.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An admirable companion to Mr. Henley’s “Lyra Heroica.”’—<em>Saturday Review.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Quite delightful. A greater treat for those not well acquainted with pre-Restoration +prose could not be imagined.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. C. Beeching.</strong> LYRA SACRA: An Anthology of Sacred Verse. +Edited by <span class="smcap">H. C. Beeching</span>, M.A. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A charming selection, which maintains a lofty standard of excellence.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>“Q.”</strong> THE GOLDEN POMP: A Procession of English Lyrics +from Surrey to Shirley, arranged by A. T. <span class="smcap">Quiller Couch</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A delightful volume: a really golden “Pomp.”’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. B. Yeats.</strong> AN ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH VERSE. +Edited by W. B. <span class="smcap">Yeats</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An attractive and catholic selection.’—Times.</p> + + +<p><strong>G. W. Steevens.</strong> MONOLOGUES OF THE DEAD. By +<span class="smcap">G. W. Steevens.</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Foolscap 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A series of Soliloquies in which famous men of antiquity—Julius Cæsar, Nero, +Alcibiades, etc., attempt to express themselves in the modes of thought and +language of to-day.</p> + +<p class="sml">The effect is sometimes splendid, sometimes bizarre, but always amazingly +clever.—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12a" id="Page_12a">[Pg 12a]</a></span> +<strong>Victor Hugo.</strong> THE LETTERS OF VICTOR HUGO. +Translated from the French by <span class="smcap">F. Clarke, M.A.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d. each.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Vol. I.</em></span> 1815-35.</p> + +<p class="sml">This is the first volume of one of the most interesting and important collection of +letters ever published in France. The correspondence dates from Victor Hugo’s +boyhood to his death, and none of the letters have been published before. The +arrangement is chiefly chronological, but where there is an interesting set of +letters to one person these are arranged together. The first volume contains, +among others, (1) Letters to his father; (2) to his young wife; (3) to his confessor, +Lamennais; (4) a very important set of about fifty letters to Sainte-Beauve; (5) +letters about his early books and plays.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A charming and vivid picture of a man whose egotism never marred his natural +kindness, and whose vanity did not impair his greatness.’—<em>Standard.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>C. H. Pearson.</strong> ESSAYS AND CRITICAL REVIEWS. By +<span class="smcap">C. H. Pearson, M.A.</span>, Author of ‘National Life and Character.’ +Edited, with a Biographical Sketch, by <span class="smcap">H. A. Strong, M.A., +LL.D</span>. With a Portrait. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Remarkable for careful handling, breadth of view, and knowledge.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Charming essays.’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. M. Dixon.</strong> A PRIMER OF TENNYSON. By <span class="smcap">W. M. Dixon, M.A.</span>, +Professor of English Literature at Mason College. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Much sound and well-expressed criticism and acute literary judgments. The bibliography +is a boon.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. A. Craigie.</strong> A PRIMER OF BURNS. By <span class="smcap">W. A. Craigie</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book is planned on a method similar to the ‘Primer of Tennyson.’ It has also +a glossary.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A valuable addition to the literature of the poet.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An excellent short account.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An admirable introduction.’—<em>Globe.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Sterne.</strong> THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM +SHANDY. By <span class="smcap">Lawrence Sterne</span>. With an Introduction by +<span class="smcap">Charles Whibley</span>, and a Portrait. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2 vols.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Very dainty volumes are these; the paper, type, and light-green binding are all +very agreeable to the eye. <em>Simplex munditiis</em> is the phrase that might be applied +to them.’—<em>Globe.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Congreve.</strong> THE COMEDIES OF WILLIAM CONGREVE. +With an Introduction by <span class="smcap">G. S. 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With +an Introduction by <span class="smcap">Vernon Blackburn</span>, and a Portrait. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13a" id="Page_13a">[Pg 13a]</a></span> +<strong>Johnson.</strong> THE LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS. By +<span class="smcap">Samuel Johnson, LL.D.</span> With an Introduction by <span class="smcap">J. H. Millar</span>, +and a Portrait. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3 vols.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>Burns.</strong> THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by +<span class="smcap">Andrew Lang</span> and <span class="smcap">W. A. 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Gaskin</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Baring Gould is deserving of gratitude, in re-writing in honest, simple style the +old stories that delighted the childhood of “our fathers and grandfathers.” As to +the form of the book, and the printing, which is by Messrs. Constable, it were +difficult to commend overmuch.’—<em>Saturday Review.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>S. Baring Gould.</strong> OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. Collected +and edited by <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>. With Numerous Illustrations +by <span class="smcap">F. D. Bedford</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A charming volume, which children will be sure to appreciate. The stories have +been selected with great ingenuity from various old ballads and folk-tales, and, +having been somewhat altered and readjusted, now stand forth, clothed in Mr. +Baring Gould’s delightful English, to enchant youthful readers.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>S. Baring Gould.</strong> A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND +RHYMES. Edited by <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>, and Illustrated by the +Birmingham Art School. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram, gilt top.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The volume is very complete in its way, as it contains nursery songs to the number +of 77, game-rhymes, and jingles. To the student we commend the sensible introduction, +and the explanatory notes. The volume is superbly printed on soft, +thick paper, which it is a pleasure to touch; and the borders and pictures are +among the very best specimens we have seen of the Gaskin school.’—<em>Birmingham +Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14a" id="Page_14a">[Pg 14a]</a></span> +<strong>H. C. Beeching.</strong> A BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VERSE. Edited +by <span class="smcap">H. C. Beeching</span>, M.A., and Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Walter Crane</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo, gilt top.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A collection of the best verse inspired by the birth of Christ from the Middle Ages +to the present day. A distinction of the book is the large number of poems it +contains by modern authors, a few of which are here printed for the first time.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘An anthology which, from its unity of aim and high poetic excellence, has a better +right to exist than most of its fellows.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>History</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>Gibbon.</strong> THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN +EMPIRE. By <span class="smcap">Edward Gibbon</span>. A New Edition, Edited with +Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by <span class="smcap">J. B. Bury, M.A.</span>, Fellow of +Trinity College, Dublin. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Seven Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Gilt top.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>8s. 6d. each.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Also crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Vols. I., II., and III.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The time has certainly arrived for a new edition of Gibbon’s great work.... Professor +Bury is the right man to undertake this task. His learning is amazing, +both in extent and accuracy. The book is issued in a handy form, and at a +moderate price, and it is admirably printed.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The edition is edited as a classic should be edited, removing nothing, yet indicating +the value of the text, and bringing it up to date. It promises to be of the utmost +value, and will be a welcome addition to many libraries.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘This edition, so far as one may judge from the first instalment, is a marvel of +erudition and critical skill, and it is the very minimum of praise to predict that the +seven volumes of it will supersede Dean Milman’s as the standard edition of our +great historical classic.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The beau-ideal Gibbon has arrived at last.’—<em>Sketch.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘At last there is an adequate modern edition of Gibbon.... The best edition the +nineteenth century could produce.’—<em>Manchester Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Flinders Petrie.</strong> A HISTORY OF EGYPT, <span class="smcap">from the Earliest +Times to the Present Day.</span> Edited by <span class="smcap">W. M. Flinders +Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D.</span>, Professor of Egyptology at University +College. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fully Illustrated.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Six Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Vol. I.</span> <span class="smcap">Prehistoric Times to XVI. Dynasty.</span> W. M. F. +Petrie. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Vol. II.</span> <span class="smcap">The XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties.</span> W. M. F. +Petrie. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A history written in the spirit of scientific precision so worthily represented by Dr. +Petrie and his school cannot but promote sound and accurate study, and +supply a vacant place in the English literature of Egyptology.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Flinders Petrie.</strong> EGYPTIAN TALES. Edited by <span class="smcap">W. M. Flinders Petrie.</span> Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Tristram Ellis.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d. each.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A valuable addition to the literature of comparative folk-lore. The drawings are +really illustrations in the literal sense of the word.’—<em>Globe.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘It has a scientific value to the student of history and archæology.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Invaluable as a picture of life in Palestine and Egypt.’—<em>Daily News.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page15a" id="Page15a">[Pg 15a]</a></span> +<strong>Flinders Petrie.</strong> EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART. By +<span class="smcap">W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L.</span> With 120 Illustrations. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Professor Flinders Petrie is not only a profound Egyptologist, but an accomplished +student of comparative archæology. In these lectures, delivered at the Royal +Institution, he displays both qualifications with rare skill in elucidating the +development of decorative art in Egypt, and in tracing its influence on the +art of other countries.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>S. Baring Gould.</strong> THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS. +The Emperors of the Julian and Claudian Lines. With numerous +Illustrations from Busts, Gems, Cameos, etc. By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>, +Author of ‘Mehalah,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Royal 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>15s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A most splendid and fascinating book on a subject of undying interest. The great +feature of the book is the use the author has made of the existing portraits of the +Cæsars, and the admirable critical subtlety he has exhibited in dealing with this +line of research. It is brilliantly written, and the illustrations are supplied on a +scale of profuse magnificence.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The volumes will in no sense disappoint the general reader. Indeed, in their way, +there is nothing in any sense so good in English.... Mr. Baring Gould has +presented his narrative in such a way as not to make one dull page.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. de B. Gibbons.</strong> INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND: HISTORICAL +OUTLINES. By <span class="smcap">H. de B. Gibbins, M.A.</span>, D.Litt. With +5 Maps. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book is written with the view of affording a clear view of the main facts of +English Social and Industrial History placed in due perspective. Beginning +with prehistoric times, it passes in review the growth and advance of industry +up to the nineteenth century, showing its gradual development and progress. +The book is illustrated by Maps, Diagrams, and Tables.</p> + + +<p><strong>A. Clark.</strong> THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD: Their History +and their Traditions. By Members of the University. Edited by +<span class="smcap">A. Clark, M.A.</span>, Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>12s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A work which will certainly be appealed to for many years as the standard book on +the Colleges of Oxford.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Perrens.</strong> THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE FROM 1434 +TO 1492. By <span class="smcap">F. T. Perrens</span>. Translated by <span class="smcap">Hannah Lynch</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>12s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A history of Florence under the domination of Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo de +Medicis.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘This is a standard book by an honest and intelligent historian, who has deserved +well of all who are interested in Italian history.’—<em>Manchester Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. Wells.</strong> A SHORT HISTORY OF ROME. By <span class="smcap">J. Wells, +M.A.</span>, Fellow and Tutor of Wadham Coll., Oxford. With 4 Maps. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This book is intended for the Middle and Upper Forms of Public Schools and for +Pass Students at the Universities. It contains copious Tables, etc.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘An original work written on an original plan, and with uncommon freshness and +vigour.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page16a" id="Page16a">[Pg 16a]</a></span> +<strong>E. L. S. Horsburgh.</strong> THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO. +By <span class="smcap">E. L. S. Horsburgh, B.A.</span> +<em>With Plans.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A brilliant essay—simple, sound, and thorough.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A study, the most concise, the most lucid, the most critical that has been +produced.’—<em>Birmingham Mercury.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. B. George.</strong> BATTLES OF ENGLISH HISTORY. By +<span class="smcap">H. B. George, M.A.</span>, Fellow of New College, Oxford. +<em>With numerous Plans.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. George has undertaken a very useful task—that of making military affairs intelligible +and instructive to non-military readers—and has executed it with laudable +intelligence and industry, and with a large measure of success.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>O. Browning.</strong> A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDIÆVAL ITALY, +<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 1250-1530. By <span class="smcap">Oscar Browning</span>, Fellow and Tutor of King’s +College, Cambridge. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s. each.</em></span></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Vol. I.</span> 1250-1409.—Guelphs and Ghibellines.</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Vol. II.</span> 1409-1530.—The Age of the Condottieri.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A vivid picture of mediæval Italy.’—<em>Standard.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Browning is to be congratulated on the production of a work of immense +labour and learning.’—<em>Westminster Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>O’Grady.</strong> THE STORY OF IRELAND. By <span class="smcap">Standish O’Grady</span>, +Author of ‘Finn and his Companions.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Cr. 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Most delightful, most stimulating. Its racy humour, its original imaginings, +make it one of the freshest, breeziest volumes.’—<em>Methodist Times.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Biography</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>S. Baring Gould.</strong> THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. +By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>. With over 450 Illustrations in +the Text and 12 Photogravure Plates. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Large quarto.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Gilt top.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>36s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The best biography of Napoleon in our tongue, nor have the French as good a +biographer of their hero. A book very nearly as good as Southey’s “Life of +Nelson.”’—<em>Manchester Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The main feature of this gorgeous volume is its great wealth of beautiful photogravures +and finely-executed wood engravings, constituting a complete pictorial +chronicle of Napoleon I.’s personal history from the days of his early childhood +at Ajaccio to the date of his second interment under the dome of the Invalides in +Paris.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The most elaborate account of Napoleon ever produced by an English writer.’—<em>Daily +Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A brilliant and attractive volume. Never before have so many pictures relating +to Napoleon been brought within the limits of an English book.’—<em>Globe.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Particular notice is due to the vast collection of contemporary illustrations.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Nearly all the illustrations are real contributions to history.’—<em>Westminster Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The illustrations are of supreme interest.’—<em>Standard.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page17a" id="Page17a">[Pg 17a]</a></span> +<strong>Morris Fuller.</strong> THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JOHN +DAVENANT, D.D. (1571-1641), President of Queen’s College, +Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Bishop of Salisbury. By +<span class="smcap">Morris Fuller, B.D.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A valuable contribution to ecclesiastical history.’—<em>Birmingham Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. M. Rigg.</strong> ST. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY: <span class="smcap">A Chapter +in the History of Religion</span>. By <span class="smcap">J. M. Rigg</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Rigg has told the story of the great Primate’s life with scholarly ability, and +has thereby contributed an interesting chapter to the history of the Norman period.’—<em>Daily +Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>F. W. Joyce.</strong> THE LIFE OF SIR FREDERICK GORE +OUSELEY. By <span class="smcap">F. W. Joyce, M.A.</span> With Portraits and Illustrations. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>7s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘This book has been undertaken in quite the right spirit, and written with sympathy, +insight, and considerable literary skill.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. G. Collingwood.</strong> THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By +<span class="smcap">W. G. Collingwood, M.A.</span>, Editor of Mr. Ruskin’s Poems. With +numerous Portraits, and 13 Drawings by Mr. Ruskin. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2 vols.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>32s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘It is long since we had a biography with such delights of substance and of form. +Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a joy for ever.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>C. Waldstein.</strong> JOHN RUSKIN: a Study. By <span class="smcap">Charles Waldstein, M.A.</span>, +Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. With a +Photogravure Portrait after Professor Herkomer. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Post 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A thoughtful, impartial, well-written criticism of Ruskin’s teaching, intended to +separate what the author regards as valuable and permanent from what is transient +and erroneous in the great master’s writing.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. H. Hutton.</strong> THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS MORE. By +<span class="smcap">W. H. Hutton, M.A.</span>, Author of ‘William Laud.’ +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>With Portraits.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>5s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The book lays good claim to high rank among our biographies. It is excellently, +even lovingly, written.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An excellent monograph.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Clark Russell.</strong> THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD. +By <span class="smcap">W. Clark Russell</span>, Author of ‘The Wreck +of the Grosvenor.’ With Illustrations by <span class="smcap">F. Brangwyn</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A book which we should like to see in the hands of every boy in the country.’—<em>St. +James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A really good book.’—<em>Saturday Review.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page18a" id="Page18a">[Pg 18a]</a></span> +<strong>Southey.</strong> ENGLISH SEAMEN (Howard, Clifford, Hawkins, +Drake, Cavendish). By <span class="smcap">Robert Southey</span>. Edited, with an +Introduction, by <span class="smcap">David Hannay</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Admirable and well-told stories of our naval history.’—<em>Army and Navy Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A brave, inspiriting book.’—<em>Black and White.</em></p> + + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Travel, Adventure and Topography</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>R. S. S. Baden-Powell.</strong> THE DOWNFALL OF PREMPEH. +A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895. By Colonel +<span class="smcap">Baden-Powell</span>. 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With nearly 100 Illustrations. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>15s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Written in an unaffectedly light and humorous style.’—<em>The World.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A very racy and eminently readable book.’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘As a straightforward account of a great deal of plucky work unpretentiously done, +this book is well worth reading. The simplicity of the narrative is all in its +favour, and accords in a peculiarly English fashion with the nature of the +subject.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Captain Hinde.</strong> THE FALL OF THE CONGO ARABS. +By <span class="smcap">Sidney L. Hinde</span>. 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Worsfold.</strong> SOUTH AFRICA: Its History and its Future. +By <span class="smcap">W. Basil Worsfold, M.A.</span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>With a Map.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An intensely interesting book.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A monumental work compressed into a very moderate compass.’—<em>World.</em></p> + + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>General Literature</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>S. Baring Gould.</strong> OLD COUNTRY LIFE. By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>, +Author of ‘Mehalah,’ etc. With Sixty-seven Illustrations +by <span class="smcap">W. Parkinson, F. D. Bedford</span>, and <span class="smcap">F. 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Edited by <span class="smcap">J. Wells, M.A.</span>, +Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘We congratulate Mr. Wells on the production of a readable and intelligent account +of Oxford as it is at the present time, written by persons who are possessed of a +close acquaintance with the system and life of the University.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>L. Whibley.</strong> GREEK OLIGARCHIES: THEIR ORGANISATION +AND CHARACTER. By <span class="smcap">L. Whibley, M.A.</span>, Fellow +of Pembroke College, Cambridge. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An exceedingly useful handbook: a careful and well-arranged study of an obscure +subject.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Whibley is never tedious or pedantic.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page21a" id="Page21a">[Pg 21a]</a></span> +<strong>L. L. Price.</strong> ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. +By <span class="smcap">L. L. Price</span>, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The book is well written, giving evidence of considerable literary ability, and clear +mental grasp of the subject under consideration.’—<em>Western Morning News.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>C. F. 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Bowden.</strong> THE EXAMPLE OF BUDDHA: Being Quotations +from Buddhist Literature for each Day in the Year. Compiled +by <span class="smcap">E. M. Bowden</span>. With Preface by Sir +<span class="smcap">Edwin Arnold</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>16mo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Science</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>Freudenreich.</strong> DAIRY BACTERIOLOGY. A Short Manual +for the Use of Students. By Dr. <span class="smcap">Ed. von Freudenreich</span>. +Translated from the German by <span class="smcap">J. R. Ainsworth Davis</span>, B.A., +F.C.P. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>Chalmers Mitchell.</strong> OUTLINES OF BIOLOGY. By <span class="smcap">P. +Chalmers Mitchell</span>, M.A., F.Z.S. <em>Fully Illustrated.</em> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A text-book designed to cover the new Schedule issued by the Royal College of +Physicians and Surgeons.</p> + + +<p><strong>G. Massee.</strong> A MONOGRAPH OF THE MYXOGASTRES. By +<span class="smcap">George Massee</span>. With 12 Coloured Plates. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Royal 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>18s. net.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A work much in advance of any book in the language treating of this group of +organisms. It is indispensable to every student of the Myxogastres. The +coloured plates deserve high praise for their accuracy and execution.’—<em>Nature.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page22a" id="Page22a">[Pg 22a]</a></span> +<strong>Philosophy</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>L. T. Hobhouse.</strong> THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. By +<span class="smcap">L. T. Hobhouse</span>, Fellow and Tutor of Corpus College, Oxford. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>21s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The most important contribution to English philosophy since the publication of Mr. +Bradley’s “Appearance and Reality.” Full of brilliant criticism and of positive +theories which are models of lucid statement.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An elaborate and often brilliantly written volume. The treatment is one of great +freshness, and the illustrations are particularly numerous and apt.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. H. Fairbrother.</strong> THE PHILOSOPHY OF T. H. GREEN. +By <span class="smcap">W. H. Fairbrother</span>, M.A., Lecturer at Lincoln College, +Oxford. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This volume is expository, not critical, and is intended for senior students at the +Universities and others, as a statement of Green’s teaching, and an introduction to +the study of Idealist Philosophy.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘In every way an admirable book. As an introduction to the writings of perhaps the +most remarkable speculative thinker whom England has produced in the present +century, nothing could be better.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>F. W. Bussell.</strong> THE SCHOOL OF PLATO: its Origin and +its Revival under the Roman Empire. By <span class="smcap">F. W. Bussell, M.A.</span>, +Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A highly valuable contribution to the history of ancient thought.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A clever and stimulating book, provocative of thought and deserving careful reading.’—<em>Manchester +Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>F. S. Granger.</strong> THE WORSHIP OF THE ROMANS. By +<span class="smcap">F. S. Granger</span>, M.A., Litt.D., Professor of Philosophy at University +College, Nottingham. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A scholarly analysis of the religious ceremonies, beliefs, and superstitions of ancient +Rome, conducted in the new instructive light of comparative anthropology.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Theology</strong></p> + + +<p><strong>E. C. S. Gibson.</strong> THE XXXIX. ARTICLES OF THE +CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Edited with an Introduction by <span class="smcap">E. +C. S. Gibson</span>, D.D., Vicar of Leeds, late Principal of Wells +Theological College. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>15s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The tone maintained throughout is not that of the partial advocate, but the faithful +exponent’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘There are ample proofs of clearness of expression, sobriety of judgment, and breadth +of view.... The book will be welcome to all students of the subject, and its sound, +definite, and loyal theology ought to be of great service.’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘So far from repelling the general reader, its orderly arrangement, lucid treatment, +and felicity of diction invite and encourage his attention.’—<em>Yorkshire Post.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page23a" id="Page23a">[Pg 23a]</a></span> +<strong>R. L. Ottley.</strong> THE DOCTRINE OF THE INCARNATION. +By <span class="smcap">R. L. Ottley</span>, M.A., late fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon., +Principal of Pusey House. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>In Two Volumes.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>15s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Learned and reverent: lucid and well arranged.’—<em>Record.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Accurate, well ordered, and judicious.’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A clear and remarkably full account of the main currents of speculation. Scholarly +precision ... genuine tolerance ... intense interest in his subject—are Mr. +Ottley’s merits.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>F. B. Jevons.</strong> AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY +OF RELIGION. By <span class="smcap">F. B. Jevons</span>, M.A., Litt.D., Principal of +Bishop Hatfield’s Hall. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Demy 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>10s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">Mr. F. B. Jevons’ ‘Introduction to the History of Religion’ treats of early religion, +from the point of view of Anthropology and Folk-lore; and is the first attempt +that has been made in any language to weave together the results of recent +investigations into such topics as Sympathetic Magic, Taboo, Totemism, +Fetishism, etc., so as to present a systematic account of the growth of primitive +religion and the development of early religious institutions.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘Dr. Jevons has written a notable work, and we can strongly recommend it to the +serious attention of theologians, anthropologists, and classical scholars.’—<em>Manchester +Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The merit of this book lies in the penetration, the singular acuteness and force of the +author’s judgment. He is at once critical and luminous, at once just and suggestive. +It is but rarely that one meets with a book so comprehensive and so thorough as +this, and it is more than an ordinary pleasure for the reviewer to welcome and +recommend it. Dr. Jevons is something more than an historian of primitive +belief—he is a philosophic thinker, who sees his subject clearly and sees it whole, +whose mastery of detail is no less complete than his view of the broader aspects +and issues of his subject is convincing.’—<em>Birmingham Post.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>S. R. Driver.</strong> SERMONS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED +WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT. By <span class="smcap">S. R. 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A “Short +Analysis of the Thought” is prefixed to each, and any difficulty in the text is explained +in a note.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The most acceptable edition of this ever-popular work.’—<em>Globe.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Leaders of Religion</strong></p> + + +<p>Edited by H. C. BEECHING, M.A. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>With Portraits, crown 8vo.</em></span></p> + +<p>A series of short biographies of the most prominent leaders +of religious life and thought of all ages and countries.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 68px;"> +<img src="images/3-6.jpg" width="68" height="63" alt="3 and 6" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The following are ready—</p> + +<p>CARDINAL NEWMAN. By <span class="smcap">R. H. Hutton</span>.<br /> +JOHN WESLEY. By <span class="smcap">J. H. Overton</span>, M.A.<br /> +BISHOP WILBERFORCE. By <span class="smcap">G. W. Daniel</span>, M.A.<br /> +CARDINAL MANNING. 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The amplifications of the Scripture +narrative are often conceived with high poetic insight, and this “Dream of the +World’s Tragedy” is, despite some trifling incongruities, a lofty and not inadequate +paraphrase of the supreme climax of the inspired narrative.’—<em>Dublin +Review.</em></p> + + +<p>THE SORROWS OF SATAN. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Thirty-sixth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A very powerful piece of work.... The conception is magnificent, and is likely +to win an abiding place within the memory of man.... The author has immense +command of language, and a limitless audacity.... This interesting and remarkable +romance will live long after much of the ephemeral literature of the day +is forgotten.... A literary phenomenon ... novel, and even sublime.’—<span class="smcap">W. 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The characters are traced +with a masterly hand.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p>A MAN OF MARK. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Of all Mr. Hope’s books, “A Man of Mark” is the one which best compares with +“The Prisoner of Zenda.”’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page26a" id="Page26a">[Pg 26a]</a></span> +THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘It is a perfectly enchanting story of love and chivalry, and pure romance. The +outlawed Count is the most constant, desperate, and withal modest and tender of +lovers, a peerless gentleman, an intrepid fighter, a very faithful friend, and a most +magnanimous foe.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p>PHROSO. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">H. R. Millar</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The tale is thoroughly fresh, quick with vitality, stirring the blood, and humorously, +dashingly told.’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A story of adventure, every page of which is palpitating with action and excitement.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘From cover to cover “Phroso” not only engages the attention, but carries the reader +in little whirls of delight from adventure to adventure.’—<em>Academy.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><strong>S. Baring Gould’s Novels</strong></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘To say that a book is by the author of “Mehalah” is to imply that it contains a +story cast on strong lines, containing dramatic possibilities, vivid and sympathetic +descriptions of Nature, and a wealth of ingenious imagery.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘That whatever Mr. Baring Gould writes is well worth reading, is a conclusion that +may be very generally accepted. His views of life are fresh and vigorous, his +language pointed and characteristic, the incidents of which he makes use are +striking and original, his characters are life-like, and though somewhat exceptional +people, are drawn and coloured with artistic force. Add to this that his +descriptions of scenes and scenery are painted with the loving eyes and skilled +hands of a master of his art, that he is always fresh and never dull, and under +such conditions it is no wonder that readers have gained confidence both in his +power of amusing and satisfying them, and that year by year his popularity +widens.’—<em>Court Circular.</em></p> + + +<p>ARMINELL: A Social Romance. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + + +<p>URITH: A Story of Dartmoor. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The author is at his best.’—<em>Times.</em></p> + + +<p>IN THE ROAR OF THE SEA. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Sixth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘One of the best imagined and most enthralling stories the author has produced.’—<em>Saturday +Review.</em></p> + + +<p>MRS. CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The swing of the narrative is splendid.’—<em>Sussex Daily News.</em></p> + + +<p>CHEAP JACK ZITA. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A powerful drama of human passion.’—<em>Westminster Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A story worthy the author.’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + + +<p>THE QUEEN OF LOVE. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘You cannot put it down until you have finished it.’—<em>Punch.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Can be heartily recommended to all who care for cleanly, energetic, and interesting +fiction.’—<em>Sussex Daily News.</em></p> + + +<p>KITTY ALONE. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A strong and original story, teeming with graphic description, stirring incident, +and, above all, with vivid and enthralling human interest.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + + +<p>NOÉMI: A Romance of the Cave-Dwellers. Illustrated by +<span class="smcap">R. Caton Woodville</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘“Noémi” is as excellent a tale of fighting and adventure as one may wish to meet. +The narrative also runs clear and sharp as the Loire itself.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Baring Gould’s powerful story is full of the strong lights and shadows and +vivid colouring to which he has accustomed us.’—<em>Standard.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page27a" id="Page27a">[Pg 27a]</a></span> +THE BROOM-SQUIRE. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Frank Dadd</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A strain of tenderness is woven through the web of his tragic tale, and its atmosphere +is sweetened by the nobility and sweetness of the heroine’s character.’—<em>Daily News.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A story of exceptional interest that seems to us to be better than anything he has +written of late.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p>THE PENNYCOMEQUICKS. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + + +<p>DARTMOOR IDYLLS.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A book to read, and keep and read again; for the genuine fun and pathos of it will +not early lose their effect.’—<em>Vanity Fair.</em></p> + + +<p>GUAVAS THE TINNER. Illustrated by <span class="smcap">Frank Dadd</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Baring Gould is a wizard who transports us into a region of visions, often lurid +and disquieting, but always full of interest and enchantment.’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘In the weirdness of the story, in the faithfulness with which the characters are +depicted, and in force of style, it closely resembles “Mehalah.”’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘There is a kind of flavour about this book which alone elevates it above the ordinary +novel. The story itself has a grandeur in harmony with the wild and rugged +scenery which is its setting.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + +<p> </p> +<p class="center"><strong>Gilbert Parker’s Novels</strong></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s. each.</em></span></p> + + +<p>PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Stories happily conceived and finely executed. There is strength and genius in Mr. +Parker’s style.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + + +<p>MRS. FALCHION. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A splendid study of character.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘But little behind anything that has been done by any writer of our time.’—<em>Pall +Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A very striking and admirable novel.’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p>THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘The plot is original and one difficult to work out; but Mr. Parker has done it with +great skill and delicacy. The reader who is not interested in this original, fresh, +and well-told tale must be a dull person indeed.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p>THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Everybody with a soul for romance will thoroughly enjoy “The Trail of the +Sword.”’—<em>St. James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A rousing and dramatic tale. A book like this, in which swords flash, great surprises +are undertaken, and daring deeds done, in which men and women live and +love in the old straightforward passionate way, is a joy inexpressible to the reviewer.’—<em>Daily +Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p>WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC: The Story of +a Lost Napoleon. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Here we find romance—real, breathing, living romance, but it runs flush with our +own times, level with our own feelings. The character of Valmond is drawn unerringly; +his career, brief as it is, is placed before us as convincingly as history +itself. The book must be read, we may say re-read, for any one thoroughly to +appreciate Mr. Parker’s delicate touch and innate sympathy with humanity.’—<em>Pall +Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The one work of genius which 1895 has as yet produced.’—<em>New Age.</em></p> + + +<p>AN ADVENTURER OF THE NORTH: The Last Adventures +of ‘Pretty Pierre.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The present book is full of fine and moving stories of the great North, and it will +add to Mr. Parker’s already high reputation.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page28a" id="Page28a">[Pg 28a]</a></span> +THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Illustrated.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Eighth Edition.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The best thing he has done; one of the best things that any one has done lately.’—<em>St. +James’s Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Parker seems to become stronger and easier with every serious novel that he +attempts.... In “The Seats of the Mighty” he shows the matured power which +his former novels have led us to expect, and has produced a really fine historical +novel.... Most sincerely is Mr. Parker to be congratulated on the finest +novel he has yet written.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Parker’s latest book places him in the front rank of living novelists. “The +Seats of the Mighty” is a great book.’—<em>Black and White.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘One of the strongest stories of historical interest and adventure that we have read +for many a day.... A notable and successful book.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + +<p class="center">——————</p> + +<p><strong>Conan Doyle.</strong> ROUND THE RED LAMP. By <span class="smcap">A. Conan +Doyle</span>, Author of ‘The White Company,’ ‘The Adventures of +Sherlock Holmes,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The book is, indeed, composed of leaves from life, and is far and away the best view +that has been vouchsafed us behind the scenes of the consulting-room. It is very +superior to “The Diary of a late Physician.”’—<em>Illustrated London News.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Stanley Weyman.</strong> UNDER THE RED ROBE. By <span class="smcap">Stanley +Weyman</span>, Author of ‘A Gentleman of France.’ With Twelve Illustrations +by R. 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By <span class="smcap">Lucas Malet</span>, +Author of ‘The Wages of Sin,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>Arthur Morrison.</strong> TALES OF MEAN STREETS. By <span class="smcap">Arthur +Morrison</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Told with consummate art and extraordinary detail. He tells a plain, unvarnished +tale, and the very truth of it makes for beauty. In the true humanity of the book +lies its justification, the permanence of its interest, and its indubitable triumph.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A great book. The author’s method is amazingly effective, and produces a thrilling +sense of reality. The writer lays upon us a master hand. The book is simply +appalling and irresistible in its interest. It is humorous also; without humour +it would not make the mark it is certain to make.’—<em>World.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Arthur Morrison.</strong> A CHILD OF THE JAGO. By <span class="smcap">Arthur +Morrison</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">This, the first long story which Mr. Morrison has written, is like his remarkable +‘Tales of Mean Streets,’ a realistic study of East End life.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘The book is a masterpiece.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Told with great vigour and powerful simplicity.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Mrs. Clifford.</strong> A FLASH OF SUMMER. By Mrs. <span class="smcap">W. K. Clifford</span>, +Author of ‘Aunt Anne,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The story is a very sad and a very beautiful one, exquisitely told, and enriched with +many subtle touches of wise and tender insight. It will, undoubtedly, add to its +author’s reputation—already high—in the ranks of novelists.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page29a" id="Page29a">[Pg 29a]</a></span> +<strong>Emily Lawless.</strong> HURRISH. By the Honble. <span class="smcap">Emily Lawless</span>, +Author of ‘Maelcho,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition.</em></span> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A reissue of Miss Lawless’ most popular novel, uniform with ‘Maelcho.’</p> + + +<p><strong>Emily Lawless.</strong> MAELCHO: a Sixteenth Century Romance. +By the Honble. <span class="smcap">Emily Lawless</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A really great book.’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘There is no keener pleasure in life than the recognition of genius. Good work is +commoner than it used to be, but the best is as rare as ever. All the more +gladly, therefore, do we welcome in “Maelcho” a piece of work of the first order, +which we do not hesitate to describe as one of the most remarkable literary +achievements of this generation. Miss Lawless is possessed of the very essence +of historical genius.’—<em>Manchester Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. H. Findlater.</strong> THE GREEN GRAVES OF BALGOWRIE. +By <span class="smcap">Jane H. Findlater</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A powerful and vivid story.’—<em>Standard.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A beautiful story, sad and strange as truth itself.’—<em>Vanity Fair.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A work of remarkable interest and originality.’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A very charming and pathetic tale.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A singularly original, clever, and beautiful story.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘“The Green Graves of Balgowrie” reveals to us a new Scotch writer of undoubted +faculty and reserve force.’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An exquisite idyll, delicate, affecting, and beautiful.’—<em>Black and White.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. G Wells.</strong> THE STOLEN BACILLUS, and other Stories. +By <span class="smcap">H. G. Wells</span>, Author of ‘The Time Machine.’ +<em>Second Edition.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The ordinary reader of fiction may be glad to know that these stories are eminently +readable from one cover to the other, but they are more than that; they are the +impressions of a very striking imagination, which, it would seem, has a great deal +within its reach.’—<em>Saturday Review.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. G. WELLS.</strong> THE PLATTNER STORY <span class="smcap">and Others</span>. By +<span class="smcap">H. G. Wells</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Weird and mysterious, they seem to hold the reader as by a magic spell.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Such is the fascination of this writer’s skill that you unhesitatingly prophesy that +none of the many readers, however his flesh do creep, will relinquish the volume +ere he has read from first word to last.’—<em>Black and White.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘No volume has appeared for a long time so likely to give equal pleasure to the +simplest reader and to the most fastidious critic.’—<em>Academy.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Wells is a magician skilled in wielding that most potent of all spells—the fear +of the unknown.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>E. F. Benson.</strong> DODO: A DETAIL OF THE DAY. By E. F. +<span class="smcap">Benson</span>. <em>Sixteenth Edition.</em> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A delightfully witty sketch of society.’—<em>Spectator.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A perpetual feast of epigram and paradox.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>E. F. Benson.</strong> THE RUBICON. By <span class="smcap">E. F. Benson</span>, Author of +‘Dodo.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An exceptional achievement; a notable advance on his previous work.’—<em>National +Observer.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Mrs. Oliphant.</strong> SIR ROBERT’S FORTUNE. By <span class="smcap">Mrs. Oliphant</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Full of her own peculiar charm of style and simple, subtle character-painting comes +her new gift, the delightful story before us. The scene mostly lies in the moors, +and at the touch of the authoress a Scotch moor becomes a living thing, strong, +tender, beautiful, and changeful.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page30a" id="Page30a">[Pg 30a]</a></span> +<strong>Mrs. Oliphant.</strong> THE TWO MARYS. By <span class="smcap">Mrs. Oliphant</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>W. E. Norris.</strong> MATTHEW AUSTIN. By <span class="smcap">W. E. Norris</span>, Author +of ‘Mademoiselle de Mersac,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘“Matthew Austin” may safely be pronounced one of the most intellectually satisfactory +and morally bracing novels of the current year.’—<em>Daily Telegraph.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. E. Norris.</strong> HIS GRACE. By <span class="smcap">W. E. Norris</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Norris has drawn a really fine character in the Duke of Hurstbourne, at once +unconventional and very true to the conventionalities of life.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. E. Norris.</strong> THE DESPOTIC LADY AND OTHERS. +By <span class="smcap">W. E. Norris</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A budget of good fiction of which no one will tire.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. E. Norris.</strong> CLARISSA FURIOSA. By <span class="smcap">W. E. Norris</span>, +Author of ‘The Rogue,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘One of Mr. Norris’s very best novels. As a story it is admirable, as a <em>jeu d’esprit</em> +it is capital, as a lay sermon studded with gems of wit and wisdom it is a model +which will not, we imagine, find an efficient imitator.’—<em>The World.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The best novel he has written for some time: a story which is full of admirable +character-drawing.’—<em>The Standard.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Robert Barr.</strong> IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS. By <span class="smcap">Robert Barr</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A book which has abundantly satisfied us by its capital humour.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Barr has achieved a triumph whereof he has every reason to be proud.’—<em>Pall +Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. Maclaren Cobban.</strong> THE KING OF ANDAMAN: A +Saviour of Society. By <span class="smcap">J. Maclaren Cobban</span>. +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An unquestionably interesting book. It would not surprise us if it turns out to be +the most interesting novel of the season, for it contains one character, at least, +who has in him the root of immortality, and the book itself is ever exhaling the +sweet savour of the unexpected.... Plot is forgotten and incident fades, and +only the really human endures, and throughout this book there stands out in bold +and beautiful relief its high-souled and chivalric protagonist, James the Master +of Hutcheon, the King of Andaman himself.’—<em>Pall Mall Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. Maclaren Cobban.</strong> WILT THOU HAVE THIS WOMAN? +By <span class="smcap">J. M. Cobban</span>, Author of ‘The King of Andaman.’ +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Cobban has the true story-teller’s art. He arrests attention at the outset, and +he retains it to the end.’—<em>Birmingham Post.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. Morrah.</strong> A SERIOUS COMEDY. By <span class="smcap">Herbert Morrah</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘This volume is well worthy of its title. The theme has seldom been presented with +more freshness or more force.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page31a" id="Page31a">[Pg 31a]</a></span> +<strong>H. Morrah.</strong> THE FAITHFUL CITY. By <span class="smcap">Herbert Morrah</span>, +Author of ‘A Serious Comedy.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Conveys a suggestion of weirdness and horror, until finally he convinces and +enthrals the reader with his mysterious savages, his gigantic tower, and his +uncompromising men and women. This is a haunting, mysterious book, not +without an element of stupendous grandeur.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>L. B. Walford.</strong> SUCCESSORS TO THE TITLE. By <span class="smcap">Mrs. Walford</span>, +Author of ‘Mr. Smith,’ etc. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The story is fresh and healthy from beginning to finish; and our liking for the two +simple people who are the successors to the title mounts steadily, and ends almost +in respect.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>T. L. Paton.</strong> A HOME IN INVERESK. By <span class="smcap">T. L. Paton</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A pleasant and well-written story.’—<em>Daily Chronicle.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>John Davidson.</strong> MISS ARMSTRONG’S AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES. +By <span class="smcap">John Davidson</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Throughout the volume there is a strong vein of originality, and a knowledge of +human nature that are worthy of the highest praise.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>M. M. Dowie.</strong> GALLIA. By <span class="smcap">Ménie Muriel Dowie</span>, Author +of ‘A Girl in the Carpathians.’ +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The style is generally admirable, the dialogue not seldom brilliant, the situations +surprising in their freshness and originality, while the subsidiary as well as the +principal characters live and move, and the story itself is readable from title-page +to colophon.’—<em>Saturday Review.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. A. Barry.</strong> IN THE GREAT DEEP: <span class="smcap">Tales of the Sea</span>. +By <span class="smcap">J. A. Barry</span>, Author of ‘Steve Brown’s Bunyip.’ +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A collection of really admirable short stories of the sea, very simply told, and placed +before the reader in pithy and telling English.’—<em>Westminster Gazette.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. B. Burton.</strong> IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY. By +<span class="smcap">J. Bloundelle Burton</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 0em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Unusually interesting and full of highly dramatic situations.’—<em>Guardian.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>J. B. Burton.</strong> DENOUNCED. By <span class="smcap">J. Bloundelle Burton</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The plot is an original one, and the local colouring is laid on with a delicacy +and an accuracy of detail which denote the true artist.’—<em>Broad Arrow.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>W. C. Scully.</strong> THE WHITE HECATOMB. By <span class="smcap">W. C. Scully</span>, +Author of ‘Kafir Stories.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The author is so steeped in Kaffir lore and legend, and so thoroughly well acquainted +with native sagas and traditional ceremonial that he is able to attract the reader +by the easy familiarity with which he handles his characters.’—<em>South Africa.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘It reveals a marvellously intimate understanding of the Kaffir mind, allied with +literary gifts of no mean order.’—<em>African Critic.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>H. Johnston.</strong> DR. CONGALTON’S LEGACY. By <span class="smcap">Henry Johnston</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A worthy and permanent contribution to Scottish literature.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page32a" id="Page32a">[Pg 32a]</a></span> +<strong>J. F. Brewer.</strong> THE SPECULATORS. By <span class="smcap">J. F. Brewer</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A pretty bit of comedy.... It is undeniably a clever book.’—<em>Academy.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A clever and amusing story. It makes capital out of the comic aspects of culture, +and will be read with amusement by every intellectual reader.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A remarkably clever study.’—<em>Vanity Fair.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Julian Corbett.</strong> A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS. By +<span class="smcap">Julian Corbett</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mr. Corbett writes with immense spirit, and the book is a thoroughly enjoyable +one in all respects. The salt of the ocean is in it, and the right heroic ring resounds +through its gallant adventures.’—<em>Speaker.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>L. Cope Cornford.</strong> CAPTAIN JACOBUS: A ROMANCE OF +THE ROAD. By <span class="smcap">L. Cope Cornford</span>. Illustrated. +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘An exceptionally good story of adventure and character.’—<em>World.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>C. P. Wolley.</strong> THE QUEENSBERRY CUP. A Tale of +Adventure. By <span class="smcap">Clive Phillips Wolley</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Illustrated.</em></span> +<em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A book which will delight boys: a book which upholds the healthy schoolboy code +of morality.’—<em>Scotsman.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>L. Daintrey.</strong> THE KING OF ALBERIA. A Romance of +the Balkans. By <span class="smcap">Laura Daintrey</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Miss Daintrey seems to have an intimate acquaintance with the people and politics +of the Balkan countries in which the scene of her lively and picturesque romance +is laid.’—<em>Glasgow Herald.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>M. A. Owen.</strong> THE DAUGHTER OF ALOUETTE. By +<span class="smcap">Mary A. Owen</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A story of life among the American Indians.</p> + +<p class="sml">‘A fascinating story.’—<em>Literary World.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Mrs. Pinsent.</strong> CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD. By <span class="smcap">Ellen F. Pinsent</span>, +Author of ‘Jenny’s Case.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Mrs. Pinsent’s new novel has plenty of vigour, variety, and good writing. There +are certainty of purpose, strength of touch, and clearness of vision.’—<em>Athenæum.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Clark Russell.</strong> MY DANISH SWEETHEART. By <span class="smcap">W. Clark Russell</span>, +Author of ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Illustrated.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fourth Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>G. Manville Fenn.</strong> AN ELECTRIC SPARK. By <span class="smcap">G. Manville Fenn</span>, +Author of ‘The Vicar’s Wife,’ ‘A Double Knot,’ etc. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>L. S. McChesney.</strong> UNDER SHADOW OF THE MISSION. +By <span class="smcap">L. S. McChesney</span>. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘Those whose minds are open to the finer issues of life, who can appreciate graceful +thought and refined expression of it, from them this volume will receive a welcome +as enthusiastic as it will be based on critical knowledge.’—<em>Church Times.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>Ronald Ross.</strong> THE SPIRIT OF STORM. By <span class="smcap">Ronald +Ross</span>, Author of ‘The Child of Ocean.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">A romance of the Sea. ‘Weird, powerful, and impressive.’—<em>Black and White.</em></p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page33a" id="Page33a">[Pg 33a]</a></span> +<strong>R. Pryce.</strong> TIME AND THE WOMAN. By <span class="smcap">Richard Pryce</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>Mrs. Watson.</strong> THIS MAN’S DOMINION. By the Author +of ‘A High Little World.’ <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>Marriott Watson.</strong> DIOGENES OF LONDON. By +<span class="smcap">H. B. Marriott Watson</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: .5em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>M. Gilchrist.</strong> THE STONE DRAGON. By <span class="smcap">Murray Gilchrist</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Buckram.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘The author’s faults are atoned for by certain positive and admirable merits. The +romances have not their counterpart in modern literature, and to read them is a +unique experience.’—<em>National Observer.</em></p> + + +<p><strong>E. Dickinson.</strong> A VICAR’S WIFE. By <span class="smcap">Evelyn Dickinson</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + + +<p><strong>E. M. Gray.</strong> ELSA. By <span class="smcap">E. MʻQueen Gray</span>. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>6s.</em></span></p> + +<p> </p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 68px;"> +<img src="images/3-6.jpg" width="68" height="63" alt="3 and 6" title="" /> +</div> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap"><strong>three-and-sixpenny novels</strong></span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Crown 8vo.</em></p> + + +<p>DERRICK VAUGHAN, NOVELIST. By <span class="smcap">Edna Lyall</span>.<br /> +MARGERY OF QUETHER. By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>.<br /> +JACQUETTA. By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>.<br /> +SUBJECT TO VANITY. By <span class="smcap">Margaret Benson</span>.<br /> +THE SIGN OF THE SPIDER. By <span class="smcap">Bertram Mitford</span>.<br /> +THE MOVING FINGER. By <span class="smcap">Mary Gaunt</span>.<br /> +JACO TRELOAR. By <span class="smcap">J. H. Pearce</span>.<br /> +THE DANCE OF THE HOURS. 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Each volume is complete +in itself, and the subjects are treated by competent writers in a +broad and philosophic spirit.</p> + +<p class="center">Edited by J. E. SYMES, M.A.,<br /> +Principal of University College, Nottingham.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Price (with some exceptions) 2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>The following volumes are ready:—</em></p> + + +<p>THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By <span class="smcap">H. de B. Gibbins</span>, +D.Litt., M.A., late Scholar of Wadham College, Oxon., Cobden Prizeman. +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Fifth Edition, Revised.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>With Maps and Plans.</em></span> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>3s.</em></span></p> + +<p class="sml">‘A compact and clear story of our industrial development. A study of this concise +but luminous book cannot fail to give the reader a clear insight into the principal +phenomena of our industrial history. The editor and publishers are to be congratulated +on this first volume of their venture, and we shall look with expectant +interest for the succeeding volumes of the series.’—<em>University Extension Journal.</em></p> + + +<p>A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POLITICAL ECONOMY. By <span class="smcap">L. L. Price</span>, +M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon. <em>Second Edition.</em></p> + + +<p>PROBLEMS OF POVERTY: An Inquiry into the Industrial Conditions of +the Poor. By <span class="smcap">J. A. Hobson</span>, M.A. <em>Third Edition.</em></p> + + +<p>VICTORIAN POETS. By <span class="smcap">A. Sharp</span>.</p> + + +<p>THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By <span class="smcap">J. E. Symes</span>, M.A.</p> + + +<p>PSYCHOLOGY. By <span class="smcap">F. S. 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Dickinson</span>, Fellow of King’s +College, Cambridge. <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>Second Edition.</em></span></p> + + +<a name="social" id="social"></a> + +<p> </p> +<p style="font-size: 130%;" class="center"><strong>Social Questions of To-day</strong></p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 69px;"> +<img src="images/2-6.jpg" width="69" height="63" alt="2 and 6" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center">Edited by <span class="smcap">H. de B. GIBBINS</span>, D.Litt, M.A.</p> +<p class="center"><em>Crown 8vo.</em> <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><em>2s. 6d.</em></span></p> + +<p>A series of volumes upon those topics of social, economic, +and industrial interest that are at the present moment foremost +in the public mind. Each volume of the series is written by an +author who is an acknowledged authority upon the subject with which +he deals.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>The following Volumes of the Series are ready:—</em></p> + + +<p>TRADE UNIONISM—NEW AND OLD. By <span class="smcap">G. Howell</span>, Author of +‘The Conflicts of Capital and Labour.’ <em>Second Edition.</em></p> + + +<p>THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT TO-DAY. By <span class="smcap">G. J. Holyoake</span>, +Author of ‘The History of Co-Operation.’ <em>Second Edition.</em></p> + + +<p>MUTUAL THRIFT. By Rev. <span class="smcap">J. Frome Wilkinson</span>, M.A., Author of +‘The Friendly Society Movement.’</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page37a" id="Page37a">[Pg 37a]</a></span> +PROBLEMS OF POVERTY: An Inquiry into the Industrial Conditions of +the Poor. By <span class="smcap">J. A. Hobson, M.A.</span> <span style="margin-left: .3em;"><em>Third Edition.</em></span></p> + + +<p>THE COMMERCE OF NATIONS. By <span class="smcap">C. F. Bastaple, M.A.</span>, Professor +of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin.</p> + + +<p>THE ALIEN INVASION. By <span class="smcap">W. H. Wilkins</span>, B.A., Secretary to the +Society for Preventing the Immigration of Destitute Aliens.</p> + + +<p>THE RURAL EXODUS. By <span class="smcap">P. Anderson Graham</span>.</p> + + +<p>LAND NATIONALIZATION. By <span class="smcap">Harold Cox</span>, B.A.</p> + + +<p>A SHORTER WORKING DAY. By <span class="smcap">H. de B. Gibbins</span>, D.Litt., M.A., +and <span class="smcap">R. A. Hadfield</span>, of the Hecla Works, Sheffield.</p> + + +<p>BACK TO THE LAND: An Inquiry into the Cure for Rural Depopulation. +By <span class="smcap">H. E. Moore</span>.</p> + + +<p>TRUSTS, POOLS AND CORNERS: As affecting Commerce and Industry. +By <span class="smcap">J. Stephen Jeans</span>, M.R.I., F.S.S.</p> + + +<p>THE FACTORY SYSTEM. By <span class="smcap">R. Cooke Taylor</span>.</p> + + +<p>THE STATE AND ITS CHILDREN. By <span class="smcap">Gertrude Tuckwell</span>.</p> + +<p>WOMEN’S WORK. 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