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diff --git a/780-h/780-h.htm b/780-h/780-h.htm index e6476e7..5e7387a 100644 --- a/780-h/780-h.htm +++ b/780-h/780-h.htm @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The War in the Air | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> <style> body { margin:10%; text-align:justify} @@ -13,15 +14,17 @@ blockquote {font-size: 97%; font-style: italic; margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} .mynote {background-color: #DDE; color: #000; padding: .5em; margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 95%;} .toc { margin-left: 10%; margin-bottom: .75em;} - .toc2 { margin-left: 20%;} div.fig { display:block; margin:0 auto; text-align:center; } div.middle { margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%; text-align: justify; } + .center {text-align: center;} .figleft {float: left; margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 1%;} .figright {float: right; margin-right: 0%; margin-left: 1%;} .pagenum {display:inline; font-size: 70%; font-style:normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; right: 1%; text-align: right;} pre { font-style: italic; font-size: 90%; margin-left: 10%;} + .tdr {text-align: right;} + .smcap {font-variant: small-caps;} </style> </head> @@ -46,63 +49,70 @@ <h2> Contents </h2> + <table style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto"> - <tr> - <td> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2H_PREF"> PREFACE TO REPRINT EDITION </a> - </p> - <br> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE WAR IN THE AIR</b></span> </a> - </p> - <br> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0001"> CHAPTER I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS - FAMILY </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0002"> CHAPTER II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO - DIFFICULTIES </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0003"> CHAPTER III. THE BALLOON </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0004"> CHAPTER IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0005"> CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC - </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0006"> CHAPTER VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0007"> CHAPTER VII. THE “VATERLAND” IS DISABLED - </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0008"> CHAPTER VIII. A WORLD AT WAR </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0009"> CHAPTER IX. ON GOAT ISLAND </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0010"> CHAPTER X. THE WORLD UNDER THE WAR </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2HCH0011"> CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT COLLAPSE </a> - </p> - <p class="toc"> - <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> THE EPILOGUE </a> - </p> - </td> - </tr> + <thead> + <tr> + <th style="font-size: xx-small;">CHAPTER</th> + <th></th> + </tr> + </thead> + <tbody> + <tr> + <td class="tdr"></td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2H_PREF">Preface to Reprint Edition</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">I.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0001">Of Progress snd the Smallways Family</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">II.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0002">How Bert Smallways got into Difficulties</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">III.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0003">The Balloon</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">IV.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0004">The German Air-fleet</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">V.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0005">The Battle of the North Atlantic</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">VI.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0006">How War came to New York</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">VII.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0007">The “Vaterland” is Disabled</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">VIII.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0008">A World at War</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">IX.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0009">On Goat Island</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">X.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0010">The World under the War</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr">XI.</td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2HCH0011">The Great Collapse</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdr"></td> + <td class="smcap"><a href="#link2H_4_0014">The Epilogue</a></td> + </tr> + </tbody> </table> - <p> - <br> <br> - </p> + <hr> <p> <br> <br> <a id="link2H_PREF"> @@ -1383,7 +1393,7 @@ WHAT WILL BRITAIN DO? IS IT WAR?——————&mdash </pre> <p> This sort of thing was alvays going on, and on holidays one disregarded it - as a matter of course. Week-davs, in the slack time after the midday meal, + as a matter of course. Week-days, in the slack time after the midday meal, then perhaps one might worry about the Empire and international politics; but not on a sunny Sunday, with a pretty girl trailing behind one, and envious cyclists trying to race you. Nor did our young people attach any @@ -4880,7 +4890,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert years! I suppose we shall fly right away to New York—just as though it wasn't anything at all. I suppose we shall reckon we aren't wanted down there. It's no more than a covering fight on our side. All those tenders - and store-ships of ours are going on southwest by west to New York to make + and store-ships of ours are going on south-west by west to New York to make a floating depot for us. See?” He dabbed his forefinger on the map. “Here we are. Our train of stores goes there, our battleships elbow the Americans out of our way there.” @@ -5868,11 +5878,17 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert the New York papers were regaling themselves with wonderful and wonderfully illustrated accounts of such matters as:— </p> + <div class="center" style="margin: 1em;"> + THE SECRET OF THE THUNDERBOLT<br><br> + AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS<br>ELECTRIC GUN<br><br> + TO ELECTROCUTE AIRSHIP CREWS BY<br>UPWARD LIGHTNING<br><br> + WASHINGTON ORDERS FIVE<br>HUNDRED<br><br> + WAR SECRETARY LODGE DELIGHTED<br><br> + SAYS THEY WILL SUIT THE<br>GERMANS<br>DOWN TO THE GROUND<br><br> + PRESIDENT PUBLICLY APPLAUDS<br>THIS MERRY QUIP + </div> <p> - THE SECRET OF THE THUNDERBOLT AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTRIC GUN TO - ELECTROCUTE AIRSHIP CREWS BY UPWARD LIGHTNING WASHINGTON ORDERS FIVE - HUNDRED WAR SECRETARY LODGE DELIGHTED SAYS THEY WILL SUIT THE GERMANS DOWN - TO THE GROUND PRESIDENT PUBLICLY APPLAUDS THIS MERRY QUIP 3 + 3 </p> <p> The German fleet reached New York in advance of the news of the American @@ -8166,13 +8182,11 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert Asiatics against one German, and were presently joined by another, and drove away eastward all together with others dropping out of the German line to join them. - </p> - <p> One Asiatic either rammed or collided with a still more gigantic German, and the two went spinning to destruction together. The northern squadron of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert, except that the multitude of ships above seemed presently increased. In a little while the - fight was utter confusion, drifting on the whole to the southwest against + fight was utter confusion, drifting on the whole to the south-west against the wind. It became more and more a series of group encounters. Here a huge German airship flamed earthward with a dozen flat Asiatic craft about her, crushing her every attempt to recover. Here another hung with its @@ -8210,7 +8224,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert Perhaps a hundred yards above the water, out of the south, riding like Valkyries swiftly through the air on the strange steeds the engineering of Europe had begotten upon the artistic inspiration of Japan, came a long - string of Asiatic swordsman. The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, + string of Asiatic swordsman. The wings flapped jerkily, click, clock, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air. So they rose and fell and rose again. They passed so closely overhead that Bert could hear their voices @@ -9290,7 +9304,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert skyward. </p> <p> - Far away in the southwest appeared a Japanese airship coming fast toward + Far away in the south-west appeared a Japanese airship coming fast toward them. Their conflict ended at that. The Prince was first to grasp the situation and lead the retreat. All three scuttled like rabbits for the trees, and ran to and for cover until they found a hollow in which the @@ -10605,7 +10619,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert interior and for an instant it seemed he was plucking forth his liver. Then as he struggled with buttons on his shoulder they perceived this flattened horror was in fact a terribly dirty flannel chest-protector. In - an other moment Bert, in a state of irregular decolletage, was standing + another moment Bert, in a state of irregular decolletage, was standing over the table displaying a sheaf of papers. </p> <p> @@ -10626,7 +10640,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert </p> <p> They would all no doubt have been eager to hear Bert's story over again, - but it was it this point that Laurier showed his quality. “No, SIR,” he + but it was at this point that Laurier showed his quality. “No, SIR,” he said, and slid from off his table. </p> <p> @@ -10665,7 +10679,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert <p> Laurier looked down on him. “He is reported in the neighbourhood of Albany—out towards the Berkshire Hills. He is moving from place to place and, as far - as he can, organising the defence by telegraph and telephones The Asiatic + as he can, organising the defence by telegraph and telephone. The Asiatic air-fleet is trying to locate him. When they think they have located the seat of government, they throw bombs. This inconveniences him, but so far they have not come within ten miles of him. The Asiatic air-fleet is at @@ -11200,7 +11214,7 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert <p> The Welsh and English countryside at that time presented the strangest mingling of the assurance and wealth of the opening twentieth century with - a sort of Düreresque mediaevalism. All the gear, the houses and mono-rails, + a sort of Dureresque mediaevalism. All the gear, the houses and mono-rails, the farm hedges and power cables, the roads and pavements, the sign-posts and advertisements of the former order were still for the most part intact. Bankruptcy, social collapse, famine, and pestilence had done @@ -12125,4 +12139,3 @@ of 'em,” muttered Grubb, “up comes a counter-attraction. Go it, Bert <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 780 ***</div> </body> </html> - |