[452]CHAPTER XX. . . . . . . . .Againthe train, the monotonous stretches of level waste, unbroken save here and there by straggling villages, or prosperous farm-holdings; rich and populous goldfields, or, as occasionally happened, ill-fated and deserted mines, with melancholy machinery, all rusted and abandoned. On these and other landmarks was writ large the tale of hope and enterprise, success, decay, despair. All were heedfully observed and noted by the younger traveller; as regularly explained and classified by the less impulsive senior. Then darkness, a cooler atmosphere, lights, sea strand, city and hotel—goal of the weary traveller!. . . . . . . . .England again! Hexham Hall. Again the aged woods, the peerless turf, the murmuring brook, the delicious, settled comfort of English country life. Then such rides and drives, such traps and drags, broughams and landaus!—all the component parts of fully appointed coach-houses and stables, where expense was not too closely regarded; such, and all other matters of[453]comparative luxury, seemed to be forthcoming with a sort of Arabian Nights profusion.Then, to crown all, they had left West Australia in its autumnal month of March, and were here in April.Oh, to be in England, now that April’s here!sang Browning from Italy, and it seemed as if every thrush and blackbird in Hexham woods had echoed the aspiration. It was a season of hope and joy, if ever such a halcyon time occurred on this occasionally untoward-seeming planet. Mrs. Banneret was serenely, though secretly, exultant, because her husband and first-born had safely returned, having successfully carried out the object of their mission. Hermione and Vanda, passionately fond of their brothers, and much petted by their father, were charmed with the state of matters generally, and looked forward to even more important developments when Lord and Lady Hexham, with ‘darling Corisande,’ after which fashion that young lady was generally alluded to, should arrive in a week’s time. Eric had taken his degree creditably at Cambridge, if not brilliantly. If he had not won the triumph of a ‘double first’ like Reggie, he had done enough for honour.There were, of course, the hunting fixtures to be arranged for. The Hexham stud was in great form and buckle. The Banneret girls, who had ridden all sorts of horses over all sorts of fences and roads since earliest childhood, were finished performers across country. Truth to tell, unless they came to grief through ‘trappy’ hedge and[454]ditch obstacles, there was no danger of their being stopped by English fences after the stiff posts and rails of their native land. They looked forward to glorious performances when Reggie would be able to escort them.‘Don’t expect too much, my good Vanda,’ said Hermione; ‘he’ll be too nervous about Corisande’s getting hurt, to trouble about you and me. Afiancéecounts for ever so much more than the dearest sisters.’‘I can hardly believe that; but we must make allowances. If Corisande accepts him, we may be thankful. He might have been caught by some smart colonial girl. Some of them are very good-looking.’‘Are they, indeed? Who is a snob now? as you sometimes say to me. And what are we but colonial?’‘Oh, but we’re different!’‘I can’t see it. Dad has been lucky, and we are ever so rich—of course “in the swim,” and so on; but as for being anything that entitles us to look down on our countrywomen, the idea is ludicrous. Don’t let people say we can’t stand our oats.’‘I apologise, and promise not to offend again. Of course it’s absurd to talk as if we were anything but middle-class people, though of course the Banneret family is as old as the Heptarchy.’‘That’s very well to know; but the less we bother about family descent, the more people will think of us. The Honourable Corisande is a good sort, and an Earl’s daughter. Rank, when[455]there’s money to back it up,isa good thing socially. No sensible person denies it. But thewoman, the real woman, apart from all other considerations, is what makes for happiness in marriage, or otherwise.Weknow this one to be a straight, plucky, good-tempered girl, with no nonsense about her; fond too of Reggie, which is everything. So if the high contracting parties agree about settlements and things, it will be all plain sailing.’‘It’s a bigif; but Reggie’s good-looking, clever, and presentable—well off too. He’s a catch as men go. I daresay it will come off. But will she go to West Australia?’‘If she cares about him, she’ll goanywhere, and be happy if he is with her; if she only cares about herself, she’ll be miserable everywhere, and it won’t matter where she goes.’Not many days after this important colloquy, the arrival was announced in the society papers of the Earl and Countess of Hexham and their daughters at Hexham Hall, which they were revisiting on the invitation of the owner. Mr. Banneret and his eldest son, lately returned from West Australia, had been on a tour of inspection over their extensive mining and other properties. This information was followed by notices of various hunting fixtures, at which the Misses Banneret and their brother, accompanied by the Earl of Hexham and the Honourable Corisande Aylmer, took leading positions. They were admirably mounted, and, like all Australian colonists, rode fearlessly yet with judgment. Lady Hexham,[456]with Mrs. Banneret and the Honourable Adeline Aylmer, drove to the meet in the Hexham landau. There were other functions and festivities, few of which the young people missed; as, indeed, why should they? Youth is the time for enjoyment, and being all of the right age, healthy, happy, and hopeful, they enjoyed the pleasures suitable to the season, to their age and position, with all the ardour of early youth. They went everywhere and did everything,—hunting, polo, balls, garden parties. It did not pass without notice that the young people of the new and the old Hexham families were constantly together, and that at all social gatherings and entertainments Reggie Banneret was never very far from the Honourable Corisande’s vicinity. Of course the heads of departments, not to mention the juniors of both families, were not unobservant of these coincidences, but like wise parents and relations ‘went on sayin’ nothin’’ until events should shape themselves definitely.So it came to pass, after one of the great functions of the period—to be precise, it was the annual county ball—that Corisande came to her mother with her confession. Reggie Banneret had spoken out—said, in fact, that he had felt from the first moment he saw her that there was no other woman in the world for him, and so on, and so on. ‘I won’t bore you, mother,’ said the girl, ‘but he said all the usual things men say at such times, I suppose, and a few more. Heisclever, though a trifle too romantic—isn’t he? and—I love him.’[457]‘My dear child,’ said the matron, stroking her hair tenderly as she knelt before her with her head on her mother’s lap, ‘you could not bore me on such an occasion as this, involving indeed your future happiness as well as that of all related to you. It is not a matter to be treated lightly, whatever the people composing “the smart set” may say.’‘And what doyousay, my darling mother?’ said Corisande, raising her head, while her eyes shone the more brightly, as the tear-drops fell slowly, when she made her appeal.‘My dear, dear Corisande,’ said the elder woman, as she half-rose and drew the sobbing girl more closely to her, ‘you have no reason to be in doubt as to our reply—your father’s and mine—to Reginald’s offer. We have noticed his attentions. They were open and straightforward. Had we disapproved, we should have returned to Bruges, and so withdrawn from the hazard of an unsuitable marriage. But so far from disapproval, you can tell your Reginald and our new relations that we have no hesitation in giving our unqualified consent. We have had abundant opportunities of knowing the family characteristics, and have come to the conclusion that we like and respectALLthe members of the Banneret family, and have reason to bless the day when we made their acquaintance.’Lord Hexham was absent in London, having retreated to his club, as he commonly did when there was any function on hand which did not specially demand his attendance.[458]‘I’m getting too old (he wrote) for these late-at-night racketings and standings about. I know where I am at afternoon whist in the Senior United and the Travellers’, but I don’t dance now, and balls bore me. You and the girls, my Lady, can manage these minor matters a deal better than I can. There’s no objection that I can see to Corisande’s marriage, if they’ve made up their minds to tackle the Great Experiment. Who is it says that—Thackeray, or some other fellow? I never was good at quotations. What I mean is, that he is a presentable, steady young fellow, with brains—done well at Cambridge, hasn’t he?—good-looking—that is, looks like a gentleman, which is the main thing. The betting’s six to four on, with such a good start. He’s got the wherewithal—can’t do without that. So clap ’em on the back, my Lady—you know what I mean—and tell ’em I’ll sign, seal, and deliver when the settlements are ready. Corisande’s a good girl; hope she won’t go too far away—rough place West Australia—but I daresay they’ll fit in. I knew Jerry Taylour, K.C.B.; we were “subs” together in old army days. They tell me he’s Governor out there. Daresay he’ll ask ’em to dinner. Expect me a day or two beforetheday.Hexham.’His Lordship, as he freely owned, was not good at letter-writing; but this was much from him, and to the point. It conveyed more than many carefully composed epistles. He meant what he said, and once his word was given never departed from it. Lady Hexham knew he would[459]arrive punctually. She was wise in not requiring him to stay at Hexham too long at one time. He had never, he said, ‘cared much for country life.’ He was a man of town habitudes and occupations. At Bruges, of course, he compelled himself to conform to the altered circumstances of the family. And this, to his credit be it spoken, he managed to do, without loss of cash or self-respect.However, since the sale of the old Hall and estate, matters had changed wonderfully for the better. With his sons doing well in the Army and Navy, his eldest daughter engaged to a young fellow who was likely to make a figure in the world, and was, moreover, a man of fortune, things were looking up. Why he wanted to go back to Australia, he couldn’t understand. Were not England and the Continent good enough for him—for any man? Corisande would have to go too, he supposed. Well, she was a good girl; her place, with her ideas, was with her husband. He didn’t approve of wives being in one hemisphere and husbands in another. Didn’t work well—not in his experience at any rate. Colonies weren’t such bad places either—come to think: the money came from there; and but for it and the man who made it—a gentlemanaux bouts des ongles—they would all have been stuck at Bruges for years to come. The Hexham family, at any rate, had no right to grumble.All in good time the more important function connected with Hexham Hall was concluded to[460]the satisfaction of all concerned. The settlements were even more liberal than the hereditary family solicitor of the Aylmers had suggested, or than Lady Hexham, who had an unseen but controlling influence in such matters, had hoped for. As for the young people, according to their age and unwisdom they pooh-poohed such trivialities, holding that the love that never shalldie—Till the sun grows cold,And the stars are old,And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—would be amply sufficient in its tenderness and truth to guard their future lives from all ‘ills that flesh is heir to,’ and more besides. But their elders knew better. So everything was done with due legal form and security: trustees appointed, and all the rest of it.The wedding came off triumphantly at St. James’s, Hanover Square. The day, wonderful to relate, was fine; all the surroundings seemed sympathetic. Two tall, handsome Australian cousins came home by theMoldavia, P. & O., just in time to make up the proper number of bridesmaids who walked up the aisle with the impressive dignity proper to the occasion. Half London was there, of course. Every one wanted to see the bridegroom, erroneously reported to have twenty thousand a year, and to have worked as a digger on the field before he ‘made his pile.’ And when Lord Hexham led the Honourable Corisande to the altar, the stately peer and his lovely daughter evoked audible exclamations of approval. Finally,[461]as amid the melodious crash of the ‘Wedding March,’ Reggie Banneret and she walked out as wedded pair, the friends of both families, and even mere acquaintances, seemed infected with that mysterious feminine sympathy which at all weddings finds relief in tears.THE ENDPrinted byR. & R. Clark, Limited,Edinburgh.
. . . . . . . . .
Againthe train, the monotonous stretches of level waste, unbroken save here and there by straggling villages, or prosperous farm-holdings; rich and populous goldfields, or, as occasionally happened, ill-fated and deserted mines, with melancholy machinery, all rusted and abandoned. On these and other landmarks was writ large the tale of hope and enterprise, success, decay, despair. All were heedfully observed and noted by the younger traveller; as regularly explained and classified by the less impulsive senior. Then darkness, a cooler atmosphere, lights, sea strand, city and hotel—goal of the weary traveller!
. . . . . . . . .
England again! Hexham Hall. Again the aged woods, the peerless turf, the murmuring brook, the delicious, settled comfort of English country life. Then such rides and drives, such traps and drags, broughams and landaus!—all the component parts of fully appointed coach-houses and stables, where expense was not too closely regarded; such, and all other matters of[453]comparative luxury, seemed to be forthcoming with a sort of Arabian Nights profusion.
Then, to crown all, they had left West Australia in its autumnal month of March, and were here in April.
Oh, to be in England, now that April’s here!
Oh, to be in England, now that April’s here!
Oh, to be in England, now that April’s here!
Oh, to be in England, now that April’s here!
sang Browning from Italy, and it seemed as if every thrush and blackbird in Hexham woods had echoed the aspiration. It was a season of hope and joy, if ever such a halcyon time occurred on this occasionally untoward-seeming planet. Mrs. Banneret was serenely, though secretly, exultant, because her husband and first-born had safely returned, having successfully carried out the object of their mission. Hermione and Vanda, passionately fond of their brothers, and much petted by their father, were charmed with the state of matters generally, and looked forward to even more important developments when Lord and Lady Hexham, with ‘darling Corisande,’ after which fashion that young lady was generally alluded to, should arrive in a week’s time. Eric had taken his degree creditably at Cambridge, if not brilliantly. If he had not won the triumph of a ‘double first’ like Reggie, he had done enough for honour.
There were, of course, the hunting fixtures to be arranged for. The Hexham stud was in great form and buckle. The Banneret girls, who had ridden all sorts of horses over all sorts of fences and roads since earliest childhood, were finished performers across country. Truth to tell, unless they came to grief through ‘trappy’ hedge and[454]ditch obstacles, there was no danger of their being stopped by English fences after the stiff posts and rails of their native land. They looked forward to glorious performances when Reggie would be able to escort them.
‘Don’t expect too much, my good Vanda,’ said Hermione; ‘he’ll be too nervous about Corisande’s getting hurt, to trouble about you and me. Afiancéecounts for ever so much more than the dearest sisters.’
‘I can hardly believe that; but we must make allowances. If Corisande accepts him, we may be thankful. He might have been caught by some smart colonial girl. Some of them are very good-looking.’
‘Are they, indeed? Who is a snob now? as you sometimes say to me. And what are we but colonial?’
‘Oh, but we’re different!’
‘I can’t see it. Dad has been lucky, and we are ever so rich—of course “in the swim,” and so on; but as for being anything that entitles us to look down on our countrywomen, the idea is ludicrous. Don’t let people say we can’t stand our oats.’
‘I apologise, and promise not to offend again. Of course it’s absurd to talk as if we were anything but middle-class people, though of course the Banneret family is as old as the Heptarchy.’
‘That’s very well to know; but the less we bother about family descent, the more people will think of us. The Honourable Corisande is a good sort, and an Earl’s daughter. Rank, when[455]there’s money to back it up,isa good thing socially. No sensible person denies it. But thewoman, the real woman, apart from all other considerations, is what makes for happiness in marriage, or otherwise.Weknow this one to be a straight, plucky, good-tempered girl, with no nonsense about her; fond too of Reggie, which is everything. So if the high contracting parties agree about settlements and things, it will be all plain sailing.’
‘It’s a bigif; but Reggie’s good-looking, clever, and presentable—well off too. He’s a catch as men go. I daresay it will come off. But will she go to West Australia?’
‘If she cares about him, she’ll goanywhere, and be happy if he is with her; if she only cares about herself, she’ll be miserable everywhere, and it won’t matter where she goes.’
Not many days after this important colloquy, the arrival was announced in the society papers of the Earl and Countess of Hexham and their daughters at Hexham Hall, which they were revisiting on the invitation of the owner. Mr. Banneret and his eldest son, lately returned from West Australia, had been on a tour of inspection over their extensive mining and other properties. This information was followed by notices of various hunting fixtures, at which the Misses Banneret and their brother, accompanied by the Earl of Hexham and the Honourable Corisande Aylmer, took leading positions. They were admirably mounted, and, like all Australian colonists, rode fearlessly yet with judgment. Lady Hexham,[456]with Mrs. Banneret and the Honourable Adeline Aylmer, drove to the meet in the Hexham landau. There were other functions and festivities, few of which the young people missed; as, indeed, why should they? Youth is the time for enjoyment, and being all of the right age, healthy, happy, and hopeful, they enjoyed the pleasures suitable to the season, to their age and position, with all the ardour of early youth. They went everywhere and did everything,—hunting, polo, balls, garden parties. It did not pass without notice that the young people of the new and the old Hexham families were constantly together, and that at all social gatherings and entertainments Reggie Banneret was never very far from the Honourable Corisande’s vicinity. Of course the heads of departments, not to mention the juniors of both families, were not unobservant of these coincidences, but like wise parents and relations ‘went on sayin’ nothin’’ until events should shape themselves definitely.
So it came to pass, after one of the great functions of the period—to be precise, it was the annual county ball—that Corisande came to her mother with her confession. Reggie Banneret had spoken out—said, in fact, that he had felt from the first moment he saw her that there was no other woman in the world for him, and so on, and so on. ‘I won’t bore you, mother,’ said the girl, ‘but he said all the usual things men say at such times, I suppose, and a few more. Heisclever, though a trifle too romantic—isn’t he? and—I love him.’
[457]‘My dear child,’ said the matron, stroking her hair tenderly as she knelt before her with her head on her mother’s lap, ‘you could not bore me on such an occasion as this, involving indeed your future happiness as well as that of all related to you. It is not a matter to be treated lightly, whatever the people composing “the smart set” may say.’
‘And what doyousay, my darling mother?’ said Corisande, raising her head, while her eyes shone the more brightly, as the tear-drops fell slowly, when she made her appeal.
‘My dear, dear Corisande,’ said the elder woman, as she half-rose and drew the sobbing girl more closely to her, ‘you have no reason to be in doubt as to our reply—your father’s and mine—to Reginald’s offer. We have noticed his attentions. They were open and straightforward. Had we disapproved, we should have returned to Bruges, and so withdrawn from the hazard of an unsuitable marriage. But so far from disapproval, you can tell your Reginald and our new relations that we have no hesitation in giving our unqualified consent. We have had abundant opportunities of knowing the family characteristics, and have come to the conclusion that we like and respectALLthe members of the Banneret family, and have reason to bless the day when we made their acquaintance.’
Lord Hexham was absent in London, having retreated to his club, as he commonly did when there was any function on hand which did not specially demand his attendance.
[458]‘I’m getting too old (he wrote) for these late-at-night racketings and standings about. I know where I am at afternoon whist in the Senior United and the Travellers’, but I don’t dance now, and balls bore me. You and the girls, my Lady, can manage these minor matters a deal better than I can. There’s no objection that I can see to Corisande’s marriage, if they’ve made up their minds to tackle the Great Experiment. Who is it says that—Thackeray, or some other fellow? I never was good at quotations. What I mean is, that he is a presentable, steady young fellow, with brains—done well at Cambridge, hasn’t he?—good-looking—that is, looks like a gentleman, which is the main thing. The betting’s six to four on, with such a good start. He’s got the wherewithal—can’t do without that. So clap ’em on the back, my Lady—you know what I mean—and tell ’em I’ll sign, seal, and deliver when the settlements are ready. Corisande’s a good girl; hope she won’t go too far away—rough place West Australia—but I daresay they’ll fit in. I knew Jerry Taylour, K.C.B.; we were “subs” together in old army days. They tell me he’s Governor out there. Daresay he’ll ask ’em to dinner. Expect me a day or two beforetheday.Hexham.’
His Lordship, as he freely owned, was not good at letter-writing; but this was much from him, and to the point. It conveyed more than many carefully composed epistles. He meant what he said, and once his word was given never departed from it. Lady Hexham knew he would[459]arrive punctually. She was wise in not requiring him to stay at Hexham too long at one time. He had never, he said, ‘cared much for country life.’ He was a man of town habitudes and occupations. At Bruges, of course, he compelled himself to conform to the altered circumstances of the family. And this, to his credit be it spoken, he managed to do, without loss of cash or self-respect.
However, since the sale of the old Hall and estate, matters had changed wonderfully for the better. With his sons doing well in the Army and Navy, his eldest daughter engaged to a young fellow who was likely to make a figure in the world, and was, moreover, a man of fortune, things were looking up. Why he wanted to go back to Australia, he couldn’t understand. Were not England and the Continent good enough for him—for any man? Corisande would have to go too, he supposed. Well, she was a good girl; her place, with her ideas, was with her husband. He didn’t approve of wives being in one hemisphere and husbands in another. Didn’t work well—not in his experience at any rate. Colonies weren’t such bad places either—come to think: the money came from there; and but for it and the man who made it—a gentlemanaux bouts des ongles—they would all have been stuck at Bruges for years to come. The Hexham family, at any rate, had no right to grumble.
All in good time the more important function connected with Hexham Hall was concluded to[460]the satisfaction of all concerned. The settlements were even more liberal than the hereditary family solicitor of the Aylmers had suggested, or than Lady Hexham, who had an unseen but controlling influence in such matters, had hoped for. As for the young people, according to their age and unwisdom they pooh-poohed such trivialities, holding that the love that never shalldie—
Till the sun grows cold,And the stars are old,And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—
Till the sun grows cold,And the stars are old,And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—
Till the sun grows cold,And the stars are old,And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold—
would be amply sufficient in its tenderness and truth to guard their future lives from all ‘ills that flesh is heir to,’ and more besides. But their elders knew better. So everything was done with due legal form and security: trustees appointed, and all the rest of it.
The wedding came off triumphantly at St. James’s, Hanover Square. The day, wonderful to relate, was fine; all the surroundings seemed sympathetic. Two tall, handsome Australian cousins came home by theMoldavia, P. & O., just in time to make up the proper number of bridesmaids who walked up the aisle with the impressive dignity proper to the occasion. Half London was there, of course. Every one wanted to see the bridegroom, erroneously reported to have twenty thousand a year, and to have worked as a digger on the field before he ‘made his pile.’ And when Lord Hexham led the Honourable Corisande to the altar, the stately peer and his lovely daughter evoked audible exclamations of approval. Finally,[461]as amid the melodious crash of the ‘Wedding March,’ Reggie Banneret and she walked out as wedded pair, the friends of both families, and even mere acquaintances, seemed infected with that mysterious feminine sympathy which at all weddings finds relief in tears.
THE END
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Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.SOPRANOA PORTRAITByF. M. CRAWFORDA story of modern operatic life in Paris with an English heroine who possesses a marvellous soprano voice.Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.THEHOUSE OF MIRTHByEDITH WHARTONThe first long novel by this author since the publication of that remarkable book “The Valley of Decision.”
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A story of modern operatic life in Paris with an English heroine who possesses a marvellous soprano voice.
Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.THEHOUSE OF MIRTHByEDITH WHARTONThe first long novel by this author since the publication of that remarkable book “The Valley of Decision.”
THEHOUSE OF MIRTH
The first long novel by this author since the publication of that remarkable book “The Valley of Decision.”
Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.CONISTONByWINSTON CHURCHILLAn addition to the series of novels dealing with American history which have made this author famous.Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.KIPPSByH. G. WELLSKipps is a draper’s apprentice who comes early into a fortune. The book describes his struggles to realise a fuller, wider life.
Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.CONISTONByWINSTON CHURCHILLAn addition to the series of novels dealing with American history which have made this author famous.
CONISTON
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Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.KIPPSByH. G. WELLSKipps is a draper’s apprentice who comes early into a fortune. The book describes his struggles to realise a fuller, wider life.
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[3]Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.LADYBALTIMOREByOWEN WISTERFor his hero Mr. Wister has again chosen an attractive young Southerner, but not this time a Virginian.Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.AWAIF’S PROGRESSByRHODA BROUGHTONDescribes the struggles of a girl, reared amid vicious surroundings, to secure a footing in respectable society.
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Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.AWAIF’S PROGRESSByRHODA BROUGHTONDescribes the struggles of a girl, reared amid vicious surroundings, to secure a footing in respectable society.
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[4]Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.YOLANDAByCHARLES MAJORResembles “When Knighthood was in Flower” (of which 500,000 were sold) more than any other of Mr. Major’s books.
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Crown 8vo.Gilt top. Price 6s.THE TOLLOF THE BUSHByWILLIAM SATCHELLA fresh and vigorous story of the early settlements in a remote district of New Zealand.
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Atoms of Empire.
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[8]UNIFORM EDITION OF THEWORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLINGExtra Crown 8vo. Scarlet Cloth. Gilt Tops.6s.each32nd ThousandTraffics and Discoveries45th ThousandJust So Stories for Little ChildrenWith Illustrations by the AuthorAlso 4to Edition. 6s.65th ThousandKimIllustrated byJ. L. Kipling38th ThousandStalky & Co.PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“If ‘Stalky & Co.’ does not become as classic as the greatest favourites among Mr.Kipling’s previous volumes of stories, write us down false prophets. He has never written with more rapturously swinging zest, or bubbled over with more rollicking fun.”62nd ThousandThe Day’s WorkMORNING POST.—“The book is so varied, so full of colour and life from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till they have read the last.”53rd ThousandPlain Tales from the HillsSATURDAY REVIEW.—“Mr. Kipling knows and appreciates the English in India, and is a born story teller and a man of humour into the bargain.... It would be hard to find better reading.”44th ThousandLife’s HandicapBeing Stories of Mine Own PeopleBLACK AND WHITE.—“‘Life’s Handicap’ contains much of the best work hitherto accomplished by the author, and, taken as a whole, is a complete advance upon its predecessors.”41st ThousandMany InventionsPALL MALL GAZETTE.—“The completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view.... It can only be regarded as a fresh landmark in the progression of his genius.”21st ThousandWee Willie Winkieand other Stories25th ThousandSoldiers Threeand other StoriesGLOBE.—“Containing some of the best of his highly vivid work.”67th ThousandThe Jungle BookWith Illustrations byJ. L. Kiplingand W. H. DrakePUNCH.—“‘Æsop’s Fables and dear old Brer Fox and Co,’ observes the Baronsagely, ‘may have suggested to the fanciful genius of Rudyard Kipling the delightful idea, carried out in the most fascinating style, of “The Jungle Book.”’”46th ThousandThe Second Jungle BookWith Illustrations byJ. Lockwood KiplingDAILY TELEGRAPH.—“The appearance of ‘The Second Jungle Book’ is a literary event of which no one will mistake the importance. Unlike most sequels, the various stories comprised in the new volume are at least equal to their predecessors.”30th Thousand“Captains Courageous”A Story of the Grand Banks. Illustrated byI W. TaberATHENÆUM.—“Never in English prose has the sea in all its myriad aspects, with all its sounds and sights and odours, been reproduced with such subtle skill as in these pages.”17th ThousandFrom Sea to SeaLetters of Travel. In Two Vols.DAILY TELEGRAPH.—“‘From Sea to Sea’ is delightful reading throughout. ‘Good things’ sparkle in its every page, and inimitable descriptive matter abounds.... A charming book.”50th ThousandThe Light that FailedRe-written and considerably enlargedACADEMY.—“Whatever else be true of Mr. Kipling, it is the first truth about him that he has power, real intrinsic power.... Mr. Kipling’s work has innumerable good qualities.”The NaulahkaA Story of West and EastBYRUDYARD KIPLINGANDWOLCOTT BALESTIER
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Transcriber’s NoteA small number of clear typographical errors (mostly quote marks) have been corrected.
A small number of clear typographical errors (mostly quote marks) have been corrected.