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List of most recent chapters published for the The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner novel. A total of 251 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H.
The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H. TWICh.e.l.l It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usu
- 151 "And a steam-yacht.""Which he never gets time to sail in; practically all the time on the road, or besieged by a throng in his office, hustled about from morning till night, begged of, interviewed, a telegraphic despatch every five minutes, and--""An
- 150 "I should think that would suit you. Last I knew, you were deep in the Mind Cure.""So I was. That was last week. Now I'm in the Faith Cure; I've found out about both. The difference is, in the Mind Cure you don't require any faith; in the Faith Cure
- 149 "You seem to be in a brown study," said Carmen, who came up, leaning on the arm of the Earl of Chisholm."I'm lost in admiration. You must make allowance, Miss Esch.e.l.le, for a person from the country.""Oh, we are all from the country. That is the
- 148 "I should think so. But what do you do with the ebony?""Oh, the ebony and gold? That is the adjoining sitting-room--such a pretty contrast.""And the teak?""It has such a beautiful polish. That is another room. Carmen says that will be our sober roo
- 147 So the Catachoobee University had its splendid new building--as great a contrast to the shanties from which its pupils came as is the Capitol at Was.h.i.+ngton to the huts of a third of its population. If the reader is curious he may read in the local new
- 146 There was more of this sort in the letter. It was full of a kind of sorrowful yearning, as if there was fear that Margaret's love were slipping away and all the old relations were being broken up, but yet it had in it a certain moral condemnation that th
- 145 He had left her for the first time since they were married without kissing her! She put her head down on the desk and sobbed; it seemed as if her heart would break. Perhaps he was angry, and wouldn't come back, not for ever so long.How cruel to say that
- 144 Carmen was calling from the stairs that it was time to dress for the drive. She dashed off a note. It contained messages of love for everybody, but it was the first one in her life written to her aunt not from her heart.XVII Shall we never have done with
- 143 "That's not always an advantage," retorted Uncle Jerry, seating himself, and depositing his hat beside his chair. "When do you expect your husband, Mrs. Henderson?""Tomorrow. But I don't mean to tell him that you are here--not at first.""No," sa
- 142 Margaret entered into this life as if she had been born to it. Perhaps she was. Perhaps most people never find the career for which they are fitted, and struggle along at cross-purposes with themselves. We all thought that Margaret's natural bent was for
- 141 "Do you think there was anything between Miss Esch.e.l.le and Mr. Lyon? I saw her afterwards several times.""Not that I ever heard. Miss Esch.e.l.le says that she is thoroughly American in her tastes.""Then her tastes are not quite conformed to her s
- 140 "Perfectly right, Mr. Hopper," said Henderson, with imperturbable good-humor; "the transfer books are open to your inspection.""Well, we prefer to hold on to our bonds.""And wait for your interest," interposed Hollowell.Mr. Hopper turned to the sp
- 139 "Was Navisson a modern lawyer?" I asked."No; the diary is dated 1648-1679.""I thought so."There was a little laugh at this, and the talk drifted off into a consideration of the kind of conscience that enables a professional man to espouse a cause he
- 138 XIV Our lives are largely made up of the things we do not have. In May, the time of the apple blossoms--just a year from the swift wooing of Margaret--Miss Forsythe received a letter from John Lyon. It was in a mourning envelope. The Earl of Chisholm was
- 137 He isn't a bad sort of fellow--very long-headed.""Dear," said Margaret, with hesitation, "I wish you didn't have anything to do with such men.""Why, dearest?""Oh, I don't know. You needn't laugh. It rather lets one down; and it isn't like you
- 136 Fletcher and Miss Forsythe in the tatter's cottage--a sort of closing up of the ranks that happens on the field during a fatal engagement. As we go on, it becomes more and more difficult to fill up the gaps.We were very unwilling to feel that Margaret ha
- 135 "Don't say that. But you men are so reckless. Promise you won't stand on the platform, and won't get off while the train is in motion, and all the rest of the directions," she said, laughing a little with him; "and you will be careful?""I'll take
- 134 "Perhaps, if she were asked. But Mr. Lyon appeared rather indifferent to American attractions."Margaret looked quickly at Henderson as he said this, and then ventured, a little slyly, "She seemed to appreciate his goodness.""Yes; Miss Esch.e.l.le has
- 133 "We shall have to have you painted as spring.""But spring isn't painted at all," she replied, holding up the apple --blossoms, and coming down the piazza with a dancing step."And so it won't last. We want something permanent," I was beginning to s
- 132 "But it would be very interesting to me," Mrs. Fletcher remarked. "Is there any protection, Mr. Morgan, for people who have invested their little property?""Yes; the law.""But suppose your money is all invested, say in a railway, and something goes
- 131 "Who taught me?" He raised his left hand. She did not respond to the overture, except to snap the hand with her index-finger, and was back in her chair again, regarding him demurely."I think we shall go abroad soon." The little foot was on the fender
- 130 "That lays the responsibility on me of being serious," he replied, in the same light tone.Later they were wandering through the picture-gallery together. A gallery of modern pictures appeals for the most part to the senses--represents the pomps, the col
- 129 "Well, our Mr. Lyon." Carmen was still looking into the fire. "He is such a good young man!"Margaret did not exactly fancy this sort of commendation, and she replied, with somewhat the tone of defending him, "We all have the highest regard for Mr. Ly
- 128 "Yes. Miss Esch.e.l.le almost had a career there last season.""Why almost?""Well--you will pardon me--one needs for success in these days to be not only very clever, but equally daring. It is every day more difficult to make a sensation.""I thought
- 127 "In toleration mainly, and lack of exact knowledge. It is here rather cynical persiflage, not concentrated public opinion.""I don't follow you," said Morgan. "It seems to me that in the city you've got gossip plus the stage.""That is to say, we h
- 126 "That is true. And the social side has risen with it. Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were dest
- 125 Looking back upon this afternoon in the light of after-years, she probably could not feel--no one could say--that she had done wrong. How was she to tell? Why is it that to do the right thing is often to make the mistake of a life? Nothing could have been
- 124 "Very much. All Americans want to go to Was.h.i.+ngton. It is the great social opportunity; everybody there is in society. You will be able to see there, Mr. Lyon, how a republican democracy manages social life."Do you mean to say there are no distincti
- 123 "And I am getting a great deal," said Mr. Lyon, rather ruefully. "I'm trying to find out where. I ought to have been born.""I'm not sure," Margaret said, half seriously, "but you would have been a very good American."This was not much of an admi
- 122 "Yes," said Morgan, "since Tolstoi mentioned it."After a little the talk drifted into psychic research, and got lost in stories of "appearances" and "long-distance" communications. It appeared to me that intelligent people accepted this sort of st
- 121 "And do you think it would be any better if all were poor alike?""I think it would be better if there were no idle people. I'm half ashamed that I have leisure to go every time I go to that mission. And I'm almost sorry, Mr. Lyon, that I took you the
- 120 In the midst of the talk Margaret came in. The brisk walk in the rosy twilight had heightened her color, and given her a glowing expression which her face had not the night before, and a tenderness and softness, an unworldliness, brought from the quiet ho
- 119 "Of course. Do you think I want to banish romance out of the world?""You are right, my dear," said my wife. "The only thing that makes society any better than an industrial ant-hill is the love between women and men, blind and destructive as it often
- 118 "I found the idea in Rome," said Mr. Lyon, "that the United States is now the most promising field for the spread and permanence of the Roman Catholic faith.""How is that?" Mr. Fletcher asked, with a smile of Puritan incredulity."A high functionary
- 117 A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD By Charles Dudley Warner INTRODUCTORY SKETCH The t.i.tle naturally suggested for this story was "A Dead Soul," but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol--"Dead Souls"--tho
- 116 The banquet lasted three hours, when the cloth was removed, the table was placed upon the ground--that is, removed from the dais--and their majesties, standing upon it, washed their hands in basins, as did the others. After the dinner was the ball, and th
- 115 The more private amus.e.m.e.nts of the great may well be ill.u.s.trated by an account given by Busino of a masque (it was Ben Jonson's "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue") performed at Whitehall on Twelfthnight, 1617.During the play, twelve cavaliers in ma
- 114 In an old plate giving a view of the north side of Cheapside, London, in 1638, we see little but quaint gable ends and rows of small windows set close together. The houses are of wood and plaster, each story overhanging the other, terminating in sharp ped
- 113 No doubt there are more people capable of appreciating a good book, and there are more good books read, in this age, than in any previous, though the ratio of good judges to the number who read is less; but we are considering the vast ma.s.s of the readin
- 112 ( 1 ) Maritime opportunity. The irregular coastlines, the bays and harbors, the near islands and mainlands invited to the sea. The nation became, per force, sailors--as the ancient Greeks were and the modern Greeks are: adventurers, discoverers--hardy, am
- 111 There is another thought pertinent here. It is this: that no man, however humble, can live a full life if he lives to himself alone. He is more of a man, he lives in a higher plane of thought and of enjoyment, the more his communications are extended with
- 110 Equally baseless is the a.s.sumption that it is inartistic and untrue to nature to bring a novel to a definite consummation, and especially to end it happily. Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that b
- 109 It is unnecessary for me to say that all this is only from the unsympathetic and worldly side. I should think myself a criminal if I said anything to chill the enthusiasm of the young scholar, or to dash with any skepticism his longing and his hope. He ha
- 108 The theory was that, uneducated, he was the proper representative of the average ignorance of his district, and that ignorance ought to be represented in the legislature in kind. The ignorant know better what they want than the educated know for them. "T
- 107 It is not alone of the poetical nations of the East that this is true, nor is this desire for the higher enjoyment always wanting in the savage tribes of the West. When the Jesuit Fathers in 1768 landed upon the almost untouched and unexplored southern Pa
- 106 Whether he wrote sketches of travel, or whether he wrote fiction, the scene depicted was from the point of view of the essayist rather than from that of the tourist or of the novelist. It is this characteristic which gives to his work in the former field
- 105 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The county of Franklin in Northwestern Ma.s.sachusetts, if not rivaling in certain ways the adjoining Berks.h.i.+re, has still a romantic beauty of its own. In the former half of the nineteenth century its population was largely given
- 104 The school and the workshop are both primarily for discipline and the formation of new habits. Only incidentally are the school and the workshop intended to fit a man for an occupation outside of the prison.The whole discipline is to put a man in possessi
- 103 THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE--WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE CRIMINAL CLa.s.s?By Charles Dudley Warner The problem of dealing with the criminal cla.s.s seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. It has never been attempted on a fully scienti
- 102 By Charles Dudley Warner At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizens.h.i.+p of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use the word negro because
- 101 By Charles Dudley Warner The Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it had said:--"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Cre
- 100 I shall not be misunderstood here, where the claims of the higher life are insisted on and the necessity of pure, accurate scholars.h.i.+p is recognized, in saying that this expectation in regard to the South depends upon the cultivation and diffusion of
- 99 And; if the public has a right to demand anything of a newspaper, it is that its reports of what occurs shall be faithfully accurate, unprejudiced, and colorless. They ought not, to be editorials, or the vehicles of personal opinion and feeling. The inter
- 98 The second quality is knowledge of human nature. We can put up with the improbable in invention, because the improbable is always happening in life, but we cannot tolerate the so-called psychological juggling with the human mind, the perversion of the law
- 97 Hale seems to have had an irresistible charm for everybody. He was a favorite in society; he had the manners and the qualities that made him a leader among men and gained him the admiration of women. He was always intelligently busy, and had the Yankee in
- 96 "Like thee, I saw of late, In Delos, a young palm-tree growing up Beside Apollo's altar."When the Wanderer has bathed, and been clad in robes from the pile on the sand, and refreshed with food and wine which the hospitable maidens put before him, the t
- 95 Why add the pursuit of happiness to our other inalienable worries?Perhaps there is something wrong in ourselves when we hear the complaint so often that men are pursued by disaster instead of being pursued by happiness.We all believe in happiness as somet
- 94 The Emperor evidently had not so much desire to go to bed as I had. I knew the windows of his pet.i.ts appartements--as what good American did not?--and I wondered if he was just then taking a little supper, if he had bidden good-night to Eugenie, if he w
- 93 BORN OLD AND RICH We have been remiss in not proposing a remedy for our present social and economic condition. Looking backward, we see this. The scheme may not be practical, any more than the Utopian plans that have been put forward, but it is radical an
- 92 In fine, although so much is said of the American lack of repose, is it not best for the American to be content to be himself, and let the critics adapt themselves or not, as they choose, to a new phenomenon?Let us stick a philosophic name to it, and call
- 91 "The world is very evil, The times are waning late."There was a general impression among the Christians of the first century of our era that the end was near. The world must have seemed very ancient to the Egyptians fifteen hundred years before Christ,
- 90 GIVE THE MEN A CHANCE Give the men a chance. Upon the young women of America lies a great responsibility. The next generation will be pretty much what they choose to make it; and what are they doing for the elevation of young men? It is true that there ar
- 89 And the age is so intellectually active, so eager to know! If we wish to know anything, instead of digging for it ourselves, it is much easier to flock all together to some lecturer who has put all the results into an hour, and perhaps can throw them all
- 88 What is this naturalization, however, but a sort of parable of human life? Are we not always trying to adjust ourselves to new relations, to get naturalized into a new family? Does one ever do it entirely? And how much of the lonesomeness of life comes fr
- 87 This national industry is the subject of constant detraction, satire, and ridicule by the newspaper press. This is because it is not understood, and it may be because it is mainly a female accomplishment: the few men who chew gum may be supposed to do so
- 86 --They are selected on account of their intelligence, agreeableness, and power of entertaining each other. They come together, not for exercise, but pleasure, and the more they crowd and jam and struggle, and the louder they scream, the greater the pleasu
- 85 AS WE WERE SAYING ROSE AND CHRYSANTHEMUM THE RED BONNET THE LOSS IN CIVILIZATION SOCIAL SCREAMING DOES REFINEMENT KILL INDIVIDUALITY?THE DIRECTOIRE GOWN THE MYSTERY OF THE s.e.x THE CLOTHES OF FICTION THE BROAD A CHEWING GUM WOMEN IN CONGRESS SHALL WOMEN
- 84 Riding down the French Broad was one of the original objects of our journey. Travelers with the same intention may be warned that the route on horseback is impracticable. The distance to the Warm Springs is thirty-seven miles; to Marshall, more than halfw
- 83 In the morning a genuine surprise awaited us; it seemed impossible, but the breakfast was many degrees worse than the supper; and when we paid our bill, large for the region, we were consoled by the thought that we paid for the high connection as well as
- 82 The landlord suggested that we take another route, stay that night on Caney River with Big Tom Wilson, only eight miles from Burnsville, cross Mount Mitch.e.l.l, and go down the valley of the Swannanoa to Asheville. He represented this route as shorter an
- 81 It was exceedingly gratifying, as we spread the news of the recovered property that afternoon at every house on our way to the Toe, to see what pleasure it gave. Every man appeared to feel that the honor of the region had been on trial--and had stood the
- 80 The second morning opened, after a night of high wind, with a thunder-shower. After it pa.s.sed, the visitors tried to reach Eagle Cliff, two miles off, whence an extensive western prospect is had, but were driven back by a tempest, and rain practically o
- 79 "To my mind the incident has Homeric elements. The Greeks would have looked at it in a large, legendary way. Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring mo
- 78 "The way to mount a horse"--said the Professor."If you have no ladder--put in the Friend of Humanity."The Professor had ridden through the war for the Union on the right side, enjoying a much better view of it than if he had walked, and knew as much a
- 77 But once a year the company had a superlative parade. This was when the military company from the north part of the town joined the villagers in a general muster. This was an infantry company, and not to be compared with that of the village in point of ev
- 76 I scarcely know what the subtle influence is that forms him and attracts him in the most fascinating and aromatic of all lands, and yet urges him away from all the sweet delights of his home to become a roamer in literature and in the world, a poet and a
- 75 John hoped it would be slippery--very--when he walked home with Cynthia, as he determined to do, but he did not dare to say so, and the conversation ran aground again. John thought about his dog and his sled and his yoke of steers, but he didn't see any
- 74 XI HOME INVENTIONS The winter season is not all sliding downhill for the farmer-boy, by any means; yet he contrives to get as much fun out of it as from any part of the year. There is a difference in boys: some are always jolly, and some go scowling alway
- 73 But people were probably all the better for scrimping themselves a little in order to make this a great feast. And it was not by any means over in a day. There were weeks deep of chicken-pie and other pastry. The cold b.u.t.tery was a cave of Aladdin, and
- 72 He has a natural genius for combining pleasure with business. This is the reason why, when he is sent to the spring for a pitcher of water, and the family are waiting at the dinner-table, he is absent so long; for he stops to poke the frog that sits on th
- 71 Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one n.o.ble and saving, as the other is fatal
- 70 Nearly all the inhabitants, young and old, joined us in lively procession, up the winding road of three quarters of a mile, to the town. At the deep gate, entering between thick walls, we stopped to look at the sea. The crowd and clamor at our landing had
- 69 And go they did; the whole town shuddering at the impiety of it, but kept from any demonstration by the tempest. Carriages went round to the convent; and the women were loaded into them, packed into them, carried and put in, if they were too infirm to go
- 68 "No, no, no, no, signor! Ah, signor! ah, signor!" in a chorus from the whole crowd.I have struck bottom at last, and perhaps got somewhere near the value; and all calmness is gone. Such protestations, such indignation, such sorrow, I have never seen bef
- 67 It was at the close of a day in January that I first knew the Villa Nardi,--a warm, lovely day, at the hour when the sun was just going behind the Capo di Sorrento, in order to disrobe a little, I fancy, before plunging into the Mediterranean off the end
- 60 We met at the Chapeau two jolly young fellows from Charleston, S. C.who had been in the war, on the wrong side. They knew no language but American, and were unable to order a cutlet and an omelet for breakfast. They said they believed they were going over
- 59 There is a mercenary atmosphere about hotels and steamers on the Rhine, a watering-place, show sort of feeling, that detracts very much from one's enjoyment. The old habit of the robber barons of levying toll on all who sail up and down has not been lost
- 58 THE LOW COUNTRIES AND RHINELAND AMIENS AND QUAINT OLD BRUGES They have not yet found out the secret in France of banis.h.i.+ng dust from railway-carriages. Paris, late in June, was hot, but not dusty: the country was both. There is an uninteresting glare
- 57 Perhaps it is not an open question whether Columbus did a good thing in first coming over here, one that we ought to celebrate with salutes and dinners. The Indians never thanked him, for one party.The Africans had small ground to be gratified for the mar
- 66 St. Peter's is a good place for grand processions and ceremonies; but it is a poor one for viewing them. A procession which moves down the nave is hidden by the soldiers who stand on either side, or is visible only by sections as it pa.s.ses: there is no
- 65 Perhaps I ought to except the wonderful and perfect Roman amphitheater, over every foot of which a handsome boy in rags followed us, looking over every wall that we looked over, peering into every hole that we peered into, thus showing his fellows.h.i.+p
- 64 If that of which every German dreams, and so few are ready to take any practical steps to attain,--German unity,--ever comes, it must ride roughshod over the Romish clergy, for one thing. Of course there are other obstacles. So long as beer is cheap, and
- 63 the man breaking his neck to look up at the buildings, especially at the comical heads and figures in stone that stretch out from the little oriel-windows in the highest story of the Four Seasons Hotel, and look down upon the moving throng; Munich bucks i
- 62 The city is full of fine bronze fountains some of them of very elaborate design, and adding a convenience and a beauty to the town which American cities wholly want. In one quarter of the town is the Fuggerei, a little city by itself, surrounded by its ow
- 61 He politely returns our salutation, and we walk on. Nearly all the priests in this region look wretchedly poor,--as poor as the people.Through crooked, narrow streets, with houses overhanging and thrusting out corners and gables, houses with stables below
- 56 This savage was the Tomocomo spoken of above, who had been sent by Powhatan to take a census of the people of England, and report what they and their state were. At Plymouth he got a long stick and began to make notches in it for the people he saw. But he
- 55 The letter is a long, labored, and curious doc.u.ment, and comes nearer to a theological treatise than any love-letter we have on record. It reeks with unction. Why Rolfe did not speak to Dale, whom he saw every day, instead of inflicting upon him this pa
- 54 The first mention of her is in "The True Relation," written by Captain Smith in Virginia in 1608. In this narrative, as our readers have seen, she is not referred to until after Smith's return from the captivity in which Powhatan used him "with all th
- 53 That seems to have been the tradition of the man, buoyantly supporting himself in the commemoration of his own achievements. To the end his industrious and hopeful spirit sustained him, and in the last year of his life he was toiling on another compilatio
- 52 WRITINGS-LATER YEARS If Smith had not been an author, his exploits would have occupied a small s.p.a.ce in the literature of his times. But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent. If he had been si