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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ...e was leisure for high culture, and made it an economic, political and; as far as practicable, a moral vacuum; and as Nature, abhorring the vacuum, im... ...inds. Both, however, were practised in dealing with money and with men, as far as acquiring the one and exploiting the other went; and although this i... ...ho do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying Heartbreak House was far too lazy and shallow to extricate itself from this palace of evil encha... ... and the house is a flagstaff on a little esplanade, with a hammock on the east side and a long garden seat on the west. A young lady, gloved and hatt... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra... ...of the poop, finds Lady Utterword lying voluptuously in the hammock on the east side of the flagstaff, in the circle of light cast by the electric arc...

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...rode into Makhmet, a hostile Chechen aoul that lay some fifteen miles from Russian territory and was filled with the scented smoke of burning Kizyak. ... ...nd the eagles tear first one and then an- other of them. The other day the Russian dogs burnt the hay in the Mitchit aoul….May their faces be torn!” h... ...ng now started talking, was telling how their brave fellows had caught two Russian soldiers the week before and had killed one and sent the other to S... ... it leaning against the trunk of the plane tree. The soldiers were silent. Far above their heads the crowns of the trees rustled in the wind and sudde... ..., seen between the trunks of the trees, was already grow- ing light in the east and inquired after Khan Mahoma of a murid who sat at some distance fro... ...aiting for me at the Shalin glade in a few minutes. Place sharpshooters as far as the glade, and then come and join me.” 30 Hadji Murad “I underst... ... vanished, and a look of anxiety showed itself. Vorontsov had received him far better than Hadji Murad had expected. But the better the recep- tion th...

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...e than a leap. His Eole, as General Mensier testifies, prolonged a jump as far as fifty metres as early as 1890. In 1897 his Avion fairly flew. (This ... ...ure of the Christian churches. With the exception of the Quakers and a few Russian sects, no Christian sect or church has ever repudiated war; most ha... ...ul if we should find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous... ...struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling their differ... ...is mind clear enough from his circumstances to understand its import, is a far more credible hope than the hope of any- thing coming de novo out of Ha... ...hed at his feet. By May the lagging military science of the British had so far overtaken events as to realise that shrapnel was no longer so important... ...ue to the failure of the Russian munitions. Then for a time the war in the East was mobile and precarious while the Rus- sians retreated to their pres... ...thened line of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French ... ...ugh or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They hav...

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...s were advancing with great rapidity and drawing a light gray curtain from east to west. As the wind was acting only on the upper region of the air, t... ...You’ve played me a trick, Sucy. We were to have had a nice little hunt not far from Cassan, and beaten the coverts I know. Instead of that, you have k... ...g with a silly air. “The cow is the most intelligent being we have seen so far,” said the marquis. “I shall fire my gun and see if that will being som... ...ery thought but that of rest. Though the artillery of the left wing of the Russians kept up a steady fire on this mass,—visible like a stain now black... ...akest succumbed. At last there came a moment when a number, pursued by the Russians, found only snow on which to bivouac, and these lay down to rise n... ...t improvised camp placed between the bank of the river and Studzianka. The Russian cannon had ceased to thunder. Innumerable fires, which, amid that t... ... said to him. “I have some hope, Monsieur le baron. My poor niece was in a far worse state than that in which you now find her.” “How was that possibl...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett A Penn ... ...sity. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON:... ...T o the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl’s soul; but to ... ... life, which in the hands of many latter-day novelists build up characters far too thin and too unconvincing, in the hands of T urgenev are used with ... ...ay need not turn their eyes abroad to find their counterpart in spirit; so far at least the pessimists are refuted: but the note of death that Turgene... ...novitch flourished his fingers, and fixed his enig- matical stare into the far distance.’ This creation of an universal national type, out of the fles... ...nslating the Bulgarian ballads and chronicles, collecting materials on the Eastern Question, and compiling a Russian grammar for the use of Bulgarians... ...st. He was much dis- turbed by them. Events were developing rapidly in the East; the occupation of the Principalities by Russian troops had thrown all... ...e very soon reduced her to tears. XXX MEANWHILE the storm gathering in the East was breaking. Turkey had declared war on Russia; the time fixed for th...

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...oldest, surveyest, or seest; but to the place where; it standeth north north east and by east from the west corner of thy curious knotted garden: ther... ...t Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is. Dear Princess, were not his requests so far From reason’s yielding, your fair self should make A yielding ‘gainst... ...uneration. Remuneration! O, that’s the Latin word for three farthings: three far things—remuneration.—’What’s the price of this inkle?’—’One penny. ... ...lt keep My tears for glasses, and still make me weep. O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel, No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell. How... ... like a rude and savage man of Inde, At the first opening of the gorgeous east, Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind Kisses the base grou... ...t us? BOYET: They do, they do: and are apparell’d thus. Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess. Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance; And ... ... Blackamoors with music; MOTH; FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in Russian habits, and masked .] MOTH: All hail, the richest beauties on th... ...s not so, I swear; We have had pastimes here and pleasant game: A mess of Russians left us but of late. FERDINAND: How, madam! Russians! PRINCESS:... ... SIR NATHANIEL : When in the world I lived, I was the world’s commander; By east, west, north, and south, I spread my conquering might: My scutcheon ...

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...lish who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in h... ...rmanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European al... ...pecimens of some species of Ammonites unknown to me, from the hills to the east of the Adige, partially wrapped in a back number of the Corriere della... ...t. I am against the man who first takes up the weapon. I carry my pacifism far beyond the ambiguous little group of British and foreign sentimentalist... ...rict Council way, it is a thing to end forever. I have always hated it, so far that is as my imagina- tion enabled me to realise it; and now that I ha... ...n ideas are exchanged in the 9 H G Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a c... ... able from this position to get a very good idea of the lie of the Italian eastern front. I was in the delta of the Isonzo. Directly in front of me we... ...an the red ridge of the Carso, of which the Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Iso... ...out any prepared line of positions in the rear. On the very eve of the big Russian 33 H G Wells offensive, the Austrians thrust eighteen divisions ha...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...versity. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who w... ...v’s powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individ... ...porary relations, we ought to begin with his Sportsman’s Note Book. But so far as his novels go, he is the last writer to be taken chronologically. He... ...e is nothing left at the bottom but a few drops of some nasty stuff, which far from quenching any one’s thirst is enough to make one ill. He’s a most ... ...ity of Raphael and Mozart? I must admit, however, that the laws of art are far more difficult to define than the laws of nature, but they exist just t... ...use. “Yes,” Kollomietzev continued pensively, “he was rather overlooked at Easter.” Valentina Mihailovna indicated Mariana with her eyes. Kollomietzev... ...s. He turned to the West with hope, then became doubtful; he turned to the East, first sighed, then became enthusiastic. Finally he proposed a toast i... ...o out- shine one another and were lost in the vast expanse of sky. T o the east the rounded edges of the spreading clouds were tinged with a faint flu...

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...om Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabe... ...on a few of the tales, which it may be honest to mention, though they were far too beauti- ful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupa... ...t they could by no means procure the needful medi- cine, except at a price far beyond their means, and heard that an English traveler had offered a la... ...o the traveler. T ruly this was a deed of gold. Such was the action of the Russian servant whose master’s carriage was pursued by wolves, and who spra... ...soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle bed, by far the most comfortable of the three tiers of berths in the ship’s cabin i... ...ht their way to him, putting all enemies in the valleys to flight. But the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mount... ... Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from... ...gainst the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonie... ...bo, with a guard of fifty Cossacks, was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, one of the forts by which the Russian Czars have s...

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...gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed t... ...f imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it was so, but b... ...t completely and fully into one text-book, but, as a matter of fact, it is far more convenient to tell that same story over in a thousand differ- ent ... ...tical question, that 8 In the Fourth Year must precede all others, is how far can we hope to get to a concrete realization of that? But first let me ... ... with governments that do not stand for their peoples; we have had all our Russian deal, for example, repudiated and thrust back upon our hands; and i... ...s. We must begin by delegating, as the States began by delegating. It is a far cry to the time when we shall talk and think of the Sover- eign People ... ...ck soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned. They have made their east- ern treaties, it is true, in this mode, but they are still looking fo... ... the past to set up international admin- istrations in Africa and the Near East. And these gentlemen think at once of some new Congo administration an... ...g out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already controlling t...

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...d this terrible but profoundly true thought,” said de Marsay. “You are all far too keen-sighted for me to say any more on that point. These few words ... ...r Study of Woman But I can undo it all!’ said she.— ‘No, you have gone too far with the Duke. I ought indeed to go a journey to part us more effectual... ...e our dupes!’—’I see that plainly,’ said I, with a stricken air; ‘you have far too much wit in your anger for your heart to suffer from it.’—This mode... ...mpany used to meet.” “The knell of the highest society is tolling,” said a Russian Prince. “Do you hear it? And the first stroke is your modern word l... ...ord of its own which epitomizes and depicts it.” “You are right,” said the Russian, who had come to make a literary reputation in Paris. “The explanat... ...seen fly- ing in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysees, which is bounded on the east by the Place Louis XV., on the west by the Av- enue de Marigny, to the... ...esse de Cadignan. “ And in France taste is more than cleverness,” said the Russian. “This woman’s cleverness is the triumph of a purely plastic art,” ... ...ay; they give pleasure, and must be re- placed; to her they are, as in the East, a symbol and a prom- ise. The costly toys of fashion lie about, but n...

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...erfect past all parallel — Of any modern female saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up... ...n we to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantle... ...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ...Juan stood, and, gazing from the stern, Beheld his native Spain receding far: First partings form a lesson hard to learn, Even nations feel ... ...g. He had an only daughter, call’d Haidee, The greatest heiress of the Eastern Isles; Besides, so very beautiful was she, Her dowry was as... ...ol and dun The moving figures, and the sparkling sheen Of arms (in the East all arm)—and various dyes Of colour’d garbs, as bright as butterfl... ...resent, and abused the past, Reversing the good custom of old days, An Eastern anti jacobin at last He turn’d, preferring pudding to no prai... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ...

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...ayest, or seest. But to the place Where? It standeth 254 North North- east and by East from the West corner of thy 255 curious knotted garde... ... remuneration. 903 Remuneration, O, that’s the Latine word for three- far-things: 904 Three- farthings remuneration, What’s the price 905 ... ...de and sauage man of Inde.) 1572 At the first opening of the gorgeous East, 1573 Bowes not his vassall head, and strooken blinde, 1574 Ki... .... They do, they do; and are apparel’d thus, 2013 Like Muscouites; or Russians, as I gesse. 2014 Their purpose is to parlee, to court, and da... ...2286 We haue had pastimes heere, and pleasant game, 2287 A messe of Russians left vs but of late. 2288 Kin. How Madam? Russians? 2289 ... ...32 And I will wish thee neuer more to dance, 2333 Nor neuer more in Russian habit waite. 2334 O! neuer will I trust to speeches pen’d, 233... ...rat. When in the world I liu’d, I was the worldes Com-mander: 2514 By East, West, North, & South, I spred my conquering might 2515 My Scutche...

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... now across the flashing green, And now beneath the stately trees, And now far distant in the dene, She headed on with graceful ease: Hanging aloft wi... ... rolling surge her restless home, Her incense wreaths the showering spray. Far out, and where the riot waves Run mingling in tumultuous throngs, She d... ...y and plain The goodly bales her decks revealed; Brought from the fruitful eastern glebes Where blow the gusts of balm and spice, Or where the black b... .... It is to knit with loving lip The interests of land to land; T o join in far-seen fellowship The tropic and the polar strand. It is to make that foa... ...eal and stain the symbols of the Lord! THE SLEEPING CITY A Princess in the eastern tale Paced thro’ a marble city pale, And saw in ghastly shapes of s... ...By the sanctuary stream, And the god with golden swiftness Follows like an eastern beam. Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest ... ..., and who sat there unbent. XVI ‘“We stood in line, and like hedgehogs the Russians rolled under us thick. They frightened me there.”—He’s no coward; ... ...and at last I was vexed, And swore I would never surrender a foot when the Russians charged next. XIX ‘“I know that life’s worth keeping.”—Ay, so it i... ...But my life belongs to a woman.”—Does that mean Her Majesty, Miss?— “These Russians came lumping and grinning: they’re fierce at it, though they are ...

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...re you willing I should go?” – “No,” says she, very affectionately , “I am far from willing; but if you are resolved to go,” says she, “rather than I ... ... his acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for them to the East Indies, and to China, as private traders. “And now, uncle,” says he, “... ...rved, and not communicated to any in the world. My nephew knew nothing how far my distemper of wan- dering was returned upon me, and I knew nothing of... ... as I have said, with his project of carrying me thither in his way to the East Indies. I paused a while at his words, and looking steadily at him, “W... ...these I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new pla... ...r hearing the noise of guns just before, we concluded that it could not be far off, we stood directly towards it, and were presently satisfied we shou... ...nd worshipping of devils.” – “Why , I will tell you,” says he; “except the Russian soldiers in the garrisons, and a few of the inhabitants of the citi... ... came, though at these towns and stations the garrisons and governors were Russians, and professed Chris- tians, yet the inhabitants were mere pagans,... ...Arguna, where we enter the Muscovite dominions, and a city of T artars and Russians together, called Nortziousky , in which is a continued desert or f...

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...ay gaining a half- knowledge, of which he made a very fair use. He went so far in his gratitude to his teachers as to undertake the defence of Pigault... ...y of a beginning. This animal, their ac- customed playmate, having come as far as the threshold, the little brats made such an energetic attack upon h... ... “the religion of work is in full force, and begging has not yet come thus far.” His guide, more from curiosity than from any interested motive, propp... ...poleon’s campaigns in Italy, followed him to Egypt, and came back from the East after the Peace of Amiens. In the time of the Empire he was incorporat... ...constantly on active service in Germany, lastly the poor fel- low made the Russian campaign.” “We are brothers-in-arms then, to some extent,” said Gen... ...in beam which bore the weight of the joists was being slightly shaken from east to west. The blessed thing danced about in fine style. ‘Gentlemen,’ sa... ...it save a certain flatness of feature which called to mind the Cossack and Russian countenances that since the disasters of 1814 have unfortu- nately ... ... they never could do enough to an- noy us. But Napoleon, who was respected East and West, and called ‘My Son’ by the Pope, and ‘My dear Father’ by Mah... ...where the army was manoeuvred as if it had been a review; Eylau, where the Russians were drowned in a lake, just as if Napoleon had breathed on them a...

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...the rain against the balcony windows. I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes an... ...thing was said during some seconds. Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck hi... ... Statistics show that he does not prefer to remain quiescent. They show that the duel has a singular fascination about it somewhere, for these free m... ...d wisdom of being always prepared for the worst; this shaded off into low-voiced references to the dangers of the deep, and kindred matters; but as th... ...king on an ugly look. The captain shouted to the steersman on the forward log: “How’s she landing?” The answer came faint and hoarse from far forward:... ... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ...Two sides of this place were guarded by railings, to keep people from being blown over the precipices. The view, look- ing sheer down into the broad v... ...ster hue of death. This was the third right hand found; therefore, all three of the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel w...

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...ned to the Museum. ‘What is your caste? Where is your house? Have you come far?’ Kim asked. ‘I came by Kulu–from beyond the Kailas–but what know you? ... ...ritten. I have read.’ ‘And, overshooting all other marks, the arrow passed far and far beyond sight. At the last it fell; and, where it touched earth,... ...e place is not known where the arrow fell.’ ‘And how wilt thou go? It is a far cry to Delhi, and farther to Benares.’ ‘By road and the trains. From Pa... ...eleased; Contemning neither creed nor priest, May feel the Soul of all the East. About him at Kamakura. Buddha at Kamakura . THEY ENTERED the fort li... ...e half caste guard came round. Ticket collecting is a slow business in the East, where people secrete their tickets in all sorts of curious places. Ki... ...ark green mango groves, the line of the snowcapped Himalayas faint to the eastward. All India was at work in the fields, to the creaking of well whee... ...lue draperies; gilt figures of Buddha, and little portable lacquer altars; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; egg shell china sets in quaint... ... were be ing made for the feet of strangers and enemies.’ ‘For?’ ‘For the Russians. The thing was an open jest among the coolies. Then I was called d... ...ple. I can do all sorts of things with black people, of course. They are Russians, and highly unscrupulous people. I–I do not want to consort with ...

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... so that he was free to go about the world under its direction. It led him far. It led him into situ- ations that bordered upon the fantastic, it made... ...y “aristocratic” he meant something very differ- ent from the quality of a Russian prince, let us say, or an English peer. He meant an intensity, a cl... ... paste- board and a white-metal sword. We have most of us been at least as far as that with Benham. And we have died like Horatius, slaying our thousa... ...discovered and understood. This is the necessary next step for mankind. As far as possible I will discover and understand it, and as far as I know it ... ... but we shall come a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. T... ... looks up into the sky. It is very interesting to note how at a place like Eastchurch or Brooklands the necessary discretion trails the old visceral f... ...and out of the dry grass came a twittering. There was a green light in the east that grew stronger, and the stars after their magnitudes were dissolvi... ...imes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies were hors d’oeuvre. The modern bi... ... You have pride. But we are both intellectuals. We both belong to what the Russians call the Intelligentsia. We have ideas, we have imagination, that ...

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...his time:the dear little eyes are closed in sleep under mother’s wing. How far off city cares and pleasures appear to be! how small and mean they seem... ...f wisdom and beauty. Y ou are at home, and with all at rest there, however far away they may be; and through the distance the heart broods over them, ... ...pointed, and looked back wistfully at the little boat, jumping up and down far astern now; the poor little light shining in vain, and the poor wretch ... ...s by the very first opportunity—those who remained, that is, of the little Eastern Expedition. They were not all there. The Giver of life and death ha... ...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...though Muzzle flung it at my head. CHAPTER VI:SMYRNA—FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE EAST I AM GLAD THAT THE TURKISH PART of Athens was extinct, so that I shoul... ...as extinct, so that I should not be baulked of the pleasure of entering an Eastern town by an introduction to any garbled or incomplete specimen of on... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ...