Category: Biographies
“A wanderer is man from his birth,” and some of us who have done comparatively little wandering in our own persons, have done our full share of those less palpable divagations which may be performed within a very small compass of the earth’s surface, nay even within the radius...
There were many days last summer--to be accurate, I believe, there were forty-three--when it was by no means necessary to go to the Sahara in order to ascertain what a condition...
1. Part 1“A wanderer is man from his birth,” and some of us who have done comparatively little wandering in our own persons, have done our full share of those less palpable divagations w...
11. Part 11And yet, even though we are not quite the right recipients, it is well for us that such gleams come. Who shall say that an existence which is capable of being even thus temporar...
7. Part 7Allah be praised for a leisurely life! I have been visiting A. R. D., whose days are filled with large and various activities; whose responsibilities are great; whose hours of w...
5. Part 5These three lines came out of a recent number of the _Daily Mail_, and they describe Elandslaagte. Is it, I wonder, because Literature is so much more familiar to me than War th...
9. Part 9April is such a lovely word, that it ought also to be always a lovely thing. If one imagines it--or rather her--as she might appear to us in dreams, or an allegory, we should de...
8. Part 8All this, however, is merely preliminary. Our invasion is no problematic peril this time, but a peril that has actually arrived. They have _come_, the aggressors! they are alrea...
2. Part 2It has been a satisfaction to us to find that a moderate upturning of the soil does not apparently disturb those inmates of it that we wish to retain. Bluebells and bracken both...
10. Part 10Yet another little group of bog-plants, namely, the Utricularias, or bladderworts, are meat eaters. In their case the fly-catching apparatus is situated, not in the leaves, but...
4. Part 4All these plants, especially the more recently planted ones, will need pretty constant looking after during the next year or so, but once that crucial period of their existence...
3. Part 3Lessons of course may be gathered in a garden, as in most other places. For the owner, the most wholesome of these is perhaps that he never really is its owner at all. His garde...
12. Part 12From gropings along unlit ways, and towards an undiscoverable goal, what a pleasant experience it is to turn suddenly back to the well-trodden paths of a near and a tried compan...