Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
It is small wonder that the perusal of that hitherto, in my eyes, immaculate magazine, the _Nineteenth Century_, affords me less pleasure than usual. There may possibly be some articles in it both worth reading and worth remembering, but of these I am no longer conscious, for...
My earnest consideration for the next few days was devoted to the question of ways and means. Knowing it to be the custom of the country to entertain strangers hospitably, I had...
15. CHAPTER XIV.I was now invited as the guest of many distinguished personages, and thoroughly enjoyed my life for the next few days. I found New Amazonian men quite as charming as the women,...
17. CHAPTER XVI.After all this conversation we were in the mood to enjoy the dainty meal spread before us. The young woman in attendance was one of the employés of the Domestic Agency, and had...
16. CHAPTER XV.On being introduced to John Saville’s home, I found a great deal more of simple solid comfort than I had expected, and such an air of domesticity as my own residence in the coll...
14. CHAPTER XIII.A few hours later, I was honoured by a most embarrassing request. I say honoured, because the request was the outcome of a desire to pay due attention to a visitor who possessed...
12. CHAPTER XI.It was not long, however, before my train of thought brought me back to the old groove. I reflected that although I had been told that people whose energies were failing general...
13. CHAPTER XII.A subsequent conversation I had with Principal Grey also struck me as so noteworthy that I jotted the particulars of it down without delay, for the benefit of possible future En...
9. CHAPTER VIII.I closed the book which I had been perusing, with a sense of the liveliest amazement. Was it possible, I thought, that this wonderful people had really conquered disease, decay,...
11. CHAPTER X.The next excursion of any importance which I made was in the company of Principal Grey, who proved a splendid cicerone, inasmuch as she spared no pains to explain everything whi...
2. CHAPTER I.The next event I can chronicle was opening my eyes on a scene at once so beautiful and strange that I started to my feet in amaze. This was not my study, and I beheld nothing of...
1. CHAPTER XVII.It is small wonder that the perusal of that hitherto, in my eyes, immaculate magazine, the _Nineteenth Century_, affords me less pleasure than usual. There may possibly be some...
7. CHAPTER VI.It was intended that the government should consist of a Leader, two Prime Advisers, twelve Privy Counsellors, and two hundred-and-fifty Tribunes, all elected by the people. As a...
8. CHAPTER VII.There existed many places of worship in the country, which were at first used indiscriminately by Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, Quakers, and a host of...
6. CHAPTER V.Since the Irish people had been completely conquered, it behoved England to take such measures as would conduce to the future prosperity of the island, and at the same time guar...
10. CHAPTER IX.It could not be more than five o’clock, I was sure, and I did not feel much inclined to rise at such an unconscionably early hour, until I heard Hilda ask if I would not like to...
3. CHAPTER II.After dinner was over the students indulged in conversation. I discovered afterwards that music usually formed a prominent feature in after dinner amusements, but to-day the Hon...
4. CHAPTER III.The history began with a brief resumé of such events as school books had long ago made me tolerably familiar with, but went on to say that it was in the reign of Victoria that t...
5. CHAPTER IV.But although this Carolus Patriotus was thus allegorically announced to be the victor, his country still suffered for a long time at the hands of its rulers. Disaffection and je...