The Aftermath; Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life Called upon the outer cover, for purposes of sale, Caliban's Guide to Letters

“_O, Man; with what tremors as of earth-begettings hast thou not wrought, O, Man!--Yet--is it utterly indeed of thee--? Did there not toil in it also that_ WORLD-MAN, _or haply...

As it is the most important, so also it is the first which a man of letters should learn. It is at once his shield and his weapon. A thorough knowledge of Reviewing, both theore...

It was one of Dr. Caliban’s chief characteristics--and perhaps the main source of his power over others--that he could crystallize, or--to use the modern term--“wankle,” the tho...

Upon the closure of the shrine a local paper (joint property of the Bishop and a railway contractor) attacked the atheism of the Government. A local duchess, who was ignorant of...

And it went on to leave the whole property (including the little place in Surrey), in all (after Sir William Vernon Harcourt’s death duties had been paid) some £69,337. 6_s._ 3_...

Mr. Caliban looked at my collar with his kindly eyes, and kept them fixed upon it for some seconds. He then smiled (if such a man could be said to smile) and continued:

The present guide, which is final, will run to no such extremes. Secrecy is indeed essential; yet there are three excellent reasons for writing Personal Pars, at least in early...

_February 3rd,_ 19--.--It is thawing. There are marks of boots across the lawn on what is left of the snow, and I am afraid some one must have gone across it. I wish Reuben woul...

My dear Mr. Kruger.--Your position is at once interesting and peculiar, and deserves, as you say, my fullest attention. On the one hand (as you well remark) you believe you have...

The fourth canon of style is _to use metaphors_ of a striking, violent, and wholly novel kind, in the place of plain statement: as, to say “the classics were grafted on the stan...