Category: Novels
It was never my good fortune actually to meet Professor Maturin, or even to see him, although in the latter case I should instantly have recognized him, so familiar have I been through my mind’s eye, at least, with his personal appearance--his slender figure somewhat stooping...
It was never my good fortune actually to meet Professor Maturin, or even to see him, although in the latter case I should instantly have recognized him, so familiar have I been...
2. Part 2The dinner, although entirely without pose, was intentionally and interestingly exotic. Russian preserved cucumbers and a soup of chestnuts from the south of France were followe...
3. Part 3“My friend has so long lived his life with nature that it has become the theme of his chief study. He outlined this to me one evening when the rain caused us to transfer our cof...
4. Part 4“It was my fortune this summer to witness several storms of such intensity that I became impressed with the routine of their procedure. The sea--grown dark, heavy, and oily--is...
5. Part 5“That, surely, is the defect of its quality,” admitted Professor Maturin; “yet it did not cloud Kant’s thought, dim Milton’s poetic vision, or relax the will of Frederick the Gr...
6. Part 6“In the matter of environment, congenial surroundings means spontaneous action. Yet lack of harmony may stimulate: pastoral poetry and landscape painting are the work of men wea...
7. Part 7“Will you kindly explain me also?” asked the musician, who had been telling how no one knows his own voice in a phonograph, because every one hears his own speech reverberate th...
8. Part 8“That inner office was crowded with cases that reached to the ceiling and overflowed with books and papers and glittering instruments that proclaimed their owner surgeon as well...
9. Part 9“Within an hour, on a smaller steamer, we sighted the red brick, yellow shingle, and green slate buildings of a station of the United States Fish Commission. It was because of t...
10. Part 10“In the next, so-called ‘heredity room’ were records showing that children of the same parents are slightly more like one another than they are like the average, in height, colo...
11. Part 11“Most of the professors lived near the college. My friend was the owner of an attractive small house, with a bit of ground, opposite the campus, computing the entire carrying co...
12. Part 12“Hotel and restaurant keepers hungrily furbish up old and install new equipment, increase their attendance and provide music, and make bids for the reward of virtue by refusing...