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The Calcutta Review April 1896

1896

The epsode of the adventure of the writer with the young wid w Nina Nansen will recall to the readers of I3rantomc the story of the woman of Smyrna related by him in his " Femmes Galantes." SECOND LETTER. [...] The effect produced upon the good folk at Stanislas by my disappearance the address of the Director in the refectory the pious prayer of Father Salignon for the prompt return of the lost sheep and all the other precise and picturesque details which you have given me of the events following on my departure amused me highly ; and I was only too glad to be amused for I can assure you the r6le o [...] But hardly had we weighed anchor in the lovely summer evening beneath a gleen and amber sky I and my beloved stretched on the deck drinking in the joy of existence lulled by the rhythmic chant of the clew of a Neapolitan coraboat on the same tack whose joyous voices mingled with the musical rippling of the waves under our lee and the flickering of the pennon at the mast-head when horribl [...] And the pay of the crew by God ? And the keep of Mistress Nuitt 7 For eight mortal days I was deafened by this jargon with variations enough to make you die of laughter by the Captain the mate the steward with their puzzled and perplexed good honest English faces following me everywhere to the post-office to the gaming tables displaying on the broad terraces of the hotel under the shady [...] Some of the windows were opened wide others hermetically closed while through their chinks shone the dim yellow rays of wax candles paling in the garish light of day ; and everywhere throughout the garden among the laurel trees the horrible smell of chemicals and sawdust the atmosphere of the sick-toom and the undertaker's shop.
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Pages
238
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Art. I.—The Quatrains of Abu Sa’id Bin Abu-L-Khair
189-197 E.H. Whinfield view
Art. II.—Letters of Charles Alexis Dauvergne Prince of Olmutz
198-228 F.H. Tyrrell view
Art. III.—Recollections of an Indian Civilian
229-257 Henry Keene view
Art. IV.—The Historical Aspects of the Opium Question
258-272 E.H. Walsh view
Art. V.—Some Problems of Contemporary India (Independent Section)
273-294 unknown view
Art. VI.—The Sale of Power or the Evoluton of Representative Government; A Synthetical Criticism
295-320 L.H. Close view
Art. VII.—Deussen’s Vedanta
321-356 unknown view
Art. VIII.—The European Terror
357-367 H.G. Keene view
Art. IX.—Some Glimpses of India in Premahomedan Times
368-386 Guru Sen view
The Quarter
387-402 J.W.F. view
Critical Notices
xxvii-xliii unknown view
Acknowledgement
xliv-xlvi unknown view

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