Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated)

‘LOOK EASTWARD!’

“Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith—the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

“Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!”

THE END.

FOOTNOTES

[1]At the moment, when I had written these words, there was a knock at the door, and a telegram was brought me, announcing the sudden death of a dear friend.

INDEX.

A
Artistic effect dependent on indistinctness (!); 241

B
Barometer, sideways motion of; 13
Bath, portable, for Tourists; 25
Books or minds. Which contain most Science? 21
Boots for horizontal weather; 14
Brain, inverted position of; 243
Bread-sauce. What appropriate for? 58

C
Carrying one’s-self. Why not fatiguing? 169
Child’s view of purpose of Life; 330
Choristers’ life, danger of; 274
Church-going, principle of; 272
Conceited people always depreciate others; 237
Content, opportunity for cultivating; 152
Conversation, how to indicate parentheses in; 251: ” ” ” questions in; 251; ‘Convenient’ and ‘Inconvenient,’ different meanings; 140
Critic, conceited, always depreciates; 237: ” how to gain reputation of; 238
Crocodiles, logic of; 230

D
Darwinism reversed; 64
Day, shortness of, and length of, compared; 159: ” true length of; 159
Debt, how to avoid payment of; 131
Dreaminess, certain cure for; 136

E
Electricity, influence of, on Literature; 64
Enjoyment of life, secret of; 335
Events in reversed order; 350
Extreme sobriety, inconvenience of; 140
Eye, images inverted by; 242

F
Fairies, how to improve character of; 190: ” ” recognise presence of; 191
Falling house, life in a; 100
Final Causes, problem in; 297
Free-will and nerve-force; 390
Frog, young, how to amuse; 364

G
Gardener’s Song;: Elephant; 65.; Buffalo; 78.; Rattlesnake; 83.; Banker’s Clerk; 90.; Kangaroo; 106.; Coach-and-Four; 116.; Albatross; 164.; Garden-Door; 168
Ghosts, treatment of, by Shakespeare; 60: ” ” in Railway-Literature; 58; ” weltering, appropriate fluid for; 58
Graduated races of men; 299

H
Happiness, excessive, how to moderate; 159
Honesty, Dr. Watts’ argument for; 235
Horizontal rain, boots for; 14
House falling through Space, life in a; 100
Hymns appealing to selfishness; 276

I
‘Inconvenient’ and ‘Convenient’, different meanings; 140
Indistinctness necessary for artistic effect (!); 241
Inversion of Brain; 243: ” images on Retina; 242

L
Ladies, logic of; 235
Least Common Multiple, rule of, applied to Literature; 22
Life, how to enjoy; 335: ” in falling house; 100; ” in reversed order; 350; ” purpose of, as viewed by Child; 330; ” regarded as a Drama; 333
Literature, development of, due to Steam; 64: ” ” ” Electricity; 64; ” for Railway; 58; ” treated by Rule of Least Common Multiple; 22
Little man, privilege of being a; 299
Liturgy, chanted, effect of; 273
Logic of Crocodiles; 230: ” Dr. Watts; 235; ” ladies; 235; ” requisites for complete argument in; 259
Loving or being loved. Which is best? 77

M
Men, graduated races of; 299: ” little, privileges of; 299
Minds or books. Which contain most Science? 21
Money, effect of doubling value of; 312
Music, how to get the largest amount of; 338

N
Nerve-force and free-will; 390
Nerves, curiously slow action of; 158
Novel-reading, how to enjoy; 336

O
Onus probandi misplaced by Crocodiles; 230: ” ” Dr. Watts; 235; ” ” ladies; 235
Order of events reversed; 250

P
Pain, how to minimise; 337
Paley’s definition of Virtue; 274
Parentheses in conversation, how to indicate; 251
‘Phlizz’, a visionary flower; 282: ” ” fruit; 75; ” ” nurse-maid; 283
Pictures, how to criticize; 238
Pleasure, how to maximise; 335
Plunge-bath, portable; 25
Poor people, simple method for enriching; 312
Portable bath for tourists; 25
Poverty, the blessings of; 152
Prayer for temporal blessings, effect of; 391
Preachers, exceptional privileges of; 277: ” appealing to selfishness; 276
Proof, burden of, misplaced by Crocodiles; 230: ” ” ” Dr. Watts; 235; ” ” ” ladies; 235

Q
Questions in conversation, how to indicate; 251

R
Railway-literature; 58: ” scenes regarded as dramatic; 333
Rain, horizontal, boots for; 14
Retina, images inverted on; 242
Reversed order of events; 350

S
Scenery, enjoyment of, by little men; 299
Science. Do books, or minds, contain most? 21
Selfishness appealed to in hymns; 276: ” ” religious teaching; 275; ” ” sermons; 276
Sermons appealing to selfishness; 276
Shakespeare, passages treated of:—: ‘All the world’s a stage’; 335; ‘Aye, every inch a king!’; 373; ‘Is this a dagger that I see before me?’; 371; ‘Rest, rest, perturbed Spirit!’; 60; ‘To be, or not to be’; 370
Shakespeare’s treatment of ghosts; 60
Short man, privilege of being a; 299
Sillygism, requisites for a; 259
Sobriety, extreme, inconvenience of; 140
Spencer, Herbert, difficulties in; 258
Sport, false and true; 318
Steam, influence of, on Literature; 64
Sunday, as spent by children of last generation; 387: ” observance of; 385

T
Time, how to put back; 314, 347: ” ” reverse; 350
Tourists’ portable bath; 25

V
Virtue, Paley’s definition of; 274

W
Watts, Dr., weak logic of; 235
Weather, horizontal, boots for; 14
Weight, relative, conceivably non-existent; 100
Weltering, appropriate fluids for; 58

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Transcriber’s Notes

This is part of an illustrated set also including "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded", also available at Project Gutenberg with numerous hyperlinked references to this volume.
Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.
Corrected a typo based on the note in the companion volume: ‘(N.B. “stagy-entrances” is a misprint for “stage-entrances”)’.
Silently corrected a few other palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.
Moved the frontispiece illustration to the corresponding place in the text.
Collated the table of illustrations from the companion volume (correcting a few page number), and added its captions to the illustrations.
Only in the text versions, delimited italicized text (or non-italicized text within poetry) in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)