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Read Ebook: The Catholic World Vol. 21 April 1875 to September 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
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OF PART I
LETTERS OF MARQUE
I PAGE
Of the Beginning of Things. Of the Taj and the Globe-trotter. The Young Man from Manchester and Certain Moral Reflections 3
Shows the Charm of Rajputana and of Jeypore, the City of the Globe-trotter. Of its Founder and its Embellishment. Explains the Use and Destiny of the Stud-bred, and fails to explain Many More Important Matters 10
Does not in Any Sort describe the Dead City of Amber, but gives Detailed Information about a Cotton-Press 18
The Temple of Mahadeo and the Manners of Such as see India. The Man by the Water-troughs and his Knowledge. The Voice of the City and what it said. Personalities and the Hospital. The House Beautiful of Jeypore and its Builders 25
Of the Sordidness of the Supreme Government on the Revenue Side; and of the Palace of Jeypore. A Great King's Pleasure-house, and the Work of the Servants of State 33
Showing how her Majesty's Mails went to Udaipur and fell out by the Way 41
Touching the Children of the Sun and their City, and the Hat-marked Caste and their Merits, and a Good Man's Works In the Wilderness 50
Divers Passages of Speech and Action whence the Nature, Arts, and Disposition of the King and his Subjects may be observed 62
Of the Pig-drive which was a Panther-killing, and of the Departure to Chitor 70
A Little of the History of Chitor, and the Malpractices of a She-elephant 78
Proves conclusively the Existence of the Dark Tower visited by Childe Rolande, and of "Bogey" who frightens Children 88
Contains the History of the Bhumia of Jhaswara, and the Record of a Visit to the House of Strange Stories. Demonstrates the Felicity of Loaferdom, which is the Veritable Companionship of the Indian Empire, and proposes a Scheme for the Better Officering of Two Departments 100
A King's House and Country. Further Consideration of the Hat-marked Caste 113
Among the Houyhnhnms 124
Treats of the Startling Effect of a Reduction in Wages and the Pleasures of Loaferdom. Paints the State of the Boondi Road and the Treachery of Ganesh of Situr 134
The Comedy of Errors and the Exploitation of Boondi. The Castaway of the Dispensary and the Children of the Schools. A Consideration of the Shields of Rajasthan and Other Trifles 144
Shows that there may be Poetry in a Bank, and attempts to show the Wonders of the Palace of Boondi 158
Of the Uncivilised Night and the Departure to Things Civilised. Showing how a Friend may keep an Appointment too well 171
Comes back to the Railway, after Reflections on the Management of the Empire; and so Home again, with Apology to All who have read thus far 180
FROM SEA TO SEA
Of Freedom and the Necessity of using her. The Motive and the Scheme that will come to Nothing. A Disquisition upon the Otherness of Things and the Torments of the Damned 193
The River of the Lost Footsteps and the Golden Mystery upon its Banks. The Iniquity of Jordan. Shows how a Man may go to the Shway Dagon Pagoda and see it not and to the Pegu Club and hear too much. A Dissertation on Mixed Drinks 202
The City of Elephants which is governed by the Great God of Idleness, who lives on the Top of a Hill. The History of Three Great Discoveries and the Naughty Children of Iquique 214
Showing how I came to Palmiste Island and the Place of Paul and Virginia, and fell Asleep in a Garden. A Disquisition on the Folly of Sight-seeing 223
Of the Threshold of the Far East and the Dwellers thereon. A Dissertation upon the Use of the British Lion 233
Of the Well-dressed Islanders of Singapur and their Diversions; proving that All Stations are exactly Alike. Shows how One Chicago Jew and an American Child can poison the Purest Mind 240
Shows how I arrived in China and saw entirely through the Great Wall and out upon the Other Side 247
Of Jenny and her Friends. Showing how a Man may go to see Life and meet Death there. Of the Felicity of Life and the Happiness of Corinthian Kate. The Woman and the Cholera 259
Some Talk with a Taipan and a General: proves in what Manner a Sea Picnic may be a Success 268
Shows how I came to Goblin Market and took a Scunner at it and cursed the Chinese People. Shows further how I initiated all Hong-Kong into our Fraternity 281
Of Japan at Ten Hours' Sight, containing a Complete Account of the Manners and Customs of its People, a History of its Constitution, Products, Art, and Civilisation, and omitting a Tiffin in a Tea-house with O-Toyo 291
A Further Consideration of Japan. The Inland Sea and Good Cookery. The Mystery of Passports and Consulates and Certain Other Matters 305
The Japanese Theatre and the Story of the Thunder Cat. Treating also of the Quiet Places and the Dead Man in the Street 313
Explains in what Manner I was taken to Venice in the Rain and climbed into a Devil Fort; a Tin-pot Exhibition and a Bath. Of the Maiden and the Boltless Door, the Cultivator and his Fields, and the Manufacture of Ethnological Theories at Railroad Speed. Ends with Kioto 323
Kioto, and how I fell in Love with the Chief Belle there after I had conferred with Certain China Merchants who trafficked in Tea. Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter. Takes me to Arashima 337
The Party in the Parlour who played Games. A Complete History of All Modern Japanese Art; a Survey of the Past and a Prophecy of the Future, arranged and composed in the Kioto Factories 352
Of the Nature of the Tokaido and Japanese Railway Construction. One Traveller explains the Life of the Sahib-Log, and Another the Origin of Dice. Of the Babies in the Bath Tub and the Man in D. T. 363
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