Paths and Vistas. A course for advanced classes.

Introduction

The "Suggestions and Exercises" appended to this volume may be found to serve three purposes: first, to give the pupil some indication of the lines to follow in preparing a lesson or in studying it without the teacher's aid; second, to assist him in the periodical revision and consolidation of his work; and, third, to encourage the development of his powers of expression along the natural lines of recomposition and imitation. They are not so exhaustive that a rapid study of them may conceal ignorance of the lessons, and they make no attempt to take the place of the teacher's planned course of instruction in English.

Table of content

• King Solomon and the Hoopoes.
  An Arab Legend, from "Monasteries in the Levant".
• The Work of the Beaver.
  From "The Men of the Last Frontier",
• In the Desert of Wyoming.
  From "Across the Plains".
• Spiders
  From "Threads in the Web of Life".
• The Invisible Man.
  From "A Year Amongst the Persians".
• The End of the L.23.
  From "Zeppelin Adventures".
• A Roman Villa.
  From "Wanderings in Roman Britain".
• Thought for the Morrow.
• Curling Weather.
  From "Fancy Farm".
• The Great Geysir.
  From "Letters from High Latitudes".
• A Dissertation upon Roast Pig.
  From "The Essays of Elia".
• In Diving Kit.
  From "Random Memories".
• The Break-up a Great Drought.
• The Great Fire of London.
  From "Diary".
• In Time of Plague.
  From "Diary".
• The Punishment of Shah-Pesh.
  From "The Shaving of Shagpat".
• A Glinpse of 18th Century England.
• The Birth of an Island.
  From "Idylls of the Sea".
• Tony Bears Witness.
  From "She Stoops to Conquer", by Goldsmith. Tony Lumpkin hates his cousin Constance Neville, who fully returns his dislike. But as Constance has a fortune in jewels Tony's mother, Mrs. Hardcastle, wishes them to marry. Tony steals the jewels from his mother who has charge of them and gives them to Constance and her lover, Hastings, so that they may elope.
• A Rescue on Everest.
  From "The Epic of Mount Everest".
• The End of Caravan.
  From "Bealby".
• The Sun.
  From "Suns and Worlds".
• The fight with the Flaming Tinman.
  From "Lavengro".
  
  George Borrow, a scholar and a capable amateur boxer, lived much among gypsies. At one period he bought up the business of a travelling smith named Slingsby, who went in fear of a bullying rival, the Flaming Tinman, Coming upon Borrow unexpectedly in a favourite camping-ground of his own, the Flaming Tinman was, for the moment, startled.
• A Plea for Peace 1855.
• Story of the Duke of Sussex.
  From "The Path to Rome".
• In Jerusalem at Easter.
  From "With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem".
• Let us Now Praise Famous Men.
  Ecclesiasticus XLIV.
• The Strategist.
  From "Reginald in Russia".
• London through Indian Eyes 1711.
  From "The Spectator".
  
  The four Indian kings mentioned in this paper were chiefs of the North American tribe of Iroquois, and had been invited to visit England so that they might see for themselves that that country was not, as they had been told, subject to France. Addison, acting on a hint given by Swift to Steele, pretends to have discovered some remarks made by one of the chiefs, and uses the opportunity to hold up the mirror to English society. Goldsmith made use of the same idea in "The Citizen of the World".
• The Adulteration of Food.
  From "The Romance of Modern Chemistry".
• Scandal.
  This is a scene from the famous play, "The School for Scandal", in which Sheridan strikes at the sort of people who have no good to say about anyone. Their conversation explains itself.
• A Horseman in the Sky.
• Speech at Gettysburg, 1863.
• Letter to Lord Chesterfield.
  From "Life of Johnson".
• Wisdom.
  Job XXVIII
• Suggestions and Exercises