This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...to turn in." "Look here," says a young fellow from a Lancashire House, and a Wrangler of Cambridge, who had fallen out with his father, "my business in the print trade takes me all over the South Seas," and up to Bonin as well, and / know a thing or two. Talk about sending missionaries to the Pacific! Why, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...to turn in." "Look here," says a young fellow from a Lancashire House, and a Wrangler of Cambridge, who had fallen out with his father, "my business in the print trade takes me all over the South Seas," and up to Bonin as well, and / know a thing or two. Talk about sending missionaries to the Pacific! Why, the islanders are infinitely more moral than many in our big F. homes, photo. cities; they lead natural lives, and therefore healthy and harmonious ones--Q.E.D., as we used to say at Trinity--and can give us points, I can tell you. Their maxim is, 'Be happy, and you will be virtuous.' Free v. Bond, I call it. Look at the horrors of a Manchester slum, at the poor little devils that pine even for a ray of sunshine, at the mites in the factories that earn half a crown a week, and send sixpence to 'Uncle Toby' to give the others a day in the country, and contrast that state of things with a South Sea village, its sweet content, pure air, free life, and the cocoanuts. I say better keep the missionaries and parsons in England, where every mother's son of them is wanted; there's quite enough work for them there and to spare, if they'll only do it, leave tea-parties and tennis alone, and send the carpet slippers to the poorhouse." & '"" "-'' " "Go it gently, old chap," says a fellow in the corner, blowing a wreath; "my father was a parson, and he was a good man, and earnest too." "I quite believe you, but I will not be stopped," is the reply; "that yarn of our friend has touched me up and made my blood boil. And I'm not referring now to individuals, but to the average parson of the new century. The clergy and layclerics of the present day don't rightly understand the...
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Blue cloth with photographic pictorial pastedown on front board. Illustrated with 84 photographs. Deals with the author's travels from Austrtalia, which began in 1891, to New Zealand, Tasmania, New Caledonia and Tahiti. More than simply a travelogue, Wragge attempts to portray the French regime in the South Pacific, making speci al reference to the the brutal prison conditions existing under their administration. Likewise, he examines the administration of the New Zealand government in the Cook Islands and discusses the misio nary question as it relates to the native populations of many of the islands both within the Empire and without. Spine very slightly cocked. A clean, sturdy copy of this title, Very good.
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