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34415 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd feel less diffident , and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was changed to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was changed to"
},
{
... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you feel that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought I was dreaming. It was an explosion or something, wasn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I guess maybe this is it."
}
] |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sounded right on top of us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was looking out the window. Didn't see no flash."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Must have been further away than it seemed."
}
] |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hugh would know, Jim said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I kind of wish Hugh was here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's not very patriotic, Jim. If that was the bomb, Hugh will be kept busy making other bombs to send back to them."
},
{
"f... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They certainly did bungle, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imagine wasting four atom bombs like that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you like some coffee?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That'd be a good idea. I don't feel like ... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Censorship, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now we're going to see what it's really like."
}
] |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll take a little time to get into action, old Sam Bennett said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even expecting it, and with how fast things move these days--it'll take time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they invade us--come down from the north--y... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there wasn't any noise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was an earthquake, Jim said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing to worry about. Might be one of the bomb's after effects."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Poor old lady, a nei... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's a pound,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean? That little bit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I asked for a pound of hamburger and Art put that much on the scale. In fact not even that much. It said a pound. I saw it. But there was su... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Myra--come down. It's Hugh. Hugh's come to see us."
}
] |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had quite a time getting here. Trains disrupted. All air lines grounded. But I wanted to see you again before--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then there _is_ a war, Jim said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've been kind of wondering out here. With th... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No there wasn't any war."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old Joe would have hit for Chicago or Detroit or New York. It was silly to say bombs dropped on the desert came from an enemy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No--the government didn't fire them."
... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hugh. You're a man that knows. What's wrong? What did those bombs do to us? Tell me. I've got to know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Feel up to a walk?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm no... |
32655 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are being executed for a reason we can't understand, and the bullet has already been fired, Jim. Another ten hours--eleven hours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What bullet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look up there. See it? The Moon."
},
{
... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Kitten's Adventures"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "LADY DAISY,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LADY DAISY."
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, Nurse, I do think she has fingers like yours, rather stumpy at the ends!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! cried Nurse."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won't have her called Ruth after me, that I won't; and you're a very rude little girl Miss... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give Dollie to me, Baby, he said sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're not to have her, bad boy!"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Nurse, see how naughty Baby has been!"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, stop that noise, you bad children! said Nurse angrily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't do anything for a minute but directly my back is turned you behave as bad as bad can be. And now, what Miss Flora will say when she comes back I don't know. I think I h... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Charlie, it's so nice out here! she cried;"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not hungry, Flo, thank you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, but do take it! cried Flora."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It cost twopence."
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll speak to the guard! he muttered to himself, while he held the battered, crushed doll at arm's length."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some wretched child has left this here for I don't know how long, and they never take the trouble to settle the cushions properly... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Doll,"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It'll do for my little Polly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Break it to her, please, ma'am; I'm afraid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Nurse, where _is_ my doll? I've left her in the train! Oh, Mother, please send to the station and ask them for he... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nurse, I've nothing to carry in my hands _this_ time,"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, sir, did you happen to find a doll in your train some six weeks ago? My little lady's doll, that was!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! are _you_ the party as got out of my train about that time and left a doll under the seat?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't think, Father, why that little lady liked that battered old thing instead of keeping this here lovely new one!"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papa, do please tell us one of your nice stories,"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, do, do!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like a funny tale,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't mind rather a sad one, said Lucy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean one about naughty children."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is no use asking me this evening, said a portly Cauliflower."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My head is so heavy I cannot take my turn. Ask the Scarlet-runner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me! said the Scarlet-runner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The next day the gardener happened to pay me a visit."
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must say they always let me know directly they did return. I think they liked me the best of all the trees in the garden."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You think so, said a voice from behind a netting on the wall;"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The clock in the old church-tower struck twelve! The glimmering of a light in Joe's room drew my attention. I peeped in again. He was out of bed, had lit his candle, and was putting on his clothes! As soon as he was dressed, he went to his chest of drawers, took out a pocket-han... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw him kiss his hand towards it, then turn round and set off running again. He was soon quite out of sight, and from that day to this he has never been seen here again. And he needn't have gone after all. I heard the groom tell the gardener the foolish servants had frightened... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a very strange story, Papa!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a very nice one, said Lucy;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish I had got Joey's soft white rabbit,"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And indeed, Nurse, I said,"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elsie! I've brought something for you."
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, George?"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, George, you've only brought me a caterpillar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it isn't, replied George,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I thought a glowworm had fire in its tail?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are quite right,... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is that light for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe it is a lamp for it to see its food by in the dark as it crawls over the grass. And another thing, nightingales are fond of glowworms, and nightingales too must live, so you see they can easily spy them... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course it had crawled away somewhere! said Nurse, and she gave a shudder as she felt sure it would come up to her bed-room. I was very unhappy at my loss. However, nothing could be done. But what was my surprise and delight when, that same evening, as it grew dark, my mother ... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glowy some fresh leaves and left it there. George said he thought"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glowy"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glowy all curled up at the bottom of the glass as if he was going to faint."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, George, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I quite forgot he had no water to drink!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll drow... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glowy was! for, of course, Nurse hoped he was drowned; but John wouldn't have done it if he had known. I hunted by daylight in vain for him; but when evening came to my joy I found him feebly shining, and perched on the edge of the earthenware saucer in which the Virginian creep... |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saucy May"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BLACKIE'S NATURE STORY PICTURE-BOOKS"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Petrel"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mersey"
}
] |
34515 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papa's Christmas Story ,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of you land creatures would understand then was changed to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "None of you land creatures would understand them . In the advertisements,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
275660 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shines for all,"
}
] |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_triplex_ or _tergeminus_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_triformis_"
}
] |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Cerberus, that great worm, had seen us His mouth he opened and his fangs were shown, And then my leader with his folded palms Took of the earth, and filling full his hand, Into those hungry gullets flung it down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great Hercules is ... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hence loathed melancholy of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born."
}
] |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With whom?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cerberus,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you consider him to be one dog, two dogs, or three dogs?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many dogs did you see when you saw Cerberus?"
},
{
"fro... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went before and found a dwelling which no power can debar us from. Our fathers of old have traveled the path; it leads every earth-born mortal thither. There in the midst of the highest heaven beams unfading light and eternal waters flow; there every wish is fulfilled on the ... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Run past straightway the two four-eyed dogs, the spotted and (the dark), the brood of Saram[=a]; enter in among the propitious fathers who hold high feast with Yama."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the two dogs born in the house of (Yama) Vivasvant's son, to the da... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To thy two four-eyed, road-guarding, man-beholding watch-dogs entrust him, O King Yama, and bestow on him prosperity and health."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There were Asuras (demons) named K[=a]lak[=a]njas. They pi... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the waters is thy origin, upon the heavens thy home, in the middle of the sea, and upon the earth, thy greatness; with the majesty of the heavenly dog, with that oblation would we pay homage to thee."
}
] |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The brood of Saram[=a], dark beneath and brown, run, looking down upon the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These two dogs of Yama, verily, are day and night, and the Br[=a]hmana of the _K[=a]ush[=i]takins_ (ii. 9) argues in Talmudic strain:"
},
{
"from": ... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greedy and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Voracious. They hurl themselves across the lands when peace is broken. Who shall say that they are to be entirely dissociated from Yama's two dogs of death? The virgin Menglödh sleeps in her wonderful castle on the mountain c... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "stands not in need of mythic interpretation, as soon as it has become a question of life-hunting dogs. Elusive and vague, I confess, is the persistent and important attribute"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This touch is both old and widespread. The _Avesta_, the bibl... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FOUR-EYED."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "may possibly contain a tentative coagulation of the two dogs in one. The capacity of the two dogs to see both by day (the sun) and by night (the moon) may have given the myth a slight start into the direction of the two-heade... |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father Sky,"
}
] |
19119 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The two dogs of Yama in a new role. [22] My late lamented friend, Max Müller, the gifted writer who knew best of all men how to rivet the attention of the cultivated public upon questions of this sort, did me the honor to notice my proposition in an article in the _London Academ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob Tonson."
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ECCE HOMO"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DE PROFUNDIS"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE NEW MACHIAVELLI 294 SUCCESS IN JOURNALISM 300 MARGUERITE AUDOUX 305 JOHN MASEFIELD 311 LECTURES AND STATE PERFORMANCES 315 A PLAY OF TCHEHKOFF'S 321 SEA AND SLAUGHTER 325 A BOOK IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT 328"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "FICTION AND"
},
{
"f... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nineteenth Century Prose, in which anthology is an example of Mr. Whitten's prose. Though staggered, I was delighted. I should very much like to know how Mrs. Binyon encountered the prose of Mr. Whitten. Did she hunt through the files of newspapers for what she might find therei... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ugliness in Fiction. Probably the author of it has read"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liza of Lambeth, and said Faugh! The article, peculiarly inept, is one of those outpourings which every generation of artists has to suffer with what tranquillity it can. According... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Secret Agent as an example of modern ugliness in fiction: a novel that is simply steeped in the finest beauty from end to end. I do not suppose that the _Edinburgh Review_ has any moulding influence upon the evolution of the art of fiction in this country. But such nonsense may,... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(I cannot imagine how Lord Esher and Mr. A.C. Benson came to be the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the late Queen's correspondence) stipulated that two-thirds of the profits should go to the"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Daniel Williams, a bookseller and librarian, of Tunbridge Wells, said that after the review by 'Artifex' people complained that the price of the book was too high. No complaints were made before that. They read their _Times Literary Supplement_ at the Wells, and they still w... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letters of Queen Victoria was not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "having regard to the astounding expenses of publication. But why were the expenses so astounding? If the book had not been one which by its intrinsic interest compelled purchase, would the"
},
{
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madame Bovary resulted, at first, in a loss to the author. I am sure that every one will be extremely relieved to learn, from a letter recently printed in _L'Intermédiaire_ (the French equivalent of _Notes and Queries)_, that the supposition is incorrect. Here is a translation o... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A.P. MALASSIS."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Madame Bovary,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Selections were issued to the public at the price of half a crown. I suppose that Matthew Arnold and Sir Leslie Stephen were the two sanest Wordsworthians of us all. And Matthew Arnold put Wordsworth above all modern poets except Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Milton, and Molière. ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prelude,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cliff End,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cliff End, almost unanimously laudatory, show in a bright light our national indifference to composition in art. Some reviewers, while stating that the story itself was a poor one, insisted that Mr. Booth is a born and accomplished story-teller. Story-tellers born and accomp... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marotz, about which much has been said. I do not wish to labour this point."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Marotz is not the novel of the season. I trust that I make myself plain. I shall not pronounce upon Mr. Masefield's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'Expansion allemande hors d'Europe (Armand Colin, 3 fr. 50). It is a very good book. Most of it does not deal with colonial expansion, but with the growth and organization of Germania in the United States and Brazil. There is some delicious psychology in this part of the book. ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Set of Six,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Conrad is not the kind of author whose work one is content to meet only in fugitive form, etc."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those who appreciate fine craftsmanship in fiction, etc. But there is worse than clichés. For example:"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Illustrations Tennyson,"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wuthering Heights was written by Charlotte. (That must have been a sadly shocking day for Mr. Clement Shorter!) I have found his Liebig"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of French Literature"
}
] |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyhow his intentions are good. You must admit that he has a feeling for music."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My dear fellow, exclaimed the bandsman pettishly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was silenced. I recall this episode in connexion with Profe... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Style and on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shakespere. He ought to have burnt them. For they are as hollow as a drum and as unoriginal as a bride-cake: nothing but vacuity with an icing of phrases. I am brought back again to the anecdote of the musician. No one who ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Diana Mallory (signed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B.S. ); for the article respected persons. I do not object to Mrs. Humphry Ward being reviewed with splendid prominence. I am quite willing to concede that a new book from her constitutes the matter of a piece of n... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Helbeck of Bannisdale )--in a costume of plausibility. She is a conscientious worker. She does not make a spectacle of herself in illustrated interviews. Even in agitating against votes for women she can maintain her dignity. (She would be an ideal President of the Authors' Soci... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jude the Obscure was a lesson to all Anglo-Saxon editors for ever more! Mrs. Humphry Ward has never got nearer to life than, for instance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rita has got--nor so near! Gladstone, a thoroughly bad judge of literature, made her reputation, ... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salthaven (Methuen, 6s.). It is a long time since I read a book of his. Ministries have fallen since then, and probably Mr. Jacobs' prices have risen--indeed, much has happened--but the talent of the author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many Cargoes remains stead... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, 6s.) with an unusual and apprehensive curiosity. Would it disappoint? For really, you know, to live up to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Golden Age and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pagan Papers could not be an eas... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "consist of five hundred copies I am glad. For an immediate sale of nine thousand copies is fairly remarkable when the article sold consists of nothing more solid than irony. But I am inclined to think that they do not consist of five hundred copies. There is less enthusiasm--tha... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'Ile des Pingouins he returns, in a parable, to his epoch. For this book is the history of France"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "seen in the mirror of the writer's ironical temperament. It is very good. It is inimitable. It is sheer genius. One cannot reasonably fin... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is not Mr. George Alexander, but Mr. William Fay! And who, outside Dublin, has ever heard of Mr. J.M. Synge, author of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Playboy of the Western World? For myself, I have heard of him, and that is all. Mr. Yeats calls him"
},
{
... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No English word will render exactly this French slang; it may be roughly translated a practical joker with a trace of fraud. There may be, and there are, two opinions as to the permanent value of Mallarmé's work, but there cannot be two informed and honest opinions as to his pro... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the business is once again--the second time this year--about to crumble into ruins. This well-known member of the trade, who discreetly refrains from signing his name, writes to the _Athenæum_ in answer to Mr. E.H. Cooper's letter about the disastrous influence of royal books on... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ECCE HOMO"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Broken Road with interest and pleasure. Mr. Frederic Harrison, along with two historical works, has read"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Diana Mallory with interest and pleasure. What an unearthly light such c... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "New Worlds for Old. If it is not in its fiftieth thousand the intelligent masses ought to go into a month's sackcloth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nature Poems, by William H. Davies. This slim volume is quite indubitably wondrous. I won't say that it contains some... |
15717 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "about everything. He must have been listened to with great respect by his fellow-students. And sometimes one of them would come to me, with the air of doing me a favour (as indeed he was) and say:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look here. Do you want to buy something... |
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