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# The Fate of Fenella

This work was the work of 24 contemporary authors of the 1890s, who each wrote a chapter of the work (see Publisher's note)
The Fate of Fenella
A NOVEL
BY
| HELEN MATHERS JUSTIN H. McCARTHY, M. P. FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPE | A. CONAN DOYLE MAY CROMMELIN F. C. PHILLIPS |
| "RITA" JOSEPH HATTON Mrs. LOVETT CAMERON | BRAM STOKER FLORENCE MARRYAT FRANK DANBY |
| Mrs. EDWARD KENNARD RICHARD DOWLING Mrs. HUNGERFORD | ARTHUR A'BECKETT JEAN MIDDLEMASS CLEMENT SCOTT |
| CLO. GRAVES H. W. LUCY ADELINE SERGEANT | G. MANVILLE FENN "TASMA" F. ANSTEY |
NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 Fourth Avenue
Copyright, 1892, by
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.
All rights reserved.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, KAHWAY, N. J.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
The publishers claim with no little satisfaction that in this book they offer the reading public a genuine novelty. The idea of a novel written by twenty-four popular writers is certainly an original one. The ladies and gentlemen who have written "The Fate of Fenella" have done their work quite independently of each other. There has been collaboration but not consultation. As each one wrote a chapter it was passed on to the next, and so on until it reached the hands of Mr. F. Anstey, whose peculiar and delightful humor made him a fitting choice for bringing the story to a satisfactory close.
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
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# The Fate of Adelaide. Table of Contents

| The Fate of Adelaide Canto I | Romantic Switzerland! thy scenes are traced | 1 |
| The Fate of Adelaide Canto II | Once more my harp awakens; once again | 33 |
| The Farewell | Farewell! companion of my solitude! | 69 |
| Lines to — | Think of me, and I'll tell thee when | 71 |
| Fragment | Love thee! yes, yes! the storms that rend aside | 73 |
| Absence | I will not say, I fear your absent one | 75 |
| Curtius | There is a multitude, in number like | 77 |
| Sketch of a Painting of Santa Malvidera | She knelt upon the rock; her graceful arms | 81 |
| Sonnet | Green willow! over whom the perilous blast | 83 |
| Sonnet | It is not in the day of revelry | 84 |
| Stanzas | I do not weep that thou art laid | 85 |
| The Village of the Lepers | There was a curse on the unhappy race— | 86 |
| Lines on — | I saw thy cheek when 'twas fresh as spring | 88 |
| Fragment | It is not spring, but still the new-come year | 91 |
| Portrait | I gaz'd admiringly upon his face | 93 |
| To — | Oh! say not, that I love not nature's face | 95 |
| Corinna | She stood alone; but on her every eye | 97 |
| Sleeping Child | How innocent, how beautiful thy sleep! | 99 |
| Lines addressed to Colonel H. | Who envies not the glory of the brave! | 101 |
| Love's Parting Wreath | I give thee, love, a blooming braid | 103 |
| Answer | The wreath you gave me, love, is dead | 105 |
| Dirge | Oh, calm be thy slumbers! | 107 |
| Sonnet | I envy not the traveller's delight | 109 |
| Absence | Oh! never can we feel how dear | 110 |
| A Lover's Dream | It was a dream, as bright as e'er | 113 |
| The Phoenix and the Dove | My wings are bright with the rainbow's dyes | 115 |
| Love's Choice | Too long the daring power of love | 116 |
| The Star | Oh! would I might share thy wild car | 117 |
| Stanzas adapted to music by — | My heart is as light as the gossamer veil | 119 |
| Answer to — | Twine not the cypress round my harp— | 121 |
| Castle Building | You may smile at the fanciful structures I rear | 123 |
| Fable | Four souls, that on earth had just yielded their breath | 125 |
| Sketch of Scenery | It was a little glen, which, like a thing | 129 |
| Lines to — | No, no! thou hast broken the spell that entwin'd me— | 133 |
| Lines addressed to Miss Bisset | Came it not like enchantment on the soul | 135 |
| Fragment | I saw her amid pleasure's gayest haunts— | 137 |
| Lines | She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps | 139 |
| The Storm | There was a vessel combating the waves | 141 |
| Sir John Doyle Bart. | My heart has beat high at the heroes of old | 146 |
| Fragment | Is not this grove | 149 |
| Addressed to — | The bee, when varying flowers are nigh | 154 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Slavic Europe

SLAVIC EUROPE.
A selected bibliography in the western languages. By Robert Kerner, Ph. D. Harvard University Press.
Both the book and the author are of interest to the Czechoslovaks of the United States. Dr. Kerner is son of one of the publishers of the Denní Hlasatel and at present is in Bohemia on a mission for the American government. For a year before that Dr. Kerner was gathering data for the House Commission, so that one may feel certain that the American peace mission is in possession of correct facts bearing on ethnographical and other phases of the Czechoslovak problem.
The book which Mr. Kerner recently completed is a monument to his untiring diligence. He cites some 8000 distinct works in English, French, German, Italian, Latin etc., dealing with the general subject of Slavic Europe. Out of 4521 titles about 800 are cited which deal with the Bohemians and Slovaks. Here his book covers somewhat the same field as Mr. Čapek’s “Bohemian Bibliography”, but Dr. Kerner cites works in other languages than English only. For his chapter on writings dealing with Bohemia Dr. Kerner searched the University and Museum libraries of Prague, and his list is quite exhaustive and thorough. But the usefulness of the book to others than scholars would be increased, if a shorter list had been prepared giving only the few important boks under each nation and each subdivision.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Siberian invalids welcomed

SIBERIAN INVALIDS WELCOMED.
The transport of 100 Czechoslovak invalids from Siberia gave their countrymen in America the first opportunity to demonstrate what they thought of these boys. Not even Masaryk’s welcome in Chicago has been heartier or more enthusiastic than the welcome extended to the wounded heroes in San Francisco, Omaha, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York.
The invalids arrived in San Francisco on the transport Sheridan on May 27. They were commanded by Major Joseph Došek. Even before their ship docked, they were greeted by representatives of the San Francisco Czechoslovaks and correspondents of Bohemian papers. Colonel V. S . Hurban, Czechoslovak military attaché in Washington, made arrangements with the War Department for their transportation across the United States. After a few days of rest and the enjoyment of splendid Californian hospitality they boarded a special train which brought them first to Omaha, where Bohemian farmers from all over Nebraska and even Kansas and South Dakota gave them a wonderful greeting.
In Chicago, the great center of Czechoslovak population, they stopped for three days. The first night the big Pilsen Park pavillion with its spacious grounds was jammed with a multitude numbering tens of thousands. Everyone wanted to take an invalid home with him. The men were treated, feted, given auto rides and showers of money gifts. The same scenes were repeated at Pittsburgh and New York; in short the boys, one -legged, one-armed and one-yed, got the time of their lives.
In New York the company stayed a whole month, in order that the American Red Cross might supply them with artificial limbs of splendid American make, not obtainable in Europe.
The second detachment of Czechoslovaks from Siberia is due in San Diego, Cal., on July 4. They number 1050 men, and after a rest in Camp Kearney will be taken to Newport News.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Some interesting items

SOME INTERESTING ITEMS.
V. A . Geringer, United States trading commissioner in Prague, was received by President Masaryk upon his arrival in Prague. He has opened an office and is now engaged in compiling a handbook giving all necessary information to American businessmen desirous of establishing trade with the Czechoslovak Republic.
Rudolph Kohlíček-Hartwald of Cicero, Ill., a Czechoslovak legionary ,is now serving as Y. M. C. A. secretary in Prague. A number of Czech Presbyterian ministers from the United States are also serving their people through the Imka, as the organization is known in Bohemia; among them are the Rev. Ludvik Burian of New York, the Rev. Francis Souček of Chicago, and the Rev. W . Regnemer of Mingo Junction, O.
At the forty first annual congress of the American Library Association, held at Asbury Park, Mrs. Anna V. Čapek delivered an interesting address on “The culture which the Czechoslovak and his child contribute to America.” She emphasized the point that social workers, librarians and others who come in direct and daily contact with the immigrant and his children cannot fully understand their psychology, unless they know something of the history and past associations of the people they deal with. Her arguments found sympathetic appreciation from some 300 children’s librarians who heard her speak.
Mrs. Clara V. Winlow, author of several of the My Little Cousin series published by C. L. Page & Co. of Boston, has been active in Los Angelas lecturing on Czechoslovaks. She delivered more than twenty addresses before the University Club, Public Library Staff, Library School and prominent clubs of that city. She also arranged an interesting and successful exhibit of Czechoslovak art, embroideries etc. Mrs. Winlow is sister of Mrs. Anna V. Čapek, co -author of Bohemian Bibliography.
University of California has a Slavic department, the head of which is Prof. Geo. Rapall Noyes; he teaches Russian and Bohemian and lectures on various Slav literatures. Alexander S. Kann is instructor in Russian and Milutin Krunich is instructor in Serbian. There is also a Slavic Society at the university, meeting even two weeks for discussion of men and events in Slav nations. Phyllis Modjeska Harrington is president, and Lydia Marie Swoboda is vicepresident.
John Pešek, Bohemian heavy-weight wrestler of Shelton, Neb., defeated Wladko Zbyszko after a two hour tussle in Gordon, Neb., on June 25. Pešek thus gets in line for world championship.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Songs of the Slav

​SONGS OF THE SLAV.—Translated by Otto Kotouč. The Poet Lore Company, Boston.
Slowly the world is getting acquainted with Czech culture, as it has learned to know something of their history and politics. After Paul Selver’ Czech Anthology, published in London, comes the first American anthology of Czech poets. Mr. Kotouč, former member of the Nebraska legislature, has given us an English version of a few examples of Kollár, Hálek, Čech, Bezruč and Machar. One might quarrel with his selections, because other poems seem more worthy of immediate translation; and as is but usual with poems rendered into a foreign tongue, the translation does not ring as clearly in English as in the original. But Mr. Kotouč has done here a bit of good work, of faithful translating and every Czechoslovak in America will be grateful to him and hope that the work will be continued.
From the little book of these Czech verses done into English we reprint two poems by Petr Bezruč, the bard of the Czech coal miners and foundry workers of Silesia, in civil life post office controller. In both poems, written before the war, reference is made to Archduke Frederick, the great feudal landholder of Těšín (Teschen) and during the war commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces. The appellation given him in this poem, alluding to the German margrave Gero who in the early Middle Ages enslaved the Slavs ,stuck to Frederick during the war, when he became infamous in Bohemia by reason of his cruelties to Czechs.
If you like the Review, recommend it to your friends, or send us names of people who ought to read it, and we will mail them sample copies.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Speaking of Count Karolyi...

​Speaking of Count Karolyi the New York Times says: “They are all alike, these Magyar grandees. If they coquet with Bolshevism, it is for the purpose of breaking down, if they can, the Czechoslovaks, Rumanians, and South Slavs, and out of the general destruction recreating the old intolerant, masterful Magyar state with a government of, for and by the Magyars.”
This work was published in 1919 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 104 years or less since publication.
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# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 4/Chapter 105

THERE was a youth, and a well belovd youth, And he was a esquire's son, He loved the bayliff's daughter dear, That lived in Islington. She was coy, and she would not believe That he did love her so, No, nor at any time she would Any countenance to him show. But when his friends did understand His fond and foolish mind, They sent him up to fair London, An apprentice for to bind. And when he had been seven long years, And his love he had not seen, 'Many a tear have I shed for her sake When she little thought of me.' All the maids of Islington Went forth to sport and play; All but the bayliff's daughter dear; She secretly stole away. She put off her gown of gray, And put on her puggish attire; She's up to fair London gone, Her true-love to require. As she went along the road, The weather being hot and dry, There was she aware of her true-love, At length came riding by. She stept to him, as red as any rose, And took him by the bridle-ring: 'I pray you, kind sir, give me one penny, To ease my weary limb.' 'I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me Where that thou wast born?' 'At Islington, kind sir,' said she, Where I have had many a scorn.' 'I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me Whether thou dost know The bailiff's daughter of Islington?' 'She's dead, sir, long ago.' 'Then will I sell my goodly steed, My saddle and my bow; I will into some far countrey, Where no man doth me know.' 'O stay, O stay, thou goodly youth! She's alive, she is not dead; Here she standeth by thy side, And is ready to be thy bride.' 'O farewel grief, and welcome joy, Ten thousand times and more! For now I have seen my own true-love, That I thought I should have seen no more.'
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 4/Chapter 113

AN eartly nourris sits and sing, And aye she sings, Ba, lily wean! Little ken I my bairnis father, Far less the land that he staps in. Then ane arose at her bed-fit, An a grumly guest I'm sure was he: 'Here am I, thy bairnis father, Although that I be not comelie. 'I am a man, upo the lan, An I am a silkie in the sea; And when I'm far and far frae lan, My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie.' 'It was na weel,' quo the maiden fair, 'It was na weel, indeed,' quo she, 'That the Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie Suld hae come and aught a bairn to me.' Now he has taen a purse of goud, And he has pat it upo her knee, Sayin, Gie to me my little young son, An tak thee up thy nourris-fee. An it sall come to pass on a simmer's day, When the sin shines het on evera stane, That I will tak my little young son, An teach him for to swim the faem. An thu sall marry a proud gunner, An a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be, An the very first schot that ere he schoots, He'll schoot baith my young son and me.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 4/Chapter 111

Crow and Pie
THROUGHE a forest as I can ryde, To take my sporte yn an mornyng, I cast my eye on euery syde, I was ware of a bryde syngynge. I sawe a faire mayde come rydyng; I speake to hur of loue, I trowe; She answered me all yn scornyng, And sayd, The crowe shall byte yow. 'I pray yow, damesell, scorne me nott; To wyn your loue ytt ys my wyll; For your loue I haue dere bought, And I wyll take good hede thertyll.' 'Nay, for God, ser, that I nyll; I tell the, Jenken, as I trowe, Thou shalt nott fynde me suche a gyll; Therfore the crowe shall byte yow.' He toke then owt a good golde ryng, A purse of velweytt, that was soo fyne: 'Haue ye thys, my dere swetyng, With that ye wylbe lemman myn.' 'Be Cryst, I dare nott, for my dame, To dele with hym that I doo nott knowe; For soo I myght dyspyse my name; Therfore the crow shall byte yow.' He toke hur abowte the mydell small, That was soo faire of hyde and hewe; He kyssed hur cheke as whyte as whall, And prayed hur that she wolde vpon hym rewe. She scornyd hym, and callyd hym Hew; His loue was as a paynted blowe: 'To-day me, to-morrowe a newe; Therfore the crow shall byte yow.' He toke hur abowte the mydell small, And layd hur downe vpon the grene; Twys or thrys he served hur soo withall, He wolde nott stynt yet, as I wene. 'But sythe ye haue i-lyen me bye, Ye wyll wedde me now, as I trowe:' 'I wyll be aduysed, Gyll,' sayd he, 'For now the pye hathe peckyd yow.' 'But sythe ye haue i-leyn me by, And brought my body vnto shame, Some of your good ye wyll part with me, Or elles, be Cryst, ye be to blame.' 'I wylbe aduysed,' he sayde; 'THe wynde ys wast that thow doyst blowe; I haue a-noder that most be payde; Therfore the pye hathe pecked yow.' 'Now sythe ye haue i-leyn me bye, A lyttle thyng ye wyll tell; In case that I with chylde be, What ys your name? Wher doo ye dwell?' 'At Yorke, at London, at Clerkenwell, At Leycester, Cambryge, at myrye Brystowe; Some call me Rychard, Robart, Jacke, and Wyll; For now the pye hathe peckyd yow. 'But, all medons, be ware be rewe, And lett no man downe yow throwe; For and yow doo, ye wyll ytt rewe, For then the pye wyll pecke yow.' 'Farewell, corteor, ouer the medoo, Pluke vp your helys, I yow beshrew! Your trace, wher so euer ye ryde or goo, Crystes curse goo wythe yow! 'Thoughe a knave hathe by me layne, Yet am I noder dede nor slowe; I trust to recouer my harte agayne, And Crystes curse goo wythe yow!'
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stenhouse, Nicol Drysdale

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​Stenhouse, Nicol Drysdale, M.A., a writer of taste and a great lover of literature, was clerk to Sir William Hamilton when the latter was practising as an ​advocate in Edinburgh. He was also a friend of the late Thomas de Quincey. Having embraced the legal profession, he emigrated to New South Wales, and practised for many years as an attorney and solicitor in Sydney. He was a veritable Mæcenas to many needy and struggling literary men in Sydney. Not long before his death he was, on the motion of that great scholar, the late Dr. Badham, appointed an examiner in the Faculty of Law and a member of the senate of Sydney University. He succeeded the late Dr. Woolley, with whom he was on warm terms of friendship, as president of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, and held the position from 1867 to 1873. Mr. Stenhouse died in 1876.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stephen, Hon. James Wilberforce

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​Stephen, Hon. James Wilberforce, M.A., was the son of the late Sir George Stephen (q.v.), and was born in London in 1822. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated Fourth Wrangler in 1846 and subsequently became M.A. and Fellow. He was called to the Bar in 1848, and emigrated to Victoria in 1854. There he practised his profession and took a part in politics, being returned to the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda in 1871. He aided in the defeat of the Duffy Ministry, and on the accession to power of Mr. Francis in June 1872 accepted office in the new Ministry as Attorney-General. On behalf of the Cabinet Mr. Stephen framed and carried through Parliament the Act for establishing the present free, secular, and compulsory system of State education, with which his name will be always linked. On the passing of the Act he was appointed to administer it as first Minister of Public Instruction. This post he held, in addition to the Attorney-Generalship, from Jan. 1873 to May 1874, when he was appointed to a Supreme Court judgeship. Mr. Justice Stephen died in 1881.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stephen, George Milner

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​Stephen, George Milner, is the fifth son of the late John Stephen, formerly judge in New South Wales, and is a younger brother of Sir Alfred Stephen, Lieut.-Governor of that colony (q.v.). He was an official member of the Legislative Council of South Australia from 1838 to 1839; Advocate-General from February to July 1838, and as senior member of the Legislative Council, was Acting-Governor of the colony during the interval between the departure of Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir John) Hindmarsh, and the arrival of Colonel Gawler, July to Oct. 1838. He was Colonial Secretary from Oct. 1838 to July 1839, and was appointed a member of the board which replaced the Resident Commissioner in Oct. 1838. Mr. Stephen having entered into speculations in land at Port Gawler, was involved in criminal charges of which he was acquitted; but comments unfavourable to his conduct having appeared in the South Australian Register, he brought an action for libel against the proprietary, in which the latter secured a verdict. Visiting England, he entered as a student at the Middle Temple in June 1842, and was called to the English bar in Nov. 1845, and to that of New South Wales in April 1852. He subsequently resided in Melbourne, but has lived in London for some years past. Mr. Stephen, who has gained considerable notoriety by his practice of the art of "faith healing," married the third daughter of Sir John Hindmarsh, formerly Governor of South Australia.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stephen, His Honour Matthew Henry

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​Stephen, His Honour Matthew Henry, Puisne Judge, New South Wales, eldest son of the Hon. Sir Alfred Stephen, G.C.M.G., ex-Lieut.-Governor of New South Wales (q.v.), was born at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, in Dec. 1828, called to the New South Wales Bar in 1850, and became Q.C. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1869 to 1871, and has been a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 1887. He married on Sept. 30th, 1854, Caroline Sibella, daughter of Henry Tudor Shadforth, formerly of the 57th Regiment, and Usher of the Black Rod, New South Wales. Judge Stephen is Chancellor of the Church of England diocese of Sydney.
# The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Stephens, James Brunton

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​Stephens, James Brunton, is a native of Barrowstowness, Linlithgowshire, where he was born in 1835. He went to Queensland in 1866, and was engaged as a private tutor for some years. Subsequently he entered the service of the Queensland Education Department, and having held for some years the position of head teacher of the Ashgrove School, he was transferred to a clerkship in the Colonial Secretary's office, which he still retains. He has contributed in prose and in verse to The Queenslander, Australasian, and Melbourne Review, in which his fine blank-verse poem "Mute Discourse" first saw the light; and is regarded as the wittiest of Australian poets. "Convict Once," his most ambitious poem, was published by Macmillan, and "The Godolphin Arabian" and "Miscellaneous Poems" by Watson, Ferguson & Co., of Brisbane. He has ​also written two novelettes of Australian life, one of which entitled "A Hundred Pounds" was published by Samuel Mullen of Melbourne.