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Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction xv
Note on the Anthology xxxvii
Select Bibliography xliv
Chronology of Key Events liv
An Indian Railway and The Gulf Between Us, from The Competition Wallah (1864) 3
JOHN RUSKIN Conclusion to Inaugural Lecture (1870) 16
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Aboriginals (1873) 20
JOHN BEAMES Civilian Memoirs (1873) 32
DAVID LIVINGSTONE The Meeting with Stanley (1874) 38
HENRY MORTON STANLEY The Meeting with Livingstone (1886) 42
MARCUS CLARKE from Preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems (1876) 50
'AUSTRALIE' (EMILY MANNING) From the Clyde to Braidwood (1877) 53
EDWIN ARNOLD from The Light of Asia (1879) 57
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Defence of Lucknow (1880) 59
Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen (1886) 63
EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN from The Aims and Methods of a Liberal Education for Africans (1881) 64
TORU DUTT À mon Père (1876) 69
Sonnet--Baugmaree; Sonnet--The Lotus; Our Casuarina Tree; from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) 70
JOHN SEELEY from The Expansion of England (1883) 72
ISABELLA BIRD Letter from Sungei Ujong, Malay Peninsula (1883) 80
H. RIDER HAGGARD The Legend of Solomon's Mines (1885) 85
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Colonials and Literature (1886) 95
RUDYARD KIPLING His Chance in Life (1888) 99
Christmas in India (1888) 104
Giffen's Debt (1886) 105
Mandalay (1892.) 107
What the People Said (1887) 109
A. E. HOUSMAN 1887 (1896) 111
J. A. FROUDE from The English in the West Indies (1888) 112
J. J. THOMAS from Froudacity (1889) 120
FLORA ANNIE STEEL The Duties of the Mistress (1889) 126
Bopolûchi (1884) 133
In the Permanent Way (1898) 136
G. A. HENTY A Pipe of Mystery (1890) 147
1880s AND 1890s CANADIAN POETRY
ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD War (1879) 162
Said the Canoe (1905) 164
BLISS CARMAN Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893) 167
A Vagabond Song (1896) 169
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS The Pea-Fields (1893) 109
My Trees (1893) 170
ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Late November (1888) 170
Among the Orchards (1899) 171
DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT The Onondaga Madonna (1898) 171
A. B. ('BANJO') PATERSON Clancy of the Overflow (1895) 172
The Travelling Post Office (1895) 174
Old Australian Ways (1902) 175
HENRY LAWSON The Drover's Wife (1894) 177
BARBARA BAYNTON The Tramp (1901) 185
A.G. STEPHENS from Introductory to The Bulletin Story Book (1901) 189
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA from The Ideal of a Universal Religion (1896) 192
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader (1896) 198
HUGH CLIFFORD Up Country (1897) 205
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN The True Conception of Empire (1897) 212
LIVE SCHREINER from Trooper Halket of Mashonaland (1897) 216
MARY KINGSLEY Black Ghosts (1897) 234
JOSEPH CONRAD An Outpost of Progress (1898) 248
WILLIAM WATSON Jubilee Night in Westmorland (1898) 270
RUDYARD KIPLING Recessional (1897) 272
The White Man's Burden (1899) 273
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The Transvaal (1899) 275
ALFRED AUSTIN To Arms! (1899) 276
MRS ERNEST AMES An ABC, for Baby Patriots (1899) 277
THOMAS HARDY Departure (1901) 281
A Christmas Ghost-Story (1899) 281
Drummer Hodge (1899) 282
W. E. HENLEY Remonstrance; Pro Rege Nostro; The Choice of the Will; from For England's Sake (1900) 283
A. E. HOUSMAN Grenadier (composed c. 1900; 1922) 286
HENRY NEWBOLT Vitiï Lampada (1897) 287
Peace (1902) 288
April on Waggon Hill (1903) 288
Sráhmandázi (1902) 289
WILLIAM WATSON Rome and Another; The Inexorable Law; The True Imperialism; from For England (1903) 292
RUDYARD KIPLING The Lesson (1903) 293
J. A. HOBSON The Political Significance of Imperialism (1902) 295
CORNELIA SORABJI Love and Death (1901) 298
LADY MARY ANNE BARKER from Colonial Servants (1904) 304
SAROJINI NAIDU Village-Song; Humayun to Zobeida; Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad; To India; from The Golden Threshold (1905) 311
Songs of my City; Song of Radha the Milkmaid; An Anthem of Love; from The Bird of Time (1912) 314
GEORGE NATHANIEL, MARQUESS CURZON The British Empire (1906) 317
SRI AUROBINDO The Object of Passive Resistance (1907) 321
Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891 (1895) 325
Transiit, Non Periit (1909) 325
Hymn to the Mother: Bandemataram (1909) 326
Revelation (1915) 327
Rebirth (1915) 328
ALICE PERRIN The Rise of Ram Din (1906) 329
JAMES JOYCE Ireland at the Bar (1907) 336
EDMUND CANDLER from Kishi (1910) 339
STEPHEN LEACOCK Back to the Bush (1910) 344
DOROTHEA FAIRBRIDGE Pamela (1911) 349
J. E. CASELY HAYFORD As in a Glass Darkly and African Nationality; from Ethiopia Unbound (1911) 361
CLAUDE MCKAY Oh General Jackson!; The Other Day; I Have a News; from Walter Jekyll's Jamaican Song and Story (1907) 369
Cudjoe Fresh From de Lecture; Old England; My Native Land, My Home; from Songs of Jamaica (1912) 373
The Apple-Woman's Complaint, from Constab Ballads (1912) 375
If We Must Die (1918) 376
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poems from Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1912) 377
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Introduction to Gitanjali (1912) 382
B. E. BAUGHAN Pipi on the Prowl (1913) 387
KATHERINE MANSFIELD How Pearl Button was Kidnapped (1912) 396
To Stanislaw Wyspianski (1910) 399
The Wind Blows (1915) 400
SOLOMON T. PLAATJE One Night with the Fugitives (1916) 405
LEONARD WOOLF Pearls and Swine (composed c. 1913; 1921) 415
Appendix. 'L'Irlanda alla sbarra': the original Italian text of Joyce's 'Ireland at the Bar' (pp. 336-8) 431
Explanatory Notes 434
Biographies 470
Publisher's Acknowledgements 503
Index 505
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