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Very Mab', by May Kendall and Andrew Lang
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Title: 'That Very Mab'
Author: May Kendall and Andrew Lang
Release Date: May 5, 2007 [EBook #21337]
Language: English
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'THAT VERY MAB'
By May Kendall and Andrew Lang
'Ah! now I see Queen Mab has been with you'
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1885
CONTENTS.
I. UNDER TWO FLAGS II. DISILLUSIONS III. THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION IV. THE POET AND THE PALÆONTOTHEOLOGIST V. ST. GEORGE FOR MERRY ENGLAND VI. JUSTICE AND THE NEW DEMOCRACY VII. MACHINERY AND THE SUCCESSFUL MERCHANT VIII. THE BEAUTIFUL IX. IN WHICH THE NIHILIST, THE DEMOCRAT, AND THE PROFESSOR OFFER A SUGGESTION TO THE BISHOP X. THE SUBSEQUENT CAREER OF THE NIHILIST XI. HOME AND FOREIGN POLICY COMBINED XII. THE DELUGE
CHAPTER I.
-- UNDER TWO FLAGS.
'You send out teachers of religion to undermine and ruin the people.'--Black Flag Proclamation to the French, 1883.
The moonlight, in wave on wave of silver, flooded all the Sacred Island. Far away and faint ran the line of the crests of Samoa, like the hills of heaven in the old ballad, or a