A First Year in Canterbury Settlement With Other Early Essays
CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
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Introduction, by R.A. Streatfeild | vii |
PART I. NEW ZEALAND | |
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement | 3 |
Crossing the Rangitata | 143 |
Darwin on the Origin of Species | 149 |
Darwin among the Machines | 179 |
Lucubratio Ebria | 186 |
A Note on “The Tempest” | 195 |
The English Cricketers | 198 |
PART II. CAMBRIDGE | |
On English Composition and Other Matters | 205 |
Our Tour | 211 |
Translation from an Unpublished Work of Herodotus | 234 |
The Shield of Achilles, with Variations | 237 |
Prospectus of the Great Split Society | 239 |
Powers | 244 |
A Skit on Examinations | 251 |
An Eminent Person | 255 |
Napoleon at St. Helena | 256 |
The Two Deans. I | 258 |
The Two Deans. II | 259 |
The Battle of Alma Mater | 261 |
On the Italian Priesthood | 265 |
Samuel Butler and the Simeonites, by A.T. Bartholowmew | 266 |