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Uncritical reprint of very valuable articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GEOFFREY DRAGE. Austria-Hungary. 21s. net. 1909. A mine of economic facts. H.W. STEED. The Habsburg Monarchy. 1914. Far the best summary of tendencies, on the lines of Bodley's France and Bryce's American Commonwealth. Racial Problems in Hungary. 1908. 16s. net.
He looked away. "It was very good of you, Mr. Matravers," he said. "I can't think what the girl could have been about." "I did not see her until after the accident. I am glad that it was no worse," Matravers answered. "You have not forgotten me, then?" John Drage shook his head. "No, sir," he said. "I have not forgotten you. I should have known your voice anywhere.
Even his stoical endurance had a measurable depth. But it was hard to escape from the man's most unwelcome gratitude. John Drage had not the tact to recognize in his benefactor the man to whom thanks are hateful. "And I had no claim upon you whatever!" the sick man wound up, half-breathless. "If you had cut me dead, after my Oxford disgrace, it would only have been exactly what I deserved.
But in a quiet way he was wonderfully persistent, and he succeeded better, perhaps, than any other emissary whom John Drage could have employed. The sum of money which he eventually collected amounted to nearly fifteen hundred pounds, and late one evening he started for Kensington with a bundle of papers under his arm and a cheque-book in his pocket.
"Working People and their Employers," Washington Gladden. "Problem of the Unemployed," Hobson. "The Unemployed," Geoffrey Drage. "Korbey's Fortune," William T. Elsing in "Scribner's," Vol. XVI, pp. 590 sq. "Rich and Poor," p. 211. pp. 141 sq. "Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 6. "Rich and Poor," pp. 138 sq. pp. 242 sq. See Warner's "American Charities," pp. 177 sq.
Ibid., 309. Cal. St. P., Dom., 1671, 105, 171. We have two accounts of this affair: Strange and Wonderful News from Yowell in Surry , and An Account of the Tryal and Examination of Joan Buts . Roger North, op. cit., 131-132. York Depositions, 247. York Depositions, 112, 113. Drage, Daimonomageia, 12. For an account of her case, see Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus, pt. ii, 127-146.
The other apprentice, poor Jack Drage, told me that he had been kicked and cuffed from the first moment that he had stepped on board, and that if he had had any friends on shore, he'd have taken French leave as the other had done. Things had grown worse instead of better, and he was already weary of his life.
"Will you forgive me now," he said, "if I hurry away? I will come and see you again, and we will talk this over more thoroughly." And still John Drage said nothing, but he held out his hand. Matravers pressed the thin fingers between his own. "You must see Freddy," he said eagerly. "I promised him that he should come in before you went." But Matravers shook his head.
The next time he called me a sulky rascal, but I answered that I was not going to do away with myself like Jack Drage, and that I would make a complaint of him to the British Consul whenever we touched at a port. On this he knocked me down again.
Drage seems to connect her case with those of Barrow and Hannah Crump, both of whom were helped by that "dispirited people" whom the author of The Lord's Arm Stretched Out exalts. Drage, op. cit., 34. But a physician in Winchester Park, whom Hannah Crump had consulted, had asked five pounds to unbewitch her. Drage, op. cit., 39. York Depositions, 127.
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