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Philip Stewart Robinson. Under the Sun
Under the Sun
Table of Contents
Part I. Indian Sketches
Part II. The Indian Seasons
Part III. Unnatural History
Part IV. Idle Hours under the Punkah
OPINIONS OF THE LONDON PRESS
“NEW ENGLISH HUMORIST.”
THE INDIAN PRESS
A Preliminary Warning of the Contents of this Book
UNDER THE SUN
In my Indian Garden
PART I
INDIAN SKETCHES
I
Visitors in Feathers
II
Visitors in Fur, and others
III
In Hot Weather
PART II
THE INDIAN SEASONS
I
The Rains
II
The Cold Weather
III
Monkeys and Metaphysics
PART III
UNNATURAL HISTORY
I
Hunting of the Soko
II
Elephants
III
The Elephants’ Fellow-countrymen
IV
Cats and Sparrows
V
Bears—Wolves—Dogs—Rats
VI
Some Sea-Folk
VII
The Man-Eating Tree
PART IV
IDLE HOURS UNDER THE PUNKAH
I
Eastern Smells and Western Noses
II
Gamins
III
Of Tailors
IV
The Hara-Kiri
V
My Wife’s Birds
VI
The Legend of the Blameless Priest
VII
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Philip Stewart Robinson
Published by Good Press, 2020
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“The author is one of the quaintest and most charming of our modern writers in an almost forgotten kind. Mr. Robinson belongs to that school of pure literary essayists whose types are to be found in Lamb and Christopher North and Oliver Wendell Holmes, but who seem to have died out for the most part with the prescientific age. One or two of the pieces remind one not a little of Poe in his mood of pure terror with a tinge of mystery; the story of the ‘Man-Eating Tree,’ for example, is told with all Poe’s minute realism. It is good sterling light literature of a sort that we do not often get in England.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“ ‘The Hunting of the Soko’ is a traveller’s tale of a very exciting kind; and the first of all, ‘The Man-Eating Tree,’ is quite a master- piece of that kind. But the best and also the longest contribution to the volume is the sketch of an Indian tour called ‘Sight-Seeing.’ His pictures of India are certainly very vivid.”—St. James’s Gazette.
