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Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D., and Delphine Lettau
| VOLUME I. | |
| I. | INTRODUCTION. |
| II. | GABRIEL CRASWELLER. |
| III. | THE FIRST BREAK-DOWN. |
| IV. | JACK NEVERBEND. |
| V. | THE CRICKET-MATCH. |
| VI. | THE COLLEGE. |
| VOLUME II. | |
| VII. | COLUMBUS AND GALILEO. |
| VIII. | THE "JOHN BRIGHT." |
| IX. | THE NEW GOVERNOR. |
| X. | THE TOWN-HALL. |
| XI. | FAREWELL! |
| XII. | OUR VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. |
It may be doubted whether a brighter, more prosperous, and speciallya more orderly colony than Britannula was ever settled by Britishcolonists. But it had its period of separation from the mothercountry, though never of rebellion,—like its elder sister NewZealand. Indeed, in that respect it simply followed the lead givenher by the Australias, which, when they set up for themselves, did sowith the full co-operation of England. There was, no doubt, a specialcause with us which did not exist in Australia, and which was only,in part, understood by the British Government when we Britannulistswere allowed to stand by ourselves. The great doctrine of a "FixedPeriod" was received by them at first with ridicule, and then withdismay; but it was undoubtedly the strong faith which we ofBritannula had in that doctrine which induced our separation. Nothingcould have been more successful than our efforts to live alone duringthe thirty years that we remained our own masters. We repudiated nodebt,—as have done some of our neighbours; and no attempts have beenmade towards communism,—as has been the case with others. We havebeen laborious, contented, and prosperous; and if we have beenreabsorbed by the mother country, in accordance with what I cannotbut call the pusillanimous conduct of certain of our elderBritannulists, it has not been from any failure on the part of theisland, but from the opposition with which the