The Corsairs Or Love and Lucre Author:John Hill General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. Sandy's Booms. " Mille objets -- bons a rien, admirables a voir ; Caftans orientaux, pourpoints du moyen-age, Eebecs, psalterions, instruments hors d'usage. Un antre, un musee, un boudoir! " The leading ideas suggested by the contents of Sandy Maxwell's room were Love and War. For above the very comfortable semi-oriental and multi-coloured furniture, and the tightly if miscellaneously filled book-cases, hung or stood, in picturesque confusion, in disorder perhaps more artificial than artistic, scimitars, matchlocks, shields, pictures of strange, rare, and fanciful types of female beauty, rapiers, a lute, daggers, a guitar, pistols, foils, gloves, miniature Venuses of Milo, the Capitol, and elsewhere, which gave the character to the place of being a mixed shrine of Ares and Aphrodite. A glance, however, at the books would convince one that these were not quite the only tutelary deities. Athene and the Muses ought to have been pleased to find Spinoza and Kant (mostly uncut) flanking Victor Hugo (dog's-eared), and in the neighbourhood Haeckel, the Bible, Horace, Mill, De Musset, Euclid, Theophile Gautier, Thackeray, Dumas (on chemistry, on the art of being a musketeer, and on camellias), Dickens, Moliere, Mark Twain,« less