At this moment," he said with a Napoleonic touch, "nearly five hundred phonographs are lecturing in different parts of London on the influence exercised by Plato and Swift on the love affairs of Shelley, Hazlitt, and Burns.

And afterwards they write essays on the lectures, and the names in order of merit are put in conspicuous places.
You see how your little germ has grown?
The illiterate middle-class of your days has quite passed away." "About the public elementary schools," said Graham.

"Do you control them ?" The Surveyor-General did, "entirely." Now, Graham, in his later democratic days, had taken a keen interest in these and his questioning quickened.

Certain casual phrases that had fallen from the old man with whom he had talked in the darkness recurred to him.

The Surveyor-General, in effect, endorsed the old man's words.