The toasty smell of baked baguettes pulled out of the oven, of vanilla, butter and sugar from the pastries, resonated in the air.

In 1897, Germany gained control of the Chʻing-tao area in Shantung; the following year, the British acquired the Wei-hai region also in Shantung; and the Russians acquired Ta-lien and Lu-shan in Liaotung.

This argument also does Sweden, her king, and Chancellor Oxenstierna a regrettable historical injustice, for it trivializes the gape-mouthed surprise with which most European statesmen greeted the initial successes of the Swedish invaders in 1631.

When the sun has sunk behind the Yorkshire wolds, its work begins; the lamp is lighted, and the clockowrk wound. Then the watch pacing the steamer's deck, Jack Collier taking his 'trick at the wheel, ' and the bluff yawlsman riding to his nets far out at sea, will see a tiny point of light grow and grow , until a brilliant beam of brightness flashes acrsss the darkness, and then dies down again and leaves all black awhile.