I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who was a noble fellow; and the letters of Burke, which do not add to, or detract from, what I knew and liked in him before. I am meditating to begin Thucydides one day; perhaps this winter. . .
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to express what I think of it -- I do not find the task very easy -- proper terms seem wanting ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think he gives a little into commonplace towards the end, when he says the French Revolution would never have happened if so and so - forgetting that the unfortunate sovereign under whom it did happen was religious, moral, and virtuous to the highest degree, solely attached to his own wife, - and it was an old observation that a wife, a Queen's having any influence over her husband was a thing the French at no time could bear' [LS critiques various other points of the speech at length]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart
'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his waiving any observations of a political nature is extremely judicious.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
'I could not have liked a book more; the predominant feelings has been but selfish - oh, why was I not brought up under him, or as that could not be, why could Inot have known more of him? It might perhaps have led me into too much idolatry of him
With all his immense merits, I think one may trace some fancifulness & precipitancy of judgement
I think the Editor's part has been admirable done'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850:
'I have just finished reading the Life of Dr Arnold [...] This is not a character to be dismissed
with a few laudatory words [...] pure panegyric would be inappropriate. Dr Arnold (it seems to
me) was not quite saintly; his greatness was cast in a mortal mould; he was a little severe —
almost a little hard [...] Himself the most indefatigable of workers, I know not whether he
could have understood or made allowance for a temperament that required more rest [...]
Exacting he might have been then on this point, and granting that he was so, and a little
hasty, stern, and positive, those were his sole faults [...] Where can we find justice, firmness,
independence, earnestness, sincerity, fuller and purer than in him? [comments further]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conversations verbatim that end in nothing.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded to entertain him with an account of various remarkable journeys I had made across the Irish Sea, the descriptive matter of these accounts being looted from Lever and other sources. When he apparently swallowed it all with nothing more than a faint grin, I grew more adventurous. I recounted a voyage I had made down the Portuguese coast (Peter Simple) and the Mediterranean (Midshipman Easy) ... I filled in the background of my Australian adventures with local colour from Robbery Under Arms and penetrated Darkest Africa with Stanley.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond Malone Print: Book
'Read on furlough. 19171918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '8511. Gooch
Middlemarch George Eliot
Felix Holt [George Eliot]
A Mill on the Floss [George Eliot]
Men, Women & Guns Sapper
A Student in Arms Hankey.
Great Texts of the Bible Psalms
Battles of the 19th Cent.y Ency. Brit
The Real Kaiser
In a German Prince's house
Life of Stanley Autobiography
Political Hist.y of the World Innes.
The Practice of Xt.s Presence Fullerton
Malarial Work in Macedonia. Willoughby & Cassidy
Bible Prophecies of the present war.
Where are we?
The lost tribes.
The Marne & after
Nelson's Hist.y of the War. XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
A strange story. 1 & 2.
The eyes of His glory Harrington Lees
The Practice of Christ's Presence
I.R.M. Jan Dec 1917. Jan July 1918.
Advent Testimony.
The King's Highway
The Vision Splendid
All's Well.
Bunyan's Characters. White. Vols. 1 & 3
Lichnowsky.
Prophetic Outlook Cachemaile
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Kipling 20 poems
In Christ Gordon
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot
Sense & Sensibility J. Austen.
Nicholas Nickleby Dickens.
Dombey & Son "
Silvia's Lovers. Mrs Gaskell.
Emma. Jane Austen
Agnes Grey. Ann Bronte
Thirsting for the Springs. Jowett
Germany at Bay. Major MacFall
Sir Nigel Loring. Conan Doyle'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: Book
'Sept. Nov. Very interesting'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
