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"""Have been reading the """"""""Quarterly Review"""""""" on Lyell's tour in North America. The """"""""Quarterly"""""""" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and """"""""Progress"""""""", and so forth - but is mainly solicitous that the Americans should - for their own sake, fo course - stay at peace. """"""""For"""""""", says the generous reviewer, """"""""As the future of America, to be a glorious future, must be a future of peace, so we would hope that it may be fruitful in all which embellishes and occupies and glorifies peace."""""""" - Most balmy language!'"""
"""I have seen extracts from the new """"""""Nation"""""""". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, """"""""his utter loathing"""""""" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The """"""""Times"""""""" praises the new """"""""Nation"""""""", and calls its first article """"""""a symptom of returning sense in Ireland"""""""".'"""
"""I have seen extracts from the new """"""""Nation"""""""". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, """"""""his utter loathing"""""""" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The """"""""Times"""""""" praises the new """"""""Nation"""""""", and calls its first article """"""""a symptom of returning sense in Ireland"""""""".'"""
"""The Cork """"""""Southern Reporter"""""""" echoes the new """"""""Nation"""""""", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels with Mr Duffy for keeping the independence of Ireland before men's eyes even as an ultimate and far-distant object; he is for """"""""putting it in abeyance"""""""", that is, dropping it altogether... These poor creatures will soon have few readers among the country people.'"""
"""One number of the """"""""Irishman"""""""" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true representative of the old """"""""Nation""""""""; but they have not a proper staff of competent writers for it. The """"""""Irishman"""""""" professes to preach the doctrines of me, J.M. If I am their prophet and guide, I am like to lead my votaries and catechumens on a cruise to the Southern Ocean...'"""
"""Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, """"""""The Triumph for Salamis"""""""", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through """"""""Baby May"""""""" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.'"""
"""Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, """"""""The Triumph for Salamis"""""""", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most tempting, and I mean to take it with me to Bolton Abbey, whither I am on the point of going. But independently of the intrinsic value of the poem, there is the great pleasure of receiving marks of approbation and sympathy from distant and unknown friends; (and such I may call you, may I not?) especially from one, first known to me through """"""""Baby May"""""""" two or three years ago, but every poem of whose has made me feel to know and like him better and better.'"""
"""I [Harriet Martineau] wrote a letter [...] to an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, who was earnest in his endeavours to get workhouses supplied with milk and vegetables, by the labour of the inmates on the land.  To my amazement, I found my letter in the """"""""Times,"""""""" one day while I was at Bolton.'"""
"""The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the """"""""Swift"""""""", and Martin and O'Doherty in the """"""""Elphinstone"""""""", all arrived at Hobart Town about the same time - that they have been allowed to live at large, but each within a limited district, [italics] and no two of them nearer than thirty or forty miles [close italics].' """
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the """"""""Edinburgh Review"""""""" [containing negative review of """"""""Shirley"""""""" by her friend G. H. Lewes] -- it is very brutal and savage.  I am not angry with Lewes -- but I wish in future he would let me alone -- and not write again what makes me feel so cold and sick as I am feeling just now --' """
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's """"""""Life"""""""" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commences is deeply interesting and the letters which follow are scarcely less so ...'  """
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's """"""""Life"""""""" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works """"""""Emma"""""""" -- read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible or suitable -- anything like warmth or enthusiasm ... is utterly out of place in commending these works ...'   """
"""Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began """"""""Shirley"""""""" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...'"""
"""Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded his papers the burliest burglar held his breath for a time. Neptune to proceed firthwith to Van Diemen's Land; on arrival there prisoners to receive (in compensation for the hardships of their long voyage and detention) her Gracious Majesty's """"""""conditional pardon"""""""" - except """"""""the prisoner Mitchel"""""""", whose case, Lord Grey says, being entirely different from all the others, is reserved for separate consideration, but special instructions respecting it are to be forwarded to the governor of Van Diemen's Land. When the reader came to the exception of """"""""the prisoner Mitchel"""""""", he raised his voice, and spoke with impressive solemnity. In a moment all eyes, of officers, sailors, prisoners, soldiers, were fastened on my face; if they read anything but scorn [in italics], then my face belied my heart.'   """
"""Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of pain which, despite its happy ending, it leaves upon one I think it must want some element of peace, but still it is very true, and [italics] very [end italics] suggestive; and a description to the life of the trials of many single women, who waken up some morning to the sudden feeling of the [italics] purposelessness [italics] (is there such a word) of their life. Do read it if it comes yr way.'"""
"""But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled 'Religion versus God'. In which he spoke of the falseness of that religious spirit which led people to disregard those nearest to them, to wound or leave those whom God had placed around and about and dependent on them, in search of some new sphere of action.'"""
"""I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies nearest to thee'.'"""
"""I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - not to speak of the savage inhumanity of refusing victuals to the public services and to the poor sea-beaten convicts... I can find in these papers hardly anything relating to Ireland...'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touched me.  Papa put into my hands a little packet of letters and papers -- telling me that they were Mamma's and that I might read them -- I did read them in a frame of mind I cannot describe ...'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.'"""
"""I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of """"""""the Dinner"""""""", """"""""the Illuminations"""""""", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South African press...'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot """"""""talk to each other as well as to their readers"""""""" ... Dr Knox alone, with his """"""""Race, a Fragment"""""""" (a book which I read with combined interest, amusement and edification) would deliver the voice of a Stentor if any other book ventured to call in question his favourite dogmas.'"""
"""I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written summer 1850) Mrs Opie, latterly, took a somewhat morbid view of the existing state of things, supposing that instead if improving they would become worse. She read the daily papers, in which the same crime is repeatedly brought to notice, week after week, and became possessed with the idea that murders and horrors were multiplied in proportion to the publicity given them.'"""
"""I have been reading """"""""Southey's Life""""""""; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's in actuality, have helped me more than any sermon. Southey's hard work and pecuniary anxieties come home to me'."""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" is now crying out for the 'other book' [Shirley] ...'"""
"""As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: """"""""If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures', showing that we must indeed do this in order to understand at all, and how few do it.'"""
"""We are reading the """"""""Seven Lamps of Architecture"""""""", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chapters only fit to be in German.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the renewal of remembrances brought back the pang of bereavement and occasioned a depression of spirits well nigh intolerable ...'  """
"""Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sorely'"""
"""[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the book. He said she might leave it, and he would see. But he sent them an invitation to tea that night, and towards the end of tea he said, 'Children, Charlotte has been writing a book - and I think it is a better one than I expected.''"""
"""[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the book. He said she might leave it, and he would see. But he sent them an invitation to tea that night, and towards the end of tea he said, 'Children, Charlotte has been writing a book - and I think it is a better one than I expected.''"""
"""After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea of the Seven Lamps'"""
"""from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'"""
"""Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the news.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel that -- truly wise and kind as they are -- they ought to be published ...' """
"""Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] """"""""Life and Correspondence"""""""" arranged by yourself has much deepened the esteem and admiration with whch I previously regarded him.'"""
"""I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'"""
"""a strange book, full of ability, chartism, some blasphemy and infidelity, but on the whole a useful book for the upper classes to read — not the lower'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of """"""""Wuthering Heights"""""""": 'I am ... compelling myself to read it [the novel] over -- for the first time of opening the book since my sister's death.  Its power fills me with renewed admiration ...' """
"""Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more which Robert is finishing'."""
"""Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast that he is """"""""advertising vigorously.""""""""' """
"""I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!'"""
"""Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the suitability of philosophical reading for women."""
"""I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting Infant Regeneration by Baptism.'"""
"""I was captivated by """"""""Margaret Maitland"""""""" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so true or so touching (in the delineation of Scottish character) has appeared since Galt published his """"""""Annals of the Parish"""""""" - and this is purer and deeper than Galt, and even more absolutely and simply true.'"""
"""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 ...' """
"""Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate territory, about twelve miles in length... By the advertisements I see there at present no fewer than five ships at present laid on for California from the two ports, Hobart Town, south, and Launceston, north. There is now a brisk trade between Van Diemen's Land and San Francisco...'"""
"""To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a newspaper called the """"""""Irish Exile"""""""", enclosing me a copy of the last number, and proposing that [italics] I should join him [close italics] in the concern. ...The thing is a hideous absurdity altogether: but I am glad to learn that none of my friends takes anything to do with it; though I suppose it assumes to be a sort of """"""""organ"""""""" for them.'"""
"""See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - that was a nom de plume - but Viles, brother to my old boyhood's guide, philosopher and friend, Edward Viles ...'"""
"""Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...'"""
"""ALLUSION First the Rev. Purcell; then Will J Sharman: thick fall the barbed arrows."""
"""Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.'"""
"""?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, and resolved to write a letter which was published in The Times the day before yesterday and signed ?Carolus???"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading """"""""Shirley""""""""  he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone wrong in the head as she heard him giving vent to roars of laughter as he sat alone -- clapping his hands and stamping on the floor.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading """"""""Shirley""""""""  he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone wrong in the head as she heard him giving vent to roars of laughter as he sat alone -- clapping his hands and stamping on the floor.  He would read all the scenes about the curates aloud to papa ...'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work """"""""Letters on the Nature and Development of Man?"""""""" ...  It is the first exposition of avowed Atheism and Materialism I have ever read ...' """
"""She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'."""
"""She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the last instance'."""
"""Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'."""
"""Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'."""
"""Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'."""
"""Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'."""
"""Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the """"""""house of the Lord"""""""" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction that I had quite made up my mind not to go to London this year ... But  Pride has its fall. I read your invitation and immediately felt a great wish to descend from my stilts.'  """
"""I have got the """"""""Guesses at Truth"""""""", & thank you for them darling'."""
"""Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'."""
"""""""""""Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge.  Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, and in all possible places; up in bed till two or three in the morning, - nothing daunted by once setting the bed on fire.  Greatly indebted was I also to the bookstalls, where I have read a great deal, often folding a leaf in a book, and returning the next day to continue the subject; but sometimes the book was gone, and then great was my grief! When out of a situation, I have often gone without a meal to purchase a book."""""""""""
"""""""""""Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge.  Read, read, read! I used to read at all possible times, and in all possible places; up in bed till two or three in the morning, - nothing daunted by once setting the bed on fire.  Greatly indebted was I also to the bookstalls, where I have read a great deal, often folding a leaf in a book, and returning the next day to continue the subject; but sometimes the book was gone, and then great was my grief! When out of a situation, I have often gone without a meal to purchase a book."""""""""""
"""""""""""Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness.  Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."""""""""""
"""""""""""Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness.  Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."""""""""""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 20 September 1851: 'Of all the articles respecting which you question me -- I have seen none except that notable one in the """"""""Westminister"""""""" on the Emancipation of Women ... When I first read the paper -- I thought it the work of a powerful-minded -- clear-headed woman ... who longed for power and had never felt affection.'"""
"""Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the """"""""Government"""""""" for their indulgence and clemency to the Irish prisoners. Now, the truth is, the exceptions which are made in our case to the ordinary treatment of real convicts, are all exceptions against [italics] us.'"""
"""What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be met with easily'"""
"""I finished this morning Neander's life of Christ. There is much that seems to me rather mystical & very German, obscure at times, & it is obviously very ill-translated, but I think it a very developing book, & full of the best tendencies. I hope I shall not have read it in vain'"""
"""Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What I learned then [...] impelled me to study the great book for myself; and in the spring of 1851 [...] I got the book, and set to work.  I had meantime looked at Lewes's chapter on Comte in Mr. Knight's Weekly Volume, and at Littre's epitome'."""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, I cannot now think it will create any outcry.  You are tender of others: -- you are serious, reverent and gentle.'"""
"""On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myself there was cordial affection, though they were Swedenborgians [Martineau had renounced her Christian religion] [...] [The host's wife] came to my writing-table, to beg the loan of the first volume [of Auguste Comte, which Martineau was translating], when I was going out for a walk. When her daughter and I returned from our walk [...] the whole affair was settled.  She [...] had decided that Comte knew nothing.  I inquired in amazement the grounds for this decision.  She had glanced over the first chapter, and could venture to say that she now """"""""knew all about it.""""""""'"""
"""She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, """"""""Tom Jones"""""""", """"""""Emma"""""""", """"""""A Man of Feeling"""""""", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'."""
"""She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, """"""""Tom Jones"""""""", """"""""Emma"""""""", """"""""A Man of Feeling"""""""", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'."""
"""She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, """"""""Tom Jones"""""""", """"""""Emma"""""""", """"""""A Man of Feeling"""""""", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'."""
"""She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, """"""""Tom Jones"""""""", """"""""Emma"""""""", """"""""A Man of Feeling"""""""", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'."""
"""She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, """"""""Tom Jones"""""""", """"""""Emma"""""""", """"""""A Man of Feeling"""""""", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'."""
"""""""""""Flimsy novel language disgusts"""""""" her; and she """"""""perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common novels one now meets with, like that between roast beef and whipt syllabub"""""""".'"""
"""Did you ever read """"""""Emma"""""""", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] taken up and let down again, and you not being a [italics] Harriet Smith [end italics], your [italics] good genius [end italics] would rather you were not of the number. The present inmate is, I acknowledge, rather of the [italics] Miss Jane Fairfax [end italics] class, and the first I have known so favoured... Oh! how I wish (and have long wished) for the [italics] Mr Knightly [sic, end italics] to come and take the government on his own shoulders, then everything would go on as it ought... which proves me to be something like a romantic old fool.'"""
"""The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gentiles, was intended to signify for us, the world in general'"""
"""Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's """"""""In Memoriam"""""""": 'Like most other people (whom I have met with, at least), I shrank from a whole volume of published griefs; and the more, because I knew Arthur Hallam [...] I began to cut and read last night; and I stopped at last, by a virtuous effort, from the feeling that I ought not to be able to take in so much at once, -- that I ought to spread it out [...] I cannot honestly say that I had anything like so much pleasure from """"""""The Princess.""""""""  There are bits of wisdom and beauty [...] but the impression of the whole is more than odd; -- it is very disagreeable, to my feeling.  It does not follow that I am not glad to know it'."""
"""When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the """"""""Colonial Times"""""""", a well-conducted Hobart Town paper, which warmly urged that meetings should be held, and petitions adopted by all the colonists, both of Van Diemen's Land and Australia, praying for the """"""""pardon"""""""" of all those gentlemen known as the """"""""Irish State Prisoners"""""""". When I saw the article this morning, I immediately wrote a short letter to the """"""""Times"""""""", commencing thus - I suppose - it will be accounted another act of """"""""contempt""""""""...'"""
"""very clever, useful, & searching, but obscure, uphill, & with the great disadvantage of long dialogues with the part of the objector stated by the author who means to confute him. He full however admits the difficulty of all religion — It has made me wish to read the Analogy'. """
"""We breakfasted with Miss Seymour; 36 and, after writing and reading, we started at a quarter to eleven with her and our Highland party.'"""
"""We were startled this morning, at seven o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of the Duke of Wellington's death the day before yesterday, which report, however, we did not at all believe. Would to God that we had been right; and that this day had not been cruelly saddened in the afternoon.'"""
"""[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'"""
"""My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, reading old books, smoking'."""
"""My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, reading old books, smoking'."""
"""Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got very interested in four or 5 chapters, & then the book had to go back'."""
"""There is a novel, """"""""Uncle Tom's Cabin"""""""", which I should not omit to mention, since it made a great sensation when it appeared, and it was the only book of its class brought home by my father. """"""""Uncle Tom"""""""" was read aloud in our little family circle, and it gave us many hours of happy, thrilling and not unwholesome excitement.'"""
"""Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These were the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass.'"""
"""That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read """"""""The White Slave"""""""" and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Thus began a keen, lasting interest in the anti-slavery agitation.'"""
"""?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s """"""""Student?s Manual"""""""" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The """"""""Manual"""""""" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?"""
"""?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s """"""""Student?s Manual"""""""" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The """"""""Manual"""""""" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?"""
"""?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the """"""""London Journal"""""""", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adventures, of mild, romantic stories depicting duels and battles, deeds of daring, hairbreadth escapes by land and sea, the heroes being banditti, pirates, robbers and outlaws. This stirred my blood and excited the youthful imagination. When my father caught me reading it he gently chided me for wasting my time on such rubbishy stuff. Wretched garbage no doubt it was, yet, after all, perhaps the time given to it was not wholly wasted. No useful information, indeed, was gained, but I was acquiring facility in reading and laying hold of the golden key which would open to me the rich treasures of a great literature.?"""
"""?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s """"""""Student?s Manual"""""""" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The """"""""Manual"""""""" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?"""
"""Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'"""
"""Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""", in manuscript by her publishers: 'It has been a great delight to me to read Mr Thackeray's manuscript ... you must permit me ... to thank you for a pleasure so rare and special ... In the first half of the work what chiefly struck me was the wonderful manner in which the author throws himself into the spirit and letter of the times wherof he treats ... As usual -- he is unjust to women ...Many other things I noticed that -- for my part -- grieved and esxasperated me as I read -- but then again came passages so deeply thought -- so tenderly felt -- one could not help forgiving and admiring.' """
"""O! """"""""Esmond""""""""! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot <italics>now</italics> read """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". But the publisher sent me """"""""Esmond""""""""; and I expect to read it as long as I live. """"""""Villette"""""""". I suppose you feel with the rest of us ; - that it is <italics>marvellously</italics> powerful, but grievously morbid and not a little coarse.'"""
"""O! """"""""Esmond""""""""! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot <italics>now</italics> read """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""". But the publisher sent me """"""""Esmond""""""""; and I expect to read it as long as I live. """"""""Villette"""""""". I suppose you feel with the rest of us ; - that it is <italics>marvellously</italics> powerful, but grievously morbid and not a little coarse.'"""
"""I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjective slough as she is doing. - """"""""Ruth"""""""" won't help us. All strewn with beauties as it is, it is sadly feeble and <italics>wrong</italics>, I think. Amidst much wrong, I think making Mr Benson such a nicompoop is fatal. What a beautiful """"""""Cranford"""""""" Mrs Gaskell has given us again!'"""
"""I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjective slough as she is doing. - """"""""Ruth"""""""" won't help us. All strewn with beauties as it is, it is sadly feeble and <italics>wrong</italics>, I think. Amidst much wrong, I think making Mr Benson such a nicompoop is fatal. What a beautiful """"""""Cranford"""""""" Mrs Gaskell has given us again!'"""
"""First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to the marginal readings and interpretations of names than I have attempted yet'"""
"""Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they both suffered.'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The """"""""Lectures"""""""" arrived safely; I have read them through twice.  They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at the Fielding lecture ... That Thackeray was wrong in his way of treating Fielding's character and vices -- my conscience told me.  After reading that lecture -- I trebly feel that he was wrong ...'"""
"""Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Germans, throwing heaps of muscles together and calling them men, and thinking a mass of vernicular attitudes composition.'"""
"""In the face of such topics, how can I grovel any longer? Do I not feel the thraldom & restlessness of worldly ambitions… Lord, save me from double-mindedness'"""
"""Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'"""
"""Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'"""
"""Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensive from affectation' 'deep regret that we and all admirers of Mary Barton must feel at the author's loss of reputation' 'Thoroughly commonplace' etc., etc. I don't know of a newspaper which has praised it but the Examiner, wh. was bound to for Chapman's sake - and that's [italics] that [end italics] and be hanged to it.'"""
"""Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensive from affectation' 'deep regret that we and all admirers of Mary Barton must feel at the author's loss of reputation' 'Thoroughly commonplace' etc., etc. I don't know of a newspaper which has praised it but the Examiner, wh. was bound to for Chapman's sake - and that's [italics] that [end italics] and be hanged to it.'"""
"""a greater mixture of very good & very bad that I remember to have read &mdash; great occasional beauty of thought & language, greater still in the delineation of character, occasional interest of plot, but infinite mysticism & obscurity, stiffness & vulgarity of dialogue'"""
"""she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and asked me if I knew you had written it. I wish you could have heard how I backed away from the veiled prophet, and how vehemently I disclaimed ever even having conjectured anything about any article in the Examiner'."""
"""she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and asked me if I knew you had written it. I wish you could have heard how I backed away from the veiled prophet, and how vehemently I disclaimed ever even having conjectured anything about any article in the Examiner'."""
"""She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made on Villette, and this has been preying on Miss Bronte's mind as she says everything does prey on it, in the solitude in which she lives'."""
"""At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: """"""""Works journal till 8, then Euclid till 9.""""""""'"""
"""Some days we [Tennyson children] went flower-hunting, and on our return home, if the flower was unknown, he [Alfred Tennyson] would say, """"""""Bring me my Baxter's Flowering Plants,"""""""" to look it out for us.'"""
"""The """"""""North British Review""""""""had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of """"""""Ruth"""""""" in it. Who the deuce could have written it? It is so truly religious, it makes me swear with delight. I think it is one of the Christian Socialists, but I can't make out which. I must make Will find out'."""
"""Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all that is yet published of the autobiographical life of Perthes; no, I see it is not [italics] all [end italics] translated - they have stopped, when we novelists do - at the end of the adventures, & when Perthes is re-instated in his business, & in a fair way of doing well for himself. You probably know enough of his history &c to enable you in some measure to judge for yourself of the kind of book it is. A young German bourgeois, who makes his own way from nothing to a station of great wealth & influence both commercial & political: (he was a bookseller, &c) the personal story is very interesting & includes an account of the French occupation of Hamburgh &c.'"""
"""Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life.  Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue.  I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds seems to refresh me.'"""
"""Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression so much that I was thoroughly glad to see how people came forwards to set her up in her scheme.'"""
"""Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'"""
"""The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I  put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that is morbid [italics] into [end italics] her writing, and [italics] out [end italics] of her life; and my books are so far better than I am that I often feel ashamed of having written them and as if I were a hypocrite. However I was not going to write of myself but of Villette. I don't agree with you that {it is} one cannot forget that it is a 'written book'. My interpretation of it is this. I believe it to be a very correct account of one part of her life; which is very vivid & distinct in her remembrance, with all the feelings that were called out at that period, forcibly present in her mind whenever she recurs to the recollection of it. I imagine she [italics] could [end italics] not describe it {with} in the manner in which she would pass through it [italics] now [end italics], as her present self; but in looking back upon it all the passions & suffering, & deep despondency of that old time come back upon her. Some of this notion of mine is founded entirely on imagination; but some of it rests on the fact that many times over I recognized incidents of which she had told me as connected with that visit to Brussels. Whatever truth there may be in this conjecture of mine there can be no doubt that the book is wonderfully clever; that it reveals depths in her mind, aye and in her [italics] heart [end italics] too which I doubt if ever any one has fathomed.'"""
"""I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pamphlet on the Condition and Education of English children as compared with Germans; I believe his address was signed at the end of the preface, but this book was borrowed from me as soon as I had read it, & has not yet been returned'."""
""""""""""" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thanks, and love to you, excellent Antoninus. L. H. Feb. 7th 1853.  His second regular perusal.'""""""""  """
"""Very clear & convincing &mdash; not indeed to be answered. O that my faith may grow more settled as my devotion becomes more warm'"""
"""Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- reluctance to come in the way of """"""""Ruth"""""""".  Not that I think she -- (bless her very sweet face!  I have already devoured vol.1st) would suffer from contact with """"""""Villette"""""""" ...'"""
"""Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'."""
"""In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'"""
"""In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'"""
"""It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the """"""""Christian Year"""""""", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I had never read before.'"""
"""I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'"""
"""I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'."""
"""Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'."""
"""Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'."""
"""Read Laocoon'."""
"""All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. """"""""Senior Captain Duckworth dead"""""""". """"""""Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers and men"""""""". That is all we know at present'."""
"""Ruskin's """"""""Lectures on Architecture and Painting"""""""" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exaggerated tirades against Romanism, but they are full of wonderful thought, and an intense feeling for truth, which must have an effect, one would think, upon those who read, or who have heard them'."""
"""Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'."""
"""Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'."""
"""Began to read Egmont after dinner, then """"""""The Hoggarty Diamond"""""""".'"""
"""Began to read Egmont after dinner, then """"""""The Hoggarty Diamond"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wilhelm Meister'."""
"""Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; and turn it over, & peep in, and read a sentence and shut it up to think over it's graceful suggestive wisdom in something of the 'gourmet' spirit of a child with an eatable dainty; which child, if it have the proper artistic sensuality of childhood, first looks it's cake over to appreciate the full promise of it's appearance, - next, snuffs up it's fragrance, - and gets to a fair & complete mouth-watering before it plunges into the first [italics] bite [end italics]. I do like your book. I liked it before, - I like it better now - it is like looking into deep clear water, - down below at every instant of prolonged gaze, one sees some fresh beauty or treasure of clear white pebble, or little shady nooks for fish to lurk in, or delicate water weds. Thank you for it. I do value it'"""
"""Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'."""
"""Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'."""
"""I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully just at this time.'"""
"""Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Gegenstuck to """"""""Der Gott und die Bayadere"""""""". He has struck out 150 lines which he believes to be interpolated and the connection of the poem appears perfect'."""
"""Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'."""
"""I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'."""
"""Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, """"""""Walk before me, and be thou perfect"""""""". It means """"""""sincere"""""""" in marginal reading.'"""
"""Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is well adapted to rouse an interest both in the classics and in the study of art'."""
"""On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote """"""""The Charge of the Light Brigade"""""""" in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occured the phrase """"""""some one had blundered,"""""""" and this was the origin of the meter of his poem.' """
"""Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: """"""""Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..."""""""""""
"""We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of """"""""Der Fliegende Holander"""""""" by the way.'"""
"""I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, long before I had the slightest suspicion it was yours; & more than suspicion I have not had till now'."""
"""Read aloud Heine's """"""""Gotter im Exil"""""""" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'."""
"""Read aloud Heine's """"""""Gotter im Exil"""""""" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'."""
"""Read aloud Heine's """"""""Gotter im Exil"""""""" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'."""
"""I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the same time as my little confession of having thought his lectures worthy of your reading. I have been very much interested by your remarks which {are} will be of course still more interesting to one capable of entering into their full value'."""
"""Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighley was true &c. Fancy him, an Irish curate, loving her even then, reading that beginning of Shirley!'"""
"""I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which I like exceedingly. What is the name of the man, again?'"""
"""Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'"""
"""Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'"""
"""Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear - sublimely powerful!'"""
"""Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'"""
"""Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing'"""
"""I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'"""
"""Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'."""
"""G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine style of this play and its vigorous moderation compared with Romeo and Juliet'."""
"""The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'"""
"""Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'."""
"""read Heine's """"""""Allemagne"""""""" in the German edition'."""
"""I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the """"""""Burgergeneral"""""""", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'"""
"""I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the """"""""Burgergeneral"""""""", and chatted with Mr M. again in the evening.'"""
"""She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'."""
"""Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in """"""""Dichtung und Warheit"""""""". Continued aloud Heine's """"""""Salon"""""""". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'."""
"""Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in """"""""Dichtung und Warheit"""""""". Continued aloud Heine's """"""""Salon"""""""". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'."""
"""Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in """"""""Dichtung und Warheit"""""""". Continued aloud Heine's """"""""Salon"""""""". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare. Twaddling in the extreme'."""
"""'Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'."""
"""'Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'."""
"""read some of Wilkinson's """"""""Egypt"""""""".'"""
"""I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'."""
"""Began the Italianische Reise.'"""
"""Suddenly, he gave a sort of cry, and read out the opening sentences from the """"""""Times"""""""" announcing a battle in the valley of the Alma...both he and my mother seemed deeply excited. He broke off his reading when the fact of the decisive victory was assured, and he and my mother sank simultaneously on their knees...'"""
"""Began Stahr's """"""""Torso""""""""... G read """"""""Coriolanus"""""""". I read some of """"""""Stahr"""""""" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'"""
"""Began Stahr's """"""""Torso""""""""... G read """"""""Coriolanus"""""""". I read some of """"""""Stahr"""""""" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'"""
"""Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. """"""""It is to me anything,"""""""" he writes, """"""""but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun.""""""""' """
"""Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. """"""""It is to me anything,"""""""" he writes, """"""""but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun.""""""""' """
"""Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. """"""""It is to me anything,"""""""" he writes, """"""""but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun.""""""""' """
"""Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the character is in the main true was shown to me strangely by the fact that the gentleman who gave me the idea of it came to me after he had read """"""""Katherine Ashton"""""""" and owned that Colonel Forbes resembled himself, though no one else ever suggested the likeness.'"""
"""We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'"""
"""G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'"""
"""Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'"""
"""Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'"""
"""I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'."""
"""G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'."""
"""Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'."""
"""Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile.  There was something unusual in his manner,something softer than usual in his tone and eye, but I not what it proceeded from, and chattted gaily, leading the conversation - on Goethe, on women's dresses'"""
"""went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took """"""""Iphigenia"""""""" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of """"""""Richard the 3rd"""""""" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of """"""""Iphigenia""""""""'."""
"""went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took """"""""Iphigenia"""""""" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of """"""""Richard the 3rd"""""""" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of """"""""Iphigenia""""""""'."""
"""went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took """"""""Iphigenia"""""""" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of """"""""Richard the 3rd"""""""" and the scene with Lady Anne. Then Shylock, which G. afterwards read... Finished 1st act of """"""""Iphigenia""""""""'."""
"""Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'"""
"""Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'"""
"""Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'"""
"""I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal.  Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language.  It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary.  What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics! """
"""I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal.  Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language.  It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary.  What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics! """
"""I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal.  Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language.  It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary.  What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics! """
"""I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal.  Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language.  It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary.  What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics! """
"""Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud """"""""Donna Clara"""""""" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'."""
"""Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the """"""""Contemporary Literature""""""""'"""
"""Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the """"""""Contemporary Literature""""""""'"""
"""Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'"""
"""I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!'"""
"""Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'"""
"""Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'"""
"""The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'"""
"""The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'"""
"""Read Henry V and Henry VIII'."""
"""Read Henry V and Henry VIII'."""
"""On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had """"""""finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'"""""""""""
"""Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.'"""
"""Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very light reading I returned home.'"""
"""We went in the evening to Gruppe's. He read to us parts ofa poem """"""""Ferdusi"""""""" still in M.S. which is to be read to the King.'"""
"""The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.'"""
"""Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These were the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass.'"""
"""Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'"""
"""Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'"""
"""Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'"""
"""Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'."""
"""Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'."""
"""Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'."""
"""We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's """"""""History of Inductive Sciences"""""""", """"""""the Odyssey"""""""" and occasionally Heine's """"""""Reisebilder"""""""". I began the second Book of """"""""the Iliad"""""""" in Greek this morning'."""
"""Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'."""
"""Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'."""
"""Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'"""
"""Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'."""
"""Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'."""
"""I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself  I gave expression to the author's nicest sentiments.  I was extremely pleased with myself & unanimously rewarded my exertions with a glass of gin & water and the Hardest manilla I could find my cigar case, after which I tried on the smoking cap Emma gave me on my birthday, looked in the glass & wondered I was not more distinguished then went to bed.'"""
"""The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.'"""
"""I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I have read them hastily over and I like the tone of them very much; it is curious how much the spirit in which she writes varies according to the correspondent whom she was addressing, I imagine. I like the series of letters which you have sent better than any other excepting one that I have seen. The subjects too are very interesting; how beautifully she speaks (for instance) of her wanderings on the moor after her sister's death.'"""
"""Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'."""
"""read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'."""
"""The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants'"""
"""15 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has often told the Matron that until she came to this Refuge she never had opened a Bible: she now tells her in a letter that she reads the scriptures daily, and will never go to a Priest again.'"""
"""Read the papers at the Mechanics.'"""
"""as soon as he was gone I finished  Cigar read a few Pages of """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" & went to bed.'"""
"""Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's.  A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'"""
"""I read Shakspeare's (sic) """"""""Passionate Pilgrim"""""""" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G. who has written in his Goethe that Shakspeare has left no line in praise of a contemporary. [inserted later: (G. writes that this sonnet is Barnwell's)]'"""
"""After dinner read """"""""Two Gentlemen of Verona"""""""" and some of the """"""""Sonnets"""""""". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: """"""""All that was mine in Silvia I give the""""""""! - Silvia standing by'."""
"""After dinner read """"""""Two Gentlemen of Verona"""""""" and some of the """"""""Sonnets"""""""". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging pardon where he has no longer any hope of gaining his ends, says: """"""""All that was mine in Silvia I give the""""""""! - Silvia standing by'."""
"""Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as she cannot bear that you should remain any longer unthanked for your most interesting account of Miss Anne Bronte's death at Scarborough, which she has had much peasure in reading, and which she hopes you will allow her to make use of in the Memoir.'"""
"""She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are almost more beautiful than any others of Miss Bronte's that she has seen.'"""
"""Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'."""
"""Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of """"""""Tempest""""""""'"""
"""In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrived by the """"""""Blue Jacket"""""""".'"""
"""After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was walking across the adjacent apartment & then that some heavy wagon was rumbling along the street. I turned round & soon went to sleep after I found nothing was the matter & on seeing the next morning's newspaper found the shock of an earthquake reported.'"""
"""Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'"""
"""Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work """"""""The Life of a Showman"""""""" the critic shows no mercy & really the book is such an impudent acknowledgement of chicanery & deception that it richly deserves the castigation it receives, particularly as the Author after glorying in the possession of a large fortune made by gulling the public with a manufactured mermaid & even more unpardonable trickeries snuffles cant & professes piety.'"""
"""Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'"""
"""Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's """"""""Ein Jahr in Italien"""""""". The description of Florence excellent'."""
"""Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's """"""""Ein Jahr in Italien"""""""". The description of Florence excellent'."""
"""Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but found it unsatisfactory. Read some of Stahr's """"""""Ein Jahr in Italien"""""""". The description of Florence excellent'."""
"""Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the day.'"""
"""Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'"""
"""Read the wondrously beautiful """"""""Romische Elegien"""""""" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'."""
"""Read the wondrously beautiful """"""""Romische Elegien"""""""" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'."""
"""Read the wondrously beautiful """"""""Romische Elegien"""""""" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'."""
"""In the evening... read the """"""""Zueignung"""""""" to the """"""""Gedichte"""""""" and several of the Ballads'."""
"""Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'."""
"""Read """"""""Leader"""""""" and Scherr'."""
"""Spent a good deal of to day in reading """"""""The Heir at Law"""""""" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have expressed an opinion that it is very suitable.'"""
"""Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'"""
"""Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institution & then went to the Hall of the Criterion Hotel where there is a Promenade Concert nightly.'"""
"""Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'"""
"""Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'"""
"""Headache. Read """"""""Lucrezia Floriani"""""""". We are reading White's """"""""History of Selborne"""""""" in the evening'."""
"""Read """"""""Macbeth"""""""".'"""
"""Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all was right in the Gaol & then went to bed.'"""
"""Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.'"""
"""Read """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""'"""
"""Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'."""
"""Read the """"""""Leader"""""""" and the """"""""Nibelungen Lied""""""""'"""
"""Read """"""""Athenaeum""""""""'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Papers.'"""
"""From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to common'"""
"""In February [1855] my father """"""""translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women.""""""""' """
"""In February [1855] my father """"""""translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women.""""""""' """
"""In February [1855] my father """"""""translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women.""""""""' """
"""From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read """"""""Maud"""""""" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28th).'"""
"""Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'."""
"""The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (very clever) criticism on Thackeray, man and writings.'"""
"""Read the Shaving of Shagpat'."""
"""G. read Richard III'."""
"""And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the """"""""Penny Cyclopaedia""""""""'."""
"""Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure because it is so sincere and judicious that I value it; and your fault-finding does me good because it always makes me [italics] think [end italics]'"""
"""Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'"""
"""...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of course a fragment, but I read it, kneeling on the bare floor, with indescribable rapture.' [and more for a paragraph..]"""
"""With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle market-place, to light upon some off volumes of Milton?s prose works, which I bought for a few shillings. I read them all ? politics, theology, travels, with touches of autobiography- nothing came amiss to my voracious appetite. Over and over again did I read the Areopagitica, ?that sublime treatise? which, Macaulay tells us, ?every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as frontlets between his eyes?.?"""
"""With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle market-place, to light upon some off volumes of Milton?s prose works, which I bought for a few shillings. I read them all ? politics, theology, travels, with touches of autobiography- nothing came amiss to my voracious appetite. Over and over again did I read the Areopagitica, ?that sublime treatise? which, Macaulay tells us, ?every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as frontlets between his eyes?.?"""
"""Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Linnean System and an Introduction to the Study of Botany."""
"""Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'"""
"""in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood; however he read 'Little-Dorrit' & I read it over his shoulder. Oh Polly! he was such a slow reader, you'll sympathise, Meta won't, my impatience at his never getting to the bottom of the page so we only got to the end of the page.  We  only read the first two chapters, so I never found out who 'Little Dorrit' is [Gaskell then summarises what happens in these chapters] By this time we got to Knutsford, & my friend got out, & now that I saw him no longer in profile but full-faced I recognized Mr Seymour, & was sorry I had not moved'."""
"""Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illiterate costermongers when cheap serials are read to them, comments on the story lines they like, characters and illustrations; reading of G.W.M. Reynolds's """"""""Mysteries"""""""" and Edward Lloyd's penny bloods"""
"""Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to know how Miss Bronte can have become acquainted with the books that she mentions to you. From Keighley Mama knows she could get novels but where such standard works as Miss Bronte refers to in her letters were obtained is a puzzle to Mama. At Haworth Mama says she did not see many books except quite new ones that had been given to Miss Bronte since she became famous. If you would kindly let her know all you know.'"""
"""[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] """"""""copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'""""""""'"""
"""[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] """"""""copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'""""""""'"""
"""Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'"""
"""In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'."""
"""In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'."""
"""Mr Corrie the Presbyterian minister read prayers to & addressed the prisoners.'"""
"""After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day & had a chat with him.'"""
"""Began """"""""Reineke Fuchs""""""""'"""
"""In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'."""
"""After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'"""
"""Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for  an hour or so then came back and got to bed before ten o clock.'"""
"""Began Schrader's German Mythology'"""
"""G. read some of """"""""Twelfth Night"""""""", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'"""
"""Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we drank Brandy and Water and read Falstaff till one o clock or past.'"""
"""Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's """"""""My Novel"""""""", got in fact so excited with the story that I became unable quietly to read on regularly, but leaving the details for another time gloated over the plot, and the Finish.'"""
"""Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quarters to see the paper, and got home about eleven o clock.'"""
"""I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impression on me to be different from what it is, that she was one to study the path of duty well, and, having ascertained what it was right to do, to follow out her idea strictly. They gave me a very beautiful idea of her character'."""
"""The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'"""
"""Read Goethe's """"""""Maxims in the Wanderjahre"""""""". Then we compared several scenes of """"""""Hamlet"""""""" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'"""
"""Read Goethe's """"""""Maxims in the Wanderjahre"""""""". Then we compared several scenes of """"""""Hamlet"""""""" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespeare's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'"""
"""Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admirably done but Shakespear's strong concrete language is almost always weakened'"""
"""In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr Palmer on the Education of the Masses.'"""
"""Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.'"""
"""The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon the Mayor, attributing his late Ball as a bait thrown to catch the mayoralty again for the next year.'"""
"""Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. """"""""Genesis of Science"""""""". Gibbon.'"""
"""I read for half an hour at the Mechanics.  This was the first part of the evening.'"""
"""Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'."""
"""I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mrs Poole.'"""
"""Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'."""
"""Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'."""
"""Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'."""
"""Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'."""
"""Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed very early.'"""
"""The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred against me in its last Issue & gave me credit for benevolent motives in making the Arrest.'"""
"""Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the """"""""Journal pour tous"""""""", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'"""
"""The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being formed.'"""
"""Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'"""
"""I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages not altogether amounting to a page, - would do away with. I don't agree with Sir James that 'the publication of this book would add to her literary fame' - I think it inferior to all her published works - but I think it a very curious link in her literary history, as showing the [italics] promise [end italics] of much that was afterwards realized.'"""
"""Reading """"""""La Petite Fadette"""""""" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and passion of George Sand among French writers, and her sense of goodness among general thinkers.'"""
"""Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe.  In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one of the Melbourne papers which contained the news of the Arrival of the Red Jacket.  It was only published a short time before the Mail closed, so I thought the Papers here would not have it. They had however but yet I gave it to Nixon the Editor of The Constitution as a pledge silent but doubtless intended that I should not spoil the Sale of the Extraordinary which he intended to publish by showing it to any more people.  The Conductors of the other Paper heard of my having news and came eagerly to see what I had got & were very crestfallen when I told them what had become of my """"""""Paper"""""""".'"""
"""The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'"""
"""Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'"""
"""Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'"""
"""The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a majority of upwards of [?] over his opponents.'"""
"""Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'"""
"""During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson.  He had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'"""
"""Reading """"""""Le peche de M. Antoine"""""""", diluted and romantic; not good.'"""
"""Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' """
"""Read Channing on Napoleon'"""
"""This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: """"""""Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for the examination for the Gregory Scholarship Summer 1856"""""""". """
"""I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of """"""""Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life"""""""", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and """"""""Hypatia"""""""" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of """"""""Hero Worship"""""""", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of """"""""The Times"""""""" every evening. """"""""Hypatia"""""""" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that """"""""Pelagia"""""""" wins our affection much more than """"""""Hypatia"""""""".'"""
"""I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of """"""""Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life"""""""", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and """"""""Hypatia"""""""" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of """"""""Hero Worship"""""""", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of """"""""The Times"""""""" every evening. """"""""Hypatia"""""""" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that """"""""Pelagia"""""""" wins our affection much more than """"""""Hypatia"""""""".'"""
"""I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of """"""""Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life"""""""", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and """"""""Hypatia"""""""" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of """"""""Hero Worship"""""""", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of """"""""The Times"""""""" every evening. """"""""Hypatia"""""""" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that """"""""Pelagia"""""""" wins our affection much more than """"""""Hypatia"""""""".'"""
"""I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of """"""""Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life"""""""", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and """"""""Hypatia"""""""" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of """"""""Hero Worship"""""""", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of """"""""The Times"""""""" every evening. """"""""Hypatia"""""""" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that """"""""Pelagia"""""""" wins our affection much more than """"""""Hypatia"""""""".'"""
"""I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of """"""""Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life"""""""", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and """"""""Hypatia"""""""" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of """"""""Hero Worship"""""""", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of """"""""The Times"""""""" every evening. """"""""Hypatia"""""""" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that """"""""Pelagia"""""""" wins our affection much more than """"""""Hypatia"""""""".'"""
"""I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper marks, which I found had not been taken out of the book, before it was packed up, will, in a small degree, show you how much I have had to refer to in it'. """
"""The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesting as a story. And yet there are parts one would not lose - a lovely female character - & glimpses of home & family life in the latter portion of the tale. - But oh! I wish Mr Nicholls wd have altered more!'"""
"""Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'"""
"""Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the """"""""Peche"""""""" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of the cane and shouting at his work"""""""""""
"""came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'"""
"""Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'"""
"""Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy.  The engravings are very creditably executed, but there is an apparent want of originality throughout.  The best Jokes being but imitations of English sallies disguised in Colonial vernacular.'"""
"""Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him """"""""Suffolk's"""""""" Bible & told him a little about the character of the individual, he seemed very interested.'"""
"""Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'"""
"""Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this evening.'"""
"""Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'"""
"""[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing case, full of paper books of different sizes, from the one I enclose upwards to the full 1/2 sheet size, but all in this indescribably fine writing. - Mr Gaskell says they would make more than 50 vols of print, - but they are the wildest & most incoherent things, as far as we have examined them, [italics] all [end italics] purporting to be written, or addressed to some member of the Wellesley family. They give one the idea of creative power carried to the verge of insanity. Just lately Mr M Milnes gave me some MS. of Blake's, the painters to read, - & the two MSS (his & C.B.'s) are curiously alike. But what I want to know is if a photograph could be taken to give some idea of the finness of the writing'."""
"""[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing case, full of paper books of different sizes, from the one I enclose upwards to the full 1/2 sheet size, but all in this indescribably fine writing. - Mr Gaskell says they would make more than 50 vols of print, - but they are the wildest & most incoherent things, as far as we have examined them, [italics] all [end italics] purporting to be written, or addressed to some member of the Wellesley family. They give one the idea of creative power carried to the verge of insanity. Just lately Mr M Milnes gave me some MS. of Blake's, the painters to read, - & the two MSS (his & C.B.'s) are curiously alike. But what I want to know is if a photograph could be taken to give some idea of the finness of the writing'."""
"""Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'"""
"""Reading """"""""Francois le Champi"""""""" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and la petite Marie, are enough to justify all Mrs Browning's love of George Sand.'"""
"""Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'"""
"""Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild.  The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garrick Club.  It appears to have been as successful as any of the former performances and to have been honored by a large audience.'"""
"""In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'"""
"""Went for a short stroll.  Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street.  Called at Reed's and looked over the """"""""Age"""""""" then home to breakfast.'"""
"""Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'."""
"""Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'"""
"""We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten.  Came home then & after reading a short time went to bed.'"""
"""Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not help wishing I had been at the performance.'"""
"""Read """"""""La dame aux cheveux gris"""""""" all the evening to my mother.'"""
"""I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's """"""""Thoughts onthe Apocalypse"""""""".'"""
"""I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's """"""""Thoughts on the Apocalypse"""""""".'"""
"""I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called """"""""The Cameronian's Dream"""""""" and it had been written by a certain James Hyslop...' [ more for 2 paras]"""
"""During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the """"""""Horae Apocalypticae"""""""" of a Mr. Elliott. This was written, I think in a less disagreeable style, and certainly it was less opaquely obscure to me...'"""
"""I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?'"""
"""Spent the evening at home reading """"""""Night & Morning"""""""".'"""
"""There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them. I did it glibly , like a machine, but the sight of Jukes's volumes became an abomination to me, and I never formed the outline of a notion what they were about.'"""
"""In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel in """"""""The Daisy Chain"""""""". Great interest was expressed by her and her mother in Mrs Mozley (Cardinal Newman's sister), the author of a tale called the """"""""Fairy Bower"""""""", which had appeared shortly before. It was the precursor of the many tales, illustrative of the Oxford teaching, that were written at this period, and which were hailed with special satisfaction by young people, who turned fom the texts, and prayers, and hymns, which Mrs Sherwood had introduced into her stories, and yet needed something higher in tone than Miss Edgeworth's morality'."""
"""Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'"""
"""In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - """"""""The Three Devils"""""""" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'."""
"""Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the """"""""Noctis Ambrosianae"""""""" which I purchased to day.'"""
"""Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.'"""
"""finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'."""
"""This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ general(ly) induces I was surprised into emotion by the sudden sight of my own name & on reading the Paragraph in which the phenomenon occurred I found myself abused most royally.  I was charged with rushing out of my Hole one night & violently siezing some respectable well dressed individual then ferociously dragging him to the Lock Up having him confined all night & then failing to produce any charge before the Magistrate the next morning.'"""
"""In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy.  Returned read while & then went to bed.'"""
"""Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'"""
"""Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicate fancy and wit; too much of rosebowers and crystal palaces, prettily heaped together but without detail of parts or bearing on the story. On the whole, I am disappointed in him. The ugly duck is perfect; the """"""""fat needle"""""""" very good. Nearly all the others, too much of opera nymph in them, or of pure ugliness and painfulness - the princess maing the nettle-shirts, and the """"""""grand Klaus"""""""" killing his nurse, and many other such pieces, quite spoiling the tone of the book for me.'"""
"""I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of intelligence, which come, with their pleasant [italics] London-taste [end italics], most acceptably into my Manchester life. These verses in particular are extremely humorous & characteristic'."""
"""I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life, - & I thought if he were again brought before the public, what would he think of me? [Gaskell goes on to say that her fears were not fulfilled] so on that ground there would be no objection to publishing it. I don't think it will add to her reputation, - the interest will arise from its being the work of so remarkable a mind. It is an autobiography of a man the English Professor at a Brussels school, - there are one or two remarkable portraits - the most charming woman  she ever drew, and a glimpse of that woman as a mother - very lovely; otherwise little or no story; & disfigured by more coarseness - & profanity in quoting texts of Scripture disagreeably than in any of her other works.'"""
""".. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'"""
"""I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the """"""""Westminster"""""""", and one or two articles in the """"""""National"""""""". Reading to myself Harvey's """"""""Sea-side Book"""""""", and """"""""The Lover's Seat"""""""".'"""
"""I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the """"""""Westminster"""""""", and one or two articles in the """"""""National"""""""". Reading to myself Harvey's """"""""Sea-side Book"""""""", and """"""""The Lover's Seat"""""""".'"""
"""I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the """"""""Westminster"""""""", and one or two articles in the """"""""National"""""""". Reading to myself Harvey's """"""""Sea-side Book"""""""", and """"""""The Lover's Seat"""""""".'"""
"""I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the """"""""Westminster"""""""", and one or two articles in the """"""""National"""""""". Reading to myself Harvey's """"""""Sea-side Book"""""""", and """"""""The Lover's Seat"""""""".'"""
"""I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the """"""""Westminster"""""""", and one or two articles in the """"""""National"""""""". Reading to myself Harvey's """"""""Sea-side Book"""""""", and """"""""The Lover's Seat"""""""".'"""
"""have now taken up Quatrefages again.'"""
"""I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'."""
"""I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'."""
"""In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - """"""""The Three Devils"""""""" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'."""
"""In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - """"""""The Three Devils"""""""" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'."""
"""Began the """"""""Ajax"""""""" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's """"""""History of the Peace.""""""""'"""
"""Began the """"""""Ajax"""""""" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's """"""""History of the Peace.""""""""'"""
"""Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.'"""
"""there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the """"""""Newcomes"""""""" by Thackeray """"""""Stuart of Dunleath"""""""" by Mrs Norton & """"""""Coningsby"""""""" by Disraeli'"""
"""there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the """"""""Newcomes"""""""" by Thackeray """"""""Stuart of Dunleath"""""""" by Mrs Norton & """"""""Coningsby"""""""" by Disraeli'"""
"""there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the """"""""Newcomes"""""""" by Thackeray """"""""Stuart of Dunleath"""""""" by Mrs Norton & """"""""Coningsby"""""""" by Disraeli'"""
"""I am reading the """"""""English humourists"""""""" by Thackeray'"""
"""read """"""""Emma"""""""" in the evening.'"""
"""Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on """"""""Pneumatics"""""""" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'"""
"""Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on """"""""Pneumatics"""""""" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'"""
"""Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'"""
"""Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of Curran.'"""
"""began Aeschlyus - """"""""Agamemnon""""""""'."""
"""Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting it'"""
"""In the forenoon read Liardets book on Seamanship, so as to prepare myself for the duties of 1st Lieut which I expect will only come too soon.'"""
"""Reading Capn Boyds book on seamanship, there is a great deal to be picked up from it, but of course some things there are, in which a variety of opinions exist, especially as regarding discipline and the management of large bodies of men.'"""
"""Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading """"""""History of Thirty Years' Peace"""""""" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'."""
"""Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading """"""""History of Thirty Years' Peace"""""""" and Beranger. Throughly disappointed in Beranger'."""
"""learnt some French from """"""""Allendorff"""""""" read some of """"""""La petite Fadette"""""""" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz """"""""History of Greece"""""""", it all helps to pass away the time.'"""
"""learnt some French from """"""""Allendorff"""""""" read some of """"""""La petite Fadette"""""""" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz """"""""History of Greece"""""""", it all helps to pass away the time.'"""
"""I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'."""
"""I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'."""
"""I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q. Review looks good too, and I hit upon a lively paper describing the Overland journey, which fell in well with the direction of my curiosity'."""
"""I have begun Draper's """"""""Physiology"""""""", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'."""
"""The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home.  I read a little smoked a little drank a little thought a little and then saw all was right in the Gaol and went to bed.'"""
"""Stopped at home & read """"""""The Newcomers"""""""" until nearly mid-night.'"""
"""I began to read Miss Catlow's """"""""Botany"""""""".'"""
"""Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went to bed.'"""
"""read G. the three first chapters of """"""""Janet's Repentance"""""""".'"""
"""Finished the """"""""Epicurean"""""""" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart """"""""Paradise & the Peri""""""""'"""
"""Finished the """"""""Epicurean"""""""" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart """"""""Paradise & the Peri""""""""' """
"""Finished the """"""""Epicurean"""""""" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able to stay up till late - learning by heart """"""""Paradise & the Peri""""""""'"""
"""we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much interest as I ought to do, in all the out-of-the-way names & places, none of which give me any distinct idea'."""
"""we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much interest as I ought to do, in all the out-of-the-way names & places, none of which give me any distinct idea'."""
"""I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name'"""
"""Read a little of """"""""Paradise lost""""""""'"""
"""I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'"""
"""People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'"""
"""Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'"""
"""In the evening we all went over to the Camerons.  Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt and Rossetti and one or two whose names I did not gather.  Lear was there also and sang a great many of his compositions to Tennyson's words.  They are mostly very pretty things but he has no voice, and, on the whole, it is rather painful to listen to him.  When they were all gone Tennyson read us his own Morte d'Arthur, and that really was a pleasure.  It is a poem I have always been fond of.'"""
"""Finished Buckle's """"""""History of Civilization in England"""""""" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'"""
"""Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'"""
"""I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like my book, because I had never received your usual letter of criticism; and in the second, it was the one sweet little drop of honey that the postman had brought me for some time, as, on the average, I had been receiving three letters a day for above a fortnight, finding great fault with me (to use a [italics] mild [end italics] expression for the tone of their compliments) for my chapter about the Cowan Bridge School.'"""
"""This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's college friend Monteith). On this journey he read aloud Tom Brown's School-Days to my mother, enjoying it thoroughly.'"""
"""This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the """"""""Epistle to the Hebrews"""""""", with very great deliberation, stopping every moment, that my Father might expound it, verse by verse.' [ an dmore for a para]"""
"""In our lighter moods, we turned to the """"""""Book of Revelation"""""""", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'"""
"""?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s """"""""History of Europe"""""""" and Humboldt?s """"""""Cosmos"""""""".?"""
"""?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s """"""""History of Europe"""""""" and Humboldt?s """"""""Cosmos"""""""".?"""
"""?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s """"""""History of Europe"""""""" and Humboldt?s """"""""Cosmos"""""""".?"""
"""At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the """"""""Penny Cyclopaedia"""""""" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthians, Passion-flowers, Passover and Pastry, without any invidious preferences, all information being equally welcome, and equally fugitive.'"""
""" ... when stuck in '"""""""" dismal dirty inn at Halifax"""""""" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made himself comfortable by reading and """"""""pleasant talk about books"""""""" with people he met.'"""
"""?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s """"""""Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"""""""" (Bohn?s edition in seven volumes). Relative to my means, the price was rather stiff, but by getting one volume at a time, as I could afford to pay for it, this difficulty was surmounted. ? Vividly do I remember bringing the final volume home. With youthful glee I read till a late hour. I slept little that night; the book haunted my dreams. I awoke about four on the bright summer Sunday morning and went into the fields to read till breakfast-time. The stately, majestic march of Gibbon?s periods had some attraction for me even then; but the """"""""Decline and Fall"""""""", it must be admitted, was hard reading for an unlettered collier lad. Yet I plodded on until I had finished the book which, besides its direct teachings, brought me many indirect advantages.?"""
"""?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s """"""""History of Europe"""""""" and Humboldt?s """"""""Cosmos"""""""".?"""
"""Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'"""
"""And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell you about'."""
"""I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'."""
"""I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'."""
"""Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - """"""""I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had been published in June]. The appalling character of it is only to young ladies who think of drawing as mere recreation - assuredly no more work is asked than about half what they give to piano."""""""""""
"""Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put off by the thought of having to write 'properly']"""
"""I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'"""
"""I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'"""
"""I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what I've read & liked. Your paper on India, - but then that was not fair, because I knew it was yours, - Floyd Ireson's ride VERY much. Turkey tracts, - yes, I did, & I just defy you, if you said you didn't; and Florentine Mosaics. I cd not read the other story, - and I did not care for Carlyle. I liked yr paper in the first no. on our Exhibition - only there [italics] was [end italics] one Duccio da Siena, & you say there was not.'"""
"""Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discovery of my own, & I am so proud of them. [italics] Do [end italics] read them. I have not a notion who wrote them'."""
"""Have been working at French & reading """"""""History of Greece""""""""'"""
"""We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of """"""""Household Words"""""""" - """"""""Perils of Certain English Prisoners"""""""" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading """"""""Die Familie"""""""" by Riehl, forming the third volume of the series, the two first of which """"""""Land und Volk"""""""" and """"""""Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft"""""""", I reviewed for the Westminster'."""
"""In the evening I began the """"""""Life of Charlotte Bronte"""""""" aloud. Deeply interesting.'"""
"""I cannot work this weather it is too hot, I have read a chapter of the """"""""History of Greece"""""""" to day and that is all.'"""
"""We are reading Carlyle's """"""""Cromwell"""""""" and """"""""Aurora Leigh"""""""" again in the evenings. I am still in the """"""""Oedipus Tyrannus"""""""", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of """"""""Natural History"""""""".'"""
"""We are reading Carlyle's """"""""Cromwell"""""""" and """"""""Aurora Leigh"""""""" again in the evenings. I am still in the """"""""Oedipus Tyrannus"""""""", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of """"""""Natural History"""""""".'"""
"""Reading Burke's """"""""Reflections on French Revolution"""""""" and """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""" in the evenings.'"""
"""Reading Burke's """"""""Reflections on French Revolution"""""""" and """"""""Mansfield Park"""""""" in the evenings.'"""
"""I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - """"""""Christianity and Infidelity"""""""".'"""
"""Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'"""
"""I have begun Carlyle's """"""""Life of Frederic the Great"""""""".'"""
"""All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] for myself.'"""
"""After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'"""
"""The """"""""Prometheus"""""""" in the morning'."""
"""Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Paris. It was in the French language - & contained all the Egerton traditions, and papers relating to the Lord Chancellor Egerton. The Egertons of [italics] Tatton [end italics] know nothing of it. I do not know the present Lord Ellesmere well enough to ask him.'"""
"""Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the Catacombs. Marianne & Meta always write the names opposite the articles in the Atlantic'."""
"""I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I  wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'"""
"""I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I  wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'"""
"""I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is very ungrateful of me to say this, for Mr Elder sent it me. Next - who is Mr Parton who writes biographies on your side of the water? Barnom, & Aaron Burr - the first I literally [italics] could not [end italics] read, just for the want of any moral feeling at all in it, - the last I have just read, because I  wanted to get some knowledge of American society in the last centy & beginning of this, - and to know who Aaron Burr was? There is just the same, or worse, want of any idea of simply [sic] right or wrong, - but I don't come out clear as to what [italics] could [end italics] have been Aaron B's [italics] real [end italics] character'"""
"""4th Book of Plato's """"""""Republic"""""""" at beginning, p. 420.'"""
"""[Henry Buckle's """"""""History of the Civilisation in England""""""""] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read well) as soon as I have finished dear Sam Brown's volumes - which are very interesting, but less strong and clear than I had fancied'."""
"""If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it.  I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this life - which one thinks the more of by a natural selfishness when one seems to have a double portion of them.'"""
"""Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'"""
"""[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'"""
"""[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'"""
"""Gave up Miss Martineau's """"""""History"""""""" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fatiguing and not instructive. But her history of the Reform Movement is very interesting'."""
"""Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow morning: he brought out some newspapers - I read in one of them that my old shipmate Lieut W. Kerr has been wounded, he is up off Lucknow with Capn Peel of the """"""""Shannon""""""""'"""
"""G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the """"""""Times"""""""", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the """"""""Moloch of a baby"""""""" in """"""""the Haunted Man"""""""".'."""
"""G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the """"""""Times"""""""", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the """"""""Moloch of a baby"""""""" in """"""""the Haunted Man"""""""".'."""
"""Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such supreme interest as 'Lucknow' because your style (may I say it?) has such a great charm for me. It is such pure beautiful English. I had heard of the forthcoming article on Buckle, without knowing whom it was by. Thank you for telling me'."""
"""I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'."""
"""I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'."""
"""Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disproportions &c; and I doubt whether he understands Condillac and that sort of men: but it is truly a great work, suggestive and productive.'"""
"""you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's translation when we were at Heidelberg'"""
"""I have been reading some French books lately viz, """"""""Mathilde"""""""" par Eugene Sue and """"""""Les mariages de paris"""""""" par Edmond About -'"""
"""I have been reading some French books lately viz, """"""""Mathilde"""""""" par Eugene Sue and """"""""Les mariages de paris"""""""" par Edmond About '-"""
"""I am reading Macauleys """"""""history of England"""""""", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to remain, it is a book, that when once a person has commenced it, he finds it impossible to leave off, until he has finished it -'"""
"""I have finished Macaulay's """"""""history of England"""""""" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.'"""
"""I have finished Macaulay's """"""""history of England"""""""" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' """
"""I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] """"""""Fred"""""""": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'."""
"""I finished this morning Horace's """"""""Epistle to the Pisos"""""""", which I have been reading at intervals.'"""
"""G. has finished """"""""the Excursion"""""""", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'"""
"""... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her &mdash; both his letters and his poetry.'"""
"""Early in December [1858] we removed, with our household, to """"""""The Priory"""""""" at Reigate, belonging to Earl Somers [...] we were glad to enjoy the repose and seclusion which the place afforded. A huge library, filled with old books, formed an attractive feature in """"""""The Priory,"""""""" and many a spare hour was passed by Grote in exploring its treasures, perched upon the steps of the lofty ladder, candle in hand.'"""
"""I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it at one long morning sitting - hardly stirring between breakfast and dinner. I cannot tell you how much I like it, and for such numbers of reasons. First, because you know of a varnish that is as good or better than black-lead for grates (only I wonder what it is). Next, because of the little sentences of real deep wisdom which from their depth and true foundation may be real helps in every direction and to every person; and for the quiet continual devout references to God which make the book a holy one'."""
"""Oct 4th. [1858] """"""""To-day,"""""""" my mother says [in diary], """"""""A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet Mr and Mrs Roebuck at dinner at Swainston: and the comet was grand, with Arcturus shining brightly over the nucleus. At dinner he said he must leave the table to look at it, and they all followed [...]"""""""" When he returned next night he """"""""observed the comet from his platform, and, when he came down for tea, read some Paradise Lost.""""""""'"""
"""Oct 4th. [1858] """"""""To-day,"""""""" my mother says [in diary], """"""""A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet Mr and Mrs Roebuck at dinner at Swainston: and the comet was grand, with Arcturus shining brightly over the nucleus. At dinner he said he must leave the table to look at it, and they all followed [...]"""""""" When he returned next night he """"""""observed the comet from his platform, and, when he came down for tea, read some Paradise Lost.""""""""'"""
"""Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next edition)'."""
"""Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from """"""""Clerical Life"""""""" and """"""""Adam Bede"""""""", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'"""
"""Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from """"""""Clerical Life"""""""" and """"""""Adam Bede"""""""", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'"""
"""Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )'"""
"""A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'"""
"""Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading """"""""Hunger and Thirst"""""""" and expressed great value for it.'"""
"""Read the article in yesterday's """"""""Times"""""""" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book """"""""De l'Amour"""""""".'"""
"""after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound you most deeply. And therefore I now write to express my deep regret that you received such pain through me.' [Gaskell is referring to the printing of a letter about John Stuart Mill's future wife in her Life of Charlotte Bronte, to which he had reacted angrily]."""
"""As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a novel; but the work is in the form which always assumes that name, nor do I think it is one to be quarrelled with. I  suppose you mean that you used the narrative form merely to {convey} introduce certain opinions & thoughts. If so you had better have condensed them into the shape of an Essay. Those in Friends in Council &c. are admirable examples of how much may be said on both sides of any question without any {dogma} decision being finally arrived at, & certainly without any dogmatism. [Gaskell then discusses the merits of the concise essay form] But I believe in spite of yr objection to the term 'novel' you do wish to 'narrate', - and I believe you can do it if you try, - but I think you must observe what is [italics] out [end italics] of you, instead of examining what is [italics] in [end italics] you. [Gaskell explains the merits of this at length]. Just read a few pages of De Foe &c - and you will see the healthy way in which he sets [italics] objects [end italics] not [italics] feelings [end italics] before you. [She advises Grey to use what he observes through every day contact with real people] Think if you can not imagine a complication of events in their life which would form a good plot. (Your plot in The Three paths is very poor; you have not thought enough about it - simply used it <a>s a medium. [She discusses the advantages of tight plotting and advises] Don't intrude yourself into your description. If you but think eagerly of your story till [italics] you see it in action [end italics], words, good simple strong words will come. [she then criticises his overuse of epithets, overlong conversations and allusions, concluding] You see I am very frank-spoken. But I believe you are worth it.'"""
"""""""""""Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""" """"""""Much Ado About Nothing"""""""" -'"""
"""""""""""Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""" """"""""Much Ado About Nothing"""""""" -'"""
"""I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'"""
"""Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with """"""""Come hither Evan Cameron"""""""" - and repeated the poem to us.'"""
"""My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the Rev. Amos Barton - but I will not ask you whether that guess edges upon the truth.'"""
"""We are very curious and interested about """"""""Adam Bede"""""""", which we see advertised and criticised in the """"""""Athenaeum"""""""".'"""
"""We are very curious and interested about """"""""Adam Bede"""""""", which we see advertised and criticised in the """"""""Athenaeum"""""""".'"""
""" I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which Juvenal bids observe how the world's two mightiest orators [Cicero and Demosthenes] were brought by their genius and eloquence to a violent and tragic death."""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's """"""""Essay on the Fates of Clergymen""""""""]: 'People speak of the world as they find it.  I have been more fortunate or prudent than Swift or Eugenio.'"""
"""Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor can I easily comprehend how it is possible that we should remain cold and indifferent with regard to the attempts which are made to deprive us of the most valuable object of our possessions, or at least, of our hopes.'  Macaulay writes: 'But what if you are confident that these attempts will be vain, and that your book will fix its own place?'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter.  Indeed Middleton should have counted the cost before he took his part.  He never appears to so little advantage as when he complains in this way of the calumnies and invectives of the orthodox.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'An admirable opening scene, whatever the French critics may say.  It at once puts us thoroughly in possession of the state of the two families.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'This is not what would be commonly called fine; but I would give any six plays of Rowe for it.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo be? / Came he not home to- night?' in Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'This is the free conversation of lively, high-spirited young gentlemen.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'Mercutio, here, is beyond the reach of anybody but Shakespeare.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'This is as fine an instance of presentiment as I remember in poetry.  It throws a sadness over all the gaiety that follows, and prepares us for the catastrophe.'"""
"""[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's """"""""Romeo and Juliet""""""""]: 'Very fine is the way in which Juliet at once withdraws her whole confidence from the nurse without disclosing her feelings'."""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Lawrence, Macaulay remarks on the wonderful genius with which the poet delineates a timid, delicate girl of fourteen excited and exalted to an act of desperate courage.'"""
"""Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: """"""""Warburton proposed to read 'hymn' for 'him'; - the most ludicrous emendation ever suggested""""""""."""
"""Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: """"""""This speech, - full of matter, of thought, of fancy, as it is, - seems to me, like much of this play, to be not in Shakspeare's [sic] very best manner.  It is stuck on like one of Horace's 'purple patches'.  It does not seem to spring naturally out of the conversation.  This is a fault which, in his finest works, Shakspeare [sic] never commits."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer """"""""I""""""""' : """"""""If this had been in Cibber, Cibber would never have heard the last of it."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: """"""""Here begins a noble series of scenes.  I know nothing grander than the way in which Romeo hears the news.  It moves me even more than Lear's agonies."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: """"""""The desperate calmness of Romeo is sublime beyond expression; and the manner in which he is softened into tenderness when he sees the body of Juliet is perhaps the most affecting touch in all poetry."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: """"""""beyond praise""""""""."""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated"""""""" : """"""""Sweet writing""""""""."""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, """"""""The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to me to be a clumsy addition to the plot""""""""."""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: """"""""The silence of Hamlet during the earlier part of this scene is very fine, but not equal to the silence of Prometheus and Cassandra in the Prometheus and Agammemnon of Aeschylus."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: """"""""the only thing deserving of much admiration in the speech is the manner in which it is raised above the ordinary diction which surrounds it.  It is poetry within poetry, - a play within a play.  It was therefore proper to make its language bear the same relation to the language, in which Hamlet and Horatio talk, which the language of Hamlet and Horatio bears to the common style of conversation among gentlemen.  This is a sufficient defence of the style, which is undoubtedly in itself far too turgid for dramatic, or even for lyric, composition."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: """"""""Nothing can be finer than this specimen of Hamlet's peculiar character.  His intellect is out of all proportion to his will or his passions.  Under the most exciting circumstances, while expecting every moment to see the ghost of his father rise before him, he goes on discussing questions of morals, manners, or politics, as if he were in the schools of Wittenberg."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,/ And could of men distinguish, her election/ Hath sealed thee for herself, - ' : """"""""An exquisitely beautiful scene. It always moved me more than any other in the play.  There is something very striking in the way in which Hamlet, a man of a gentle nature, quick in speculation, morbidly sluggish in action, unfit to struggle with the real evils of life, and finding himself plunged into the midst of them, - delights to repose on the strong mind of a man who had been severely tried, and who had learned stoicism from experience.  There is wonderful truth in this."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: """"""""This is a most admirable scene.  The fooling of Osric is nothing; but it is most striking to see how completely Hamlet forgets his father, his mistress, the terrible duty imposed upon him, the imminent danger which he has to run, as soon as a subject of observation comes before him; - as soon as a good butt is offered to his wit."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia.  By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and sweat under a weary life'.  Johnson wrote, """"""""All the old copies have to 'grunt and sweat'.  It is undoubtedly the true reading, but can scarcely be borne by modern ears.""""""""  Macaulay writes: """"""""We want Shakespeare, not your fine modern English."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia.  By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: """"""""It is a noble emendation.  Had Warburton often hit off such corrections, he would be entitled to the first place among critics."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the speech in which, """"""""not content with taking blood for blood, he contrived damnation for his enemy, was too horrible to be read or uttered."""""""" Macaulay responds: """"""""Johnson does not understand the character.  Hamlet is irresolute; and he makes the first excuse that suggests itself for not striking.  If he had met the King drunk, he would have refrained from avenging himself lest he should kill both soul and body."""""""" """
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: """"""""Here begins the finest of all human performances."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who has been praised for bluntness: """"""""Excellent! It is worth while to compare these moral speeches of Shakspeare [sic] with those which are so much admired in Euripides.  The superiority of Shakspeare's [sic] observations is immense.  But the dramatic art with which they are introduced, - always in the right place,  - always from the right person, - is still more admirable."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell!' : """"""""This last struggle between rage and tenderness is, I think, unequalled in poetry."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...' : """"""""Where is there anything like this in the world""""""""?"""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: """"""""Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot but feel that the whole scene is very unnatural.  He took it, to be sure, from an old story.  What miracles his genius has brought out from materials so unpromising!"""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: """"""""It is rather a fault in the play, to my thinking, that Kent should behave so very insolently in this scene.  A man of his rank and sense would have had more self-command and dignity even in his anger.  One can hardly blame Cornwall for putting him in the stocks."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: """"""""The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under the discipline of severe sorrow, is mot happily marked in several places."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear.  Johnson protested against the unpleasing character of a story, """"""""in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry.""""""""  Macaulay responds: """"""""There is nothing like this last scene in the world.  Johnson talks nonsense.  Torn to pieces as Lear's heart had been, was he to live happily ever after, as the story-books say?  Wonderful as the whole play is, this last passage is the triumph of Shakspeare's [sic] genius.  Every character is perfectly supported."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra.  A response to an editorial note by Steevens.  """"""""Solemn nonsense! Had Shakspeare [ sic] no eyes to see the sky with?"""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue.  Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, who remarks that to call a circle an O was a very mean metaphor.  Macaulay responds: """"""""Surely, if O were really the usual name of a circle there would be nothing mean in it, any more than in the Delta of the Nile."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'.  Macaulay writes: """"""""In my opinion, this is one of Warburton's very best corrections."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly sense and knowledge of the world, introduced with perfect dramatic propriety.  How different from Euripides's lectures on such subjects."""""""""""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power"""""""": """"""""Beautiful and easy beyond expression""""""""."""
"""Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: """"""""A glorious play.  The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written.  The fairy scenes no man but one since the world began could have written."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] """"""""The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative.  But the working up of Brutus by Cassius, the meeting of the conspirators, the stirring of the mob by Antony, and (above all,) the dispute and reconciliation of the two generals, are things far beyond the reach of any other poet that ever lived."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines """"""""Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights"""""""" in Julius Caesar] """"""""Plutarch's hint is admirably expanded here""""""""."""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader that Cleopatra's story of the salt fish on Antony's hook was taken from North's Plutarch]: """"""""Yes, but how happily introduced, and with what skill and spirit worked up by Shakespeare!"""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] """"""""Absurd! Who knows anything about the usages of the Senate, and the privileges of the Tribunes, in Coriolanus's time?"""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular Government]: """"""""Well! but there had certainly been elective magistracies in Rome before the expulsion of the kings, and there might have been canvassing.  Shakspeare [sic] cared so little about historical accuracy that an editor who notices expressions, which really are not grossly inaccurate, is unpardonable."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, which suggests that Shakespeare had misread his authorities]: """"""""This undoubtedly was a mistake, and what DOES it matter?"""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: """"""""A noble play.  As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had thumbed his translation of Plutarch to rags."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor,  - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Finibus, the Academic Questions, and the Tusculan Disputations."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Finibus, the Academic Questions, and the Tusculan Disputations."""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: """"""""Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Finibus, the Academic Questions, and the Tusculan Disputations."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: """"""""Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory of morals is hardly deserving of refutation."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: """"""""Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies."""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.']: """"""""The dialogue here is good and natural.  but it is strange that so excellent a scholar as Ben Jonson should represent the Augurs as giving any encouragement to Lentulus's dreams.  The Augurs were the first nobles of Rome.  In this generation Pompey, Hortensius, Cicero, and other men of the same class, belonged to the College."""""""""""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: """"""""Cicero's best""""""""."""
"""[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui', translated as 'I triumph and rejoice that my action should have sustained your approval [...] for there is nothing which I so much covet as that I should be like myself, and they like themselves]: """"""""Noble fellow!"""""""""""
"""[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: """"""""Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history of the great orator's public career, and a far from unsympathetic analysis of his mobile, and singularly interesting, character."""""""""""
""" Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: """"""""A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults.""""""""  Later, """"""""Poor fellow! He makes a pitiful figure.  But it is impossible not to feel for him.  Since I left England I have not despised Cicero and Ovid for their lamentations in exile as much as I did."""""""" """
""" [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: """"""""a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: """"""""The close of this speech is very fine.  His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about them which, in the interval between his Consulship and Caesar's death, I do not find.  During that interval he was mixed up with the aristocratical party, and yet afraid of the Triumvirate.  When all the great party-leaders were dead, he found himself at the head of the state, and spoke with a boldness and energy which he had not shown since his youthful days."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: """"""""As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after Caesar's death.  I really think that he met with little more than his deserts from the Triumvirs.  It is quite certain, as Livy says, that he suffered nothing more than he would have inflicted."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdom, even by the weakest of mankind.  I can hardly help thinking that Plato has overcharged the portrait.  But the humour of the dialogue is admirable."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""Glorious irony!"""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""Incomparably ludicrous!"""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorous.  The characters are most happily sustained and discriminated.  The contrast between the youthful petulance of Ctesippus and the sly, sarcastic mock humility of Socrates is admirable."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: """"""""Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: """"""""Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of children.  But nobody, as far as I remember, has done justice to him on one important point.  No ancient politician appears to have thought so highly of the capacity of women, and to have been inclined to make them so important."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: """"""""You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: """"""""This passage does Plato great honour.  Philhellenism is a step towards philanthropy.  There is an enlargement of mind in this work which I do not remember to have found in any earlier composition, and in very few ancient works, either earlier or later."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: """"""""This is indeed a noble dream.  Pity that it should come through the gate of ivory!"""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: """"""""I remember nothing in Greek philosophy superior to this in profundity, ingenuity, and eloquence."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: """"""""A very lively picture of Athenian manners.  There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior of a Greek house in the most interesting age of Greece."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: """"""""Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning.  What with sophists, what with pretty women, and what with sycophants, he came to the end of a noble fortune."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: """"""""Alcibiades is very well represented here.  It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists."""""""""""
""" [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: """"""""Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself.  Nothing can be more courteous and generous than his language.  Socrates shows abundance of talent and acuteness in this dialogue; but the more I read of his conversation, the less I wonder at the fierce hatred he provoked.  He evidently had an ill-natured pleasure in making men, - particularly men famed for wisdom and eloquence, - look like fools."""""""" [the comments continue at some length.]"""
"""Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.'"""
"""Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight after first seeing her, - or some such rash proceeding'"""
"""Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'"""
"""I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called """"""""the Lottery of Marriage"""""""" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'"""
"""I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'"""
"""I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'"""
"""I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'"""
"""Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called """"""""Antonine"""""""", a stupid book in my opinion.'"""
"""I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels and that class of books'"""
"""I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'"""
"""We have just finished reading aloud """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's """"""""Catechism"""""""". We have also read aloud """"""""Tom Brown's School Days"""""""" with much disappointment. It is an unpleasant, unveracious book'."""
"""(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'"""
"""I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes from Clerical Life - I set """"""""Janet's Repentance"""""""" above all, still.'"""
"""In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'."""
"""Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one.  """"""""Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character.  Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity in every line of the face.""""""""  Those words are writen above the portrait of Richard Bentley, in Bishop Monk's biography of that famous writer.'"""
""" """"""""This is a very good Idyll.  Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language.  It was my favourite at College.  There is a rich profusion of rustic imagery about it which I find nowhere else.  It opens a scene of rural plenty and comfort which quite fills the imagination, - flowers, fruits, leaves, fountains, soft goatskins, old wine, singing birds, joyous friendly companions.  The whole has an air of reality which is more interesting than the conventional world which Virgil has placed in Arcadia"""""""".  So Macaulay characterises the Seventh Idyll of Theocritus.'"""
"""Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: """"""""It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great art,' even to his accomplice.  As Hume says, roguery and enthusiasm run into each other.  I admire this play very much.  The plot would have been more agreeable, and more rational, if Surly had married the widow whose honor he has preserved.  Lovewit is as contemptible as Subtle himself.  The whole of the trick about the Queen of Fairy is improbable in the highest degree.  But, after all, the play is as good as any in our language out of Shakespeare.""""""""'"""
"""I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play.  Catiline is a very middling play.  The characters are certainly discriminated, but with no delicacy.  Jonson makes Cethegus a mere vulgar ruffian.  He quite fogets that all the conspirators were gentlemen, noblemen, politicians, probably scholars.  He has seized only the coarsest peculiarities of character.  As to the conduct of the piece, nothing can be worse than the long debates and narratives which make up half of it.'"""
"""Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: """"""""Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish.  It is the blemish of a poem which, but for this blemish, would be as near perfection in its own class as any work in the world."""""""" '"""
"""He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: """"""""Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought.  But that to which Horace chiefly owes his reputation, is his perfect good sense and self-knowledge, in whcih he exceeded all men.""""""""'"""
"""[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'"""
"""Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our four girls could see something of Scotland'"""
"""Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [end italics] narrative he ever read.'"""
"""I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget whh) of de Quincey's Miscellanies that relates to the Lakes, - places & people as they were in his day. Try for this last, if you don't get it elsewhere at Mrs Nicholson's circulating library at Ambleside'."""
"""I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget whh) of de Quincey's Miscellanies that relates to the Lakes, - places & people as they were in his day. Try for this last, if you don't get it elsewhere at Mrs Nicholson's circulating library at Ambleside'."""
"""To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'"""
"""I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I met them in yr letter.'"""
"""Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so that I do not think so much of it, as if I had never heard it spoken of.'"""
"""You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'"""
"""You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'"""
"""You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are books here [they are in rural Dumfriesshire and feel cut off from the world] I am sorry to say Meta lies at this present moment fast asleep with Cousin Stella in her hand; but that is the effect of bathing and an eight mile walk; not of the book itself. I know & like the Fool of Quality of old. I was brought up by old uncles & aunts, who had all old books, and very few new ones; and I used to delight in the Fool of Quality, & have hardly read it since.'"""
"""[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'"""
"""[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'"""
"""In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him by his own desire'."""
"""thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead [?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'"""
"""thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine promises to be a famous success; and I enjoy - now you know [italics] you [end italics] did, so you need not look moral - the Saturday's cutting up of 'Dead[?heart]; - oh [italics] how [end italics] stupid it was. - I don't think we shall ever be so stupid.'"""
"""...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arrangements of conjunction and declension, presented in a manner appallingly unattractive. I used to be set down in the study, under my Father's eye, to learn a solid page of this compilation, while he wrote or painted...It was almost more than human nature could bear to have to sit holding up to my face the dreary little Latin book, with its sheep-skin cover that smelt of mildewed paste.'"""
"""One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur and to chant the adorable verses by memory...I stopped my play, and listened as if to a nightingale ... My prosodical instinct was awakened, quite suddenly that dim evening, as my father and I sat alone in the breakfast-room after tea, serenely accepting the hour, for once, with no idea of exhortation or profit ... I persuaded my Father, who was a little astonished at my insistance, to repeat the lines over and over again. At last my brain caught them."""""""""""
"""I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I often in the evening made my way to Oxford and other streets where I could find open bookshops, and in the course of a couple of years I had purchased and read a fair selection of our standard authors, and, as I shall mention in future pages, I became fairly well acquainted with the drama and the players. I am afraid I was rather more fond of the drama and works of fiction than of books of more general interest.'"""
"""Reading the """"""""Les filles des platre"""""""" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not give a very exalted notions of French morals; the more I read French books, the more I am struck at the immense difference there is between the two nations that are only seperated [sic] by a narrow channel, twenty miles across; Customs manners & morals are entirely different; there is no nation in the world so much in love with domestic happiness & domestic comfort as the English, and none less so, than the French; that which affords great pleasure to our neighbours, excites only disgust in an Englishman; this I gather not only from the Books I read, but also from what I saw myself during my stay in France, and the older I get, the more thankful I am that I was not born a Frenchman.'"""
"""As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a novel; but the work is in the form which always assumes that name, nor do I think it is one to be quarrelled with. I  suppose you mean that you used the narrative form merely to {convey} introduce certain opinions & thoughts. If so you had better have condensed them into the shape of an Essay. Those in Friends in Council &c. are admirable examples of how much may be said on both sides of any question without any {dogma} decision being finally arrived at, & certainly without any dogmatism. [Gaskell then discusses the merits of the concise essay form] But I believe in spite of yr objection to the term 'novel' you do wish to 'narrate', - and I believe you can do it if you try, - but I think you must observe what is [italics] out [end italics] of you, instead of examining what is [italics] in [end italics] you. [Gaskell explains the merits of this at length]. Just read a few pages of De Foe &c - and you will see the healthy way in which he sets [italics] objects [end italics] not [italics] feelings [end italics] before you. [She advises Grey to use what he observes through every day contact with real people] Think if you can not imagine a complication of events in their life which would form a good plot. (Your plot in The Three paths is very poor; you have not thought enough about it - simply used it <a>s a medium. [She discusses the advantages of tight plotting and advises] Don't intrude yourself into your description. If you but think eagerly of your story till [italics] you see it in action [end italics], words, good simple strong words will come. [she then criticises his overuse of epithets, overlong conversations and allusions, concluding] You see I am very frank-spoken. But I believe you are worth it.'"""
"""No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'."""
"""Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but Miss Evans' life taken at the best construction, does so jar against the beautiful book that one cannot help hoping against hope'."""
"""I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" out of generosity] and say you owe me compensation for an article {of} under which if the wit had been a tithe equal to the wish to abuse I might have winced with pain. As it was I only felt indignant at the bad spirit in which the review of my Life of Charlotte Bronte was written, & half inclined to offer my services to Mr Aytoun the next time he wished to have an article written which should point out with something like keen and bitter perception the short-comings of my books'."""
"""Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about """"""""Marian"""""""" [Evans]. The book came in the middle of a storm of wind & rain on Saturday Evening, and I began to read it, and pretty nearly finished it before I went to bed. It is very interesting, - and is indeed the discovery of the """"""""Missing Link"""""""".'"""
"""I have been reading lately """"""""Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds"""""""" and """"""""La petite Soeur"""""""" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'"""
"""I have been reading lately """"""""Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds"""""""" and """"""""La petite Soeur"""""""" two little vaudevilles by Mr Scribe -'"""
"""Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which piety & virtue live) are keeping pace, as they should do - She works away at German & Greek - reads carefully many books, - with a fineness of perception & relish which delights me...'"""
"""I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'"""
"""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?'"""
"""I received the copy of """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to you for it. - I thoroughly admire this writer's works - (I do not call him Mr Elliot, because I know that such is not his real name.) I was brought up in Warwickshire, and recognize the county in every description of natural scenery. I am thoroughly obliged to you for giving it to me; it is a book that it is a real pleasure to have, and if for every article in your Magazine, abusive of me, you will only be so kind as to give me one of the works of the author of """"""""Scenes from Clerical Life"""""""", I shall consider myself your debtor'. [Later on the same page, Gaskell says 'One of Mrs Poyser's speeches is as good as a fresh blow of sea-air; and yet {it} she is a true person, and no caricature']"""
"""Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand all the words used - because, you see, [italics] we [end italics] speak English, - but we have made some capital brown bread and several other good things, by the help of them'."""
"""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?'"""
"""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?'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: """"""""[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room should be made ready for me to go in and set to work.  I looked over an old volume of the 'British Chronicle,' a lot of bound weekly newspapers of the time of Byron, Shelley, Tom Moore and Walter Scott and which I had discovered in a corner the night before.  Then I finished the Letters of Lady M. W. Montague  which I had commenced a few days before from curiosity and had continued from interest."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: """"""""[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room should be made ready for me to go in and set to work.  I looked over an old volume of the 'British Chronicle,' a lot of bound weekly newspapers of the time of Byron, Shelley, Tom Moore and Walter Scott and which I had discovered in a corner the night before.  Then I finished the Letters of Lady M. W. Montague  which I had commenced a few days before from curiosity and had continued from interest."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: """"""""[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room should be made ready for me to go in and set to work.  I looked over an old volume of the 'British Chronicle,' a lot of bound weekly newspapers of the time of Byron, Shelley, Tom Moore and Walter Scott and which I had discovered in a corner the night before.  Then I finished the Letters of Lady M. W. Montague  which I had commenced a few days before from curiosity and had continued from interest."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: """"""""[on Wednesday morning] We [himself and his brother William] ... commenced study, which simply consists in translating German into English. I am now working at Schiller's play of Maria Stuart, which I like exceedingly, though I do get on so slowly with it ... I worked on ploddingly till dinner-time which is one o'clock."""""""""""
"""I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just off to Church. [italics] Please [end italics] return it; it will explain that what you have is the National R. article as it was [italics] first written [end italics] - twice as long as it was when printed, - [italics] she [end italics] thinks the best part was taken out'"""
"""I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the [italics] last [end italics] number. I hope he will make the jilting of Griselda a long while a-doing.'"""
"""I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'."""
"""we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'"""
"""Went to bed at ten o clock.  Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'"""
"""Read at home in the evening.'"""
"""Spent the evening at Home.  Read portion of Waverley.'"""
"""here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not believe I should be equally unfortunate with the second, but when I saw yours it was irresistible to read it; quite by way of chaperonage of course, and not a bit for gossipry. However, there is not much news of any kind in it, as you will find.'"""
"""The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read.  I never was more delighted with any story.  It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so sad that it made me miserable.  I shan't read any more books.  For a whole day after I had finished my charming petite comtesse, I found I took not the faintest interest in any of my household duties, and wanted only to sit by the fire and read, read, read, all through my life.'"""
"""I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's """"""""Vier neue Novellen"""""""".'"""
"""Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening.  Read & then went to bed.'"""
"""I am reading """"""""Maunders Treasury of Geography"""""""" a very entertaining work."""
"""Noted by Leon Edel in """"""""Brief Chronology"""""""" of Henry James: """"""""1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."""""""""""
"""Noted by Leon Edel in """"""""Brief Chronology"""""""" of Henry James: """"""""1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."""""""""""
"""Read in the morning.'"""
"""what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking <italics>him</italics> for the book itself, one might say """"""""thank you"""""""" all one's life without giving any idea of one's sense of obligation. It has been an immense pleasure to Maria and me...'"""
"""Reading Tales from Blackwood, and """"""""The Court Servant"""""""" (Leigh Hunt)"""
"""Reading Tales from Blackwood, and """"""""The Court Servant"""""""" (Leigh Hunt)"""
"""Was at home in the evening.  Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.'"""
"""Read Rob Roy in the evening.'"""
"""Have just finished """"""""Rory O'More"""""""" by Samuel Lover"""
"""Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'"""
"""""""""""I have been reading lately """"""""Natural Philosophy"""""""" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the """"""""Chemistry of Creation"""""""" by Dr Ellis."""""""""""
"""""""""""I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."""""""""""
"""""""""""I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."""""""""""
"""""""""""Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] secondhand in 1860 and settled down to read it for the first time.  His ownership inscription is dated 16 August 1860.  He was a methodical reader who recorded on the first page the date at which he began reading (18 August) and on the last page ... the date of finishing (24 September) ... Dockray's routine [pencilled] annotation includes plentiful underlining, setting-off of passages with lines and exclamation marks, small stylistic corrections, and [internal and external] cross-references ... [discussion continues]"""""""""""
"""Read """"""""Nathalie"""""""" by Julia Kavanagh"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't be discouraged; I read the other day of a man with a good knowledge of Greek who didn't begin to study it till he was forty-six years of age'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The reading time that I have had has consisted in little odd disconnected moments, so I have read mostly little bits from Magazines, Newspapers, and 'the like.'"""
"""I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yesterday morning. I beg to enclose a Post Office Order for the amount.'"""
"""Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of """"""""Cousin Stella"""""""" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I knew & could tell them all about the authoress'."""
"""Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began """"""""The Merchant of Venice"""""""". There was one large volume, and it was handed about the class; I was permitted to read the part of Bassanio, and I set forth, with ecstatic pipe ... I was in the seventh heaven of delight, but alas! We had only reached the second act of the play, when the readings mysteriously stopped. I never knew the cause, but I suspect it was at my Father's desire. He prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare...'"""
"""there is a leading article in the """"""""Times"""""""" about New Zealand"""
"""In this caprice, if I may call it so, I think that my Father had before him the fine republican example of """"""""Sandford and Merton"""""""", some parts of which book he admired extremely.'"""
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of George Eliot... has sampled Bulwer Lytton, Thackeray, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.'"""
"""Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'"""
"""?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and came home the proud possessor of the first number. Thackeray?s """"""""Roundabout papers"""""""" and some of his stories I read with much gusto. Before the year was out there appeared in the Cornhill a series of remarkable papers by John Ruskin, """"""""Unto this last"""""""". These I read with avidity from beginning to end. Long and deep did I ponder over them. The style ? so simple, so beautiful, so telling ? captivated me??"""
"""The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his """"""""Boadicea,"""""""" which he had now quite finished.'"""
"""Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end italics] looked over [italics] months [end italics] ago, & it is of no use going over the ground again'"""
"""Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]"""
"""my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] and Italy than anything else; & which I so wished to have of my own, & in print, ever since you let me read it in MS. Thank you so [italics] very [end italics] much for it. I do so value it.'"""
"""only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be grateful enough to write this letter'"""
"""Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent to her 'from the author', & my own dear precious sonnet.' [Gaskell then transcribes the sonnet, beginning 'Sweet Vocalist; the Nightingale of sound!', asking smith - facetiously? - if he would like it for the Cornhill]"""
"""Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her about Italy.'"""
"""A misty, rainy morning. Had not slept very soundly. We got up rather early, and sat working and reading in the drawing-room till the breakfast was ready, for which we had to wait some little time. Good tea and bread and butter, and some excellent porridge.' """
"""I have been reading lately """"""""Maunders Geography"""""""" and working a little at """"""""Thompson's Natural Philosophy[""""""""]"""
"""I have been reading lately """"""""Maunders Geography"""""""" and working a little at """"""""Thompson's Natural Philosophy[""""""""]"""
"""Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with """"""""St Stephen's"""""""".  It is Sir Edward's, of course.'"""
"""Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with """"""""St Stephen's"""""""".  It is Sir Edward's, of course.'"""
""" Read at home during the evening.'"""
"""Dined at Hall's.  Came home & Read until I went to bed.'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: """"""""You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The reading time that I have had has consisted in little odd disconnected moments, so I have read mostly little bits from Magazines, Newspapers, and 'the like.' I suppose that 'down in Louisiana' you have not seen any numbers of the new 'Cornhill Magazine' edited by Thackeray.  I have seen the three numbers that are out and find it very good ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: """"""""Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels.  I have just been reading it."""""""""""
"""Began Lastri - """"""""Osservatore Fiorentino"""""""" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'"""
"""In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'"""
"""'In the evening Bekker's Charikles'"""
"""Finished reading the four last volumes of the """"""""Histoire des Ordres Religieux"""""""". Began """"""""La Beata"""""""", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'."""
"""Finished reading the four last volumes of the """"""""Histoire des Ordres Religieux"""""""". Began """"""""La Beata"""""""", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'."""
"""Finished reading the four last volumes of the """"""""Histoire des Ordres Religieux"""""""". Began """"""""La Beata"""""""", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'."""
"""Finished reading the four last volumes of the """"""""Histoire des Ordres Religieux"""""""". Began """"""""La Beata"""""""", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'."""
"""In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'."""
"""I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'."""
"""Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's """"""""Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini""""""""... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'."""
"""Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's """"""""Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini""""""""... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'."""
"""reading """"""""Cornhill Magazine"""""""" &c'"""
"""Read the """"""""Cornhill"""""""" and """"""""Orley Farm""""""""'."""
"""Read the """"""""Cornhill"""""""" and """"""""Orley Farm"""""""", as distraction under a bad headache'"""
"""I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'"""
"""I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'"""
"""In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'"""
"""Read Nerli'."""
"""Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'."""
"""Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'"""
"""began Pulci'."""
"""Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'"""
"""Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'"""
"""Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of """"""""Ecstasy"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'"""
"""See in """"""""Morning Post"""""""" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and """"""""Mr Close of Cheltenham"""""""".'"""
"""Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'"""
"""Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'."""
"""Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'"""
"""In the evening read Renan """"""""Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse"""""""" aloud to G.'"""
"""In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'"""
"""I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'"""
"""I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'"""
"""I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading the 'Amber-Witch'.'"""
"""that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art & Study in Italy, - thank you [italics] so [end italics] much for it'"""
"""do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'"""
"""do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'"""
"""Read Mrs Jameson's """"""""Legendary Art"""""""".'"""
"""Read the """"""""Compendium Revelationum""""""""'"""
"""Looked through Machiavelli's works'."""
"""Began Virgil's """"""""Eclogues"""""""" again'"""
"""Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'."""
"""Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'."""
"""Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'."""
"""began Buhle's """"""""History of Modern Philosophy""""""""'."""
"""During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'."""
"""During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'."""
"""Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'"""
"""Read """"""""La Tancia"""""""", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'"""
"""Read """"""""La Tancia"""""""", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'"""
"""Looked into the """"""""Marmi"""""""" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'."""
"""Looked into the """"""""Marmi"""""""" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'."""
"""Looked into the """"""""Marmi"""""""" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'."""
"""Looked into the """"""""Marmi"""""""" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'."""
"""[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for <italics>beauty</italics>; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in its lapse into metaphysics, after an apparent abjuring of them.'"""
"""Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'."""
"""Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'."""
"""No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed. My best thanks to you for it, dear friend. I am in the thick of a very different sort of book now, - """"""""Elsie Venner"""""""", which I did not mean to read; but a look at the first page carried me on: How immensely clever some of these Americans are! and their style of tale so new! I dislike all the part connected with Elsie: but I enjoy the New England atmosphere of the thing, and the wonderful power of deep and incessant observation'."""
"""No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed. My best thanks to you for it, dear friend. I am in the thick of a very different sort of book now, - """"""""Elsie Venner"""""""", which I did not mean to read; but a look at the first page carried me on: How immensely clever some of these Americans are! and their style of tale so new! I dislike all the part connected with Elsie: but I enjoy the New England atmosphere of the thing, and the wonderful power of deep and incessant observation'."""
"""I read Craik's """"""""History of English Literature""""""""... up to end of XVth Century'"""
"""The evening being bright and moonlight and very still, we all went out, and walked through the whole village, where not a creature moved; &mdash; through the principal little square, in the middle of which was a sort of pillar or Town Cross on steps, and Louis read, by the light of the moon, a proclamation for collections of charities which was stuck on it. We walked on along a lane a short way, hearing nothing whatever &mdash; not a leaf moving &mdash; but the distant barking of a dog! Suddenly we heard a drum and fifes! We were greatly alarmed, fearing we had been recognized.'"""
"""We sat till half-past ten working, and Albert reading, &mdash; and then retired to rest.'"""
"""We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its Carlylisms &c.'"""
"""Read Politian's Lamia'"""
"""Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'."""
"""Begin """"""""Memorabilia"""""""" again. Read to p. 6.'"""
"""Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'"""
"""Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'"""
"""Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'"""
"""I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'"""
"""Savonarola's Sermons'"""
"""To p. 12 of """"""""Memorabilia"""""""".'"""
"""Read the Malmantile'"""
"""Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'"""
"""Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'"""
""" 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'"""
"""began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'"""
"""Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'."""
"""Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'."""
"""You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particulars alluded to above (3-months' service men leaving, - major leaving with wounded colonel, - New York enthusiasm) seem generally accepted as [italics] facts [end italics] by all papers.'"""
"""Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'"""
"""Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read """"""""Blackwood""""""""'."""
"""Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read """"""""Blackwood""""""""'."""
"""Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read """"""""Blackwood""""""""'."""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's """"""""De Officiis"""""""", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'"""
"""Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'"""
"""In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in """"""""Blackwood""""""""'"""
"""In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in """"""""Blackwood""""""""'"""
"""wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'."""
"""Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'."""
"""Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's """"""""Discourse on Government"""""""", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'"""
"""Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's """"""""Discourse on Government"""""""", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'"""
"""Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's """"""""Discourse on Government"""""""", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'"""
"""Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'"""
"""copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'."""
"""In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some of the Iliad out aloud to us, little boys came and stood outside the window in open-mouthed astonishment.'"""
"""climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. """"""""You'll find all about the Antilles there"""""""", he said, and left me with """"""""Tom Cringle's Log"""""""" in my possession. [explains mother's attitude to fiction and why he'd never read any till now] So little did I understand what was allowable in the way of literary invention that I had began the story without a doubt that it was true, and I think it was my Father himself who, in answer to an inquiry, explained to me that it was """"""""all made up"""""""". He advised me to read the descriptions of the sea, and of the mountains of Jamaica, and """"""""skip"""""""" the pages which gave imaginary adventures and conversations. But I did not take his counsel; these latter were the flower of the book to me.' [more account on pp.143-4]"""
"""I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble paper of yours on the Advantages of Defeat, - a paper which I have circulated far & wide among my friends, - and I only wish I had more of the same kind to show, - in order to make us English know you Americans better.'"""
"""Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of compromise, my Father must do no less than read these works aloud to my stepmother in the quiet spring evenings. This was a sort of aftermath of courtship, a tribute of song, to his bride, very sentimental and pretty. She would sit, sedately, at her work-box, while he, facing her, poured forth the verses at her like a blackbird ... My Father read the verse admirably, with full, - some people ( but not I) might say with a too full - perception of the metre as well as of rhythm, rolling out the rhymes, and glorying in the proper names. He began, and it was a happy choice, with """"""""The Lady of the Lake""""""""...'"""
"""...but she procured for me a copy of """"""""Pickwick"""""""", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laughing at the richer passages were almost scandalous, and led to my being reproved for disturbing my Father while engaged, in an upper room, in the study of God's Word. I must have expended months on the perusal of """"""""Pickwick"""""""", for I used to rush through a chapter, and then read it over again very slowly, word for word, and then shut my eyes to realise the figures and the action...[more..]'"""
"""The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our interior.'"""
"""I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'."""
"""Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'"""
"""Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'"""
"""Read Cicero """"""""de Officiis"""""""" and began Petrarch's letters'"""
"""Read Cicero """"""""de Officiis"""""""" and began Petrarch's letters'"""
"""Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some """"""""Ricordi"""""""", and """"""""Lives"""""""" by Vespasiano'."""
"""Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some """"""""Ricordi"""""""", and """"""""Lives"""""""" by Vespasiano'."""
"""Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'"""
"""Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'"""
"""Read """"""""Le Moyen Age"""""""", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'"""
"""Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the """"""""Monks of the West"""""""".'"""
"""Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the """"""""Monks of the West"""""""".'"""
"""Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'."""
"""Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending their Band - the Commodore was obliged to read the Burial Service as there was no Clergyman out here"""
"""Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, """"""""The Spectator"""""""" and the """"""""Athenaeum""""""""'."""
"""Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, """"""""The Spectator"""""""" and the """"""""Athenaeum""""""""'."""
"""Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, """"""""The Spectator"""""""" and the """"""""Athenaeum""""""""'."""
"""began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'"""
"""to the London Library where I looked through Selden's """"""""Titles of Honour""""""""'"""
"""Read Ginguene in the evening'."""
"""Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'."""
"""There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'"""
"""Read Comte on the Middle Ages'"""
"""In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'"""
"""[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the """"""""Chateau D'If"""""""" to G.'"""
"""Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: """"""""O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et des fideles.""""""""' (Gaullieur, """"""""Historie de Geneve"""""""")'"""
"""Reading once again the """"""""Processi"""""""" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'"""
"""Reading once again the """"""""Processi"""""""" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'"""
"""<italics>Have</italics> you read [Mr Lucas's book]? """"""""Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History""""""""... It altogether changes my impressions about the man I correspond with almost every week, and with whom I had lot of conversation here 2 years ago. I have always found him gentlemanly and agreeable, cultivated and liberal &c. &c: but this volume shows him to be (it seems to me) so much more that I am perplexed at not having found it out sooner. It is so fresh, so suggestive, so exceedingly pleasant! and I wanted, as soon as I had done, to begin it again, and read every word twice'."""
"""Begin """"""""Republic"""""""" for conclusive work'"""
"""Go on with """"""""Republic"""""""", Book 1.'"""
"""Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, that our service at Thebes should be in some tomb or temple. Accordingly I chose today a corner in the Great Hall of Karnak, read the Psalms of the day (Mar 16), and preached on the two verses about Egypt which they contain. It was, I must say, a striking scene. In the furtherest aisles of that vast Cathedral were herded together the horses, dromedaries, asses, and their attendants. In the shade of the two gigantic pillars, seated on a mass of broken stones, were ourselves, two or three stray travellers, and the servants in the background. The Prince expressed great pleasure at the sermon, and begged to have a copy of it. It was on the good and evil of the old Egyptian religion.'"""
"""Reading the """"""""Purgatorio"""""""" again, and the """"""""Compendium Revelationum"""""""" of Savonarola'"""
"""Reading the """"""""Purgatorio"""""""" again, and the """"""""Compendium Revelationum"""""""" of Savonarola'"""
"""Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'."""
"""Read the """"""""Orfeo"""""""" and """"""""Stanze"""""""" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's """"""""Palace of Art"""""""" in many points'."""
"""Read the """"""""Orfeo"""""""" and """"""""Stanze"""""""" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion of Tennyson's """"""""Palace of Art"""""""" in many points'."""
"""I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but there is an immense deal of truth in the whole, especially considering that it was gathered by one man in the short space of 3 weeks'."""
"""I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's """"""""Casa Guidi Windows"""""""". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to be the true relation of the religious mind to the Past.'"""
"""Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - """"""""Poetes Latins de la Decadence"""""""" in the evening'."""
"""Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - """"""""Poetes Latins de la Decadence"""""""" in the evening'."""
"""today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's """"""""Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian"""""""". They are excellent. They have German industry and are succinctly and clearly written'."""
"""Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'"""
"""Began """"""""Il Principe"""""""".'"""
"""Read to end of p. 269.'"""
"""Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's """"""""History of Medieval Greece""""""""'"""
"""Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's """"""""History of Medieval Greece""""""""'"""
"""Read to end of p. 270.'"""
"""[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner """"""""A Seraph band"""""""" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the smooth current bore them past so noiselessly & still.'"""
"""Read """""""".'Dame aux Camelias"""""""""""
"""Read only Geology'"""
"""I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of """"""""Mrs Delany"""""""". The first was an <italics>enormous</italics> treat, - perhaps the greatest in the book way for these seven years: and I reckon on the rest accordingly. I don't mean Ly Llanover's preachings and prosings, which are as bad as can be: but one can miss them'."""
"""Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all """"""""hurting"""""""" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'"""
"""Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all """"""""hurting"""""""" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'"""
"""Finished """"""""La Mandragola"""""""", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began """"""""La Calandra""""""""'"""
"""Finished """"""""La Mandragola"""""""", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began """"""""La Calandra""""""""'"""
"""I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'."""
"""Read geology'"""
"""Observe accident in """"""""Times"""""""" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'"""
"""I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's """"""""Greece"""""""" and studying the geography'"""
"""I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's """"""""Greece"""""""" and studying the geography'"""
"""On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading """"""""Hypatia"""""""", which was """"""""too highly coloured"""""""" for his taste, and re-reading """"""""Tancred"""""""", and writing """"""""more than half the preface"""""""" to his lectures, he found time to send home a long letter'"""
"""all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: and very pleasant it was to be carried out of murky smoky Manchester into something so purely Italian as the beginning is, - it is a regular atmosphere of Italy; I like the story much the best of any of his, don't you?'"""
"""This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of """"""""Orley Farm"""""""", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'."""
"""Read to children under tree.'"""
"""there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my reading """"""""East Lynne"""""""", which I did at three sittings. Yesterday I stood a tolerable examination in it. A brisk cross-examination took place between H.R.H., A.P.S, Meade and Keppel. I came off with flying colours, and put a question which no one could answer: """"""""with whom did Lady Isabel dine on the fatal night?""""""""'"""
"""On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then I opened my book for consolation, and read a great block of pompous verse out of """"""""The Deity"""""""", in the midst of which exercise, yielding to the softness of the hot and aromatic air, I fell fast asleep.'"""
"""My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, containing a few steel engravings of statues. These attracted me violently, and here for the first time I gazed upon Apollo with his proud gesture, Venus in her undulations, the kirtled shape of Diana, and Jupiter voluminously bearded...In private I returned to examine my steel engravings of the statues, and I reflected that they were too beautiful to be so wicked as my Father thought they were."""""""""""
"""I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F.W. Robertson as leaders of the """"""""Advance of Christian Thought""""""""?' """
"""How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays.  One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wisdom and experience, sweetened by imagination'."""
"""I must say I think the """"""""Woman in White"""""""" a marvel of workmanship.  I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'."""
"""I must say I think the """"""""Woman in White"""""""" a marvel of workmanship.  I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second time which attracted so strongly my technical admiration'."""
"""Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics,  -  I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in """"""""Maga"""""""" [Blackwood's Magazine].  And I like some of David Wingate's poems very much, other some I don't particularly care for; """"""""My Little Wife"""""""" is delightful.'"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the """"""""Morgesons"""""""" and """"""""Two Men,"""""""" I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) when they originally appeared [...] I seem to remember even having """"""""noticed"""""""" the second (probably in the """"""""Nation"""""""" and very badly).'"""
"""we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their cells during tea-time, and the clerk, placing her mouth close against the door, called the name of the prisoner located within. """"""""Yes, mum"""""""", was the answer that came from the cell. """"""""Here's a letter for you"""""""", added the clerk, as she stooped down and threw the document under the door. In a moment there was a postive scream of delight from within, followed by a cry of """"""""Oh! how glad I am"""""""". Then we could hear the poor creature tear open the sheet, and begin mumbling the contents to herself in half hysteric tones.' """
"""In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it into her bosom. """"""""Can you read it?"""""""" inquired the letter-carrier, who seemed almost as delighted as the prisoner herself. """"""""Oh yes, mum, thank you"""""""" replied the woman; and she hurried to the other end of the wash-house, to enjoy its contents quietly be herself.'"""
"""We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading """"""""Recreations in Astronomy"""""""".'"""
"""We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on """"""""Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies""""""""; another the """"""""Home Friend - a weekly miscellany""""""""; a third, the """"""""Saturday Magazine""""""""; a fourth, the """"""""History of Redemption""""""""; and a fifth, the """"""""Family Quarrel - an humble story"""""""".'"""
"""We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on """"""""Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies""""""""; another the """"""""Home Friend - a weekly miscellany""""""""; a third, the """"""""Saturday Magazine""""""""; a fourth, the """"""""History of Redemption""""""""; and a fifth, the """"""""Family Quarrel - an humble story"""""""".'"""
"""We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on """"""""Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies""""""""; another the """"""""Home Friend - a weekly miscellany""""""""; a third, the """"""""Saturday Magazine""""""""; a fourth, the """"""""History of Redemption""""""""; and a fifth, the """"""""Family Quarrel - an humble story"""""""".'"""
"""We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on """"""""Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies""""""""; another the """"""""Home Friend - a weekly miscellany""""""""; a third, the """"""""Saturday Magazine""""""""; a fourth, the """"""""History of Redemption""""""""; and a fifth, the """"""""Family Quarrel - an humble story"""""""".'"""
"""We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on """"""""Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies""""""""; another the """"""""Home Friend - a weekly miscellany""""""""; a third, the """"""""Saturday Magazine""""""""; a fourth, the """"""""History of Redemption""""""""; and a fifth, the """"""""Family Quarrel - an humble story"""""""".'"""
"""Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we were told, found special consolation in the study of languages, and on the table of his cell was a high pyramid of books, consisting of French and German exercises, with others of a religious character.'"""
"""In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which was especially striking from the generality of prisoners being mere youths. He no sooner saw us enter, than hastily put on his spectacles, he commenced reading, bending his face down as if to hide it from shame... he had once held a high command in the army. He was there for a nameless offence.'"""
"""A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spoken as the copy-book was handed in. The prison-tutor pointed in silence to a mistake, the pupil nodded, and, on another signal, began to read aloud what he had written, """"""""Give to every man that asketh, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask him not again"""""""".'"""
"""Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blots and errors. This man, when repeating his lessons, stumbled over the sentence """"""""There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth"""""""", calling it """"""""genashing"""""""" instead.'"""
"""Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and could not pronounce his """"""""r's"""""""", so that he read out: """"""""Whatsoever is wight that shall ye weceive"""""""". """"""""Do try and pronounce your 'r's' better"""""""", said the master, kindly; and there upon there was a shuffling of feet from the other pupils, as if the only method of laughing under the silent system was with the shoes.'"""
"""A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. He appeared to be absorbed reading. The labour machine stood beside him, with the handle pointing upwards, as if he were exhausted, and was recruiting his strength, by taking a glance at some book which interested him.'"""
"""I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'"""
"""At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two.'"""
"""Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on """"""""The American Conquest"""""""".'"""
"""Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'"""
"""I am now in the middle of G's """"""""Aristotle"""""""", which gives me great delight'"""
"""Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'"""
"""Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'"""
"""[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar mind.  Gibbon.  Roman Empire, Vol 2, Ch 15, pp. 205-6'."""
"""[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'."""
"""Harriet Sharpe """"""""afterwards married Edward Stirling, a close friend of my brother-in-law, Andrew Murray, and I was a great deal interested in the Stirlings and their eight children. Mr William Bakewell, of Bartley & Bakewell, solicitors, married Jane Warren, of Springfield, Barossa, and I was familiar friend of their five children. In one house I was Miss Spence, the storyteller, in the other Miss Spence, the teller of tales. Some of the tales appeared long after as Christmas stories in the “Adelaide Observer”, but my young hearers preferred the oral narrative, with appropriate gestures and emphasis, and had no scruples about making faces, to anything printed in books. I took great liberties with what I had read, and sometimes invented all. It was part of their education, probably – certainly, it was a part of mine, and it gave me a command of language which helped me when I became a public speaker"""""""".' """
"""Reading Mommsen and Story's """"""""Roba di Roma"""""""". Also Liddell's """"""""Rome"""""""", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'."""
"""Reading Mommsen and Story's """"""""Roba di Roma"""""""". Also Liddell's """"""""Rome"""""""", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'."""
"""Reading Mommsen and Story's """"""""Roba di Roma"""""""". Also Liddell's """"""""Rome"""""""", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'."""
"""My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's """"""""Etymological Dictionary"""""""", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the words in a fashion which I can no longer reconstruct, and delighting in the savour of the rich, old-fashioned country phrases. My Father finding me thus employed, fell to wondering at the nature of my persuit, and I could offer him, indeed, no very intelligible explanation of it. He urged me to give up such idleness, and to make practical use of language.'"""
"""Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'"""
"""Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing else until, at fifteen, I discovered Keats and then Shelley.'"""
"""I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial place?  Such a concentration of suave hatred, malice, and uncharitableness surely never was.  The narrative is perfectly delightful.'"""
"""I have just been remonstrating with Mr Knight about a couple of sentences in his charming new volume """"""""Some Passages in a Working Life &c."""""""". He quotes an early and witless sneer of Macaulay's against the Americans, and himself applies and points it in a most offensive way. As he asked for my opinion of the book, I tacked this one bit of remonstrance on the thanks I could honestly give. I must mention (as I did to him) that there is a story about me in it which has not a word of truth in it'."""
"""I am getting on very well with Ovid.'"""
"""How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'"""
"""I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an """"""""Our Hero"""""""" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'"""
"""I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England """"""""The Lost Leader"""""""". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who did not know it; - & we did so grieve!'"""
"""When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'"""
"""When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'"""
"""When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme aloud to her.'"""
"""Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying about Rome of one of the great families, which he wanted me to polish up and get published for him.'"""
"""Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'"""
"""Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'"""
"""Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'"""
"""In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmund Burke and the Annual Register' [Gaskell then provides James Crossley with some more information on this subject].'"""
"""She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and it was perhaps owing to their example that she had taken up the business of writing novels (at 10£ each) for the Minerva Press. I saw some of her tales, which were harmless enough, a weak dilution of Miss Porters in style and plot'."""
"""When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'."""
"""I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read.  I don't suppose my powers are equal to hers - my work to myself looks perfectly pale and colourless beside hers - but yet I have had far more experience and, I think, a fuller conception of life'."""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither the theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""Thank you for sending me the """"""""Times"""""""" with the review.  It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, but it seems to me that the writing of the """"""""Times"""""""" just now is wonderfully bad'."""
"""You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'"""
"""Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'."""
"""I read Prescott again and made notes'"""
"""on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Symonds wants to know if it can go into the Cornhill for January'."""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: """"""""I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Letters of Maurice and Eugenie de Guerin -- (Paris, 1864, 2d Edition.)  I should like to write a notice of the two books combined; or at least of Maurice alone ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: """"""""I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Letters of Maurice and Eugenie de Guerin -- (Paris, 1864, 2d Edition.)  I should like to write a notice of the two books combined; or at least of Maurice alone ..."""""""""""
"""""""""""A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with an elaborate system of marking (underlining ... lines in the margin ... etc); heads for important terms and definitions; corrections to the translation; cross-references to other law books; and occasional comments on matters of history or interpretation.  But a little more than halfway through this volume of 599 pages ... comes a personal note: 'Left off work at this pt to row head of the river 12th May 1864!'"""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: """"""""What are you reading?  I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion.  Interesting subject but middling book."""""""""""
"""So it was you that sent me """"""""Miss Berry""""""""! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that trio, or cares about their times as I do. I have not finished it even yet, I am glad to say. I read it as you do; and moreover, a big book has come in which must be read at once, - Mr Grote's """"""""Plato"""""""". That too is an immense enjoyment in its way. At first, it was pure delight; but as I go on I am rather dismayed at the amount of repetition in it...'."""
"""So it was you that sent me """"""""Miss Berry""""""""! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that trio, or cares about their times as I do. I have not finished it even yet, I am glad to say. I read it as you do; and moreover, a big book has come in which must be read at once, - Mr Grote's """"""""Plato"""""""". That too is an immense enjoyment in its way. At first, it was pure delight; but as I go on I am rather dismayed at the amount of repetition in it...'."""
"""Reading Aeschlyus, """"""""Theatre of the Greeks"""""""", Klein's """"""""History of the Drama"""""""" etc.'"""
"""Reading Aeschlyus, """"""""Theatre of the Greeks"""""""", Klein's """"""""History of the Drama"""""""" etc.'"""
"""Reading Aeschlyus, """"""""Theatre of the Greeks"""""""", Klein's """"""""History of the Drama"""""""" etc.'"""
"""This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'."""
"""A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [italics] rabais [end italics] of so many francs on the price of his entire works to anyone who will buy them.'"""
"""Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'."""
"""the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered objectionable I suppose.'"""
"""I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'."""
"""I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'."""
"""I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'."""
"""I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'."""
"""<italics>Reading the Bible</italics>'"""
"""Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'"""
"""I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading """"""""Tony Butler"""""""" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's """"""""Fireside Travels"""""""".'"""
"""Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol - author of """"""""Jem"""""""" (something) - the Dale Boy, in the Febry or March No of 1864 Fraser's Magazine - She would do it well.'"""
"""are you in a generous humour, and will you give me """"""""the Gayworthys"""""""" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see in reviews.'"""
"""began Hallam's Middle Ages'."""
"""Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'"""
"""Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'"""
"""on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - """"""""What can Charlie have sent this paper for?"""""""" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out """"""""Assassination of President Lincoln"""""""". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else'"""
"""about """"""""Cranford"""""""" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take """"""""Cranford"""""""" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!)  laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'"""
"""about """"""""Cranford"""""""" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take """"""""Cranford"""""""" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!)  laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'"""
"""about """"""""Cranford"""""""" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take """"""""Cranford"""""""" and - I was going to say, [italics] enjoy [end italics] it! (but that would not be pretty!)  laugh over it afresh! [...] I am so glad your mother likes it too! [Gaskell then relates an anecdote that she 'dared not' put in the book]'"""
"""Finished Bamford's """"""""Passages from the life of a Radical"""""""". Have just begun again Mill's """"""""Political Economy"""""""", and Comte's """"""""Social Science"""""""" in Miss Martineau's edition'."""
"""Finished Bamford's """"""""Passages from the life of a Radical"""""""". Have just begun again Mill's """"""""Political Economy"""""""", and Comte's """"""""Social Science"""""""" in Miss Martineau's edition'."""
"""Finished Bamford's """"""""Passages from the life of a Radical"""""""". Have just begun again Mill's """"""""Political Economy"""""""", and Comte's """"""""Social Science"""""""" in Miss Martineau's edition'."""
"""Read Aeschylus before breakfast'."""
"""in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'."""
"""[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the excitement I was in on Saturday night, not knowing whether it was true or not'. [this refers to a newspaper report of her father's abandonment of Catholicism]"""
"""""""""""It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prepared I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and a volume there. I completed The Merchant of Venice, read Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise."""""""""""
""""""""""" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces... This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and a volume there. I completed The Merchant of Venice, read Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise."""""""""""
""""""""""" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast. There was no selection and no exposition; where the last boy sat, there the day's reading ended, even if it were in the middle of a sentence, and there it began next morning."""""""""""
""""""""""" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to buy with them editions of the poets. These were not in those days, as they are now, at the beck and call of every purse, and the attainment of each little masterpiece was a separate triumph. In particular I shall never forget the excitement of teaching at last the exorbitant price the bookseller asked for the only, although imperfect, edition of the poems of S.T.Coleridge. At last I could meet his demand, and my friend and I went down to consummate the solemn purchase. Comimg away with our treasure, we read aloud from the oranged-coloured volume, in turns, as we strolled along, until at last we sat down on the bulging foot of an elm-tree in a secluded lane. Here we stayed, in a sort of poetical nirvana, reading, forgetting the passage of time, until the hour of our neglected mid-day meal was! a long while past, and we had to hurry home to bread and chees and a scolding."""""""""""
""" """""""" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in the book-shop window a volume in which the poetical works of Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe were said to be combined. This I bought at length, and I carried it with me to devour as I trod the desolate road that brought me along the edge of the cliff on Saturday afternoons. Ben Jonson I could make nothing of..."""""""""""
""""""""""" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the book-shop window a volume in which the poetical works of Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe were said to be combined.This I bought at length, and I carried it with me to devour as I trod the desolate road that brought me along the edge of the cliff on Saturday afternoons. Ben Jonson I could make nothing of, but when I turned to 'Hero and Leander' I was lifted to a heaven of passion and music. It was a marvellous revelation of romantic beauty to me, and as paced along that lonely and exquisite highway, with its immense command of the sea, and its peeps ever now and then, through slanting thickets, far down to the snow-white shingle, I lifted up my voice, singing the verses, as I strolled along..[quote]so it wenton, and I thought I had never read anything so lovely...[quote]it all seemed to my fancy intoxicating beyond anything I had ever even dreamed of, since I had not yet become aquainted with any of the modern romanticists."""""""""""
""""""""""" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It is remarkable to me now, and a disconcerting proof of my still almost infantile innocence, that, having induced her to settle to her knitting, I began, without hesitation, to read Marlowe's voluptuous poem aloud to that blameless Christian gentlewoman. We got on very well in the opening, but at the episode of Cupid's pining, my stepmother's needles began nervously to clash, and when we launched on the description of Leander's person, she interruptedme by saying, rather sharply, 'give me that book, please, I should like to read the rest to myself.' I resigned the reading in amazement, and was stupefied to see her take the volume, shut it with a snap and hide it under her needlework. Nor could I extract from her another word on the subject."""""""" [Gosse goes on to tell how his Father told him off, and burned the book]"""
"""Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (July 1865): """"""""Arnold read this review and praised it to his friends unaware it was the work of a twenty-two-year-old novice."""""""""""
"""It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, """"""""The Tempest"""""""", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces. This I read through and through, not disdaining the help of the notes, and revelling in the glossary. I studied """"""""The Tempest"""""""" as I had hitherto studied no classic work, and it filled my whole being with music and romance. This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes.'"""
"""It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, """"""""The Tempest"""""""", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume here and there. I completed """"""""The Merchant of Venice"""""""", read """"""""Cymbeline"""""""", """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""", and """"""""Much Ado""""""""; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise.'"""
"""It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, """"""""The Tempest"""""""", in a school edition, prepared, I suppose, for one of the university examinations which were then being instituted in the provinces...This book was my own hoarded possession; the rest of Shakespeare's works were beyond my hopes. But gradually I contrived to borrow a volume there. I completed """"""""The Merchant of Venice"""""""", read """"""""Cymbeline"""""""", """"""""Julius Caesar"""""""", and """"""""Much Ado""""""""; most of the others, I think, remained closed to me for a long time. But these were enough to steep my horizon with all the colours of sunrise.'"""
"""Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love is.'"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his """"""""History of England"""""""" and some of his essays.?	"""
"""?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some of the shorter poems ? """"""""The Daffodils"""""""", """"""""The Highland Girl"""""""", """"""""The Solitary Reaper"""""""" and other gems ? and invited me to read them aloud, Joe?s quick ear soon detected that I read with the spirit as well as with the understanding, and, thus tutored, I quickly became a devoted Wordsworthian.?"""
"""Opening the """"""""Newcastle Chronicle"""""""" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed """"""""A Coalowner"""""""". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe against the strikers, the Miner's Union, and the Secretary of the Union.'"""
"""?I now read for the first time """"""""The Tempest"""""""", """"""""Measure for Measure"""""""", """"""""Love?s Labour?s Lost"""""""", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, among [them] the greatest creations of the human intellect ? """"""""Hamlet"""""""", """"""""Macbeth"""""""", """"""""Othello"""""""" and """"""""Lear"""""""". From no """"""""edition de luxe"""""""" did I read. The plays were published by Dick, cost me one penny each, a sum well suited to my means. No matter that the price was small and the paper poor; no matter that there were neither theatre nor stage, neither actors or orchestra. All the more scope was given to fancy and imagination.?"""
"""?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his """"""""History of England"""""""" and some of his essays.'"""
"""?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some of the shorter poems ? """"""""The Daffodils"""""""", """"""""The Highland Girl"""""""", """"""""The Solitary Reaper"""""""" and other gems ? and invited me to read them aloud, Joe?s quick ear soon detected that I read with the spirit as well as with the understanding, and, thus tutored, I quickly became a devoted Wordsworthian.?"""
"""?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some of the shorter poems ? """"""""The Daffodils"""""""", """"""""The Highland Girl"""""""", """"""""The Solitary Reaper"""""""" and other gems ? and invited me to read them aloud, Joe?s quick ear soon detected that I read with the spirit as well as with the understanding, and, thus tutored, I quickly became a devoted Wordsworthian.?"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the """"""""Morgesons"""""""" and """"""""Two Men,"""""""" I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) when they originally appeared [...] I seem to remember even having """"""""noticed"""""""" the second (probably in the """"""""Nation"""""""" and very badly).'"""
"""Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should [italics] so [end italics] like to have it [italics] from him [end italics].'"""
"""I have been reading Villemarque's """"""""Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons"""""""".'"""
"""Finished """"""""Annual Register"""""""" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'."""
"""Finished """"""""Annual Register"""""""" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'."""
"""Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's """"""""Histoire de Charles XII"""""""" bears the autograph and date """"""""Oscar Wilde September 2nd 1865 [...] On page 171 the ten-year-old boy has written the words """"""""Oscar 8 November 1865"""""""", no doubt to mark his remarkable progress with the demanding French text.'"""
"""[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselves seem to carry one so [italics] up [end italics] into a [""""""""]purer aether, a diviner air"""""""".'"""
"""You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my """"""""very very own"""""""" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'"""
"""You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my """"""""very very own"""""""" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'"""
"""You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my """"""""very very own"""""""" (as the children say,) and with that charming little bit of writing from you at the beginning. I don't mean that I did not delight in the book from the very first time I read a page in it; but the sense of property in it gives a double value, and the sense of successful beggary is very charming, though perhaps I ought to be ashamed. Only I am [italics] not [end italics], because I [italics] am [end italics] successful. I have known you so long! I knew serious poems of yours long ago, - twenty years or so; but my personal knowledge of you began in Rome 1857, - when (did you know it?) you and one other went about with the dear Storys, and me and mine up and down Rome [in the sense, it seems, that Charles Eliot Norton spoke much of Lowell - this is elaborated on...] Well then the Bigelow papers - I think I could stand a Civil Service Examination in them; and we had three copies of our own, till a little daughter married, and carried off one.'"""
"""Of course you have seen the squib on him in the """"""""Examiner"""""""" (""""""""Mr Sampson""""""""). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. """"""""D. News"""""""" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the """"""""Times"""""""" did it yesterday'."""
"""I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's (""""""""Mary Eyre"""""""" of the Times) """"""""A Lady's Walks in the South of France"""""""". What a disgusting book it is, - a begging book, avowedly written to get money, and disclosing the family poverty, and bemoaning herself all the way through, and preaching and censuring, right and left, and with such adulation of Brougham, as the patron!'."""
"""Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember """"""""auctoritate magis quam imperio"""""""" and his mother Carmenta.'"""
"""Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, p. 194, for Greek character.)'"""
"""Finished Depping's """"""""Juifs au Moyen Age"""""""". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'."""
"""Finished Depping's """"""""Juifs au Moyen Age"""""""". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'."""
"""Finished Depping's """"""""Juifs au Moyen Age"""""""". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'."""
"""As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's """"""""Elizabeth"""""""". I did not mean to read it, - being disgusted by his dishonest treatment of evidence in his """"""""Henry"""""""": but the review notices tempted me at last; and I find """"""""Elizabeth"""""""" extremely entertaining, - however provoking'."""
"""Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle """"""""with lacquer made of soot or lampblack"""""""". """"""""Daily Telegraph"""""""". June 15th, 1866, p. 5 last column but one. Conf. Henry's white plume and Achilles' crest.' """
"""I open psalter in evening at """"""""respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam"""""""".'"""
"""Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: """"""""I loved those books that other boys love and I love them still. I well remember a little scene which took place when I was a child of eight or nine. Robinson Crusoe held me in its grasp and I was expected to go to church. I hid beneath a bed with Robinson Crusoe and was in due course discovered by an elder sister and governess, who, on my refusing to come out, resorted to force. Then followed a struggle that was quite Homeric. The two ladies tugged as best they might, but I clung to Crusoe and the legs of the bed, and kicked till, perfectly exhausted, they took their departure in no very Christian frame of mind, leaving me panting indeed, but triumphant"""""""".'"""
"""Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'"""
"""Fan lent me the """"""""Cornhill"""""""", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it will do harm, - to himself at all events'."""
"""Of course you have seen the squib on him in the """"""""Examiner"""""""" (""""""""Mr Sampson""""""""). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. """"""""D. News"""""""" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the """"""""Times"""""""" did it yesterday'."""
"""Of course you have seen the squib on him in the """"""""Examiner"""""""" (""""""""Mr Sampson""""""""). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. """"""""D. News"""""""" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the """"""""Times"""""""" did it yesterday'."""
"""I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's """"""""Passages in the Life &c"""""""". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, months or years ago. I did not like the look of it in the notices I saw: but I let it come in the Mudie box; and I have been almost terribly interested in it... His face and voice come back with a painful vividness while I read... Some tremendous glimpses in this book are like inspiration...'"""
"""May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster] knowing my father's love of science had asked masters interested in geology, botany and archaeology to meet him [...] At the request of Mrs Bradley he read """"""""The Northern Farmer,"""""""" and then criticised amusingly some of the boys' Prize Poems which Bradley had asked him to look through.'"""
"""Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'."""
"""So it is <italics>you</italics> who send me the """"""""Pall Mall""""""""! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unlike any other!'."""
"""Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'"""
"""Read """"""""Anne Babi"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying literature mixed with 'light conversation' after your style."""""""""""
"""Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'."""
"""Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy]."""
"""I have read Bragelonne'."""
"""At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.'"""
"""Read """"""""Bleak House"""""""" in evening'"""
"""Finished """"""""Henry the Fourth"""""""", 1st part.'"""
"""May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read """"""""Guinevere,"""""""" refusing however enthronement in a large arm-chair, and asserting it was """"""""too conspicuous.""""""""'"""
"""I have taken up the idea of my drama, """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'."""
"""I have taken up the idea of my drama, """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'."""
"""I have taken up the idea of my drama, """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'."""
"""I have taken up the idea of my drama, """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'."""
"""In """"""""Telegraph"""""""" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'"""
"""I think the praise of the """"""""Saturday Review"""""""" and the """"""""Times"""""""" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's """"""""Felix Holt""""""""] and neither daring to say so, except in the most timid way - proves this conclusively.'"""
"""I think the praise of the """"""""Saturday Review"""""""" and the """"""""Times"""""""" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's """"""""Felix Holt""""""""] and neither daring to say so, except in the most timid way - proves this conclusively.'"""
"""I have got two copies of """"""""Felix Holt"""""""" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it.  It leaves an impression on my mind as of """"""""Hamlet"""""""" played by six sets of gravediggers.  Of course it will be a successful book, but I think chiefly because """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" and """"""""Silas Marner"""""""" went before it.  Now that I have read it, I have given up the idea of reviewing it.'"""
""""""""""" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more offensive to the eyesight than would in these days appear conceivable..."""""""""""
""""""""""" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me."""""""""""
"""""""""""But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of his ediface."""""""""""
""""""""""" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young."""""""""""
"""""""""""But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to penetrate, but my stepmother lent me 'The Golden Treasury' in which almost everything seemed exquisite."""""""""""
"""""""""""But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible to penetrate, but my stepmother lent me 'The Golden Treasury' in which almost everything seemed exquisite."""""""""""
""""""""""" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco that the work shone only poor [on my] shelf of sixpenny poets like a duchess among dairy-maids. He extracted from me a written promise that I would translate and meditate upon a portion of the Greek text every morning before I started for business. This promise I presently failed to keep, my good intentions being undermined by an invincible ennui."""""""""""
"""""""""""Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to me- and the increasing languor with which I took up Alford for my daily 'passage' [i.e.of Bible study]."""""""""""
"""""""""""Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to me -and the increasing languor with which I took up Alford formy daily 'passage' [i.e of Bible study]."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: """""""" ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with Mrs. Stowe, in the N[orth]. A[merican]. R[eview].  I have been re-reading two or three of her books and altho' I see them to be full of pleasant qualities, they lack those solid merits wh. an indistinct recollection of them had caused me to attribute to them ..."""""""""""
"""Read """"""""Anne Babi"""""""" to my mother in evening'"""
"""Today began Plato's """"""""Laws"""""""" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'"""
"""Mama up again, read nice bits of """"""""Anne Babi"""""""" to her after dinner'"""
"""I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'."""
"""I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'."""
"""I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'."""
"""I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'."""
"""[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] """"""""Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of Pompei and Theocritus with the religious feeling of St Francis and the German Reformation. Contrasts the religion of sorrow as he is pleased to call Christianity with the religion of sense, giving to the former for the sake of propriety a slight pre-eminence over the latter"""""""". She does not like the famous """"""""Preface"""""""" at all. """"""""The 'Preface' is rich and has the fault which the author professes to avoid, that of being amusing. as for the seductiveness of Oxford, its moonlight charms and Romeo and Juliet character, I think Uncle Matt is slightly inclined to ride the high horse whenever he approaches the subject"""""""".'"""
"""I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'."""
"""I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'."""
"""I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'."""
"""[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the """"""""Weekly Examiner"""""""", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was suddenly snatched from my hands by my landlady, who sternly asked me if I thought reading a newspaper on a Sunday morning was proper behaviour in the house of a God-fearing couple.' """
"""finished """"""""Lady of Glynne"""""""".'"""
"""Reading the Iliad, book III'."""
"""Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'."""
"""Read """"""""All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia"""""""" out of my book on top of the highest.'"""
"""I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or two, """"""""The Lost Tales of Miletus"""""""".'"""
"""Read """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""" to end in evening.'"""
"""Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first reading.'"""
"""Read Jean Ingelow'"""
"""Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'"""
"""The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'"""
"""Read """"""""There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water"""""""" &c. to """"""""These make ready"""""""".'"""
"""Take Mr Lillyvick's """"""""I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge"""""""" as an example of people's having """"""""a right to their opinion"""""""".'"""
"""?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetorically, but partly, it may be, from another cause. I cannot look upon theological dogmas with the same kind of indifference that you do. ? Now ?Ecce Homo? may be amiable & enthusiastic & all that; but in a theological point of view, it is to me hateful. It is a feeble attempt to make sentimental oratory do the work of logic, & to supersede all criticism by a sort of a priori gush of enthusiasm.? """
"""Pleasant tea and """"""""Nigel"""""""", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Averroes and l'Averroisme"""""""", and """"""""Les Medecins Juifs"""""""". Reading """"""""First Principles"""""""".'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Averroes and l'Averroisme"""""""", and """"""""Les Medecins Juifs"""""""". Reading """"""""First Principles"""""""".'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Averroes and l'Averroisme"""""""", and """"""""Les Medecins Juifs"""""""". Reading """"""""First Principles"""""""".'"""
"""There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.' """
""".'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'"""
"""Finished """"""""Quentin Durward""""""""'"""
"""Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'"""
"""Read the gist of """"""""Ecce Homo"""""""".'"""
"""Fan Arnold lends me the """"""""Spectator"""""""", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as some other people are. Its smartness is degenerating into impertinence very fast; and its insolence is so absurd in partnership with its incredible ignorance of the world and of social matters'."""
"""The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and Wm 4th (Lady Elgin's copy). I must not begin on either of them, or I shall write myself dead. I could not have supposed that any book could stir me as the Edgeworth correspondence does...'"""
"""The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and Wm 4th (Lady Elgin's copy). I must not begin on either of them, or I shall write myself dead. I could not have supposed that any book could stir me as the Edgeworth correspondence does...'"""
"""Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'"""
"""""""""""A little book we had in the house"""""""" led him, """"""""Almost as early as I can remember"""""""", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's """"""""Classical Dctionary"""""""" """"""""Fell into my hands when I was eight"""""""" (as he said in his old age) and """"""""attached my affections to paganism"""""""".'"""
"""Began """"""""Tour de Jacob"""""""" again.'"""
"""I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'"""
"""Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'"""
"""Read 61st Psalm'"""
"""Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading """"""""Ormond"""""""".'"""
"""Strangely, instead of Plato, took up """"""""Lady Audley's Secret"""""""" this morning.'"""
"""Later on, a publication called the """"""""Penny Cyclopaedia"""""""" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'"""
"""Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.'"""
"""Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and grammar - and his dazzling success in classical examinations, which focused on linguistic issues, suggest that he was, in his own words, a lover of the """"""""small points"""""""" of language and literature.'"""
"""""""""""The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was,"""""""" one of his peers recalled, """"""""a thing not easily to be forgotten."""""""" He """"""""startled everyone"""""""", too, """"""""in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was,"""""""" one of his peers recalled, """"""""a thing not easily to be forgotten."""""""" He """"""""startled everyone"""""""", too, """"""""in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was,"""""""" one of his peers recalled, """"""""a thing not easily to be forgotten."""""""" He """"""""startled everyone"""""""", too, """"""""in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was,"""""""" one of his peers recalled, """"""""a thing not easily to be forgotten."""""""" He """"""""startled everyone"""""""", too, """"""""in the classical medal examination, by walking easily away from us all in the viva voce on [Aeschylus's] 'Agamemnon'"""""""".'"""
"""His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caricature he loathed Dickens's moralising.'"""
"""Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza literally passed her passion on to her youngest son by lending him several Disraeli novels. Wilde was ravished by the books...'"""
"""Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: """"""""I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ... I enjoy Taine more almost than I do any one; but his philosophy of things strikes me as essentially superficial and as if subsisting in the most undignified subservience to his passion for description ... I have also read the last new Mondays of Ste.B, and always with increasing pleasure."""""""""""
"""Read """"""""Lady of Glynne"""""""" in evening.'"""
"""Chess and """"""""Quentin Durward"""""""".'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: """"""""I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm's novel ... I liked your article very much ... It struck me as ... very readable.  I copied it forthwith and sent it to the Nation."""""""""""
"""I am reading Mr Procter's """"""""Ch.Lamb"""""""", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though half-ashamed to own it. Mrs Grote sends me her vol: of """"""""Collected Papers"""""""", and some unpublished records of our time, - very interesting. They and I seemed to have rushed into a more vigorous intercourse than ever, as by a sort of accident'."""
"""I am reading Mr Procter's """"""""Ch.Lamb"""""""", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though half-ashamed to own it. Mrs Grote sends me her vol: of """"""""Collected Papers"""""""", and some unpublished records of our time, - very interesting. They and I seemed to have rushed into a more vigorous intercourse than ever, as by a sort of accident'."""
"""I am reading Mr Procter's """"""""Ch.Lamb"""""""", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though half-ashamed to own it. Mrs Grote sends me her vol: of """"""""Collected Papers"""""""", and some unpublished records of our time, - very interesting. They and I seemed to have rushed into a more vigorous intercourse than ever, as by a sort of accident'."""
"""37th Psalm in evening!'"""
"""Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'"""
"""Reading """"""""Los Judios en Espana"""""""", """"""""Percy's Reliques"""""""", """"""""Isis"""""""", occasionally aloud'."""
"""Reading """"""""Los Judios en Espana"""""""", """"""""Percy's Reliques"""""""", """"""""Isis"""""""", occasionally aloud'."""
"""Reading """"""""Los Judios en Espana"""""""", """"""""Percy's Reliques"""""""", """"""""Isis"""""""", occasionally aloud'."""
"""?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. We have a lot of effete things in this blessed old country & a good rush over Niagara will do us all good in the world? Only it is melancholy to see him begging the aristocracy to come & help poor England out of the slough. If that is it, we shall have to stick there, I fear, till doomsday.?"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: """"""""Here I have been ... all summer and here I expect to stay.  You may imagine that existence has not been thrilling or exciting.  I have seen no one and done nothing -- unless it be read; which I have done to some extent."""""""""""
"""""""""""I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what you think of it. It has been a great success here having already passed six editions & being undeniably amusing. My own opinion about it is perhaps coloured by my opinion of Dixon, wh. I further believe to be almost the universal opinion? I think him an offensive snob. ? I think that his book is flashy & written entirely for effect & would probably give to most people a highly incorrect notion. Especially I fancy that he absurdly exaggerates the numbers & importance of Shakers, Junkers, &c&c &c even of Mormons ? but most of all the Spiritualists. Also, though his facts may be right, I should guess the colouring to be wrong. You may tell me what you think if you take the trouble to read the book; but I believe it will give to most English readers the impression that nearly all Americans believe in Spirittrapping, that most of them are either disbelievers in matrimony & hell ? or practisers of polygamy and that a large number live in queer phalansteries or other Socialist contrivances.?  """
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: """"""""I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ... I enjoy Taine more almost than I do any one; but his philosoph of things strikes me as essentially superficial and as if subsisting in the most undignified subservience to his passion for description ... I have also read the last new Mondays of Ste.B, and always with increasing pleasure."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: """"""""I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volumes.  It's all charming (if you are not too particular about the exact truth) but especially the two 1st volumes, containing a series of letters from her father, written during Napoleon's campaigns."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: """"""""In English I have read nothing new, except M. Arnold's New Poems, which of course you will see or have seen."""""""""""
"""I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'."""
"""Reading <italics>Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe</italics>'."""
"""Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'."""
"""Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'"""
"""Read Exper: of Sister of Mercy.'"""
"""From Emily Tennyson's journal, 11 January 1868: 'A. read the article on the Talmud by Deutsch.'"""
"""Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'"""
"""I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's """"""""Madamoiselle de Merquem"""""""", and listening to noise of marriage party.'"""
"""Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'"""
"""""""""""Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's minister for some good end.'"""""""""""
"""Then rested, and read Topffer's """"""""Nouvelles Genevoises"""""""" - excellent talk but no """"""""nouvelles"""""""".'"""
"""All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text is Macaulay's History of England. RLS has been referring to pages 530-535, and 616-630 in his research for the play he is writing entitled Monmouth."""
"""Boys finishing their maps. Finish reading to them Ocean Waifs.'"""
"""Looked at Mrs Browning's """"""""last poems"""""""" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judgement.'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: """"""""I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy.  A good deal of French, of which, at times, I get pretty sick."""""""""""
"""""""""""Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.' [....] 'Where wast though when I laid the foundations of the earth? ... Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' And so on to the end:'Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty answer him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.'"""""""""""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'."""
"""It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect satisfaction, as he lay on the bed not being very well at the time, the proofs of his translation of Victor Hugo's """"""""Toilers of the Sea"""""""". Such was[...] my first introduction to the sea in literature. [...] I am not likely to forget the process of being trained in the art of reading aloud.'"""
"""You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""-- then go on with """"""""Deerslayer"""""""" and end with the """"""""Prairie"""""""". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the  language and content.  """
"""You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""-- then go on with """"""""Deerslayer"""""""" and end with the """"""""Prairie"""""""". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the  language and content.  """
"""You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with """"""""The Last of the Mohicans""""""""-- then go on with """"""""Deerslayer"""""""" and end with the """"""""Prairie"""""""". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the  language and content.  """
"""Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'."""
"""Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'"""
"""The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?"""
"""I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'"""
"""The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the detective prime?”"""
"""[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'."""
"""[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'."""
"""J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures'"""
"""I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'."""
"""I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'."""
"""I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'."""
"""I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'."""
"""I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'."""
"""J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'"""
""". H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'."""
"""J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'. """
"""I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's """"""""History of Morals"""""""". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'."""
"""I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's """"""""History of Morals"""""""". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'."""
"""I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's """"""""History of Morals"""""""". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'."""
"""J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'"""
"""Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon'"""
"""G. finished reading """"""""Seraphime"""""""" aloud to me'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's """"""""Universal History"""""""" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's """"""""Litterature du Midi"""""""", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in """"""""the Vegetable World"""""""". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'."""
"""We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared to me to be more beneficial to his health and spirits than anything he had yet tried. He used to go out and buy a heap of these trashy diatribes every day, bringing in an armful to our apartment at Meurice's [...] moreover, I own to having spent much time over the """"""""trash"""""""" in question, myself.'"""
"""We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, which Grote devoured with avidity, of course, appeared to me to be more beneficial to his health and spirits than anything he had yet tried. He used to go out and buy a heap of these trashy diatribes every day, bringing in an armful to our apartment at Meurice's [...] moreover, I own to having spent much time over the """"""""trash"""""""" in question, myself.'"""
"""""""""""From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard that the lords [sic] have given in about the Irish church. I am far too sick of the whole subject to make any reflections upon it, and am chiefly longing to get beyond the reach of newspapers myself."""""""""""
"""Finished studying again Bekker's """"""""Charikles"""""""" yesterday'."""
"""I am reading Maundeville's """"""""Travels"""""""".'"""
"""Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'"""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'."""
"""In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and """"""""double life"""""""". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'."""
"""In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and """"""""double life"""""""". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'."""
"""In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and """"""""double life"""""""". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'."""
"""In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and """"""""double life"""""""". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'."""
"""J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations'  """
"""I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'"""
"""I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'"""
"""I read about Fourier and Owen'"""
"""J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew'"""
"""Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'"""
"""Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'"""
"""""""""""A little book we had in the house"""""""" led him, """"""""Almost as early as I can remember"""""""", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's """"""""Classical Dictionary"""""""" """"""""Fell into my hands when I was eight"""""""" (as he said in his old age) and """"""""attached my affections to paganism"""""""".'"""
"""[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty'."""
"""Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and """"""""I promessi sposi"""""""". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'."""
"""Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and """"""""I promessi sposi"""""""". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'."""
"""I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week.  I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less difficulty in getting through him than in reading Fielding, and that as a matter of taste I actually prefer Lovelace to Tom Jones! I suppose that is one of the differences between men and women which even Ladies' Colleges will not set to rights.'"""
"""I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week.  I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less difficulty in getting through him than in reading Fielding, and that as a matter of taste I actually prefer Lovelace to Tom Jones! I suppose that is one of the differences between men and women which even Ladies' Colleges will not set to rights.'"""
"""Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's """"""""L'Homme qui rit"""""""". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel """"""""Ein Arzt der Seele"""""""".'"""
"""Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's """"""""L'Homme qui rit"""""""". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel """"""""Ein Arzt der Seele"""""""".'"""
"""Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's """"""""L'Homme qui rit"""""""". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel """"""""Ein Arzt der Seele"""""""".'"""
"""J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interesting.' """
"""Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: """"""""I have of course no company but my own [in Rome], but in the intervals of sightseeing find a rare satisfaction in the long-denied perusal of a book.  I have been reading Stendhal -- a capital observer and a good deal of a thinker.  He really knows Italy."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, from Lake Como: """"""""I read yesterday in the Times the news of the defeat of the Harvard crew on the Thames."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: """"""""[after crossing Bernadine pass] I ... pursued my way ... to the village of Splugen, where I was glad to halt and rest and where I diverted myself the rest of the day, as I lay, supine, with Mrs. Stowe's Old Town Folks, which I found kicking about, and which struck me under the circumstances as a work of singular and delicious perfection."""""""""""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud """"""""The Arabian Nights"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", the """"""""Iliad"""""""" and """"""""Odyssey"""""""", Shakespeare, and, above all, Scott's novels ...'"""
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""""""""""Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and novels by Captain Marryat, the Brontes, and Miss M. E. Braddon."""""""" """
"""Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: """""""" [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."""""""""""
"""Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: """""""" [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."""""""""""
"""Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: """""""" [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."""""""""""
"""Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: """""""" [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."""""""""""
"""Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'."""
"""I am reading Renouard's """"""""History of Medicine""""""""'"""
"""The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the later'."""
"""In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the """"""""Promessi Sposi"""""""", and afterwards the """"""""Spectator"""""""", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'."""
"""In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the """"""""Promessi Sposi"""""""", and afterwards the """"""""Spectator"""""""", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'."""
"""In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministry all sorts of rumours however & very various combinations.  The Evening Paper states that nothing yet is known & I suppose that is most likely. '"""
""" In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects.  I asked what sort of a place the """"""""Oriental Saloon"""""""" was as an article had appeared in the """"""""The Age"""""""" which made it out to be a terribly dissipated place & one that ought to be put down.  It seemed that at first the waitresses had been dressed as Bloomers.  Their costume was then altered & instead of trousers, they wore short skirts & spangled dresses.  White said it was all humbug so far as the description of The Age went & asked me to go in for a moment & have a look.  The Age article had evidently excited a good deal of curiosity for numbers were evidently judging for themselves, among others was the Editor of The Australasian & several friends.'"""
"""then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch'"""
"""After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics'"""
"""In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
""" In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.'"""
"""Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband.  The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man used to beat her brutally on Saturday night however he struck her once too often & ended the miserable life she was leading.  From the report of the case in the papers it seems the woman was brutally ill treated & that before life was extinct she must have been fearfully battered.  The handle of a saucepan was used'"""
"""After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'"""
""" In the Australasian of yesterday """"""""The Peripatetic"""""""" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of Free Speech for a mess of official porridge in other words Marcus Clarke the Peripatetic has been appointed Secretary to the (illegible) [Union?]. The Australasian will miss the P.P.s column.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon'"""
"""After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at all so Polly & I both regretted the expenditure of the sixpence.'"""
"""After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper came out under difficulties this week, not being able to raise a """"""""cartoon"""""""" the Artist having struck for """"""""wages"""""""" I expect'"""
"""My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the article on the Dunedin Gaol, written 10 Feb]"""
"""Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'"""
"""Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my """"""""Copy"""""""" had been used, it did not appear but there was a notice to the effect that the letters of several Correspondents &c had been held over until Saturday. “The Lancashire Lass” is probably among them I hope not for perhaps it would be better burnt.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating """"""""Butler"""""""" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches'"""
"""'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating """"""""Butler"""""""" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches ... Glanced over the Comic Papers some of them very amusing. Got home by nine o clock'"""
"""Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'"""
"""Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'"""
"""A fine day.  In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner who was discharged to take away.  They were more serious than usual as they asked for articles to be supplied to facilitate escape of some well known vagabonds convicted last Sessions.  I showed the letters to the Sheriff & called with the letters at the Detective office.'"""
"""In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which """"""""my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a previous article"""""""" was """"""""readily excused"""""""" """"""""in consideration of my evident desire to improve the system in vogue at the Establishment of which I was the Head"""""""". I was called “Zealous & intelligent” & then (without acknowledgement) my views as expressed to the sub-editor were put forth as the “correct card”.'"""
"""Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'"""
"""Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through """"""""The Suggestion Book"""""""" in which there were a great many sarcastic remarks some of which showed not over good feeling on the part of some of the members one to the other'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through """"""""The Suggestion Book"""""""" in which there were a great many sarcastic remarks some of which showed not over good feeling on the part of some of the members one to the other'"""
"""Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail.   After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'"""
"""Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail.   After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'"""
"""After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazines had not been opened out.'"""
"""After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.'"""
"""Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance'"""
"""The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough.  It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'"""
"""The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough.  It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'"""
"""Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.'"""
"""In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'"""
"""In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'"""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: """"""""With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I think mentioned.  I read at the same time in an Atlantic borrowed from the Nortons, your article on the woman business ... your Atlantic article I decidedly liked ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: """"""""With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I think mentioned.  I read at the same time in an Atlantic borrowed from the Nortons, your article on the woman business ... your Atlantic article I decidedly liked ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: """"""""I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."""""""""""
"""Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser.  Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discovery of the letters received by Stewart, was in Saturday's paper.  There was also a paragraph calling attention to the Reward & remarking that the Government had fully exonerated Glennon & paid his expenses.'"""
"""After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld by the Judges & that his sentence would have to be carried out.  When I left the Reading Room it was raining rather heavily'"""
"""Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening """"""""Castieau"""""""" was mentioned among the passengers in a Steam-boat from Sydney felt convinced however it was a mistake as I have never heard of any one of our name on this side of the world excepting my sisters & myself.'"""
"""Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found it was too true'"""
"""In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'"""
"""Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers'"""
"""Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it was a most withering attack & Disreali (sic) can but wince pretty smartly at it though of course as far as the Book itself goes it is very likely to help sell it'"""
"""Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals on the table of the Reading Room, came home & went to bed.'"""
"""After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide.  In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'"""
"""After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide.  In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'"""
"""After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide.  In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'"""
"""Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I  had written some week or more since on “The Lancashire Lass”.'"""
"""After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys'"""
"""Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of """"""""Edwin Drood"""""""" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'"""
"""Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of """"""""Edwin Drood"""""""" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'"""
"""Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of """"""""Edwin Drood"""""""" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'"""
"""went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'"""
"""I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of """"""""Touchstone"""""""". There's nothing in it.'"""
"""Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy & then went to bed'"""
"""called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them'"""
"""I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had some toddy'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.'"""
"""then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate copy of a Photograph of Bismarck'"""
"""After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two'"""
"""went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers'"""
"""after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street'"""
"""then went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about """"""""Supple"""""""" read the papers then came home.'"""
"""after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'"""
"""After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys were however calling out the arrival of the Mail so I suppose I was too early for the intelligence she brought & that it appeared later in the evening in a second edition'"""
"""Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.'"""
"""Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick'"""
"""Read of Empress Theodora'"""
"""During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded.  Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church.  It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'"""
"""During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded.  Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church.  It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'"""
"""After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'"""
"""After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'"""
"""After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'"""
"""I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'"""
"""went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this month, one cartoon especially a Study in the Palace of Versailles, the king of Prussia Booted & spurred, yet in an easy chair having a pipe over the Plans of Paris & wearing a self satisfied air, behind him the shades of Louis the fourteenth & Napoleon  """"""""Is this the end of all the triumphs""""""""  Another Cartoon represents """"""""a real German defeat"""""""" the Marquis of Lorn with his royal bride leaning fondly on him while in the distance are to be seen a crowd of Uniformed, Whiskered & bewaxed German princes wailing, & gnashing at the sight though still sucking away at their Meerchaums.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner'"""
"""A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & then blew his own head nearly off.'"""
"""Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day.  Paris was according to a Telegram from Mr Verdon being bombarded.  The bombardment commenced on October 1st. Metz had capitulated & the Prussian Star was still in the ascendant'"""
"""I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it.  And I admire immensely the """"""""Peasant Life"""""""".'"""
"""I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it.  And I admire immensely the """"""""Peasant Life"""""""".'"""
"""Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'"""
"""A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'"""
"""A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'"""
"""Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous.  This evening I read them a fairy tale & they seemed very much delighted.  Went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics, then returned'"""
"""Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous.  This evening I read them a fairy tale & they seemed very much delighted.  Went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics, then returned'"""
"""After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea.  In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed  tolerably early'"""
"""After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea.  In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed  tolerably early'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.'"""
"""In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ladies returned I did a little reading & then took some grog & went to bed.'"""
"""In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ladies returned I did a little reading & then took some grog & went to bed.'"""
"""After muster went into Melbourne & called at """"""""the Yorick"""""""", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not a very flattering one but still a good likeness.  The letter-press added to the picture was kindly worded so I suppose the doctor will not be very much displeased though the lips are represented as decidedly heavy & his general expression rather more sleepy than intellectual looking'"""
"""""""""""Midsummer Night's Dream"""""""" in evening'"""
"""Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by """"""""a woman"""""""" """"""""on women"""""""" in the Broadway Magazine.  I skipped all the hits at the man & [read?] all the slaps the women got.  Polly found me out & called me deceitful.'"""
"""Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read till I was tired then went to bed.'"""
"""An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout” the letter was ably written & I received in it a severe handling.  Quantities of works performed & Prices charged for some were given & the correctness of the Gaoler’s report confirmed in a most satisfactory manner.  Yet """"""""A man convinced against his will"""""""" """"""""Is of the same opinion still"""""""".'"""
"""I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book'"""
"""Went to """"""""The Yorick"""""""" & read the English Punches'"""
"""went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled.  Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside """"""""the Argus office"""""""" as follows """"""""The Prussians are in Paris"""""""" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys.  Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'"""
"""went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled.  Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside """"""""the Argus office"""""""" as follows """"""""The Prussians are in Paris"""""""" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys.  Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'"""
"""Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'"""
"""After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the """"""""Mechanics"""""""" & afterwards at the """"""""Yorick"""""""".  Saw in the Evening Paper that a Bank Accountant at Geelong was supposed to have embezzled a considerable sum of money & to have gone to Fidgi, should this be true it will be another great scandal as Mr Farrell the person accused was a very old resident of Geelong & much respected by the inhabitants of that place'"""
"""After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the """"""""Mechanics"""""""" & afterwards at the """"""""Yorick"""""""".  Saw in the Evening Paper that a Bank Accountant at Geelong was supposed to have embezzled a considerable sum of money & to have gone to Fidgi, should this be true it will be another great scandal as Mr Farrell the person accused was a very old resident of Geelong & much respected by the inhabitants of that place'"""
"""Went into town in the evening & read the papers.'"""
"""In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals.   The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read'"""
"""In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals.   The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read'"""
"""My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.  Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have been obliged to abandon the field'"""
"""went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the """"""""funny"""""""" periodicals'"""
"""Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of """"""""Earl"""""""" as Second favourite for the Metropolitan. This is one of the horses that Ellis & I have in our double Metn. & Cup'"""
""" I passed the morning reading the Australasian'"""
"""Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 21st.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.  Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretensions blew his brains out yesterday.  This suicide has created much sensation'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall from his horse'"""
"""Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.'"""
"""then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'"""
"""After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading """"""""The Home News"""""""" particularly interesting in this war time.'"""
"""I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by """"""""Yates"""""""", then smoking & thinking for a change'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers'"""
"""Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'"""
"""Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'"""
"""I went to """"""""the Mechanics"""""""" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'"""
"""After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'"""
"""After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'"""
"""Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'"""
"""Went to the Yorick  in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'"""
"""Went to the Yorick  in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'"""
"""The """"""""Argus"""""""" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astounding is its brief history.'"""
"""After muster went to """"""""The Yorick"""""""" & had a peep at some of the English papers """"""""War"""""""" """"""""War"""""""" """"""""War"""""""" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. """"""""War"""""""" is the inspiration of their columns.  Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'"""
"""After muster went to """"""""The Yorick"""""""" & had a peep at some of the English papers """"""""War"""""""" """"""""War"""""""" """"""""War"""""""" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. """"""""War"""""""" is the inspiration of their columns.  Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: """"""""[A] reflection I have ... ventured upon: to the purpose that the departure of the capitol from Florence may reconvert it in some degree into the Florence of old and arrest the rank modernization which we used to deplore.  But I stand aghast at these crude ratiocinations on a Cambridge basis: especially as on coming to consult a couple of newspapers, I find that there was a goodly amount of shelling and shooting on the occupation of Rome."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: """"""""[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the papers that I largely manage to forget that I am doing no work of consequence ..."""""""""""
"""I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'"""
"""I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at Murder followed by determined suicide at Castlemaine (& that is nothing in these times) there appeared to be no news of any importance'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read till I was tired then smoked away & talked to Polly till it was time to go to bed'"""
"""Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time'"""
"""In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the names of three gentleman who were to take their places'"""
"""At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'"""
"""It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in them just now. Punch had a cartoon representing Macpherson as the Skeleton in the cupboard of the McCulloch & so he probably will prove to be.'"""
"""My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the whole of the time.'"""
"""I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding myself pitched into for my want of courtesy to the Dunedin Gaol officials.'"""
"""After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'"""
"""After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'"""
"""I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or opposed to wild beasts & wonder how the populace could delight in such cruel amusement.  I do not however think the men of the modern age are much different & I feel confident if a scene of the kind was to take place in Melbourne to-morrow there would be any number of applications for admission'"""
"""then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers'"""
"""I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'"""
"""Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's """"""""Life"""""""" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's """"""""History of England"""""""", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'."""
"""Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's """"""""Life"""""""" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's """"""""History of England"""""""", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'."""
"""Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's """"""""Life"""""""" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's """"""""History of England"""""""", and Comte's correspondence with Valat'."""
"""then read the papers at """"""""The Yorick""""""""'"""
"""In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Eastern Market & Bourke Street & then home, read the Australasian had some toddy & went to bed.'"""
"""I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'"""
"""I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'"""
"""I read aloud No. 3 of """"""""Edwin Drood"""""""".'"""
"""Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'"""
"""Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been drowned & much damage has been caused at other parts of the Colony'"""
"""I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Goblins a book I brought a few nights since.'"""
"""The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'"""
"""In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street being I thought remarkably so.'"""
"""A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to a report of the Governer that the Gaol was more than self supporting  the prisoners having earned in 1868 more than a thousand pounds over the whole cost of the Gaol.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.'"""
"""By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodicals for some engravings for Lane to copy, brought home a volume of the Art Union & one of Belgravia, had a pipe & a grog & then to bed.'"""
"""I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'"""
"""After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers.  In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Solicitor General to the Honorary Magistrates in which was pointed out that it had become known some of the magistrates had received payment for the performance of their honorary duties & that this was highly improper  Of course the magistrates as a whole were """"""""highly honorable men"""""""" but some were not the """"""""clean potato"""""""" & this circular was just a warning, that any magistrate taking """"""""tip"""""""" & being found out would be kicked out of the Commission without delay, really a remarkable circular & highly flattering to the """"""""great unpaid"""""""".'"""
"""I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands. Literature was limited to the """"""""Daily Telegraph"""""""". To read in secret I escaped to the washhouse, and I well remember during my early apprentice days at Spitalfields, my grandfather, catching a sight of me reading there a copy of Dicks's shilling edition of Shakespeare - the whole, a marvellous feat of cheap publishing -sternly reproachful, exclaimed: """"""""Ah, Tom, that'll never bring you bread and cheese!""""""""'"""
"""The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's """"""""Book of Martyrs"""""""" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding-places on Sunday evenings at Spitalfields to amuse the child with pictures, for both were illustrated - the """"""""Book of Martyrs"""""""" with realistic engravings of the horrible tortures inflicted on the faithful Protestant. """"""""Bel and the Dragon"""""""" in the Bible, too, was a favourite picture.' """
"""The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's """"""""Book of Martyrs"""""""" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding-places on Sunday evenings at Spitalfields to amuse the child with pictures, for both were illustrated - the """"""""Book of Martyrs"""""""" with realistic engravings of the horrible tortures inflicted on the faithful Protestant. """"""""Bel and the Dragon"""""""" in the Bible, too, was a favourite picture.' """
"""Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to great fiction dates from the publication by them of Scott's novels in threepenny paper-covered volumes, easily pocketable, when my apprenticeship, in its early days, consisted of sorting and picking - wearisome, dull, mechanical, solitary work. The appearance of """"""""Waverley"""""""" marked an epoch. I read it and its succeeding volumes with absorbing interest, stealing at times scraps of hours which should have been devoted to my work.'"""
"""Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny copy of Carlyle's """"""""Sartor Resartus"""""""". Arriving at the Palace I sat down in a quiet corner to look through its pages. Fascinated, I read and read; hour succeeded hour; swings and roundabouts passed into oblivion.'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: """"""""penny bloods"""""""" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as """"""""Sweeny Todd the Barber"""""""". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the """"""""Boys of England"""""""" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, """"""""Alone in the Pirates' Lair"""""""" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'"""
"""We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the """"""""Edensor Inn,"""""""" hard by [...] Lady Eastlake joining us on the same day, from London, we all profited by the good offices of Sir James Lacaita to pass our mornings, at our ease, within the walls of that palatial residence. We three ladies naturally betook ourselves to the art department [...] The Historian [George Grote, author's husband], meanwhile, would plant himself comfortably in the vast library, poring upon some rare, and even to [italics]him[end italics], unknown treatises of medieval authors, in Latin, which Lacaita would select as the very """"""""morceaux"""""""" for his learned friend's delectation.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): """""""" ... I felt a most refreshing blast of paternity, the other day in reading Father's reply to a 'Swedenborgian,' in a number [of The Nation] that I saw at the bankers."""""""""""
"""after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'"""
"""In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'."""
"""In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on """"""""Shams"""""""" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'"""
"""In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on """"""""Shams"""""""" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'"""
"""In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on """"""""Shams"""""""" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'"""
"""Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in conference in a room over the Reading Room & the noise made in applauding the different speakers was sufficient to prevent any one from staying & trying to read.'"""
"""Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'"""
"""Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'"""
"""The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'"""
"""I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had purchased Taminick Station for £2,300.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.  McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give him till Thursday to complete the arrangements.'"""
"""Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a pipe & then went to bed'"""
"""After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concerning the fire, brought a Herald home for Polly & Harry's satisfaction'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock'"""
"""Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied with myself & the world in general'"""
"""This morning, reading """"""""Lady of Glynne"""""""".'"""
"""Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'"""
"""After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak.  Came home read, smoked & went to bed.'"""
"""After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'"""
"""After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'"""
"""went to the """"""""Yorick"""""""" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.  The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-morrow when the New Cabinet will positively be announced.'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.'"""
"""In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home before nine o clock'"""
"""Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home'"""
"""After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers.  """"""""Touchstone"""""""" has come to life again.  The first number of the new series was published to-day.'"""
"""After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers.  """"""""Touchstone"""""""" has come to life again.  The first number of the new series was published to-day.'"""
"""Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'"""
"""In the evening went to the """"""""Yorick"""""""" & read Punch & some of the papers'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready (sic) was not pleasant nor very profitable.'"""
"""This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connected with the Beechworth Gaol was more or less censured in the Report excepting """"""""Gibson"""""""" & that there would probably be dismissals & removals'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: """"""""During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: """"""""During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: """"""""During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: """"""""During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delightful letters, Crabbe Robinson's memoirs and the new vol. of Ste Beuve."""""""" """
"""After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'"""
"""After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through all the Country papers, their correspondents all described the flogging yesterday as having been very severe'"""
"""Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'"""
"""The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it.  The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'"""
"""The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it.  The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'"""
"""The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it.  The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'"""
""" Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers'"""
"""In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian Dean leering most sensually at a lady sitting beside him while the Melbourne Dean was looking horrified at the short skirts of one of the waitresses of the Oriental Cafe.  Punch has a piece of poetry on the subject & advises the Committee of Clergymen who are to put down immorality first to look to the beam at home among themselves before they attack the mote in society at large'"""
"""In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'"""
"""then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & """"""""All the Year round""""""""'"""
"""then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & """"""""All the Year round""""""""'"""
"""I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the morality of persuading yourself that a thing is absolutely certain when you really know that it is not certain at all? Why shouldn?t I say that such a creature is a liar & that I despise him? I do most heartily.'"""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: """"""""I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."""""""""""
"""Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian'"""
"""when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so I sat & read till tea time. After tea I read again till the women went into the Gaol '"""
"""Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that """"""""Tommy Hoyle"""""""" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident yesterday being thrown from the Coach which passed over & killed him.'"""
"""Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, """"""""The Vicar of Bullhampton"""""""", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's books always are'"""
"""""""""""The Australasian"""""""" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'"""
"""""""""""The Australasian"""""""" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'"""
"""In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over """"""""The Newcomes"""""""" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the day & I read some little stories to them & Walter'"""
"""In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over """"""""The Newcomes"""""""" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the day & I read some little stories to them & Walter'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'"""
"""Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without any trouble'"""
"""Came home to tea & spent the evening reading """"""""The Cloister & Hearth"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'"""
"""In the evening went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'"""
"""Went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'"""
"""And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the """"""""Poema de Cid"""""""", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'."""
"""And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the """"""""Poema de Cid"""""""", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'."""
"""And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very own, or at least that it has only been traversd before by dear, musty German scholars. There was hard practice here in the reading of German and Latin, let alone the Spanish poems and chronicles themselves, but after a couple of years of it there was little she did not know about the """"""""Poema del Cid"""""""", or the Visigothic invasion, or the reign of [italics] Aldfonso el Sabio [end italics]'."""
"""after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick'"""
"""Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'"""
"""My dear Sir, I have just read """"""""The Battle of Dorking"""""""".  It is undeniably clever - but mischievous.  [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'"""
"""In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of a """"""""Strange Story"""""""" by that nobleman that she left everything go to the bad'"""
"""Went to """"""""The Yorick"""""""" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cricket Match at Sydney with 48 runs to spare & so had certainly something to be cocky about.'"""
"""Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'"""
"""Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'"""
"""I was at """"""""The Yorick"""""""" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'"""
"""I was at """"""""The Yorick"""""""" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'"""
"""In the evening I went to the """"""""Yorick"""""""" & had a look over the newspapers'"""
"""Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.'"""
"""Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?]. It turned out however not to be correct, there was news however in the Argus by """"""""the Queen of the Thames"""""""" just sufficient to whet the appetite for the mail news when the Extraordinary makes its appearance'"""
"""Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions """"""""just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison and J. Morley, on Bismark and Byron respectively."""""""" """
"""Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions """"""""just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison and J. Morley, on Bismark and Byron respectively."""""""" """
"""the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'"""
"""the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'"""
"""the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'"""
"""the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'"""
"""Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away the time. I was very much amused by a skit in The Australasian by """"""""Hans Beste"""""""" called """"""""Lothau"""""""", a satire upon """"""""Lothair"""""""",  Disreali's last work. """"""""Lothau"""""""" is a capital burlesque upon Lothair & in a couple of columns of newspaper type takes off all the leading incidents of the novel in a most amusing manner.'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: """"""""I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so that I may at least spend a few summer hours with you in spirit."""""""" """
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: """"""""My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our friend Leslie Stephen called The Playgrounds of Europe."""""""" """
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: """""""" ... I make a very pleasant life of it.  I linger in a darkened room all the forenoon, reading lightish books in my shirt-sleeves ..."""""""""""
"""This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry'"""
"""After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time'"""
"""Began to-night to read again """"""""The Vicar of Wakefield"""""""" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three chapters to Harry who was very attentive & in a sad state when I had to send him away to his lessons.'"""
"""Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of """"""""She stoops to conquer"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies '"""
"""so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'"""
"""After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very  ... or interesting'"""
"""went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of this morning & which contained a lot of rot with regards to prison servants & the employment of prisoners in Gaols'"""
"""In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs  Castieau'"""
"""In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] """"""""She stoops to conquer"""""""".'"""
"""H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show development of Palgrave's response (including objections) to the argument of the text."""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] """"""""The Star of Missions""""""""; [Text] """"""""Behold the Mission Star's soul gladdening ray/ Which o'er the nations sheds a beam of day;/ While glad salvation speeds her life fraught ?/ Borne by the Gospel's herald wheels afar;/ ... """""""" [Total = 7 x 6 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] """"""""Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre vie? C'est notre caractere, c'est la/ maniere ? nous voyons les choses, /? """""""" [Total = 17 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] """"""""Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler""""""""; [Text] """"""""Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in robes of richest dress/ In gorgeous splendour showing forth/ Preeminence in loveliness/... """""""" [Total = 9 x 6 line verses]"""
"""In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home'"""
"""Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to me for a couple of hours in the afternoon.'"""
"""On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. There was terrible news of the Civil War in Paris, of the murder of the Archbishop, two other clergymen & 64 hostages by the Insurgents & of the fearful retaliation of the troops, 30,000 of the Reds being said to be killed or wounded in the Streets. Some of the finest buildings in Paris were wilfully set fire to by the insurgents & women were shot by the infuriated soldiers while they were like fiends rushing about endeavouring to set light to anything that could be consumed'"""
"""Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'"""
"""Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'"""
"""Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them'"""
"""In the evening went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" & had a look at some of the papers'"""
"""Called at the Yorick & read the papers'"""
"""After Muster read """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" for a while, then played """"""""Bezique"""""""" with Polly.'"""
"""Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'"""
"""Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed'"""
"""I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" when there was a bustling noise [?] to the Gaol. Polly looked out of the window & immediately called out """"""""Mr Castieau there is some prisoners escaping.""""""""'"""
"""Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of the arrival of The Somersetshire after a passage of 56 days. The vessel is however in Quarantine as there had been some cases of smallpox on board'"""
"""When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was reading or skimming was called """"""""Blueskin"""""""" or the adventures of """"""""Jonathan Wild"""""""" the great thief taker. It was taken away from a prisoner in the Gaol & is certainly as mischievous a work as could possibly gain access to a place of confinement. It describes fully all sorts of different plans & attempts at Escape made by """"""""Jack Sheppard"""""""" & others & is just such a book as would fire the imagination of the """"""""larrikin"""""""" class who evidently consider """"""""breaking prison"""""""" a most heroic exploit & who would as a rule put up with extra loss of liberty for the glory of appearing in the papers & being thought """"""""lads of spirit"""""""" by their contemporaries.'"""
"""Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'"""
"""Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'"""
"""Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'"""
"""after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'"""
"""Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'"""
"""Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly seemed to think it was not so bad & I expect she is the best judge, particularly as I have not found her disposed to be unreasonably complimentary to me on the quality of my literary attempts'"""
"""After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'"""
"""Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'"""
"""I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'"""
"""After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'"""
"""In the evening read """"""""Gil Blas""""""""'"""
"""Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal understanding'"""
"""Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club'"""
"""Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.'"""
"""The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's """"""""The Battle of Dorking""""""""] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was startled by his mother a most acute old lady (who had picked up the sheets as he let them fall) exclaiming """"""""Surely George the Germans never were in England""""""""'"""
"""Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in """"""""Blueskin"""""""", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies """"""""Jack Sheppard"""""""" & contains most wonderful & thrilling episodes of his career. Escapes from Gaol were this great man's """"""""weakness"""""""" & such trumpery aids to safe-keeping as """"""""Heavy Chains"""""""", """"""""Massive doors"""""""", Walls of extra strength & solidity were of no avail when the hero made up his mind he would be free. Hurrah'"""
"""read economy of 12th century'"""
"""Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'"""
"""Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'"""
"""Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home'"""
"""I have been reading """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I really think I like the Book better even than any of those of Dickens. """"""""Becky Sharp"""""""" is prodigious. I thought however it to be a great mistake to pull Mr Sedley down so quickly after his bankruptcy & make him so soon appear so dreadfully shabby, humble & contemptible, particularly as """"""""Jos"""""""" did what was necessary to prevent his parents being in want as he is stated to have sent instructions to his agents to furnish what money was required. The description given of poor old """"""""Sedley"""""""" is the most painful & most truthful description of a ruined man without hopes or friends but the fall to such a condition would be very gradual & Sedley had'ent the time given him to arrive at it any more than his glossy coats had had time to become white in the Seams & Greasy in the collars.'"""
"""Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not see much of her as she & Polly left me in the dining room  while they gossiped away in the Drawing Room.'"""
"""""""""""The Battle of Dorking"""""""" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge.  This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in print.'"""
"""Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of """"""""Wait for the End"""""""" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until after eleven o'clock though I did little more than skim the reading to get at the Plot & the """"""""denouemont""""""""'"""
"""Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'"""
"""after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read an article in Fraser on """"""""The Imperial connection"""""""" by Jardine Smith. It is very well written & made me admire the ability of Mr Smith & to feel proud of his acquaintance, an acquaintance which has almost ripened into fellowship.'"""
"""I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling?] home & Sissy & Dotty went away good temperedly to bed. Read """"""""Poor dog [Tray?]"""""""" out of [""""""""Ingolitsby""""""""?] to Harry & then sent him off to bed also'"""
"""Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I had not heard before'"""
"""Went into Melbourne & read the papers at """"""""The Yorick"""""""" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home'"""
"""In the evening I went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'"""
"""In the evening I went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'"""
"""In the evening I was very lazily inclined & sat over """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" for some time'"""
"""In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'"""
"""After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper'"""
"""then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'"""
"""then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable buttons & very tight clothes has appeared at the Club as an attendant sprite upon the Members. He is a very lively boy. To-night while I was reading he came into the room, knelt in a chair before the open window but his body half way into the street & commenced whistling in a spirited manner keeping time with his heels against the chair. I was brute enough to growl at him & he desisted leaving the room however with the air of one whose feelings had been outraged'"""
"""Came home & finished """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" before tea-time.'"""
"""Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers'"""
"""Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'"""
"""Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'"""
"""Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'"""
"""In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & read """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" till tea was ready. After tea went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & read """"""""Gil Blas"""""""" till tea was ready. After tea went to """"""""the Yorick"""""""", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'"""
"""An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the article I took them last night'"""
"""After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea'"""
"""Commenced reading a tale in Good Words """"""""Oswald [?]""""""""'"""
"""There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I called the Secretary quietly & pointed out that only one l was necessary to be used in spelling towel. He seemed doubtful & said he would look at the dictionary.'"""
"""There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o'clock'"""
"""Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'"""
"""Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was time to go to bed.'"""
"""I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a good deal'."""
"""I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'."""
"""This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then went across to Dr Robertson's & rang the bell'"""
"""[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ To wreathe the cup ere the wine is poured;/ Bring flowers! they are springing in wood and vale,/ Their breath floats out on the southern gale; ...' [total = 6 x 6 lines verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath/And stars to set - but all/ Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh Death ...' (total - 5 x 4 line verses)"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song!/ Ye may trace my steps o'er the wakening earth,/ By the winds which tell of the violet's birth ...' (total = 7 x 6 line verses)"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It cannot die, it cannot stay/ But leaves its darken'd dust behind ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heaven/ And God but little asks, where little's given/The wise Creator has for thee in store/ Great joys!-what wise man can ask more?'"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw it idly be ... ' [total = 2 x 10 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its high celestial flavour/ Down to a very homely household savour'"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrible case of vaccination/ viz, of a child who in consepquence of it, ran upon/ all fours, bellowing like a cow and butting/ like a bull thus reallizing (says the author/ who quotes the above) the apprehensions of/ the author of Vaccine Phantasmogoria and who exclaims/ O Mosely thy books mighty phantasies rousing/ Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures/ ...' [total = 2 x 4 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain of repose ...'[total= 6x 6line verses]"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe walketh on ye earthe glyttering lyke golde/ The yerthe goeth to ye yerthe sooner than it wolde/ The yerthe buildeth upon the yerthe castelles & towers/ the yerthe sayeth to the yerthe, all things are ours'"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace destroy/ Or strive to ease thy woes/ Will thou to man impute the joy/ To man ascribe the cause ...'[total = 3 x 4 line verses]"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's face, a Pulteney's dower/ I ask not wit nor even sense/ I scorn content and innocence/The gift I ask can these forestall/ It aids, improves, implies them all/Then good or bad, or right or wrong/ Grant me ye Gods! - to be the Ton! ...' [Total = 30 lines]"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came up to London in search of a place as/ servant maid ... Lady Mary Anne was a flower in the dew/ Sweet was its smell and bonnie was its hue ...' [total = 1p. of prose and 2x 4 line verses)"""
"""[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh farewell; I shall see him nae mair/ Lang lang was he mine, lang lang but nae mair/ I  ?. ?. , but my heart it is sair ...'[total = 10 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry storm/ It hides secure the precious fruit/ ... (Mrs Tighe)' [total = 40 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - A man/may lend his countenance who will not part/ with his money...' [total = 43 lines of prose followed by three related quotes, one French, two are anonymous, the third is  by """"""""THe judicious Hooker"""""""" ie Richard Hooker?]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried in the quarries/ No earthly object to be seen/ but cows and geese upon the green/ As sung by Captain Morris...' [total = 6 x 6 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel ou demon/...' [total = 58 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely night/ Prepares me for the toils of light/ ...' [total = 36 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Darkness her leaden sceptre lifts, in vain,/ Crushed and consumed beneath his fiery ?/ [by] Henry Neele' [total = 26 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/  and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When we live in a bright beaming world of our own/ And the light that surrounds us is all from within/ ... [by] Moore' [total = 3 x 8 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 5 x 8 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the silent soul/ A treasure all undreamed of ; - as the night/ ... [by] Mrs Hemans' [total = 8 x 9 line verses, probably not a continuous extract]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De causes avec un flatteur'"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by]  Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an Old Maid I must be;/ O, hear the petition I offer to thee/ For to hear it must be my endeavour/ ...'; [total = 5 x 8 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron  ? From """"""""The Course of Time""""""""'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast river of unfailing source/ Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his number flowed/ And op'ed new fountains in the human heart...'; [total = 86 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius  ? From """"""""The Dead and the Living""""""""'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant struggler from another/ world!  - daily daily doth thou present to us a striking/ exemplification that man was created in the image / of His Maker ?'; [total = 37 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a patience to her grief?   Wordsworth'; [8 lines ie last 2 verses only]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how each time the day comes round/ Less and less white[?] the ? appears/ ?'; [total = 28 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its boughs to wander free/ And shoot and blossom wide and high?'; [total = 12 lines plus a 2 line quote]. [Quote Titled] 'Comfort for the loss of Friends'; [Text] 'My gems are fast falling away, but I do hope & trust/ it is because """"""""God is making up his jewels""""""""/ Charles Wolfe'"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alone/To hear what Heaven ordains...'; [total = 12 lines] """
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altogether left to ourselves, and/ destitute of company & conversation... Addison'; [total = 20 lines] """
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel properly for ourselves/ and others - We must feel deeply before we can/ think rightly. It is not in the storms and tempests/ of passion, we can reflect - but afterwards ...'; [total = 10 lines] """
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your flight above/ Leaving life's vale in wintry woe/ ...'; [total = 2 x 8 line verses] """
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come in storm and tempest, there are those/ whom it has summoned amid scenes of vanity/ there are those too who have heard """"""""its still small voice""""""""/ Amid rural leisure & placid contentment ?' [total = 10 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy below/ For are the hearts whence one same touch/ Bids the sweet fountains flow/ ?' [total = 16 lines but not a continuous extract]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee away and be at rest/ So prayed the Psalmist to be free/ From mortal bond and earthly thrall/ And such, or soon, or late, shall be/ Full oft the heart breathed [?] prayer of all/ ?' [total = 4 x 8  lines verses follow the 2 line quote]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' """"""""La Belle France"""""""" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ them she has not a single good feature in her face,/but unlike them she does not even do her best  ??' [total = 18 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with those we love/ Like stars amid a stormy night/ Alas! how few they prove ?'  [total = 2 x 8 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ He hath a deep, though voiceless eloquence, /To which I leave my ? His solemn veil/ ... Mrs Hemans' [total = 12 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels the gloomy night/ The din of war will have begun/ The horrors of the fight ?G.I.C.' [total = 24 lines]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air  Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! Ieroe!'; [Text] 'Long life to our Queen who in beauty advances/ To the refuge of freedom, the home of the fair/ Each true Highland bosom with loyalty dances/ From Drummond to Taymouth - from ? to Blair/ ...' [total = 5 x 10 line verses]"""
"""[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of scornful mirth/ It brings to me glad visions of the calm and quiet hearth/ Of seasons of retirement from the world's obtrusive eyes/ Of freedom from absorbing toils - of dear domestic ties/ ... Mrs Abdy'; [Total = 9 x 4 line verses]"""
"""By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has however suffered much for a long time past. She was very kind to me when I first went to Beechworth'"""
"""in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers'"""
"""The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness of manner on the Bench'"""
"""amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'"""
"""Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do much more than look at the Papers.'"""
"""If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the """"""""Battle of Dorking"""""""" we should have little to complain of.  It is wonderfully fine and powerful.  Is it Laurence Oliphant? I can't think of anybody else with such a power of realism and wonderful command of the subject.  It is vivid as Defoe.'"""
"""Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'"""
"""A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr Wright of the Railway Department & Mr Colles of Castlemaine'"""
"""I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'"""
"""I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'"""
"""While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'"""
"""My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night.  Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was raving about the Battle of Dorking & never read anything in his life so good or like the reality...'"""
"""In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers '"""
"""Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how much they seemed to enjoy them.'"""
"""Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'"""
"""I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'"""
"""I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read [""""""""Lalla Rookh""""""""?] till dinner time'"""
"""In the evening I stayed at home, played """"""""Snap"""""""" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'"""
"""In the evening I stayed at home, played """"""""Snap"""""""" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'"""
"""Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of """"""""Hanging"""""""" was carried out. The writer from English experience argued that the necks of the criminals were as a rule not dislocated & that those who died at the hangman's hands were simply throttled. The writer considered the punishment might be much more humanely carried out. The simple truth of the matter is the ropes used in England are not long enough. If more fall was given dislocation of the neck would take place & from what I have seen in this country no fault could then be found as the death would be both merciful & speedy.'"""
"""Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that """"""""Raecke's"""""""" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read """"""""Handy Andy"""""""" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'"""
"""Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that """"""""Raecke's"""""""" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read """"""""Handy Andy"""""""" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'"""
"""In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaols & showing pretty clearly it was impossible he could do justice to all the establishments placed under his control.'"""
"""soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through """"""""The Leader"""""""" & then came away home'"""
"""Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'"""
"""The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till nearly bed-time'"""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: """"""""Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and walk ... yet here I am still, taking it all out in reading the time-tables in the Advertiser and wondering which were the deeper joy -- Cape Cod or Mount Mansfield."""""""""""
"""Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'"""
"""Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & read the papers'"""
"""Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read """"""""Jack Sheppard"""""""" or rather """"""""Blueskin"""""""", smoked some strong tobacco & went to bed'"""
"""Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'"""
"""Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'"""
"""Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'"""
"""was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'"""
"""I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of """"""""Elsie Vennor"""""""". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it had not been for it & the papers I should have had dull times as I did'ent stir out at all.'"""
"""I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of """"""""Elsie Vennor"""""""". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it had not been for it & the papers I should have had dull times as I did'ent stir out at all.'"""
"""Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners had effected their escape?] from Ballaarat Gaol'"""
"""Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'"""
"""I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'"""
"""In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was not the Governor of the Melbourne Gaol but an Up Country official'"""
"""Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited & went away to the Argus office with my production at once.'"""
"""While out to-night we purchased Whitford's stories of """"""""Under the Dray"""""""". There is not much in them but they are decidedly readable & very good for sixpence. Harry commenced """"""""The Larrikin's Story"""""""" & was of course immensely interested in it particularly as it was a kind of reading in which his mother thought it wrong for him to get a hold of.'"""
"""I must not forget however I read out of """"""""Good Words"""""""" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the name of the Street he was living in as Stick no Bill Street. F.P. 13ft. Harry read to-night but I was obliged to tell him he had not improved at all lately.'"""
"""I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'"""
"""In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each copy of the paper. The likeness was a very good one & I bought it for the sake of """"""""Auld lang syne"""""""" but why """"""""John"""""""" should have received such public notice I can scarcely understand. He is an enterprising man & may be a """"""""successful colonist"""""""" but few people know him & comparatively few have ever heard of him. The whole thing smacks rather much of the advt. & I expect a pretty large share of this week's Leader will be purchased by """"""""John Wallace"""""""".'"""
"""Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'"""
"""Took up Renan's """"""""St Paul"""""""" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I was closing the book: """"""""Graces a Dieu pour son ineffable don.""""""""'"""
"""The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bought one & was glad to see the Prince of Wales was ... to be out of danger'"""
"""After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus Extraordinary, """"""""Arrival of the English Mail"""""""", one vagabond as he passed us with an armful of papers shouted """"""""Death of the Prince of Wales"""""""". This thrilled me & excited Polly & so I purchased a paper. The Prince was not dead, but if the news be true was in a bad way when the Mail left St Francisco & there was but little hopes of his recovery.'"""
"""Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'"""
"""Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'"""
"""Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of language. All that he says, curiously enough, my mother left out when she read Macbeth to me ... I remember the day my mother read Macbeth to me.'"""
"""in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'"""
"""I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'"""
"""I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'"""
"""I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'"""
"""When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'"""
"""In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll with Duerdin'"""
"""heard Harry & Sissy read'"""
"""heard Harry & Sissy read'"""
"""There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since they took office. The article was [?] the style of the men who usually write for the [?] Journal & I should like to know if it is new blood whose blood it is'"""
"""Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'"""
"""Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & Mrs Mathews.'"""
"""Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: """"""""Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'"""
"""Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at """"""""A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.""""""""'"""
"""By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but the last telegrams represented him to be apparently recovering.'"""
"""Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'"""
"""""""""""In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke.  In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at his own request'"""""""""""
"""The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes however would'ent allow anything of the kind & so after kicking about & turning over several scores of times I got up again, raised the gas & went on reading Dumas' """"""""Memoirs of a Physician"""""""".'"""
"""I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'"""
"""Read to the youngsters in the evening'"""
"""While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends'"""
"""then went to the Club & read the papers'"""
"""I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'"""
"""I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'"""
"""In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'"""
"""I bought """"""""The Age"""""""" as to-day it published a paper larger than """"""""The Argus"""""""" for a penny & announced the intention of doing so every Saturday. The paper is really a wonderful one for a penny & will no doubt have a great circulation in fat I expect too large a one to make even the advertisements pay as I feel confident the paper &c must cost  quite the charge for the News. In the Age of to-day was commenced a novel by the author of Lady Audley's Secret called """"""""To the bitter end"""""""", this the proprietors announce they have the sole right to publish in Australia'"""
"""The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church of England Bishop """"""""on the Bible"""""""". His Lordship treated the Bible as a historical record & urged that without attributing to it its holy character there was ample evidence of [its faithfulness?] handed down from Age to Age. The Bishop treated his subject altogether in a most liberal spirit & the Lecture will when published have no doubt a large circulation.'"""
"""And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in """"""""Fortnightly Review"""""""", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'"""
"""And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in """"""""Fortnightly Review"""""""", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'"""
"""I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'"""
"""In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'"""
"""Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full that the papers must be very interesting to folks Up Country on the mornings of publication'"""
"""Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'"""
"""""""""""Bowman"""""""" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & Nolan.'"""
"""Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken her leg, poor woman she will be ill able to bear a trouble of this kind.'"""
"""He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'"""
"""McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & took a stroll through Bourke Street.'"""
"""Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & the youngsters returned which they did at about eleven o'clock"""
"""I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the Argus called to see me'"""
"""This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, complaining of the price paid for it. As it happens, it is now three weeks since any was done except for the Government. I have however always protested at the price paid by Messrs Sargood for their work'"""
"""I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'"""
"""Read the """"""""Sir, come down ere my child die"""""""".'"""
"""In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Court Judge in place of Judge Maceboy who is to retire in consequence of ill health. Mr Hughes was named to succeed Mr Dunne as Crown Prosecutor.'"""
"""The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good churchmen to vote against the return of the present Ministers & endeavouring to inflame the blood of ignorant catholics by declaring that the system of secular instruction about to be introduced by the Ministry would be the means of enslaving the catholic people & depriving them of their religious rights'"""
"""In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of """"""""A man made of money"""""""" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think appeared originally in Punch'"""
"""There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'"""
"""In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately arrived by the mail. The Graphic had a fine coloured engraving of the monument recently erected in Hyde Park to the memory of the Prince Albert of Exhibition renown. The monument seems one worthy of the Queen who has erected it & of the noble man whose memory it celebrates. Was home at about nine o'clock.'"""
"""I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upstairs and read Phillip till lunchtime (you see I adhere to my own views as to how Philip should be spelt).'"""
"""Read a part of a very good novel, """"""""Married beneath him"""""""". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'"""
"""Read a part of a very good novel, """"""""Married beneath him"""""""". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'"""
"""Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard to little words'"""
"""The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took place according to the evidence were something terrible. """"""""Mount"""""""" who I have in custody, according to Dr Murray, went on the Islands disguised as a Missionary in the hope of luring natives on board the ship. Morris who is also a prisoner with me is said on the night of the butchery to have been occupied all night in loading guns for those who were engaged in slaughtering the natives in the Hold. The whole affair is more horrible than anything I remember reading of even in the African Slave Trade.'"""
"""In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on """"""""Prisons & Prisoners"""""""". It appeared to me to read tolerably well but I am sure I do not know what Messrs Duncan & Snelling may think of it.'"""
"""Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as far as Spencer Street Railway Station'"""
"""I stayed at home & read'"""
"""Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'"""
"""Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'"""
"""went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'"""
"""went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'"""
"""Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'"""
"""Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls & Harry'"""
"""Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'"""
"""The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are likely to satisfy the most prurient of readers'"""
"""After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'"""
"""in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in """"""""Public Opinion"""""""", one especially which lamented the decadence of """"""""the Turf"""""""" from the want of honor among the owners of horses. Horses said the writer now win if it suits their owners' pockets to let them do so, the Derby it is predicted will soon be shorn of all the national importance once attached to it & will soon be the ordinary common place affair that other races have become.'"""
"""... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]"""
"""I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly when Polly returned home'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): """"""""I read your Taine and admired, though but imperfectly understood it."""""""""""
"""In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'"""
"""I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beating his wife & excused himself in this fashion.'"""
"""In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'"""
"""In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my last year's Diary.'"""
"""Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'"""
"""I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'"""
"""Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeared daily. It is not to be wondered at for it must be a serious undertaking the bringing out a daily at """"""""the Ovens"""""""".'"""
"""It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'."""
"""After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers'"""
"""After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'"""
"""After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'"""
"""This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'"""
"""Read chief part of Helps' """"""""Conquerors of the New World"""""""".'"""
"""Read Michael Angelo's """"""""Pastoral"""""""".'"""
"""I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'"""
"""Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'"""
"""Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and  intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'"""
"""Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and  intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'"""
"""The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'"""
"""The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... """"""""led to better things"""""""": by fourteen he had seen RIchard III, read some of the Sonnets, discovered Burns, Scott and Dickens.'"""
"""then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading """"""""Gil Blas"""""""".'"""
"""The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'"""
"""The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'"""
"""The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'"""
"""Opened 3rd of Tobit'"""
"""After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.'"""
"""Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of """"""""The first direct Telegram as it ought to have been"""""""".'"""
"""After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & consequently leaves out little words which spoil the effect of his delivery'"""
"""Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'"""
"""I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'"""
"""Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. """"""""Listen here Castieau"""""""" said she & straightway she read a paragraph which announced that a terrible outrage had been committed at Pentridge & an attempt made to murder the Inspector General of Penal Establishments.'"""
"""Telo gave me """"""""The Leader"""""""" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave the Author an opportunity of earning. There was however I was glad to observe little that could be construed into a breach of Regulations in allowing it to be published'"""
"""Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to anyone living outside the Ovens District & so they did not take me long to skim'"""
"""Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weechurch & so causing me a lot of more trouble. When they came out however this morning I found they had reported very fairly & so my mind was much relieved'"""
"""In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destroyed the Prince of Wales Theatre & occasioned loss of life from a portion of the walls falling upon some people'"""
"""""""""""Telo"""""""" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some lunch with us & also came in at tea time. We had some recitations or rather reading in the evening, Harry rather distinguishing himself.'"""
"""Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Engravings relating to """"""""Thanksgiving Day"""""""" ... to the Tichbourne Case'"""
"""Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'"""
"""Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'"""
"""Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'"""
"""In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & played first """"""""Beggar my neighbour"""""""" with Dotty'"""
"""Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel."""
"""Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'"""
"""In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of """"""""The Battle of Dorking"""""""". It was styled """"""""The great disaster"""""""" & purported to be a report of the destruction occasioned to the City & inhabitants of Melbourne through the Powder Magazine in the Royal Park being blown up'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated & Papers'"""
"""in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'"""
"""Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel."""
"""While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading """"""""The Execution of Montrose"""""""" & was by particular desire reading Byron's """"""""Battle of Waterloo"""""""" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'"""
"""While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading """"""""The Execution of Montrose"""""""" & was by particular desire reading Byron's """"""""Battle of Waterloo"""""""" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'"""
"""While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading """"""""The Execution of Montrose"""""""" & was by particular desire reading Byron's """"""""Battle of Waterloo"""""""" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'"""
"""The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'"""
"""The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'"""
"""Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard words.'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'"""
"""In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article in one of the numbers on the republication of Mrs Aphra Behn's Dramas & Novels. The writer truly said that if this class of disgusting literature could be got up in expensive bindings for the rich the law would be no more outraged by Penny Editions for the crowd & if not put down in the first case the town might be reasonably expected soon to abound in literary filth till lately all but ...'"""
"""In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertiser & my letter if it had been published. After some trouble I found the paper I wanted & my letter in it, though in very small type. The type I would'ent have minded but I was very much annoyed in finding two or three paragraphs I did'ent write were put into the letter above the signature I used on this as on other occasions'"""
"""In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Parkin who had been arrested on a Fraud Summons & committed to Jamieson Gaol. De Verdon tried to get the warrant upset but did not succeed in doing so. I am very sorry for Mrs Parkin & the children & so I am for poor Parkin though I know little about him'"""
"""I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): """""""" ... I read the Figaro every day, religiously, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth."""""""""""
"""I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.'"""
"""I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'"""
"""I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.'"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): """"""""I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Olympe] Desclee [actress]'s being about to appear with the French company in London."""""""" """
"""Read Rouen missal with advantage'"""
"""I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'"""
"""I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'"""
"""Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. """"""""As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire"""""""".'"""
"""Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. """"""""As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire"""""""".'"""
"""Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. """"""""As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire"""""""".'"""
"""Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stopped short at the Romantics. In 1873 he confessed that he could not stomach avant-garde poets like Tennyson. """"""""As for our modern novel-writers - Dickens, Thackeray and others I do not care to read them, since Smollett, Fielding and Scott especially are all I desire"""""""".'"""
"""The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as you do. I see in it more violence than real strength & more rant than genuine passion. However all this is a matter of taste. I will remark, by the way, that I think there is some excuse for the charge of coarseness, as, e.g., the scene where Jane Eyre is half inclined to go to Rochester?s bedroom. I don?t mean coarseness in the sense of prurience; for I fully agree that Miss Bronte writes as a thoroughly pureminded woman; but she is more close to the physical side of passion than young ladies are expected to be?There is also some coarseness in the artistic sense in Jane Eyre. The mad wife is I fancy, unnecessarily bestial? I don?t think justice is generally done to C Bronte now & I shall be glad for that reason to insert your eloquent article.'"""
"""The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as you do. I see in it more violence than real strength & more rant than genuine passion. However all this is a matter of taste. I will remark, by the way, that I think there is some excuse for the charge of coarseness, as, e.g., the scene where Jane Eyre is half inclined to go to Rochester?s bedroom. I don?t mean coarseness in the sense of prurience; for I fully agree that Miss Bronte writes as a thoroughly pureminded woman; but she is more close to the physical side of passion than young ladies are expected to be?There is also some coarseness in the artistic sense in Jane Eyre. The mad wife is I fancy, unnecessarily bestial? I don?t think justice is generally done to C Bronte now & I shall be glad for that reason to insert your eloquent article.'"""
"""The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as you do. I see in it more violence than real strength & more rant than genuine passion. However all this is a matter of taste. I will remark, by the way, that I think there is some excuse for the charge of coarseness, as, e.g., the scene where Jane Eyre is half inclined to go to Rochester?s bedroom. I don?t mean coarseness in the sense of prurience; for I fully agree that Miss Bronte writes as a thoroughly pureminded woman; but she is more close to the physical side of passion than young ladies are expected to be?There is also some coarseness in the artistic sense in Jane Eyre. The mad wife is I fancy, unnecessarily bestial? I don?t think justice is generally done to C Bronte now & I shall be glad for that reason to insert your eloquent article.'"""
"""I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'"""
"""I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'"""
"""I have been looking over some very old letters of hers [sister Elizabeth], and it is not a very cheeerful occupation...'"""
"""The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a boy I remember reading """"""""Smoke"""""""" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the """"""""Gentlefolks"""""""" in French.'"""
"""The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a boy I remember reading """"""""Smoke"""""""" in a Polish translation (a feuilleton of some newspaper) and the """"""""Gentlefolks"""""""" in French.'"""
"""Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a """"""""scrap from the Advertiser"""""""" (enclosed in letter from William) about his work on Gautier."""
"""... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'"""
"""In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the New Testament and take the text, meine schone Freundin, as a message from me.'"""
"""... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal relations with Forster [...] Yet it has an interest, and is worth reading.  In the second volume I am much struck by Dickens's hysterical restlessness [...] To how great an extent the women of his family are ignored in the book!  The whole impression left by it is very melancholy.'"""
"""One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and the inscription in its stiff Jedediah Cleishbotham fashion is not without something touching.'"""
"""I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'"""
"""Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.'"""
"""Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: """"""""I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having a sale -- bless it!  I haven't yet seen the last part ... Your fifth part I extremely relished ... Kitty [character] is a creation.  I have envied you greatly, as I read, the delight of feeling her grow so real and complete ..."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: """"""""I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natural as if begotten in the Gallic brain.  It's a pretty compliment to have translated it ..."""""""" """
"""I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'"""
"""I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'"""
"""I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words article?'"""
"""Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'"""
"""Yesterday ... Worked at """"""""Frederick"""""""".'"""
"""I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'"""
"""Yesterday hard work on """"""""Frederick""""""""'"""
"""Worked a little on """"""""Romance of Rose""""""""'"""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: """"""""I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very easy."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: """"""""Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster.  It is admirable material, and excellently presented: I have transcribed it in my notebook with religious care, and think that some day something will come of it."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: """"""""I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of James Fisk]. I have just been reading in the Roman newspapers an account of the queer scene on the rendering of the verdict."""""""""""
"""Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'"""
"""Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'"""
"""Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves of Grass, and without giving the poor unbeliever time to object, proceeded to wade into him with favourite passages.'"""
"""Began """"""""Friedrich"""""""" to purpose and worked well.'"""
"""""""""""Friedrich"""""""".'"""
"""Yesterday after reading """"""""Romance of Rose"""""""" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'"""
"""Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called the scheme of Christianity'."""
"""I suppose you read long ago the Hare ''Memorials of a Quiet Life''. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness...'"""
"""[reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at last flew away on his strong pinions, and when he met the swans and was accepted as an equal, then I felt sorrowful, agreeably sorrowful. It seemed to me nothing could undo, atone for, the grief and humiliations of the false duckling's early youth.'"""
"""Yesterday hard at """"""""Friedrich"""""""", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'"""
"""Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some """"""""Frederick"""""""" in spite'"""
"""MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'"""
"""I [...] was singing after my own fashion """"""""Du hast diamentem und Perlen""""""""[...]'"""
"""Foster's essays.'"""
"""However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him quite tolerably.'"""
"""Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: """"""""Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other rare treasures.  The B.G.N. doesn't figure very solidly as a 'Lady-article'; it was meant as a notice.  But it was as good as the rest, which, save Howells' two pieces, which his genius saves, read rather queerly in Rome."""""""""""
"""I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my return in the shape of some Montaigne.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: """"""""Your letter was full of points of great interest.  Your criticism on Middlemarch was excellent and I have duly transcribed it into that note-book which it will be a relief to your mind to know I have at last set up."""""""""""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): """"""""I had great pleasure in reading it over ... [goes on to praise in detail]"""""""""""
"""In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the European Prisons, the writer spoke in very flattering terms of my competence to furnish an [able?] report of the different systems that came under my observation'"""
"""I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'"""
"""Read piece of St John. """"""""Before Abraham was, I am."""""""" The closing verse - """"""""passing through the midst of them"""""""" - in its vacant stupidity is a mere trial of faith.'"""
"""Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department'"""
"""I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'"""
"""He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'"""
"""Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'"""
"""... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'"""
"""Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'"""
"""Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'"""
"""After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'"""
"""Read at the Athenaeum.'"""
"""Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande flotte de Dracke.'"""
"""In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we had our tot & went off to bed'"""
"""Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelve o'clock'"""
"""Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on """"""""Abus des mots"""""""". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Lucifer is such a prophetic intimation of Science!'"""
"""I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine. Some of them interested me very much though I was reading under difficulties for the book was one that had been ill used in the Gaol & it frequently happened that when I came to some particularly interesting point there was a leaf gone & the thread of the story lost in consequence'"""
"""after eight o'clock Harry & I went to """"""""The Athenaeum"""""""" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a look at the Papers Harry waiting for me outside until I was ready to go home.'"""
"""Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'"""
"""[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'"""
"""Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the pantomime delighted Harry very much & he could'ent help noticing a great similarity in his own manner with that of the young gentleman who accompanied Mr [Spee?] to the play.'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: """"""""I write more or less in the mornings, walk about in the afternoons, and doze over a book in the evenings."""""""""""
"""I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'"""
"""Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'."""
"""Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'"""
"""Read chapter of Heliodorus.'"""
"""There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called """"""""The wife's revenge"""""""" it was very well written & described a heartless scoundrel who to the world appeared everything that was good & jolly, he is loved deeply by his wife but without any cause save that he wants a change he leaves her to shift for herself & coldly writes & informs her that he has left for Australia ...[long account of story] ... I read this story aloud on Sunday evening to a very attentive audience consisting of Mamma, Sissy & Harry'"""
"""In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'"""
"""Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. 4; V. 5, 6; VII. 10.'"""
"""In the evening I amused myself by reading """"""""Cast up from the Sea"""""""" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served well to wile away a couple of hours'"""
"""Read end of Charles Dickens' """"""""American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'"""
"""read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'"""
"""I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I have only read two of them yet, and I have cried my eyes out, and had a terrible fight not to sob. But O, dear God, they are [italics] good [end italics] &#8722; and, I feel so good after them, and would do anything, yet and shall do anything, to make it a little better for people. I want to go out and comfort someone; I shall never listen to the nonsense they tell one, about not giving money &#8722;I [italics] shall [end italics] give money; not that I haven?t done so always, but I shall do it with a high hand now. O what a jolly thing it is for a man to have written books like these books, and just [italics] filled [end italics] people?s hearts with pity.'"""
"""Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'"""
"""I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'"""
"""before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.'"""
"""Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly."""
"""Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'"""
"""Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'"""
"""In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a previous article which had been inserted which the present one acknowledged had been written on incorrect information. It then pointed out the defects of the Gaol system owing to want of accommodation & then went in to give credit for what was done to make the best of things. Altogether the article was a very favorable one & one judiciously written so as not to tread upon the toes of any one but David Blair the writer of the first article that the Editor published.'"""
"""read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'"""
"""Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'"""
"""Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871'"""
"""Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of """"""""The Wicked World"""""""" or Melbourne [?] & Melbourne Life. The Article to-day described Camomile or Collins Street. Marcus has set himself a difficult task, he will have either to be very personal & so [?] enemies or be dull & considered commonplace. He might if he were mean enough perhaps make his subject the vehicle for advertisers. If his work is read many would pay to have their establishments even appear wicked in it.'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'"""
"""Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much wished to see as Mr. Curtis's """"""""Eulogy"""""""" on his friend [Charles Sumner].  It is very beautiful, and in ways which are not interfered with by differences of opinion in regard to its subject.'"""
"""Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'"""
"""I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the following: """"""""Healthy sensation .. is thus our only Heaven: morbid sensation, varying as it does from ennui or general malaise to mental and corporeal agony and anguish, our only Hell"""""""".'"""
"""Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'"""
"""On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'"""
"""spent the evening at home reading'"""
"""Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'"""
"""In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's """"""""A Death in the Desert"""""""": 'Sixty years have passed since first I read it at Oxford, and then it seemed to me convincing and consoling ... To-day I find myself unable to discover any conclusion better fitted to satisfy Christian thought ...' """
"""?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stomach turned ? at Farrar?s Life of Christ ? the gospels done into Daily Telegraphese & drowned in a torrent of flummery. Lord? what are we coming to? If I have time, I think I must give Farrar a rap over the knuckles; though he was an old college friend of mine & a clever fellow; but his damned nonsense is really sickening & gives matter for the sneers of the cynic. I could lay on the whip with pleasure, & I know the beggar feels it.?"""
""" """"""""If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by Furnivall's society & to puzzle my head about 'stopt lines' as F. J. F. calls them & the share of Fletcher in Henry VIII and the Two Noble Kinsmen.?"""
"""?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been rather long in answering you, it is only because I wished to give a second reading to the article? I think very highly of the promise shown in your writing & therefore think it worth while to write more fully than I often do to contributors.? """
"""Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light did not make them better. I am beginning to get disgusted with badly printed newspapers or periodicals & dont look at them unless obliged to do so.'"""
"""Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'"""
"""Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'"""
"""I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose """"""""Caesar"""""""" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.' """
"""I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'"""
"""I have the """"""""PTFL"""""""" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, but ailing &#8722; very ailing.'"""
"""After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'"""
"""Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'"""
"""In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evidently well disposed towards me but also it was evident that the writer had to put the black side of the labor question as much forward as possible'"""
"""Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'"""
"""Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'"""
"""Try, by way of change, Byron?s """"""""Mazeppa"""""""", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one?s own generation of better writers and ? I don?t know what to say; I was going to say ?smaller men?; but that?s not right; read it and you will feel what I cannot express. Don't be put out by the beginning; persevere; and you will find yourself thrilled before you are at an end with it.'"""
"""Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'"""
"""In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'"""
"""Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'"""
"""And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'"""
"""I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'"""
"""I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same thing, it is of course quite the thing that there should not be any talking in the Reading Room. I must however admit that I find it very dreary work to keep altogether quiet & that I should like a little yarn now & then again'"""
"""Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the """"""""Portfolio"""""""" proof.'"""
"""I have written a review of Lauder?s """"""""Scottish Rivers"""""""" for the """"""""Academy"""""""" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I did eat...'"""
"""Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'"""
"""Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: """"""""I am a child""""""""?'"""
"""Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'"""
"""[NOT READING EXPERIENCE] 'The Dilkes, Colvin tells me, are convinced beyond possibility of deconviction, that I wrote Prince Florestan.'"""
"""At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'"""
"""in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'"""
"""Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'"""
"""Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'"""
"""Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought """"""""the Leader"""""""" because it contained the commencement of Mr Yellow Plush's experiences in Australia. I do not know who the writer is but I was very much pleased with the imitation of the style of the original celebrated foot-man who is represented as having given up the Wheel of Fortune & taken a situation as Wally de sham to Mr Ramm a young Australian & started with him from England for the Antipodes.'"""
"""My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'"""
"""In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'"""
"""Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'"""
"""Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'"""
"""Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'"""
"""In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to bed shortly after'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'"""
"""Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much more.'"""
"""Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published from time to time.'"""
"""Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'"""
"""Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high places of Judah, v. 5. Therefore, in v. 6 introduces the condemnation of Samaria, and in v. 8 that of Jerusalem. The fourth verse is deeply interesting, of natural destruction: the volcanic melting and river-sculpture: the violence of both, for transgression of men'"""
"""Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'"""
"""Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'"""
"""Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'"""
"""Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'"""
"""Read first vision of Ezekiel.'"""
"""At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons of Europe & America & suggesting to the Government speedy consideration of the subject.'"""
"""Read """"""""George [Gaith?]"""""""" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'"""
"""This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement & I asked her what was the matter, she told me that Harry had been up to some of his tricks & had hurt himself'"""
"""Morning text bad - """"""""be not high-minded"""""""": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: """"""""I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph on Miss Lowe's marriage, at Venice, and have stupidly lost it."""""""""""
"""Then read 64th Isaiah.'"""
"""This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'"""
"""after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'"""
"""Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wrong unless explained by side note. See chap. III. 7 and compare chap. VIII. 16, 17.'"""
"""There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this """"""""Macmillan"""""""".'"""
"""?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter from Bishopsbourne, now alas! in cinders. O I grudge those letters I burned.?"""
"""?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the """"""""Comtesse de Rudolstadt"""""""" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?"""
"""Today, much helped by my brown book'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: """"""""Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through missing a number of the magazine ..."""""""""""
"""#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of """"""""V. Hugo's Romances"""""""" ...'"""
"""Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'"""
"""then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity of having the Court at the Insolvent Court House.'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope """"""""that would cure the cold I got"""""""".'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope """"""""that would cure the cold I got"""""""".'"""
"""Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold or clay alike ... Ecclesiasticus XXXIV. 20-24. Glorious.'"""
"""In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'"""
"""I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'"""
"""""""""""Desperately in love with the hero"""""""", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's """"""""Natalie"""""""" (1850).'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'"""
"""Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's """"""""Adele"""""""" (1858) ...'"""
"""Arthur recalls that he could not read """"""""properly"""""""" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna to read to him. On one occasion, when she read """"""""Uncle Tom's Cabin"""""""", Arthur, who believed that """"""""a boy must never show any emotion"""""""", burst into tears, then flew into a rage over revealing his deepest feelings and attacked her with his fists'."""
"""Wilde's copy of """"""""The Bacchae of Euripides"""""""" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote """"""""Oscar Wilde T.C.D. Trinity [i.e. summer term], 1872. Clearly intent on acquiring a """"""""minute and critical knowledge"""""""" of the text, Wilde underlines countless words and phrases which he then presumably looked up in his lexicon; he frequently glosses lines in the drama with notes such as """"""""C.f. Xenophanes"""""""", """"""""C.f. [line] 342""""""""'."""
"""It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened """"""""Studies in the History of the Renaissance"""""""", a collection of art essays penned by the Oxford Classics don Walter Pater in 1873.'"""
"""... """"""""Natalie"""""""" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's """"""""Daisy Burns"""""""" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.' """
"""Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'"""
"""Glad to get back to my Testament'"""
"""?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of """"""""Victor Hugo""""""""; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may say in passing.?"""
"""""""""""Victor Hugo"""""""" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'"""
"""?Goodbye. I am at """"""""Knox and the Women"""""""", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?"""
"""Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'"""
"""I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'"""
"""In the evening I sat down to read """"""""the Vicar's Daughter"""""""" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits aloud. Polly who was very tired got interested also & pressed me to go on reading I did so till nearly ten o'clock then we had some toddy & went to bed'"""
"""Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'"""
"""?By the way, dear, I must send you """"""""Consuelo""""""""; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myself on the very edge of the grave, from the work that I so much desired, and was yet unable to do, and from other thoughts both sweet and sorrowful, should somewhat support and amuse you under all the hard things that may be coming upon you. If it is to be had in Edinburgh you shall have it, dear, even before this letter.?"""
"""read in the evening & went to bed early'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'"""
"""The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if the Members of it were anxiously striving to make it appear contemptible.'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'"""
"""Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'"""
"""I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here to Castlemaine Gaol in December last, had died there & that there was some talk about his having been overworked.'"""
"""In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'"""
"""In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight'"""
"""This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'"""
"""Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: """"""""I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me"""""""", and conf. V. 13.'"""
"""In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'"""
"""Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'"""
"""In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & """"""""Monte Christo"""""""" managed to get through the evening until Polly went to bed'"""
"""Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'"""
"""Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It was a very [?] thrilling story for young ladies, but no originality, nor yet much grit about it.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of """"""""tale"""""""" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in separate cover: """"""""I have been reading it to my brother who pronounces it 'quite brilliant.'"""""""""""
"""?I am reading Ruskin?s """"""""Stones of Venice""""""""with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'"""
"""""""""""By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the controversy. But I do wish (for I value highly your good opinion on moral character & respect all your opinions) to acquit myself from one or two charges of unfairness to Mr Maurice."""""""""""
"""""""""""Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be sorry that you think of my errors as caused by carelessness or undue superciliousness. They are at least the outcome of a good deal of as conscientious thinking as I can give."""""""""""
"""A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'"""
"""In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] And you know, or you don’t know, how much and how dearly I think of you, ever since I received a certain letter (of which this somehow reminded me) all about dogs and tobacco, when I was in Patmos at Mentone. We won’t say anything more about that, but we understand each other, don’t we?"""
"""?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long for the present purpose? The chapter on the ?Great Barn? & that called ?merry time? seem to me to be excellent & I would not omit or shorten them.?"""
"""?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?"""
"""?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would swamp me altogether. ? He is a kind of revelation to me ? but what interests one most is to find out how many things have been said over & over again for so many centuries.?"""
"""Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'"""
"""Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'"""
"""On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'"""
"""On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'"""
"""Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'"""
"""And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. As far as regards simple writing, of course I am in another world now; but in some things, though more clumsy, I seem to have been freer and more plucky: this is a lesson I have taken to heart. I have got a jolly new name for my old story. I am going to call it ?A Country Dance?: the two heroes keep changing places, you know; and the chapter, where the most of this changing goes on, is to be called: ?Up the Middle, down the Middle?. It will be in six, or (perhaps) seven, chapters. I have never worked harder in my life, than these last four days. If I can only keep it up.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I have not yet acknowledged receipt of the cheque. Please excuse a person who has been travelling hard. If you will send me here a proof of the second part of “Knox”, I will lighten it by about a page and will make one or two necessary corrections. &#8722; You have changed the name. I could wish that you had consulted me. His relations [italics]to[end italics] women (as I understand the phrase) were limited strictly to his mother, aunts and female cousins (I have forgotten daughters and grandmothers), about none of which my article says anything."""
"""Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: """"""""I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemble read Calderon for me tete a tete of a morning."""""""""""
"""Read Smith's """"""""Wealth of Nations"""""""" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Since I got your letter, I have been able to do a little more work, and I have been much better contented with myself, but I can’t get away; that is absolutely prevented by my purse and my debts, which, I may say, are red like crimson."""
"""Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by """"""""Eothen."""""""" I remember being very much amused by the opening out of two old neighbours of mine at Ealing, after a discussion of his first volume.  In the enthusiasm created by it one of them, an old Peninsular officer, instructed me carefully how to make a pontoon bridge and get my (!) troops over it; while the other, Admiral Collinson, burst forth into naval experiences.'"""
"""I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest incarnations of the spirit of (artistic) unnatural crime that ever lived.'"""
"""Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'"""
"""From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the """"""""Daily News"""""""": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.' """
"""Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'"""
"""Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'"""
"""Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'"""
"""It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s description of the primitive man, all this.'"""
"""Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'"""
"""Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere child, I would spend my half-holidays over """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""" and """"""""the Lay of the Last Minstrel"""""""", seated in rapt silence on a hassock in my father's library, in our old house at Bristol. I can well remember, too, how I would carry fragments of these enthralling stories to my fellows at school, resolved, with all the enthusiasm of boyhood, to make them willing or unwilling partakers of my pleasure. The men and women of whom I read and told were real figures to us then; and in the organization of our little school we lived out a kind of chivalrous life, even emulating, to the no small alarm of our elders, the scenes on sherwood forest, and the achievements at ashby-de-la-Zouche.'"""
"""My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'"""
"""Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me to forward these to you for your opinion; the pencil marks are principally Payne’s. One poem at least, the “Spring Sorrow”, which seems to me the most beautiful, I hope you will communicate to Madame. I thank God for this [italics]petit bout de consolation[end italics], that by Henley’s own account, this one more lovely thing in the world is not altogether without some trace of my influence: let me say that I have been something sympathetic which the mother found and contemplated while she yet carried it in her womb. This, in my profound discouragement, is a great thing for me; if I cannot do good work myself, at least, it seems, I can help others better inspired; I am at least a skilful accoucheur.' """
"""My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if not really unwholesome; it is profoundly feeble, damn its weak knees!'"""
"""I am very busy with Beranger for the """"""""Britannica""""""""."""
"""Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'"""
"""Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'"""
"""For National debt read """"""""Munera"""""""" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, """"""""Munera"""""""" Chap. III 66-80.'"""
"""In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of """"""""Marmion"""""""" with companions...'"""
"""Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: """""""" ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth your hearing of.  I have seen a certain number of ordinary people and read some dullish books ..."""""""""""
"""recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'"""
"""By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'"""
"""Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and """"""""The Wisdom which is from above is first pure"""""""" &c.'"""
"""I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: """"""""I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ... If kindness could kill I should be safely out of the reach of ever challenging your ingenuity again."""""""""""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] My dear Charles, Damned nice of you to write."""
"""O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the """"""""Charles"""""""", and the next the """"""""Cygnet"""""""": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of course I [italics]know[end italics] the third was the """"""""Baxter"""""""".'"""
"""I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embraces of a law book: barren embraces.'"""
"""I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'"""
"""Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'"""
"""Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'"""
"""There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s """"""""Pantheon de Poche"""""""".'"""
"""Sound sleep after walk and long reading of """"""""Old Mortality"""""""".'"""
"""At """"""""Rip Van Winkle"""""""" in evening, and much enjoyed it'"""
"""Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere child, I would spend my half-holidays over """"""""Ivanhoe"""""""" and """"""""the Lay of the Last Minstrel"""""""", seated in rapt silence on a hassock in my father's library, in our old house at Bristol. I can well remember, too, how I would carry fragments of these enthralling stories to my fellows at school, resolved, with all the enthusiasm of boyhood, to make them willing or unwilling partakers of my pleasure. The men and women of whom I read and told were real figures to us then; and in the organization of our little school we lived out a kind of chivalrous life, even emulating, to the no small alarm of our elders, the scenes on sherwood forest, and the achievements at ashby-de-la-Zouche.'"""
"""When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling """"""""in that pleasant life of Macaulay"""""""" she started on Pride and Prejudice.' """
"""Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'"""
"""I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, Civil Law, and a kind of nondescript incapacity that weighs upon me.'"""
"""Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'"""
"""[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed &#8722; a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform place, with heavy cornices and string course to match, and a steep slate roof. The small kirkyard is full of old gravestones; one of a Frenchman from Dunquerque, I suppose he died prisoner in the military prison hard by. And one, the most pathetic memorial I ever saw: a poor school-slate, in a wooden frame, with the inscription cut into it evidently by the father’s own hand.'"""
"""I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of """"""""Life of Moses""""""""'"""
"""I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in """"""""Twelfth Night"""""""" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful part; and I got them to put off my rehearsals to the last moment, so that I may get a fortnight with you in London and a fortnight with Bob in France: for that must be done this time, [italics]couteque coute [end italics]. I am not altogether satisfied that I shall do Orsino [italics]comme il faut[end italics]; but the Jenkins are pleased, and that is the great affair.'"""
"""My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.'"""
"""My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'"""
"""The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'"""
"""My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article (a fine article it was too; […]'"""
"""Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'"""
"""[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'"""
"""No skating scene in """"""""Wilhelm Meister"""""""" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'"""
"""I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard &#8722; damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as unintelligent and soothing as a mill wheel; occasionally too there are verses of a dignity! &#8722; Verses with Versailles wigs &#8722; pageant verses &#8722; like a Roman Triumph.'"""
"""[QUOTATION] [Italics]Nous n’irons plus au bois, les lauriers sont coupes[acute accent over the e; end italics], that thing has rung in my ears ever since I saw you, madonna."""
"""[ALLUSION]  [Italics]Nous n’irons plus au bois [end italics]"""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: """"""""I find the political situation here very interesting and devour the newspapers."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: """"""""I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: """"""""I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..."""""""""""
"""I am reading """"""""The Village on the Cliff"""""""", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that. Never mind, [italics]je serai fidele [end italics].'"""
"""[ALLUSION] I leant my back against an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree, but first it bent and syne it lost the “ Spirit of Springtime”, and so did Prof. Sidney Colvin, Trin. College., to me."""
"""I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out of the house, and begin life anew in the cool blue night. Never to come back here; never, never. Only to go on forever by sunny day and gray day, by bright night and foul, by highway and byway, town and hamlet, until somewhere by a roadside or in some clean inn, clean death opened his arms to me, and took me to his quiet heart forever.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Thanks for your letter and news. The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will cave in again. No &#8722; my “Burns” is not done yet[…]"""
"""The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will cave in again.'"""
"""No &#8722; my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. """"""""Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay"""""""" (or """"""""A Critical Essay"""""""" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly. You see what comes of trying to write an essay on Burns in ten columns.'"""
"""No &#8722; my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. """"""""Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay"""""""" (or """"""""A Critical Essay"""""""" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly. You see what comes of trying to write an essay on Burns in ten columns.'"""
"""No &#8722; my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild goose) starts up and away I go. And then again, to be plain, I shirk the work of the critical part, shirk it as a man shirks a long jump. It is awful to have to express and differentiate Burns, in a column or two. All the more as I’m going to write a book about it. """"""""Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns: an Essay"""""""" (or """"""""A Critical Essay"""""""" but then I’m going to give lives of the three gentlemen, only the gist of the book is the criticism) “by Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate, MS., P.P.C., etc.” How’s that for cut and dry? And I [italics]could[end italics] write that book. Unless I deceive myself in a superior style, I could write it pretty adequately. I feel as if I was really in it, and knew the game thoroughly'. """
"""I read […] Martin’s """"""""History of France""""""""[…]'"""
"""I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'"""
"""I read […] Comines […]'"""
"""I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'"""
"""Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" &#8722; a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two &#8722; and I got &#8722; guess! &#8722; I got five pounds for it and the price of the book! That was jolly, wasn’t it? Long live """"""""Vanity Fair""""""""!'"""
"""[ALLUSION] […] this letter should do you good, if only to remind you that to each and all the spirit of delight does sometimes come."""
"""[ALLUSION] 'No &#8722; I did not write the article in question in the""""""""Daily News"""""""". If it was nice (observe my vanity) depend upon it, it was Lang’s.' """
"""[ALLUSION] Does Ernest remember “What are the principal characteristics of Mr Stevenson”. I am afraid, Dowson, if you were asked the question, you would feel inclined to say “A short memory and a bad heart”; but I hope you could resist the inclination and determine not to “judge of me otherwise that it becometh one member to judge of another.” If you desire to know whose words I quote, see an article of mine in this month’s [italics]Macmillan[end italics]. While my hand is in, I shall make another from the same source. “And therefore, whether I write or no, be assuredly persuaded that I have you in such memory as becometh the faithful to have of the faithful.”"""
"""I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Coeur, Villon, Louis XI, Joan of Arc. Would not that be a jolly book? I do not propose to write any of them just now; but study the period quietly. It suits me better than the Reformation , because &#8722; well, because it’s more romantic to begin with, and again because it is more manageable &#8722; not such a monstrous large order."""
"""There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the """"""""City of Sunshine"""""""", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture of an old Mohammedan officer in the old sepoy army. It is a very clever book. I don't know if it would interest you, who have the real thing under your eyes, as much as it interests us, or I would put it into the next box that is sent.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] My visit to Jenkin’s was in some sense disastrous; when they were modestly apologising, the best I could find to say was that the effects of real water had been entirely disregardless of expense."""
"""Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'"""
"""Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER]I have found two dispirited post cards here […]. Beg pardon, one was dispirited, being yours […]."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I have found two dispirited post cards here […]. Beg pardon, one was dispirited, being yours. The other was a bold desperado sort of post card from my father, anent a proof of mine; which he has carefully violated as usual."""
"""I have found […] a """"""""Courant"""""""" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertisements.'"""
"""Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'"""
"""?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him especially; but now I love him. He is so thoroughly manly & tender & honest as far as his lights go that he seems to me the only consoler. I despise most of your religious people, who cultivate their maudlin humours &   despise even more your sentimentalist of the atheist kind; but old W. W. is a genuine human being, whom I respect.?"""
"""""""""""Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Yet nobody can write better than he does still at times. I wish I could discover his secret for saying stinging things; but I suppose the secret is in a morbid sensibility wh. one would scarcely take, even for the power wh. gives it. He is a terrible wasted force.?"""
"""The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general effect was that some recent sceptic had argued that the city of Mexico was not so gorgacious (a Yankee phrase) as the Spanish represented; but rather a big specimen of a kind of architecture still to be found amongst semi savage tribes in that region. I had seem some references to this in (I think) one of the notices of American literature in the Saturday Review, within the last few months ? I can?t remember when; and I have a further impression ? that the authority there given was one of the volumes ? the last if there are only two ? of Bancroft?s large book on the native races of the Pacific.'"""
"""I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'"""
"""Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'"""
"""Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I am in a state of amazement at a discovery just made; I have read (after half a lifetime) Scott's """"""""Bride of Lammermoor,"""""""" and am utterly disappointed in it.  The change in my taste is beyond accounting for, -- almost beyond belief.'"""
"""Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'"""
"""finally concluding in reading a French novel'"""
"""Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'"""
"""I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronomy XXIX. 29. Taking this verse, for year's and life's guide...'"""
"""I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man daily is greatly conducive to holiness.'"""
"""Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'"""
"""That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the key to all the actors please send it to me.'"""
"""Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of """"""""The Hour and the Man"""""""" as the finest historical romance in any language.  You would wonder if you knew how often I have read it over and over again, even in the last two years.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: """"""""Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charming notice of Roderick Hudson in the last Atlantic, which I saw today at Galignani's?"""""""""""
""" ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, """"""""Harold"""""""" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and continued for two and a half hours, during which Gladstone nodded off and other minds turned to """"""""such earthly things as luncheon"""""""".' """
"""[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' """
"""[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...'"""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the literature section (Chaucer, Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Milton, Pope, Chatterton, Goldsmith, Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt) of the public library. With that preparation, he was winning prizes for poems in London papers by age thirteen...[he] went on to found and edit several Lancashire journals'."""
"""The first volume of Symond's """"""""Studies of the Greek Poets"""""""", issued in 1873, was """"""""perpetually"""""""" in Wilde's """"""""hands"""""""" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, when he was at Oxford. On the title-page, he wrote """"""""Oscar F.O'F. W. Wilde. S.M. Magdalen College, Oxford, May '76."""""""" The date indicates that Wilde purchased the book hot off the printing press.'"""
"""The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] """"""""Ethics"""""""", which is inscribed """"""""Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College, October 1877"""""""", illustrate his passionate opposition to [the Historicist] view. Interleaved with the Greek text are around 200 pages on which Wilde has written copious notes in English and Greek. In them he creates a bridge between the past and the present by comparing Aristotle to modern writers such as David Hume and Tennyson...' """
"""Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading """"""""Rambles and Studies"""""""" before its original publication in 1876.'"""
"""Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: """"""""Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it a tenth as much as I.  It was disappointing, and it brings out strongly the defects of later growth ... But ... I enjoyed it more than anything of hers ... I have ever read.  Partly for reading it in this beastly Paris ..."""""""""""
"""Last night I was led to read """"""""Expectans expectavi"""""""", and to understand it for the first time.'"""
"""W. Matthews, father of Harriet Martineau's maid Marianne Matthews, to Martineau's sister Susan: 'A short time before the receipt of your kind letter of yesterday I was startled to read of the death of  our dear Mrs. Martineau [sic], in our local paper'. """
"""Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'"""
"""I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy of) was woke up by the Clerk of the Schools to know why I did not come up.' """
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] No, this [italics]is[end italics] a disgrace for you wrote me a very nice letter."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I am sorry to hear of your cold […]"""
"""Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: """"""""... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing and the sapience -- to say nothing of the tortuosity of the style -- are overdone."""""""""""
"""Miss Blackwell's """"""""Spiritism"""""""" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] 'I have at last overtaken all your letters from August 23rd down to September 4th. Do not imagine I am such an ass as to leave letters “rotting” in Poste Restante; I always change my address; and keep them all floating about from place to place until, after an infinity of calculation and seamanship, I can manage to make my own line of movement and theirs converge upon the same point. […]As for the question about shopping in your Antwerp Letter, I wrote you about that already."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Yes, that’s about it. We’re off to Barbizon for some more health and forest and ozone. Yes the weather is really warm and yes, everything is true but the desire for cake."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] 'I have a nice note from Lang about “Fontainebleau”. Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”. Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off. “Altogether a most enjoyable number of this esteemed serial”. eh?'"""
"""Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'"""
"""Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] And pardon me, the enclosed scrap is the only thing I have had since last I wrote; and in it, you mentioned expressly it was not to be counted as a letter. O no, you know, I’m a bad correspondent, but not as bad as you."""
"""In """"""""Illustrated London News"""""""" and """"""""Graphic"""""""", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have pleased the public this time!' """
"""Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the """"""""Spectators"""""""" for August 5th and 12th; and you will see how the poor Spectatorists were puzzled and (""""""""Scottice"""""""") affronted at my paper. It is charming.'"""
"""[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'"""
"""[ALLUSION] […] I, who want money and [italics]money soon[end italics], and not glory and the illustration of the English language […]"""
"""[ALLUSION][…] I feel as if my poverty were going to consent."""
"""Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you patted Pater on the back and promised him some cake if he kept a good little boy till the holidays.'"""
"""[quotation] […] and I own with contrition, that I have not always written prose. However I am “endeavouring after new obedience” (Scot. Shorter Catechism)."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I am glad you liked “Walking Tours”; I like it too; I think it’s prose; and I own with contrition, [sic: comma] that I have not always written prose. […] You don’t say aught of “Forest Notes”, which is kind."""
"""""""""""I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but he needs to be a little spiritualised. Yet honestly, literature & religion are rather empty. The only thing is living affection & of that I have had most touching experience."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: """"""""I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustness of the man."""""""""""
"""Your """"""""Daniel Deronda"""""""" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which pleased me so much. You might have pitched it stronger about the time D.D. chose for proposing; it was simple caddish.'"""
"""This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of intelligence therein. Mine are always married before I begin, which simplifies things.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] You may well say why; but I can’t answer."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] '[…] it is a delightful life you sketch, and a very fountain of health […] I am glad you liked Villon; some of it was not as good as it ought to be […]. I am glad to hear you are better.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] What you say is quite true. I do not seem to be very anxious to write to you, […]"""
"""Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in """"""""Ariadne"""""""", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'"""
"""""""""""Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel that you will be able to command a market for such wares & in better periodicals (if I may say so) than London."""""""""""
"""Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving """"""""Meat"""""""", for next """"""""Fors"""""""".'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER]The tale of your most Balfourian excursion to Arran with its pitiful conclusion in the mire entertained me a great deal."""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: """"""""I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum Club ... a little way off is the portly Archbishop of York with his nose in a little book ... It is 9:30 p.m. and I have been dining here ..."""""""""""
"""Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in last verse'"""
"""Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'"""
"""At George Sand's """"""""Marquise de Villemer"""""""", in evening, and enjoyed it.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I was just raging against France, and praising the institutions of my native land, when in came Mr Dick’s letter containing 25 quid (of which I hereby gratefully acknowledge receipt), with the news that it was snowing in Edinburgh."""
"""Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'"""
"""read twelve chapters of """"""""Mariegola""""""""'"""
"""""""""""This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along the valley while I walked today / The two & thirty years were a mist that rolled away / All along the valley by rock & wood & tree / The voice of the dead was a living voice to me'."""""""""""
"""My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like walking across a plough field, where one has to look very carefully at one?s footing & get every now & then stuck above the ankles. I admired & respected the man but found it hard to enjoy his work. This, however, can hardly be expected even from a professed metaphysician. He is strong & thoroughgoing; but one longs for a little liveliness & more capacity for bringing things to a focus. Perhaps I am a little spoilt by article-writing & inclined to value smartness of style too highly. The only point wh. struck me unpleasantly in the substance of the book was his rather contemptuous tone about Spence & Lewes. I don?t doubt that his criticisms of Spencer are tolerably correct; though I can see that Spencer really means to concede so much to the enemy as C. W. supposes; but I confess that Lewes seems to me to be a remarkably acute metaphysician & one who will really make his mark. C. W.?s criticism is unluckily so short that I could not quite catch the grounds of his antipathy. He seems to me to be too staunch a Millite & hardly to recognise the fact that we have got to go beyond the Mill school. But I can?t attempt a criticism here, if indeed, I were really capable of it. Anyhow Wright must be a great loss. Nobody can mistake the soundness & toughness of his intellect & his thorough honesty of purpose.'"""
"""19th Psalm."""""""""""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Stephen has written to me [italics]a[grave accent] propos[end italics]  of ‘Idlers’, that something more in that vein would be agreeable to his views. From Stephen, I count that a devil of a lot."""
"""Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: """"""""It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of the Athenaeum Club where I have been reading all the magazines all the evening, since dinner, in a great deep armchair ..."""""""""""
"""I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished """"""""Mrs Arthur"""""""", and then - a happy surprise, for I had never been prepared for it by any advertisement - I found awaiting me """"""""Carita""""""""! As far as I have gone I like it immensely."""
"""I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished """"""""Mrs Arthur"""""""", and then - a happy surprise, for I had never been prepared for it by any advertisement - I found awaiting me """"""""Carita""""""""! As far as I have gone I like it immensely.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] If I do not tell you when I am coming home it is because I really do not know myself. I only know I am coming home as soon as possible. Please take this answer and be as contented as possible. […] Are Willie and Uncle William gone? Had the latter been unwell? """
"""I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'"""
"""Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'"""
"""I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, lovely for new Sheffield colony'"""
"""Read Ezekiel 34th'"""
"""Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'"""
"""Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'"""
"""Terribly difficult bit of Plato'"""
"""I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'"""
"""""""""""Frederick"""""""" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'"""
"""See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'"""
"""My dear Baxter, Thanks, it’s received. £10 received from Messirs [sic] Mitchell and Baxter. God has come to the front and I’m all right.'"""
"""read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'"""
"""Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'"""
"""Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'"""
"""A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at """"""""Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum"""""""" and consider if really """"""""that's me""""""""!'"""
"""After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady Charlotte read to him, sometimes for as long as four hours a day.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I am so ashamed of myself that I don’t know what to say. I began tearing your letter into little bits, and throwing them into the river, unconsciously. When it was all gone , I remembered that I had forgotten your address. """
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] I was proud to hear that my Watts had not forgotten me […]. I was sorry to hear about Janet Scott […]. Very glad to hear that Mrs Finnie is over her trouble."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Your kind letter did me all the good in the world."""
"""""""""""The Omadhaun"""""""" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'"""
"""I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'"""
"""Did you &#8722; I forget &#8722; did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? &#8722; the Prince of Prigs: the literary abomination of Desolation in the way of manhood: a type which is enough to make a man forswear the love of women, if that is how it must be gained….'"""
"""Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodious[end italics]. I confess I like the Sonnet in the last number of the """"""""Review""""""""&#8722; the ‘Sonnet to England’.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Thanks for your note. It was so nice I don’t know what to say to it; but you know I love you in spite of all the “mossoos”."""
"""Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'"""
"""I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows and on the counters of the booksellers.' """
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] 'That admirable correspondent Sidney Colvin, [sic: comma] wrote to me mysteriously for my address. I sent it to him by return of post &#8722; and then I hear no more! It is very strange. Do tell him to write.'"""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] Hate me as much as you like […] Take your own time for Edinburgh; I shall try and make my plans fit […] For the Lord’s sake< why are you going to stay with the Jenkins; you had promised us &#8722; A mouse in a cat’s ear &#8722; you know the rest."""
"""And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second verse directly reverses the nobleness of all youthful thought'"""
"""I am at the [italics]Inland Voyage[end italics] again [...] The Preface shall stand over, as you suggest, until the last and then, sir, we shall see.'"""
"""Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my own notes above on Sisyphus.'"""
"""I liked """"""""Veuillot"""""""" horrid; it was jolly and sympathetic and I think true.'"""
"""My dear Mother, Many thanks for your last kind letter. I am very much better […]. My book is almost through the press.'"""
"""I read Plutarch, and drink cough mixtures.'"""
"""At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demanded by Hueffer for the <i>New Tarterly</i> [sic]. It’s a real story, damned fine; but the <i>d&eacute;nouement</i>doesn’t please me yet: the beginning is so good, that it is difficult to get up to that pitch again, and the story sort of dies away.'"""
"""I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'"""
"""Your last letter was very nice.'"""
"""Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'"""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: """"""""Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the editor of their magazine, who had just been reading The American ... 'with great delight.'"""""""""""
"""We are ... to meet Moncure Conway.We have just been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism.'"""
"""I have just finished <i>The Way of the World</i>; there is only one person in it , no there are three &mdash; who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissipated young men, Dolly and Lord Niddersdale. All the heroes and heroines are just ghastly. But what a triumph is Lady Carbury! That is real, sound, strong, genuine work: the man who could do that if he had had courage , might have written a fine book; he has preferred to write very readable ones.' """
"""[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'"""
"""My dear Mother, £30 received; many thanks."""
"""I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in it. Pollock, let me inform you, is the son of Lady Pollock, whoever she may be; and Collier is the son of Baron (I think they call him) Collier &#8722; no, I think it’s Sir Robert: anyway he’s a judge. Ahem.'"""
"""Many thanks for your letter. I was much interested by all the Edinburgh gossip."""
"""Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Mani&egrave;res; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven, the Fishery; Place of the Market of Wheat. Is not that nice?'"""
"""Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: """""""" ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over the King [Victor Emmanuel II]'s death, and that I did here, every morning, at breakfast as I read the letters in the Times ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : """"""""He read out 'Locksley Hall' to me, in a kind of solemn, sonorous chant, and I thought the performance, and the occasion, sufficiently impressive."""""""" """
"""On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of """"""""The King's Tragedy"""""""" ...'"""
"""In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 """"""""Scenes de la Vie Boheme"""""""" was deepy influential), Comte (notably """"""""Cours de Philosophie Positive"""""""" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read """"""""Fathers and Sons"""""""" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable"""""""" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'."""
"""In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 """"""""Scenes de la Vie Boheme"""""""" was deepy influential), Comte (notably """"""""Cours de Philosophie Positive"""""""" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read """"""""Fathers and Sons"""""""" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable"""""""" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'."""
"""Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading """"""""Maud"""""""" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'"""
"""I am reading Tait and Stewart’s new book. As far as I have gone, a little disappointed. Is my father reading it?'"""
"""My dear Father and Mother, Your letters received with thanks. My book is being printed by Thorne, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is that not appropriate for a neuralgic author? The <i>pain</i> has decamped once more and gone to my shoulder blade where it hurts worse; but is out of the way of the lungs anyway. I had another worry with the doctor today; he gives me a clean bill; but says I must take care for a little […]. What does my father mean by the """"""""references to the book""""""""? What book? and where? And how? And what am I to do with them? […] Do explain about the """"""""references to the book"""""""" […].'"""
"""The <i>Saturday</i> will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'"""
"""Received <i>Scots Worthies, without notes</i>. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.'"""
"""I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'"""
"""I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes C&eacute;vennes.'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: """"""""Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw this in looking over the 'visitors books' of the house.)"""""""""""
"""The preface is jolly; I felt so pleased I cannot tell you.'"""
"""Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul.'"""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: """"""""I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling all that very strongly."""""""" """
"""Began to read """"""""Principles of Success in Literature"""""""".'"""
"""[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea Bubble and John Law.'"""
"""Reading Problem III'"""
"""unable to read anything except """"""""Times"""""""".'"""
"""Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'."""
"""Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'."""
"""[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'"""
"""[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'"""
"""Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'."""
"""Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'."""
"""read on the colour-sense'"""
"""Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'"""
"""Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'"""
"""Finished reading """"""""Life and Works of Goethe"""""""" with great admiration and delight.'"""
"""[Read] 'Purgatorio'."""
"""[INTENDED READING] One thing I will have, and that is your Athenaeum Labiche. Again, choose, in your head, the best volume of Labiche there is ..."""
"""[ALLUSION] I have 83 pp written of a story, about as bad as Ouida and not so good ..."""
"""[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'."""
"""[ALLUSION] The voyage was otherwise great fun; passengers singing and spewing lustily; and the stormy winds did blow."""
"""Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: """"""""That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I thought so, quite, myself, in reading over the thing as a book): but that strikes me as a rather venial flaw."""""""""""
"""Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: """"""""The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer delay to ... tell you with what high relish and extreme appreciation I have read it.  (I wish you had sent it to me ... I have had to go and buy it -- for eight terrible shillings ...)""""""""  """
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: """"""""I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer.  I have however dipped into it and found it a great fascination."""""""""""
"""""""""""As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery.  One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."""""""""""
"""""""""""As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery.  One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."""""""""""
"""""""""""As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery.  One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."""""""""""
"""""""""""As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery.  One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."""""""""""
"""""""""""As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery.  One such, entitled 'The Castle of Otranto', haunted my dreams for many a night'."""""""""""
"""My dear Charlie, I’m a rogue and should have written to you months ago; but I have been both busy and worried. As to your paper, no, it won’t do: you ask an opinion, and I am not so silly as to think you are afraid to hear it. […] Why will it not do? Well, first, it’s not well enough written; it’s off its feet here and there. […] The point is this. It’s not <i>enough about anything</i>. It’s in the air, like a kite. In the last resort, experience, whether about life or a man’s own mind, is the only thing worth hearing, indeed is the only thing anyone can have to tell upon his own authority. [A lengthy passage follows, urging C.R. to give up theoretical writing for the moment and concentrate on observing his own, C.R.’s, firsthand experiences and conveying his own vivid, detailed impressions of them and thoughts about them in his own words, as Stevenson himself has learned to do by painful trial and error.]"""
"""[ALLUSION] Addison on the Pacific coast, and in an old edition..."""
"""Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'."""
"""Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'."""
"""[ALLUSION] 'If ye have faith like a grain of mustard seed.'"""
"""[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""[INTENDED READING] I suppose that d--d Paul would not send me a copy of The Egoist, would he?"""
"""Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'."""
"""Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'."""
"""Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'"""
"""Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - """"""""Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly"""""""".'"""
"""Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'."""
"""read my darling's M.S. on Language'"""
"""Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'"""
"""Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'"""
"""Read Grote on the Sophists'."""
"""Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'."""
"""[ALLUSION] How's that for Beadle's American Library?"""
"""[ALLUSION] As for ink, they haven't any, not what I call ink; only stuff to write cookery books with, or the works of Hayley ..."""
"""By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - but I can't'."""
"""[I have seen] 'Your """"""""Art and Criticism"""""""", likewise there'. """
"""Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'"""
"""Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'"""
"""I have been reading Ruskin’s Oxford lectures & it strikes me that if he is right we ought to be very good people for we lead just the simple life that he recommends as sure to make one virtuous & believing- papa tills the ground in his shirtsleeves & I sew & cook & live a great deal in the open air & tho’ we do not actually break bread for the people on the grass, as he recommends (following the Scripture,literally) yet we produce our salt beef & damper very like the old patriarchs used to do, when a stranger comes by- This being the case, it is discouraging to find oneself no nearer to virtue & much more prone to doubt than one’s more sophisticated neighbours & shakes one’s belief in Ruskin’s royal road to perfection. I must get """"""""the Devil’s advocate"""""""" [Percy Greg, London, 1878] next time I am in Brisbane ... Nora C.M.Prior’"""
"""Re-read """"""""Laws of Operation"""""""".'"""
"""History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'."""
"""History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'."""
"""Finished Weber's Indian Literature'."""
"""Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'"""
"""I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complicated my other businesses, and I did not even read the article till somewhat late in the month. I am now overwhelmed by Mr Shand's (it is Mr Shand?) civilities in the present number.'"""
"""I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'."""
"""History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'."""
"""Read Herzen's """"""""La Condizione fisica della Coscienza"""""""", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's standpoint'."""
"""Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a """"""""Listen now, children"""""""" began to declaim """"""""Locksley Hall"""""""". When she reached """"""""I to herd with narroe foreheads"""""""" she burst out, flinging down the book, """"""""What awful rubbish this is!"""""""" """
"""H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'"""
"""H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'"""
"""H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'"""
"""H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La Fontaine.'"""
"""Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, """"""""Ally Sloper's Weekly"""""""", at Christmas time """"""""flung into the festooned disorder of the nursery a pile of Christmas numbers, and thence forward walked with us, for a week or two, in a world of pure romance.""""""""'"""
"""Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, """"""""Ally Sloper's Weekly"""""""", at Christmas time """"""""flung into the festooned disorder of the nursery a pile of Christmas numbers, and thence forward walked with us, for a week or two, in a world of pure romance.""""""""'"""
"""Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from """"""""Line Upon Line"""""""", a book which re-tells the Bible stories [for children]'."""
"""[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's Night Thoughts; but...did not read Shakespeare seriously until he was nearly thirty'."""
"""As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were """"""""The Wide, Wide World"""""""", """"""""Queechy"""""""", and """"""""Ministering Children"""""""" ...'"""
"""As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were """"""""The Wide, Wide World"""""""", """"""""Queechy"""""""", and """"""""Ministering Children"""""""" ...'"""
"""As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were """"""""The Wide, Wide World"""""""", """"""""Queechy"""""""", and """"""""Ministering Children"""""""" ...'"""
"""Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as """"""""lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)""""""""; in another, he mentioned """"""""The Imitation of Christ, the pious manual for Christian living penned by the fifteenth-century German monk Thomas a Kempis. Wilde read the book before going to sleep...'"""
"""Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as """"""""lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)""""""""; in another, he mentioned """"""""The Imitation of Christ, the pious manual for Christian living penned by the fifteenth-century German monk Thomas a Kempis. Wilde read the book before going to sleep...'"""
"""Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading """"""""Maud"""""""" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'"""
"""[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'."""
"""I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'"""
"""Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'"""
"""I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'"""
"""Read Spencer's Psychology'"""
"""Reading Plato - Republic'"""
"""In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'"""
"""Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'"""
"""My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this from me in a kindly spirit ... """"""""To my daughter"""""""" is delicious.'"""
"""Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'"""
"""[ALLUSION] If I go and die out here, that will be a one-sided bargain; but I am an Ebrew Jew."""
"""Read my darling's first article on Goethe'"""
"""[QUOTATION] In the meanwhile I believe I shall live on here 'between the sandhills and the sea', as I think Mr Swinburne hath it."""
"""Mr Jardine has been staying here & I think he has crept into our good graces, one & all – You see we are all bush people, & he is not a bit rougher than Tom or Reddy ... He is no reader & has a comfortable scorn of all theories & theorists (will not appreciate the transcendental I am afraid) & of the literature he affects African Explorations & Voyages to the North Pole  &c &c he just reads enough to be able to discuss them, which is just what I do myself, & I expect many others do too ...' """
"""I always appreciate any discussion of books that you have read & read them myself as soon as I can. I have just received """"""""Richard Feverel"""""""", tho’ I have not yet read him & shall take steps to get """"""""The New Republic"""""""" & """"""""Positivism on an Island"""""""". I have made Mallock’s acquaintance in the Nineteenth Century & am astonished to hear of his being preached against as unorthodox. He always seemed to me to be a man of strong Xstian proclivities compared to the opponents with whom he crosses swords – Leslie Stephens – Frederic Harrison & Professor Huxley Tyndall & Clifford – all of whom I have no doubt figure in his satires – if one only knew enough to tell ... I have a morbid love of ... controversies & read them greedily. My reason too often ... on the shocking side of the question. My hopes & heart yearnings clinging convulsively to old prejudices.- Mallock's opponents almost unanimously agree that could the human race believe conscientiously in a providence & in a future (they do not see how it can) it would be the one thing every individual would desire & crave for & make any life happiness. Mallock contends that the very importance of the thing to man proves that it is - & I take my stand on the same ground & protest against the practical joke that would keep a mass of human beings constantly on the rack for no good end.' """
"""Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the <i>Courant</i>, and found them competently done.'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: """"""""I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American newspaper telegrams."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: """"""""I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ... I perused them with great interest, sufficient comprehension, and extreme profit."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: """"""""I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ... I perused them with great interest, sufficient comprehension, and extreme profit."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: """"""""I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has highly recommended it; but on coming to look into it afterwards I found it so disagreeable that if I had done so before, I shouldn't have sent it."""""""""""
"""[GENERALISATION/ ALLUSION]...it is not Shakespeare we take to, when we are in a hot corner; not, certainly, George Eliot - no, not even Balzac. It is Charles Reade, or old Dumas, or the Arabian Nights, or the best of Walter Scott; it is stories we want, not the high poetic function which represents the world; we are then like the Asiatic with his improvisatore or the middle-agee with his trouvere."""
"""Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magazines she compiled a scrapbook of them, and frequently offered her enthusiastic criticisms. Of """"""""Magdalen Walks"""""""" she wrote: """"""""the last lines have a bold, true thought, bravely uttered... I recognise you at once...there is Oscar!""""""""'"""
"""So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole book.'"""
"""I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'."""
"""November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works.  I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago.  As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable.  I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'"""
"""[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'."""
"""[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'."""
"""[INTENDED READING] Please send me - The Life, Journals and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys Esq, F.R.S. by Rev. John Smith"""
"""[ALLUSION] Fanny is allowed to eaT nothing but victuals and drink, like the old lady in the rhyme."""
"""I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.'"""
"""[INTENDED READING] Spalding Miscellany is, I believe, a splendid thing for me; but I might get it out of a library, if the Subscription has it."""
"""[INTENDED READING] The Agriculture Reports I can see at the Advocates'."""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK?] Ministers and Men in the North ..."""
"""[INTENDED READING] Ministers and Men in the North, and The Apostles of Ross-shire are I think the names of two books."""
"""[ALLUSION] F. gets on with the old folks down Swanny River, pretty free"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Mrs Grant's Superstitions of the Highlands"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Culloden Papers"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Works/Memoirs of Lord President Forbes"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK]Pamphlets or books about the Forfeited Estates"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Lovat"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Napier's Dundee"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Martin's Description Western Islands"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Sir J. Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great Britain"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Macculloch's Western Isles"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Boswell's Johnson"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Johnson's Journey with Carruther's notes"""
"""I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny quite right and, if you understand, not too literary for an engineer. I did not want to change a word.'"""
"""[RECEIPT OF BOOK NOT READING] 3rd Boscolungo has come."""
"""[NOT SURE WHAT THIS IS. READING OF BOOK? REQUEST FOR BOOK? NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO JUDGE] 4th Caldecotts"""
"""[NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SAY WHAT THIS IS] Endymion ditto"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Did I mention Pennant's Tour through the Highlands"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Did I mention ... Sir George McKenzie's Report of the County of Ross"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Did I mention ... Trial of Sellar"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Dr Walker's Economical History of the Highlands"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] [Dr Walker's] Reports to General Assembly from 1760 to 1780"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Dr Robertson's General View of the Agriculture of Inverness"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Dr Smith's General Survey of Argyll"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] All Mrs Grant of Laggan's Works and her life"""
"""[ALLUSION] Ever since the Lady of the Aroostook, I have held you in the best literary esteem."""
"""[ALLUSION] I declare now that Fanny is the original of that ghastly bad poem of Tennyson's about 'Lowly spoke the landscape painter - Burley Hall by Stamford Town - I am but a chimney sweeper - I believe I've done you brown' etc"""
"""Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms deep.'"""
"""[QUOTATION] I speak, as St Paul says, like a fool."""
"""[ALLUSION] The whirligig of time brings in its revenges, after all."""
"""Read """"""""Hebrew Migration"""""""" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical with Mount Hor'."""
"""[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'."""
"""When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of Terrail.'"""
"""As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, """"""""But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury of his spirit and the strange contortions of his style"""""""".'"""
"""""""""""I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its waste in some directions. I think him marvellously good, when at his best."""""""""""
"""For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's """"""""Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians"""""""" could be hypnotic: """"""""I was entranced. I no longer lived in Hindley. In imagination I turned native and lived among red men and hunters, tomahawks and scalps"""""""".'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: """"""""One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces."""""""""""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: """"""""I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the subject fruitful, and I suspect that much of the public will agree with me."""""""" """
"""[ALLUSION] Byron: if anything: 'Prometheus'."""
"""[ALLUSION] Shelley (1) 'The World's Great Age' from 'Hellas'; we are both dead on."""
"""[ALLUSION] 'After that you have of course 'The West Wind' thing."""
"""[ALLUSION] Herrick. 'Meddowes'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Herrick. 'Meddowes' and 'Come, my Corinna'."""
"""[ALLUSION] After that 'Mr Wickes'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Leave out stanza third of Congreve's thing, like a dear; we can't stand the 'sigh' nor the 'peruke'."""
"""[ALLUSION] Milton. 'Time'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Milton. 'Time' and the 'Solemn Music'"""
"""[ALLUSION] We both agree we would rather go without 'L'Allegro'"""
"""[ALLUSION] We both agree we would rather go without 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' than these"""
"""[ALLUSION] Is the 'Royal George' an ode, or only a Helegy?"""
"""[ALLUSION] If you take anything from Clough, but we don't either of us fancy you will, let it be 'Come back'."""
"""[ALLUSION] Quite right about Dryden. I had a hankering after 'Threnodia Augustalis'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Right about Pope's Ode. But what can you give? 'The Dying Christian'?"""
"""[ALLUSION] Whatever you do, you'll give us the 'Greek Vase'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Do you like Jonson's 'loathed stage'?"""
"""[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'"""
"""[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'"""
"""November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works.  I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago.  As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable.  I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'"""
"""November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works.  I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago.  As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable.  I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'"""
"""Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] The second part was written in a circle of hell unknown to Dante"""
"""[EVIDENCE OF OWNERSHIP] The unbound 3 vol (not the bound 2 vol) Moliere might also be kept back from the sale ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP] The unbound 3 vol (not the bound 2 vol) Moliere might also be kept back from the sale; and de Musset's Comedies"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] The unbound 3 vol (not the bound 2 vol) Moliere might also be kept back from the sale; and de Musset's Comedies, and Hazlitt's Table Talk"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] The unbound 3 vol (not the bound 2 vol) Moliere might also be kept back from the sale; and de Musset's Comedies, and Hazlitt's Table Talk and Plain Dealer"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] The unbound 3 vol (not the bound 2 vol) Moliere might also be kept back from the sale; and de Musset's Comedies, and Hazlitt's Table Talk and Plain Dealer, and my Boswell's Johnson in one vol."""
"""[QUOTATION] 'They may a' gae tapsalteerie in a raw.'"""
"""Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; """"""""I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered, which I immediately read with greater comfort and consequence than in the magazine."""""""""""
"""Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'"""
"""[QUOTATION] I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine aid."""
"""[ALLUSION] They are, I believe, pretty correct literary exercises, or will be, with a few filings; but they are not remarkable for white-hot vehemence of inspiration; tepid works; respectable versifications of very proper and even original sentiments; kind of Haleyistic."""
"""The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now """"""""Al Monte!"""""""" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dictionaries and an insane grammar.'"""
"""[WRITING, NOT READING] About John Brown, I have been breaking my heart to finish a Scots poem to him."""
"""[INTENDED READING] I hear no word of Hugh Miller's Evictions; I count on that."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTER] What you say about the Old and New Statistical is odd."""
"""[ALLUSION] See about Rutherford's Stones of Testimony (about people who played at ball on Sunday) at Anwoth; a man who took one down, died."""
"""[ALLUSION] Cf Mitchell's story about the Highland Stone."""
"""[ALLUSION] You bet you are in the right about the old men; Tennyson is most Govamighty"""
"""[INTENDED READING] Bendymion I have not yet read from extreme busyness"""
"""[ALLUSION] Poor R., vaulting ambition hath o'erleapt himself - and fallen a little on this side, in his case."""
"""[QUOTATION] Truth is 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis Truth."""
"""[ALLUSION]... but if a wicked and adulterous generation..."""
"""It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] Tell my father I am delighted with the pamphlet purchase, and if he can still get Defoe for 5/- had better snap at it."""
"""[INTENDED OWNERSHIP] Let him see if there is a cheap Chambers's Revolutions of 1689 and 1715 ..."""
"""[INTENDED READING]... above all let him get for me and send to me Skene's Highlanders of Scotland."""
"""[FUTURE READING]I have got Lord Mahon to read ..."""
"""[ALLUSION] I think it would not be a bad game to send The Boy's Newspaper (a thing of Cassell's) to Sam."""
"""[PRIVATE LETTERS] I was a little morbid a month or two ago, being far from well, and in the receipt of a correspondence that would have taken the starch out of Mark Tapley."""
"""Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'."""
"""I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'"""
"""I have read M. Auguste.'"""
"""I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.'"""
"""The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.'"""
"""[ALLUSION]I am as you know, the original person the wheels of whose chariot tarried ..."""
"""[ALLUSION]...know that 'bold, bad man' is from Spenser."""
"""[INTENDED READING]Think you it would be possible and not too dear to get and send to me here Hepworth Dixon's Life of Penn"""
"""[ALLUSION] Second, many of the thunder clouds that were overhanging me when last I wrote, have silently stolen away like Longfellow's Arabs .."""
"""Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'."""
"""Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'."""
"""[QUOTATION] It was this that seems meant in the phrase that 'not one jot nor tittle of the law shall pass'."""
"""[QUOTATION] But what led me to the remark is this: a kind of black, nagry look goes with that statement of the law in negatives: 'To love one's neighbour as oneself' is certainly much harder ..."""
"""[QUOTATION] How are the mighty fallen!"""
"""[ALLUSION] I was beginning to wonder about your 'Hospital Sketches'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Away with your gardens of roses, indeed!"""
"""[ALLUSION] And now, bage man, about that £100."""
"""[QUOTATION]... were I stronger, I should try to sugar in with some of the leaders: a chield amang them tak'in' notes."""
"""[ALLUSION]... my mother having recommended me to bind my hair and lace my bodice blue."""
"""[RECEIPT, NOT READING] The books have come, the second volume of Burt.."""
"""Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'"""
"""after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'."""
"""after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'."""
"""Read """"""""My faithful Johnny"""""""" in the Cornhill'."""
"""[ALLUSION] Apart from dancing and deray"""
"""I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.'"""
"""An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, which I am in the heart of, with sincere pleasure.'"""
"""I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'"""
"""[QUOTATION] The Printing Press not yet having arrived, your wail for a greatcoat has not yet gone forth 'over the house-tops of the world'..."""
"""As a boy [Wilde] """"""""cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe.""""""""'"""
"""Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's """"""""Lost Illusions"""""""" and """"""""A Harlot High and Low"""""""" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's """"""""Scarlet and Black"""""""", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the """"""""two favourite characters"""""""" of his boyhood.'"""
"""Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's """"""""Lost Illusions"""""""" and """"""""A Harlot High and Low"""""""" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's """"""""Scarlet and Black"""""""", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the """"""""two favourite characters"""""""" of his boyhood.'"""
"""Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by two acknowledged masters of imaginative realism, impressed him particularly - Balzac's """"""""Lost Illusions"""""""" and """"""""A Harlot High and Low"""""""" (whose hero is Lucien de Rubempre), and Stendhal's """"""""Scarlet and Black"""""""", which featured Julien Sorel. Wilde would nominate the pair as the """"""""two favourite characters"""""""" of his boyhood.'"""
"""The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's """"""""Roman History"""""""" which bears the date """"""""November 1868"""""""" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes dealing with linguistic matters.'"""
"""[allusion] Talking of heeling the high Lavolt..."""
"""[ALLUSION] Possibly the canny Scot does feel pleasure in the superior cheapness; but the true reason is this, that I think to put a few words, by way of notes, to each book in its new form; hence that will be the Standard Edition Without Which no g's l will be complete; the edition, briefly, sine qua non."""
"""[QUOTATION] Disappointment, except with onself, is not a very capital affair; and the sham beatitude 'Blessed is he that expecteth little' one of the truest and, in a sense, the most Christlike, things in literature."""
"""[QUOTATION]Ne sutor ultra crepidam"""
"""On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'"""
"""On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'"""
"""[OWNERSHIP/INTENDED READING] Received ... Miss Bird"""
"""[EVIDENCE ONLY OF RECEIPT NOT READING] Received ... Coquelin for all which, and especially the last, I tender my best thanks."""
"""Finished the Discours Preliminaire'."""
"""Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'"""
"""Finished Monier Williams'"""
"""[ALLUSION] You will not I am sure be so far left to yourself as to give us no more of Dryden than the hackneyed 'St Cecilia'."""
"""[ALLUSION]... there is a machine about a poetical young lady"""
"""[ALLUSION]... and another about either Charles or James, I know not which"""
"""[ALLUSION] Is Marvell's Horatian Ode good enough?"""
"""[ALLUSION]But my great point is a fear that you are one of those who are unjust to our old Tennyson's 'Duke of Wellington'."""
"""[ALLUSION] I suppose you must not put in yours about the warship."""
"""Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] Among my books there is one: Aikman's History of the Persecution or History of the Covenanters ..."""
"""[LENDING]... and pray keep the Proces de Jeanne d'Arc in 5 vols"""
"""[EVIDENCE OF LENDING]... and pray keep ... the Reign of Charles VII by Vallet de Viriville ..."""
"""[EVIDENCE OF LENDING]... and pray keep ... the Nouveaux Apercus sur Jeanne d'Arc"""
"""[EVIDENCE OF LENDING]... and pray keep ... the Monstrelet, edition Pantheon Litteraire"""
"""Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'."""
"""Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: """"""""I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they shocked me very much when I saw it in print, and they would never have stayed had I seen it in proof."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: """"""""This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing speeches ... of his of the 1st July, which enclosed the two extracts for Mrs Orr.  These I have read with much interest."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: """"""""I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I have waited to do, only to read it.  I am just terminating this pleasure, and he shall hear from me.'  """
"""I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'"""
"""You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, we take another view; the first vol. a la bonne heure! but not - never - the second.'"""
"""Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] 'I have a discovery about Saintsbury .. hence he can refer to the teeming errors of poor Parton's Voltaire, without any notice of the fact that you have here upwards of 1000 pages of good, very good reading.'"""
"""[ALLUSION]... which does not prevent Washington Square from being, in its way, an unpleasant book, nor H. James from being a mere club fizzle ..."""
"""By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusal, but to other matter in that article which I shall not mention now, since you had not nous enough to twig its significance for yourself.'"""
"""Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.'"""
"""[RECOMMENDATION TO READ] You might also look in Arnot's Criminal Trials up in my room, and see what observations he has on the case ..."""
"""A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.'"""
"""[RECEIPT] I waited till your play came, which it did not for three days."""
"""November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne.  Apropos of books, I received two days ago a letter from an American publisher, telling me that M. Lanier had thrown my Mabinogion into a popular form for children and had just completed the work before he died [?] This is very interesting to me.  My first number came out in 1839, forty-three years ago.'"""
"""... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'"""
"""[OWNERSHIP] I have already Table Talk ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP] I have already Table Talk, Plain Dealer ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP] I have already Table Talk, Plain Dealer, Elizabethan Literature ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP]I have already Table Talk, Plain Dealer, Elizabethan Literature, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP]I have already Table Talk, Plain Dealer, Elizabethan Literature, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, I think Winterslow ..."""
"""[OWNERSHIP]I have already Table Talk, Plain Dealer, Elizabethan Literature, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, I think Winterslow, and I think, the Round Table."""
"""We are very much charmed with Lord G. Paget's account of the Crimean War, a subject I dislike so much that I am surprised to like it so much...'"""
"""We have also begun Lyell['s ''Life'']. The scrap of autobiography is pleasant.'"""
"""I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'"""
"""Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'"""
"""The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'"""
"""I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Tell Lang he was eminently spottable in the Saturday."""
"""I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.'"""
"""As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one likes the moon, I fancy'."""
"""In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" which he did not care for; """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" he thought a """"""""wonderful book""""""""; in a volume titled """"""""British Dramatists"""""""" he thought Webster's """"""""The Duchess of Malfi"""""""" """"""""the best by head and shoulders""""""""; Carlyle's """"""""Heroes and Hero Worship"""""""" he admired """"""""exceedingly"""""""" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""" he told Osborne that he thought it a """"""""great book"""""""", though he disliked its """"""""overelaboration"""""""": """"""""perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness"""""""".' """
"""In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" which he did not care for; """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" he thought a """"""""wonderful book""""""""; in a volume titled """"""""British Dramatists"""""""" he thought Webster's """"""""The Duchess of Malfi"""""""" """"""""the best by head and shoulders""""""""; Carlyle's """"""""Heroes and Hero Worship"""""""" he admired """"""""exceedingly"""""""" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""" he told Osborne that he thought it a """"""""great book"""""""", though he disliked its """"""""overelaboration"""""""": """"""""perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness"""""""".' """
"""In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" which he did not care for; """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" he thought a """"""""wonderful book""""""""; in a volume titled """"""""British Dramatists"""""""" he thought Webster's """"""""The Duchess of Malfi"""""""" """"""""the best by head and shoulders""""""""; Carlyle's """"""""Heroes and Hero Worship"""""""" he admired """"""""exceedingly"""""""" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""" he told Osborne that he thought it a """"""""great book"""""""", though he disliked its """"""""overelaboration"""""""": """"""""perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness"""""""".' """
"""In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" which he did not care for; """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" he thought a """"""""wonderful book""""""""; in a volume titled """"""""British Dramatists"""""""" he thought Webster's """"""""The Duchess of Malfi"""""""" """"""""the best by head and shoulders""""""""; Carlyle's """"""""Heroes and Hero Worship"""""""" he admired """"""""exceedingly"""""""" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""" he told Osborne that he thought it a """"""""great book"""""""", though he disliked its """"""""overelaboration"""""""": """"""""perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness"""""""".' """
"""In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received """"""""Tom Jones"""""""" which he did not care for; """"""""Jane Eyre"""""""" he thought a """"""""wonderful book""""""""; in a volume titled """"""""British Dramatists"""""""" he thought Webster's """"""""The Duchess of Malfi"""""""" """"""""the best by head and shoulders""""""""; Carlyle's """"""""Heroes and Hero Worship"""""""" he admired """"""""exceedingly"""""""" (he proceeded to write an essay of twenty-six notepaper pages on Carlyle); of Thackeray's """"""""Henry Esmond"""""""" he told Osborne that he thought it a """"""""great book"""""""", though he disliked its """"""""overelaboration"""""""": """"""""perhaps you may say it is merely an additional grace - but I think it stands rather in the way of true eloquence and geninely forceful tragedy, not that I deny there is both eloquence and tragedy in 'Esmond', but I think there might have been more and grander but for that elaborateness"""""""".' """
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Will you kindly send me by post (1) my little copy of Penn's Fruits of Solitude ..."""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Will you kindly send me by post (1) my little copy of Penn's Fruits of Solitude ... a Gaelic Bible"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Will you kindly send me by post (1) my little copy of Penn's Fruits of Solitude ... (2) a Gaelic Bible (3) a ditto dictionary"""
"""[REQUEST FOR BOOK] Will you kindly send me by post (1) my little copy of Penn's Fruits of Solitude ... (2) a Gaelic Bible (3) a ditto dictionary (4) a ditto grammar"""
"""Dearest Rosie ... I sent him [Mr. Dawson] a copy of P. & P. [""""""""Policy and Passion""""""""] when I got to Brisbane & have heard from him twice since. In his first letter he says “Yesterday’s post brought  us your kind present of “P. & P.” The wife is already deep in the 2nd vol: & I am exercising great self-denial by waiting as patiently as possible till she finishes it, - our respective rates of getting thro’ print being about as the our hand is to the minute hand. To show however their rapidity may not mean carelessness, I note what I think is a misprint on page 74, where ‘latarna’ stands for what I have generally heard called ‘lantana’ – But I may be wrong & have nothing & nobody near of any botanical authority to refer to. – Also, at page 105, “the shrill screech of the Jackass” will puzzle most English readers unless a note be added to show that  our gigantic Kingfisher, the laughing  “jackass” is meant” – In the next letter he says “Policy & passion has gone the round of this family circle & has kept each individual more or less out of bed ; that is a result which would entirely satisfy me if I had dealing with a printer. ...'"""
"""Dearest Rosie ... I sent him [Mr. Dawson] a copy of P. & P. [""""""""Policy and Passion""""""""] when I got to Brisbane & have heard from him twice since. In his first letter he says “Yesterday’s post brought  us your kind present of “P. & P.” The wife is already deep in the 2nd vol: & I am exercising great self-denial by waiting as patiently as possible till she finishes it, - our respective rates of getting thro’ print being about as the our hand is to the minute hand. To show however their rapidity may not mean carelessness, I note what I think is a misprint on page 74, where ‘latarna’ stands for what I have generally heard called ‘lantana’ – But I may be wrong & have nothing & nobody near of any botanical authority to refer to. – Also, at page 105, “the shrill screech of the Jackass” will puzzle most English readers unless a note be added to show that  our gigantic Kingfisher, the laughing  “jackass” is meant” – In the next letter he says “Policy & passion has gone the round of this family circle & has kept each individual more or less out of bed ; that is a result which would entirely satisfy me if I had dealing with a printer. ...'"""
"""I like your """"""""Byron"""""""" well ...'"""
"""I liked your ... """"""""Berlioz"""""""" better.'"""
"""Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'"""
"""Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.'"""
"""Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'"""
"""These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'"""
"""The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-room with a little wax taper in my hand ... a white towel over my head, intoning the dirge from Ivanhoe ...'"""
"""[ALLUSION] I shall send one of our creepers. I don't know where to send it; it is Fanny's, so I can't judge it; but it seems to me to have a grue in it towards the end."""
"""We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...'"""
"""We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not even improper.'"""
"""I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.'"""
"""Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.'"""
"""Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, """"""""when """"""""John Inglesant"""""""" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of Barton, and for those six summer weeks of 1881 I lived in the book ...""""""""'"""
"""Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering production.'"""
"""One of the privately printed copies [of """"""""John Inglesant"""""""" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'"""
"""I heard about the great Abbot Sampson, of the twelfth century, whom I was to meet again at the age of fourteen, when I read """"""""Past and Present"""""""" while waiting in Westminster Abbey to hear Canon Farrar preach.'"""
"""In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what authority he has for understanding so much in his notes.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] 'I tell you the Knoxes are an error; it would be far better to keep them back and work them into a life of Knox some day; there is no readable life of him; and these are as dull as McCrie.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: """"""""I won't forego the pleasure of letting you know ... what satisfaction the history of your Doctress gives me. I came back last night from a month in Scotland, and found the October Atlantic on my table; whereupon, though weary with travel I waked early this morning on purpose to read your contribution in bed -- in my little London-dusky back-bedroom, where I can never read at such hours without a pair of candles."""""""""""
"""Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'"""
"""[ALLUSION] Penn's works are three volumes .. so they shouldn't be far from Dixon."""
"""The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell ..'"""
"""Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'"""
"""INTENDED READING I desired in haste; it was two little books, one of them the Trials of Rob's Sons, the other I forget what, but you will find the pair bracketed together ..."""
"""ALLUSION If you are taking Young Folks, for God's Sake Twig the editorial style: it is incredible; we are all left PANTING IN THE REAR. Twig, O twig it. His name is Clinton; I should say the most melodious prose writer now alive ..."""
"""As for your paper it is charming.'"""
"""It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of """"""""Daniel Deronda"""""""", should also have produced """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""".'"""
"""Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'"""
"""I have been reading over his old letters. I have not many , we were so seldom apart...'"""
"""Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up """"""""Deucalion"""""""", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'"""
"""Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'"""
"""The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'"""
"""The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'"""
"""Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: """"""""In this place will I give peace"""""""".'"""
"""The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'"""
"""Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought the Ill-Favoured Ones were in the first part; when I was nine years old, I knew better than that. Christian never saw 'em; they were people who attacked women, a point really felt by Miss Bagster, God bless her old heart.'"""
"""O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'"""
"""Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.'"""
"""What a nice letter from Peterhead!'"""
"""My dear General Wallace, -- I sat up the night before last to finish your beautiful book, and I assure you I find it difficult to express my admiration of it.  It is wonderful how you have interwoven the sacred elements of the story with the human interest.'"""
"""Did I ever tell you with how great an interest I had read your reminiscences of Carlyle and Mrs C.?'"""
"""I have just been reading Heine's """"""""De l'Allemagne"""""""", a very amusing book.'"""
"""I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should have preferred it if you had been a convert & admitted that every word I said was true. But I am quite satisfied to have a candid & generous critic & that you could not cease to be without ceasing to be yourself. Most of the points between us would require a treatise instead of a letter. As, for example, I can never understand what is meant to aversion & desire [to] expect anticipation of pain & pleasure. Therefore to me it is the same thing to say that conduct is determined by one or the other. But this implies a psychological difference not to be bridged over in a letter.'"""
"""Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I would gladly subscribe to nearly all your criticism, if I had not a feeling that in some points wh. you touch, I am too much of an outsider for any subscription to have much value. The only criticism wh. I might cavil a bit would concern the Bard. I never could feel that the old gentleman ought to derive so much satisfaction from the advent of the Tudor destiny; & Gray?s desire to administer that bit of consolation seems to me to miss the point & rather spoil his design. Still I am fond of the Bard as one is fond of what one has already known by heart.'"""
"""Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I would gladly subscribe to nearly all your criticism, if I had not a feeling that in some points wh. you touch, I am too much of an outsider for any subscription to have much value. The only criticism wh. I might cavil a bit would concern the Bard. I never could feel that the old gentleman ought to derive so much satisfaction from the advent of the Tudor destiny; & Gray?s desire to administer that bit of consolation seems to me to miss the point & rather spoil his design. Still I am fond of the Bard as one is fond of what one has already known by heart.'"""
"""I find upon looking up that Louis is in tears over Back from the Dead.'"""
"""Read """"""""Pot-Bouille""""""""; """"""""Pot-Bouille"""""""" made me laugh, there is one good character'"""
"""I have only seen Athenaeum ...'"""
"""I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...'"""
"""I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.'"""
"""Pollock, I must say, has written a handsome and discriminating notice; he thinks too well of the """"""""Pavilion""""""""; but most of what he says is good as criticism and very kindly said.'"""
"""You will already have seen my word on Japanese Art. I read it a little differently, but your view of their fidelity to natural impressions is true, as far as it goes.'"""
"""Do get the St Jingo.'"""
"""George, George, you are detected, and if you do not immediately drink a bottle of Burgundy (to my health and Pepys's) you will certainly be damned.'"""
"""... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'"""
"""I have been reading such old letters of my mother's, about going to school; it is like looking into a forgotten picture of myself.'"""
"""I inclose [sic] a review which Lang sent me, presumably his own and presumably from the Daily News.'"""
"""This morning I have great pleasure in reading """"""""Deucalion"""""""" before coffee'"""
"""I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: """"""""He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the blaze of whose parliamentary escutcheon has never yet been dimmed by the bar-sinister or inconsistency."""""""" What do you think of that?'"""
"""Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and an [sic] painfully impressed &mdash; I might say depressed.'"""
"""If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the """"""""delicacies suitable to my invalid condition"""""""" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and revolting yarns, pray regard it as a spectral illusion, and pass by.'"""
"""Talking about G. Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist.'"""
"""The Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most striking novels &mdash; not plays, though it's more of a play than anything else of his &mdash; I ever read.'"""
"""Read """"""""Pot-Bouille""""""""; """"""""Pot-Bouille"""""""" made me laugh, there is one good character'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on """"""""Prose Fiction"""""""" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence """"""""I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti"""""""".'"""
"""Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading """"""""Maud"""""""" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.'"""
"""Leon Edel notes: """"""""In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before sailing read it to Mrs. [Isabella Stewart]Gardner."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late for Henry James Sr to see it before he died: """"""""I went out yesterday (Sunday) morning, to the Cambridge cemetary ... and stood beside his grave a long time and read him your letter of farewell -- which I am sure he heard somewhere out of the depths of the still, bright winter air."""""""""""
"""I have read your Ronins Fideles.'"""
"""The best of the present French novelists seems to me, incomparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very near to being a masterpiece.'"""
"""Have you ever read Olympe de Cleves? If not, remember, it must be read.'"""
"""Even George Meredith says: """"""""It contains a remarkable study of love.""""""""'"""
"""A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up to that moment he had sat content, huddled in his ignorance, but he left that farm another man. There were day-dreams, it appeared, divine day-dreams, written and printed and bound, and to be bought for money and enjoyed at pleasure. Down he sat that day, painfully learning to read Welsh, and returned to borrow the book. It had been lost, nor could he find another copy but one that was in English. Down he sat once more, learned English, and at length, and with entire delight, read 'Robinson'."""
"""I have just finished reading your last book..'"""
"""My dearest Rosie.-….He [Morres, brother of Rosa Praed] has been reading “An A.H.” [""""""""An Australian Heroine"""""""", 1880] & “P. & P.” [""""""""Policy and Passion"""""""", 1881] on off days & like me likes the former the better ... Nora C.M. Prior’"""
"""My dearest Rosie.-….He [Morres, brother of Rosa Praed] has been reading “An A.H.” [""""""""An Australian Heroine"""""""", 1880] & “P. & P.” [""""""""Policy and Passion"""""""", 1881] on off days & like me likes the former the better ... Nora C.M. Prior’"""
"""My dearest Rosie....He [Morres, brother of Rosa Praed] has been reading “An A.H.” & “P. & P.” on off days & like me likes the former the better. …Miss Foy [the governess] is reading “An A.H.” She says it is splendid - I do not think she cared for “P. & P.” much....'"""
"""I have also read &mdash; for the first time &mdash; Hard Times.'"""
"""His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has been misinformed. I shall reserve the patent until I have an opportunity of learning your Majesty's pleasure upon it!!' O the groans of George, who knew his man, and whimpered under the rod.'"""
"""Read in Machiavelli's """"""""Florence"""""""" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife asking why - """"""""To get them into the way of it.""""""""'"""
"""Mr Swan's note was extremely good.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: """"""""I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazine [containing Howells's praise of Henry James; not clear whether Academy or just previously-mentioned Century is meant] and of which I should long since have sent you a copy did I not suppose that the publishers had the civility to do so."""""""""""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: """"""""Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [apparently concerning James and Howells's controversial, published praises of each other] I have seen only the former."""""""""""
"""""""""""Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."""""""""""
"""The Monthly Cricket ... Summed; good reading, best I've seen as a whole; shaky on the pictures.'"""
"""Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'"""
"""Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'"""
"""... the work has come, and a very portly tome it is; and I have already read Lodge and Webster...'"""
"""Your """"""""Dumas"""""""" I think exquisite.'"""
"""Have you read Meredith's """"""""Love in the Valley""""""""? It got me, I wept; I remembered that poetry existed.'"""
"""... your remarks on Great Expectations are very good. We have both re-read it this winter .. The object being a play ...'"""
"""Read Hosea XII. 7-9'"""
"""""""""""Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."""""""""""
"""I have been reading Frank's notes on F., and I am quite delighted with them. The picture is so minute and exact that it is like a written photograph, and so full of tender observation on Frank's part.'"""
"""I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'"""
"""Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'"""
"""""""""""I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."""""""""""
"""""""""""The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poem by a thief, which seemed to amuse him greatly."""""""""""
"""""""""""The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met a wild beast in the wood."""""""""""
"""my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through """"""""La Petite Fadette""""""""... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'."""
"""my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through """"""""La Petite Fadette""""""""... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'."""
"""my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through """"""""La Petite Fadette""""""""... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'."""
"""my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; battering her way with pride and tenacity through """"""""La Petite Fadette""""""""... But with all her respect for education...learning was never her strong point'."""
"""""""""""Much interested in Lorna Doone.  It is a truly romantic book."""""""""""
"""Stevenson's Monthly Cricket.'"""
"""... I hasten to thank you for your having kindly sent me the Enchiridion ...'"""
"""Inclosed [sic] please find XXX to XXXV of Songs of Innocence ... If a man wishes to live forever and be happy, let him write Songs of Innocence: I cannot tell you how happy they make me.'"""
"""I had a letter from America, and the party who buttered me so free in last Century is, it appears, one J. C. Bunner.'"""
"""The Century in question .. the November one ... contains Howell's very good natured and sensible article about James ...'"""
"""""""""""Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."""""""""""
"""By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...'"""
"""Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: """"""""I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in which you devote a few lines to the silly article in the Quarterly on American Novels, etc [goes on to correct points in this]."""""""""""
"""""""""""Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone.  Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind and taking all the sunshine.  The willow bushes hung over the stream as if they were angling with tasseled floats of gold & silver, bursting like a bean-pod.  Between them came the water laughing like a maid at her own dancing, and spread with that young blue which never lies beyond the April.  And on either bank, the meadow ruffled as the breeze came by, opening (through new tufts of green) daisy-bud or celandine, or a shy glimpse now & then of a love-lorn primrose.'"""""""""""
"""A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.'"""
"""My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the """"""""Lover and his Lass.""""""""  It is by your powerful, truth-seeing imagination, and not by what pedants are prone to describe as """"""""analysis"""""""" of character, that you enchant us [...] I """"""""pitied myself,"""""""" as they say in Cumberland, when I got to the end of the book.'"""
"""He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...'"""
"""He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together, as well as the second part of Faust.'"""
"""You bet I saw the Courant notice ...'"""
"""Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night.  I read it this morning before I left my pillow -- read it with much entertainment and profit.'"""
"""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.'"""
"""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.'"""
"""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.'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: """"""""I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] volumes of Mme de Remusat, just out -- her correspondence with her son -- and finding them interestng ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: """"""""Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: """"""""I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been reading them all in German ..."""""""""""
"""In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's """"""""A Modern Instance"""""""" as """"""""a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'imaginative realism', but still, in its lower sphere, what mastery!""""""""'"""
"""From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion.'"""
"""From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion... I have also read a play by him: Le Fils de la Folle.'"""
"""Do you know the Chiffonier of Paris by F. Pyat &mdash; O my lad, that a melo! what a melo!'"""
"""""""""""Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'""""""""."""
"""Monthly Cricket."""
"""Were you to re-read some Balzac, as I have been doing, it would greatly help to clear your eyes.'"""
"""If you like it try the """"""""Castle of Otranto"""""""" by Horace Walpole.  That is the best stilted romance style I know.  """"""""Well may the blood"""""""" says an expiring viscount to a peasant youth who has fallen in love with a countess and been recognised by a friar as his son, the friar thereupon proving himself a duke, and the detection of his son arising from a markt on the son's neck, which was being bared for execution, - """"""""well may the blood which has so lately traced itself to its source boil over in the veins"""""""".  (The boy had shown signs of annoyance.)  I never saw anything like that before.The killing and stabbing and the wonderment produced as to why all the characters stay about the old castle, (most of them have no business there), when at least three quarters are searching for the blood of the other three quarters for monetary reasonsor for none! There are three discoveries, I think of long lost children and no end of supernaturalism; all produces a gorgeous effect.'"""
"""I also read again Silvio Pellico's """"""""Prisons"""""""". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'"""
"""I also read again Silvio Pellico's """"""""Prisons"""""""". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'"""
"""I also read again Silvio Pellico's """"""""Prisons"""""""". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'"""
"""I do so want to talk over Mrs Carlyle with you, and I hope you will get it soon. It is most interesting and entertaining, but what a coarse woman, though only to a husband.'"""
"""I have been reading your father's letters to William which he has kept... What a blessing science was to him through all his anxieties and his bad health.'"""
"""Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness.'"""
"""It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of """"""""Daniel Deronda"""""""", should also have produced """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""".'"""
"""It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He was fond of reading and we read poetry together, a great deal of Tennyson, and although I had read George Eliot's novels, I was surprised that she who produced the dry prose of """"""""Daniel Deronda"""""""", should also have produced """"""""The Spanish Gipsy"""""""".'"""
"""I have read Maxime; but mark you further &mdash; I have never read anything else ... By the way, I have read Maxime du Camp.'"""
"""... I ask you particularly to thank Mr Bunner ... for his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really pleases an author like what the French call a """"""""shake-hands"""""""".'"""
"""I saw my book advertised in a number of the Critic as the work of one R. L. Stephenson ...'"""
"""... after that you will read the Egoist by the same ... I have read... The Egoist six times ...'"""
"""I like the """"""""Rover"""""""", better than any of your other verse.'"""
"""Get the Memoirs of the Chevalier Johnstone, and do his passage of the Tay ..."""
"""Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. """"""""Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not."""""""" II Cor. iv.'"""
"""Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...'"""
"""... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.'"""
"""We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading """"""""Lalla Rookh"""""""".'"""
"""In the evening read the papers'"""
"""Rest in room and discovered """"""""History of Fair Rosamond"""""""".'"""
"""March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy.  Scott never palls.  In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present.  C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'"""
"""March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy.  Scott never palls.  In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present.  C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'"""
"""March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy.  Scott never palls.  In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present.  C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'"""
"""March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy.  Scott never palls.  In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present.  C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'"""
"""Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading """"""""World"""""""" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, """"""""La petite Comtesse"""""""", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'"""
"""Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading """"""""World"""""""" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, """"""""La petite Comtesse"""""""", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'"""
"""Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading """"""""World"""""""" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, """"""""La petite Comtesse"""""""", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'"""
"""Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'"""
"""Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'"""
"""read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'"""
"""From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '""""""""On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth'."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginning 'Celestial Happiness, when’er she stoops. To visit earth, one shrine the Goddess finds…'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Ode to the Poppy, By the Honble Mrs O’Neil', beginning 'Not for the promise of the cultured field/ Not for the good the yellow harvests yield…’ """
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '""""""""Tell me thou Soul of her I love"""""""" - Thomson', beginning 'Tell me thou Soul of her I love’. """
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, you really do declare, / You’ll dance with none but ladies fair...'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of  ‘An Epitaph. On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Anglesey’s leg. By the Rt. Honble. G. Canning.’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of  'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady’s common place Book', lines beginning 'Here is one leaf reserv’d for me, / From all thy sweet memorials free; / And here my simple song might tell / The feelings thou must guess so well…’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of  '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but by Southey] beginning 'A well there is in the West Country, / And a cleverer one never was seen…’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of  ‘""""""""A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage"""""""" by Mr Marriott' beginning ‘In a Devonshire lane as I trotted along…’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), beginning 'When lovers meet in adverse hour/ Tis like a sun glimpse through a shower…’ """
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines  lines from the """"""""Bride of Abydos"""""""" [Byron]."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines  from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled and unattributed], beginning 'I wept thy absence – oer and oer again’."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written by Mary Queen of Scots when in the vessel which conveyed her from France.' The lines begin ‘Stay cruel breeze, rude ocean cease thy roar….’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame” Gay.' This is followed by lines clearly inspired by this, beginning “The British fabulist misleads the mind, / Friendship and love are better thus defined…’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Lord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was requested to sing. He begged to be excused, urging that he knew not what to sing, “Sing ‘I’d be a butterfly’” suggested the nobleman.” From Hampshire Advertiser.’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '""""""""To a Flirt"""""""" [unattributed, but the poem is """"""""To his Forsaken Mistress"""""""" by Sir Robert Ayton, and begins 'I do confess thou’rt smooth and fair']."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '""""""""Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston  written by her Husband”  Romsey Church.'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of """"""""What is Love?” by M. S'."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s bitterest pain / To love – to be beloved again'."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginning “Since trifles make the sum of human things”."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Unthinking, idle, wild and young, I laughed, and danced, and talked and sung…'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of """"""""My birthday"""""""" T Moore' beginning '""""""""My Birthday” what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful ear!'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'from the Southampton Paper' beginning 'We’re ready, we’re ready, it really is hard/ That from Hymen’s sweet bonds we so long are debarred.’"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of """"""""On Sir Walter Scott"""""""" by LEL."""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair by Thos Haynes Bailey Esq”"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“In Happiness Hours” By Thos Haynes Bailey Esq'"""
"""From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning “Expect not perfect happiness below…’"""
"""Paragraph in """"""""Pall Mall Gazette"""""""" very pretty!'"""
"""""""""""I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."""""""""""
"""Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not formed upon the review but upon his just having sent me two books of his, one on Copyright & one called Washington Adams. As he was polite to me 20 years ago I ought to have acknowledged them; but after reading, I found it quite impossible to say anything civil. He seemed to me to be both silly & impertinent. But you need not tell me anything of him; for I guess I know the animal sufficiently.'"""
"""Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not formed upon the review but upon his just having sent me two books of his, one on Copyright & one called Washington Adams. As he was polite to me 20 years ago I ought to have acknowledged them; but after reading, I found it quite impossible to say anything civil. He seemed to me to be both silly & impertinent. But you need not tell me anything of him; for I guess I know the animal sufficiently.'"""
"""Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not formed upon the review but upon his just having sent me two books of his, one on Copyright & one called Washington Adams. As he was polite to me 20 years ago I ought to have acknowledged them; but after reading, I found it quite impossible to say anything civil. He seemed to me to be both silly & impertinent. But you need not tell me anything of him; for I guess I know the animal sufficiently.'"""
"""[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, """"""""David Elginbrod"""""""", had been published many years before by Messrs Hurst & Blackett, at Mrs Oliphant's warm recommendation.  She always spoke of it as a work of genius, and quoted it as one of the instances of publishers' blunders, for when the MS. came to her it came enveloped in wrappings that showed how many refusals it had already suffered.'  """
"""[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called """"""""The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha"""""""" which """"""""abounded in ghosts"""""""" and she liked it even better'."""
"""[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called """"""""The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha"""""""" which """"""""abounded in ghosts"""""""" and she liked it even better'."""
"""[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of """"""""Wide Awake"""""""" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called """"""""The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha"""""""" which """"""""abounded in ghosts"""""""" and she liked it even better'."""
"""19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho."""
"""A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible death of Mrs Skewton in Dickens' abominable """"""""Dombey"""""""".'"""
"""read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'"""
"""I up to coffee, reading """"""""Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""Read the end of Froude's """"""""Carlyle"""""""" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.' """
"""?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicated about the man wh. I have not yet found a name for. I think that he is rather a coward & likes snarling from behind Carlyle?s back. Luckily I have not to review him!?"""
"""Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: """"""""I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: """"""""I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it such a prodigious young performance ... that dedications should come to you not from you [Lee had dedicated her novel Miss Brown to James]."""""""" """
"""Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'"""
"""Read """"""""Vicar of Wakefield"""""""" and """"""""Citizen of World"""""""" at coffee, and was sick of both.'"""
"""Read """"""""Vicar of Wakefield"""""""" and """"""""Citizen of World"""""""" at coffee, and was sick of both.'"""
"""Bought [""""""""Life of Sarah Barnham""""""""?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beast. It is however humorously written & I sat up reading it till nearly midnight.'"""
"""Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying """"""""Sarah Barnham"""""""" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by reading her very strange history as related by her biographer or assumed biographer who has certainly taken considerable license as she details the death of her subject though it is well known that """"""""Sarah Barnham"""""""" is meant for Sara Bernhardt the great actress & that Sara is still among the illustrious living. The Book is a horribly spiteful one & well illustrates the spite one woman can show against another.'"""
"""Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: """""""" ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading your Wolfe and Montcalm ... I have found the right time to read it only during the last fortnight, and it has fascinated me from the first page to the last."""""""""""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of """"""""The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night"""""""", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's """"""""Alice in Wonderland"""""""" and """"""""Through the Looking Glass"""""""", the adventure stories of Captain Marryat, everything of Harrison Ainsworth, and other, now forgotten, works'."""
"""Slept well, and read grand book - """"""""Darkness and Dawn"""""""" at coffee time.'"""
"""At Rose, reading """"""""Roma Sotteranea"""""""".'"""
"""I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'"""
"""Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns of the Cerberus when she was lately firing shell for practice. It seems that the expensive monster is rendered unsafe if not altogether useless'"""
"""Read Sir T. More in evening'"""
"""Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed.  Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the morning'"""
"""In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prisons & professes to have been written by one who has served a sentence. It evidently is the work of an author well up in what he has made his subject.'"""
"""Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: """"""""I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."""""""""""
"""My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Himalayas to the plains of Turkestan beyond. Here [in his house] I found [...] books [...] and maps and old manuscripts. I was among the relics of an explorer,at the very house in which he had planned his explorations[...]. I pored over the old books and maps, and talked for hours with the old servants, till the spirit of exploration gradually entered my soul, and I rushed off on a preliminary tour on foot in the direction of Tibet, and planned a great journey into that country for the following year.'"""
"""it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's """"""""Journal"""""""".'"""
"""The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.'"""
"""It is comical to read Swift's journal along with Maurice, so undoubting and passionate, angry and affectionate.'"""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: """"""""I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's in genial rejoinder to my article in the same periodical on Besant's lecture, and the result ... is a friendly desire to send you three words."""""""" """
"""Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'"""
"""Now he discovered """"""""one of Swinburne's models"""""""" - Gautier: """"""""I have just bought is """"""""Emaux et Camees"""""""", he told Osborne, """"""""translated several of them, and read a good many. Scarcely since I first came across Rossetti have I received so new, so fresh, so powerful an impression from any work or style of verse. I have added a new string to my bow"""""""".'"""
"""Thunder, after reading """"""""Natural History of Enthusiasm"""""""" and planning series of lectures.'"""
"""Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: """"""""I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."""""""""""
"""Went to bed after reading for a long while'"""
"""I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'"""
"""Arthur became interested in """"""""humanity"""""""" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel """"""""Lavengro"""""""" (1851), which contains the author's adventures among gypsies; as a result Arthur began studying Romany. For the remainder of his life he was absorbed by both the gypsies and their language, perhaps because of their rootlessness and wanderings'."""
"""Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: """"""""I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: """""""" ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrous, and I must say in some ways admirable, Germinal."""""""""""
"""Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, """"""""Saying to a stock, thou art my father"""""""". Jeremiah II. 27'"""
"""I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the """"""""Daily Telegraph."""""""" The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day or so [9 June 1885] before our departure from Penarth; as soon as we arrived here I looked anxiously t[h]rough the papers expecting great things.'"""
"""Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'"""
"""Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four emblems'"""
"""an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in """"""""Daily Telegraph"""""""".'"""
"""exciting discoveries of things in """"""""Harry and Lucy"""""""" at coffee'"""
"""Read """"""""Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars"""""""".'"""
"""Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'"""
"""The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the """"""""Remarks"""""""" section of the record is filled in (although the remarks are illegible) and there is a marginal comment in the same hand by the title of the last article, """"""""Zero: A Story of Monte Carlo"""""""".  The annotation reads """"""""Praed"""""""" [probably therefore  identifying the article as being by Winthrop Macworth Praed]."""
"""Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: """"""""The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers"""""""", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'."""
"""Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: """"""""The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers"""""""", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'."""
"""Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: """"""""The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers"""""""", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'."""
"""Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passages from """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: """"""""The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers"""""""", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'."""
"""Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school books he read contained poems that stirred him deeply. One of the school texts he used contained long passges from """"""""The Lady of the Lake"""""""" with a prose commentary attached. And then there was a favourite schoolboy poem starting with the resounding line: """"""""The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers"""""""", with a refrain that the boys loved to chant at play. There were extracts from Shakespeare, the usual lyrics, and a few heavily didactic poems intended to inculcate morality in the boyish heart'."""
"""In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: """"""""His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown to all the boys and girls in the chapel's schoolroom... While we were playing kiss in the ring, singing and laughing... Dave would lean his figure... against a pillar, biting his lips and frowning at our merrymaking""""""""... His friend soon tired of this Byronic posing, but Davies marks the occasion as the first time he was really attracted to poetry with enjoyment and serious purpose. He went on to  read Shelley, Marlowe's plays, and some further Shakespeare. Wordsworth failed to attract him, though he later studied him very diligently'."""
"""In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: """"""""His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown to all the boys and girls in the chapel's schoolroom... While we were playing kiss in the ring, singing and laughing... Dave would lean his figure... against a pillar, biting his lips and frowning at our merrymaking""""""""... His friend soon tired of this Byronic posing, but Davies marks the occasion as the first time he was really attracted to poetry with enjoyment and serious purpose. He went on to  read Shelley, Marlowe's plays, and some further Shakespeare. Wordsworth failed to attract him, though he later studied him very diligently'."""
"""In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: """"""""His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown to all the boys and girls in the chapel's schoolroom... While we were playing kiss in the ring, singing and laughing... Dave would lean his figure... against a pillar, biting his lips and frowning at our merrymaking""""""""... His friend soon tired of this Byronic posing, but Davies marks the occasion as the first time he was really attracted to poetry with enjoyment and serious purpose. He went on to  read Shelley, Marlowe's plays, and some further Shakespeare. Wordsworth failed to attract him, though he later studied him very diligently'."""
"""In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: """"""""His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown to all the boys and girls in the chapel's schoolroom... While we were playing kiss in the ring, singing and laughing... Dave would lean his figure... against a pillar, biting his lips and frowning at our merrymaking""""""""... His friend soon tired of this Byronic posing, but Davies marks the occasion as the first time he was really attracted to poetry with enjoyment and serious purpose. He went on to  read Shelley, Marlowe's plays, and some further Shakespeare. Wordsworth failed to attract him, though he later studied him very diligently'."""
"""I read with the greatest pleasure  what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The """"""""Palliser"""""""" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled """"""""Phineas Finn"""""""".  Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: """"""""Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... All I have had time to read as yet is the introduction ..."""""""""""
"""Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle """"""""French Revolution"""""""") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'"""
"""Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: """"""""I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable novel, which I fell upon and devoured, with the utmost relish and gratitude.  It brightened me up, here, for a day or two, amazingly."""""""""""
"""Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading """"""""Nigel"""""""" to Lollie.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: """"""""I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..."""""""""""
"""In discussing Meredith's """"""""Evan Harrington"""""""" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated interst in the autobiographical element in novels: """"""""... there is really a wonderful sympathy & tenderness towards the suffering Lady Dunstane. Does it not seem as if she may be, at least in some points, his wife? I should like to think so.""""""""'"""
"""The second number of the """"""""Standard"""""""" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.' """
"""Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of """"""""Life of Gustave Dore"""""""" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'"""
"""Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read """"""""Aladdin"""""""".'"""
"""Thank you very much for the """"""""Life of George Eliot,"""""""" and for the kind and flattering inscription.  I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw.  The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture.  I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief.  I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'"""
"""Thank you very much for the """"""""Life of George Eliot,"""""""" and for the kind and flattering inscription.  I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ever saw.  The personality of the great writer is as yet very confusing to me in the extreme flatness of the picture.  I don't mean by flatness dulness [sic], though there is something of that, but only that it is like mural paintings or sculpture in very low relief.  I have just run over your reviewer's article and think it very good.'"""
"""Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'"""
"""... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'"""
"""In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 """"""""Scenes de la Vie Boheme"""""""" was deepy influential), Comte (notably """"""""Cours de Philosophie Positive"""""""" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read """"""""Fathers and Sons"""""""" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable"""""""" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'."""
"""He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's """"""""Earthly Paradise"""""""", a poem """"""""abounding in the quaintest archaisms""""""""; Ruskin's """"""""Unto this last"""""""", which Gissing liked as a """"""""contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy""""""""; Landor's """"""""Imaginary Conversations"""""""", for its """"""""perfect prose""""""""; and Scott's """"""""Redgauntlet"""""""", for the romantic situations of which he must """"""""try to find parallel kinds in modern life"""""""". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's """"""""Conversations with Goethe"""""""", """"""""a most delightful book"""""""". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'."""
"""He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's """"""""Earthly Paradise"""""""", a poem """"""""abounding in the quaintest archaisms""""""""; Ruskin's """"""""Unto this last"""""""", which Gissing liked as a """"""""contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy""""""""; Landor's """"""""Imaginary Conversations"""""""", for its """"""""perfect prose""""""""; and Scott's """"""""Redgauntlet"""""""", for the romantic situations of which he must """"""""try to find parallel kinds in modern life"""""""". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's """"""""Conversations with Goethe"""""""", """"""""a most delightful book"""""""". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'."""
"""Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous.  I am making the most prodigious effort to understand his book, but I have to catch hold of the furniture after a few pages to keep myself from turning round and round, and yet the absorption of such a man of the world as he is in a religious idea has something very fine in it.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: """"""""You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the letter you wrote about the [unfavourable] review [in The Nation] of your book [The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James].  When I had read the article it was absolutely impossible for me not to write to him on my own account ..."""""""""""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled """"""""The Castle of Otranto"""""""", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a """"""""History of England"""""""" which was a veritable godsend.'"""
"""In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's """"""""Kenilworth"""""""" and a quite new copy of """"""""Cranford"""""""". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled """"""""Adam's First Wife"""""""". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the """"""""rib theory"""""""" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]"""
"""In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's """"""""Kenilworth"""""""" and a quite new copy of """"""""Cranford"""""""". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled """"""""Adam's First Wife"""""""". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the """"""""rib theory"""""""" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]"""
"""In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's """"""""Kenilworth"""""""" and a quite new copy of """"""""Cranford"""""""". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled """"""""Adam's First Wife"""""""". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the """"""""rib theory"""""""" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]"""
"""The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called """"""""verse"""""""". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: """"""""Yes, we like it.""""""""'"""
"""I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'"""
"""I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'"""
"""I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'"""
"""Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: """"""""I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of them over again."""""""""""
"""Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped.'"""
"""Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'"""
"""I find Bonaparte's correspondence very interesting, though his dreadful wickedness in Italy, and cruelty in Egypt is almost too worrying; I think Lanfrey was only too lenient.'"""
"""I do not like Grant Allen's book about your father. It is prancing and wants simplicity.'"""
"""I am reading his [Charles Darwin's] ''Journal'' after a long interval.It gives me a sort of companionship with him which makes me feel happy- only there are so many questions I want to ask.'"""
"""And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of """"""""Frederick"""""""".'"""
"""I found a deskful of old letters which I had quite forgotten ... It is a sad feeling in reading old letters that I have no one to sympathise in such old memories.'"""
"""On Dec. 15th [1887] """"""""Owd Roa"""""""" was finished for press. My father's note on the poem is: """"""""I read in one of the daily papers of a child saved by a black retriever from a burning house. The details of the story are of course mine.""""""""'"""
"""rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'"""
"""Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she """"""""began seriously to read Greek.""""""""'"""
"""read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'"""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: """"""""Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything so vulgarly brutal should be the thing that succeeds most with the English of today [goes on to complain further of violence and racism in this novel]."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: """"""""Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything so vulgarly brutal should be the thing that succeeds most with the English of today [goes on to complain further of violence and racism in this novel]."""""""""""
"""Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'"""
"""This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: """"""""Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome. Nov 21 1886"""""""". """
"""I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.'"""
"""read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of """"""""As you like it"""""""".'"""
"""I see by the """"""""Athenaeum"""""""" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'."""
"""Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the """"""""Abbot"""""""" in the evening to them.' """
"""It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to """"""""Maga's"""""""" mark.  The article on Hayward is very good.  Sir Edward Hamley, I think?' """
"""I am a good deal charmed by Jeffrey's letters; they have some of the taste of Lamb's. The life is dull, as Lord Cockburn cannot resist giving a long character of everyone he mentions...'"""
"""The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only """"""""Donovan"""""""" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with """"""""We Two"""""""" [1884] she added about the latter that Princess """"""""Beatrice has ...""""""""'"""
"""From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's """"""""Everlasting No"""""""" from """"""""Sartor Resartus"""""""".'"""
"""The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only """"""""Donovan"""""""" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with """"""""We Two"""""""" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's """"""""Pensees"""""""" and """"""""Correspondance"""""""" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be charmed with the letters and some of the [italics] pensees [end italics] are extraordinarily acute. Now I am deep in Senancour, and for miscellaneous reading I have been getting through Horace's Epistles and dawdling a good deal over Shakespeare. My feeling as to him gets stronger and stronger, that he was, strictly speaking, a great poet, but not a great dramatist! [she discusses this at length, concluding] I have always felt it most strongly in Othello, and of course in the last act of Hamlet, which, in spite of the magnificent poetry in it, is surely a piece of dramatic bungling'"""
"""It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to find it easier than she expected'."""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: """"""""I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial present of Carlyle ... I read the two volumes with exceeding interest ..."""""""""""
"""I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'"""
"""I am reading Martineau [""""""""Types of Ethical Theory""""""""] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'"""
"""I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian associations Wordsworth's love for nature.'"""
"""Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: """"""""The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half ago was to purchase 'Lemuel Barker' ... and though I laid him down twenty-four hours ago I am still full of the sense of how he beguiled and delighted and illumined my way.  The beauties of nature passed unheeded and the St. Gotthard tunnel, where I had a reading lamp, was over in a shriek.  The book is so awfully good that my perusal of it was one uninterrupted Bravo."""""""""""
"""I am tempted by an Essay of Lady Verney's to read ''Millman's History of the Jews''.'"""
"""I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a widow on losing a dull husband she did not much care for...'"""
"""Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those  long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even write; but soon the sun would set before us, the stars would appear one by one, and through the long dark hours we would go silently on [...].' """
"""For a short time a Sunday School was opened and kept going, and its teacher - a man named Smith - persuaded me to learn by heart a chapter of the Gospel according to St. Mark, by promising me as a prize a copy of the New Testament. It is probable that my recitation of the chapter showed little understanding of its meaning, but Smith was satisfied and I got the Testament.'"""
"""At one time I knew entire pages of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" by heart. But if """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" is a masterpiece """"""""Salammbô"""""""" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was writing """"""""[The]N[igger]of [the] N[arcissus]"""""""", """"""""Salammbô"""""""" was my morning book.While taking coffee I would read a page or two at random--and there is hardly a page that isn't marvellous.'"""
"""Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. """"""""read much aloud to the children"""""""", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... """"""""(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'.""""""""'"""
"""Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. """"""""read much aloud to the children"""""""", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... """"""""(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', Leila or the Island and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'.""""""""'"""
"""Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. """"""""read much aloud to the children"""""""", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... """"""""(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'.""""""""'"""
"""Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. """"""""read much aloud to the children"""""""", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... """"""""(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', 'Leila or the Island' and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'.""""""""'"""
"""I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the """"""""Peking Gazette"""""""") and the despatches  of the French general (published by the French Government) about the same battles. It was most instructive reading.The Chinese reported to the emperor [...] that the French had from ten to twenty times the number they really had ; and the slaughter these gallant Chinese soldiers effected beats everything previously recorded in history. Accirding to the """"""""Peking Gazette"""""""", no les than 1,800,000 Frenchmen were actually killed in the Tonquin [sic] war: and according to the same authority Admiral Courbet was killed on forty-six occasions.'  """
"""I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to """"""""set a paper"""""""" on that book and am quite unprepared to ask a single question about it. The last generation of readers was so fond of what is elegant.'"""
"""The first opinion I have heard of it [the """"""""Makers of Venice""""""""] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages saying, first, that he was not going to Venice, as had been reported; and next, that he must contradict himself, and say that he had been in Venice, the book having quite given him that feeling; after which he enters into a question of Venetian political history about Bajamonte, whose very name, I should think, was unknown to most readers, but with whom this amazing old man seems intimately acquainted.'"""
"""Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is """"""""reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings"""""""".'"""
"""Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... [""""""""Donovan"""""""" and """"""""We Two""""""""] in 1887 ...'"""
"""Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... [""""""""Donovan"""""""" and """"""""We Two""""""""] in 1887 ...'"""
"""Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: """"""""I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..."""""""""""
"""[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated [""""""""The Egoist""""""""], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books which ... he read repeatedly -- four or five times in the case of """"""""The Egoist"""""""", he declared in 1887.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): """"""""I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 'tribute' in the September Harper, but I have just looked it up."""""""""""
"""I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly does not suit Wedgwoods, who never have any intuitions.'"""
"""I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.'"""
"""I am driven by stress of bad novels to Carlyle again.'"""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of """"""""Gleanings"""""""" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'"""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of """"""""Gleanings"""""""" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the greatest interest, and shall do the same with the others. Does not the difference between us on the question of sin come very much to this - that to you the great fact of the world and in this history of man, is [italics] sin [end italics] - to me, [italics] progress [end italics]? I remember Amiel somewhere speaks of the distinction as marking off two classes of thought, two orders of temperament.'"""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about """"""""Robert Elsmere""""""""] If you do speak of him [T.H. Green], will you look at his two Lay Sermons, of which I enclose my copy? - particularly the second one, which was written eight years after the first, and to my mind expresses his thought more clearly'."""
"""Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called """"""""A Bad Boy's Diry"""""""" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. It was meant to be funny and it was written as though by """"""""little Gorgie"""""""", a mischievous boy who couldn't spell'."""
"""[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called """"""""The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters"""""""" and it was the story of a child who became ill at the age of five, turned to religion, and lived a saintly life until she died when she was twelve. Anzonetta talked only in hymns. For months Maud's life was taken over by this book. She tried valiantly to become as saintly as her idol'."""
"""[Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading """"""""Seasons"""""""", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to sit down at once to write one of her own.'"""
"""Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: """""""" ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballantrae, the new novel ... [R. L. Stevenson] is about to contribute to Scribner, and have been reading them with breathless admiration."""""""""""
"""?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along slushy snow-paths we came home rather disgusted & bought some queer earthenware animals at a shop & then I sat down in the hall & puzzled out a bit of Plato. It is first rate reading to take on a journey; because a small volume would last one month; & there is the pleasure of guessing at each sentence before I make something out of it.?"""
"""1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, and held to be """"""""the flower of girlhood,"""""""" """"""""The Leper's Bride,"""""""" just finished.'"""
"""I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'"""
"""Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]"""
"""I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'"""
"""Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]"""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: """"""""The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other night to American literati to thank them for praying for international copyright ... I see by this morning's Times that the banqueted boon is further off than ever."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: """"""""Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..."""""""""""
"""The book [""""""""Robert Elsmere""""""""] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. """"""""Mamma and I"""""""", he wrote to his daughter in March, """"""""are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with """"""""Robert Elsmere"""""""". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book"""""""". And to Lord Acton he wrote: """"""""It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides"""""""".'"""
"""The book [""""""""Robert Elsmere""""""""] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. """"""""Mamma and I"""""""", he wrote to his daughter in March, """"""""are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with """"""""Robert Elsmere"""""""". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book"""""""". And to Lord Acton he wrote: """"""""It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides"""""""".'"""
"""The book [""""""""Robert Elsmere""""""""] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. """"""""Mamma and I"""""""", he wrote to his daughter in March, """"""""are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with """"""""Robert Elsmere"""""""". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book"""""""". And to Lord Acton he wrote: """"""""It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides"""""""".'"""
"""Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.' """
"""Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.' """
"""Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.' """
"""Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.'"""
"""[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'"""
"""[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'"""
"""[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'"""
"""The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading and makes one think worse than ever of Parnell.'"""
"""We read aloud one of the ''New Arabian Nights'' you mention, which is very amusing ... I particularly admire the ending of the bandbox story...'"""
"""We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'."""
"""I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'',and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.'"""
"""I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'', and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' [But, she added later] 'My reading of Tennyson is come to an untimely end, and I shall never really care for anything of his but some bits of ''In Memoriam''.'"""
"""""""""""... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."""""""""""
"""Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the """"""""Singapore Free Press"""""""" which was the [underlined] paper of the East as between Rangoon and Shanghai.'"""
"""I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'"""
"""I have just been reading your paper about """"""""Taking in Sail"""""""".  I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued thoughts that come to us with the decline of the day.'"""
"""I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them.  Mr Barrie's """"""""Auld Licht Idylls,"""""""" etc, I think exceedingly clever.  Indeed there seems to me genius in them, though the Scotch is, as you say, much too provincial.'"""
"""In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'"""
"""In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'"""
"""In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pearls and The Heir of Redclyffe'"""
"""I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the """"""""Pleasures of Memory"""""""" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'"""
"""I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the """"""""Pleasures of Memory"""""""" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'"""
"""I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'"""
"""[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's """"""""Origin of Species"""""""" - a queer jumble of thoughts'."""
"""I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the """"""""Pleasures of Memory"""""""" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'"""
"""One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, children's books like """"""""Little Lord Fauntleroy"""""""" and """"""""The Little Duke"""""""" [as well as Scott] ...'"""
"""One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, children's books like """"""""Little Lord Fauntleroy"""""""" and """"""""The Little Duke"""""""" [as well as Scott] ...'"""
"""One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, children's books like """"""""Little Lord Fauntleroy"""""""" and """"""""The Little Duke"""""""" [as well as Scott] ...'"""
"""One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, children's books like """"""""Little Lord Fauntleroy"""""""" and """"""""The Little Duke"""""""" [as well as Scott] ...'"""
"""In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' """"""""Field and Hedgerow"""""""", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram for Mew's story """"""""The Minnow Fishers""""""""].' """
"""In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 """"""""Scenes de la Vie Boheme"""""""" was deepy influential), Comte (notably """"""""Cours de Philosophie Positive"""""""" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read """"""""Fathers and Sons"""""""" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable"""""""" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'."""
"""In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted but rarely assessed. Salient in any study of it would be his reading of Goethe and Heine in 1876 (and throughout his life), Eugene Sue and Henri Murger (in 1878 """"""""Scenes de la Vie Boheme"""""""" was deepy influential), Comte (notably """"""""Cours de Philosophie Positive"""""""" in 1878), Turgenev (in 1884 - but also constantly, for by the end of the decade he had read """"""""Fathers and Sons"""""""" five times), Moliere, George Sand, Balzac, de Musset (whom he called indispensable"""""""" in 1885), Ibsen (in German, in the late 1880s), Zola, Dostoevski, the Goncourts (at least by the early 1890s). Gissing read with equal ease in French, German, Greek and latin, and these from an early age. Later he added Italian and late in life some Spanish'."""
"""[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'."""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read the Latin, Greek, English and French classics, but of the particular titles he noted in his diary during the second part of 1889 there are a number that indicate fairly and squarely the direction in which his thoughts were carrying him. Besides books like J.P. Jacobsen's """"""""Niels Lyhne"""""""" and Frederick [sic]Bremer's """"""""Hertha"""""""", he also read Taine's """"""""English Literature"""""""", Bourget's """"""""Etudes et Portraits"""""""" as well as the """"""""Essais Psychologiques"""""""", A.H. Buck's """"""""Treatise on Hygiene"""""""", W. B. Carpenter's """"""""Principles of Mental Physiology"""""""" and the books he just mentions as Ribot's """"""""Hereditie"""""""".'"""
"""[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'."""
"""[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'."""
"""To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excellent...'"""
"""I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'"""
"""I am also reading Clough's ''Life''. He was as religious as Lamb at the same age.'"""
"""On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in his way. 'What in heaven's name is it?' I asked. 'This, my friend. For years a certain critic has practically damned my works - said there was nothing really in them - and now this person, whose ability I have always admired despite the fact that I have suffered, has declared: """"""""Stevenson has at last produced one of the best books of the season, and the claim of his friends seems fully justified, for the work is full of genius.""""""""' His face was all aglow with feverish excitement. 'Who is this wonderful critic, Stevenson, whose praise you so enjoy? And what bitter things has he said of you before?' 'We will drop the severe things, Moors. You would never guess, if I gave you all morning, who it is who has at last admitted me to be in the front rank of my profession. It is Mrs Oliphant, my dear sir - Mrs Oliphant!'"""
"""After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, """"""""Praeterita"""""""", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 August 1889] that it was """"""""an admirable specimen of its author's merits and defects ...""""""""'"""
"""""""""""... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."""""""""""
"""On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she """"""""read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight"""""""".'"""
"""'I have finished """"""""Yaga"""""""" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'"""
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: """""""" ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I read the first volume just before I left London -- and the second, which I began the instant I got into the train at Victoria, made me wish immensely that both it and the journey to Bale and thence were formed to last longer."""""""" """
"""Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: """""""" ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I read the first volume just before I left London -- and the second, which I began the instant I got into the train at Victoria, made me wish immensely that both it and the journey to Bale and thence were formed to last longer."""""""" """
"""""""""""I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."""""""""""
"""""""""""I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."""""""""""
"""""""""""I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."""""""""""
"""Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, """"""""Union Jack"""""""" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sensational titles, and the """"""""Chatterbox Christmas Annual"""""""" for 1890 introduced him to Dr Johnson'."""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the """"""""History of the World"""""""", a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled """"""""Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim"""""""". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was """"""""Little Katey and Jolly Jim"""""""", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was """"""""simply scrumptious"""""""".'"""
"""In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel Coeur de Femme."""
"""[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she """"""""read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed"""""""".'"""
"""[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she """"""""read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay much enjoyed"""""""".'"""
"""In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stories, which he has read and enjoyed: """"""""I possess the eminently psychical stories as well as the material volume."""""""""""
"""I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of """"""""Blackwood"""""""", entitled """"""""The Two Blights in Ireland"""""""".  But may I be allowed to point out a small slip, on the writer's part, on page 722, which might possibly be laid hold of by the nationalists, as showing his ignorance of the topography of the land.'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: """"""""Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, The Adventures of a Penny, and sundry similar classics"""""""". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, """"""""A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'"""""""".'"""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have not improved - if they are not less brutal, less earthy, nearer altogether to the intelligent type of life.'"""
"""Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it """"""""practically by heart""""""""... Shelley, too, she found """"""""an intoxicant"""""""". A coplete works of Shelley joined her Tennyson a year later, starting a fascination with the poet which she remembers in a letter to Gilbert Murray in January 1945: """"""""I, like you, read Shelley's Prometheus very young... I was entirely carried away by it; as I was, indeed, by all Shelley... Of course, I didn't understand all Prometheus; but enough to be fascinated"""""""".'"""
"""Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; even """"""""Dick Whittington and his Cat"""""""" was introduced. Tennyson's """"""""The Dying Swan"""""""" was one of the boy's earliest delights; and, having been taught to read before his sixth birthday, he read and committed to memory copious amounts of Longfellow, especially Hiawatha and Evangeline'."""
"""Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; even """"""""Dick Whittington and his Cat"""""""" was introduced. Tennyson's """"""""The Dying Swan"""""""" was one of the boy's earliest delights; and, having been taught to read before his sixth birthday, he read and committed to memory copious amounts of Longfellow, especially Hiawatha and Evangeline'."""
"""Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; even """"""""Dick Whittington and his Cat"""""""" was introduced. Tennyson's """"""""The Dying Swan"""""""" was one of the boy's earliest delights; and, having been taught to read before his sixth birthday, he read and committed to memory copious amounts of Longfellow, especially Hiawatha and Evangeline'."""
"""Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bending forward, his hands clasped, he gazed expectant, while Louis read over the poem. Alas, for the hero worshipper! This is what the Master said: 'I'm damned if I know what it means. It reads like cat's meat to me.'"""
"""One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deeply engrossed in a book. When Louis spoke to him, he made no answer but went on reading. Impatient, Louis plucked the book out of the boy's hand. It was 'Treasure Island'. Returning it instantly, he said: 'Go right on reading, my little man. Don't let anyone disturb you.'"""
"""They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.'"""
"""One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deeply engrossed in a book. When Louis spoke to him, he made no answer but went on reading. Impatient, Louis plucked the book out of the boy's hand. It was 'Treasure Island'. Returning it instantly, he said: 'Go right on reading, my little man. Don't let anyone disturb you.'"""
"""Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table he stood before us with a manuscript in his hand...then in his deep voice vibrant with emotion, with heightened colour and blazing eyes he read aloud the 'Father Damien Letter.' Never in my life have I heard anything so dramatic, so magnificent. There was deep feeling in every sentence - scorn, indignation, biting irony, infinite pity - and invective that fairly scorched and sizzled. The tears were in his eyes when he finished. Throwing the manuscript on the table he turned to his wife. She who had never failed him, rose to his feet, and holding out both hands to him in a gesture of enthusiasm, cried: 'Print it! Publish it!'"""
"""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.'"""
"""Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: """"""""I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."""""""""""
"""Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of his De Musset which appeared in Willie Tulloch's little Glasgow paper; no one of us had any suspicion of what was at hand'.[Cyril Oliphant's death]"""
"""I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved.  It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom, for us?  I have read it over and over again, scarcely able to see the words for tears.'"""
"""Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and I am only now towards the end of the second volume.  I am greatly interested, and more than ever admiring the way in which your powerful yet truth-loving imagination proves able to deal with the mazes of Human Nature. """
"""Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and the cakes and King Canute ordering the tide to retreat... her Royal Reader offered thrilling depictions of the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, the Amazon, Hudson's Bay and the South Pacific, as well as scenes from Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. She also remembered borrowing a decrepit copy of Belzoni's Travels and enjoying intensely the excursion through Egyptian archaeology. But she was an unusually self-motivated reader: her less-educated neighbours were only hazily aware of the existence of Oxford, just nineteen miles away.'"""
"""Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and the cakes and King Canute ordering the tide to retreat... her Royal Reader offered thrilling depictions of the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, the Amazon, Hudson's Bay and the South Pacific, as well as scenes from Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. She also remembered borrowing a decrepit copy of Belzoni's Travels and enjoying intensely the excursion through Egyptian archaeology. But she was an unusually self-motivated reader: her less-educated neighbours were only hazily aware of the existence of Oxford, just nineteen miles away.'"""
"""Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and the cakes and King Canute ordering the tide to retreat... her Royal Reader offered thrilling depictions of the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, the Amazon, Hudson's Bay and the South Pacific, as well as scenes from Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. She also remembered borrowing a decrepit copy of Belzoni's Travels and enjoying intensely the excursion through Egyptian archaeology. But she was an unusually self-motivated reader: her less-educated neighbours were only hazily aware of the existence of Oxford, just nineteen miles away.'"""
"""Later on he talked laughingly of the cheap editions he had been wont to buy of Mark Twain's masterpieces, and spoke reminiscently of reading these books when he was on the Congo.'"""
"""Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'.  My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclination to undertake the narrative put me into the mood for studying it, if so one may speak, instead of too placidly 'reading' your delightful pages, and the effect of this special care was such as to make me think more - more even than ever before - of what - distinguished from 'fancy' - I should call that sound, healthy, that strong Imagination of yours which tells you, and lets you tell others, the very, very truth."""
"""Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian)  If not do so now if possible.  We have been doing the very scenes he mentions & his descriptions are true to the smallest detail.'"""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: """"""""To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which has just reached me by your command.  I have had time only to read the first few things ... As I turn the pages I seem to see that they are full of charm ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: """"""""I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your prose volume (kindly vouchsafed me in the little copyright-catching red volume) and I loved 'em and blessed them quite."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): """"""""Since yesterday I have ... read the ballad book -- with the admiration that I always feel as a helplessly verseless creature ..."""""""""""
"""Thank you for your letter and the """"""""Revue [des deux Mondes""""""""], which I  received two days ago. I have read """"""""La Madone [de Busowska]"""""""" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of """"""""marking time"""""""" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the """"""""relief"""""""", the distinct style one finds in """"""""Yaga"""""""", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure  the reading of """"""""Yaga"""""""" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread """"""""Yaga""""""""-which I like more than ever.'   """
"""Thank you for your letter and the """"""""Revue [des deux Mondes""""""""], which I  received two days ago. I have read """"""""La Madone [de Busowska]"""""""" and am pleased to have read it in French and in your adaptation, for I think it must be tiring indeed in Polish if [Ladislas] Lozinski - like the others - is in the habit of """"""""marking time"""""""" as you put it. Naturally I do not find there the """"""""relief"""""""", the distinct style one finds in """"""""Yaga"""""""", but I recognise with very great pleasure the language, style, indeed almost all the purely literary pleasure  the reading of """"""""Yaga"""""""" gave me. The fact is that, restored in appetite (if I may express myself so), I have just reread """"""""Yaga""""""""-which I like more than ever.'   """
"""Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure """"""""Eric Brighteyes"""""""" (1891), was roused by """"""""a wild illustration"""""""" to start reading a chapter nearer the end than the beginning ...'"""
"""""""""""I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained steadily and as I had been at home all yesterday, I could not stand it any longer. So I took a cab to the London Library where I read Lewis's 'Monk' 3 vols in 25 minutes."""""""""""
"""Look at the 19th Century for October.  It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an India Girl” – I called it Social India but found that changed in the proof.  He is so pleased with it & entreats so earnestly that I would write often that I think next time I send him a contribution I will ask him to value it in coin of the realm.  It will be a nice way of supplementing my allowance and the 19th Centy. pays rather well.'"""
"""That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called """"""""Zanoni"""""""", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-read """"""""Zanoni""""""""... until she knew whole chunks of it by heart... She was so in love with its dark, masterful hero that she actually spent hours rewriting some of Lord Lytton's story so that the heroine's dialogue and behaviour would read more like dialogue and behaviour that would be hers if she were """"""""Zanoni""""""""'s heroine.'"""
"""Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's """"""""The House of the Seven Gables"""""""", Washington Irving's """"""""The Sketch Book"""""""", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'"""
"""Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's """"""""The House of the Seven Gables"""""""", Washington Irving's """"""""The Sketch Book"""""""", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'"""
"""Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's """"""""The House of the Seven Gables"""""""", Washington Irving's """"""""The Sketch Book"""""""", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'"""
"""Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's """"""""The House of the Seven Gables"""""""", Washington Irving's """"""""The Sketchbook"""""""", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'"""
"""Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religious tracts, newspapers, the Godey's Lady's Book, Charles Dickens's """"""""Pickwick Papers"""""""", Sir Walter Scott's novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne's """"""""The House of the Seven Gables"""""""", Washington Irving's """"""""The Sketchbook"""""""", and Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays.'"""
"""I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French, also he does not soar higher than I can reach.'"""
"""I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French,also he does not soar higher than I can reach.'"""
"""One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose """"""""Wordsworth's Grave"""""""" pleased him.'"""
"""I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, wholesome letters, full of the children.'"""
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: """"""""I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is.  The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."""""""" """
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: """"""""I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is.  The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."""""""" """
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: """"""""I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really ... more interesting than Ibsen himself ... I think you make him out a richer phenomenon than he is.  The perusal of the dreary Rosmersholm and even the reperusal of Ghosts has been rather a shock to me -- they have let me down, down."""""""" """
"""In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, """"""""I will only read you something old."""""""" He read the """"""""Ode on the Duke of Wellington."""""""" He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially """"""""toll'd, Boom."""""""" At the end he said, """"""""It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words."""""""" He then read the little Dedication to """"""""OEnone,"""""""" then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'."""
"""In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, """"""""I will only read you something old."""""""" He read the """"""""Ode on the Duke of Wellington."""""""" He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially """"""""toll'd, Boom."""""""" At the end he said, """"""""It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words."""""""" He then read the little Dedication to """"""""OEnone,"""""""" then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'."""
"""In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had joined us, wanted her little boy to hear my father read. My father answered, """"""""I will only read you something old."""""""" He read the """"""""Ode on the Duke of Wellington."""""""" He dwelt long on the final words, letting them ring so to speak, especially """"""""toll'd, Boom."""""""" At the end he said, """"""""It is a great roll of words, the music of words. For a hundred people who can sing a song, there are not ten who can read a poem. People do not understand the music of words."""""""" He then read the little Dedication to """"""""OEnone,"""""""" then the poem. He explained the story, pausing from time to time, asking a few questions'."""
"""[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'."""
"""What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does.  I have read over and over again what he says of his wife's death.  It is so sober, so chastened, so true: """"""""I wonder how I shall do with the thoughts which were hers for thirty years"""""""".'"""
"""At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as """"""""A great heroic adventure"""""""". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious allegory, and still later - after his exposure to Freud and Jung - he came to """"""""discover it as one of the greatest, most potent works on practical psychology extant"""""""".'"""
"""Gladstone's reading habits were described in """"""""The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone,"""""""" Young Man (January 1892): """"""""He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his reading and, during the previous summer, had on hand Dr Langer's Roman History (in German) for morning reading, Virgil for afternoon, and a novel in the evening.""""""""'"""
"""Gladstone's reading habits were described in """"""""The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone,"""""""" Young Man (January 1892): """"""""He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his reading and, during the previous summer, had on hand Dr Langer's Roman History (in German) for morning reading, Virgil for afternoon, and a novel in the evening.""""""""'"""
"""Gladstone's reading habits were described in """"""""The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone,"""""""" Young Man (January 1892): """"""""He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his reading and, during the previous summer, had on hand Dr Langer's Roman History (in German) for morning reading, Virgil for afternoon, and a novel in the evening.""""""""'"""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the """"""""Maximes"""""""" of La Rochefoucauld, """"""""La Princesse de Cleves"""""""" (which inspired his play """"""""Caesar's Wife""""""""), the tragedies of Racine, the novels of Voltaire, Stendhal's """"""""Le Rouge et le Noir"""""""" and """"""""La Chartreuse de Parme"""""""", Balzac's """"""""Pere Goriot"""""""", Flaubert's """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", the works of Anatole France, the exotic tales of Pierre Loti and the well-crafted stories of Maupassant'."""
"""Willie first read Goethe's """"""""Faust"""""""" and """"""""Wilhelm Meister"""""""" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'"""
"""Willie first read Goethe's """"""""Faust"""""""" and """"""""Wilhelm Meister"""""""" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'"""
"""Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the """"""""Imaginary Portraits"""""""" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of """"""""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the """"""""Imaginary Portraits"""""""" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of """"""""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the """"""""Imaginary Portraits"""""""" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of """"""""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the """"""""Imaginary Portraits"""""""" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of """"""""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal Newman, the witty novels of George Meredith, the """"""""Imaginary Portraits"""""""" of Pater, the rapturous poetry of Swinburne and Fitzgerald's sensual translation of """"""""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"""""""".'"""
"""[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' sleeping rooms and dining rooms [in Pompeii], I read this morning St Paul's directions to the Corinthians about meat offered to idols - in fact, the whole first letter - with quite different eyes'."""
"""‘Annie Powis Dunn was a poet – a sensitive, talented writer, who unfortunately published very little of her work. Alfred held a great admiration for her poetry and her poem ONE TREE HILL [early name for Mount Cootha] was one of his favourites.’"""
"""Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it """"""""practically by heart""""""""... Shelley, too, she found """"""""an intoxicant"""""""". A complete works of Shelley joined her Tennyson a year later, starting a fascination with the poet which she remembers in a letter to Gilbert Murray in January 1945: """"""""I, like you, read Shelley's Prometheus very young... I was entirely carried away by it; as I was, indeed, by all Shelley... Of course, I didn't understand all Prometheus; but enough to be fascinated"""""""".'"""
""" ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, """"""""The Scapegoat"""""""", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'"""
"""My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Darwinism, which he was reading.'"""
"""My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Darwinism, which he was reading.'"""
"""One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose """"""""Wordsworth's Grave"""""""" pleased him [...] He praised too Mr Rudyard Kipling's """"""""English Flag,"""""""" and Kipling's answer to his letter of commendation gave him pleasure: """"""""When the private in the ranks is praised by the general, he cannot presume to thank him, but he fights the better next day.""""""""' """
"""They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,not to read any of them --I could not settle to that, but to commune with them all, and gloat over the promise of the prefaces. But of these last I have read one already, the preface to """"""""The American"""""""",the first of your long novels I ever read--in '91.[...] I could not resist the temptation of reading the beautiful and touching last ten pages of the story. There is in them a perfection of tone which calmed me; and I sat for a long time with the closed volume in my hand going over the preface in my mind and thinking--that's how it began,that's how it was done!'"""
"""he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a """"""""humorous condensation"""""""" of a sensational serial which the paper had been running. The serial was called What's bred in the bone [title in italics], and it was by Grant Allen, a scientist-turned novelist like Wells...'"""
"""The correspondence of Lord Grey and Princess Lieven is as good as history ... There is never a tinge of vanity or coquetry in her letters. His are solemn and dry though affectionate.'"""
"""I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion of those evidences of the sacred volume which are so much higher than the """"""""higher criticism"""""""", and which have a range of flight beyond its reach."""
"""Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Glasgow Oct 15 1891; v.4: Milan Oct 24 1891; v.5 Rome Oct 30 1891; vol.7: """"""""On our homeward journey from Rome Dec. 2 1891""""""""."""
"""I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, I think, according to these specimens, in poetry."""
"""When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris """"""""read us out several of his poems ... including The Haystack in the Floods, but his reading is without the graces of elocution.""""""""'"""
"""Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...'"""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Correspondance. Mercier Sanity and Insanity. Zola La fortune des Rougon. Son Excellence ER. Loti Roman d’un Enfant. Zola La Curée. Mme Bovary. Manresa (Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). Ribot. Hérédité Psychologique. Zola Nana. Bjornson. In God’s Way. Tolstoy Marchez pendant que vous avez la lumiere. In Mary Wilkins. Tolstoy Les fruits de la Science. Vacherot Science et conscience. Tolstoy. Ivan imbecile etc. Zola Au bonheur des Dames. Julius Caesar. In Numa Roumestan 2nd time. In Chartreuse de Parma 3rd time. Zola La Terre. Tolstoy & Bondareff. Le Travail. Ibsen Canard Sauvage & Rosmersholm. Goncourt Clairon. Meinhold Amber Witch. The Newcomes. Ibsen H. Gabler. Kingsley Alton Locke. Spencer etc Plea for Liberty. Arnold White Tries at Truth. Merimée Venus d’Ille & Ames du Purgatoire. [next unclear] Havelock Ellis The Criminal. Zola La Reine. Stevenson Cervennes. Maeterlinck Les Aveugles, L’Intruse. Maupassant Bel Ami. Fabre L’abbe Tigrane. Much Kipling – Meredith Beauchamp. Morris News from nowhere. Mill on the Floss.- Zola l’argent. Diderot  Religieuse. Laveleye Luxe. Mary Marguerites. Spencer Ethics. Sand La Morceau Diable. La Petite Fadette. Guyau Morale sans obligation. In Hazlitt. Zola Pot Bouille. Balzac Paysans."""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: """"""""I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I had sooner read them ..."""""""""""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: """"""""... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of some of your happiest lucubrations put forth by the care of dear [Sidney] Colvin."""""""" """
"""In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest entreaty of a stranger, Mr Dalmon, and made one or two criticisms. He crossed out Mr Dalmon's despairing words about poetry -- """"""""[italics]The end is failure[end italics]"""""""" -- saying to him: """"""""How can there be failure, if the divine speak through the human, be it through the voice of prince or peasant?""""""""'"""
"""…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho generally considered greatest city of this world.  The author cannot shield the omission under the plea that he thought London too great to be reckoned of this world, for if ever there were a city of the earth, earthy, it is the English metropolis.'"""
"""Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise especially in one character.'"""
"""Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? [""""""""Tea at the Mains"""""""", by Harriette Cheape] It was exceedingly good and true.'"""
"""I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'"""
"""I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'"""
"""May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better chosen.'"""
"""I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.'"""
"""As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regret having published it some years back.  Marion Crawford's last novel is clever of course as are all his, but not pleasant and very long and dreary I think.'"""
"""As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regret having published it some years back.  Marion Crawford's last novel is clever of course as are all his, but not pleasant and very long and dreary I think.'"""
"""Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'"""
"""Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'"""
"""We read ''Severn's Life'' which does very well. He is a rather foolish man, and talks of Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption...'"""
"""She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet.  “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!!  Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow.  I nearly died with inward mirth.  She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in.  She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”."""
"""She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet.  “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!!  Shakespeare she has some little knowledge of – His fairies & pucks are nice – but he can’t come up to Longfellow.  I nearly died with inward mirth.  She vows she is going to devote herself to Literature when she grows up: but she really does appreciate good poetry – I read her some Scott one afternoon, & she understood & liked it – and then I found her an Austin-Dobson – and read her things for nearly an hour, out of his Idylls – and you should have seen how her eyes glistened as she took it all in.  She expressed a wish to have something of his – and in half an hour she had mastered both the spirit & matter of “the little blue Mandarin”.'"""
"""I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of """"""""Maud,"""""""" on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over the groves and yellow cornfields of Sussex towards the long line of South Downs that stretches from Arundel to Hastings (his high-domed Rembrandt-like head outlined against the sunset-clouds seen through the western window). His voice, low and calm in everyday life, capable of manifold and delicate intonation, but with """"""""organ-tones"""""""" of great power and range, thoroughly brought out the drama of the poem.'  """
"""How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'"""
"""A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At fourteen he was still enjoying """"""""Deadeye Dick"""""""", by twenty he was reading Henry James...He secured a literary education at the Brighton Public Library, and as a professional runner he used prize money to buy Hardy's poems, Shakespeare, Mackail's translation of """"""""The Odyssey"""""""", and William Morris's """"""""The Earthly Paradise"""""""". In an undemanding job... he read on company time, though there was a row when his supervisor found """"""""Jude the Obscure"""""""" on his desk'."""
"""... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'"""
"""I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes of my first pipe of shag tobacco... My first book had just been published. I was going courting. My book had earned ten pounds. I desired to be a subaltern in H. B. M's army. The story was Mr Kipling's """"""""Only a subaltern"""""""". The next station would be Winchelsea, where I was to descend.'"""
"""These last letters of Johnson are a treat to me. I enjoy poking out bits of news in them.'"""
"""But I had begum to read and think in other directions - directions that the church didn't approve of - Darwin's """"""""Origin of Species"""""""" was published in the same decade as """"""""In Memoriam"""""""", and I read them conjointly: presently Thomas Huxley's writings came my way, and I still think that every schoolmaster ought to learn by heart his definition of a liberal education.'"""
"""But I had begum to read and think in other directions - directions that the church didn't approve of - Darwin's """"""""Origin of Species"""""""" was published in the same decade as """"""""In Memoriam"""""""", and I read them conjointly: presently Thomas Huxley's writings came my way, and I still think that every schoolmaster ought to learn by heart his definition of a liberal education.'"""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: """"""""Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels?  If you haven't, don't ... Make an exception, however, for Terre Promise, which is to appear a few months hence, and which I have been reading in proof, here ... It is perhaps 'psychology' gone mad -- but it is an extraordinary production."""""""""""
"""[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'"""
"""He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the """"""""silly sooth"""""""" of love was given perfectly there. Lothair he did not admire, """"""""altho' it was written to stir up the English gentry and nobility to be leaders of the people.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its """"""""concentrated pathos."""""""" """"""""Mrs Oliphant's prolific work,"""""""" he would observe, """"""""is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading.""""""""'"""
"""I must let off a little steam.  I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters.  I did not want that to become public property.  If you had seen & loved Tennyson & his belongings you would know what I feel & how anything in the nature of a Newspaper’s Interview as our own pleasant reminiscence is now reduced to – would gall one.  Please don’t let any more of my letters get out.  Some time hence when I am hence & personalities have ceased to be so – I will put them into a book - & if they are printed now the freshness will have departed.  It was stupid of me not to have issued a Caveat long ago – but I knew you knew I was going to print ‘em some day – and I did not dream of their being printed now.  However – it can’t be undone now.  Don’t worry about it – only please don’t let it happen again.  You could not know how I would feel about it – but you know now.'  """
"""Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: """"""""I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother, make a cheap fool of [Robert] Browning ... I think she is the best poet alive.""""""""'"""
"""I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of early Scotch poetry such as Dunbar, Henryson, &c.'"""
"""""""""""I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read in about 3 minutes."""""""""""
"""It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come from sailors either in the King's or the merchant service.[...]. It was Conrad's great good luck to be spared the usual literature that attends on the upringing of the British writer. He read such dog-eared books as are found in the professional quarters of ships' crews. He read Mrs. Henry Wood, Miss Braddon — above all Miss Braddon! — the """"""""Family Herald"""""""", rarely even going as high as the late William Black or the pseudoliterary writers of his day.[...] Normally he would express the deepest gratitude to the writers of the """"""""Family Herald"""""""" — a compilation of monthly novelettes the grammar of which was very efficiently censored by its sub-editors — and above all to Miss Braddon.[...]. Long after this period of seamanship Conrad read """"""""The Orange Girl"""""""", a novel placed in the time of Charles II. He recognised in it, so he then said, all the qualities he had found in this novelist's work when he had been before the mast.'"""
"""It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come from sailors either in the King's or the merchant service.[...]. It was Conrad's great good luck to be spared the usual literature that attends on the upringing of the British writer. He read such dog-eared books as are found in the professional quarters of ships' crews. He read Mrs. Henry Wood, Miss Braddon &mdash; above all Miss Braddon! &mdash; the """"""""Family Herald"""""""", rarely even going as high as the late William Black or the pseudoliterary writers of his day.[...] Normally he would express the deepest gratitude to the writers of the """"""""Family Herald"""""""" &mdash; a compilation of monthly novelettes the grammar of which was very efficiently censored by its sub-editors &mdash; and above all to Miss Braddon.[...]. Long after this period of seamanship Conrad read """"""""The Orange Girl"""""""", a novel placed in the time of Charles II. He recognised in it, so he then said, all the qualities he had found in this novelist's work when he had been before the mast.'"""
"""It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come from sailors either in the King's or the merchant service.[...]. It was Conrad's great good luck to be spared the usual literature that attends on the upringing of the British writer. He read such dog-eared books as are found in the professional quarters of ships' crews. He read Mrs. Henry Wood, Miss Braddon &mdash; above all Miss Braddon! &mdash; the """"""""Family Herald"""""""", rarely even going as high as the late William Black or the pseudoliterary writers of his day.[...] Normally he would express the deepest gratitude to the writers of the """"""""Family Herald"""""""" &mdash; a compilation of monthly novelettes the grammar of which was very efficiently censored by its sub-editors &mdash; and above all to Miss Braddon.[...]. Long after this period of seamanship Conrad read """"""""The Orange Girl"""""""", a novel placed in the time of Charles II. He recognised in it, so he then said, all the qualities he had found in this novelist's work when he had been before the mast.'"""
"""He [Conrad] one or twice said that when he was going down Ratcliffe Highway [from the City to Limehouse, East End of London] he was jumped out at from a doorway by a gentleman who presented him with a copy of the English Bible. This was printed on rice paper. He used the leaves for rolling cigarettes, but before smoking always read the page. So, he said, he learnt English.' """
"""From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French along with the English popular works. He read with the greatest veneration Flaubert and Maupassant; with less, Daudet and Gautier; with much less, Pierre Loti. Tormented with the curiosity of words, even at sea, on the margins of the French books he made notes for the translation of phrases. The writer has seen several of these old books of Conrad, notably an annotated copy of """"""""Pêcheur d'Islande"""""""" &mdash; and of course the copy of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" upon the endpapers and margins of which """"""""Almayer's Folly"""""""" was begun.'"""
"""From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French along with the English popular works. He read with the greatest veneration Flaubert and Maupassant; with less, Daudet and Gautier; with much less, Pierre Loti. Tormented with the curiosity of words, even at sea, on the margins of the French books he made notes for the translation of phrases. The writer has seen several of these old books of Conrad, notably an annotated copy of """"""""Pêcheur d'Islande"""""""" &mdash; and of course the copy of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" upon the endpapers and margins of which """"""""Almayer's Folly"""""""" was begun.'"""
"""From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French along with the English popular works. He read with the greatest veneration Flaubert and Maupassant; with less, Daudet and Gautier; with much less, Pierre Loti. Tormented with the curiosity of words, even at sea, on the margins of the French books he made notes for the translation of phrases. The writer has seen several of these old books of Conrad, notably an annotated copy of """"""""Pêcheur d'Islande"""""""" &mdash; and of course the copy of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" upon the endpapers and margins of which """"""""Almayer's Folly"""""""" was begun.'"""
"""From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French along with the English popular works. He read with the greatest veneration Flaubert and Maupassant; with less, Daudet and Gautier; with much less, Pierre Loti. Tormented with the curiosity of words, even at sea, on the margins of the French books he made notes for the translation of phrases. The writer has seen several of these old books of Conrad, notably an annotated copy of """"""""Pêcheur d'Islande"""""""" &mdash; and of course the copy of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""" upon the endpapers and margins of which """"""""Almayer's Folly"""""""" was begun.'"""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: """"""""The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] constitute a gift for the substantial grace of which I lose as little time as possible in affectionately thanking you ... I have read the whole thing with absorption and with a delightful illusion [of Lowell's being present]."""""""""""
""". . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami.  One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful novels I have ever read.  It would be a good antidote to Le Jardin de Berenice.  Would you like it?'                                    """
"""I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on """"""""Popes et popadias"""""""" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines my hopes were realised - and then very quickly surpassed. It is a marvel of observation, which gives the liveliest pleasure as such, not to mention the style,which  I do not dare judge- but let me say it charmed me. You are very good at description. Beginning with the ferry crossing under a threatening sky, I read the entire series of scenes which make up your charming tale with avidity. It takes a small scale narrative (short story)  to show the master's hand.'  """
"""[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the Athenaeum last Saturday with the greatest regret'."""
"""Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's """"""""Treasure Island"""""""" on the Conway and was soon enraptured by the possibility that such South Sea adventures might overtake him'."""
"""Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said """"""""Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., Shaving, 1d."""""""" That was in 1893, near enough. Prices have gone up a little since then.'"""
"""The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his """"""""Lives of players"""""""", and once every year I peruse """"""""Sir Andrew Wyllie""""""""; also that most realistic production, the """"""""Annals of the Parish"""""""": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'"""
"""The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his """"""""Lives of players"""""""", and once every year I peruse """"""""Sir Andrew Wyllie""""""""; also that most realistic production, the """"""""Annals of the Parish"""""""": both books undeserving of the neglect which has befallen them.'"""
"""[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for """"""""The Nigger of the Narcissus"""""""" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to the days of """"""""Premier and the Painter"""""""" which I read by chance of the Indian Ocean--a copy with covers torn off and two pages missing.'   """
"""The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into their paper.  I hate being public property and so refused though I acknowledged their kind intentions & the compliment they had paid me.  If I once give myself into the hands of such people I shall not be able to breathe without the Editorial watch being produced to count the seconds – and I can’t live with the grip of the public ranter on my poor little wrist.  I shall either long for it to tighten & deteriorate in consequence, or the publicity will make me die of shyness.  I talked to the good ladies (who were much astonished that anyone would refuse to be set out in their excellent magazine), but remained firm - & they had to retire with no more ink wasted on their huge mss.  They brought large enough books for their notes – poor things and it was a cold day. . . The Spectator I see is one of the adverse critics on my little Urmi.  They cannot understand the Indian language naturally – and I think perhaps they are a bit angry about an Indian getting into so good a Magazine.  They wish “if Indians are to take a part in our literature that they would do something separate” – Bosh!  What red-Tafeism – as if we contaminate their literature.  They say too it is “hardly local” – because any woman might feel the same.  I daresay they fancy that because Indian women are not English they can’t have any nice feelings as to their ties to their husbands or to their children.  However I don’t mind for they abuse Mr Knowles in the same paper.'"""
"""Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: """"""""It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day that I could put my hand on the Island Nights, which by your generosity ... I found awaiting me on my table ... I read them as fondly as an infant sucks a stick of candy."""""""" """
"""I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a very fine thing indeed, and which has fallen out of recollection."""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone (""""""""seventh or eighth time""""""""), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tulipe Noire, Maupassant, and some poems of Hugo and Gautier.  A month later he is reporting on Andrew Lang's Lectures on Literature (""""""""very good""""""""), P. G. Hamerton's Intellectual Life (""""""""excellent""""""""), the poems of Robert Bridges (""""""""very good"""""""") Henry James's Madonna of the Future (""""""""peculiar""""""""), R. L. Stevenson's Kidnapped and Master of Ballantrae (""""""""fourth or fifth time""""""""), Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, and Ibsen's Doll House, League of Youth and Pillars of Society.  """"""""I am beginning to like Ibsen more than I did.  I understand him better.""""""""'"""
"""I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished  """"""""Le Lys rouge"""""""" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.[""""""""The Two Vagabonds"""""""" subsequently to become """"""""An Outcast of the Islands""""""""(1896)] """
"""I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished  """"""""Le Lys rouge"""""""" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to write -only the day before yesterday.[""""""""The Two Vagabonds"""""""" subsequently to become """"""""An Outcast of the Islands""""""""(1896)] """
"""At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered """"""""the exciting experience of being kindled to the point of explosion by the fire of words"""""""", words that expressed what she had always been trying to say: """"""""It seems that from our earliest days we are striving to become articulate, stuggling to clothe in words our vague perceptions and questionings. Suddenly, blazing from the printed page, there ARE the words, the true resounding words that we couldn't find. It is an exciting moment... 'Who am I? The thing that can say I. Who am I, what is this ME?'. I had been groping to know that since I was three"""""""". She consumed Heroes and Hero-Worship, The French Revolution and Sartor Resartus with the same intoxication'."""
"""At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered """"""""the exciting experience of being kindled to the point of explosion by the fire of words"""""""", words that expressed what she had always been trying to say: """"""""It seems that from our earliest days we are striving to become articulate, stuggling to clothe in words our vague perceptions and questionings. Suddenly, blazing from the printed page, there ARE the words, the true resounding words that we couldn't find. It is an exciting moment... 'Who am I? The thing that can say I. Who am I, what is this ME?'. I had been groping to know that since I was three"""""""". She consumed Heroes and Hero-Worship, The French Revolution and Sartor Resartus with the same intoxication'."""
"""Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discusses his reading of his copy of his sister Alice James's diary."""
"""Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's article on Pater."""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through spectacles manufactured by an optician, but through glasses supplied by magicians names Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Toby Smollett, Sam Johnson and Will Shakespeare himself. Had I scraped an acquaintance with all these before I was fifteen? I knew them well! -and that was the trouble. I was book hungry, and I found a land where books were accessible in a quantity and variety sufficient to satisfy even my uncontrolled voracity.'"""
"""We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying on my belly on the hearthrug before the fire -while my mother went out somewhere with my sisters. They would find me even three hours later just where and as I had been left. That Bible with its illustrations by Gustave Dore and Felix Philipotteaux, was a joy and a solace for years. Especially the battle-pictures and those of storm and wreck. There was one of Joshua's army storming a hill fortress -with the great iron-studded door crashing down before the onrush of mighty men with huge-headed axes -that never failed to thrill...' """
"""Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of weekly parts. They carried the story down to the accession of George III; but even so they were a mine of treasure it took years to ramsack. I read first all the battles... After the battles I read the murders; then the executions; and then, at last, as much as I could stomach of the connecting bits in between.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's """"""""Spectator"""""""", Pope's """"""""Homer"""""""", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in great gulps -gave me a """"""""Robinson Crusoe"""""""", and lent me volumes containing four """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" apiece. Much about the same time my father got bound up a set of Dickens's novels he had bought in weekly parts. They were in the popular quarto edition with drawings by Fred Barnard, John Mahony and others. These were a real treasure -and all the more so as my father was an ardent Dickens """"""""fan"""""""" who rather despised Scott as a """"""""romantic"""""""" and a """"""""Tory"""""""". His mother (born in 1815, so old enough to have read the """"""""Waverley Novels"""""""" when they were still comparatively new things) rather sniffed at Dickens, and definitely preferred both Scott and Thackeray. She gave me """"""""Vanity Fair"""""""" as an antidote to """"""""David Copperfield"""""""" and added a Shakespeare, and a bundle of """"""""paperback"""""""" editions -Fielding, Smollett, Fennimore Cooper and Captain Marryatt.'"""
"""We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's """"""""History"""""""" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural that I should pounce with my penny at the sight of a copy of his essay on """"""""Warren Hastings"""""""", which hit my eye on almost my first visit to the Row... I read it, I remember, on the Embankment -lying in the sun on my belly on the flat top of the ornamental arch, near Cleopatra's needle, up which a boy could climb... The series which included this edition of """"""""Warren Hastings"""""""" gave an obvious first step along this road. It was one of Cassells National Library, a series of literary classics edited by Henry Morley, Professor of English Literature at London University, sold for 3d. paper and 6d. cloth. New or secondhand they opened an enticing field for adventurous exploration. So did a parallel series of shilling volumes the Universal Library issued by Routledge, batches of which used to be dumped upon the secondhand market and sold for 4d a copy.'"""
"""We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's """"""""History"""""""" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural that I should pounce with my penny at the sight of a copy of his essay on """"""""Warren Hastings"""""""", which hit my eye on almost my first visit to the Row... I read it, I remember, on the Embankment -lying in the sun on my belly on the flat top of the ornamental arch, near Cleopatra's needle, up which a boy could climb... The series which included this edition of """"""""Warren Hastings"""""""" gave an obvious first step along this road. It was one of Cassells National Library, a series of literary classics edited by Henry Morley, Professor of English Literature at London University, sold for 3d. paper and 6d. cloth. New or secondhand they opened an enticing field for adventurous exploration. So did a parallel series of shilling volumes the Universal Library issued by Routledge, batches of which used to be dumped upon the secondhand market and sold for 4d a copy.'"""
"""I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, choking upon sobs. They were tears of pride and sympathy. I beg to offer you this family anecdote as a testimony to the success of your reminiscences. Of making books there is said to be no end, and I have made many. But if I could only think once, before I died, that I had given so much and such noble pleasure to a reader, I should be more than rewarded. You have made me proud and glad to be a Scotsman.'"""
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: """""""" ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed with a furious bang the unspeakable Lord Ormont, which I have been reading at the maximum rate of ten pages -- ten insufferable and unprofitable pages, a day ... I have finished, at this rate, but the first volume ..."""""""" """
"""I have just reread """"""""Le fils Grandsire"""""""", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondness,I truly love this book. On every page I find you at your most lovable.'"""
"""What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days!  First your letter then your essay """"""""Fruit Blossom Time"""""""" & then your nameless novel.  ...I am in a fever to finish the novel.  Ken made me turn it up when I was at part ten.  I shall, Sturto volente, animadvert at length upon it at a future date,  Now, I will only say that I like it very much.  Its calm, unabashed realism charms me.  You find fault with Maupassant for his wealth of irrelevant ... detail.  Frankly, I think you would do well to follow him some way in this.  I don't think all his detail is irrelevant.  . . . No, I believe in detail.'"""
"""But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought """"""""Occult"""""""" stories would go down well just now, & that I had a lot of material for them in hand I was a little surprised to see him jump at the suggestion, & offer to buy the serial rights of eight stories at once.  So, deeming eight stories sold in advance to be better than a novel perhaps on my hands, I have shelved the latter for a time, & am to be seen daily reading a vast tome """"""""Myst?res des Sciences Occultes"""""""".  I tremble to consider the bad art which will be compressed into those stories!'"""
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: """"""""I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds."""""""""""
"""I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.'"""
"""Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Venice: """""""" ... coming in -- from Cook's office -- with my preparations made [for travel to Venice] -- I found on my table a note from Miss Fletcher (of Venice ...), enclosing a cutting from a Venetian newspaper which gave me the first shocking knowledge of what it was that had happened."""""""""""
"""After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, and when he had finished he welcomed suggestions and we were free to say whatever we liked. Usually we were unanimously enthusiastic, especially over chapters of 'Weir of Hermiston'...once, however, he read a story called 'The Witch Woman' that none of us cared for very much. My mother said it showed the influence of a Swedish author Louis had been reading, and was not in his own clear, individual style. She made no comment when he sent it to his publisher, and nothing more was heard of 'The Witch Woman'."""
"""After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, and when he had finished he welcomed suggestions and we were free to say whatever we liked. Usually we were unanimously enthusiastic, especially over chapters of 'Weir of Hermiston'...once, however, he read a story called 'The Witch Woman' that none of us cared for very much. My mother said it showed the influence of a Swedish author Louis had been reading, and was not in his own clear, individual style. She made no comment when he sent it to his publisher, and nothing more was heard of 'The Witch Woman'."""
"""George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: """"""""'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3."""""""""""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, curiously, The Origin of Species'"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgoue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page"""
"""When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Island, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Prince and the Page'"""
"""[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'"""
"""Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'."""
"""On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in his way. 'What in heaven's name is it?' I asked. 'This, my friend. For years a certain critic has practically damned my works - said there was nothing really in them - and now this person, whose ability I have always admired despite the fact that I have suffered, has declared: """"""""Stevenson has at last produced one of the best books of the season, and the claim of his friends seems fully justified, for the work is full of genius.""""""""' His face was all aglow with feverish excitement. 'Who is this wonderful critic, Stevenson, whose praise you so enjoy? And what bitter things has he said of you before?' 'We will drop the severe things, Moors. You would never guess, if I gave you all morning, who it is who has at last admitted me to be in the front rank of my profession. It is Mrs Oliphant, my dear sir - Mrs Oliphant!'"""
"""'I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questions delights me as speaking so strongly of his narrow want of sympathy...'"""
"""I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied """"""""Pierre et Jean"""""""" - thought, method and all - with the profoundest despair. It seems nothing but has a technical complexity which makes me tear my hair. one feels like weeping with rage while reading it. Ah well!'"""
"""I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait.  I did not like his book.  I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, but now brought down to the very dust, I turned to it with a sense of common suffering'."""
"""He was reading at the time Daudet's """"""""Jack"""""""", which immensely fascinated him, though he found it <i>trop chargé</i> &mdash; as who should say, too harrowing.'"""
"""George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day.  Read """"""""Esther Waters"""""""".  Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'"""
"""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.  """
"""You asked me about the ''Message of Israel''. I believe no books now affect me any more than by a transient interest. It did draw my attention to some sublime bits in the Prophets and Psalms, and I enjoyed her abuse of Esther...'"""
"""Augustus Hare's ''Two Noble Lives'' is most entertaining and pleasant, though the letters are merely natural, and telling what happens without a spark of wit and humour.'"""
"""""""""""[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could proceed only at 'the maximum rate of ten pages -- ten insufferable and unprofitable pages, a day'."""""""""""
"""I am deep in ''Dean Stanley's Life'' and I like it so much.'"""
"""One of the """"""""golden books"""""""" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel """"""""Sidonia the Sorceress"""""""". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator of European fiction, produced a celebrated English version of this German book. Wilde would remember it fondly as """"""""my favourite romantic reading when a boy"""""""" and he returned to it at various times in his adult life.' """
"""Wilde praised """"""""Melmoth"""""""" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically """"""""imperfect"""""""" and laughed at its aburdity'. """
"""The Scottish dailies have begun to review my """"""""Folly"""""""" [""""""""Almayer's Folly""""""""]. brief, journalistic, but full of praise! Above all, the """"""""Scotsman"""""""", the major Edinburgh paper, is almost enthusiastic. The """"""""Glasgow Herald"""""""" speaks with a more restrained benevolence.'"""
"""""""""""'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the author of this book evidently knows his character intimately; & as he makes him do something decent in the writing line, I am more happy still.  I shall give the book a damn good notice.""""""""  """
"""Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yesterday; after doing which I became aware that I hadn't alluded to poor W. W. Story's death, the news of which I had just seen in The Times.' """
"""Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by H. G. Wells that the two men first became friends, Bennett taking the initiative and writing to Wells in September 1897 to say how much he liked his work, and to ask him how well he knew the Potteries, which Wells had mentioned in several of his stories.' """
"""Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by H. G. Wells that the two men first became friends, Bennett taking the initiative and writing to Wells in September 1897 to say how much he liked his work, and to ask him how well he knew the Potteries, which Wells had mentioned in several of his stories.' """
"""Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by H. G. Wells that the two men first became friends, Bennett taking the initiative and writing to Wells in September 1897 to say how much he liked his work, and to ask him how well he knew the Potteries, which Wells had mentioned in several of his stories.' """
"""Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend George Paston. It was through a review of a book by H. G. Wells that the two men first became friends, Bennett taking the initiative and writing to Wells in September 1897 to say how much he liked his work, and to ask him how well he knew the Potteries, which Wells had mentioned in several of his stories.' """
""". . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases?  It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of  at the moment, that I have encountered. . . I bought it about a year ago, & wonder how I ever did without it.'"""
"""My book reviews find considerable favour.  The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads no criticism which he likes better.'"""
"""I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'"""
"""?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I found a great deal that interested me very much. ?I could only read, as a rule, in all humility accompanied by constant admiration.?"""
"""Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel."""
"""Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel."""
"""I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately &mdash; Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'"""
"""I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately &mdash; Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'"""
"""I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative, all about the facts of a life so simple as mine, and his elaborate self-discussions'."""
"""I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers.  I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.'  """
"""[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed.  Besides being critically very thin and even common, it is surely not written as the Prof. of """"""""English"""""""" at Harvard should write.'"""
"""[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed.  Besides being critically very thin and even common, it is surely not written as the Prof. of """"""""English"""""""" at Harvard should write.'"""
"""His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years')."""
"""His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years')."""
"""His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years')."""
"""In """"""""Where Love and Friendship Dwelt"""""""" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 1880s-early 1890s: """"""""Even when I was in London, I read all the new French books I could get hold of...""""""""'"""
"""G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: """"""""'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"""""""""""
"""[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through piles of Blue-books.'"""
"""When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur; with this he began his career of serious reading as well as his devotion to pre-Renaissance English literature'"""
"""I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'"""
"""When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in a Sunday paper written by Robert Blatchford, """"""""Nunquam"""""""", dealing with slums and sweated industries. These articles excited much interest, and many were the arguments in Mrs. J's house as to the rights or wrongs of the matter.'"""
"""Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly """"""""The Clarion"""""""", I began to read it and became deeply interested in the theories put forward.'"""
"""Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'"""
"""I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative,all about the facts of a life so simple, and his elaborate self- discussions.'"""
"""Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of """"""""Astarte"""""""", Lovelace's account of his grandparents Lord and Lady Byron's marriage: 'I am greatly touched by your friendly remembrance of my possible feeling for the whole matter, and of your own good act, perhaps, of a few years ago -- the to me ever memorable evening when, at Wentworth House, you allowed me to look at some of the documents you have made use of in """"""""Astarte.""""""""' """
"""The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'"""
"""The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'"""
"""Now I only want to say that """"""""An Imagined World """""""" charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'"""
"""[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, full of the real and the [italics] juste [end italics]. I like your unelambicated rustics - they are a tremendous rest after Hardy's - and the infallibility of your feeling for village life. Likewise I heartily hope you will labour in this field and farm again. [italics] But [end italics] I won't pretend to agree with one or two declarations that have been wafted to me to the effect that this little tale is the best thing you've done"""""""". It has even been murmured to me that [italics] you [end italics] think so. This I don't believe, and at any rate I find, for myself, your best in your deallings with [italics] data [end italics] less simple, on a plan less simple.' """
"""Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: """"""""'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers.  I can now understand both her popularity and the critics' contempt.'"""""""""""
"""Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' personalities."""
"""What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.'"""
"""Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour??  If not, do.  1 franc is the price.  It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man.  It was Miss Symonds mentioned the book to me, though she hadn?t read it herself.'   """
"""As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem &mdash; and it may be true &mdash; now.[...] But its charm and music are for me. I have read it more than once.'"""
"""My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called """"""""The Family Story Teller"""""""", that she got from the public library. My father got her """"""""East Lynne"""""""" through a pub Literary Society, she read it over and over again. I read it when I was about nine. Heavens, the tears I gulped back over the death of Little Willie!'"""
"""""""""""I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'.  So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a little too merely facetious,  Seems as if the beggar didn?t know when he was being humorous & when merely funny ? la Jerome.  Having instinctive doubts of the book, I shouldn?t have started it only for Miss Symonds? urgent recommendation."""""""""""
"""Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that immediately you have finished it you begin again,  No fear of his reputation deliquescing just yet, with that to solidify it.'  """
"""Just a little note of this night.  I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the """"""""Fortunes of Nigel"""""""" and read on and on till it was three o'clock in the morning.'"""
"""I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.'"""
"""What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, """"""""St.-Julien l'Hospitalier"""""""", immense passages of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", """"""""La Nuit"""""""", """"""""Ce Cochon de Morin"""""""" and immense passages of """"""""Une Vie"""""""" by heart. Or so nearly by heart that what the one faltered over the other could take up.'"""
"""What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, """"""""St.-Julien l'Hospitalier"""""""", immense passages of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", """"""""La Nuit"""""""", """"""""Ce Cochon de Morin"""""""" and immense passages of """"""""Une Vie"""""""" by heart. Or so nearly by heart that what the one faltered over the other could take up.'"""
"""What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, """"""""St.-Julien l'Hospitalier"""""""", immense passages of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", """"""""La Nuit"""""""", """"""""Ce Cochon de Morin"""""""" and immense passages of """"""""Une Vie"""""""" by heart. Or so nearly by heart that what the one faltered over the other could take up.'"""
"""What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, """"""""St.-Julien l'Hospitalier"""""""", immense passages of """"""""Madame Bovary"""""""", """"""""La Nuit"""""""", """"""""Ce Cochon de Morin"""""""" and immense passages of """"""""Une Vie"""""""" by heart. Or so nearly by heart that what the one faltered over the other could take up.'"""
"""For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today.  I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first two chapters.  The first, to me, at first reading, is somewhat shadowy, but the second, my pippin, is positively masterly.'  """
"""I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year.  It has been more full of interesting articles, and altogether stronger than for a long time before."""
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ortmans and the P. Bourgets [...] The only other thing I did was to read in the """"""""Revue de Paris"""""""" of the 15th August the wonderful article of A. Daudet on Goncourt's death [...]' """
"""Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular."""
"""He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it.  It was very laudatory on all counts, & quite free from fault finding except as to one trifling & quite inessential point.  There was a rider that in John Buchan?s opinion it would not be popular.  Lane said, I will publish your novel.?"""
"""He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood."""
"""At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'"""
"""At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'"""
""" 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the deck, and gambling in the smoking-room.' """
"""Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feeling that the life of adventure could be led by a man duller than themselves. No gaiety wit or invention [...] Boy scout manual. Unlike Moll or Roxana or Selkirk himself, Crusoe never develops or modifies. As much bored as I was 30 years ago. Its only literary merit is the well conceived crescendo of the savages. Historically important, no doubt, and the parent of other insincerities, such as Treasure Island [...] I shan't read Part II. [goes on to quote from, and comment upon, text further]'"""
"""In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's """"""""Divina commedia"""""""", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's """"""""Greek Lexicon"""""""", and Lewis and Short's """"""""Latin Dictionary"""""""". More Adey, the tranlator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'"""
"""In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's """"""""Divina commedia"""""""", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's """"""""Greek Lexicon"""""""", and Lewis and Short's """"""""Latin Dictionary"""""""". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'"""
"""In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's """"""""Divina commedia"""""""", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's """"""""Greek Lexicon"""""""", and Lewis and Short's """"""""Latin Dictionary"""""""". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'"""
"""In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's """"""""Divina commedia"""""""", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's """"""""Greek Lexicon"""""""", and Lewis and Short's """"""""Latin Dictionary"""""""". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'"""
"""In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's """"""""Divina commedia"""""""", accompanied by an Italian grammar and dictionary to help Wilde with the poem's medieval Italian; two massive folio volumes containing the entire surviving corpus of Greek and Latin poetry and drama; the equally weighty Liddell and Scott's """"""""Greek Lexicon"""""""", and Lewis and Short's """"""""Latin Dictionary"""""""". More Adey, the translator of Henrik Ibsen...procured the volumes and dispatched them to Reading.'"""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Greek Testament, Milman's History of the Jews; Farrar's St Paul, Tennyson's Poems (complete in one volume), Percy's Reliques (the collection of old ballads), Christopher Marlowe's Works, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Life of Frederick the Great, A prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, Keats's Poems, Chaucer's Poems, Spenser's Poems, Renan's Vie de Jesus and The Apostles, Ranke's History of the Popes, Critical and Historical Essays by Cardinal Newman, Emerson's Essays (If possible in one volume), Cheap edition of Dickens's Works.' """
"""Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the """"""""Harvard Magazine"""""""" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you.  I have read them with a searching of spirit (to begin with) inevitable to one who has in a manner set an example and who sees it (in his afternoon of life) inexorably and fatally followed.' """
"""Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel """"""""Aphrodite: moeurs antiques"""""""", which he has read in a copy apparently borrowed from Gosse."""
"""In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, mentioning that he has read of her illness in the Labour Leader and the Clarion. """
"""What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.'"""
"""Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic.  ? It is one of the most genuinely original novels that I have ever read;  I don?t mean original in design, but in the outlook of the author.'  """
"""I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his """"""""Reef and Palm"""""""". Apart from the great interest of the stories what I admire most is his perfect unselfishness in the telling of them.[...] I haven't seen yet the """"""""The First Fleet Family"""""""" and have a great curiosity.'  """
"""Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '""""""""Rome"""""""" is of a [italics]  lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at the rate of ten pages a day -- under which even my little rock-built terrace groans.'"""
"""But my great excitement was reading your stories. Garnett's right. """"""""A Man and some others"""""""" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing [""""""""The Open Boat""""""""] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise]. """
"""But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. """"""""A Man and some others"""""""" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing [""""""""The Open Boat""""""""] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise]. """
"""All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book """"""""Helbeck of Bannisdale""""""""]."""
"""Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897: 'I have read, of course, every word -- and I think I have had real inspirations in the way of making you out.'"""
"""I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night.  He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street.  It was distinctly favourable  & appreciative. ' """
"""What do you think of the """"""""Gadfly""""""""? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of view is accepted, that having suffered is sufficient excuse for the production of rubbish.[...] I don't remember ever reading a book I disliked so much.'"""
"""I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical;  also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'."""
"""I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical;  also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'."""
"""I think the enclosed is worth your notice.  On making a search, there is no """"""""enclosure"""""""".  But the International Express  Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur St, issue a month's guide for the information of travellers which is circulated [two illegible words].  It contains a comparative table of the prices and [illegible, underlined, possibly """"""""routes""""""""] of Baedecker's and Murray's Guides, much to your disadvantage  & certainly incorrect.'"""
"""On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where """"""""Virgilium vidi tantum"""""""" originally occurs in Latin literature.  Strangely enough, I have come across it here.  It is in Ovid (""""""""Tristia"""""""" IX. 10.51)"""
"""I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts.  With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitten by it, & so asked him to supper & whiskey just in order to finish the matter up.  Unfortunately some other men took it into their heads also to call that night & we couldn?t say a word together.  . . . Touching Toddles: A Nuisance I have read this with great pleasure, & if Toddles is Claude, I want to know him instantly, forthwith, and immediately.  . . . This book will sell all right: Constables; Hutchinsons; A.D. Innes? A. & C. Black ; J.M. Dent & Co; might be tried.'  """
"""I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts.  With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitten by it, & so asked him to supper & whiskey just in order to finish the matter up.  Unfortunately some other men took it into their heads also to call that night & we couldn?t say a word together.  . . . Touching Toddles: A Nuisance I have read this with great pleasure, & if Toddles is Claude, I want to know him instantly, forthwith, and immediately.  . . . This book will sell all right: Constables; Hutchinsons; A.D. Innes? A. & C. Black ; J.M. Dent & Co; might be tried.'    """
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to learn a new trade. I read a bit too; though books have become dull of late. However, they amuse me at times. You sent me one the other day by a certain Santayana; who seems to be a bright & fresh sort of person. He irritated me a little by a rather meaningless philosophy; """"""""nothing"""""""", he said, I remember, """"""""is objectively impressive."""""""" How the devil should it be?'"""
"""Herman Melville's """"""""The Green Hand"""""""" he had read but it """"""""was not much use to me"""""""" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to using the book for his own development. He read other works by Melville, and enjoyed parts of """"""""Moby Dick""""""""'."""
"""Herman Melville's """"""""The Green Hand"""""""" he had read but it """"""""was not much use to me"""""""" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to using the book for his own development. He read other works by Melville, and enjoyed parts of """"""""Moby Dick""""""""'."""
"""One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's """"""""Trilby"""""""". It was not so much the work itself - though John Masefield enjoyed it more than any book he had read until then - which played so prominent a part in forming his tastes, but the other works which George du Maurier put John Masefield on to... Whatever book """"""""Trilby"""""""" mentions John Masefield bought... On the oblique recommendations in """"""""Trilby"""""""" he read the """"""""Three Musketeers""""""""; Sterne's """"""""Sentimental Journey""""""""; Darwin's """"""""Origin of the Species""""""""'."""
"""One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's """"""""Trilby"""""""". It was not so much the work itself - though John Masefield enjoyed it more than any book he had read until then - which played so prominent a part in forming his tastes, but the other works which George du Maurier put John Masefield on to... Whatever book """"""""Trilby"""""""" mentions John Masefield bought... On the oblique recommendations in """"""""Trilby"""""""" he read the """"""""Three Musketeers""""""""; Sterne's """"""""Sentimental Journey""""""""; Darwin's """"""""Origin of the Species""""""""'."""
"""One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's """"""""Trilby"""""""". It was not so much the work itself - though John Masefield enjoyed it more than any book he had read until then - which played so prominent a part in forming his tastes, but the other works which George du Maurier put John Masefield on to... Whatever book """"""""Trilby"""""""" mentions John Masefield bought... On the oblique recommendations in """"""""Trilby"""""""" he read the """"""""Three Musketeers""""""""; Sterne's """"""""Sentimental Journey""""""""; Darwin's """"""""Origin of the Species""""""""'."""
"""One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's """"""""Trilby"""""""". It was not so much the work itself - though John Masefield enjoyed it more than any book he had read until then - which played so prominent a part in forming his tastes, but the other works which George du Maurier put John Masefield on to... Whatever book """"""""Trilby"""""""" mentions John Masefield bought... On the oblique recommendations in """"""""Trilby"""""""" he read the """"""""Three Musketeers""""""""; Sterne's """"""""Sentimental Journey""""""""; Darwin's """"""""Origin of the Species""""""""'."""
"""After """"""""Trilby"""""""" came the effect of """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""". """"""""It came to me"""""""", writes the poet of this book, """"""""just when I needed an inner life"""""""". From """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""" he learned of the existence of Villon and of de Musset. He read these poets but """"""""the time was not ripe for either""""""""."""
"""After """"""""Trilby"""""""" came the effect of """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""". """"""""It came to me"""""""", writes the poet of this book, """"""""just when I needed an inner life"""""""". From """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""" he learned of the existence of Villon and of de Musset. He read these poets but """"""""the time was not ripe for either"""""""".'"""
"""After """"""""Trilby"""""""" came the effect of """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""". """"""""It came to me"""""""", writes the poet of this book, """"""""just when I needed an inner life"""""""". From """"""""Peter Ibbetson"""""""" he learned of the existence of Villon and of de Musset. He read these poets but """"""""the time was not ripe for either"""""""".'"""
"""the young poet began to wonder """"""""who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'"""""""" From """"""""The Confessions of an Opium Eater"""""""" he discovered Wordsworth'."""
"""The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translation of the Odyssey found the young reader """"""""by no means skilled enough to perceive the perfection of much of the verse"""""""" - """"""""But I found the story worth the trouble"""""""", Masefield adds'."""
"""The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translation of the Odyssey found the young reader """"""""by no means skilled enough to perceive the perfection of much of the verse"""""""" - """"""""But I found the story worth the trouble"""""""", Masefield adds'."""
"""The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translation of the Odyssey found the young reader """"""""by no means skilled enough to perceive the perfection of much of the verse"""""""" - """"""""But I found the story worth the trouble"""""""", Masefield adds'."""
"""""""""""'On first reading Shelley"""""""", he writes, """"""""I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed."""""""" Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which had an effect upon Masefield which he describes as """"""""electric and ecstatic"""""""", and he tells how excited he was by the CONSTRUCTION of """"""""The Revolt of Islam""""""""'."""
"""Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive thinker is considerable. It may be that Morris has been the formative influence, in his limitations as well as his liberations, on Masefield's view of life'."""
"""Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive thinker is considerable. It may be that Morris has been the formative influence, in his limitations as well as his liberations, on Masefield's view of life'."""
"""Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive thinker is considerable. It may be that Morris has been the formative influence, in his limitations as well as his liberations, on Masefield's view of life'."""
"""I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton].  To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the way in the only book of hers I can read, seems to be founded upon Bulwer"""
"""Thanks for the copy of """"""""Good Reading"""""""". It's a charming little book.'"""
"""In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the delightful letters of [...] Edward Fitzgerald (""""""""Omar Khayyam"""""""") and, just finishing a story in one of them about his relations with a boatman of Saxmundham,' he went for a walk along the Bournemouth coast where he met, and got into conversation with, a 'sea-faring man' who turned out to have come from Saxmundham, and whose brother had been the boatman Fitzgerald had written of (he goes on to mention the further coincidence of coming home to find a letter from Hunter dated from Saxmundham)."""
"""But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's """"""""hundred"""""""" -George Henry Lewes's """"""""Biographical History of Philosophy"""""""". It came just when I needed it and to my extreme delight and mounting excitement opened before me an entirely new world of adventure.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Harthornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's """"""""British Poets"""""""", the complete works of from four to eight poets in each volume which cost me 6d. apiece. They had shabby worn leather bindings, and the type was on the small side and closely set. But I ploughed through them, doggedly, as if reading for a bet, or an imposed task. One volume I remember contained the poetical works of Samuel Daniel, Browne, Giles and Phineas Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Drummond (of Ha[w]thornden), John Donne, and some more minor ones. Another contained along with """"""""also rans"""""""" Cowley, Milton and """"""""Hudibras"""""""" Butler. And, I repeat, I ploughed through them with a stout heart, but little sense, and a dwindling understanding.'"""
"""Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of """"""""Shorter Poems"""""""" than in the whole volume of Tennyson. This is my deliberate opinion. And what a descriptive power! The man hath wings--sees from on high.'"""
"""Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet.  I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of """"""""Shorter Poems"""""""" than in the whole volume of Tennyson. This is my deliberate opinion. And what a descriptive power! The man hath wings--sees from on high.'"""
"""[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: """"""""Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and kneel down in prayer. These Sunday nights are among my happiest memories; there was a feeling of complete security and union among us as we sat reading about David and Elijah"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... """"""""And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a Fenimore Cooper Indian I was tireless and silent once I started. Scott; Charles Reade, George Eliot; the Brontes; later on Hardy; Hugo; Dumas and scores of others. Then came Shakespeare; the Bible; Milton and the line of poets generally. I was hardly sixteen when I picked up James Thomson's Seasons, in Stead's 'Penny Poets'... I wept for the shepherd who died in the snow"""""""".'"""
"""Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that evening, as he recalled, """"""""I stretched myself on my bed, and began to read 'The Parliament of Fowls'; and with the first lines entered into a world of poetry until then unknown to me"""""""". As a result, Masefield's study of poetry deepened, and Chaucer, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats became his mentors. Shelley converted the impressionable youth to vegetarianism....Unfortunately [he] overdid vegetarianism by abjuring milk; and, weak from lack of protein, he finally gave up the regimen'."""
"""Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that evening, as he recalled, """"""""I stretched myself on my bed, and began to read 'The Parliament of Fowls'; and with the first lines entered into a world of poetry until then unknown to me"""""""". As a result, Masefield's study of poetry deepened, and Chaucer, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats became his mentors. Shelley converted the impressionable youth to vegetarianism....Unfortunately [he] overdid vegetarianism by abjuring milk; and, weak from lack of protein, he finally gave up the regimen'."""
"""Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that evening, as he recalled, """"""""I stretched myself on my bed, and began to read 'The Parliament of Fowls'; and with the first lines entered into a world of poetry until then unknown to me"""""""". As a result, Masefield's study of poetry deepened, and Chaucer, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats became his mentors. Shelley converted the impressionable youth to vegetarianism....Unfortunately [he] overdid vegetarianism by abjuring milk; and, weak from lack of protein, he finally gave up the regimen'."""
"""Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that evening, as he recalled, """"""""I stretched myself on my bed, and began to read 'The Parliament of Fowls'; and with the first lines entered into a world of poetry until then unknown to me"""""""". As a result, Masefield's study of poetry deepened, and Chaucer, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats became his mentors. Shelley converted the impressionable youth to vegetarianism....Unfortunately [he] overdid vegetarianism by abjuring milk; and, weak from lack of protein, he finally gave up the regimen'."""
"""Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses taken by chance anywhere. It is a delightful way of opening the day.'"""
"""Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel the power to settle, calmly & firmly on books coming back at once. John Bailey's life, come today, makes me doubt though -- what? Everything [...] I've only just glanced & got the smell of Lit. dinner. Lit. Sup, Lit this that & the other -- & the one remark to the effect that Virginia Woolf, of all people, has been given Cowper by Desmond [MacCarthy], & likes it! I, who read Cowper when I was 15 -- d----d nonsense.'"""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'."""
"""I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue [of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note. It is justice--and discriminating justice--rendered to that serene talent. I think she wrote too much (perhaps it's envy; to me it's simply inconceivable) but she was ever  faithful to her artistic temperament--she always expressed herself. She was a better artist than George Elliot [sic] and, at her best immensely superior to any living woman novelist  I can call to mind.  Harris (an old friend of mine--in his work) can write more than a bit. Not to everyone is given to be so graphic and so easy at the same time. Besides his point of view is  most sympathetic to me. Blackmore is himself--of course. But Professor Saintsbury's paper interested me most--a bit of fundamental criticism  most cleverly expounded.'"""
"""Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 """"""""Jubilee Day"""""""" and July 7 1897."""
"""My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.'   """
"""Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his """"""""Far East"""""""".'"""
"""It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable speculations upon which I should have liked to ask your questions? I should have liked to know, to suggest only one question, what Dante himself really believed? That is, of course, unanswerable; but I should like to get a little nearer to an answer at all conceivable to me.'"""
"""when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were """"""""as silent as the dead"""""""". I had had, of course, to learn """"""""Casabianca"""""""" and """"""""Lord Ullin's Daughter"""""""" and """"""""Excelsior"""""""" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.' """
"""when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were """"""""as silent as the dead"""""""". I had had, of course, to learn """"""""Casabianca"""""""" and """"""""Lord Ullin's Daughter"""""""" and """"""""Excelsior"""""""" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.' """
"""when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were """"""""as silent as the dead"""""""". I had had, of course, to learn """"""""Casabianca"""""""" and """"""""Lord Ullin's Daughter"""""""" and """"""""Excelsior"""""""" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.' """
"""I had a treat in the shape of a number of the """"""""Singapore Free Press"""""""" 2 and a half columns about """"""""Mr Conrad at home and abroad"""""""". extremely laudatory but in fact telling me I don't know anything about it. Well I never did set up as an authority on Malaysia. I looked for a medium in which to express myself. I am inexact and ignorant no doubt (most of us are) but I don't think I sinned so recklessly. Curiously enough all the details about the little characteristic  acts and customs which they hold up as proof I have taken out (to be safe) from undoubted sources--dull,wise books.'"""
"""Yesterday I finished the """"""""Life"""""""" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Graham's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laissé une profonde impression de tristesse [...] I can say no more just now.'   """
"""?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I can talk best with my pen & would rather anticipate tomorrow. I am, as you know, quite unable to criticize the substance. I am greatly ignorant of history & of that part of history beyond nearly all others. I can, however, see that you have got through an amount of work wh. amazes me? I thought well of you; but you have quite surpassed my expectations.?"""
"""On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depressed state of mind to read'."""
"""Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unrival[l]ed knowledge of the subject. But it is not literature.' (Then follows a justification of the responsibilities of a critic to sign reviews even if unflattering.) """
"""The """"""""Bristol Fashion"""""""" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most  individual way.'"""
"""And the merit of the book [""""""""Jocelyn""""""""], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given the exact measure of your characters in a language of great felicity,with measure,with poetical appropriateness to characters tragic indeed but within the bounds of their nature. That's what makes the book valuable apart from its many qualities as a piece of literary work.'"""
""" """"""""Higginson's Dream"""""""" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of course I am in complete sympathy with the point of view. For the same  accomplishment in expression I can never hope--and Robert [Cunninghame Grahame] is too strong an individuality [sic] to be  influenced by anyone's writing. He desired me to correct the proofs but the """"""""Sat. Rev"""""""" people did not send me the proofs.'   """
"""Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: """"""""'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully disappointed on reading his book'."""""""""""
""" ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... """"""""The History of David Grieve"""""""" (1892), though he read it all ...'"""
"""PS I've read """"""""Two Magics"""""""" Henry James's last. The first story [""""""""The Turn of the Screw""""""""] is all there. He extracts an intellectual thrill out of the subject. The second [""""""""Covering End""""""""] is unutterable rubbish.Quite a shock to one of the faithful.'"""
"""The """"""""Impenitent Thief""""""""  has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my wife.  Every word has found a home.' """
"""I return the pages """"""""To Wayfaring Men"""""""". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.'"""
"""Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel """"""""La Femme et le Pantin"""""""", at Bourget's recommendation. """
"""Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Matilda Serao, in a copy apparently sent to him by Bourget's wife."""
"""This morning I had the """"""""Aurora"""""""" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making a fuss about.[...] I notice variations in the text as I've read it in the typewritten copy.This seems the most finished piece of work you have ever done.'"""
"""A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At fourteen he was still enjoying """"""""Deadeye Dick"""""""", by twenty he was reading Henry James...He secured a literary education at the Brighton Public Library, and as a professional runner he used prize money to buy Hardy's poems, Shakespeare, Mackail's translation of """"""""The Odyssey"""""""", and William Morris's """"""""The Earthly Paradise"""""""". In an undemanding job... he read on company time, though there was a row when his supervisor found """"""""Jude the Obscure"""""""" on his desk'."""
"""Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan Harrington when I had chicken pox, 19, and felt this strongly]'."""
"""Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan Harrington when I had chicken pox, 19, and felt this strongly]'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Whitman, Wordsworth, Scott, Robert Browning, Darwin and T.H. Huxley. Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly had introduced him to a more liberal Nonconformity that was hospitable to contemporary literature. The difficulty was that the traditional Nonconformist commitment to freedom of conscience was propelling him beyond the confines of Primitive Methodism, as far as Unitarianism, the Rationalist Press Association and the Independent Labour Party. His tastes in literature evolved apace: Ibsen, Zola. Meredith, and Wilde by the 1890s; then on to Shaw, Wells, and Bennett; and ultimately Marxist economics and Brave New World'."""
"""when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were """"""""as silent as the dead"""""""". I had had, of course, to learn """"""""Casabianca"""""""" and """"""""Lord Ullin's Daughter"""""""" and """"""""Excelsior"""""""" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.' """
"""Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one  after reading the """"""""Life of Santa Teresa"""""""" is the impression  of a wonderful richness; a world peopled thickly--with the breath of mysticism  over all--the landscapes, the walls,the men,the women. Of course I am quite incompetent to criticise such a work; but I can appreciate it .[...] It is absorbing like a dream amd as difficult to keep hold of.'"""
"""[Arthur] Symons reviewing """"""""Trionfo della Morte"""""""" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last """"""""Sat. Rev"""""""" went out of his way to damn Kipling and me with the same generous praise. He says that """"""""Captains Courageous"""""""" and the """"""""Nigger"""""""" have no idea behind them.'"""
"""...he read """"""""360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight"""""""" . . . and ten days later reported """"""""I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics"""""""" . . . what hideous Greek the man wrote!'"""
"""Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance. Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approaching it has appeared since Burton's """"""""Mecca"""""""" [""""""""Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah"""""""" 1855] [...] The Journey in Morocco is a work of art, a book of travel written like this is no longer a book of travel--it is a creative work.[...] The book pulled at my very heart strings.' """
"""Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. [""""""""Blackwood's Magazine""""""""] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since """"""""The Red Badge [of Courage]""""""""--and it has even something the """"""""Red Badge"""""""" has not--or not so much of. He is maturing. He is expanding.' [Then follows six more lines of praise.] """
"""The Guide book  simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic]. I've read it last night having only then returned home.'"""
"""Read the """"""""Badge"""""""" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'"""
"""Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] -- beyond the """"""""Times"""""""", which I look at all for [George W.] Smalley's cables'. """
"""Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenesque -- but no editor of an actual London magazine would look at a Hans Andersen tale to-day.'"""
"""I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully good--and true. Thanks to you both.'"""
"""She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'"""
"""She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'"""
"""[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the """"""""Tribuna"""""""" and the """"""""Civilta Cattolica"""""""", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'."""
"""[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the """"""""Tribuna"""""""" and the """"""""Civilta Cattolica"""""""", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] breathe fire and flame'."""
"""[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harnack!'"""
"""In reading the last number of the """"""""Mercure [de France]""""""""  I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinion in words that go straight to my heart. The phrase """"""""who is one of ours"""""""" touched me, for, truly I feel bound to France  by a deep sympathy [...]'  """
"""Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm?  Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revels in the land.'"""
"""As to your sketch (for it is that) in last """"""""B'wood"""""""", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effective.'"""
"""Today, from your kindness, I received the """"""""Chronicle"""""""" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!]  """
"""'I hold """"""""Ipané"""""""". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jealousy. There are things in that volume that are like magic and though space and through the distance of regretted years  convey to one the actual feeling, the sights, the sounds, the thoughts; one steps on the earth, breathes the air and has the sensation of your past. I know of course every sketch; what was almost a surprise was the extraordinarily good convincing effect of the whole. [...] I have read  it already three times.'"""
"""""""""""Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."""""""""""
"""I have just read """"""""Family Portraits"""""""". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has given me; but when I raised my eyes from the page , it was with the very vivid feeling of having seen not only the long line of the portaits but also the beauty of the profound and tender idea which illuminated for you all the faces portrayed, the sad eyes of the dead with the flame of a gentle pity and a penetrating sympathy.'"""
"""Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which father lugged home [from library] for me [...] He must have been 65; I 15 or 16, then; & why I dont know, but I became enraptured, though not exactly interested, but the sight of the large yellow page entranced me. I used to read it & dream of those obscure adventurers, & no doubt practised their style in my copy books. I was then writing a long picturesque essay upon the Christian religion, I think; called Religio Laici, I believe [...] & I also wrote a history of Women; & a history of my own family -- all very longwinded & El[izabe]than in style.'"""
"""Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hysterical transports of some public organs  for the simple reason that I expected to see displayed all the valour, perseverance, devotion which in fact have been displayed. Confound these papers. From the tone of some of them one would have thought they expected the artillery to clear out at a gallop across hills and ravines[...]. Those infernal scribblers are rank outsiders .'   """
"""I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising advance. I've just finished reading it having waited for the last inst: [...] The French article [about the Dreyfus case] in the last number I dislike frankly as to tone. It is not """"""""Maga's"""""""" tone either; it does not give an impression of intelligence behind the words--it is not quite candid. [...] The navy article awfully interesting and the Fashon in fiction simply delightful.'"""
"""Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65."""
"""Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163."""
"""Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you have read Mackail's Morris [...] I felt much moved, after reading the book, to try to write [...] something positively vivid about it; but we are in a moment of such excruciating vulgarity that nothing worth doing about anything or anyone seems to be wanted or welcomed anywhere.' """
"""The trans: of the T.M.[""""""""The Time Machine""""""""] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How true,clever, ingenious, full of thought and beauty. I read on in  the trans: neglecting my work.'"""
"""Joan Evans, """"""""Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography"""""""" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-room, when I knew my parents were safe in London, open the [book]case, and take deep delicious draughts of verse.  Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were all the sweeter for being read in secret' (p.17).' """
"""Joan Evans, """"""""Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography"""""""" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-room, when I knew my parents were safe in London, open the [book]case, and take deep delicious draughts of verse.  Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were all the sweeter for being read in secret' (p.17).'   """
""" ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading """"""""Adam Bede"""""""" ... the local vicar was asked to call in order to explain the book's unsuitability.'"""
"""Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met'"""
"""[According to Flora Thompson], """"""""Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow""""""""... One could borrow Pamela and the Waverley novels from a neighbour, Christies Old Organ from the Sunday School library. Her uncle, a shoemaker, had once carted home from a country-house auction a large collection of books that no-one would buy: novels, poetry, sermons, histories, dictionaries. She read him Cranford while he worked in his shop... Later she could borrow from her employer (the village postmistress) Shakespeare and Byron's Don Juan, as well as Jane Austen, Dickens and Trollope from the Mechanics' Institute library.'"""
"""[According to Flora Thompson], """"""""Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow""""""""... One could borrow Pamela and the Waverley novels from a neighbour, Christies Old Organ from the Sunday School library. Her uncle, a shoemaker, had once carted home from a country-house auction a large collection of books that no-one would buy: novels, poetry, sermons, histories, dictionaries. She read him Cranford while he worked in his shop... Later she could borrow from her employer (the village postmistress) Shakespeare and Byron's Don Juan, as well as Jane Austen, Dickens and Trollope from the Mechanics' Institute library.'"""
"""Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn by heart Mrs Hemans's """"""""Casabianca"""""""" (""""""""The boy stood on the burning deck...""""""""). The reason for her recalcitrance was that """"""""as everybody had left the Burning Deck, and he was doing no conceivable good by remaining there, why in heck didn't he get off it!""""""""'"""
"""there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'"""
"""there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'"""
"""there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'"""
"""there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, """"""""The Pilgrim's Progress"""""""", """"""""Gulliver's Travels"""""""", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'"""
""" [Sitwell said] 'I used to read """"""""The Rape of the Lock"""""""" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a wonder I didn't set myself on fire. I had memorized it by the time I was twelve'"""
"""The thing [""""""""A Paheka""""""""] in """"""""West.Gaz."""""""" is excellent, excellent.'"""
"""'I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,very fair. I happen to know Rimbaud's verses.'"""
"""[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - """"""""Freddie's Friend"""""""", """"""""Little Billie's Button"""""""", """"""""Sally's Sacrifice"""""""".'"""
"""[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - """"""""Freddie's Friend"""""""", """"""""Little Billie's Button"""""""", """"""""Sally's Sacrifice"""""""".'"""
"""[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - """"""""Freddie's Friend"""""""", """"""""Little Billie's Button"""""""", """"""""Sally's Sacrifice"""""""".'"""
"""Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading """"""""Jean d'Agreve"""""""" with a mixture of recognitions and reserves'."""