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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kingsley, Charles

​Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875).—Novelist and historian, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Holne Vicarage near Dartmoor, but passed most of his childhood at Barnack in the Fen country, and Clovelly in Devonshire, ed. at King's Coll., London, and Camb. Intended for the law, he entered the Church, and became, in 1842, curate, and two years later rector, of Eversley, Hampshire. In the latter year he pub. The Saints' Tragedy, a drama, of which the heroine is St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Two novels followed, Yeast (1848) and Alton Locke (1850), in which he deals with social questions as affecting the agricultural labouring class, and the town worker respectively. He had become deeply interested in such questions, and threw himself heart and soul, in conjunction with F. D. Maurice and others, into the schemes of social amelioration, which they supported under the name of Christian socialism, contributing many tracts and articles under the signature of "Parson Lot." In 1853 appeared Hypatia, in which the conflict of the early Christians with the Greek philosophy of Alexandria is depicted; it was followed in 1855 by Westward Ho, perhaps his most popular work; in 1857 by Two Years Ago, and in 1866 by Hereward the Wake. At Last (1870), gave his impressions of a visit to the West Indies. His taste for natural history found expression in Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore (1855), and other works. The Water Babies is a story for children written to inspire love and reverence of Nature. K. was in 1860 appointed to the Professorship of Modern History at Camb., which he held until 1869. The literary fruit of this was Roman and Teuton (1864). In the same year he was involved in a controversy with J. H. Newman, which resulted in the publication by the latter of his Apologia. K., who had in 1869 been made a Canon of Chester, became Canon of Westminster in 1873. Always of a highly nervous temperament, his over-exertion resulted in repeated failures of health, and he d. in 1875. Though hot-tempered and combative, he was a man of singularly noble character. His type of religion, cheerful and robust, was described as "muscular Christianity."
Strenuous, eager, and keen in feeling, he was not either a profoundly learned, or perhaps very impartial, historian, but all his writings are marked by a bracing and manly atmosphere, intense sympathy, and great descriptive power.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

​Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (1862-1900).—Traveller, dau. of George Henry K. (himself a traveller, and author of South Sea Bubbles, a very successful book), and niece of Charles K. (q.v.). She travelled in West Africa, where she made valuable observations and collections. Her Travels in West Africa is one of the most original and stimulating books of its class. Miss K. had a singular power of viewing the religious rites of savage peoples from their point of view. She was about to undertake another journey, but stopped to nurse Boer prisoners, and d. of fever.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kingston, William Henry Giles

​Kingston, William Henry Giles (1814-1880).—Writer of tales for boys, b. in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where his f. was a merchant. His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844. His first book for boys, Peter the Whaler, was pub. in 1851, and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind of literature, in which his popularity was deservedly great; and during 30 years he wrote upwards of 130 tales, including The Three Midshipmen (1862), The Three Lieutenants (1874), The Three Commanders (1875), The Three Admirals (1877), Digby Heathcote, etc. He also conducted various papers, including The Colonist, and Colonial Magazine and East India Review. He was also interested in emigration, volunteering, and various philanthropic schemes. For services in negotiating a commercial treaty with Portugal he received a Portuguese knighthood, and for his literary labours a Government pension.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kingsford, William

​Kingsford, William (1819-1898).—Historian, b. in London, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work. He has a place in literature for his History of Canada in 10 vols., a work of careful research, though not distinguished for purely literary merits.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kitto, John

​Kitto, John (1804-1854).—Biblical scholar, s. of a Cornish stonemason, was b. at Plymouth. At the age of 12 a fall led to his becoming totally deaf. From poverty and hardship he was rescued by friends, to whom his mental powers had become known, and the means of education were placed within his reach. By these he profited so remarkably that he became a valuable contributor to Biblical scholarship. He travelled much in the East in the pursuit of his favourite studies. Among his works are Scripture Lands, Daily Bible Illustrations, and The Lost Senses in 2 vols., one dealing with Deafness and the other with Blindness. He also ed. The Pictorial Bible, The Journal of Sacred Literature, The Cyclopædia of Bible Literature, and contributed to various periodicals. He received a pension of £100 from Government. In 1844 the Univ. of Giessen conferred upon him the degree of D.D.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kinglake, Alexander William

​Kinglake, Alexander William (1809-1891).—B. near Taunton, ed. at Eton and Camb., was called to the Bar in 1837, and acquired a considerable practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture had been Eothen, a brilliant and original work of Eastern travel, pub. in 1844; but his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea, in 8 vols. (1863-87), which is one of the most effective works of its class. It has, however, been charged with being too ​favourable to Lord Raglan, and unduly hostile to Napoleon III., for whom the author had an extreme aversion. Its great length is also against it.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Kingsley, Henry

​Kingsley, Henry (1830-1876).—Novelist, brother of the above, ed. at King's Coll., London, and Oxf., which he left without graduating, and betook himself to the Australian gold-diggings, being afterwards in the mounted police. On his return in 1858 he devoted himself industriously to literature, and wrote a number of novels of much more than average merit, including ​Hamlyn (1859), The Hillyars and the Burtons (1865), Ravenshoe (1861), and Austin Elliot (1863). Of these Ravenshoe is generally regarded as the best. In 1869 he went to Edinburgh to ed. the Daily Review, but he soon gave this up, and became war correspondent for his paper during the Franco-German War.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Knight, Charles

​Knight, Charles (1791-1873).—Publisher and writer, b. at Windsor, where his f. was a bookseller. After serving his ap- ​prenticeship with him he went to London, and in 1823 started business as a publisher, and co-operated effectively with Brougham and others in connection with The Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge. He was publisher for the Society, and issued The Penny Magazine, Penny Cyclopædia, Pictorial History of England, etc. He ed. with success The Pictorial Shakespeare, and was the author of a vol. of essays, Once upon a Time, an autobiography, Passages from a Working Life (1863), a History of the Thirty Years' Peace, which was completed by Miss Harriet Martineau, and various other works.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Lyte, Henry Francis

Lyte, Henry Francis (1793-1847). -- Hymn-writer, b. at Ednam, near Kelso, of an ancient Somersetshire family, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, took orders, and was incumbent of Lower Brixham, Devonshire. He pub. Poems: chiefly religious (1833). He is chiefly remembered for his hymns, one of which, Abide with Me, is universally known and loved.
# A Psalm of Montreal

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[The City of Montreal is one of the most rising and, in many respects,
most agreeable on the American continent, but its inhabitants are as
yet too busy with commerce to care greatly about the masterpieces
of old Greek Art. A cast of one of these masterpieces the finest
of the several statues of Discoboli, or Quoit-throwers was found by
the present writer in the Montreal Museum of Natural History ; it
was, however, banished from public view, to a room where were all
manner of skins, plants, snakes, insects, &c., and in the middle of these,
an old man, stuffing an owl. The dialogue perhaps true, perhaps
imaginary, perhaps a little of one and a little of the other between
the writer and this old man gave rise to the lines that follow.]
STOWED away in a Montreal lumber-room,
The Discobolus standeth, and turneth his face to the wall ;
Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed, and set at naught,
Beauty crieth in an attic, and no man regardeth.
O God ! O Montreal !
Beautiful by night and day, beautiful in summer and winter,
Whole or maimed, always and alike beautiful,
He preacheth gospel of grace to the skins of owls,
And to one who seasoneth the skins of Canadian owls.
O God ! O Montreal !
When I saw him, I was wroth, and I said, " Discobolus !
Beautiful Discobolus, a Prince both among gods and men,
What doest thou here, how earnest thou here, Discobolus,
Preaching gospel in vain to the skins of owls ? "
O God ! O Montreal !
And I turned to the man of skins, and said unto him, " Oh ! thou man of skins,
Wherefore hast thou done thus, to shame the beauty of the Discobolus ? "
But the Lord had hardened the heart of the man of skins,
And he answered, " My brother-in-law is haberdasher to Mr. Spurgeon."
O God ! O Montreal !
" The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar,
He hath neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs ;
I, sir, am a person of most respectable connections,
My brother-in-law is haberdasher to Mr. Spurgeon."
O God ! O Montreal !
Then I said, " brother-in law to Mr. Spurgeon's haberdasher !
Who seasonest also the skins of Canadian owls,
Thou callest 'trousers' 'pants' whereas I call them 'trousers'
Therefore thou art in hell-fire, and may the Lord pity thee !
O God ! O Montreal !
" Preferrest thou the gospel of Montreal to the gospel of Hellas,
The gospel of thy connection with Mr. Spurgeon's haberdashery to the gospel of the Discobolus ? "
Yet none the less blasphemed he beauty, saying, " The Discobolus hath no gospel,
But my brother-in-law is haberdasher to Mr. Spurgeon."
O God ! O Montreal !
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Psalm of Life

* "A Psalm of Life" in Voices of the Night (1839)
* "A Psalm of Life" in The Riverside song book, 1893. Set to music by Henry Smart.
* "A Psalm of Life" Poems That Every Child Should Know Burt M., ed. Part V, 1904.
# A Puritan Bohemia

"The main theme is a carefully worked out and suggestive study of the earnest women who voluntarily follow an intellectual, artistic, or philanthropical mission—women who are frequently possessed of more ambition than capacity." —Review in The Bookman
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A PURITAN BOHEMIA
BY
MARGARET SHERWOOD
Author of "An Experiment in Altruism"
Leontes. Where's Bohemia? Speak.
Lord. Here in your city.
Winter's Tale
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1896
All rights reserved
COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
A PURITAN BOHEMIA
* Prologue
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
* Chapter XXI
* Chapter XXII
* Chapter XXIII
* Chapter XXIV
* Epilogue
* Advertisements
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1955, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 68 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# A Puritan Bohemia/Chapter 1
### CHAPTER I

Half-way up the hill lay the Square. The streets that bounded it on north and south sloped westward to the river. On the east they climbed the hill and disappeared. The elm trees and the ragged willow in the centre of the Square were gray with dust. It was late September.
The place had an air peculiarly its own, representing, in its dignified seclusion, the ideal aspects of an old New England city. Long ago wealthy merchants had built these wide brick houses. Now artists, poets, scholars, and musicians, the builders of houses not made with hands, had become inheritors of the large rooms, with windows overlooking the roofs and chimneys of the city and the winding river in the west.
Late one afternoon Anne Bradford walked slowly home. A sleepy quiet ​brooded over the Square. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of many feet, for the doors of the Music Hall had been thrown open, and a crowd of women passed out. A lecture on Dostoievsky was just over. Then a cab came rattling down High Street and stopped at the entrance to a low, irregular structure bearing the inscription, "Rembrandt Studios." From the cab stepped a tall young girl in an extremely well-cut gown. She stood for a minute with her red-brown dress and auburn hair outlined against the dull green ampelopsis that covered the building's front. Her cheeks were flushed. Anne Bradford caught her look of keen interest in the faded brick façade, the battered stone lions that guarded the entrance, and in the preoccupied women passing two by two.
"What is that child doing in Bohemia?" wondered Anne, noticing that her trunk was being carried in. "It is somebody new in search of the ideal life. She ought to know that she cannot enter ​the kingdom of the ideal in clothes like that."
The girl disappeared behind the great oak door. Anne followed, pausing for a minute to bow to some one across the Square. It was a lady in widow's dress. Something in the slender, erect figure with the sweeping black robes smote the artist's heart with a sudden sense of pity.
"I wish I knew more about Mrs. Kent," she said to herself.
A polite voice interrupted her.
"If you please 'm, I've brought home your laundry, and could you pay me now?"
A child stepped forward from the stairs, watching Miss Bradford expectantly. She was an odd little creature. The business-like manner seemed strangely out of keeping with the plump cheeks and the short calico gown.
"Yes, Annabel, I am going up directly."
"There's a new young lady," whispered Annabel confidentially. "Her name's ​Miss Wistar. I saw it on her trunk and she smiled at me. She's awful pretty."
Anne Bradford slowly mounted the stairs, carrying in one hand a tiny bag of rolls for her breakfast, in the other, three new tubes of paint.
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XIX

A careful record should be made of all books received. Use for this purpose what is called an accession book. This is a blank book, ruled and lettered and numbered especially for library invoices. (See the Library Bureau catalog.) It is the library's chief record, and should contain a complete history of every volume on its shelves. The items entered in the accession book concerning every volume in the library are commonly the following: date of entry; accession number; class number (religion, sociology, etc.); author; title; place of publication and name of publisher; date of publication; binding (cloth, leather, etc.); size (octavo, quarto, etc.); number of pages; name of dealer from whom purchased; cost; remarks (maps, plates, etc.; books rebound; magazines, etc.; lost, worn out, replaced by another book, etc.).
Accession book, left-hand page. (Reduced size.)
Accession book, right-hand page. (Reduced size.)
Each book and each volume of a set has a separate accession number and a separate entry. Each entry occupies a line; each line is numbered from one up to such a number as the library has volumes. The number of each line, called the accession number, is written on the first page after the title-page of the book described on that line. The accession book is a life history of every book in the library. It forms such a record as any business-like person would wish to have of property entrusted to his care. It is also a catalog of all books in the library, and a useful catalog as long as the library is small. Never use an old accession number for a new book, even though the original book has disappeared from the library.
Record should be made of all books, pamphlets, reports, bulletins, magazines, etc., received by the library as gifts; and every gift should be promptly and courteously acknowledged in writing, even if previously acknowledged in person. Keep this record in a blank book, alphabetizing all gifts by the names of the givers, with dates of receipt. Books given should appear on the accession register the same as books purchased.
# A Library Primer (1899)/Chapter XL

James R. Garfield, in Public Libraries, October, 1896
Mentor, Ohio, is a village of but 500 people; therefore we are somewhat limited in our ability to raise funds for carrying on library work. But some six years ago 15 of us got together and began holding a series of meetings every month, something in the nature of the old New England township meeting, for the purpose of stirring up an interest in town affairs, and in doing that we considered it necessary to have some central point of interest around which we could all work, and we chose as that the library. There had never been a library in the village except a small circulating library. We all believed that the use of books and the greater knowledge of books would be a common center of interest around which we could all work and toward which we would be glad to give work. The result of five years' work in this way was that we now have a library of about 1600v., and two years ago, acting under a general law of the state, we became incorporated, and requested the village council to levy a tax for the work of the library. We at that time had about 1000v. The council very readily saw the advantage of this kind of work. They appreciated what was being done for the citizens and schools of the state, and therefore they levied a tax and turned the proceeds of the tax over to the library board. In this way, you will see, the library board is kept entirely aloof from politics. There are no elections by the people, nor is the board appointed by any political officers. It is a self-constituted body, a corporate body under the laws of this state, and as long as we maintain our corporate existence the village may turn over the funds to the library. We settled the difficulty of women's rights by having an equal number of both men and women on the board, and then in order to avoid the question of disruption of families we made the other member of the family who was not on an honorary member of the board. In this way we increased the number of workers and at the same time satisfied the desire of many people to hold office.
But we found that 15, together with the supernumerary and honorary members, were unwieldy, and the work practically devolved upon very few of the members. Therefore, when we incorporated, we made an executive board consisting of five members, and they had absolute management of the library proper. They are elected every year from the members of the association, and have absolute control of the library.
Although our library is supported by the village, we make it absolutely free to anyone who desires to use it. Those outside the village or township are required to put up a nominal deposit, merely for the safe return of the book. We made this the ideal toward which we are working—that the friendship of books is like the friendship of men, it is worth nothing and avails nothing unless it is used constantly and improved constantly.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, William (b)

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​WOOD. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
William Wood (b) obtained his commission 25 Aug. 1845; was appointed, 15 Sept. following, to the America 50., Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Sir Thos. Maitland, on the Home station; and since 20 Feb. 1847, has been employed as Second and First Lieutenant in the Medea steam-sloop of 350 horsepower, Capt. Thos. Henry Mason, in the Pacific.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, James (c)

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​WOOD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
James Wood (c) was born 29 Dec. 1792. He is nephew of the late Retired Commander Geo. Wood, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Aimewell 14, commanded by his uncle Lieut. Geo. Wood, and at the time lying in Horseley Bay. In the following May he removed to the Rifleman 12, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Napier; and in July, 1807, after having served in that vessel off Boulogne, where he came into repeated contact with the enemy’s flotilla, he was received on board the Leyden 64, Capt. Wm. Cumberland. In her he accompanied the ensuing expedition against Copenhagen. In May, 1808, he was again placed under the command of his uncle in the Turbulent 14; and on 9 of the following month he had the misfortune, while in escort of convoy, to be captured, after a gallant defence of two hours and a half, by a Danish flotilla, near the south end of Saltholm. In July of the same year, having regained his liberty, he joined the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, on the Baltic station, where we find him present in an attack made upon the island of Eastholm. During the subsequent operations in the Walcheren, he assisted in landing the troops, and was employed, in command of the ship’s pinnace, in supplying the gun-boats with ammunition in the attack upon Camvere. From the Leyden Mr. Wood was transferred, in May, 1811, to the Goshawk 16, Capt. Jas. Lilburn. On 7 Sept. following the latter vessel, in company with the Barbadoes 24, chased into Calvados seven French gun-brigs (one of which was driven on shore), mounting 3 long 24-pounders and a mortar each, and manned with 75 men. She was in company, the next day, with the Hotspur 36, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, when two more of the same vessels were compelled to run on shore, and one of them sunk. From Dec. 1811 until Oct. 1814, Mr. Wood served in Basque Roads and the Mediterranean in the Pompée 74, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood; and from the latter period until presented in March, 1815, with a commission dated 13 of the preceding month, he was employed in the Channel as Master’s Mate in the Cephalus 18, Capt. John Furneaux. In one of the Pompée’s boats he shared in an attack made on a French national schooner in Basque Roads. He was engaged in the same ship In Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial action with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813; on which occasion she threw several broadsides into the Agamemnon 74.
From the commencement of the peace until Dec. 1839 Lieut. Wood was employed in the Merchant service. He was then appointed Lloyd’s Surveyor of Shipping at Bristol.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wood, James (d)

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​WOOD. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
James Wood (d) entered the Navy 24 May, 1825; passed his examination 17 Aug. 1831; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 5 April and 19 Aug 1842, and 1 Jan. 1843, to the Sylvia, Rocket, and Fearless surveying-vessels, all commanded, on the ​Home station, by Capt. Wm. Louis Sheringham – and 8 Feb. 1845, to the command, which he still retains, of the Pandora, another surveying-vessel, employed in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.