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The town seems to have no idea of re-erecting the sails of the windmill, and as I have so far heard of no scheme for demolishing the unpleasant-looking houses on the West Cliff, we will shut our eyes to these shortcomings, and admit that the task is not difficult in the presence of such a superb view over Whitby's glorious surroundings.
The Courtier was translated into English so early as 1561. Lowndes's Bibl. Man. ed. 1871, p. 386. 'Popery, he says, 'was never so well understood by the nation as it came to be upon this occasion. Whitby's Commentary on the New Testament was published in 1703-9. By Henry Mackenzie, the author of The Man of Feeling. Ante, i. 360. It had been published anonymously this spring.
"Whitby's nuns exulting told, How to their house three barons bold Must menial service do." It appears that three gentlemen De Bruce, De Percy, and Allaston were hunting boars on the abbey-lands in 1159, and roused a fine one, which their dogs pressed hard and chased to the hermitage, where it ran into the chapel and dropped dead.
BEATRICE WHITBY'S NOVELS. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. London Globe. "Miss Whitby is far above the average novelist.... This story is original without seeming ingenious, and powerful without being overdrawn." New York Commercial Advertiser. "The book is a thoroughly good one.
At Mr M'Pherson's, he commended Whitby's Commentary, and said, he had heard him called rather lax; but he did not perceive it. He had looked at a novel, called The Man of the World, at Rasay, but thought there was nothing in it. He said to-day, while reading my Journal, 'This will be a great treasure to us some years hence.
McPherson's, he commended Whitby's Commentary , and said, he had heard him called rather lax; but he did not perceive it. He had looked at a novel, called The Man of the World , at Rasay, but thought there was nothing in it. He said to-day, while reading my Journal, 'This will be a great treasure to us some years hence.
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