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And yet, having gone down the road through a long life of usefulness, Kingsley's is the voice of a mature experience which says to every stammerer: "Beware there are pitfalls ahead!" And this man is right. RESULTS OF STAMMERING: Experience proves that the results of continued stammering or stuttering are definite and positive, and that they are inevitable.
As a dramatist, Hall Caine wrote, at this period in his career, a play called "Alton Locke." founded on Kingsley's story. It was shown to Rousby, the actor-manager, who liked "the promise that it showed" and asked Hall Caine to write a play to his order.
He spoke as he had seldom spoken, and he secured a bond from Ismail, which might not be broken. He also secured three thousand pounds of the Khedive's borrowings from Europe, on Kingsley's promise that it should be returned five-fold. That was how Kingsley got started in the world again, how he went mining in the desert afar, where pashas and mamours could not worry him.
He used to come, and climb with an old friend a few years older than himself, a Colonel O'Hagan, who is in Bengal now, and who he thinks will like me. Not much chance of our ever meeting! Just as Sir Lionel finished quoting Charles Kingsley on Pen-y-gwrd, we drew up in front of a low gray stone building; and Kingsley's merry words rang in my ears as the door of the hotel opened.
He has won his spurs in the great battle, and become fit to be a man; because he has done the thing he did not like." Westward Ho! "Westward Ho!" was published in 1855, and, on the whole, may be accepted as the most popular of all Charles Kingsley's novels.
In Kingsley's opinion the system "answered extremely well, and offers to us a strong case in favor of exciting ambition by cultivating utility, local attachment and moral improvement among the slaves."
The last I have read is Kingsley's 'Two Years Ago. I do not wonder that you ladies like Kingsley, for he makes all his women guardian angels. June 19th. I have read Trench's 'Lectures on English' since yesterday. I think you know them, but I had not done more than glance at them before. They open up a curious field of research if one had time enough to enter upon it.
There was a certain savor of self-reliance and proprietorship in her use of the word "our," by which it was evident to me, though I was sadly puzzled at first, that she distinguished Bostonians from those who lived elsewhere. But horrified as I was by the general idea of such a calling, I could not help feeling amused, and even rather admired Miss Kingsley's independence and enterprising spirit.
The root difficulty was of course the dealing with such a subject in a novel at all. Yet I was determined to deal with it so, in order to reach the public. There were great precedents Froude's Nemesis of Faith, Newman's Loss and Gain, Kingsley's Alton Locke for the novel of religious or social propaganda.
One may find Cowper more profitable than Wordsworth; to another the reading of Bancroft may be more advantageous than that of Herodotus; while a third may gain more immediate and lasting good from historical novels like Eber's 'Uarda, or Kingsley's 'Hypatia, than from a long and patient attempt to master Grote's 'History of Greece, or Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Each individual reader must try to determine, first of all, what is best for himself.
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