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My acquaintance with the "Vicomte" began, somewhat indirectly, in the year of grace 1863, when I had the advantage of studying certain illustrated dessert plates in a hotel at Nice. The name of d'Artagnan in the legends I already saluted like an old friend, for I had met it the year before in a work of Miss Yonge's.
I tell them I can't talk; I must sit quietly, with Charlotte Yonge's "Pupils of St. John the Divine." Dear me, what advantage young folks have nowadays, though indeed the dangers of these times far outweigh those of our young days. 'I suppose Lightfoot's "Commentaries" hardly come in your way. They are critical and learned on the Greek of St. Paul's Epistles.
The room was full of quaint and beautiful things, and there was a bookcase of delightful books Kingsley's, Miss Yonge's, and many other favorite authors. "Lie down, dear," said Lady Jane. "You look very tired. Forget Irene for the time. I shall be back before long, and will send your lunch up to you. We will just have your mother's permission, and then we shall feel in a straightforward position.
When the bill was brought in, it was opposed by the same member; upon which the House divided; and there appeared for Sir William Yonge's amendment thirty-eight votes, but against it fifty-six. On a motion for the recommitment of the bill, Lord Sheffield divided the House, against whose motion there was a majority of forty-two.
We have the type delineated admiringly in Miss Yonge's "Heartsease," bitterly in Miss Skene's "Use and Abuse," facetiously in the Clarence Bulbul of "Our Street." "Hang it! has not everybody written an Eastern book? I should like to meet anybody in society now who has not been up to the Second Cataract.
Yonge's map shows the larger part of the site of James Towne to be lying to the east of the church tower and outside of the A.P.V.A. grounds, the Daughter of the Island was interested too in seeing what probe and pick and shovel could do. It was at one of James Towne's old homes that we next met her.
When the bill was brought in, it was opposed by the same member; upon which the House divided; and there appeared for Sir William Yonge's amendment thirty-eight votes, but against it fifty-six. On a motion for the recommitment of the bill, Lord Sheffield divided the House, against whose motion there was a majority of forty-two.
Goldwin Smith's Life of Cowper. Wright's Life of Cowper. Shairp's Robert Burns. Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Lockhart's Life of Scott., Hutton's Life of Scott. Yonge's Life of Scott. Goldwin Smith's Life of Jane Austen. Helm's Jane Austen and her Country House Comedy. Mitton's Jane Austen and her Times. Adams's The Story of Jane Austen's Life. Robertson's Wordsworth and the English Lake Country.
"You are very well up in Miss Yonge's novels, Miss Beecham." Mr. Trollope is good for that too, but not so good. All that I know of clergymen's families I have got from her. I can recognize you quite well, and your sister, but the younger ones puzzle me; they are not in Miss Yonge; they are too much like other children, too naughty. I don't mean anything disagreeable.
The English stories which are given as text-books in the upper classes of Indian schools sometimes present great difficulties to the Hindu masters, who have to explain the meaning of words and phrases. Miss Yonge's Little Duke was being read in some of the Poona City High Schools one year.
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