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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [101v] (207/244)
The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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692
THE NINETEENTH
April
travellers' tales, such, imaginative person has only to open it at any
page wherever it may chance to present itself. The style is as near
perfect as any style can be ; the tone is incomparably innocent, gay,
and fascinating ; the human interest is everywhere paramount.
From first to last we are living in the very best society that the
world can produce. If in Miss North's presence everybody did not
consciously put on their best manners and turn their best side to her,
she certainly had a quite magical power of seeing what good there
was in everything and everybody. How she manages to keep
absolutely free from petty gossip and small talk quite perplexes one as
one reads. But such men as Lord Lytton and Sir Eichard Temple,
the Rajah of Sarawak and the beautiful Eani, native princes and
Russian barons, and a hundred other queer human creatures, pay her
court, each after his fashion. President Grant, at the White House,
went out of his way to entertain her, under the impression that
site was a daughter of the Prime Minister, whom it is not generally
supposed that Americans delight to honour. Even Brigham Young
interviewed her. ' Horrid old wretch !' she exclaims ; ' my hand felt
dirty for a week after shaking hands with him.' As for the stories of
beasts and birds and reptiles, they are legion, and a more bewitching
book for boys and girls—a more stimulating book—I have not met
with for many a long day. Of course, all the creatures that are upon
the face of the earth trusted her and feared her not—that strange
power which perfect fearlessness and perfect guilelessness bestow upon
loving and sympathetic natures Miss North had to an extraordinary
degree. Animals seemed to understand her, children loved her, the
birds came near her without shrinking. In all her many travels she
never met with any of those vulgar adventures which are usually to
be traced to the stupidity, or the insolence, or the timidity of the
travellers themselves ; and so, from first to last, Miss North's career was
always a happy career, and reads us all the lesson that if we would
find life worth living we must live for others as well as for our
selves, winning their confidence and, it may be, their love by being
pleasant to those around us.
A ugustus J essopp.
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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.
The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.
A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.
The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.
The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:
The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.
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- Mss Eur F126/28
- Title
- The Nineteenth Century, No 182, Apr 1892
- Pages
- 100r:101v
- Author
- Jessopp, Reverend Augustus
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