Circulars of the Ten Times One Is Ten Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...to do.--Talleyrand. organized themselves into a Look-up Legion. Since then a very steady interest has been manifested in the work, especially by the girls. In last August one of the oldest and best loved of the band died. Through regard for her, as well as the desire on the part of the little company to give some outward sign of the unity between its members, it was decided that money should be raised for erecting a simple monument at her grave. The stone was to be fashioned somewhat after the Legion's badge, and to bear its motto. No money was to be received, except such as had been earned by the individual efforts of the members of the Legion. By the end of the year this money had been paid into the treasury. In the spring there will be erected, in the city's eemeterjr, a monument that will bear on its face the evidence of having been erected " In His name." Miss Yonge's " Heartsease." Miss Warner's "Wide Wide World." Miss Bronte's " Jane Eyre." Mrs. Gaskell's "North and South." Dickens's "Carol and Chimes;" and, I think, Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." But I am not certain whether the last on the original list was not Miss Bronte's "Shirley." Pray observe that this list was made in 1852. It does not include, therefore, many important books which have been published since, such as George Eliot's books, George MacDonald's, Miss Muloch's, and Mrs. Oliphant's, of which the last, "A Beleaguered City" and "The Little Pilgrim" are very remarkable. Observe also that this does not affect to be a list of the best novels, but of the stories which at that time seemed to be the most valuable for the formation of character. LETTER AND ANSWER. Rev. Mr. Hale. Dear Sir, -...