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Charles Kingsley

Prose Idylls, New and OldCharles Kingsley Prose Idylls, New and Old I ‘A CHARM OF BIRDS.’ 1 Is it merely a fancy that we English, the educated people among us at least, are losing that love for spring which among our old forefathers rose almost to worship? That the perpetual miracle of the buddin...

Hypatia. or New Foes with an Old FaceCharles Kingsley Hypatia – or New Foes with an Old Face PREFACE A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. It has to represent a ...

Lectures Delivered in America in 1874Charles Kingsley Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 DEDICATIONtoCYRUS FIELD, J. A. C. GRAY,and all those valued american friends who welcomedmy husband to their great country,and through whose generous kindness he was enabledin the last year of his lifeto r...

Plays and PuritansCharles Kingsley Plays and Puritans The British Isles have been ringing for the last few years with the word ‘Art’ in its German sense; with ‘High Art,’ ‘Symbolic Art,’ ‘Ecclesiastical Art,’ ‘Dramatic Art,’ ‘Tragic Art,’ and so forth; and every well-educated person is expected, ...

Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenCharles Kingsley Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children PREFACE My dear boys,—When I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the ...

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Phaethon: Loose Thoughts for Loose ThinkersCharles Kingsley Phaethon: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers PHAETHON; LOOSE THOUGHTS FOR LOOSE THINKERS. 1852 Templeton and I were lounging by the clear limestone stream which crossed his park and wound away round wooded hills toward the distant Severn....

Andromeda, and Other PoemsCharles Kingsley Andromeda, and Other Poems ANDROMEDA Over the sea, past Crete, on the Syrian shore to the southward,Dwells in the well-tilled lowland a dark-haired Æthiop people,Skilful with needle and loom, and the arts of the dyer and carver,Skilful, but feeble of hea...

Two Years Ago, Volume IICharles Kingsley Two Years Ago, Volume II CHAPTER XV. THE CRUISE OF THE WATERWITCH The middle of August is come at last; and with it the solemn day on which Frederick Viscount Scoutbush may be expected to revisit the home of his ancestors. Elsley has gradually made up his ...

Two Years Ago, Volume ICharles Kingsley Two Years Ago, Volume I INTRODUCTORY It may seem a somewhat Irish method of beginning the story of "Two Years Ago" by a scene which happened but a month since. And yet, will not the story be on that very account a better type of many a man's own experiences...