Book Details
Title: A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Year: 1928
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover (No Dust Jacket)
Pages: 367
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with moderate shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. The cloth is faded. The gold embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with a couple of foxing spots on the long margin.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. There is some yellowing and a few spots of foxing here and there, mainly at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Taken from the Preface:
"As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be fared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histories usually afford of the soul stirring deeds that give life and glory to the record of events; and where also other like actions, out of ordinary course of reading, may be placed before them, in the trust that example may inspire the spirit of heroism and self-devotion. For surely it must be a wholesome contemplation to look on actions, the very essence of which is such entire absorption in others that self is not so much renounced as forgotten; the object of which is not to win promotion, wealth or success, but simple duty, mercy an loving-kindness. These are actions wrought, "hoping for nothing again," but which most surely have their reward.
The authorities have not been given, as for the most part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the description of the Colisaeum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbe Gerbet's Rome Chretienne: for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St.Stephen's Crown, to Freytag's Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr.Mayhew's Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated (from Gregory of Tours), in Thierry's "Lettres sur l'Historie de France;" the Russian officer's adventures and those of Prascovia Lopouloff, the true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly's "Shipwrecks of the British Navy;" the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Register, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the traditions of the 52d Regiment.
There is a cloud of doubt resting on a few of the tales, which it may be honest to mention, though they were far too beautiful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertrude von der Wart, the stories of the Keys of Calais, of the Dragon of Rhodes, and we fear we must add, both Nelson's plan of the battle of the Nile, and like-wise the exact form of the heroism of young Casabianca, of which no two accounts agree. But it was not possible to give up such stories as these, and the thread of truth there must be in them has developed into such a beautiful tissue, and even if unsubstantial when tested, it is surely delightful to contemplate.
Some stories have been passed over as too devoid of foundation, in especial that of young Henri, Duke of Nemours, who, at ten years old, was said to have been hung up with his little brother of eight in one of Louis XI.'s cages at Loches, with orders that two of the children's teeth should daily be pulled out and brought to the king. The elder child was said to have insisted on giving the whole supply of teeth, so as to save his brother; but though they were certainly imprisoned after their father's execution, they were released after Louis's death in a condition which disproves this atrocity.
The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop short of recording those noble deeds by which delicate women and light-hearted young soldiers shoed, that in the hour of need there was not wanting to them the hightest and deepest "spirit of self-sacrifice".
At some risk of prolixity, enough of the surrounding events have in general been given to make the situation comprehensible, even without knowledge of the general history. This has been done in the hope that these extracts may serve as a mother's storehouse for reading aloud to her boys, or that they may be found useful for short readings to the intelligent, though uneducated classes.
November 17th, 1864"
Book Details
Title: A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Year: 1928
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover (No Dust Jacket)
Pages: 367
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with moderate shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. The cloth is faded. The gold embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with a couple of foxing spots on the long margin.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. There is some yellowing and a few spots of foxing here and there, mainly at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Taken from the Preface:
"As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be fared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histories usually afford of the soul stirring deeds that give life and glory to the record of events; and where also other like actions, out of ordinary course of reading, may be placed before them, in the trust that example may inspire the spirit of heroism and self-devotion. For surely it must be a wholesome contemplation to look on actions, the very essence of which is such entire absorption in others that self is not so much renounced as forgotten; the object of which is not to win promotion, wealth or success, but simple duty, mercy an loving-kindness. These are actions wrought, "hoping for nothing again," but which most surely have their reward.
The authorities have not been given, as for the most part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the description of the Colisaeum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbe Gerbet's Rome Chretienne: for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St.Stephen's Crown, to Freytag's Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr.Mayhew's Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated (from Gregory of Tours), in Thierry's "Lettres sur l'Historie de France;" the Russian officer's adventures and those of Prascovia Lopouloff, the true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly's "Shipwrecks of the British Navy;" the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Register, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the traditions of the 52d Regiment.
There is a cloud of doubt resting on a few of the tales, which it may be honest to mention, though they were far too beautiful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertrude von der Wart, the stories of the Keys of Calais, of the Dragon of Rhodes, and we fear we must add, both Nelson's plan of the battle of the Nile, and like-wise the exact form of the heroism of young Casabianca, of which no two accounts agree. But it was not possible to give up such stories as these, and the thread of truth there must be in them has developed into such a beautiful tissue, and even if unsubstantial when tested, it is surely delightful to contemplate.
Some stories have been passed over as too devoid of foundation, in especial that of young Henri, Duke of Nemours, who, at ten years old, was said to have been hung up with his little brother of eight in one of Louis XI.'s cages at Loches, with orders that two of the children's teeth should daily be pulled out and brought to the king. The elder child was said to have insisted on giving the whole supply of teeth, so as to save his brother; but though they were certainly imprisoned after their father's execution, they were released after Louis's death in a condition which disproves this atrocity.
The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian self-devotion, but want of materials has compelled us to stop short of recording those noble deeds by which delicate women and light-hearted young soldiers shoed, that in the hour of need there was not wanting to them the hightest and deepest "spirit of self-sacrifice".
At some risk of prolixity, enough of the surrounding events have in general been given to make the situation comprehensible, even without knowledge of the general history. This has been done in the hope that these extracts may serve as a mother's storehouse for reading aloud to her boys, or that they may be found useful for short readings to the intelligent, though uneducated classes.
November 17th, 1864"
