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+Project Gutenberg's The Childhood of Distinguished Women, by Selina A. Bower
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+Title: The Childhood of Distinguished Women
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+Author: Selina A. Bower
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+           THE CHILDHOOD OF DISTINGUISHED WOMEN.
+
+
+              [Illustration: WINDSOR CASTLE.]
+
+                       THE CHILDHOOD
+                            OF
+                    Distinguished Women.
+
+                            BY
+                      SELINA A. BOWER,
+             AUTHOR OF "FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT."
+
+                          LONDON:
+         JARROLD & SONS, 3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.
+                 [_ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._]
+
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+             _To be had also from the Author._
+      ADDRESS--MRS. BOWER, RINGLAND VICARAGE, NORWICH.
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+                   LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+                                                  PAGE.
+
+    WINDSOR CASTLE                       _Frontispiece_
+
+    THE TOWER OF LONDON                              24
+
+    GREENWICH HOSPITAL                               36
+
+    INCHMAHOME                                       48
+
+    NORWICH CATHEDRAL
+    (copied from a photograph, by permission)        60
+
+    ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, NORWICH                    72
+
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+
+The Childhood of Distinguished Women.
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+THE PRINCESS ALICE.
+
+
+The Princess Alice was the second daughter and third child of our own
+beloved Queen Victoria and the late Prince Consort, "Albert the Good."
+
+Our deepest sorrowful interest has recently been excited by the touching
+and sudden way in which this lovely and gifted woman has been called
+from her home on earth to her eternal home in heaven.
+
+The Princess was born on April 25th, 1843, and was very gladly welcomed
+by the warm, true mother's heart of Her Majesty, who has ever shown and
+expressed the deepest love for her happy circle of girls and boys.
+
+The first incident in the babyhood of the Princess Alice which attracts
+attention is the record of her christening. It was a very brilliant one,
+the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating, on June 2nd. The sponsors were
+the late King of Hanover, Ernest, the present Duke of Coburg, and the
+Princesses Sophia, Matilda, and Feodora.
+
+We will give the Queen's own words about the important choice of the
+royal infant's names; Her Majesty thus writes:--"Our little baby is to
+be called Alice, an old English name, and the other names are to be Maud
+(another old English name, and the same as Matilda) and Mary, as she was
+born on Aunt Gloucester's birthday." Again, in writing to her uncle, the
+Queen's account of the little Princess's conduct was that "little Alice
+behaved extremely well."
+
+When quite a young child, the Princess Alice was remarkably quick, and
+earnestly enjoyed the acquirement of all the knowledge suitable to her
+years, and soon displayed intellectual talent of a high order.
+
+Peculiarly sweet and amiable in her disposition, and patient and
+untiring in her love, the young Princess was a favourite in the royal
+nursery and schoolroom.
+
+Her illustrious father found her when even a child as to age, quite his
+companion as to comprehension and mental capacities.
+
+Two very special characteristics place the beloved Princess Alice in the
+highest range of distinguished women, and call for the deepest regard
+and respect from all hearts.
+
+From her earliest youth, whatever was learned by her was _thoroughly_
+acquired, quietly and completely mastered, definitely and decidedly
+finished. And with her highly-refined, cultivated, and capacious mind,
+she also combined every domestic and feminine grace and duty, and was
+the useful, helpful English maiden, as well as singularly intellectual.
+
+"In her teens," the Princess was pronounced to be "one of the most
+accomplished young ladies in England."
+
+When the Queen visited Scotland in 1844, the Princess was too young to
+accompany the royal party, and Her Majesty thus writes of the
+separation. Just when they were ready for the journey, "Alice and the
+baby (Prince Alfred) were brought in, poor little things, to wish us
+good-bye."
+
+But in the course of a few years, all the children were able to
+participate in the Scotch journeys, and the Princess Alice became the
+constant companion of the Queen, riding with her over the lovely hills
+on ponies; visiting the poor women in the cottages, calling at the shop
+to purchase comforts for them; and at various times climbing the
+ascents to Feithort, or up Morven, Loch-na-Gar, and Ben Mac Dhui. This
+latter ascent was made through the dank mountain cloud; but this did not
+daunt the royal travellers, the Queen recording--"However, I and Alice
+rode to the very top, which we reached a few minutes past two; and here,
+at a cairn of stones, we lunched in a piercing cold wind.... Luncheon
+over, Albert ran off with Alice to the ridge to look at the splendid
+view, and sent for me to follow."
+
+In December, 1861, Prince Albert was attacked by the terrible disease
+which eventually proved fatal. The Princess Alice, although only
+seventeen, was the constant, unwearied nurse of her well-loved parent,
+and tended and watched him with the strongest filial love. To the last
+she kept her post, and when her aid and gentle care were no more needed,
+for he had passed away, she turned to soothe, comfort, and support her
+beloved mother with womanly and dutiful affection.
+
+On the 1st of July, 1862, the Princess Alice married Prince Louis of
+Hesse, and proved a pattern wife and mother. But in 1878, her own little
+household group was smitten with diphtheria, and in nursing and
+caressing her darling children, she caught the disease herself. One
+child preceded her, the Princess Mary, who died November 16th, and on
+December 14th, the anniversary of her honoured father's death, she, too,
+was summoned home.
+
+The changes and sorrows of life, and, perhaps, especially the death, of
+a darling little one, who fell from a window, in 1873, and was killed by
+the fall, had been blessed to her by the Holy Spirit of God; and scenes
+of family sickness and bereavement seem to have led the endeared
+Princess Alice to that loving and sympathizing Saviour who is ever ready
+to save the heart that fully trusts in Him.
+
+The whole English nation mourned for her, as for one near and dear to
+each, and a solemnity pervaded all classes, though Christmas was at
+hand.
+
+Possibly the anticipation of Christmastide had been bright in her own
+loving spirit: if so, that anticipation was realized, for the first
+Christmas in heaven with Jesus Himself must indeed surpass the most
+joyous and happy one ever spent on earth.
+
+
+In Memoriam.
+
+THE PRINCESS ALICE, WHO DIED DEC. 14th, 1878.
+
+    She is taken to celebrate Christmastide,
+      In Emmanuel's land of light;
+    The notes of her carol swell far and wide,
+      And her raiment is lustrous white.
+
+    Introduced to the happy, and blood-bought throng,
+      For whom Jesus, the Christ, was born,
+    How sweetly will echo her triumph song,
+      On the Heavenly Christmas morn!
+
+    And the day she was taken was linked in love,
+      By fond memory's silver chain,
+    With him who had entered the Home above,
+      Which knows neither parting nor pain.
+    At the dawn of the wintry, and short, dark day,
+      The angel of death hovered near,
+    To herald the sorrowful mother away,
+      From trouble, and trial, and tear.
+
+    Let us mingle our prayers, asking God to bless,
+      With earnest, affectionate cry,
+    Our well-beloved Queen, in her new distress,
+      Her comfort our God can supply.
+    May she treasure the thought with tremulous praise,
+      That those who were lent, and not given,
+    Are joining with us in the angels' lays,
+      And keeping their Christmas in Heaven!
+
+_Montacute, Ilminster, Somerset, Christmas, 1878._
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+MRS. HANNAH MORE.
+
+
+Mrs. Hannah More spent her happy childhood at Stapleton, near Bristol;
+and her early girlhood in Bristol itself, as a pupil in the school of
+her three elder sisters.
+
+Besides these three sisters, whose names were Mary, Betty, and Sally,
+there was also one younger than Hannah herself, named Patty.
+
+The five little girls were the children of a Mr. Jacob More, the head
+master of a foundation school at Stapleton.
+
+Mr. More had married the daughter of a farmer, who had been carefully
+brought up, and possessed considerable mind and also great judgment.
+
+Hannah was born in 1745, and, together with her four sisters, learned to
+read at home, the mother herself teaching them.
+
+It is not difficult to picture that happy home, with all its quiet
+influence of love, for the five little girls appear to have been good
+children, very affectionate to each other, and would form a sweet,
+bright group as they stood with respectful attitude and intelligent
+faces round the kind mother, and repeated with interest and earnest
+emulation, the familiar "A, B, C."
+
+Presently, something more than this was needed, but books were scarce.
+Mr. More had been educated for the Church, but his desire to be a
+clergyman was frustrated. He removed from Norfolk, his native county,
+and in his transit to Stapleton, which in those days was a long and
+difficult journey, he lost the greater part of his library. He therefore
+endeavoured to supply from memory, information and instruction to his
+five daughters, and Hannah was always extremely delighted to stand by
+her father's knees and listen to his stories of Grecian and Roman
+history, and also to gain thus from him a fair amount of classical
+learning.
+
+The nurse who assisted the busy mother with her happy charge, had lived
+for some time in the family of Dryden, and often interested and amused
+Hannah and her sisters with accounts of the poet.
+
+When Mr. More found that Hannah evinced such a desire for information,
+he began to teach her Latin and Mathematics; but as she outstripped all
+his pupils in the foundation school with extreme rapidity, the father,
+fearing that it might tend to make Hannah unfeminine, ceased these
+instructions. They seem, however, to have been supplemented by a
+different mode of education. The parents were poor, too poor to supply
+all the requirements of so large a family. Very wisely they determined
+that the children should be trained to support themselves. Miss More
+was, therefore, sent to a good school in Bristol, as a weekly boarder,
+and every Saturday, on her return home, she was required to teach her
+four sisters _all_ that she had learned in the week!
+
+When this sister was twenty years old, she, together with Betty and
+Sally, opened a school themselves in Bristol; and Hannah, then twelve
+years of age, and Patty were sent as pupils.
+
+On one occasion Hannah was taken ill, and Dr. Woodward, evidently a
+literary man of that time, was sent for to attend her. But so great was
+her conversational power, that the kind doctor forgot the purpose for
+which he came. After some time, he took his leave, but exclaimed,
+presently, "Bless me! I forgot to ask the girl how she is to-day!"
+
+This remarkable talent, thus early developed, was one of Mrs. Hannah
+More's charms through life, and existed to the last lingering days of
+an intelligent old age.
+
+Hannah's other great talent, as a writer, was also early and fully
+indicated. As a mere child, she would scribble poems and prim essays
+upon every scrap of available paper, and a story is told of her, that
+she had one grand ambition constantly before her young life, and that
+was to be old enough to "possess a whole quire of paper!" As a
+schoolgirl, Dr. Johnson, the elder Sheridan, and the astronomer
+Ferguson, seem to have been on terms of some intimacy, and exercised a
+talented influence upon the strong sense and mental capacity of Hannah
+More.
+
+England was experiencing change during the younger years of this
+well-known and justly honoured writer; the upper circles of society were
+gay and semi-infidel in principle, disposed to laugh at, and ridicule
+anything of a religious character; the lower were so intensely ignorant
+that they devoted themselves to indolence and vice. But already Wesley
+and Whitefield were preaching the simple gospel of the Lord Jesus
+Christ, and, through the influence of His Holy Spirit, awakening numbers
+to study, appreciate, and rise to the full reception of the truth as it
+is in Him.
+
+Mrs. Hannah More threw her literary influence and ability into the
+effort to raise and benefit her fellow-countrymen; though I am not aware
+that, during her early years, she in any way displayed personal and
+positive perception of the great love of that Heavenly Father who
+provided the special salvation and restoration so singularly suited to
+the wants and capacities of every child of man. But her evident respect
+for religion is singularly shown in the apparent sorrow that any
+disregard should be manifested towards God's Word; she once remarked,
+with emphatic disapproval, "We saw but one Bible in the parish of
+Cheddar, and that was used to prop a flower-pot!" She died in 1833, at
+the age of eighty-eight.
+
+[Illustration: THE TOWER OF LONDON.]
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+LADY JANE GREY.
+
+
+Henry Grey was the Marquis of Dorset, and married Frances Brandon, the
+daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and his beautiful wife, Mary, the sister
+of Henry VIII. This Mary was for three months Queen of France; and when
+Louis XII. left her a widow, she was again married, almost immediately,
+to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Their child Frances was the mother
+of Lady Jane Grey, who was born in 1537. There were two other little
+girls younger than Lady Jane, Katherine and Mary.
+
+All the three children were treated with very great severity, which was
+not unusual at that time. Lady Jane, perhaps because she was the eldest
+girl, was expected to be quite perfect in her manners, movements, and in
+all that she said; to use her own striking expression, to do everything
+"Even so perfectly as God made the world."
+
+Her parents enforced obedience by threatening and taunting her; and also
+by literal _pinching_ and _nipping_, besides still more severe and
+revolting bodily punishments, which worried and fretted the gentle,
+noble child, almost past endurance.
+
+However, probably partly owing to all this torture, Lady Jane derived
+her pleasures from far higher sources than her years warranted.
+
+Her tutor, Mr. Elmer, unlike her parents, was extremely gentle and kind;
+and when with him the child became perfectly free and happy, learning
+her lessons with great patience, care, and interest, and enjoying that
+true cultivation of mind, which is the result of all study that is
+rendered attractive.
+
+Mr. Elmer had abundant reward for his toil, in winning and retaining the
+affection and respect of his young pupil; and also in the rapidity with
+which she mastered, not only the usual routine of general knowledge, but
+the higher forms of classical learning. In Greek especially she was
+proficient, and Plato was to her more interesting than any story book.
+
+When her father, who was at this time made a Duke, was out with the
+Duchess and friends, hunting in the park, Lady Jane preferred remaining
+in her bedroom with her books, and, on being questioned why she did not
+join the party in their sport in the park, she replied that such
+amusements were but "shadow."
+
+The surroundings of her home life were not congenial to the natural
+gentleness and sweetness of her disposition, and this, with perhaps also
+her love of the Greek language, led the young girl to study deeply, and
+to love God's Holy Word, and very shortly before her sorrowful death,
+she sent her Greek Testament to her sister Katherine, as the most
+precious gift which she could offer. The truths of that Word fell softly
+into the heart that yearned for love, and the salvation and sympathy of
+the Saviour seems to have been accepted by Lady Jane in her earliest
+years, and evidently proved her support and consolation in the tragedy
+that closed her young life here, as well as during the six months'
+previous imprisonment in the Tower.
+
+Born, as she was, in transition times, Lady Jane quickly formed her own
+judgment, and was thoroughly Protestant in her faith. She was often with
+her cousin, Edward VI., and her decided opinions upon the Reformation,
+together with her arguments in its support, and her dislike to the
+Romish errors which they both condemned, made the boy-monarch respect
+her highly, and there was a warm attachment between the youthful
+cousins.
+
+Her childhood had scarcely faded into early girlhood, when Lady Jane
+became the bride of Lord Guildford Dudley, fourth son of the Duke of
+Northumberland. There was a treble marriage; Lady Jane and her two
+sisters were married at the same time at Durham House, Lady Jane, the
+eldest, being only fifteen years of age!
+
+The rest of her sad story is quickly told. Owing to the ambition of her
+own father, and her husband's father, after the death of King Edward,
+she was, sorely against her own will, induced to claim the English
+crown. It was long before she yielded to the persuasion of Archbishop
+Cranmer, and, when she did so, it was with many tears, and these words,
+"If this right be truly mine, O gracious God, give me strength so to
+rule as to promote Thy honour, and my country's good!" Queen Mary, the
+right heir, was duly crowned, and, after ten days, Lady Jane Grey was
+informed by her own father that she was not, in reality, Queen. She was
+subsequently sent to the Tower, and after six months' imprisonment, the
+sentence of death was carried out on February 12th, 1554.
+
+Three short days were allowed for immediate preparation, during which
+Lady Jane calmly wrote to her father, and conversed with Dr. Feckenham,
+who tried to induce her to become a Romanist. This she firmly declined,
+though she did so with the greatest sweetness.
+
+Her last words are evidence of her hope and trust; as she laid her head
+upon the block, she said, in trembling tones, "Lord Jesus! receive my
+spirit!" and the short life of earth was merged in the eternal life of
+Heaven!
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.
+
+
+Not very far from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire, there is now a
+fine Gothic building, where the old mansion of the Hastings family
+formerly, and for centuries, had stood. The situation is lovely, for
+Donnington-park, with its large forest trees and magnificent old oaks,
+forms a more than usually beautiful surrounding to the extensive and
+immediate grounds. Those, to the north, were precipitous, and the broken
+craggy ground, with hanging woods, give additional charm to the sweeping
+valleys and alternating hills.
+
+To this venerable old English home, Lady Selina Shirley came, as the
+bride of Theophilus Hastings, ninth Earl of Huntingdon, when she was
+nearly twenty-one, from her own adjacent home, Stanton Harold, which lay
+between Donnington-park and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
+
+The two homes thus near, were singularly similar. For the home of Lady
+Selina's childhood was also a fine old edifice, very massive, with noble
+and spacious apartments, standing in the midst of an extensive park,
+with soft, swelling hills, and still softer green-clad vales. The
+tasteful grounds, too, were rendered more attractive by a large
+ornamental lake, which clearly mirrored a handsome stone bridge, as it
+lay peacefully resting against the sloping lawn. The church, with its
+pretty tower, adjoined the house, and Sunday after Sunday, the child, as
+she sat or stood in the old family pew, became familiar with the long
+inscriptions that were on the monuments of her own ancestors, and which
+plainly indicated that all, whatever the rank and station, must pass
+from the present to a future state.
+
+The Shirley family was celebrated for two specialities--the purity of
+its genealogy, which could be traced up to the time of Edward the
+Confessor; and the piety of its most distinguished members, which, as it
+arose from a living faith in an eternal Saviour, must result in a
+future, which no human calculation can limit to its possessors, and in
+an infinite and everlasting life through Him alone.
+
+The grandfather of Lady Selina Shirley had twenty-seven children, her
+father being the second son. She was born at Stanton Harold, on the
+24th August, 1707. Two sisters, one older and one younger, shared the
+nursery with Lady Selina, and participated in the play, the happy
+strolls in the park, and presently in the early lessons. Elizabeth, the
+eldest, became the celebrated Lady E. Nightingale, and Mary, the "baby"
+of the family, was afterwards Viscountess Kilmorey.
+
+Lady Selina was decidedly talented, very benevolent, unusually grave and
+serious, and extremely graceful. Though not strictly beautiful, yet the
+large, bright eyes, the well-formed mouth, and the bold, intellectual
+brow, when illumined by the animation of the ardent spirit, were far
+more attractive than those perishing charms which exist only in features
+and externals.
+
+She was a sensitive child, as well as serious, and often went alone to a
+small room to pray, and in childish, earnest fervour she would pour out
+every little trouble into the ear of that Father in heaven who listens
+to each whisper of distress.
+
+When the Lady Selina was nine years old, a child just her own age died,
+and the passing funeral attracted her notice. She followed to the grave;
+listened to the beautiful and solemn service; heard those thrilling
+words, as the body was slowly lowered, "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
+dust to dust." Her eyes filled with tears, and, awe-struck and
+frightened, the young girl earnestly asked God to prepare her for her
+last hour, that she might die happily and without alarm. After this, she
+would often go to that little grave to think, to weep, to pray, and was
+much impressed with this first realization of death!
+
+On December 25th, 1717, her grandfather died, and this deepened those
+impressions, adding earnestness to her prayers, and strengthening her
+seriousness, although it was not until nearly ten years after her
+marriage that she became personally interested in the love of the
+Saviour, and sought full salvation through His work; and by the power of
+the Holy Spirit became a decided disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+Lady Selina was very highly educated, being trained with extreme care,
+for her social position, and her naturally high intellect, and evident
+talent, were developed by sound instruction in all the various branches
+of interesting study. Her retentive memory and brilliant fancy availed
+themselves of all the knowledge presented to them; and even when quite
+young, her sound understanding and clear judgment were beyond her years,
+as they appeared in the conversation and observations in which she took
+part.
+
+Probably all this was preparing her for those peculiar efforts in the
+religious world, with their lasting influences, which have made Selina,
+Countess of Huntingdon, a truly distinguished woman.
+
+But it was the grace of God alone which influenced her to utilize all
+this preparation; and that grace; having first filled her heart with a
+deep sense of sin, and of the utter insufficiency of her own ability to
+procure salvation, then led her to the most unbounded and simple trust
+in Jesus. Her love and gratitude made her anxious to work for Him; and
+her own peace rendered her desirous that others too should possess like
+peace. Thus the whole of her energy was directed to seek the honour and
+glory of her Saviour, and the safety of every sinner through Him.
+
+During her last illness the Countess often repeated, "I long to be at
+home! My work is done! I have nothing to do but to go to my heavenly
+Father;" and almost her last words were, "I shall go to my Father
+to-night."
+
+She entered that Father's heavenly presence on June 17th, 1791, in the
+eighty-fourth year of her age.
+
+[Illustration: GREENWICH HOSPITAL.]
+
+
+
+
+V.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+
+
+Queen Elizabeth, who was the second daughter of King Henry VIII., was
+born at Greenwich on the 7th of September, 1533, in a tapestry-covered
+chamber in the palace. This tapestry represented the parable of the Ten
+Virgins, and the half-unconscious eyes of the royal infant often rested
+upon the hazy blue dresses of the quaint maidens with their odd little
+lamps, as the days of early babyhood went softly by.
+
+The King had his young daughter very magnificently christened by
+Archbishop Cranmer. It was Archbishop Cranmer who drew up the Church
+Catechism, and who was some years afterwards a Christian martyr, in the
+reign of Queen Mary, Elizabeth's eldest sister.
+
+Besides the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth, Henry VIII. had one son,
+Edward, who succeeded his father as King of England.
+
+When Elizabeth was between two and three years old, her mother, whose
+maiden name was Anne Boleyn, the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and
+niece of the Duke of Norfolk, was put to death by the King's wish, in a
+most unjust and wicked way. The poor little child probably knew nothing
+of this, for she was sent to reside, under the care of Lady Margaret
+Bryan, in the manor of Hunsdon. She appears to have been greatly
+neglected, as presently a petition went from Lady Margaret to Court
+requesting that suitable dresses and apparel for Elizabeth might be sent
+at once; for, wrote Lady Margaret, "She had neither gown nor kirtle, nor
+no manner of linen, nor foresmocks, nor kerchiefs, nor sleeves, nor
+veils, nor mufflers, nor biggins;" a funny list of juvenile attire for a
+young Princess! However, the little girl was well cared for by Lady
+Margaret, and soon learned to read, to write, and to sew beautifully,
+and could play "indifferent well" upon some musical instruments.
+
+In 1537, Elizabeth's brother Edward was born, King Henry having married
+again, and at the christening of this Prince, Elizabeth seems to have
+appeared at Court for the first time. The tiny Princess was allowed to
+hold the chrism on the occasion, and afterwards presented her baby
+brother with a "shirt of cambric," which her own small fingers had
+industriously embroidered.
+
+In the course of a few years, Elizabeth had acquired a fair knowledge of
+astronomy and geography, besides mathematics and architecture; and could
+speak five languages fluently, as well as her own native English.
+
+For some time the Princess Mary also resided at Hunsdon, and was
+evidently kind to her younger sister. The two girls, whose lives were to
+be so distinguished, but so different, probably spent together the
+happiest portion of those lives in the comparative seclusion of Lady
+Margaret's home, busy, and occupied also with domestic employments, as
+they stored their minds with the literature of the period.
+
+At that time, Elizabeth's vanity, which was a sad trait in her latter
+years, was not perceptible, for in a sketch of her when about twelve,
+she is spoken of as dressing with peculiarly "simple elegance," and
+almost despising personal adornment.
+
+Being tall, she was commanding in person, and she was impetuous in her
+bearing. Her complexion was pale, her hair rather light, her face long
+and narrow, with an aquiline nose; and though her temper was hasty, she
+was usually so bright and cheerful that her companions scarcely heeded
+her fits of passion. She was also sensible and shrewd, and when very
+young, showed a disposition to rule and govern.
+
+The grave faults of her latter days, her vanity, her strong epithets of
+abuse, her caprice, and her increasing warmth of temper, were probably
+the results of the personal disappointments of her strange life. And
+perhaps her dread of death, points us to the real source of these
+faults, for it seems to indicate that Queen Elizabeth had not been so
+earnest in seeking God's grace, and the influence of His Holy Spirit, as
+she ought to have been, to preserve her from evil in this life, as well
+as to prepare her for the future life where there will be no evil, in
+the kingdom of the "King of kings and Lord of lords," the happy realm of
+Jesus.
+
+Elizabeth was fourteen when her father died, and then she wrote a
+celebrated letter in choice Latin to her young half-brother Edward, with
+whom she was always on excellent terms.
+
+The two children were Protestants, Mary alone remaining attached to the
+Papal power, which Henry VIII. had so unflinchingly put down during the
+latter part of his reign. Elizabeth's cherished and noble Protestantism
+remained firm through all the changes of her eventful life; and when,
+after the reigns of her brother Edward VI., and her elder sister Mary,
+she herself was placed upon the throne of England, she finally
+established the Protestant religion in the country; and to her, under
+God, we owe a deep debt of gratitude, for the long and happy years which
+have intervened until the present time, and during which God's most Holy
+Word has been left to us, a free and open book, in which we may each
+read and learn for ourselves His will, and about that spiritual service
+which He requires, and which alone can fit us for His presence, when He
+calls us from His world below to His world above.
+
+Queen Elizabeth died on March 24th, 1603, before the morning dawned,
+after a reign of nearly forty-five years, at the age of sixty-nine.
+
+
+
+
+VI.
+
+MRS. HEMANS.
+
+
+Let us sketch a scene in the west of our island home. Long, rolling,
+soft, beautiful blue waves are dashing lightly upon a clear beach of
+wide sparkling sand, leaving behind, as the tide gradually ebbs, a
+ribbed and rippled surface. A rather narrow coast-line presents a
+somewhat scanty amount of cultivation; cottage and mansion lying here
+and there, as convenience or fancy may have suggested to the possessor.
+Now and then a tiny clean Welsh village, or small town, claims a space
+of country which may be rather broader than usual. This coast-line is
+immediately hemmed in by high, wild, stern mountains sloping quickly
+upwards towards the sky, with soft grey clouds sometimes poised midway
+up the steep sides, or resting in filmy folds upon the top. Snowdon,
+rather to the south of the locality that we are sketching, and a little
+inland, often raising its high summit above the rest like a
+silver-haired veteran surrounded by companions, who vie with each other
+in emulation of their leader.
+
+A large house, Grwych (pronounced Griech), stood some years ago where
+this coast is rather narrow, the mountains towering up in front, and the
+sea softly laving the sandy shore behind. A set of six young children
+with their parents occupied this house. They had happy playhours in the
+old garden, or on the smooth sand; and Felicia, the fourth child, not
+always disposed for the gay romp of the cheerful group, took constant
+possession of a large apple tree, into which she could climb; its leafy
+boughs well hid the little girl and her book, which she then enjoyed in
+unmolested quiet. Until she was five years old Felicia Dorothea Browne
+had lived in Liverpool. She was born there in Duke-street, on the 25th
+September, 1794. Her father's ancestry was Irish, that of her mother was
+Venetian, and probably the Italian origin of the gentle poetess gave
+rise to the beauty and extent of her imagination, as perhaps also from
+her father she might derive the quick bright flow of language from which
+her pen sped on in an easy graceful stream.
+
+She was an extremely beautiful child, with long curling golden hair,
+which became dark brown as she grew older; her complexion was clear and
+bright, the colour coming and going with every varying impulse and
+impression. Her mother, herself talented and clever, cultivated her
+young daughter's tastes, and at the early age of seven years the little
+Felicia produced some attempts at composition. She had an extremely
+retentive memory, read well, and evinced great love of reading.
+Shakespeare was one of her favourite books at this time, and she took
+delight in juvenile attempts at personifying the characters. Happily,
+this was but a temporary freak.
+
+Her studies do not appear to have been at all conducted with regularity.
+French, the English Grammar, and the rudiments of Latin comprised the
+only systematic training which she received. Highly imaginative as she
+was, and surrounded by the wild beauty of the Welsh hills, the varying
+sights and sounds of the wide deep sea, with her love of books and
+capacity to retain, as well as enjoy, her cultivation progressed, and
+knowledge increased rapidly without effort on her part, or on the part
+of others.
+
+There is a story told of a constant childish raid. When the mother
+thought the little one safe for the night, she would slip quickly and
+quietly down to the bright laving sea, and bathe alone in the clear
+water, softly creeping back to bed undiscovered; and perhaps throughout
+her life the same wrong tendency towards insincerity and love of hidden
+mischief is discernible.
+
+A visionary belief in spirits and apparitions also appears to have
+influenced her at times, when mystery, rather than truth, assumed
+possession of her mind. Even little children in the present day need
+scarcely be told that there are no ghosts; but, being highly sensitive
+and nervous, she was peculiarly open to every passing fancy.
+
+Early in life, Felicia visited London, but cared little for its gaiety;
+and with true childlike impatience longed to be at home again in the
+dear old house by the sea, though she enjoyed the works of art to which
+this visit afforded access.
+
+Felicia Browne's first book of poems was published in 1808, when she was
+only fourteen, and this, together with another volume published in 1812,
+met with severe criticism. The poor child felt this so acutely that she
+became ill, and had to keep her bed for several days.
+
+These books were the only two which she wrote before her married life
+commenced, so that her fame as a poetess was acquired as Mrs. Hemans,
+and not as Felicia Browne.
+
+There is no evidence to prove that in youth she gave her heart to the
+Saviour of sinners; but some of her poems in after life are deeply and
+touchingly full of yearnings for "The Better Land," or they sketch in
+soft melodious metre the swift decay of earthly beauty and joy, which is
+indeed always "Passing Away." As years and sorrows gathered, she also
+studied God's Word with earnestness and zeal, and the sixteenth of St.
+John was her favourite chapter; it was also the last which she read
+before her death. We may certainly hope that "The Comforter," who is
+promised in that chapter, guided her safely into "all truth," and led
+her simply to trust in Jesus, that in Him alone she "might have peace."
+For only Jesus can prepare any child of man, through the influences of
+His Spirit, for the purity, beauty, and happiness of His Heavenly Home,
+in that "better country," of which Mrs. Hemans once wrote--
+
+    "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy;
+    Ear hath not heard its sweet sounds of joy;
+    Dreams cannot picture a world so fair,
+    Sorrow and death may not enter there;
+    Time may not breathe on its faultless bloom,
+    For beyond the grave, and beyond the tomb,
+            It is there, it is there, my child."
+
+Mrs. Hemans passed away in the evening twilight, on the 16th of May,
+1835, at the age of forty-one.
+
+[Illustration: INCHMAHOME,
+
+The Child-Queen's child garden, with her little walk and its boxwood,
+left to itself for three hundred years. Yes, without doubt, 'Here is the
+first garden of her simpleness.']
+
+
+
+
+VII.
+
+MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.
+
+
+James V., of Scotland, was dangerously ill owing to severe
+disappointments and defeats experienced in his border war with Henry
+VIII., of England, and dying at Falkland, when, on the 8th of December,
+1542, a message came to him from Linlithgow Palace, stating that his
+Queen, Mary of Guise, had a baby daughter. The king, rendered sorrowful
+by his trials and his sickness, replied, in his own expressive language,
+"Ay, it cam' (meaning the kingdom of Scotland) wi' a lass, and it will
+gang wi' a lass," and this prediction seem fulfilled in Mary's fate.
+
+The king, her father, only lingered five more days, and on his death the
+tiny infant became Queen of Scotland and the Isles.
+
+When about nine months old, Mary was solemnly crowned, on the 9th of
+September, 1543, at Stirling Castle, having been carefully taken there
+from Linlithgow for the coronation by Cardinal Beaton, who performed the
+ceremony. Her mother was presently appointed regent.
+
+After a few months, Mary went to reside on a small island in the Lake of
+Monteith, called Inchmahome.
+
+Four other noble children were her companions, and all these four
+children bore also the name of Mary; Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming, Mary
+Seaton, and Mary Livingstone, and all were of the same age.
+
+Mary remained on this island until she was nearly six years old. The
+five young girls, so isolated and lonely as regards the rest of the
+world, must have amused themselves with the usual routine of baby
+pastimes, but a great change now took place. The Queen of Scots was
+removed to France, and the four companions of her baby days also
+accompanied her to the gay scenes of the French Court.
+
+Henry II., King of France, received Mary with great enthusiasm and
+respect, and a triumphal procession was arranged to convey her to the
+palace of St. Germain-en-Laye.
+
+Her extreme beauty drew much attention. She had bright auburn hair,
+dark hazel eyes, a fair complexion, and a "dimpled chin."
+
+When the king saw her, his surprise at her loveliness made him enquire,
+with truly characteristic French politeness and love of compliment, "Are
+you not an angel?"
+
+Mary was shortly afterwards placed in a French convent to receive a
+royal education, and appears to have been much attached to those who
+instructed and tended her. She said adieu to them all very reluctantly,
+when she returned to the gay Court life at a still early age.
+
+The description of her at this time is that she was very accomplished,
+having acquired some skill in music, singing, dancing, and even in
+poetic effusions. She also had pursued more serious studies, both
+historical and classical, and was altogether so bright and intelligent
+that Brantôine remarked, "Ah! kingdom of Scotland! I cannot but think
+your days must be shorter, your nights longer, now you have lost the
+Princess by whom you were illumined!"
+
+Her dress appears to have been a subject of much whim and caprice:
+sometimes she would wear a Highland costume, then again the fashionable
+French or Italian mode of those days, and her time was spent completely
+in gaiety and amusements.
+
+Mary, Queen of Scots, was born and educated in the Romish religion, and
+was, in after life, a rigid Papist. Lord Shrewsbury, who had charge of
+her by Queen Elizabeth's orders, intimates in his letters, which are
+still extant, that he thought of her rather "as a mischievous, cunning
+Papist, than as an injured Queen."
+
+Owing to various conspiracies and plots, Mary was sentenced to die,
+eventually, by Queen Elizabeth, and her execution took place on February
+7th, 1587.
+
+There is a touching little story about her favourite dog. The tiny
+animal hid itself in her dress when she was taken to the scaffold, and,
+after her death, he refused to leave her body, and had to be forcibly
+taken away.
+
+Mary, Queen of Scots, led a gay, dissipated life, and her death was sad
+and solemn. Having been trained a Romanist, the Holy Word of God was not
+placed in her hands and made the guide of her life, and her sins brought
+much sorrow and difficulty which seemed to draw her on from sin to sin,
+instead of leading her to humble repentance and simple faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ.
+
+The Bible alone is the guide which God has given both for this present
+life, and for the future life; and God has given this book to each and
+all, to read and to study with earnest prayer for His Holy Spirit's
+teaching, that each and all may understand it, and may act upon its
+_teaching_.
+
+Perhaps if Mary had read God's Word herself, and seen the beauty and
+purity of its commands, and learned from it all the great love of God,
+and His way of salvation for sinners through the "One Mediator between
+God and men, the Man Christ Jesus," she would have escaped the
+temptations of her own great beauty and of her royal position, and not
+have perished as she did. We ought, indeed, to value our Bibles, and to
+seek grace to study them, so that, although there are snares and
+temptations around us, we may always know what God's will is, and also
+know how to resist those temptations through His mighty help. And we
+should also thank God that He has given us His Holy Word to lead us
+safely through all earth's changes to the unchanging Heaven, and that He
+has promised to give those who trust in Jesus and love Him now, far more
+than an uncertain crown of gold, even a "Crown of glory that fadeth not
+away."
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+POCAHONTAS, THE ROSEBUD.
+
+
+Long ago, and far away, this Indian Princess was born, in 1594.
+
+Pocahontas was a distinguished woman for two reasons, which render her
+short life one of singular interest.
+
+One of these reasons was the effectual aid she rendered when quite a
+young girl to the early English settlers in the United States.
+
+The other reason, and a far higher one, was that Pocahontas was the
+first heathen amongst the Red Indians who was converted to Christianity
+in Virginia. The readers of "The Rosebud" will be interested to know
+that a young girl bearing the name of Pocahontas, which means "The
+Rosebud," was thus the earliest native of those dark lands who was led
+from the sad shadows of heathen superstition, ignorance, and idolatry,
+to that Jesus who is truly "the Light of the world."
+
+The father of Pocahontas was a Red Indian chief in the state of
+Virginia, and the dark little baby grew and played under the shade of
+the sugar-maple, or the long-leaved India-rubber tree, probably
+gathering with her tiny fingers the large blossoms from the trailing
+passion-flower, or the snowy white magnolia, and grouping them with the
+crimson rhododendron, or gorgeous drooping fuschias, which grew wild in
+the tangled forests near to her father's wigwam.
+
+When very young, she boldly induced her father, who was the great chief
+Powhattan, to spare the life of an English captain, one of the first
+settlers in North America, who had been taken prisoner by a native
+tribe. This captain, James Smith, had been sentenced to a very cruel
+death, and Pocahontas, then only thirteen years old, interceded so
+bravely and eloquently that Captain Smith was spared. He was allowed to
+live in Powhattan's wigwam, and, after a short time, was set completely
+free.
+
+Rather more than two years after this, the Indian tribes became alarmed
+as to the movements of the English residents, and again endeavoured to
+take the Captain prisoner. Pocahontas, with the brave resolute strength
+of both mind and body which characterised many of those swarthy natives,
+started on a lonely journey of nine miles, through the wild, overgrown
+forests, threading her way amongst uncultivated cotton trees, or
+trampling down the smaller tobacco plants; alike heedless of the lovely
+beauty of the gay flowers along her path, and fearless of the grisly
+bear, the treacherous boa constrictor, or the powerful vulture called
+the condor, as she pursued her mission of mercy. Having found Captain
+Smith, and apprised him of his peril, Pocahontas sped home again, lest
+her father should miss her and enquire about her absence.
+
+The persevering Princess continued pleading well and earnestly for some
+time in behalf of the English settlers, but at last her father, perhaps
+weary of her entreaties, sent her away to the chief of another tribe.
+Instead of protecting the girl thus placed under his care, the
+treacherous chief sold her to an English Captain, named Argill, who
+intended to make good use of his bargain in transactions with her
+father, Powhattan. These transactions failed, and poor Pocahontas, the
+Rosebud, remained a captive. The English treated her with extreme
+courtesy and kindness; and amongst the number of officers was a Mr.
+Thomas Rolfe, who offered to teach the native girl the English
+language.
+
+She proved a very gentle, amiable scholar; and Mr. Rolfe, being himself
+an earnest Christian man, also taught that dark mind the bright and
+lustrous truths of God's most Holy Word. The Spirit of God blessed that
+teaching, and the light thus introduced by His influence, alone became
+the means of revealing to the warm heart of Pocahontas, the love of that
+living Saviour of sinners, who died for all, that all may live for Him.
+His blood can purify the Red Indian girl just as effectually as the fair
+English maiden, and both equally require that blood to take away the sad
+stains of sin in heart and life, which are as dark, as deep, and as
+deadly in the one as in the other.
+
+Powhattan seems to have been permitted some intercourse with his
+daughter, for with his consent she eventually married Mr. Rolfe, and
+subsequently Pocahontas came over to England, and was presented at Court
+in 1616. Queen Anne appears to have been very friendly with the Indian
+Princess. Her intelligence was great, and her modesty and unaffected
+manners interested all who knew her.
+
+She did not live to carry out her intention of returning to her own
+native land, Virginia, but died at Gravesend in 1617. Her little son
+remained in England for some years, and was educated as an English boy.
+He then sought his mother's country, and from him many of the well-known
+families of the State of Virginia claim descent.
+
+Pocahontas, or the Rosebud, has been the heroine of many stories and
+songs, but the most beautiful thought connected with her memory is that
+those to whom her generous help and interest opened a fair land on
+earth, should be the means, through the power of the Holy Spirit of God,
+of opening to her that "land of pure delight, where saints immortal
+reign;" and that from our own dear native country she should have passed
+away, to enjoy for ever that "infinite day" which "excludes the night,"
+through Him who is "The Way," for the dark daughter of another soil, as
+well as for the favoured children of our own.
+
+[Illustration: NORWICH CATHEDRAL.
+
+(_Copied from a Photograph, by permission_)]
+
+
+
+
+IX.
+
+MRS. OPIE.
+
+
+Norwich has been called "The City of Gardens;" for behind the large
+houses belonging to professional men, and business men, which front the
+narrow irregular streets, there are sweet lawns and well-cared-for
+flower borders, with trees and shrubs planted so thickly round the
+walls, or the walls themselves so covered with the trailing tendrils of
+fresh creepers, that imagination might fancy the scene one of pure
+country loveliness.
+
+The beautiful taper spire of the rather small, but very elegant
+Cathedral, appears above the verdure-covered walls, its stone notches
+resting softly in attractive clearness upon the cloudless blue sky; or,
+perhaps the battlements of the square, massive block of the Castle, rise
+quietly above the grave old buildings of the city, the slopes of the
+castle moat, gaily draped with innumerable lilacs in the spring, resting
+in drowsy dignity below.
+
+Another feature of the fine old city of Norwich is the quaint
+churchyard, with blackish stone walls around and sometimes intersected
+diagonally with a narrow paved walk, or perhaps surrounded by a
+roughly-paved street, with posts to guard each entrance, and with the
+dignified name of "Church Alley."
+
+In a house which stood in one of these churchyards--St. Clement's--a
+physician, named Dr. Alderson, lived rather more than a hundred years
+ago. He had only one child, who was born on the 12th of November, 1769.
+This little girl was christened Amelia, after her mother, who taught and
+trained her both wisely and well.
+
+To this, probably, the success of Amelia Alderson, afterwards Mrs. Opie,
+as a writer, was mainly due, although the great care of the parent did
+not altogether enable the daughter to conquer all faults, for Sydney
+Smith once plainly told her that "Tenderness is your _forte_, and
+carelessness your _fault_."
+
+Amelia was a bright, cheerful, golden-haired girl, with lively fancy and
+strong imaginative powers, decidedly talented and capable of high
+cultivation.
+
+When a very tiny thing, she would lie quietly in bed to listen to the
+church bells which had awakened her, and, looking up to the sapphire sky
+at early dawn, she gazed and listened, as her mistaken ideas suggested
+that the chaste chime was the music of the angels hidden in the depths
+of the blue!
+
+But her thoughts were not always thus happy, for the child invested
+other objects with attributes of terror, and black beetles were a source
+of inconceivable dread and horror.
+
+She was also extremely timid about deranged people, perhaps the more so
+because the large "Bethel" in Norwich is a conspicuous building, and
+forms a home for poor lunatics, and possibly her father was interested
+in the restless patients who were located there.
+
+Negroes also appear to have produced the same amount of fear in the
+little girl as the black beetles.
+
+Mrs. Alderson was too wise and sensible to allow these nervous fancies
+uncontrolled play, and most earnestly applied herself to teaching and
+helping Amelia to overcome them.
+
+Both teacher and taught were indeed successful; for before long the
+child would shake hands with an imbecile whom she sometimes met, speak
+kindly to her, and at last even begged to be taken over the "Bethel"
+itself, where the sorrowful sights and sounds moved the warm heart to a
+deep and sincere pity for trials which no human love can mitigate.
+
+This judicious mother died when Amelia Alderson was about fifteen years
+old, and from that time until she was eight-and-twenty, household cares
+and superintendence occupied her largely, for she entirely managed her
+father's home and presided at his table.
+
+The literary and poetical career of this reputedly pleasant woman
+commenced after her marriage with Mr. Opie, the celebrated portrait
+painter, which marriage took place at Marylebone Church in London, on
+the 8th of May, 1798.
+
+Much later still in life, and after even the earlier years of widowhood
+had passed, her far higher career as a Christian character was ushered
+in by Mrs. Opie becoming a member of the Society of Friends, and for
+more than twenty-five years, consistency, peace, and quiet, marked her
+calm course. Ere joining the "Friends," she had been induced to give up,
+not only writing fiction, but reading it also.
+
+Mrs. Opie died on the 2nd of December, 1853. Just as the day passed
+away, the dawning of her eternal day began--a day that we cannot measure
+with our present ideas, it is so long, so bright, so cloudless. The day
+of grace closed, and the day of glory opened, for Mrs. Opie loved and
+served Jesus on earth, so that she was taken to serve Him in Heaven.
+
+The early teaching of the mother appears to have been blessed to the
+child in later life, even as its influence also preserved her amidst
+some difficulties during younger days, for Mrs. Opie writes very sweetly
+of her mother's care thus:--
+
+    "Oh! how I mourn'd my heedless youth,
+    Thy watchful care, repaid so ill:
+    Yet joy'd to think some words of truth
+    Sunk in my soul, and teach me still.
+    Like lamps along life's fearful way,
+    To me, at times, those truths have shone,
+    And oft when snares around me lay,
+    That light has made the danger known."
+
+The truths of God's most Holy Word will always brighten each day of this
+life, not only cheering, but sufficiently lighting it for the safety of
+those who seek also the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The long,
+long day with Jesus, by-and-bye will have no snares, no dangers, no
+regrets to cast their sorrowful shadows across its pure, sweet sky, for
+His presence will be everlasting light, and He has taken away all the
+sins of His people who believe in Him, and as there is no sin in Heaven,
+there is no suffering, and no shade of pain.
+
+
+
+
+X.
+
+GRACE DARLING.
+
+
+One of the most dangerous and rugged coasts of England is that of
+Northumberland. This is partly owing to the proximity of the group of
+tiny islands called the Farne Islands; which number about twenty. When
+the sea is at all rough, and the wind high in this vicinity, the wild
+waves rush with violence between the somewhat narrow island channels,
+and lash themselves into fretted fury, as they curl over in frothy foam.
+Many years ago, on one of the Farne Islands named the Longstone, a
+lighthouse was built, that vessels might be duly warned of the danger
+and difficulty of the rocks and shore.
+
+In 1815, a tiny, gentle baby girl was born in the little lighthouse
+home, who presently received the name of Grace Horsley.
+
+Her father was William Darling; a most suitable man for his post as
+keeper of the lighthouse, being vigilant, steady, attentive, and
+careful, not only in the special duties to which he was appointed, but
+also in training a numerous family with diligence and discretion.
+
+So little Grace was not a lonely child in a quiet home; but one of a
+merry, active, happy troupe of northern children; sometimes playing in
+the clean, white-washed rooms and staircases of the lighthouse, or at
+other times clambering about the rough rocks, and watching the eddying
+waters all around.
+
+Still the life of the young girl was not all play, with the dear
+brothers and sisters whom she loved.
+
+Lessons had to be learned, and they were well learned too; copies had to
+be written, and in these little Grace soon excelled, for she "wrote a
+beautiful hand."
+
+The kind, homely parents, too, taught her to think, and as she read
+nicely, and was bright and quick in acquiring the information within her
+rather limited grasp, she became very intelligent.
+
+A fair share of household duties also fell to her lot, and these were
+discharged in a quiet, orderly, and unobtrusive way.
+
+Though very neat in her dress, she was never smart; the only trace of
+feminine vanity was this:--After her brave conduct in the shipwreck of
+the "Forfarshire," the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland sent for Grace
+Darling to Alnwick Castle, and presented her with a gold watch, which
+she always wore when visitors came to the lighthouse; taking care that
+the watch-seal should be slightly conspicuous on the plain, simple
+striped cotton gown!
+
+Thus the childhood and girlhood passed gently on in almost unvarying
+home love, duty, and quiet happiness, until the 5th of September, 1838,
+Grace being then in her twenty-third year.
+
+On that night an awful storm rose in tempestuous fury and swept up to
+the Farne Islands, raging and swelling around, and tossing the black
+billows into surging foam amongst the cliffy little isles that chafed it
+into such majestic madness. A steamer had left Hull a day or two before,
+and as her boilers were not in good repair, she was soon rendered
+helpless in the wide ocean, and presently drifted on towards the
+perilous Longstone Lighthouse. She struck on one of the dreaded islands,
+and the cries of the few survivors who could cling to that portion of
+the wreck which was forcibly driven between the rocks, reached the ears
+of Grace Darling, who immediately awakened her father. Utter darkness
+prevented them from seeing where the wreck lay, and both father and
+daughter watched till the dawn. An attempt to rescue the moving forms
+which they could faintly discern in the misty daylight was almost
+hopeless, but for all that it was made, and the two stepped without
+hesitation into the frail, small boat, which they then rowed towards the
+wreck. Here the difficulty increased, as the tempestuous sea threatened
+to dash the boat and its occupants on the rocks where the "Forfarshire"
+was stranded. But the father succeeded in landing, Grace pushing off
+with the boat to avoid its being engulphed, and with her oars balancing
+it amongst the rolling billows until the nine survivors and her father
+were safely with her in the tiny craft. Then both rowing back to the
+lighthouse, they carefully nursed, cheered, and tended those rescued
+men, Grace especially devoting herself to them with unremitting care.
+
+This event gave Grace Darling the notoriety which her noble conduct so
+well merited.
+
+It was on the 20th of October, 1842, when the wild equinoctial gales had
+not long swept over the surrounding seas, that she died gently in the
+midst of her own loving family circle, at the early age of twenty-seven.
+
+It is easy to imagine the gratitude and joy of the nine perishing men
+who were rescued from an awful death!
+
+May you, dear young readers, value far more highly that eternal
+salvation from darker death than the one which threatened them, that
+salvation of those who trust themselves fully to the loving Saviour's
+power and willingness to save! To save _from_ both the guilt of past
+sin, and the power of present sin of heart and life, through the
+influence of the Holy Spirit of God, and to save _for_ the calm,
+unshaken rest of a bright Home of Light, when the last wave of this
+stormy sea of life is left outside, and exchanged for the unbroken
+beauty of heaven's crystal "sea of glass!"
+
+[Illustration: ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, NORWICH.]
+
+
+
+
+XI.
+
+MRS. FRY.
+
+
+Elizabeth Fry, subsequently so well known as the kind visitor and
+instructress of the females in Newgate, was born on the 21st of May,
+1780, in St. Clement's parish in the old city of Norwich.
+
+Her father's name was John Gurney; her mother, whose maiden name was
+Bell, was a lineal descendant of Robert Barclay, the Apologist of the
+Quakers.
+
+The Gurneys of Norwich trace their family back to the days of William
+Rufus, if not to the times of William the Conqueror.
+
+Elizabeth was one of twelve children, and the third daughter in this
+large family of Quakers.
+
+When she was four years old, her parents removed from the city to the
+beautiful estate of Earlham, where her childhood passed away in much
+worldliness and gaiety, for the Quakers of this period were extremely
+lax in carrying out their peculiarities.
+
+Earlham Hall is scarcely two miles from Norwich, and is a stately
+mansion surrounded by a lovely park, the river Wensum adding its charms
+to the scenery by its graceful windings in the vicinity. It was here,
+surrounded by luxury, beauty, and profusion, that the child played; and
+the old Hall was her bright, glad home.
+
+Her mother seems to have been very fond of Elizabeth, and in writing
+about her, remarks:--"My dear little Betsey never offends, and is, in
+every sense of the word, truly engaging."
+
+This may have been maternal partiality, for whilst a mere child, she was
+somewhat obstinate in disposition, and averse to study. It is even
+stated that she was thought a very dull child as to lessons, but this
+was probably because she had a great dislike to routine; and preferred a
+ride on horseback, a merry dance--for she was particularly fond of
+dancing--or a song with her sister Rachel, with whom she sang duets
+well.
+
+However, Elizabeth evidently made progress in accomplishments, and was
+taught drawing, as well as music and dancing.
+
+The young girl was naturally extremely nervous and sensitive; when only
+seven years old, she would quietly watch her mother when asleep, with a
+terrible dread that that beloved mother should not wake again. Or at
+times the wish would come into her heart, that the walls might close
+upon herself, and her dear parents, brothers, and sisters, and bury them
+in one grave together, rather than that she should ever have to suffer
+separation from them.
+
+When her mother died, Elizabeth was a fair-haired, sweet-looking child
+of twelve, with soft blue eyes, and a silvery attractive voice, which in
+later life told the beautiful story of the love and life of Jesus, with
+wonderful influence, to the poor degraded outcasts in prison. One poor
+woman, on hearing her read, said, "Hush! the angels have lent her their
+voices!"
+
+After the mother's death, the father and friends remained as gay as
+before, and an almost sceptical tendency crept over the family. With
+Elizabeth's nervous disposition, a dread of death was inevitable; she
+frequently alluded to it, calling it "This wonderful death," and in her
+diary she complains of dark restlessness of mind, and some disbelief in
+the truths of the Bible.
+
+Happily this was arrested, for before Elizabeth was eighteen, an
+American "Friend" came to Norwich and his addresses given in the chapel
+roused the attention, and led the unsatisfied spirit to deep sorrow and
+mental anxiety. Elizabeth, who appeared as one of the listeners, in such
+gay clothing that her boots--purple laced with scarlet--were the
+especial envy of a younger sister, left the "Meeting" humble and
+weeping; and at night she remarked that she had for the first time
+_felt_ that there was a God, and added, "May that belief never leave me,
+or, if it does, may I at least always remember that I _have_ felt there
+is a God and immortality."
+
+She had a long struggle with herself, being fond of notice and flattery,
+and possessed of considerable pride.
+
+When "His Royal Highness of Gloucester" was in Norwich, she wished him
+to visit Earlham, but confessed, after she had seen the Prince, that her
+wish was the result of pride.
+
+Soon after this she went to London, and was introduced to London life,
+but immediately after her return to her home, she gave up the gaiety
+which she had proved to be utterly unsatisfactory, and commenced a life
+of devotion to God, that resulted in loving obedience to His will.
+
+Elizabeth's first efforts to teach to others the way of life, which the
+Holy Spirit had revealed to her through Christ, was attention to a
+dying servant. This was followed by instruction to an increasing class
+of boys whom she had in the laundry at Earlham Hall, and on her marriage
+with Joseph Fry, these lads numbered eighty-seven. Shortly after this
+marriage, which had removed her to London, she began her work of love in
+Newgate, where for many years she taught the poor women of the sympathy
+and care of Jesus. She passed away at the age of sixty-seven, with a
+beautiful, lingering smile, and the simple words of trust and faith, "It
+is a strife, but I am safe."
+
+
+
+
+XII.
+
+AGNES STRICKLAND.
+
+
+Let us turn to an old Westmoreland family, residing between three and
+four hundred years ago, in the style of the period, at Sizergh Castle.
+Sir Thomas Strickland, the head of that family, manifested loyal
+attachment to the house of Stuart, and some of the lands and hereditary
+possessions, both in Westmoreland and Lancashire, were eventually lost
+through the steady adherence of Sir Thomas and his relatives to this
+cause.
+
+We read of one daughter of the house in the time of Henry VIII., whose
+name, like that of the character we are sketching, was Agnes Strickland,
+marrying Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington Castle. And their son received
+Mary Queen of Scots, when she landed upon his estate. Camden, the
+historian, is also descended from the same branch of the family of
+Strickland.
+
+A second Agnes Strickland married the eldest son of the Archbishop of
+York, Francis Sandys, and the family of the Stricklands appear to owe
+their conversion from Romanism to the Protestant faith to the influence
+of another son of the Archbishop, named George, who was a poet about two
+hundred years ago. They then became as staunch in the principles of the
+Reformation as they had previously been firm in papal policy.
+
+One branch of the Strickland family settled at Raydon Hall, in Suffolk,
+and here the third Agnes Strickland was born, who has been so justly
+celebrated as the Historian of "The Queens of England from the Norman
+Conquest." Raydon Hall is a very lonely place on the sea coast, quite a
+mile from the nearest village, and there is no dwelling at all near to
+it, except one farm-house upon the estate.
+
+The seclusion being thus extremely great during the long, bleak winter
+on the eastern coast, the family residing there would have passed many
+dreary months but for the intellectual tastes of its talented members.
+
+There were eight children. Agnes was the third daughter, and the girls
+were very amicable and sociable in their simple life, varying the
+sterner work of severe study with delightful games, or in the care of
+pet animals, or by strolls in the gardens and grounds around the Hall. A
+governess had the partial training of Agnes and her sisters, but their
+father, himself a literary man, and intensely fond of history,
+topography and genealogy, principally conducted their education;
+compelling the girls to master subjects far beyond the usual attainments
+of young ladies, and requiring some knowledge of algebra and mathematics
+from the not always compliant and obedient daughters.
+
+Mr. Strickland suffered from gout, and was frequently confined to his
+chair or bed.
+
+He then supplied abundant work for Elizabeth, Agnes, and the other
+sisters in reading to him. This they were delighted to do, and took
+almost as much interest in history as the father. But Mr. Strickland
+also endeavoured to carry out his wish that the girls should be
+proficient in mathematical studies, and in this Elizabeth alone seemed
+to be docile, for she would patiently pore over the figures on her
+slate, whilst Agnes and the others bestowed very sisterly pity upon her.
+
+Agnes had a more classical turn, preferring the history, and also
+poetry, making sundry attempts at versification herself; but this taste
+Mr. Strickland rigorously checked, considering the effort as a waste of
+time. At last the child obtained her father's consent to let Latin take
+the place of problems, and she then set to work upon an old book in that
+language, learning to repeat a number of dialogues:--a mode of studying
+language extremely irregular, and by no means commended by the anxious
+parent.
+
+Still Agnes also managed to write verses which presently came under Mr.
+Strickland's notice, and when twelve years old she composed a poem
+called "The Red Rose." This was intended as a sketch of the fortunes of
+the House of Lancaster, but was so severely criticised by her father,
+that she tore up the manuscript by his advice, and promised not to try
+poetry again. But three years afterwards she made another venture in
+that line under the title of "Worcester Field," which was published,
+although, however, it is not well known.
+
+Her fame arose gradually soon after this period, when, through the death
+of the father, reverses of fortune induced Agnes and her sisters to make
+literature a profession. She then assumed her true taste, and evinced
+marvellous talent as a writer of history, making the lives of England's
+Queens no longer dull, dry, and uninteresting, but beautiful sketches of
+true character, and of real, though bygone times; painting, too, in
+vivid colours, the social positions of our royal matrons with wonderful
+skill and ability.
+
+Agnes Strickland died on the 13th of July, 1874, leaving us a powerful
+proof of the importance of early and attentive education.
+
+The young girl, living in such seclusion on the Suffolk coast, little
+imagined in her childhood that her future fame was depending upon the
+interesting and valuable information which she was beginning to
+accumulate, and which she was learning to love as she read in dutiful
+diligence the books indicated by her careful father.
+
+And yet that quiet commencement led to high honour, and England has well
+acknowledged her debt of gratitude to Agnes Strickland for her splendid
+additions to historic lore. Large labour, constant care, and stern study
+enabled her to use the talents which God had given, talents, of which
+she was unconscious as a child.
+
+May not this thought induce a spirit of earnest effort in each young
+heart now? God has given talent in some degree, and of some description,
+to all, and He requires the improvement of that talent, whatever it may
+be.
+
+In conclusion, Agnes Strickland wrote with womanly and wonderful beauty
+the history of England's Queens. There was once a history written, of
+far greater beauty, and by far higher power, of Him who is the "King of
+kings and Lord of lords;" a history traced by His own hand alone, as He
+guided "Holy men" of old by the power of the Holy Ghost. One portion of
+this History is traced in blood--the "blood of Jesus Christ, His Son,
+which cleanseth from all sin" those who receive in penitence, faith, and
+love, the "record that God gave of His Son." May the same Holy Spirit,
+which dictated the Holy Word of God, write the History of His character
+and love so deeply within our hearts, that we may receive His full
+salvation now, and the "eternal life" which He so freely gives
+hereafter!
+
+[Illustration: finis.]
+
+
+
+
+               PRINTED BY JARROLD AND SONS, NORWICH.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+                        BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
+
+     _Crown 8vo., 3/6. Handsomely bound in Cloth, Gilt Edges_:
+
+        FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT: OR, PIECES IN PROSE & POETRY,
+
+             On Subjects selected from Sunday Services.
+
+
+    "A series of brief, thoughtful, and ably-written meditations.
+    The poems are the spiritual utterances of a devout mind. We
+    recommend the book with the greatest pleasure."
+                                              _Hand and Heart._
+
+
+    "Each prose composition is followed by a poetical one;
+    'collect,' 'meditation,' and 'poem' succeed each other in
+    due order throughout the book, and every page contains
+    instructive and edifying matter. The verses show a command
+    of metre in all its varieties, the ideas are well
+    expressed, and the rhymes are good.... We sincerely wish
+    it success."
+                                        _The Voice of Warning._
+
+
+                              REVIEWS.
+
+    "Very high praise is due to the talented wife of the Vicar
+    of Ringland, not only for the conception of this work,
+    "From Advent to Advent," but for the admirable way in
+    which she has carried it out, and the remarkable literary
+    ability therein displayed."
+                   _The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette._
+
+    "We hardly know which to commend most--the admirable
+    arrangement of the work, or the excellence of its
+    composition. Both afford abundant evidence of great genius
+    and tact, to which is added the advantage of a large and
+    ripened experience.... An unceasing stream of meditation
+    and praise, in language which no Christian lips could
+    refuse to utter.... They simply breathe the pure spirit of
+    the Gospel, and express it with a beauty and pathos which
+    will attract every reader. The work supplies a long-felt
+    want. It forms an admirable companion to the Prayer
+    Book.... Even the verses, taken by themselves, would form
+    a second 'Christian Year,' of which a Keble need not be
+    ashamed. To the prose compositions like praise must be
+    accorded. The work is well-bound and printed, and forms an
+    attractive little volume, well suitable for Sunday School
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+    circulation which it deserves extensively to obtain."
+                           _Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal._
+
+    "A valuable volume."
+                                      _The Rev. Hely H. Smith._
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+    Punctuation has been normalized.
+
+    Page 14: "caresssing" replaced with "caressing".
+      "... in nursing and caressing her darling children...."
+
+    Page 50: "Inchmahone" replaced with "Inchmahome".
+      "... a small island in the Lake of Monteith, called Inchmahome."
+
+    Page 67: "troup" replaced with "troupe".
+      "... happy troupe of northern children; sometimes playing in...."
+
+    Page 69: "engulphed" retained as printed.
+
+    Page 81: "latin" replaced with "Latin".
+      "... let Latin take the place of problems...."
+
+
+
+
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="450" height="588" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<h1>THE<br />
+CHILDHOOD OF DISTINGUISHED WOMEN.</h1>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"><a name="windsor_castle" id="windsor_castle"></a>
+<img src="images/i005.png" width="450" height="604" alt="WINDSOR CASTLE." title="" />
+<span class="caption">WINDSOR CASTLE.</span>
+</div>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<h1>THE CHILDHOOD<br />
+
+<small>OF</small><br />
+
+Distinguished Women.</h1>
+
+<p class="venti"><br />
+<small>BY</small><br />
+
+<span class="smcap">Selina A. Bower,</span><br />
+
+<small>AUTHOR OF "FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT."</small></p>
+
+<p class="center"><br />
+LONDON:<br />
+JARROLD &amp; SONS, 3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.</p>
+
+<p class="center">[<i>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</i>]
+</p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><i>To be had also from the Author.</i><br />
+
+ADDRESS&mdash;MRS. BOWER, RINGLAND VICARAGE, NORWICH.</p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecoa.png" width="225" height="75" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td><td align="right"><small>PAGE.</small></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">WINDSOR CASTLE</td><td align="left"><a href="#windsor_castle"><i>Frontispiece</i></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">THE TOWER OF LONDON</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">GREENWICH HOSPITAL</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">INCHMAHOME</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">NORWICH CATHEDRAL</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; (copied from a photograph, by permission)</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, NORWICH&nbsp; &nbsp; </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecob.png" width="225" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+<br /><br /></div>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h2>The Childhood of Distinguished Women.</h2>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheadera.png" width="600" height="117" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>I.</h2>
+
+<h4>THE PRINCESS ALICE.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropt.png" alt="T" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">The Princess Alice was the second daughter and
+third child of our own beloved Queen Victoria
+and the late Prince Consort, "Albert the Good."</p></div>
+
+<p>Our deepest sorrowful interest has recently been
+excited by the touching and sudden way in which
+this lovely and gifted woman has been called from
+her home on earth to her eternal home in heaven.</p>
+
+<p>The Princess was born on April 25th, 1843, and
+was very gladly welcomed by the warm, true mother's
+heart of Her Majesty, who has ever shown and expressed
+the deepest love for her happy circle of girls
+and boys.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The first incident in the babyhood of the Princess
+Alice which attracts attention is the record of her
+christening. It was a very brilliant one, the Archbishop
+of Canterbury officiating, on June 2nd. The
+sponsors were the late King of Hanover, Ernest, the
+present Duke of Coburg, and the Princesses Sophia,
+Matilda, and Feodora.</p>
+
+<p>We will give the Queen's own words about the
+important choice of the royal infant's names; Her
+Majesty thus writes:&mdash;"Our little baby is to be called
+Alice, an old English name, and the other names are
+to be Maud (another old English name, and the same
+as Matilda) and Mary, as she was born on Aunt
+Gloucester's birthday." Again, in writing to her
+uncle, the Queen's account of the little Princess's
+conduct was that "little Alice behaved extremely
+well."</p>
+
+<p>When quite a young child, the Princess Alice was
+remarkably quick, and earnestly enjoyed the acquirement
+of all the knowledge suitable to her years, and
+soon displayed intellectual talent of a high order.</p>
+
+<p>Peculiarly sweet and amiable in her disposition, and
+patient and untiring in her love, the young Princess
+was a favourite in the royal nursery and schoolroom.</p>
+
+<p>Her illustrious father found her when even a child as
+to age, quite his companion as to comprehension and
+mental capacities.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Two very special characteristics place the beloved
+Princess Alice in the highest range of distinguished
+women, and call for the deepest regard and respect
+from all hearts.</p>
+
+<p>From her earliest youth, whatever was learned by
+her was <i>thoroughly</i> acquired, quietly and completely
+mastered, definitely and decidedly finished. And
+with her highly-refined, cultivated, and capacious
+mind, she also combined every domestic and feminine
+grace and duty, and was the useful, helpful English
+maiden, as well as singularly intellectual.</p>
+
+<p>"In her teens," the Princess was pronounced to be
+"one of the most accomplished young ladies in
+England."</p>
+
+<p>When the Queen visited Scotland in 1844, the
+Princess was too young to accompany the royal
+party, and Her Majesty thus writes of the separation.
+Just when they were ready for the journey, "Alice
+and the baby (Prince Alfred) were brought in, poor
+little things, to wish us good-bye."</p>
+
+<p>But in the course of a few years, all the children
+were able to participate in the Scotch journeys, and
+the Princess Alice became the constant companion of
+the Queen, riding with her over the lovely hills on
+ponies; visiting the poor women in the cottages,
+calling at the shop to purchase comforts for them;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>
+and at various times climbing the ascents to Feithort,
+or up Morven, Loch-na-Gar, and Ben Mac Dhui.
+This latter ascent was made through the dank mountain
+cloud; but this did not daunt the royal travellers,
+the Queen recording&mdash;"However, I and Alice rode
+to the very top, which we reached a few minutes past
+two; and here, at a cairn of stones, we lunched in a
+piercing cold wind.... Luncheon over, Albert ran
+off with Alice to the ridge to look at the splendid
+view, and sent for me to follow."</p>
+
+<p>In December, 1861, Prince Albert was attacked by
+the terrible disease which eventually proved fatal.
+The Princess Alice, although only seventeen, was the
+constant, unwearied nurse of her well-loved parent,
+and tended and watched him with the strongest filial
+love. To the last she kept her post, and when her
+aid and gentle care were no more needed, for he had
+passed away, she turned to soothe, comfort, and
+support her beloved mother with womanly and dutiful
+affection.</p>
+
+<p>On the 1st of July, 1862, the Princess Alice married
+Prince Louis of Hesse, and proved a pattern wife and
+mother. But in 1878, her own little household group
+was smitten with diphtheria, and in nursing and caressing
+her darling children, she caught the disease
+herself. One child preceded her, the Princess Mary,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>
+who died November 16th, and on December 14th,
+the anniversary of her honoured father's death, she,
+too, was summoned home.</p>
+
+<p>The changes and sorrows of life, and, perhaps,
+especially the death, of a darling little one, who fell
+from a window, in 1873, and was killed by the fall,
+had been blessed to her by the Holy Spirit of God;
+and scenes of family sickness and bereavement seem
+to have led the endeared Princess Alice to that loving
+and sympathizing Saviour who is ever ready to save
+the heart that fully trusts in Him.</p>
+
+<p>The whole English nation mourned for her, as for
+one near and dear to each, and a solemnity pervaded
+all classes, though Christmas was at hand.</p>
+
+<p>Possibly the anticipation of Christmastide had been
+bright in her own loving spirit: if so, that anticipation
+was realized, for the first Christmas in heaven
+with Jesus Himself must indeed surpass the most
+joyous and happy one ever spent on earth.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="hpoem">In Memoriam.</p>
+
+<p class="hpoem2"><span class="smcap">The Princess Alice, who died Dec.</span> 14th, 1878.</p>
+
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">She is taken to celebrate Christmastide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In Emmanuel's land of light;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The notes of her carol swell far and wide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And her raiment is lustrous white.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Introduced to the happy, and blood-bought throng,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For whom Jesus, the Christ, was born,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How sweetly will echo her triumph song,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">On the Heavenly Christmas morn!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And the day she was taken was linked in love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">By fond memory's silver chain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With him who had entered the Home above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Which knows neither parting nor pain.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the dawn of the wintry, and short, dark day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The angel of death hovered near,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To herald the sorrowful mother away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From trouble, and trial, and tear.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Let us mingle our prayers, asking God to bless,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With earnest, affectionate cry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our well-beloved Queen, in her new distress,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Her comfort our God can supply.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">May she treasure the thought with tremulous praise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That those who were lent, and not given,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are joining with us in the angels' lays,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And keeping their Christmas in Heaven!<br /></span>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Montacute, Ilminster, Somerset, Christmas, 1878.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecoc.png" width="225" height="78" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderb.png" width="600" height="126" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>II.</h2>
+
+<h4>MRS. HANNAH MORE.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropm.png" alt="M" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Mrs. Hannah More spent her happy childhood
+at Stapleton, near Bristol; and her early
+girlhood in Bristol itself, as a pupil in the school of
+her three elder sisters.</p></div>
+
+<p>Besides these three sisters, whose names were Mary,
+Betty, and Sally, there was also one younger than
+Hannah herself, named Patty.</p>
+
+<p>The five little girls were the children of a Mr.
+Jacob More, the head master of a foundation school
+at Stapleton.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. More had married the daughter of a farmer,
+who had been carefully brought up, and possessed
+considerable mind and also great judgment.</p>
+
+<p>Hannah was born in 1745, and, together with her
+four sisters, learned to read at home, the mother
+herself teaching them.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>It is not difficult to picture that happy home, with
+all its quiet influence of love, for the five little girls
+appear to have been good children, very affectionate
+to each other, and would form a sweet, bright group
+as they stood with respectful attitude and intelligent
+faces round the kind mother, and repeated with
+interest and earnest emulation, the familiar "A, B, C."</p>
+
+<p>Presently, something more than this was needed,
+but books were scarce. Mr. More had been educated
+for the Church, but his desire to be a clergyman was
+frustrated. He removed from Norfolk, his native
+county, and in his transit to Stapleton, which in those
+days was a long and difficult journey, he lost the
+greater part of his library. He therefore endeavoured
+to supply from memory, information and instruction
+to his five daughters, and Hannah was always extremely
+delighted to stand by her father's knees and
+listen to his stories of Grecian and Roman history,
+and also to gain thus from him a fair amount of
+classical learning.</p>
+
+<p>The nurse who assisted the busy mother with her
+happy charge, had lived for some time in the family
+of Dryden, and often interested and amused Hannah
+and her sisters with accounts of the poet.</p>
+
+<p>When Mr. More found that Hannah evinced such
+a desire for information, he began to teach her Latin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>
+and Mathematics; but as she outstripped all his
+pupils in the foundation school with extreme rapidity,
+the father, fearing that it might tend to make
+Hannah unfeminine, ceased these instructions. They
+seem, however, to have been supplemented by a
+different mode of education. The parents were poor,
+too poor to supply all the requirements of so large
+a family. Very wisely they determined that the
+children should be trained to support themselves.
+Miss More was, therefore, sent to a good school in
+Bristol, as a weekly boarder, and every Saturday, on
+her return home, she was required to teach her four
+sisters <i>all</i> that she had learned in the week!</p>
+
+<p>When this sister was twenty years old, she, together
+with Betty and Sally, opened a school themselves in
+Bristol; and Hannah, then twelve years of age, and
+Patty were sent as pupils.</p>
+
+<p>On one occasion Hannah was taken ill, and Dr.
+Woodward, evidently a literary man of that time,
+was sent for to attend her. But so great was her
+conversational power, that the kind doctor forgot the
+purpose for which he came. After some time, he
+took his leave, but exclaimed, presently, "Bless me!
+I forgot to ask the girl how she is to-day!"</p>
+
+<p>This remarkable talent, thus early developed, was
+one of Mrs. Hannah More's charms through life, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>
+existed to the last lingering days of an intelligent old
+age.</p>
+
+<p>Hannah's other great talent, as a writer, was also
+early and fully indicated. As a mere child, she
+would scribble poems and prim essays upon every
+scrap of available paper, and a story is told of her,
+that she had one grand ambition constantly before
+her young life, and that was to be old enough to
+"possess a whole quire of paper!" As a schoolgirl,
+Dr. Johnson, the elder Sheridan, and the astronomer
+Ferguson, seem to have been on terms of some
+intimacy, and exercised a talented influence upon
+the strong sense and mental capacity of Hannah
+More.</p>
+
+<p>England was experiencing change during the
+younger years of this well-known and justly honoured
+writer; the upper circles of society were gay and
+semi-infidel in principle, disposed to laugh at, and
+ridicule anything of a religious character; the lower
+were so intensely ignorant that they devoted themselves
+to indolence and vice. But already Wesley
+and Whitefield were preaching the simple gospel of
+the Lord Jesus Christ, and, through the influence of
+His Holy Spirit, awakening numbers to study, appreciate,
+and rise to the full reception of the truth
+as it is in Him.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Hannah More threw her literary influence and
+ability into the effort to raise and benefit her fellow-countrymen;
+though I am not aware that, during
+her early years, she in any way displayed personal
+and positive perception of the great love of that
+Heavenly Father who provided the special salvation
+and restoration so singularly suited to the wants and
+capacities of every child of man. But her evident
+respect for religion is singularly shown in the apparent
+sorrow that any disregard should be manifested
+towards God's Word; she once remarked, with emphatic
+disapproval, "We saw but one Bible in the
+parish of Cheddar, and that was used to prop a
+flower-pot!" She died in 1833, at the age of eighty-eight.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecob.png" width="225" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/i021.png" width="225" height="212" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i023.png" width="450" height="588" alt="THE TOWER OF LONDON." title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE TOWER OF LONDON.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderc.png" width="600" height="120" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>III.</h2>
+
+<h4>LADY JANE GREY.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idroph.png" alt="H" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Henry Grey was the Marquis of Dorset, and
+married Frances Brandon, the daughter of the
+Duke of Suffolk and his beautiful wife, Mary, the
+sister of Henry VIII. This Mary was for three
+months Queen of France; and when Louis XII. left
+her a widow, she was again married, almost immediately,
+to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
+Their child Frances was the mother of Lady Jane
+Grey, who was born in 1537. There were two other
+little girls younger than Lady Jane, Katherine and
+Mary.</p></div>
+
+<p>All the three children were treated with very great
+severity, which was not unusual at that time. Lady
+Jane, perhaps because she was the eldest girl, was
+expected to be quite perfect in her manners, movements,
+and in all that she said; to use her own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>
+striking expression, to do everything "Even so perfectly
+as God made the world."</p>
+
+<p>Her parents enforced obedience by threatening
+and taunting her; and also by literal <i>pinching</i> and
+<i>nipping</i>, besides still more severe and revolting bodily
+punishments, which worried and fretted the gentle,
+noble child, almost past endurance.</p>
+
+<p>However, probably partly owing to all this torture,
+Lady Jane derived her pleasures from far higher
+sources than her years warranted.</p>
+
+<p>Her tutor, Mr. Elmer, unlike her parents, was extremely
+gentle and kind; and when with him the
+child became perfectly free and happy, learning her
+lessons with great patience, care, and interest, and
+enjoying that true cultivation of mind, which is the
+result of all study that is rendered attractive.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Elmer had abundant reward for his toil, in
+winning and retaining the affection and respect of
+his young pupil; and also in the rapidity with
+which she mastered, not only the usual routine of
+general knowledge, but the higher forms of classical
+learning. In Greek especially she was proficient,
+and Plato was to her more interesting than any story
+book.</p>
+
+<p>When her father, who was at this time made a
+Duke, was out with the Duchess and friends, hunting<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>
+in the park, Lady Jane preferred remaining in her
+bedroom with her books, and, on being questioned
+why she did not join the party in their sport in the
+park, she replied that such amusements were but
+"shadow."</p>
+
+<p>The surroundings of her home life were not congenial
+to the natural gentleness and sweetness of her
+disposition, and this, with perhaps also her love of the
+Greek language, led the young girl to study deeply,
+and to love God's Holy Word, and very shortly
+before her sorrowful death, she sent her Greek Testament
+to her sister Katherine, as the most precious
+gift which she could offer. The truths of that Word
+fell softly into the heart that yearned for love, and
+the salvation and sympathy of the Saviour seems to
+have been accepted by Lady Jane in her earliest
+years, and evidently proved her support and consolation
+in the tragedy that closed her young life here,
+as well as during the six months' previous imprisonment
+in the Tower.</p>
+
+<p>Born, as she was, in transition times, Lady Jane
+quickly formed her own judgment, and was thoroughly
+Protestant in her faith. She was often with her
+cousin, Edward VI., and her decided opinions upon
+the Reformation, together with her arguments in its
+support, and her dislike to the Romish errors which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>
+they both condemned, made the boy-monarch respect
+her highly, and there was a warm attachment between
+the youthful cousins.</p>
+
+<p>Her childhood had scarcely faded into early girlhood,
+when Lady Jane became the bride of Lord
+Guildford Dudley, fourth son of the Duke of Northumberland.
+There was a treble marriage; Lady
+Jane and her two sisters were married at the same
+time at Durham House, Lady Jane, the eldest, being
+only fifteen years of age!</p>
+
+<p>The rest of her sad story is quickly told. Owing
+to the ambition of her own father, and her husband's
+father, after the death of King Edward, she was,
+sorely against her own will, induced to claim the
+English crown. It was long before she yielded to
+the persuasion of Archbishop Cranmer, and, when
+she did so, it was with many tears, and these words,
+"If this right be truly mine, O gracious God, give
+me strength so to rule as to promote Thy honour,
+and my country's good!" Queen Mary, the right
+heir, was duly crowned, and, after ten days, Lady
+Jane Grey was informed by her own father that she
+was not, in reality, Queen. She was subsequently
+sent to the Tower, and after six months' imprisonment,
+the sentence of death was carried out on
+February 12th, 1554.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Three short days were allowed for immediate
+preparation, during which Lady Jane calmly wrote to
+her father, and conversed with Dr. Feckenham, who
+tried to induce her to become a Romanist. This she
+firmly declined, though she did so with the greatest
+sweetness.</p>
+
+<p>Her last words are evidence of her hope and trust;
+as she laid her head upon the block, she said, in
+trembling tones, "Lord Jesus! receive my spirit!"
+and the short life of earth was merged in the eternal
+life of Heaven!</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecod.png" width="225" height="64" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderd.png" width="600" height="118" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>IV.</h2>
+
+<h4>SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropn.png" alt="N" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Not very far from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire,
+there is now a fine Gothic building,
+where the old mansion of the Hastings family formerly,
+and for centuries, had stood. The situation
+is lovely, for Donnington-park, with its large forest
+trees and magnificent old oaks, forms a more than
+usually beautiful surrounding to the extensive and
+immediate grounds. Those, to the north, were precipitous,
+and the broken craggy ground, with hanging
+woods, give additional charm to the sweeping valleys
+and alternating hills.</p></div>
+
+<p>To this venerable old English home, Lady Selina
+Shirley came, as the bride of Theophilus Hastings,
+ninth Earl of Huntingdon, when she was nearly
+twenty-one, from her own adjacent home, Stanton
+Harold, which lay between Donnington-park and
+Ashby-de-la-Zouch.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The two homes thus near, were singularly similar.
+For the home of Lady Selina's childhood was also a
+fine old edifice, very massive, with noble and spacious
+apartments, standing in the midst of an extensive
+park, with soft, swelling hills, and still softer green-clad
+vales. The tasteful grounds, too, were rendered
+more attractive by a large ornamental lake, which
+clearly mirrored a handsome stone bridge, as it lay
+peacefully resting against the sloping lawn. The
+church, with its pretty tower, adjoined the house, and
+Sunday after Sunday, the child, as she sat or stood
+in the old family pew, became familiar with the long
+inscriptions that were on the monuments of her own
+ancestors, and which plainly indicated that all, whatever
+the rank and station, must pass from the present
+to a future state.</p>
+
+<p>The Shirley family was celebrated for two specialities&mdash;the
+purity of its genealogy, which could be
+traced up to the time of Edward the Confessor;
+and the piety of its most distinguished members,
+which, as it arose from a living faith in an eternal
+Saviour, must result in a future, which no human
+calculation can limit to its possessors, and in an
+infinite and everlasting life through Him alone.</p>
+
+<p>The grandfather of Lady Selina Shirley had twenty-seven
+children, her father being the second son. She<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>
+was born at Stanton Harold, on the 24th August,
+1707. Two sisters, one older and one younger, shared
+the nursery with Lady Selina, and participated in the
+play, the happy strolls in the park, and presently in
+the early lessons. Elizabeth, the eldest, became the
+celebrated Lady E. Nightingale, and Mary, the
+"baby" of the family, was afterwards Viscountess
+Kilmorey.</p>
+
+<p>Lady Selina was decidedly talented, very benevolent,
+unusually grave and serious, and extremely
+graceful. Though not strictly beautiful, yet the large,
+bright eyes, the well-formed mouth, and the bold,
+intellectual brow, when illumined by the animation of
+the ardent spirit, were far more attractive than those
+perishing charms which exist only in features and
+externals.</p>
+
+<p>She was a sensitive child, as well as serious, and
+often went alone to a small room to pray, and in
+childish, earnest fervour she would pour out every
+little trouble into the ear of that Father in heaven
+who listens to each whisper of distress.</p>
+
+<p>When the Lady Selina was nine years old, a child
+just her own age died, and the passing funeral
+attracted her notice. She followed to the grave;
+listened to the beautiful and solemn service; heard
+those thrilling words, as the body was slowly lowered,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>
+"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Her
+eyes filled with tears, and, awe-struck and frightened,
+the young girl earnestly asked God to prepare her
+for her last hour, that she might die happily and
+without alarm. After this, she would often go to
+that little grave to think, to weep, to pray, and was
+much impressed with this first realization of death!</p>
+
+<p>On December 25th, 1717, her grandfather died,
+and this deepened those impressions, adding earnestness
+to her prayers, and strengthening her seriousness,
+although it was not until nearly ten years after her
+marriage that she became personally interested in
+the love of the Saviour, and sought full salvation
+through His work; and by the power of the Holy
+Spirit became a decided disciple of the Lord Jesus
+Christ.</p>
+
+<p>Lady Selina was very highly educated, being
+trained with extreme care, for her social position,
+and her naturally high intellect, and evident talent,
+were developed by sound instruction in all the
+various branches of interesting study. Her retentive
+memory and brilliant fancy availed themselves of all
+the knowledge presented to them; and even when
+quite young, her sound understanding and clear
+judgment were beyond her years, as they appeared
+in the conversation and observations in which she
+took part.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Probably all this was preparing her for those
+peculiar efforts in the religious world, with their lasting
+influences, which have made Selina, Countess of Huntingdon,
+a truly distinguished woman.</p>
+
+<p>But it was the grace of God alone which influenced
+her to utilize all this preparation; and that grace;
+having first filled her heart with a deep sense of sin,
+and of the utter insufficiency of her own ability to
+procure salvation, then led her to the most unbounded
+and simple trust in Jesus. Her love and gratitude
+made her anxious to work for Him; and her own
+peace rendered her desirous that others too should
+possess like peace. Thus the whole of her energy
+was directed to seek the honour and glory of her
+Saviour, and the safety of every sinner through Him.</p>
+
+<p>During her last illness the Countess often repeated,
+"I long to be at home! My work is done! I have
+nothing to do but to go to my heavenly Father;"
+and almost her last words were, "I shall go to my
+Father to-night."</p>
+
+<p>She entered that Father's heavenly presence on
+June 17th, 1791, in the eighty-fourth year of her age.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecoa.png" width="225" height="75" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i035.png" width="450" height="584" alt="GREENWICH HOSPITAL." title="" />
+<span class="caption">GREENWICH HOSPITAL.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheadere.png" width="600" height="141" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>V.</h2>
+
+<h4>QUEEN ELIZABETH.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropq.png" alt="Q" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Queen Elizabeth, who was the second
+daughter of King Henry VIII., was born at
+Greenwich on the 7th of September, 1533, in a
+tapestry-covered chamber in the palace. This tapestry
+represented the parable of the Ten Virgins, and the
+half-unconscious eyes of the royal infant often rested
+upon the hazy blue dresses of the quaint maidens
+with their odd little lamps, as the days of early babyhood
+went softly by.</p></div>
+
+<p>The King had his young daughter very magnificently
+christened by Archbishop Cranmer. It was
+Archbishop Cranmer who drew up the Church Catechism,
+and who was some years afterwards a Christian
+martyr, in the reign of Queen Mary, Elizabeth's eldest
+sister.</p>
+
+<p>Besides the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth, Henry
+VIII. had one son, Edward, who succeeded his father
+as King of England.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When Elizabeth was between two and three years
+old, her mother, whose maiden name was Anne
+Boleyn, the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and
+niece of the Duke of Norfolk, was put to death by the
+King's wish, in a most unjust and wicked way. The
+poor little child probably knew nothing of this, for
+she was sent to reside, under the care of Lady
+Margaret Bryan, in the manor of Hunsdon. She
+appears to have been greatly neglected, as presently
+a petition went from Lady Margaret to Court requesting
+that suitable dresses and apparel for Elizabeth
+might be sent at once; for, wrote Lady Margaret,
+"She had neither gown nor kirtle, nor no manner of
+linen, nor foresmocks, nor kerchiefs, nor sleeves, nor
+veils, nor mufflers, nor biggins;" a funny list of
+juvenile attire for a young Princess! However, the
+little girl was well cared for by Lady Margaret, and
+soon learned to read, to write, and to sew beautifully,
+and could play "indifferent well" upon some musical
+instruments.</p>
+
+<p>In 1537, Elizabeth's brother Edward was born,
+King Henry having married again, and at the christening
+of this Prince, Elizabeth seems to have appeared
+at Court for the first time. The tiny Princess was
+allowed to hold the chrism on the occasion, and afterwards
+presented her baby brother with a "shirt of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>
+cambric," which her own small fingers had industriously
+embroidered.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of a few years, Elizabeth had acquired
+a fair knowledge of astronomy and geography, besides
+mathematics and architecture; and could speak five
+languages fluently, as well as her own native English.</p>
+
+<p>For some time the Princess Mary also resided at
+Hunsdon, and was evidently kind to her younger
+sister. The two girls, whose lives were to be so
+distinguished, but so different, probably spent together
+the happiest portion of those lives in the comparative
+seclusion of Lady Margaret's home, busy, and occupied
+also with domestic employments, as they stored their
+minds with the literature of the period.</p>
+
+<p>At that time, Elizabeth's vanity, which was a sad
+trait in her latter years, was not perceptible, for in a
+sketch of her when about twelve, she is spoken of as
+dressing with peculiarly "simple elegance," and
+almost despising personal adornment.</p>
+
+<p>Being tall, she was commanding in person, and she
+was impetuous in her bearing. Her complexion was
+pale, her hair rather light, her face long and narrow,
+with an aquiline nose; and though her temper was
+hasty, she was usually so bright and cheerful that her
+companions scarcely heeded her fits of passion. She
+was also sensible and shrewd, and when very young,
+showed a disposition to rule and govern.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The grave faults of her latter days, her vanity, her
+strong epithets of abuse, her caprice, and her increasing
+warmth of temper, were probably the results of the
+personal disappointments of her strange life. And
+perhaps her dread of death, points us to the real
+source of these faults, for it seems to indicate that
+Queen Elizabeth had not been so earnest in seeking
+God's grace, and the influence of His Holy Spirit,
+as she ought to have been, to preserve her from evil
+in this life, as well as to prepare her for the future life
+where there will be no evil, in the kingdom of the
+"King of kings and Lord of lords," the happy realm
+of Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>Elizabeth was fourteen when her father died, and
+then she wrote a celebrated letter in choice Latin
+to her young half-brother Edward, with whom she
+was always on excellent terms.</p>
+
+<p>The two children were Protestants, Mary alone
+remaining attached to the Papal power, which Henry
+VIII. had so unflinchingly put down during the latter
+part of his reign. Elizabeth's cherished and noble
+Protestantism remained firm through all the changes
+of her eventful life; and when, after the reigns of her
+brother Edward VI., and her elder sister Mary, she
+herself was placed upon the throne of England, she
+finally established the Protestant religion in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>
+country; and to her, under God, we owe a deep debt
+of gratitude, for the long and happy years which have
+intervened until the present time, and during which
+God's most Holy Word has been left to us, a free
+and open book, in which we may each read and learn
+for ourselves His will, and about that spiritual service
+which He requires, and which alone can fit us for His
+presence, when He calls us from His world below to
+His world above.</p>
+
+<p>Queen Elizabeth died on March 24th, 1603, before
+the morning dawned, after a reign of nearly forty-five
+years, at the age of sixty-nine.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/i040.png" width="225" height="131" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderf.png" width="600" height="129" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>VI.</h2>
+
+<h4>MRS. HEMANS.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropell.png" alt="L" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Let us sketch a scene in the west of our island
+home. Long, rolling, soft, beautiful blue waves
+are dashing lightly upon a clear beach of wide
+sparkling sand, leaving behind, as the tide gradually
+ebbs, a ribbed and rippled surface. A rather narrow
+coast-line presents a somewhat scanty amount of
+cultivation; cottage and mansion lying here and
+there, as convenience or fancy may have suggested to
+the possessor. Now and then a tiny clean Welsh
+village, or small town, claims a space of country
+which may be rather broader than usual. This coast-line
+is immediately hemmed in by high, wild, stern
+mountains sloping quickly upwards towards the sky,
+with soft grey clouds sometimes poised midway up
+the steep sides, or resting in filmy folds upon the top.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>
+Snowdon, rather to the south of the locality that we
+are sketching, and a little inland, often raising its
+high summit above the rest like a silver-haired
+veteran surrounded by companions, who vie with
+each other in emulation of their leader.</p></div>
+
+<p>A large house, Grwych (pronounced Griech), stood
+some years ago where this coast is rather narrow, the
+mountains towering up in front, and the sea softly
+laving the sandy shore behind. A set of six young
+children with their parents occupied this house.
+They had happy playhours in the old garden, or on
+the smooth sand; and Felicia, the fourth child, not
+always disposed for the gay romp of the cheerful
+group, took constant possession of a large apple tree,
+into which she could climb; its leafy boughs well hid
+the little girl and her book, which she then enjoyed
+in unmolested quiet. Until she was five years old
+Felicia Dorothea Browne had lived in Liverpool.
+She was born there in Duke-street, on the 25th
+September, 1794. Her father's ancestry was Irish,
+that of her mother was Venetian, and probably the
+Italian origin of the gentle poetess gave rise to the
+beauty and extent of her imagination, as perhaps also
+from her father she might derive the quick bright
+flow of language from which her pen sped on in an
+easy graceful stream.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>She was an extremely beautiful child, with long
+curling golden hair, which became dark brown as she
+grew older; her complexion was clear and bright,
+the colour coming and going with every varying
+impulse and impression. Her mother, herself talented
+and clever, cultivated her young daughter's tastes,
+and at the early age of seven years the little Felicia
+produced some attempts at composition. She had
+an extremely retentive memory, read well, and
+evinced great love of reading. Shakespeare was one
+of her favourite books at this time, and she took
+delight in juvenile attempts at personifying the
+characters. Happily, this was but a temporary freak.</p>
+
+<p>Her studies do not appear to have been at all
+conducted with regularity. French, the English
+Grammar, and the rudiments of Latin comprised the
+only systematic training which she received. Highly
+imaginative as she was, and surrounded by the wild
+beauty of the Welsh hills, the varying sights and
+sounds of the wide deep sea, with her love of books
+and capacity to retain, as well as enjoy, her cultivation
+progressed, and knowledge increased rapidly
+without effort on her part, or on the part of others.</p>
+
+<p>There is a story told of a constant childish raid.
+When the mother thought the little one safe for the
+night, she would slip quickly and quietly down to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>
+the bright laving sea, and bathe alone in the clear
+water, softly creeping back to bed undiscovered; and
+perhaps throughout her life the same wrong tendency
+towards insincerity and love of hidden mischief is
+discernible.</p>
+
+<p>A visionary belief in spirits and apparitions also
+appears to have influenced her at times, when mystery,
+rather than truth, assumed possession of her mind.
+Even little children in the present day need scarcely
+be told that there are no ghosts; but, being highly
+sensitive and nervous, she was peculiarly open to
+every passing fancy.</p>
+
+<p>Early in life, Felicia visited London, but cared
+little for its gaiety; and with true childlike impatience
+longed to be at home again in the dear old house by
+the sea, though she enjoyed the works of art to which
+this visit afforded access.</p>
+
+<p>Felicia Browne's first book of poems was published
+in 1808, when she was only fourteen, and this, together
+with another volume published in 1812, met with
+severe criticism. The poor child felt this so acutely
+that she became ill, and had to keep her bed for
+several days.</p>
+
+<p>These books were the only two which she wrote
+before her married life commenced, so that her fame
+as a poetess was acquired as Mrs. Hemans, and not
+as Felicia Browne.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There is no evidence to prove that in youth she
+gave her heart to the Saviour of sinners; but some
+of her poems in after life are deeply and touchingly
+full of yearnings for "The Better Land," or they
+sketch in soft melodious metre the swift decay of
+earthly beauty and joy, which is indeed always
+"Passing Away." As years and sorrows gathered,
+she also studied God's Word with earnestness and
+zeal, and the sixteenth of St. John was her favourite
+chapter; it was also the last which she read before
+her death. We may certainly hope that "The Comforter,"
+who is promised in that chapter, guided her
+safely into "all truth," and led her simply to trust in
+Jesus, that in Him alone she "might have peace."
+For only Jesus can prepare any child of man, through
+the influences of His Spirit, for the purity, beauty,
+and happiness of His Heavenly Home, in that "better
+country," of which Mrs. Hemans once wrote&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ear hath not heard its sweet sounds of joy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dreams cannot picture a world so fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sorrow and death may not enter there;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Time may not breathe on its faultless bloom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For beyond the grave, and beyond the tomb,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">It is there, it is there, my child."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Mrs. Hemans passed away in the evening twilight,
+on the 16th of May, 1835, at the age of forty-one.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i047.png" width="450" height="564" alt="INCHMAHOME,
+
+The Child-Queen&#39;s child garden, with her little walk and its boxwood,
+left to itself for three hundred years. Yes, without doubt, &#39;Here is the
+first garden of her simpleness.&#39;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">INCHMAHOME,<br />
+
+The Child-Queen&#39;s child garden, with her little walk and its boxwood,
+left to itself for three hundred years. Yes, without doubt, &#39;Here is the
+first garden of her simpleness.&#39;</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderg.png" width="600" height="138" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h2>VII.</h2>
+
+<h4>MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropj.png" alt="J" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">James V., of Scotland, was dangerously ill
+owing to severe disappointments and defeats
+experienced in his border war with Henry VIII., of
+England, and dying at Falkland, when, on the 8th of
+December, 1542, a message came to him from Linlithgow
+Palace, stating that his Queen, Mary of Guise,
+had a baby daughter. The king, rendered sorrowful
+by his trials and his sickness, replied, in his own
+expressive language, "Ay, it cam' (meaning the kingdom
+of Scotland) wi' a lass, and it will gang wi' a
+lass," and this prediction seem fulfilled in Mary's fate.</p></div>
+
+<p>The king, her father, only lingered five more days,
+and on his death the tiny infant became Queen of
+Scotland and the Isles.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When about nine months old, Mary was solemnly
+crowned, on the 9th of September, 1543, at Stirling
+Castle, having been carefully taken there from Linlithgow
+for the coronation by Cardinal Beaton, who
+performed the ceremony. Her mother was presently
+appointed regent.</p>
+
+<p>After a few months, Mary went to reside on a
+small island in the Lake of Monteith, called Inchmahome.</p>
+
+<p>Four other noble children were her companions,
+and all these four children bore also the name of
+Mary; Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming, Mary Seaton,
+and Mary Livingstone, and all were of the same age.</p>
+
+<p>Mary remained on this island until she was nearly
+six years old. The five young girls, so isolated and
+lonely as regards the rest of the world, must have
+amused themselves with the usual routine of baby
+pastimes, but a great change now took place. The
+Queen of Scots was removed to France, and the four
+companions of her baby days also accompanied her
+to the gay scenes of the French Court.</p>
+
+<p>Henry II., King of France, received Mary with
+great enthusiasm and respect, and a triumphal procession
+was arranged to convey her to the palace of
+St. Germain-en-Laye.</p>
+
+<p>Her extreme beauty drew much attention. She<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>
+had bright auburn hair, dark hazel eyes, a fair complexion,
+and a "dimpled chin."</p>
+
+<p>When the king saw her, his surprise at her loveliness
+made him enquire, with truly characteristic
+French politeness and love of compliment, "Are you
+not an angel?"</p>
+
+<p>Mary was shortly afterwards placed in a French
+convent to receive a royal education, and appears to
+have been much attached to those who instructed and
+tended her. She said adieu to them all very reluctantly,
+when she returned to the gay Court life at a
+still early age.</p>
+
+<p>The description of her at this time is that she was
+very accomplished, having acquired some skill in
+music, singing, dancing, and even in poetic effusions.
+She also had pursued more serious studies, both
+historical and classical, and was altogether so bright
+and intelligent that Brantôine remarked, "Ah! kingdom
+of Scotland! I cannot but think your days
+must be shorter, your nights longer, now you have
+lost the Princess by whom you were illumined!"</p>
+
+<p>Her dress appears to have been a subject of much
+whim and caprice: sometimes she would wear a
+Highland costume, then again the fashionable French
+or Italian mode of those days, and her time was spent
+completely in gaiety and amusements.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mary, Queen of Scots, was born and educated in
+the Romish religion, and was, in after life, a rigid
+Papist. Lord Shrewsbury, who had charge of her by
+Queen Elizabeth's orders, intimates in his letters,
+which are still extant, that he thought of her rather
+"as a mischievous, cunning Papist, than as an injured
+Queen."</p>
+
+<p>Owing to various conspiracies and plots, Mary was
+sentenced to die, eventually, by Queen Elizabeth, and
+her execution took place on February 7th, 1587.</p>
+
+<p>There is a touching little story about her favourite
+dog. The tiny animal hid itself in her dress when
+she was taken to the scaffold, and, after her death, he
+refused to leave her body, and had to be forcibly
+taken away.</p>
+
+<p>Mary, Queen of Scots, led a gay, dissipated life,
+and her death was sad and solemn. Having been
+trained a Romanist, the Holy Word of God was not
+placed in her hands and made the guide of her life,
+and her sins brought much sorrow and difficulty
+which seemed to draw her on from sin to sin, instead
+of leading her to humble repentance and simple faith
+in the Lord Jesus Christ.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible alone is the guide which God has given
+both for this present life, and for the future life; and
+God has given this book to each and all, to read and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>
+to study with earnest prayer for His Holy Spirit's
+teaching, that each and all may understand it, and
+may act upon its <i>teaching</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps if Mary had read God's Word herself, and
+seen the beauty and purity of its commands, and
+learned from it all the great love of God, and His
+way of salvation for sinners through the "One
+Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ
+Jesus," she would have escaped the temptations of
+her own great beauty and of her royal position, and
+not have perished as she did. We ought, indeed, to
+value our Bibles, and to seek grace to study them, so
+that, although there are snares and temptations around
+us, we may always know what God's will is, and also
+know how to resist those temptations through His
+mighty help. And we should also thank God that
+He has given us His Holy Word to lead us safely
+through all earth's changes to the unchanging Heaven,
+and that He has promised to give those who trust in
+Jesus and love Him now, far more than an uncertain
+crown of gold, even a "Crown of glory that fadeth
+not away."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecoc.png" width="225" height="78" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheadera.png" width="600" height="117" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h2>VIII.</h2>
+
+<h4>POCAHONTAS, THE ROSEBUD.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropell.png" alt="L" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Long ago, and far away, this Indian Princess
+was born, in 1594.</p></div>
+
+<p>Pocahontas was a distinguished woman for two
+reasons, which render her short life one of singular
+interest.</p>
+
+<p>One of these reasons was the effectual aid she
+rendered when quite a young girl to the early English
+settlers in the United States.</p>
+
+<p>The other reason, and a far higher one, was that
+Pocahontas was the first heathen amongst the Red
+Indians who was converted to Christianity in Virginia.
+The readers of "The Rosebud" will be
+interested to know that a young girl bearing the
+name of Pocahontas, which means "The Rosebud,"
+was thus the earliest native of those dark lands who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span>
+was led from the sad shadows of heathen superstition,
+ignorance, and idolatry, to that Jesus who is truly
+"the Light of the world."</p>
+
+<p>The father of Pocahontas was a Red Indian chief
+in the state of Virginia, and the dark little baby grew
+and played under the shade of the sugar-maple, or
+the long-leaved India-rubber tree, probably gathering
+with her tiny fingers the large blossoms from the
+trailing passion-flower, or the snowy white magnolia,
+and grouping them with the crimson rhododendron,
+or gorgeous drooping fuschias, which grew wild in
+the tangled forests near to her father's wigwam.</p>
+
+<p>When very young, she boldly induced her father,
+who was the great chief Powhattan, to spare the life
+of an English captain, one of the first settlers in
+North America, who had been taken prisoner by a
+native tribe. This captain, James Smith, had been
+sentenced to a very cruel death, and Pocahontas, then
+only thirteen years old, interceded so bravely and
+eloquently that Captain Smith was spared. He was
+allowed to live in Powhattan's wigwam, and, after a
+short time, was set completely free.</p>
+
+<p>Rather more than two years after this, the Indian
+tribes became alarmed as to the movements of the
+English residents, and again endeavoured to take the
+Captain prisoner. Pocahontas, with the brave resolute<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span>
+strength of both mind and body which characterised
+many of those swarthy natives, started on a lonely
+journey of nine miles, through the wild, overgrown
+forests, threading her way amongst uncultivated
+cotton trees, or trampling down the smaller tobacco
+plants; alike heedless of the lovely beauty of the
+gay flowers along her path, and fearless of the grisly
+bear, the treacherous boa constrictor, or the powerful
+vulture called the condor, as she pursued her mission
+of mercy. Having found Captain Smith, and apprised
+him of his peril, Pocahontas sped home again, lest her
+father should miss her and enquire about her absence.</p>
+
+<p>The persevering Princess continued pleading well
+and earnestly for some time in behalf of the English
+settlers, but at last her father, perhaps weary of her
+entreaties, sent her away to the chief of another tribe.
+Instead of protecting the girl thus placed under his
+care, the treacherous chief sold her to an English
+Captain, named Argill, who intended to make good
+use of his bargain in transactions with her father,
+Powhattan. These transactions failed, and poor
+Pocahontas, the Rosebud, remained a captive. The
+English treated her with extreme courtesy and kindness;
+and amongst the number of officers was a Mr.
+Thomas Rolfe, who offered to teach the native girl
+the English language.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>She proved a very gentle, amiable scholar; and
+Mr. Rolfe, being himself an earnest Christian man,
+also taught that dark mind the bright and lustrous
+truths of God's most Holy Word. The Spirit of
+God blessed that teaching, and the light thus introduced
+by His influence, alone became the means of
+revealing to the warm heart of Pocahontas, the love
+of that living Saviour of sinners, who died for all, that
+all may live for Him. His blood can purify the Red
+Indian girl just as effectually as the fair English
+maiden, and both equally require that blood to take
+away the sad stains of sin in heart and life, which are
+as dark, as deep, and as deadly in the one as in the
+other.</p>
+
+<p>Powhattan seems to have been permitted some
+intercourse with his daughter, for with his consent she
+eventually married Mr. Rolfe, and subsequently Pocahontas
+came over to England, and was presented at
+Court in 1616. Queen Anne appears to have been
+very friendly with the Indian Princess. Her intelligence
+was great, and her modesty and unaffected
+manners interested all who knew her.</p>
+
+<p>She did not live to carry out her intention of
+returning to her own native land, Virginia, but died
+at Gravesend in 1617. Her little son remained in
+England for some years, and was educated as an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span>
+English boy. He then sought his mother's country,
+and from him many of the well-known families of the
+State of Virginia claim descent.</p>
+
+<p>Pocahontas, or the Rosebud, has been the heroine
+of many stories and songs, but the most beautiful
+thought connected with her memory is that those to
+whom her generous help and interest opened a fair
+land on earth, should be the means, through the
+power of the Holy Spirit of God, of opening to her
+that "land of pure delight, where saints immortal
+reign;" and that from our own dear native country
+she should have passed away, to enjoy for ever that
+"infinite day" which "excludes the night," through
+Him who is "The Way," for the dark daughter of
+another soil, as well as for the favoured children of
+our own.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecob.png" width="225" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i059.png" width="450" height="728" alt="NORWICH CATHEDRAL.
+
+(Copied from a Photograph, by permission)" title="" />
+<span class="caption">NORWICH CATHEDRAL.<br />
+
+(Copied from a Photograph, by permission)</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderc.png" width="600" height="120" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>IX.</h2>
+
+<h4>MRS. OPIE.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropn.png" alt="N" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Norwich has been called "The City of Gardens;"
+for behind the large houses belonging
+to professional men, and business men, which front
+the narrow irregular streets, there are sweet lawns and
+well-cared-for flower borders, with trees and shrubs
+planted so thickly round the walls, or the walls themselves
+so covered with the trailing tendrils of fresh
+creepers, that imagination might fancy the scene one
+of pure country loveliness.</p></div>
+
+<p>The beautiful taper spire of the rather small, but
+very elegant Cathedral, appears above the verdure-covered
+walls, its stone notches resting softly in
+attractive clearness upon the cloudless blue sky; or,
+perhaps the battlements of the square, massive block
+of the Castle, rise quietly above the grave old<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>
+buildings of the city, the slopes of the castle moat,
+gaily draped with innumerable lilacs in the spring,
+resting in drowsy dignity below.</p>
+
+<p>Another feature of the fine old city of Norwich is
+the quaint churchyard, with blackish stone walls
+around and sometimes intersected diagonally with a
+narrow paved walk, or perhaps surrounded by a
+roughly-paved street, with posts to guard each
+entrance, and with the dignified name of "Church
+Alley."</p>
+
+<p>In a house which stood in one of these churchyards&mdash;St.
+Clement's&mdash;a physician, named Dr. Alderson,
+lived rather more than a hundred years ago. He
+had only one child, who was born on the 12th of
+November, 1769. This little girl was christened
+Amelia, after her mother, who taught and trained her
+both wisely and well.</p>
+
+<p>To this, probably, the success of Amelia Alderson,
+afterwards Mrs. Opie, as a writer, was mainly due,
+although the great care of the parent did not altogether
+enable the daughter to conquer all faults, for
+Sydney Smith once plainly told her that "Tenderness
+is your <i>forte</i>, and carelessness your <i>fault</i>."</p>
+
+<p>Amelia was a bright, cheerful, golden-haired girl,
+with lively fancy and strong imaginative powers,
+decidedly talented and capable of high cultivation.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When a very tiny thing, she would lie quietly in
+bed to listen to the church bells which had awakened
+her, and, looking up to the sapphire sky at early
+dawn, she gazed and listened, as her mistaken ideas
+suggested that the chaste chime was the music of the
+angels hidden in the depths of the blue!</p>
+
+<p>But her thoughts were not always thus happy, for
+the child invested other objects with attributes of
+terror, and black beetles were a source of inconceivable
+dread and horror.</p>
+
+<p>She was also extremely timid about deranged
+people, perhaps the more so because the large
+"Bethel" in Norwich is a conspicuous building, and
+forms a home for poor lunatics, and possibly her
+father was interested in the restless patients who were
+located there.</p>
+
+<p>Negroes also appear to have produced the same
+amount of fear in the little girl as the black beetles.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Alderson was too wise and sensible to allow
+these nervous fancies uncontrolled play, and most
+earnestly applied herself to teaching and helping
+Amelia to overcome them.</p>
+
+<p>Both teacher and taught were indeed successful;
+for before long the child would shake hands with an
+imbecile whom she sometimes met, speak kindly to
+her, and at last even begged to be taken over the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span>
+"Bethel" itself, where the sorrowful sights and sounds
+moved the warm heart to a deep and sincere pity for
+trials which no human love can mitigate.</p>
+
+<p>This judicious mother died when Amelia Alderson
+was about fifteen years old, and from that time until
+she was eight-and-twenty, household cares and superintendence
+occupied her largely, for she entirely
+managed her father's home and presided at his table.</p>
+
+<p>The literary and poetical career of this reputedly
+pleasant woman commenced after her marriage with
+Mr. Opie, the celebrated portrait painter, which
+marriage took place at Marylebone Church in London,
+on the 8th of May, 1798.</p>
+
+<p>Much later still in life, and after even the earlier
+years of widowhood had passed, her far higher career
+as a Christian character was ushered in by Mrs. Opie
+becoming a member of the Society of Friends, and
+for more than twenty-five years, consistency, peace,
+and quiet, marked her calm course. Ere joining the
+"Friends," she had been induced to give up, not only
+writing fiction, but reading it also.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Opie died on the 2nd of December, 1853.
+Just as the day passed away, the dawning of her
+eternal day began&mdash;a day that we cannot measure
+with our present ideas, it is so long, so bright, so
+cloudless. The day of grace closed, and the day of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span>
+glory opened, for Mrs. Opie loved and served Jesus
+on earth, so that she was taken to serve Him in
+Heaven.</p>
+
+<p>The early teaching of the mother appears to have
+been blessed to the child in later life, even as its
+influence also preserved her amidst some difficulties
+during younger days, for Mrs. Opie writes very
+sweetly of her mother's care thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Oh! how I mourn'd my heedless youth,</span>
+<span class="i0">Thy watchful care, repaid so ill:</span>
+<span class="i0">Yet joy'd to think some words of truth</span>
+<span class="i0">Sunk in my soul, and teach me still.</span>
+<span class="i0">Like lamps along life's fearful way,</span>
+<span class="i0">To me, at times, those truths have shone,</span>
+<span class="i0">And oft when snares around me lay,</span>
+<span class="i0">That light has made the danger known."</span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The truths of God's most Holy Word will always
+brighten each day of this life, not only cheering, but
+sufficiently lighting it for the safety of those who seek
+also the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The
+long, long day with Jesus, by-and-bye will have no
+snares, no dangers, no regrets to cast their sorrowful
+shadows across its pure, sweet sky, for His presence
+will be everlasting light, and He has taken away all
+the sins of His people who believe in Him, and as
+there is no sin in Heaven, there is no suffering, and
+no shade of pain.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderd.png" width="600" height="118" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>X.</h2>
+
+<h4>GRACE DARLING.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropo.png" alt="O" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">One of the most dangerous and rugged coasts
+of England is that of Northumberland. This
+is partly owing to the proximity of the group of tiny
+islands called the Farne Islands; which number
+about twenty. When the sea is at all rough, and the
+wind high in this vicinity, the wild waves rush with
+violence between the somewhat narrow island channels,
+and lash themselves into fretted fury, as they
+curl over in frothy foam. Many years ago, on one of
+the Farne Islands named the Longstone, a lighthouse
+was built, that vessels might be duly warned of the
+danger and difficulty of the rocks and shore.</p></div>
+
+<p>In 1815, a tiny, gentle baby girl was born in the
+little lighthouse home, who presently received the
+name of Grace Horsley.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Her father was William Darling; a most suitable
+man for his post as keeper of the lighthouse, being
+vigilant, steady, attentive, and careful, not only in the
+special duties to which he was appointed, but also in
+training a numerous family with diligence and discretion.</p>
+
+<p>So little Grace was not a lonely child in a quiet
+home; but one of a merry, active, happy troupe of
+northern children; sometimes playing in the clean,
+white-washed rooms and staircases of the lighthouse,
+or at other times clambering about the rough rocks,
+and watching the eddying waters all around.</p>
+
+<p>Still the life of the young girl was not all play,
+with the dear brothers and sisters whom she loved.</p>
+
+<p>Lessons had to be learned, and they were well
+learned too; copies had to be written, and in these
+little Grace soon excelled, for she "wrote a beautiful
+hand."</p>
+
+<p>The kind, homely parents, too, taught her to think,
+and as she read nicely, and was bright and quick in
+acquiring the information within her rather limited
+grasp, she became very intelligent.</p>
+
+<p>A fair share of household duties also fell to her lot,
+and these were discharged in a quiet, orderly, and
+unobtrusive way.</p>
+
+<p>Though very neat in her dress, she was never<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span>
+smart; the only trace of feminine vanity was this:&mdash;After
+her brave conduct in the shipwreck of the
+"Forfarshire," the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
+sent for Grace Darling to Alnwick Castle, and
+presented her with a gold watch, which she always
+wore when visitors came to the lighthouse; taking
+care that the watch-seal should be slightly conspicuous
+on the plain, simple striped cotton gown!</p>
+
+<p>Thus the childhood and girlhood passed gently on
+in almost unvarying home love, duty, and quiet happiness,
+until the 5th of September, 1838, Grace being
+then in her twenty-third year.</p>
+
+<p>On that night an awful storm rose in tempestuous
+fury and swept up to the Farne Islands, raging and
+swelling around, and tossing the black billows into
+surging foam amongst the cliffy little isles that chafed
+it into such majestic madness. A steamer had left
+Hull a day or two before, and as her boilers were not
+in good repair, she was soon rendered helpless in the
+wide ocean, and presently drifted on towards the
+perilous Longstone Lighthouse. She struck on one
+of the dreaded islands, and the cries of the few survivors
+who could cling to that portion of the wreck
+which was forcibly driven between the rocks, reached
+the ears of Grace Darling, who immediately awakened
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>her father. Utter darkness prevented them from
+seeing where the wreck lay, and both father and
+daughter watched till the dawn. An attempt to
+rescue the moving forms which they could faintly
+discern in the misty daylight was almost hopeless,
+but for all that it was made, and the two stepped
+without hesitation into the frail, small boat, which
+they then rowed towards the wreck. Here the difficulty
+increased, as the tempestuous sea threatened
+to dash the boat and its occupants on the rocks where
+the "Forfarshire" was stranded. But the father
+succeeded in landing, Grace pushing off with the boat
+to avoid its being engulphed, and with her oars
+balancing it amongst the rolling billows until the nine
+survivors and her father were safely with her in the
+tiny craft. Then both rowing back to the lighthouse,
+they carefully nursed, cheered, and tended those
+rescued men, Grace especially devoting herself to
+them with unremitting care.</p>
+
+<p>This event gave Grace Darling the notoriety which
+her noble conduct so well merited.</p>
+
+<p>It was on the 20th of October, 1842, when the wild
+equinoctial gales had not long swept over the surrounding
+seas, that she died gently in the midst of
+her own loving family circle, at the early age of
+twenty-seven.</p>
+
+<p>It is easy to imagine the gratitude and joy of the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span>
+nine perishing men who were rescued from an awful
+death!</p>
+
+<p>May you, dear young readers, value far more
+highly that eternal salvation from darker death than
+the one which threatened them, that salvation of those
+who trust themselves fully to the loving Saviour's
+power and willingness to save! To save <i>from</i> both
+the guilt of past sin, and the power of present sin of
+heart and life, through the influence of the Holy
+Spirit of God, and to save <i>for</i> the calm, unshaken
+rest of a bright Home of Light, when the last wave
+of this stormy sea of life is left outside, and exchanged
+for the unbroken beauty of heaven's crystal "sea of
+glass!"</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecoc.png" width="225" height="78" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;">
+<img src="images/i071.png" width="448" height="546" alt="ST. CLEMENT&#39;S CHURCH, NORWICH." title="" />
+<span class="caption">ST. CLEMENT&#39;S CHURCH, NORWICH.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheaderb.png" width="600" height="126" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>XI.</h2>
+
+<h4>MRS. FRY.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idrope.png" alt="E" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Elizabeth Fry, subsequently so well known
+as the kind visitor and instructress of the
+females in Newgate, was born on the 21st of May,
+1780, in St. Clement's parish in the old city of
+Norwich.</p></div>
+
+<p>Her father's name was John Gurney; her mother,
+whose maiden name was Bell, was a lineal descendant
+of Robert Barclay, the Apologist of the Quakers.</p>
+
+<p>The Gurneys of Norwich trace their family back to
+the days of William Rufus, if not to the times of
+William the Conqueror.</p>
+
+<p>Elizabeth was one of twelve children, and the third
+daughter in this large family of Quakers.</p>
+
+<p>When she was four years old, her parents removed
+from the city to the beautiful estate of Earlham,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>
+where her childhood passed away in much worldliness
+and gaiety, for the Quakers of this period were extremely
+lax in carrying out their peculiarities.</p>
+
+<p>Earlham Hall is scarcely two miles from Norwich,
+and is a stately mansion surrounded by a lovely park,
+the river Wensum adding its charms to the scenery
+by its graceful windings in the vicinity. It was here,
+surrounded by luxury, beauty, and profusion, that the
+child played; and the old Hall was her bright, glad
+home.</p>
+
+<p>Her mother seems to have been very fond of
+Elizabeth, and in writing about her, remarks:&mdash;"My
+dear little Betsey never offends, and is, in every sense
+of the word, truly engaging."</p>
+
+<p>This may have been maternal partiality, for whilst
+a mere child, she was somewhat obstinate in disposition,
+and averse to study. It is even stated that
+she was thought a very dull child as to lessons, but
+this was probably because she had a great dislike to
+routine; and preferred a ride on horseback, a merry
+dance&mdash;for she was particularly fond of dancing&mdash;or
+a song with her sister Rachel, with whom she sang
+duets well.</p>
+
+<p>However, Elizabeth evidently made progress in
+accomplishments, and was taught drawing, as well as
+music and dancing.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The young girl was naturally extremely nervous
+and sensitive; when only seven years old, she would
+quietly watch her mother when asleep, with a terrible
+dread that that beloved mother should not wake
+again. Or at times the wish would come into her
+heart, that the walls might close upon herself, and
+her dear parents, brothers, and sisters, and bury them
+in one grave together, rather than that she should
+ever have to suffer separation from them.</p>
+
+<p>When her mother died, Elizabeth was a fair-haired,
+sweet-looking child of twelve, with soft blue eyes,
+and a silvery attractive voice, which in later life told
+the beautiful story of the love and life of Jesus, with
+wonderful influence, to the poor degraded outcasts in
+prison. One poor woman, on hearing her read, said,
+"Hush! the angels have lent her their voices!"</p>
+
+<p>After the mother's death, the father and friends
+remained as gay as before, and an almost sceptical
+tendency crept over the family. With Elizabeth's
+nervous disposition, a dread of death was inevitable;
+she frequently alluded to it, calling it "This wonderful
+death," and in her diary she complains of dark restlessness
+of mind, and some disbelief in the truths of
+the Bible.</p>
+
+<p>Happily this was arrested, for before Elizabeth was
+eighteen, an American "Friend" came to Norwich<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>
+and his addresses given in the chapel roused the
+attention, and led the unsatisfied spirit to deep sorrow
+and mental anxiety. Elizabeth, who appeared as one
+of the listeners, in such gay clothing that her boots&mdash;purple
+laced with scarlet&mdash;were the especial envy of
+a younger sister, left the "Meeting" humble and
+weeping; and at night she remarked that she had for
+the first time <i>felt</i> that there was a God, and added,
+"May that belief never leave me, or, if it does, may
+I at least always remember that I <i>have</i> felt there is
+a God and immortality."</p>
+
+<p>She had a long struggle with herself, being fond of
+notice and flattery, and possessed of considerable
+pride.</p>
+
+<p>When "His Royal Highness of Gloucester" was in
+Norwich, she wished him to visit Earlham, but confessed,
+after she had seen the Prince, that her wish
+was the result of pride.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after this she went to London, and was introduced
+to London life, but immediately after her
+return to her home, she gave up the gaiety which she
+had proved to be utterly unsatisfactory, and commenced
+a life of devotion to God, that resulted in
+loving obedience to His will.</p>
+
+<p>Elizabeth's first efforts to teach to others the way
+of life, which the Holy Spirit had revealed to her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span>
+through Christ, was attention to a dying servant.
+This was followed by instruction to an increasing
+class of boys whom she had in the laundry at Earlham
+Hall, and on her marriage with Joseph Fry, these
+lads numbered eighty-seven. Shortly after this marriage,
+which had removed her to London, she began
+her work of love in Newgate, where for many years
+she taught the poor women of the sympathy and care
+of Jesus. She passed away at the age of sixty-seven,
+with a beautiful, lingering smile, and the simple
+words of trust and faith, "It is a strife, but I am
+safe."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/idecob.png" width="225" height="76" alt="" title="" />
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/iheadere.png" width="600" height="141" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+<h2>XII.</h2>
+
+<h4>AGNES STRICKLAND.</h4>
+
+
+<div class="drop">
+<img src="images/idropell.png" alt="L" width="100" height="100" class="cap" />
+<p class="cap_1">Let us turn to an old Westmoreland family,
+residing between three and four hundred years
+ago, in the style of the period, at Sizergh Castle.
+Sir Thomas Strickland, the head of that family,
+manifested loyal attachment to the house of Stuart,
+and some of the lands and hereditary possessions,
+both in Westmoreland and Lancashire, were eventually
+lost through the steady adherence of Sir Thomas
+and his relatives to this cause.</p></div>
+
+<p>We read of one daughter of the house in the time
+of Henry VIII., whose name, like that of the character
+we are sketching, was Agnes Strickland, marrying
+Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington Castle. And their
+son received Mary Queen of Scots, when she landed
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>upon his estate. Camden, the historian, is also
+descended from the same branch of the family of
+Strickland.</p>
+
+<p>A second Agnes Strickland married the eldest son
+of the Archbishop of York, Francis Sandys, and the
+family of the Stricklands appear to owe their conversion
+from Romanism to the Protestant faith to the
+influence of another son of the Archbishop, named
+George, who was a poet about two hundred years
+ago. They then became as staunch in the principles
+of the Reformation as they had previously been firm
+in papal policy.</p>
+
+<p>One branch of the Strickland family settled at
+Raydon Hall, in Suffolk, and here the third Agnes
+Strickland was born, who has been so justly celebrated
+as the Historian of "The Queens of England from
+the Norman Conquest." Raydon Hall is a very
+lonely place on the sea coast, quite a mile from the
+nearest village, and there is no dwelling at all near to
+it, except one farm-house upon the estate.</p>
+
+<p>The seclusion being thus extremely great during
+the long, bleak winter on the eastern coast, the family
+residing there would have passed many dreary months
+but for the intellectual tastes of its talented members.</p>
+
+<p>There were eight children. Agnes was the third
+daughter, and the girls were very amicable and
+sociable in their simple life, varying the sterner work<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>
+of severe study with delightful games, or in the care
+of pet animals, or by strolls in the gardens and
+grounds around the Hall. A governess had the
+partial training of Agnes and her sisters, but their
+father, himself a literary man, and intensely fond of
+history, topography and genealogy, principally conducted
+their education; compelling the girls to master
+subjects far beyond the usual attainments of young
+ladies, and requiring some knowledge of algebra and
+mathematics from the not always compliant and
+obedient daughters.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Strickland suffered from gout, and was frequently
+confined to his chair or bed.</p>
+
+<p>He then supplied abundant work for Elizabeth,
+Agnes, and the other sisters in reading to him. This
+they were delighted to do, and took almost as much
+interest in history as the father. But Mr. Strickland
+also endeavoured to carry out his wish that the girls
+should be proficient in mathematical studies, and in
+this Elizabeth alone seemed to be docile, for she
+would patiently pore over the figures on her slate,
+whilst Agnes and the others bestowed very sisterly
+pity upon her.</p>
+
+<p>Agnes had a more classical turn, preferring the
+history, and also poetry, making sundry attempts at
+versification herself; but this taste Mr. Strickland<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>
+rigorously checked, considering the effort as a waste
+of time. At last the child obtained her father's
+consent to let Latin take the place of problems, and
+she then set to work upon an old book in that
+language, learning to repeat a number of dialogues:&mdash;a
+mode of studying language extremely irregular, and
+by no means commended by the anxious parent.</p>
+
+<p>Still Agnes also managed to write verses which
+presently came under Mr. Strickland's notice, and
+when twelve years old she composed a poem called
+"The Red Rose." This was intended as a sketch of
+the fortunes of the House of Lancaster, but was so
+severely criticised by her father, that she tore up the
+manuscript by his advice, and promised not to try
+poetry again. But three years afterwards she made
+another venture in that line under the title of "Worcester
+Field," which was published, although, however,
+it is not well known.</p>
+
+<p>Her fame arose gradually soon after this period,
+when, through the death of the father, reverses of
+fortune induced Agnes and her sisters to make literature
+a profession. She then assumed her true taste,
+and evinced marvellous talent as a writer of history,
+making the lives of England's Queens no longer dull,
+dry, and uninteresting, but beautiful sketches of true
+character, and of real, though bygone times; painting,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>
+too, in vivid colours, the social positions of our royal
+matrons with wonderful skill and ability.</p>
+
+<p>Agnes Strickland died on the 13th of July, 1874,
+leaving us a powerful proof of the importance of early
+and attentive education.</p>
+
+<p>The young girl, living in such seclusion on the
+Suffolk coast, little imagined in her childhood that
+her future fame was depending upon the interesting
+and valuable information which she was beginning to
+accumulate, and which she was learning to love as she
+read in dutiful diligence the books indicated by her
+careful father.</p>
+
+<p>And yet that quiet commencement led to high
+honour, and England has well acknowledged her debt
+of gratitude to Agnes Strickland for her splendid
+additions to historic lore. Large labour, constant
+care, and stern study enabled her to use the talents
+which God had given, talents, of which she was
+unconscious as a child.</p>
+
+<p>May not this thought induce a spirit of earnest
+effort in each young heart now? God has given
+talent in some degree, and of some description, to all,
+and He requires the improvement of that talent, whatever
+it may be.</p>
+
+<p>In conclusion, Agnes Strickland wrote with womanly
+and wonderful beauty the history of England's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+Queens. There was once a history written, of far
+greater beauty, and by far higher power, of Him who
+is the "King of kings and Lord of lords;" a history
+traced by His own hand alone, as He guided "Holy
+men" of old by the power of the Holy Ghost. One
+portion of this History is traced in blood&mdash;the "blood
+of Jesus Christ, His Son, which cleanseth from all
+sin" those who receive in penitence, faith, and love,
+the "record that God gave of His Son." May the
+same Holy Spirit, which dictated the Holy Word of
+God, write the History of His character and love so
+deeply within our hearts, that we may receive His
+full salvation now, and the "eternal life" which He
+so freely gives hereafter!</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/i082.png" width="225" height="109" alt="finis." title="" />
+<span class="caption">finis.</span>
+</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p>
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+<p class="tall">PRINTED BY JARROLD AND SONS, NORWICH.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><br /><br /><br /><br />&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="grande">BY THE SAME AUTHOR.</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>Crown 8vo., 3/6. Handsomely bound in Cloth, Gilt Edges</i>:</p>
+
+<p class="venti">FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT:<br />
+OR,<br />
+<span class="smcap">Pieces in Prose &amp; Poetry</span>,</p>
+
+<p class="center">On Subjects selected from Sunday Services.</p>
+
+
+<p>"A series of brief, thoughtful, and ably-written meditations.
+The poems are the spiritual utterances of a devout mind. We
+recommend the book with the greatest pleasure."</p>
+
+<p class="sig">
+<i>Hand and Heart.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>"Each prose composition is followed by a poetical one;
+'collect,' 'meditation,' and 'poem' succeed each other in due
+order throughout the book, and every page contains instructive
+and edifying matter. The verses show a command of metre in
+all its varieties, the ideas are well expressed, and the rhymes
+are good.... We sincerely wish it success."</p>
+
+<p class="sig">
+<i>The Voice of Warning.</i></p>
+
+<p class="tall">REVIEWS.</p>
+
+<p>"Very high praise is due to the talented wife of the Vicar of
+Ringland, not only for the conception of this work, "From
+Advent to Advent," but for the admirable way in which she has
+carried it out, and the remarkable literary ability therein displayed."</p>
+
+<p class="sig">
+<i>The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>"We hardly know which to commend most&mdash;the admirable
+arrangement of the work, or the excellence of its composition.
+Both afford abundant evidence of great genius and tact, to
+which is added the advantage of a large and ripened experience....
+An unceasing stream of meditation and praise, in language
+which no Christian lips could refuse to utter.... They
+simply breathe the pure spirit of the Gospel, and express it with
+a beauty and pathos which will attract every reader. The work
+supplies a long-felt want. It forms an admirable companion to
+the Prayer Book.... Even the verses, taken by themselves,
+would form a second 'Christian Year,' of which a Keble need not
+be ashamed. To the prose compositions like praise must be
+accorded. The work is well-bound and printed, and forms an
+attractive little volume, well suitable for Sunday School prizes,
+for presentation to friends, and for the general circulation which
+it deserves extensively to obtain."</p>
+
+<p class="sig">
+<i>Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>"A valuable volume."</p>
+
+<p class="sig">
+<i>The Rev. Hely H. Smith.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p><b>Transcriber's Notes:</b></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>Punctuation has been normalized.<br />
+Page 14: "caresssing" replaced with "caressing".<br />
+Page 50: "Inchmahone" replaced with "Inchmahome".<br />
+Page 67: "troup" replaced with "troupe".<br />
+Page 69: "engulphed" retained as printed.<br />
+Page 81: "latin" replaced with "Latin".</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Childhood of Distinguished Women, by Selina A. Bower
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: The Childhood of Distinguished Women
+
+Author: Selina A. Bower
+
+Release Date: June 26, 2011 [EBook #36519]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDHOOD OF ***
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+Produced by Chris Curnow, paksenarrion, Lindy Walsh and
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+           THE CHILDHOOD OF DISTINGUISHED WOMEN.
+
+
+              [Illustration: WINDSOR CASTLE.]
+
+                       THE CHILDHOOD
+                            OF
+                    Distinguished Women.
+
+                            BY
+                      SELINA A. BOWER,
+             AUTHOR OF "FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT."
+
+                          LONDON:
+         JARROLD & SONS, 3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.
+                 [_ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._]
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+
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+
+             _To be had also from the Author._
+      ADDRESS--MRS. BOWER, RINGLAND VICARAGE, NORWICH.
+
+
+
+
+                   LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+                                                  PAGE.
+
+    WINDSOR CASTLE                       _Frontispiece_
+
+    THE TOWER OF LONDON                              24
+
+    GREENWICH HOSPITAL                               36
+
+    INCHMAHOME                                       48
+
+    NORWICH CATHEDRAL
+    (copied from a photograph, by permission)        60
+
+    ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, NORWICH                    72
+
+
+
+
+The Childhood of Distinguished Women.
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+THE PRINCESS ALICE.
+
+
+The Princess Alice was the second daughter and third child of our own
+beloved Queen Victoria and the late Prince Consort, "Albert the Good."
+
+Our deepest sorrowful interest has recently been excited by the touching
+and sudden way in which this lovely and gifted woman has been called
+from her home on earth to her eternal home in heaven.
+
+The Princess was born on April 25th, 1843, and was very gladly welcomed
+by the warm, true mother's heart of Her Majesty, who has ever shown and
+expressed the deepest love for her happy circle of girls and boys.
+
+The first incident in the babyhood of the Princess Alice which attracts
+attention is the record of her christening. It was a very brilliant one,
+the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating, on June 2nd. The sponsors were
+the late King of Hanover, Ernest, the present Duke of Coburg, and the
+Princesses Sophia, Matilda, and Feodora.
+
+We will give the Queen's own words about the important choice of the
+royal infant's names; Her Majesty thus writes:--"Our little baby is to
+be called Alice, an old English name, and the other names are to be Maud
+(another old English name, and the same as Matilda) and Mary, as she was
+born on Aunt Gloucester's birthday." Again, in writing to her uncle, the
+Queen's account of the little Princess's conduct was that "little Alice
+behaved extremely well."
+
+When quite a young child, the Princess Alice was remarkably quick, and
+earnestly enjoyed the acquirement of all the knowledge suitable to her
+years, and soon displayed intellectual talent of a high order.
+
+Peculiarly sweet and amiable in her disposition, and patient and
+untiring in her love, the young Princess was a favourite in the royal
+nursery and schoolroom.
+
+Her illustrious father found her when even a child as to age, quite his
+companion as to comprehension and mental capacities.
+
+Two very special characteristics place the beloved Princess Alice in the
+highest range of distinguished women, and call for the deepest regard
+and respect from all hearts.
+
+From her earliest youth, whatever was learned by her was _thoroughly_
+acquired, quietly and completely mastered, definitely and decidedly
+finished. And with her highly-refined, cultivated, and capacious mind,
+she also combined every domestic and feminine grace and duty, and was
+the useful, helpful English maiden, as well as singularly intellectual.
+
+"In her teens," the Princess was pronounced to be "one of the most
+accomplished young ladies in England."
+
+When the Queen visited Scotland in 1844, the Princess was too young to
+accompany the royal party, and Her Majesty thus writes of the
+separation. Just when they were ready for the journey, "Alice and the
+baby (Prince Alfred) were brought in, poor little things, to wish us
+good-bye."
+
+But in the course of a few years, all the children were able to
+participate in the Scotch journeys, and the Princess Alice became the
+constant companion of the Queen, riding with her over the lovely hills
+on ponies; visiting the poor women in the cottages, calling at the shop
+to purchase comforts for them; and at various times climbing the
+ascents to Feithort, or up Morven, Loch-na-Gar, and Ben Mac Dhui. This
+latter ascent was made through the dank mountain cloud; but this did not
+daunt the royal travellers, the Queen recording--"However, I and Alice
+rode to the very top, which we reached a few minutes past two; and here,
+at a cairn of stones, we lunched in a piercing cold wind.... Luncheon
+over, Albert ran off with Alice to the ridge to look at the splendid
+view, and sent for me to follow."
+
+In December, 1861, Prince Albert was attacked by the terrible disease
+which eventually proved fatal. The Princess Alice, although only
+seventeen, was the constant, unwearied nurse of her well-loved parent,
+and tended and watched him with the strongest filial love. To the last
+she kept her post, and when her aid and gentle care were no more needed,
+for he had passed away, she turned to soothe, comfort, and support her
+beloved mother with womanly and dutiful affection.
+
+On the 1st of July, 1862, the Princess Alice married Prince Louis of
+Hesse, and proved a pattern wife and mother. But in 1878, her own little
+household group was smitten with diphtheria, and in nursing and
+caressing her darling children, she caught the disease herself. One
+child preceded her, the Princess Mary, who died November 16th, and on
+December 14th, the anniversary of her honoured father's death, she, too,
+was summoned home.
+
+The changes and sorrows of life, and, perhaps, especially the death, of
+a darling little one, who fell from a window, in 1873, and was killed by
+the fall, had been blessed to her by the Holy Spirit of God; and scenes
+of family sickness and bereavement seem to have led the endeared
+Princess Alice to that loving and sympathizing Saviour who is ever ready
+to save the heart that fully trusts in Him.
+
+The whole English nation mourned for her, as for one near and dear to
+each, and a solemnity pervaded all classes, though Christmas was at
+hand.
+
+Possibly the anticipation of Christmastide had been bright in her own
+loving spirit: if so, that anticipation was realized, for the first
+Christmas in heaven with Jesus Himself must indeed surpass the most
+joyous and happy one ever spent on earth.
+
+
+In Memoriam.
+
+THE PRINCESS ALICE, WHO DIED DEC. 14th, 1878.
+
+    She is taken to celebrate Christmastide,
+      In Emmanuel's land of light;
+    The notes of her carol swell far and wide,
+      And her raiment is lustrous white.
+
+    Introduced to the happy, and blood-bought throng,
+      For whom Jesus, the Christ, was born,
+    How sweetly will echo her triumph song,
+      On the Heavenly Christmas morn!
+
+    And the day she was taken was linked in love,
+      By fond memory's silver chain,
+    With him who had entered the Home above,
+      Which knows neither parting nor pain.
+    At the dawn of the wintry, and short, dark day,
+      The angel of death hovered near,
+    To herald the sorrowful mother away,
+      From trouble, and trial, and tear.
+
+    Let us mingle our prayers, asking God to bless,
+      With earnest, affectionate cry,
+    Our well-beloved Queen, in her new distress,
+      Her comfort our God can supply.
+    May she treasure the thought with tremulous praise,
+      That those who were lent, and not given,
+    Are joining with us in the angels' lays,
+      And keeping their Christmas in Heaven!
+
+_Montacute, Ilminster, Somerset, Christmas, 1878._
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+MRS. HANNAH MORE.
+
+
+Mrs. Hannah More spent her happy childhood at Stapleton, near Bristol;
+and her early girlhood in Bristol itself, as a pupil in the school of
+her three elder sisters.
+
+Besides these three sisters, whose names were Mary, Betty, and Sally,
+there was also one younger than Hannah herself, named Patty.
+
+The five little girls were the children of a Mr. Jacob More, the head
+master of a foundation school at Stapleton.
+
+Mr. More had married the daughter of a farmer, who had been carefully
+brought up, and possessed considerable mind and also great judgment.
+
+Hannah was born in 1745, and, together with her four sisters, learned to
+read at home, the mother herself teaching them.
+
+It is not difficult to picture that happy home, with all its quiet
+influence of love, for the five little girls appear to have been good
+children, very affectionate to each other, and would form a sweet,
+bright group as they stood with respectful attitude and intelligent
+faces round the kind mother, and repeated with interest and earnest
+emulation, the familiar "A, B, C."
+
+Presently, something more than this was needed, but books were scarce.
+Mr. More had been educated for the Church, but his desire to be a
+clergyman was frustrated. He removed from Norfolk, his native county,
+and in his transit to Stapleton, which in those days was a long and
+difficult journey, he lost the greater part of his library. He therefore
+endeavoured to supply from memory, information and instruction to his
+five daughters, and Hannah was always extremely delighted to stand by
+her father's knees and listen to his stories of Grecian and Roman
+history, and also to gain thus from him a fair amount of classical
+learning.
+
+The nurse who assisted the busy mother with her happy charge, had lived
+for some time in the family of Dryden, and often interested and amused
+Hannah and her sisters with accounts of the poet.
+
+When Mr. More found that Hannah evinced such a desire for information,
+he began to teach her Latin and Mathematics; but as she outstripped all
+his pupils in the foundation school with extreme rapidity, the father,
+fearing that it might tend to make Hannah unfeminine, ceased these
+instructions. They seem, however, to have been supplemented by a
+different mode of education. The parents were poor, too poor to supply
+all the requirements of so large a family. Very wisely they determined
+that the children should be trained to support themselves. Miss More
+was, therefore, sent to a good school in Bristol, as a weekly boarder,
+and every Saturday, on her return home, she was required to teach her
+four sisters _all_ that she had learned in the week!
+
+When this sister was twenty years old, she, together with Betty and
+Sally, opened a school themselves in Bristol; and Hannah, then twelve
+years of age, and Patty were sent as pupils.
+
+On one occasion Hannah was taken ill, and Dr. Woodward, evidently a
+literary man of that time, was sent for to attend her. But so great was
+her conversational power, that the kind doctor forgot the purpose for
+which he came. After some time, he took his leave, but exclaimed,
+presently, "Bless me! I forgot to ask the girl how she is to-day!"
+
+This remarkable talent, thus early developed, was one of Mrs. Hannah
+More's charms through life, and existed to the last lingering days of
+an intelligent old age.
+
+Hannah's other great talent, as a writer, was also early and fully
+indicated. As a mere child, she would scribble poems and prim essays
+upon every scrap of available paper, and a story is told of her, that
+she had one grand ambition constantly before her young life, and that
+was to be old enough to "possess a whole quire of paper!" As a
+schoolgirl, Dr. Johnson, the elder Sheridan, and the astronomer
+Ferguson, seem to have been on terms of some intimacy, and exercised a
+talented influence upon the strong sense and mental capacity of Hannah
+More.
+
+England was experiencing change during the younger years of this
+well-known and justly honoured writer; the upper circles of society were
+gay and semi-infidel in principle, disposed to laugh at, and ridicule
+anything of a religious character; the lower were so intensely ignorant
+that they devoted themselves to indolence and vice. But already Wesley
+and Whitefield were preaching the simple gospel of the Lord Jesus
+Christ, and, through the influence of His Holy Spirit, awakening numbers
+to study, appreciate, and rise to the full reception of the truth as it
+is in Him.
+
+Mrs. Hannah More threw her literary influence and ability into the
+effort to raise and benefit her fellow-countrymen; though I am not aware
+that, during her early years, she in any way displayed personal and
+positive perception of the great love of that Heavenly Father who
+provided the special salvation and restoration so singularly suited to
+the wants and capacities of every child of man. But her evident respect
+for religion is singularly shown in the apparent sorrow that any
+disregard should be manifested towards God's Word; she once remarked,
+with emphatic disapproval, "We saw but one Bible in the parish of
+Cheddar, and that was used to prop a flower-pot!" She died in 1833, at
+the age of eighty-eight.
+
+[Illustration: THE TOWER OF LONDON.]
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+LADY JANE GREY.
+
+
+Henry Grey was the Marquis of Dorset, and married Frances Brandon, the
+daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and his beautiful wife, Mary, the sister
+of Henry VIII. This Mary was for three months Queen of France; and when
+Louis XII. left her a widow, she was again married, almost immediately,
+to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Their child Frances was the mother
+of Lady Jane Grey, who was born in 1537. There were two other little
+girls younger than Lady Jane, Katherine and Mary.
+
+All the three children were treated with very great severity, which was
+not unusual at that time. Lady Jane, perhaps because she was the eldest
+girl, was expected to be quite perfect in her manners, movements, and in
+all that she said; to use her own striking expression, to do everything
+"Even so perfectly as God made the world."
+
+Her parents enforced obedience by threatening and taunting her; and also
+by literal _pinching_ and _nipping_, besides still more severe and
+revolting bodily punishments, which worried and fretted the gentle,
+noble child, almost past endurance.
+
+However, probably partly owing to all this torture, Lady Jane derived
+her pleasures from far higher sources than her years warranted.
+
+Her tutor, Mr. Elmer, unlike her parents, was extremely gentle and kind;
+and when with him the child became perfectly free and happy, learning
+her lessons with great patience, care, and interest, and enjoying that
+true cultivation of mind, which is the result of all study that is
+rendered attractive.
+
+Mr. Elmer had abundant reward for his toil, in winning and retaining the
+affection and respect of his young pupil; and also in the rapidity with
+which she mastered, not only the usual routine of general knowledge, but
+the higher forms of classical learning. In Greek especially she was
+proficient, and Plato was to her more interesting than any story book.
+
+When her father, who was at this time made a Duke, was out with the
+Duchess and friends, hunting in the park, Lady Jane preferred remaining
+in her bedroom with her books, and, on being questioned why she did not
+join the party in their sport in the park, she replied that such
+amusements were but "shadow."
+
+The surroundings of her home life were not congenial to the natural
+gentleness and sweetness of her disposition, and this, with perhaps also
+her love of the Greek language, led the young girl to study deeply, and
+to love God's Holy Word, and very shortly before her sorrowful death,
+she sent her Greek Testament to her sister Katherine, as the most
+precious gift which she could offer. The truths of that Word fell softly
+into the heart that yearned for love, and the salvation and sympathy of
+the Saviour seems to have been accepted by Lady Jane in her earliest
+years, and evidently proved her support and consolation in the tragedy
+that closed her young life here, as well as during the six months'
+previous imprisonment in the Tower.
+
+Born, as she was, in transition times, Lady Jane quickly formed her own
+judgment, and was thoroughly Protestant in her faith. She was often with
+her cousin, Edward VI., and her decided opinions upon the Reformation,
+together with her arguments in its support, and her dislike to the
+Romish errors which they both condemned, made the boy-monarch respect
+her highly, and there was a warm attachment between the youthful
+cousins.
+
+Her childhood had scarcely faded into early girlhood, when Lady Jane
+became the bride of Lord Guildford Dudley, fourth son of the Duke of
+Northumberland. There was a treble marriage; Lady Jane and her two
+sisters were married at the same time at Durham House, Lady Jane, the
+eldest, being only fifteen years of age!
+
+The rest of her sad story is quickly told. Owing to the ambition of her
+own father, and her husband's father, after the death of King Edward,
+she was, sorely against her own will, induced to claim the English
+crown. It was long before she yielded to the persuasion of Archbishop
+Cranmer, and, when she did so, it was with many tears, and these words,
+"If this right be truly mine, O gracious God, give me strength so to
+rule as to promote Thy honour, and my country's good!" Queen Mary, the
+right heir, was duly crowned, and, after ten days, Lady Jane Grey was
+informed by her own father that she was not, in reality, Queen. She was
+subsequently sent to the Tower, and after six months' imprisonment, the
+sentence of death was carried out on February 12th, 1554.
+
+Three short days were allowed for immediate preparation, during which
+Lady Jane calmly wrote to her father, and conversed with Dr. Feckenham,
+who tried to induce her to become a Romanist. This she firmly declined,
+though she did so with the greatest sweetness.
+
+Her last words are evidence of her hope and trust; as she laid her head
+upon the block, she said, in trembling tones, "Lord Jesus! receive my
+spirit!" and the short life of earth was merged in the eternal life of
+Heaven!
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.
+
+
+Not very far from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire, there is now a
+fine Gothic building, where the old mansion of the Hastings family
+formerly, and for centuries, had stood. The situation is lovely, for
+Donnington-park, with its large forest trees and magnificent old oaks,
+forms a more than usually beautiful surrounding to the extensive and
+immediate grounds. Those, to the north, were precipitous, and the broken
+craggy ground, with hanging woods, give additional charm to the sweeping
+valleys and alternating hills.
+
+To this venerable old English home, Lady Selina Shirley came, as the
+bride of Theophilus Hastings, ninth Earl of Huntingdon, when she was
+nearly twenty-one, from her own adjacent home, Stanton Harold, which lay
+between Donnington-park and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
+
+The two homes thus near, were singularly similar. For the home of Lady
+Selina's childhood was also a fine old edifice, very massive, with noble
+and spacious apartments, standing in the midst of an extensive park,
+with soft, swelling hills, and still softer green-clad vales. The
+tasteful grounds, too, were rendered more attractive by a large
+ornamental lake, which clearly mirrored a handsome stone bridge, as it
+lay peacefully resting against the sloping lawn. The church, with its
+pretty tower, adjoined the house, and Sunday after Sunday, the child, as
+she sat or stood in the old family pew, became familiar with the long
+inscriptions that were on the monuments of her own ancestors, and which
+plainly indicated that all, whatever the rank and station, must pass
+from the present to a future state.
+
+The Shirley family was celebrated for two specialities--the purity of
+its genealogy, which could be traced up to the time of Edward the
+Confessor; and the piety of its most distinguished members, which, as it
+arose from a living faith in an eternal Saviour, must result in a
+future, which no human calculation can limit to its possessors, and in
+an infinite and everlasting life through Him alone.
+
+The grandfather of Lady Selina Shirley had twenty-seven children, her
+father being the second son. She was born at Stanton Harold, on the
+24th August, 1707. Two sisters, one older and one younger, shared the
+nursery with Lady Selina, and participated in the play, the happy
+strolls in the park, and presently in the early lessons. Elizabeth, the
+eldest, became the celebrated Lady E. Nightingale, and Mary, the "baby"
+of the family, was afterwards Viscountess Kilmorey.
+
+Lady Selina was decidedly talented, very benevolent, unusually grave and
+serious, and extremely graceful. Though not strictly beautiful, yet the
+large, bright eyes, the well-formed mouth, and the bold, intellectual
+brow, when illumined by the animation of the ardent spirit, were far
+more attractive than those perishing charms which exist only in features
+and externals.
+
+She was a sensitive child, as well as serious, and often went alone to a
+small room to pray, and in childish, earnest fervour she would pour out
+every little trouble into the ear of that Father in heaven who listens
+to each whisper of distress.
+
+When the Lady Selina was nine years old, a child just her own age died,
+and the passing funeral attracted her notice. She followed to the grave;
+listened to the beautiful and solemn service; heard those thrilling
+words, as the body was slowly lowered, "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
+dust to dust." Her eyes filled with tears, and, awe-struck and
+frightened, the young girl earnestly asked God to prepare her for her
+last hour, that she might die happily and without alarm. After this, she
+would often go to that little grave to think, to weep, to pray, and was
+much impressed with this first realization of death!
+
+On December 25th, 1717, her grandfather died, and this deepened those
+impressions, adding earnestness to her prayers, and strengthening her
+seriousness, although it was not until nearly ten years after her
+marriage that she became personally interested in the love of the
+Saviour, and sought full salvation through His work; and by the power of
+the Holy Spirit became a decided disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
+
+Lady Selina was very highly educated, being trained with extreme care,
+for her social position, and her naturally high intellect, and evident
+talent, were developed by sound instruction in all the various branches
+of interesting study. Her retentive memory and brilliant fancy availed
+themselves of all the knowledge presented to them; and even when quite
+young, her sound understanding and clear judgment were beyond her years,
+as they appeared in the conversation and observations in which she took
+part.
+
+Probably all this was preparing her for those peculiar efforts in the
+religious world, with their lasting influences, which have made Selina,
+Countess of Huntingdon, a truly distinguished woman.
+
+But it was the grace of God alone which influenced her to utilize all
+this preparation; and that grace; having first filled her heart with a
+deep sense of sin, and of the utter insufficiency of her own ability to
+procure salvation, then led her to the most unbounded and simple trust
+in Jesus. Her love and gratitude made her anxious to work for Him; and
+her own peace rendered her desirous that others too should possess like
+peace. Thus the whole of her energy was directed to seek the honour and
+glory of her Saviour, and the safety of every sinner through Him.
+
+During her last illness the Countess often repeated, "I long to be at
+home! My work is done! I have nothing to do but to go to my heavenly
+Father;" and almost her last words were, "I shall go to my Father
+to-night."
+
+She entered that Father's heavenly presence on June 17th, 1791, in the
+eighty-fourth year of her age.
+
+[Illustration: GREENWICH HOSPITAL.]
+
+
+
+
+V.
+
+QUEEN ELIZABETH.
+
+
+Queen Elizabeth, who was the second daughter of King Henry VIII., was
+born at Greenwich on the 7th of September, 1533, in a tapestry-covered
+chamber in the palace. This tapestry represented the parable of the Ten
+Virgins, and the half-unconscious eyes of the royal infant often rested
+upon the hazy blue dresses of the quaint maidens with their odd little
+lamps, as the days of early babyhood went softly by.
+
+The King had his young daughter very magnificently christened by
+Archbishop Cranmer. It was Archbishop Cranmer who drew up the Church
+Catechism, and who was some years afterwards a Christian martyr, in the
+reign of Queen Mary, Elizabeth's eldest sister.
+
+Besides the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth, Henry VIII. had one son,
+Edward, who succeeded his father as King of England.
+
+When Elizabeth was between two and three years old, her mother, whose
+maiden name was Anne Boleyn, the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and
+niece of the Duke of Norfolk, was put to death by the King's wish, in a
+most unjust and wicked way. The poor little child probably knew nothing
+of this, for she was sent to reside, under the care of Lady Margaret
+Bryan, in the manor of Hunsdon. She appears to have been greatly
+neglected, as presently a petition went from Lady Margaret to Court
+requesting that suitable dresses and apparel for Elizabeth might be sent
+at once; for, wrote Lady Margaret, "She had neither gown nor kirtle, nor
+no manner of linen, nor foresmocks, nor kerchiefs, nor sleeves, nor
+veils, nor mufflers, nor biggins;" a funny list of juvenile attire for a
+young Princess! However, the little girl was well cared for by Lady
+Margaret, and soon learned to read, to write, and to sew beautifully,
+and could play "indifferent well" upon some musical instruments.
+
+In 1537, Elizabeth's brother Edward was born, King Henry having married
+again, and at the christening of this Prince, Elizabeth seems to have
+appeared at Court for the first time. The tiny Princess was allowed to
+hold the chrism on the occasion, and afterwards presented her baby
+brother with a "shirt of cambric," which her own small fingers had
+industriously embroidered.
+
+In the course of a few years, Elizabeth had acquired a fair knowledge of
+astronomy and geography, besides mathematics and architecture; and could
+speak five languages fluently, as well as her own native English.
+
+For some time the Princess Mary also resided at Hunsdon, and was
+evidently kind to her younger sister. The two girls, whose lives were to
+be so distinguished, but so different, probably spent together the
+happiest portion of those lives in the comparative seclusion of Lady
+Margaret's home, busy, and occupied also with domestic employments, as
+they stored their minds with the literature of the period.
+
+At that time, Elizabeth's vanity, which was a sad trait in her latter
+years, was not perceptible, for in a sketch of her when about twelve,
+she is spoken of as dressing with peculiarly "simple elegance," and
+almost despising personal adornment.
+
+Being tall, she was commanding in person, and she was impetuous in her
+bearing. Her complexion was pale, her hair rather light, her face long
+and narrow, with an aquiline nose; and though her temper was hasty, she
+was usually so bright and cheerful that her companions scarcely heeded
+her fits of passion. She was also sensible and shrewd, and when very
+young, showed a disposition to rule and govern.
+
+The grave faults of her latter days, her vanity, her strong epithets of
+abuse, her caprice, and her increasing warmth of temper, were probably
+the results of the personal disappointments of her strange life. And
+perhaps her dread of death, points us to the real source of these
+faults, for it seems to indicate that Queen Elizabeth had not been so
+earnest in seeking God's grace, and the influence of His Holy Spirit, as
+she ought to have been, to preserve her from evil in this life, as well
+as to prepare her for the future life where there will be no evil, in
+the kingdom of the "King of kings and Lord of lords," the happy realm of
+Jesus.
+
+Elizabeth was fourteen when her father died, and then she wrote a
+celebrated letter in choice Latin to her young half-brother Edward, with
+whom she was always on excellent terms.
+
+The two children were Protestants, Mary alone remaining attached to the
+Papal power, which Henry VIII. had so unflinchingly put down during the
+latter part of his reign. Elizabeth's cherished and noble Protestantism
+remained firm through all the changes of her eventful life; and when,
+after the reigns of her brother Edward VI., and her elder sister Mary,
+she herself was placed upon the throne of England, she finally
+established the Protestant religion in the country; and to her, under
+God, we owe a deep debt of gratitude, for the long and happy years which
+have intervened until the present time, and during which God's most Holy
+Word has been left to us, a free and open book, in which we may each
+read and learn for ourselves His will, and about that spiritual service
+which He requires, and which alone can fit us for His presence, when He
+calls us from His world below to His world above.
+
+Queen Elizabeth died on March 24th, 1603, before the morning dawned,
+after a reign of nearly forty-five years, at the age of sixty-nine.
+
+
+
+
+VI.
+
+MRS. HEMANS.
+
+
+Let us sketch a scene in the west of our island home. Long, rolling,
+soft, beautiful blue waves are dashing lightly upon a clear beach of
+wide sparkling sand, leaving behind, as the tide gradually ebbs, a
+ribbed and rippled surface. A rather narrow coast-line presents a
+somewhat scanty amount of cultivation; cottage and mansion lying here
+and there, as convenience or fancy may have suggested to the possessor.
+Now and then a tiny clean Welsh village, or small town, claims a space
+of country which may be rather broader than usual. This coast-line is
+immediately hemmed in by high, wild, stern mountains sloping quickly
+upwards towards the sky, with soft grey clouds sometimes poised midway
+up the steep sides, or resting in filmy folds upon the top. Snowdon,
+rather to the south of the locality that we are sketching, and a little
+inland, often raising its high summit above the rest like a
+silver-haired veteran surrounded by companions, who vie with each other
+in emulation of their leader.
+
+A large house, Grwych (pronounced Griech), stood some years ago where
+this coast is rather narrow, the mountains towering up in front, and the
+sea softly laving the sandy shore behind. A set of six young children
+with their parents occupied this house. They had happy playhours in the
+old garden, or on the smooth sand; and Felicia, the fourth child, not
+always disposed for the gay romp of the cheerful group, took constant
+possession of a large apple tree, into which she could climb; its leafy
+boughs well hid the little girl and her book, which she then enjoyed in
+unmolested quiet. Until she was five years old Felicia Dorothea Browne
+had lived in Liverpool. She was born there in Duke-street, on the 25th
+September, 1794. Her father's ancestry was Irish, that of her mother was
+Venetian, and probably the Italian origin of the gentle poetess gave
+rise to the beauty and extent of her imagination, as perhaps also from
+her father she might derive the quick bright flow of language from which
+her pen sped on in an easy graceful stream.
+
+She was an extremely beautiful child, with long curling golden hair,
+which became dark brown as she grew older; her complexion was clear and
+bright, the colour coming and going with every varying impulse and
+impression. Her mother, herself talented and clever, cultivated her
+young daughter's tastes, and at the early age of seven years the little
+Felicia produced some attempts at composition. She had an extremely
+retentive memory, read well, and evinced great love of reading.
+Shakespeare was one of her favourite books at this time, and she took
+delight in juvenile attempts at personifying the characters. Happily,
+this was but a temporary freak.
+
+Her studies do not appear to have been at all conducted with regularity.
+French, the English Grammar, and the rudiments of Latin comprised the
+only systematic training which she received. Highly imaginative as she
+was, and surrounded by the wild beauty of the Welsh hills, the varying
+sights and sounds of the wide deep sea, with her love of books and
+capacity to retain, as well as enjoy, her cultivation progressed, and
+knowledge increased rapidly without effort on her part, or on the part
+of others.
+
+There is a story told of a constant childish raid. When the mother
+thought the little one safe for the night, she would slip quickly and
+quietly down to the bright laving sea, and bathe alone in the clear
+water, softly creeping back to bed undiscovered; and perhaps throughout
+her life the same wrong tendency towards insincerity and love of hidden
+mischief is discernible.
+
+A visionary belief in spirits and apparitions also appears to have
+influenced her at times, when mystery, rather than truth, assumed
+possession of her mind. Even little children in the present day need
+scarcely be told that there are no ghosts; but, being highly sensitive
+and nervous, she was peculiarly open to every passing fancy.
+
+Early in life, Felicia visited London, but cared little for its gaiety;
+and with true childlike impatience longed to be at home again in the
+dear old house by the sea, though she enjoyed the works of art to which
+this visit afforded access.
+
+Felicia Browne's first book of poems was published in 1808, when she was
+only fourteen, and this, together with another volume published in 1812,
+met with severe criticism. The poor child felt this so acutely that she
+became ill, and had to keep her bed for several days.
+
+These books were the only two which she wrote before her married life
+commenced, so that her fame as a poetess was acquired as Mrs. Hemans,
+and not as Felicia Browne.
+
+There is no evidence to prove that in youth she gave her heart to the
+Saviour of sinners; but some of her poems in after life are deeply and
+touchingly full of yearnings for "The Better Land," or they sketch in
+soft melodious metre the swift decay of earthly beauty and joy, which is
+indeed always "Passing Away." As years and sorrows gathered, she also
+studied God's Word with earnestness and zeal, and the sixteenth of St.
+John was her favourite chapter; it was also the last which she read
+before her death. We may certainly hope that "The Comforter," who is
+promised in that chapter, guided her safely into "all truth," and led
+her simply to trust in Jesus, that in Him alone she "might have peace."
+For only Jesus can prepare any child of man, through the influences of
+His Spirit, for the purity, beauty, and happiness of His Heavenly Home,
+in that "better country," of which Mrs. Hemans once wrote--
+
+    "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy;
+    Ear hath not heard its sweet sounds of joy;
+    Dreams cannot picture a world so fair,
+    Sorrow and death may not enter there;
+    Time may not breathe on its faultless bloom,
+    For beyond the grave, and beyond the tomb,
+            It is there, it is there, my child."
+
+Mrs. Hemans passed away in the evening twilight, on the 16th of May,
+1835, at the age of forty-one.
+
+[Illustration: INCHMAHOME,
+
+The Child-Queen's child garden, with her little walk and its boxwood,
+left to itself for three hundred years. Yes, without doubt, 'Here is the
+first garden of her simpleness.']
+
+
+
+
+VII.
+
+MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.
+
+
+James V., of Scotland, was dangerously ill owing to severe
+disappointments and defeats experienced in his border war with Henry
+VIII., of England, and dying at Falkland, when, on the 8th of December,
+1542, a message came to him from Linlithgow Palace, stating that his
+Queen, Mary of Guise, had a baby daughter. The king, rendered sorrowful
+by his trials and his sickness, replied, in his own expressive language,
+"Ay, it cam' (meaning the kingdom of Scotland) wi' a lass, and it will
+gang wi' a lass," and this prediction seem fulfilled in Mary's fate.
+
+The king, her father, only lingered five more days, and on his death the
+tiny infant became Queen of Scotland and the Isles.
+
+When about nine months old, Mary was solemnly crowned, on the 9th of
+September, 1543, at Stirling Castle, having been carefully taken there
+from Linlithgow for the coronation by Cardinal Beaton, who performed the
+ceremony. Her mother was presently appointed regent.
+
+After a few months, Mary went to reside on a small island in the Lake of
+Monteith, called Inchmahome.
+
+Four other noble children were her companions, and all these four
+children bore also the name of Mary; Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming, Mary
+Seaton, and Mary Livingstone, and all were of the same age.
+
+Mary remained on this island until she was nearly six years old. The
+five young girls, so isolated and lonely as regards the rest of the
+world, must have amused themselves with the usual routine of baby
+pastimes, but a great change now took place. The Queen of Scots was
+removed to France, and the four companions of her baby days also
+accompanied her to the gay scenes of the French Court.
+
+Henry II., King of France, received Mary with great enthusiasm and
+respect, and a triumphal procession was arranged to convey her to the
+palace of St. Germain-en-Laye.
+
+Her extreme beauty drew much attention. She had bright auburn hair,
+dark hazel eyes, a fair complexion, and a "dimpled chin."
+
+When the king saw her, his surprise at her loveliness made him enquire,
+with truly characteristic French politeness and love of compliment, "Are
+you not an angel?"
+
+Mary was shortly afterwards placed in a French convent to receive a
+royal education, and appears to have been much attached to those who
+instructed and tended her. She said adieu to them all very reluctantly,
+when she returned to the gay Court life at a still early age.
+
+The description of her at this time is that she was very accomplished,
+having acquired some skill in music, singing, dancing, and even in
+poetic effusions. She also had pursued more serious studies, both
+historical and classical, and was altogether so bright and intelligent
+that Brantoine remarked, "Ah! kingdom of Scotland! I cannot but think
+your days must be shorter, your nights longer, now you have lost the
+Princess by whom you were illumined!"
+
+Her dress appears to have been a subject of much whim and caprice:
+sometimes she would wear a Highland costume, then again the fashionable
+French or Italian mode of those days, and her time was spent completely
+in gaiety and amusements.
+
+Mary, Queen of Scots, was born and educated in the Romish religion, and
+was, in after life, a rigid Papist. Lord Shrewsbury, who had charge of
+her by Queen Elizabeth's orders, intimates in his letters, which are
+still extant, that he thought of her rather "as a mischievous, cunning
+Papist, than as an injured Queen."
+
+Owing to various conspiracies and plots, Mary was sentenced to die,
+eventually, by Queen Elizabeth, and her execution took place on February
+7th, 1587.
+
+There is a touching little story about her favourite dog. The tiny
+animal hid itself in her dress when she was taken to the scaffold, and,
+after her death, he refused to leave her body, and had to be forcibly
+taken away.
+
+Mary, Queen of Scots, led a gay, dissipated life, and her death was sad
+and solemn. Having been trained a Romanist, the Holy Word of God was not
+placed in her hands and made the guide of her life, and her sins brought
+much sorrow and difficulty which seemed to draw her on from sin to sin,
+instead of leading her to humble repentance and simple faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ.
+
+The Bible alone is the guide which God has given both for this present
+life, and for the future life; and God has given this book to each and
+all, to read and to study with earnest prayer for His Holy Spirit's
+teaching, that each and all may understand it, and may act upon its
+_teaching_.
+
+Perhaps if Mary had read God's Word herself, and seen the beauty and
+purity of its commands, and learned from it all the great love of God,
+and His way of salvation for sinners through the "One Mediator between
+God and men, the Man Christ Jesus," she would have escaped the
+temptations of her own great beauty and of her royal position, and not
+have perished as she did. We ought, indeed, to value our Bibles, and to
+seek grace to study them, so that, although there are snares and
+temptations around us, we may always know what God's will is, and also
+know how to resist those temptations through His mighty help. And we
+should also thank God that He has given us His Holy Word to lead us
+safely through all earth's changes to the unchanging Heaven, and that He
+has promised to give those who trust in Jesus and love Him now, far more
+than an uncertain crown of gold, even a "Crown of glory that fadeth not
+away."
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+POCAHONTAS, THE ROSEBUD.
+
+
+Long ago, and far away, this Indian Princess was born, in 1594.
+
+Pocahontas was a distinguished woman for two reasons, which render her
+short life one of singular interest.
+
+One of these reasons was the effectual aid she rendered when quite a
+young girl to the early English settlers in the United States.
+
+The other reason, and a far higher one, was that Pocahontas was the
+first heathen amongst the Red Indians who was converted to Christianity
+in Virginia. The readers of "The Rosebud" will be interested to know
+that a young girl bearing the name of Pocahontas, which means "The
+Rosebud," was thus the earliest native of those dark lands who was led
+from the sad shadows of heathen superstition, ignorance, and idolatry,
+to that Jesus who is truly "the Light of the world."
+
+The father of Pocahontas was a Red Indian chief in the state of
+Virginia, and the dark little baby grew and played under the shade of
+the sugar-maple, or the long-leaved India-rubber tree, probably
+gathering with her tiny fingers the large blossoms from the trailing
+passion-flower, or the snowy white magnolia, and grouping them with the
+crimson rhododendron, or gorgeous drooping fuschias, which grew wild in
+the tangled forests near to her father's wigwam.
+
+When very young, she boldly induced her father, who was the great chief
+Powhattan, to spare the life of an English captain, one of the first
+settlers in North America, who had been taken prisoner by a native
+tribe. This captain, James Smith, had been sentenced to a very cruel
+death, and Pocahontas, then only thirteen years old, interceded so
+bravely and eloquently that Captain Smith was spared. He was allowed to
+live in Powhattan's wigwam, and, after a short time, was set completely
+free.
+
+Rather more than two years after this, the Indian tribes became alarmed
+as to the movements of the English residents, and again endeavoured to
+take the Captain prisoner. Pocahontas, with the brave resolute strength
+of both mind and body which characterised many of those swarthy natives,
+started on a lonely journey of nine miles, through the wild, overgrown
+forests, threading her way amongst uncultivated cotton trees, or
+trampling down the smaller tobacco plants; alike heedless of the lovely
+beauty of the gay flowers along her path, and fearless of the grisly
+bear, the treacherous boa constrictor, or the powerful vulture called
+the condor, as she pursued her mission of mercy. Having found Captain
+Smith, and apprised him of his peril, Pocahontas sped home again, lest
+her father should miss her and enquire about her absence.
+
+The persevering Princess continued pleading well and earnestly for some
+time in behalf of the English settlers, but at last her father, perhaps
+weary of her entreaties, sent her away to the chief of another tribe.
+Instead of protecting the girl thus placed under his care, the
+treacherous chief sold her to an English Captain, named Argill, who
+intended to make good use of his bargain in transactions with her
+father, Powhattan. These transactions failed, and poor Pocahontas, the
+Rosebud, remained a captive. The English treated her with extreme
+courtesy and kindness; and amongst the number of officers was a Mr.
+Thomas Rolfe, who offered to teach the native girl the English
+language.
+
+She proved a very gentle, amiable scholar; and Mr. Rolfe, being himself
+an earnest Christian man, also taught that dark mind the bright and
+lustrous truths of God's most Holy Word. The Spirit of God blessed that
+teaching, and the light thus introduced by His influence, alone became
+the means of revealing to the warm heart of Pocahontas, the love of that
+living Saviour of sinners, who died for all, that all may live for Him.
+His blood can purify the Red Indian girl just as effectually as the fair
+English maiden, and both equally require that blood to take away the sad
+stains of sin in heart and life, which are as dark, as deep, and as
+deadly in the one as in the other.
+
+Powhattan seems to have been permitted some intercourse with his
+daughter, for with his consent she eventually married Mr. Rolfe, and
+subsequently Pocahontas came over to England, and was presented at Court
+in 1616. Queen Anne appears to have been very friendly with the Indian
+Princess. Her intelligence was great, and her modesty and unaffected
+manners interested all who knew her.
+
+She did not live to carry out her intention of returning to her own
+native land, Virginia, but died at Gravesend in 1617. Her little son
+remained in England for some years, and was educated as an English boy.
+He then sought his mother's country, and from him many of the well-known
+families of the State of Virginia claim descent.
+
+Pocahontas, or the Rosebud, has been the heroine of many stories and
+songs, but the most beautiful thought connected with her memory is that
+those to whom her generous help and interest opened a fair land on
+earth, should be the means, through the power of the Holy Spirit of God,
+of opening to her that "land of pure delight, where saints immortal
+reign;" and that from our own dear native country she should have passed
+away, to enjoy for ever that "infinite day" which "excludes the night,"
+through Him who is "The Way," for the dark daughter of another soil, as
+well as for the favoured children of our own.
+
+[Illustration: NORWICH CATHEDRAL.
+
+(_Copied from a Photograph, by permission_)]
+
+
+
+
+IX.
+
+MRS. OPIE.
+
+
+Norwich has been called "The City of Gardens;" for behind the large
+houses belonging to professional men, and business men, which front the
+narrow irregular streets, there are sweet lawns and well-cared-for
+flower borders, with trees and shrubs planted so thickly round the
+walls, or the walls themselves so covered with the trailing tendrils of
+fresh creepers, that imagination might fancy the scene one of pure
+country loveliness.
+
+The beautiful taper spire of the rather small, but very elegant
+Cathedral, appears above the verdure-covered walls, its stone notches
+resting softly in attractive clearness upon the cloudless blue sky; or,
+perhaps the battlements of the square, massive block of the Castle, rise
+quietly above the grave old buildings of the city, the slopes of the
+castle moat, gaily draped with innumerable lilacs in the spring, resting
+in drowsy dignity below.
+
+Another feature of the fine old city of Norwich is the quaint
+churchyard, with blackish stone walls around and sometimes intersected
+diagonally with a narrow paved walk, or perhaps surrounded by a
+roughly-paved street, with posts to guard each entrance, and with the
+dignified name of "Church Alley."
+
+In a house which stood in one of these churchyards--St. Clement's--a
+physician, named Dr. Alderson, lived rather more than a hundred years
+ago. He had only one child, who was born on the 12th of November, 1769.
+This little girl was christened Amelia, after her mother, who taught and
+trained her both wisely and well.
+
+To this, probably, the success of Amelia Alderson, afterwards Mrs. Opie,
+as a writer, was mainly due, although the great care of the parent did
+not altogether enable the daughter to conquer all faults, for Sydney
+Smith once plainly told her that "Tenderness is your _forte_, and
+carelessness your _fault_."
+
+Amelia was a bright, cheerful, golden-haired girl, with lively fancy and
+strong imaginative powers, decidedly talented and capable of high
+cultivation.
+
+When a very tiny thing, she would lie quietly in bed to listen to the
+church bells which had awakened her, and, looking up to the sapphire sky
+at early dawn, she gazed and listened, as her mistaken ideas suggested
+that the chaste chime was the music of the angels hidden in the depths
+of the blue!
+
+But her thoughts were not always thus happy, for the child invested
+other objects with attributes of terror, and black beetles were a source
+of inconceivable dread and horror.
+
+She was also extremely timid about deranged people, perhaps the more so
+because the large "Bethel" in Norwich is a conspicuous building, and
+forms a home for poor lunatics, and possibly her father was interested
+in the restless patients who were located there.
+
+Negroes also appear to have produced the same amount of fear in the
+little girl as the black beetles.
+
+Mrs. Alderson was too wise and sensible to allow these nervous fancies
+uncontrolled play, and most earnestly applied herself to teaching and
+helping Amelia to overcome them.
+
+Both teacher and taught were indeed successful; for before long the
+child would shake hands with an imbecile whom she sometimes met, speak
+kindly to her, and at last even begged to be taken over the "Bethel"
+itself, where the sorrowful sights and sounds moved the warm heart to a
+deep and sincere pity for trials which no human love can mitigate.
+
+This judicious mother died when Amelia Alderson was about fifteen years
+old, and from that time until she was eight-and-twenty, household cares
+and superintendence occupied her largely, for she entirely managed her
+father's home and presided at his table.
+
+The literary and poetical career of this reputedly pleasant woman
+commenced after her marriage with Mr. Opie, the celebrated portrait
+painter, which marriage took place at Marylebone Church in London, on
+the 8th of May, 1798.
+
+Much later still in life, and after even the earlier years of widowhood
+had passed, her far higher career as a Christian character was ushered
+in by Mrs. Opie becoming a member of the Society of Friends, and for
+more than twenty-five years, consistency, peace, and quiet, marked her
+calm course. Ere joining the "Friends," she had been induced to give up,
+not only writing fiction, but reading it also.
+
+Mrs. Opie died on the 2nd of December, 1853. Just as the day passed
+away, the dawning of her eternal day began--a day that we cannot measure
+with our present ideas, it is so long, so bright, so cloudless. The day
+of grace closed, and the day of glory opened, for Mrs. Opie loved and
+served Jesus on earth, so that she was taken to serve Him in Heaven.
+
+The early teaching of the mother appears to have been blessed to the
+child in later life, even as its influence also preserved her amidst
+some difficulties during younger days, for Mrs. Opie writes very sweetly
+of her mother's care thus:--
+
+    "Oh! how I mourn'd my heedless youth,
+    Thy watchful care, repaid so ill:
+    Yet joy'd to think some words of truth
+    Sunk in my soul, and teach me still.
+    Like lamps along life's fearful way,
+    To me, at times, those truths have shone,
+    And oft when snares around me lay,
+    That light has made the danger known."
+
+The truths of God's most Holy Word will always brighten each day of this
+life, not only cheering, but sufficiently lighting it for the safety of
+those who seek also the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The long,
+long day with Jesus, by-and-bye will have no snares, no dangers, no
+regrets to cast their sorrowful shadows across its pure, sweet sky, for
+His presence will be everlasting light, and He has taken away all the
+sins of His people who believe in Him, and as there is no sin in Heaven,
+there is no suffering, and no shade of pain.
+
+
+
+
+X.
+
+GRACE DARLING.
+
+
+One of the most dangerous and rugged coasts of England is that of
+Northumberland. This is partly owing to the proximity of the group of
+tiny islands called the Farne Islands; which number about twenty. When
+the sea is at all rough, and the wind high in this vicinity, the wild
+waves rush with violence between the somewhat narrow island channels,
+and lash themselves into fretted fury, as they curl over in frothy foam.
+Many years ago, on one of the Farne Islands named the Longstone, a
+lighthouse was built, that vessels might be duly warned of the danger
+and difficulty of the rocks and shore.
+
+In 1815, a tiny, gentle baby girl was born in the little lighthouse
+home, who presently received the name of Grace Horsley.
+
+Her father was William Darling; a most suitable man for his post as
+keeper of the lighthouse, being vigilant, steady, attentive, and
+careful, not only in the special duties to which he was appointed, but
+also in training a numerous family with diligence and discretion.
+
+So little Grace was not a lonely child in a quiet home; but one of a
+merry, active, happy troupe of northern children; sometimes playing in
+the clean, white-washed rooms and staircases of the lighthouse, or at
+other times clambering about the rough rocks, and watching the eddying
+waters all around.
+
+Still the life of the young girl was not all play, with the dear
+brothers and sisters whom she loved.
+
+Lessons had to be learned, and they were well learned too; copies had to
+be written, and in these little Grace soon excelled, for she "wrote a
+beautiful hand."
+
+The kind, homely parents, too, taught her to think, and as she read
+nicely, and was bright and quick in acquiring the information within her
+rather limited grasp, she became very intelligent.
+
+A fair share of household duties also fell to her lot, and these were
+discharged in a quiet, orderly, and unobtrusive way.
+
+Though very neat in her dress, she was never smart; the only trace of
+feminine vanity was this:--After her brave conduct in the shipwreck of
+the "Forfarshire," the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland sent for Grace
+Darling to Alnwick Castle, and presented her with a gold watch, which
+she always wore when visitors came to the lighthouse; taking care that
+the watch-seal should be slightly conspicuous on the plain, simple
+striped cotton gown!
+
+Thus the childhood and girlhood passed gently on in almost unvarying
+home love, duty, and quiet happiness, until the 5th of September, 1838,
+Grace being then in her twenty-third year.
+
+On that night an awful storm rose in tempestuous fury and swept up to
+the Farne Islands, raging and swelling around, and tossing the black
+billows into surging foam amongst the cliffy little isles that chafed it
+into such majestic madness. A steamer had left Hull a day or two before,
+and as her boilers were not in good repair, she was soon rendered
+helpless in the wide ocean, and presently drifted on towards the
+perilous Longstone Lighthouse. She struck on one of the dreaded islands,
+and the cries of the few survivors who could cling to that portion of
+the wreck which was forcibly driven between the rocks, reached the ears
+of Grace Darling, who immediately awakened her father. Utter darkness
+prevented them from seeing where the wreck lay, and both father and
+daughter watched till the dawn. An attempt to rescue the moving forms
+which they could faintly discern in the misty daylight was almost
+hopeless, but for all that it was made, and the two stepped without
+hesitation into the frail, small boat, which they then rowed towards the
+wreck. Here the difficulty increased, as the tempestuous sea threatened
+to dash the boat and its occupants on the rocks where the "Forfarshire"
+was stranded. But the father succeeded in landing, Grace pushing off
+with the boat to avoid its being engulphed, and with her oars balancing
+it amongst the rolling billows until the nine survivors and her father
+were safely with her in the tiny craft. Then both rowing back to the
+lighthouse, they carefully nursed, cheered, and tended those rescued
+men, Grace especially devoting herself to them with unremitting care.
+
+This event gave Grace Darling the notoriety which her noble conduct so
+well merited.
+
+It was on the 20th of October, 1842, when the wild equinoctial gales had
+not long swept over the surrounding seas, that she died gently in the
+midst of her own loving family circle, at the early age of twenty-seven.
+
+It is easy to imagine the gratitude and joy of the nine perishing men
+who were rescued from an awful death!
+
+May you, dear young readers, value far more highly that eternal
+salvation from darker death than the one which threatened them, that
+salvation of those who trust themselves fully to the loving Saviour's
+power and willingness to save! To save _from_ both the guilt of past
+sin, and the power of present sin of heart and life, through the
+influence of the Holy Spirit of God, and to save _for_ the calm,
+unshaken rest of a bright Home of Light, when the last wave of this
+stormy sea of life is left outside, and exchanged for the unbroken
+beauty of heaven's crystal "sea of glass!"
+
+[Illustration: ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, NORWICH.]
+
+
+
+
+XI.
+
+MRS. FRY.
+
+
+Elizabeth Fry, subsequently so well known as the kind visitor and
+instructress of the females in Newgate, was born on the 21st of May,
+1780, in St. Clement's parish in the old city of Norwich.
+
+Her father's name was John Gurney; her mother, whose maiden name was
+Bell, was a lineal descendant of Robert Barclay, the Apologist of the
+Quakers.
+
+The Gurneys of Norwich trace their family back to the days of William
+Rufus, if not to the times of William the Conqueror.
+
+Elizabeth was one of twelve children, and the third daughter in this
+large family of Quakers.
+
+When she was four years old, her parents removed from the city to the
+beautiful estate of Earlham, where her childhood passed away in much
+worldliness and gaiety, for the Quakers of this period were extremely
+lax in carrying out their peculiarities.
+
+Earlham Hall is scarcely two miles from Norwich, and is a stately
+mansion surrounded by a lovely park, the river Wensum adding its charms
+to the scenery by its graceful windings in the vicinity. It was here,
+surrounded by luxury, beauty, and profusion, that the child played; and
+the old Hall was her bright, glad home.
+
+Her mother seems to have been very fond of Elizabeth, and in writing
+about her, remarks:--"My dear little Betsey never offends, and is, in
+every sense of the word, truly engaging."
+
+This may have been maternal partiality, for whilst a mere child, she was
+somewhat obstinate in disposition, and averse to study. It is even
+stated that she was thought a very dull child as to lessons, but this
+was probably because she had a great dislike to routine; and preferred a
+ride on horseback, a merry dance--for she was particularly fond of
+dancing--or a song with her sister Rachel, with whom she sang duets
+well.
+
+However, Elizabeth evidently made progress in accomplishments, and was
+taught drawing, as well as music and dancing.
+
+The young girl was naturally extremely nervous and sensitive; when only
+seven years old, she would quietly watch her mother when asleep, with a
+terrible dread that that beloved mother should not wake again. Or at
+times the wish would come into her heart, that the walls might close
+upon herself, and her dear parents, brothers, and sisters, and bury them
+in one grave together, rather than that she should ever have to suffer
+separation from them.
+
+When her mother died, Elizabeth was a fair-haired, sweet-looking child
+of twelve, with soft blue eyes, and a silvery attractive voice, which in
+later life told the beautiful story of the love and life of Jesus, with
+wonderful influence, to the poor degraded outcasts in prison. One poor
+woman, on hearing her read, said, "Hush! the angels have lent her their
+voices!"
+
+After the mother's death, the father and friends remained as gay as
+before, and an almost sceptical tendency crept over the family. With
+Elizabeth's nervous disposition, a dread of death was inevitable; she
+frequently alluded to it, calling it "This wonderful death," and in her
+diary she complains of dark restlessness of mind, and some disbelief in
+the truths of the Bible.
+
+Happily this was arrested, for before Elizabeth was eighteen, an
+American "Friend" came to Norwich and his addresses given in the chapel
+roused the attention, and led the unsatisfied spirit to deep sorrow and
+mental anxiety. Elizabeth, who appeared as one of the listeners, in such
+gay clothing that her boots--purple laced with scarlet--were the
+especial envy of a younger sister, left the "Meeting" humble and
+weeping; and at night she remarked that she had for the first time
+_felt_ that there was a God, and added, "May that belief never leave me,
+or, if it does, may I at least always remember that I _have_ felt there
+is a God and immortality."
+
+She had a long struggle with herself, being fond of notice and flattery,
+and possessed of considerable pride.
+
+When "His Royal Highness of Gloucester" was in Norwich, she wished him
+to visit Earlham, but confessed, after she had seen the Prince, that her
+wish was the result of pride.
+
+Soon after this she went to London, and was introduced to London life,
+but immediately after her return to her home, she gave up the gaiety
+which she had proved to be utterly unsatisfactory, and commenced a life
+of devotion to God, that resulted in loving obedience to His will.
+
+Elizabeth's first efforts to teach to others the way of life, which the
+Holy Spirit had revealed to her through Christ, was attention to a
+dying servant. This was followed by instruction to an increasing class
+of boys whom she had in the laundry at Earlham Hall, and on her marriage
+with Joseph Fry, these lads numbered eighty-seven. Shortly after this
+marriage, which had removed her to London, she began her work of love in
+Newgate, where for many years she taught the poor women of the sympathy
+and care of Jesus. She passed away at the age of sixty-seven, with a
+beautiful, lingering smile, and the simple words of trust and faith, "It
+is a strife, but I am safe."
+
+
+
+
+XII.
+
+AGNES STRICKLAND.
+
+
+Let us turn to an old Westmoreland family, residing between three and
+four hundred years ago, in the style of the period, at Sizergh Castle.
+Sir Thomas Strickland, the head of that family, manifested loyal
+attachment to the house of Stuart, and some of the lands and hereditary
+possessions, both in Westmoreland and Lancashire, were eventually lost
+through the steady adherence of Sir Thomas and his relatives to this
+cause.
+
+We read of one daughter of the house in the time of Henry VIII., whose
+name, like that of the character we are sketching, was Agnes Strickland,
+marrying Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington Castle. And their son received
+Mary Queen of Scots, when she landed upon his estate. Camden, the
+historian, is also descended from the same branch of the family of
+Strickland.
+
+A second Agnes Strickland married the eldest son of the Archbishop of
+York, Francis Sandys, and the family of the Stricklands appear to owe
+their conversion from Romanism to the Protestant faith to the influence
+of another son of the Archbishop, named George, who was a poet about two
+hundred years ago. They then became as staunch in the principles of the
+Reformation as they had previously been firm in papal policy.
+
+One branch of the Strickland family settled at Raydon Hall, in Suffolk,
+and here the third Agnes Strickland was born, who has been so justly
+celebrated as the Historian of "The Queens of England from the Norman
+Conquest." Raydon Hall is a very lonely place on the sea coast, quite a
+mile from the nearest village, and there is no dwelling at all near to
+it, except one farm-house upon the estate.
+
+The seclusion being thus extremely great during the long, bleak winter
+on the eastern coast, the family residing there would have passed many
+dreary months but for the intellectual tastes of its talented members.
+
+There were eight children. Agnes was the third daughter, and the girls
+were very amicable and sociable in their simple life, varying the
+sterner work of severe study with delightful games, or in the care of
+pet animals, or by strolls in the gardens and grounds around the Hall. A
+governess had the partial training of Agnes and her sisters, but their
+father, himself a literary man, and intensely fond of history,
+topography and genealogy, principally conducted their education;
+compelling the girls to master subjects far beyond the usual attainments
+of young ladies, and requiring some knowledge of algebra and mathematics
+from the not always compliant and obedient daughters.
+
+Mr. Strickland suffered from gout, and was frequently confined to his
+chair or bed.
+
+He then supplied abundant work for Elizabeth, Agnes, and the other
+sisters in reading to him. This they were delighted to do, and took
+almost as much interest in history as the father. But Mr. Strickland
+also endeavoured to carry out his wish that the girls should be
+proficient in mathematical studies, and in this Elizabeth alone seemed
+to be docile, for she would patiently pore over the figures on her
+slate, whilst Agnes and the others bestowed very sisterly pity upon her.
+
+Agnes had a more classical turn, preferring the history, and also
+poetry, making sundry attempts at versification herself; but this taste
+Mr. Strickland rigorously checked, considering the effort as a waste of
+time. At last the child obtained her father's consent to let Latin take
+the place of problems, and she then set to work upon an old book in that
+language, learning to repeat a number of dialogues:--a mode of studying
+language extremely irregular, and by no means commended by the anxious
+parent.
+
+Still Agnes also managed to write verses which presently came under Mr.
+Strickland's notice, and when twelve years old she composed a poem
+called "The Red Rose." This was intended as a sketch of the fortunes of
+the House of Lancaster, but was so severely criticised by her father,
+that she tore up the manuscript by his advice, and promised not to try
+poetry again. But three years afterwards she made another venture in
+that line under the title of "Worcester Field," which was published,
+although, however, it is not well known.
+
+Her fame arose gradually soon after this period, when, through the death
+of the father, reverses of fortune induced Agnes and her sisters to make
+literature a profession. She then assumed her true taste, and evinced
+marvellous talent as a writer of history, making the lives of England's
+Queens no longer dull, dry, and uninteresting, but beautiful sketches of
+true character, and of real, though bygone times; painting, too, in
+vivid colours, the social positions of our royal matrons with wonderful
+skill and ability.
+
+Agnes Strickland died on the 13th of July, 1874, leaving us a powerful
+proof of the importance of early and attentive education.
+
+The young girl, living in such seclusion on the Suffolk coast, little
+imagined in her childhood that her future fame was depending upon the
+interesting and valuable information which she was beginning to
+accumulate, and which she was learning to love as she read in dutiful
+diligence the books indicated by her careful father.
+
+And yet that quiet commencement led to high honour, and England has well
+acknowledged her debt of gratitude to Agnes Strickland for her splendid
+additions to historic lore. Large labour, constant care, and stern study
+enabled her to use the talents which God had given, talents, of which
+she was unconscious as a child.
+
+May not this thought induce a spirit of earnest effort in each young
+heart now? God has given talent in some degree, and of some description,
+to all, and He requires the improvement of that talent, whatever it may
+be.
+
+In conclusion, Agnes Strickland wrote with womanly and wonderful beauty
+the history of England's Queens. There was once a history written, of
+far greater beauty, and by far higher power, of Him who is the "King of
+kings and Lord of lords;" a history traced by His own hand alone, as He
+guided "Holy men" of old by the power of the Holy Ghost. One portion of
+this History is traced in blood--the "blood of Jesus Christ, His Son,
+which cleanseth from all sin" those who receive in penitence, faith, and
+love, the "record that God gave of His Son." May the same Holy Spirit,
+which dictated the Holy Word of God, write the History of His character
+and love so deeply within our hearts, that we may receive His full
+salvation now, and the "eternal life" which He so freely gives
+hereafter!
+
+[Illustration: finis.]
+
+
+
+
+               PRINTED BY JARROLD AND SONS, NORWICH.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+                        BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
+
+     _Crown 8vo., 3/6. Handsomely bound in Cloth, Gilt Edges_:
+
+        FROM ADVENT TO ADVENT: OR, PIECES IN PROSE & POETRY,
+
+             On Subjects selected from Sunday Services.
+
+
+    "A series of brief, thoughtful, and ably-written meditations.
+    The poems are the spiritual utterances of a devout mind. We
+    recommend the book with the greatest pleasure."
+                                              _Hand and Heart._
+
+
+    "Each prose composition is followed by a poetical one;
+    'collect,' 'meditation,' and 'poem' succeed each other in
+    due order throughout the book, and every page contains
+    instructive and edifying matter. The verses show a command
+    of metre in all its varieties, the ideas are well
+    expressed, and the rhymes are good.... We sincerely wish
+    it success."
+                                        _The Voice of Warning._
+
+
+                              REVIEWS.
+
+    "Very high praise is due to the talented wife of the Vicar
+    of Ringland, not only for the conception of this work,
+    "From Advent to Advent," but for the admirable way in
+    which she has carried it out, and the remarkable literary
+    ability therein displayed."
+                   _The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette._
+
+    "We hardly know which to commend most--the admirable
+    arrangement of the work, or the excellence of its
+    composition. Both afford abundant evidence of great genius
+    and tact, to which is added the advantage of a large and
+    ripened experience.... An unceasing stream of meditation
+    and praise, in language which no Christian lips could
+    refuse to utter.... They simply breathe the pure spirit of
+    the Gospel, and express it with a beauty and pathos which
+    will attract every reader. The work supplies a long-felt
+    want. It forms an admirable companion to the Prayer
+    Book.... Even the verses, taken by themselves, would form
+    a second 'Christian Year,' of which a Keble need not be
+    ashamed. To the prose compositions like praise must be
+    accorded. The work is well-bound and printed, and forms an
+    attractive little volume, well suitable for Sunday School
+    prizes, for presentation to friends, and for the general
+    circulation which it deserves extensively to obtain."
+                           _Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal._
+
+    "A valuable volume."
+                                      _The Rev. Hely H. Smith._
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+    Punctuation has been normalized.
+
+    Page 14: "caresssing" replaced with "caressing".
+      "... in nursing and caressing her darling children...."
+
+    Page 50: "Inchmahone" replaced with "Inchmahome".
+      "... a small island in the Lake of Monteith, called Inchmahome."
+
+    Page 67: "troup" replaced with "troupe".
+      "... happy troupe of northern children; sometimes playing in...."
+
+    Page 69: "engulphed" retained as printed.
+
+    Page 81: "latin" replaced with "Latin".
+      "... let Latin take the place of problems...."
+
+
+
+
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