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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 +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Childhood of Distinguished Women + +Author: Selina A. Bower + +Release Date: June 26, 2011 [EBook #36519] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDHOOD OF *** + + + + +Produced by Chris Curnow, paksenarrion, Lindy Walsh and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="450" height="588" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><br /><br /><br /><br /> </p> +<h1>THE<br /> +CHILDHOOD OF DISTINGUISHED WOMEN.</h1> +<p><br /><br /><br /><br /> </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 /> </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 & SONS, 3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.</p> + +<p class="center">[<i>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.</i>] +</p> +<p><br /><br /><br /><br /> </p> + + +<p class="center"><i>To be had also from the Author.</i><br /> + +ADDRESS—MRS. BOWER, RINGLAND VICARAGE, NORWICH.</p> +<p><br /><br /><br /><br /> </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"> </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"> (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 </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 /> </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:—"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—"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 /> </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 /> </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 /> </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 /> </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 /> </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—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 /> </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 /> </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 /> </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—</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 /> </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'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.'" title="" /> +<span class="caption">INCHMAHOME,<br /> + +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.'</span> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> +<p><br /><br /><br /><br /> </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 /> </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 /> </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 /> </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—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.</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—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:—</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 /> </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:—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 /> <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'S CHURCH, NORWICH." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ST. CLEMENT'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 /> </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:—"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—for she was particularly fond of dancing—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—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 <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 /> </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:—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—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 /> </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 /> </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 & 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—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. 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