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Katherine Prescott Wormeley : MS notes to Balzac's Letters
Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accompanying MS notes: 'I deeply appreciate the admirable and generous labour that prepared for me the ms. notes to Balzac's Letters and that accompanied the Preface to your translation. [...] I have read with care every word of your preface and notes -- as I had already read the "Roman d'Amour", and bought and read much of the "Lettres a l'Etrangere".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Manuscript: Unknown
Katherine Prescott Wormeley : Preface [on Balzac]
Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accompanying MS notes: 'I deeply appreciate the admirable and generous labour that prepared for me the ms. notes to Balzac's Letters and that accompanied the Preface to your translation. [...] I have read with care every word of your preface and notes -- as I had already read the "Roman d'Amour", and bought and read much of the "Lettres a l'Etrangere".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: proof
Robert Orme : History of Hindustan
'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, Petit Careme de Massillon. Select Sermons of Dr Barrow. Burke's Settlement of the English Colonies in America. Alison on Taste. The first book, though written on painting, full of all wisdom. The second, a good history. The third, highly entertaining, fourth ditto. The fifth, a splendid example of sound eloquence. The sixth, piety, pure language, fine style. The seventh, lofty eloquence. The eighth, neat and philosophical. The ninth, feeling and eloquence. Here I think is is much wisdom as you can get for eight guineas. But remember to consult your family physician, your mother. I only know the general powers of these medicines; but she will determine their adaptation to your particular
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Orme : Hindustan
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a second time) ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter
'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - players, gamblers, drunkards with forged notes; men 80 or 90 years old, of course never preaching; Maypole dancing &c. on the Sunday.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
W. Orme : Life and Times of Richard Baxter
'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard studies and methodological head, but above all by his great skill in politicks, wherein he is most exact, and which contributeth not a little to the understanding of Divinity."'
