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Sir Alfred Lyall

 

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Sir Alfred Lyall : Eastern Studies, The

'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual observation how gods are born in India at the present day; how they get promotion, if they have luck in the miraculous line of business & so forth.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India

?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the poems ? Theology in Extremis ? at a sort of penny reading? I have never been the object of so many attentions before or since and gave my autograph to a dozen ladies. Independent of that, Lyall is a man worth knowing & unluckily so popular in society that I don?t often get a chance of seeing him.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

Sir Alfred Lyall : Verses written in India

?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the poems ? Theology in Extremis ? at a sort of penny reading? I have never been the object of so many attentions before or since and gave my autograph to a dozen ladies. Independent of that, Lyall is a man worth knowing & unluckily so popular in society that I don?t often get a chance of seeing him.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Sir Alfred C. Lyall : British Dominion in India

E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for travels in India]. Also I have failed to read another of Alice Parin's [sic] novels called Idolatry. The other I tried was good, but this is about missionaries & wicked Hindus and most tiresome.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Sir Alfred C. Lyall : Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social

'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

 

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