Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
By Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.
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By Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, NY, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.
By Nikolai Sverchkov (1817–1898), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
In Russia, when a blind beggar is laid to rest even the Emperor knows for whom the bell tolls.
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Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.
By Henri-Antoine Boissonnas (1833-89), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Fyodor Dostoevsky listened with growing bewilderment to the celebrity peace activists gathered in Geneva.
By an anonymous artist, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Izaak Walton recalls how George Herbert summarised the major feasts of the Church year.