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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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847

St Nicholas and the Unjust Judge

Trouble comes to the town of Myra when Imperial soldiers are despatched to put down a revolt.

848

Lost for Words

Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.

849

The Machinery of State

Human beings should not be frantic cogs spinning away in the Government’s factory of Progress.

850

A Confiscation of Property

Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.

851

A Tale of Two Springs

The way St Cuthbert found water for his island retreat confirmed that Northumbria’s church was the real thing.

852

Cuthbert and the Barley Reivers

Bede is reminded of another great Christian saint when St Cuthbert shoos some troublesome crows from his barley crop.