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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1147

‘Recessional’

A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

1148

The Nightingale and the Glow Worm

A kind of Aesop’s Fable in verse, about mutual respect among those with different talents.

1149

King Solomon’s Mines

Allan Quartermain goes in search of a lost tourist and a legendary hoard of diamonds.

1150

Redeemed for Five Shillings

Elfric, the tenth-century English abbot, suggests a practical way of thinking about the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

1151

The Jerusalem Temple

The story of the once magnificent Temple in Jerusalem, the city God chose for Israel’s capital.

1152

The Story of ‘Charlotte Dundas’

The invention of the steamboat was a formidable challenge not just of engineering, but of politics and finance.