Springtime and Other Essays

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Sir Francis Darwin. Springtime and Other Essays

Springtime and Other Essays

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

THOMAS HEARNE, 1678–1735

RECOLLECTIONS

OLD INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC [71]

Bowed Instruments

Clavichord and Virginal

Wind Instruments

Shawms. [87]

The Horn and Cornett

Trumpet and Sackbut

The Organ

Tabors and Nakers

Drum

Kettle-drums. [96c]

Cymbals and Chimes

THE TRADITIONAL NAMES OF ENGLISH PLANTS

Historical

SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER [115a]

A GREAT HOSPITAL [137a]

SIR GEORGE AIRY [161]

SYDNEY SMITH [175a]

I. BIOGRAPHICAL

2. LETTERS

CHARLES DICKENS

A PROCESSION OF FLOWERS [231a]

NOTES

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Sir Francis Darwin

Published by Good Press, 2019

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These are fairly good names, though they have not the touch of Thackeray. I like the names of the chief heroes in the cricket match at Dingley Dell. Dumpkins and Podder went in first for All-Muggleton, the bowlers on the other side being Struggles and Luffey. These names are so familiar that it is hard to judge them, but on the whole they seem to me fairly good, as being slightly comic and not impossible. But when we come to Horatio Fizkin, Esq., of Fizkin Lodge, and Hon. Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall, we are indeed depressed. But there are worse names in Pickwick. When Mrs. Nupkins and her daughter have discovered Captain Fitz-Marshall to be a scamp: “How can we ever show ourselves in society?” said Miss Nupkins.

“ ‘How can we face the Porkenhams?’ cried Mrs. Nupkins.

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