Spare Hours
by John Brown
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brown, John, 1810-1882
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27153
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27153
- Release Date
- November 4, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SPARE HOURS
- 2.NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 5.POST PREFACE.
- 6.RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.
- 7.“With BRAINS, Sir.” — INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION. — BOOKS REFERRED TO.
- 8.THE MYSTERY OF BLACK AND TAN.
- 9.HER LAST HALF-CROWN.
- 10.OUR DOGS. — TOBY — WYLIE. — RAB. — WASP — JOCK — DUCHIE — DICK
- 11.QUEEN MARY’S CHILD-GARDEN. — “Queen Mary’s Bower.
- 12.PRESENCE OF MIND, AND HAPPY GUESSING.
- 13.MY FATHER’S MEMOIR. A LETTER TO JOHN CAIRNS, D. D.
- 14.“MYSTIFICATIONS.” — MRS. RAMSAY SPELDIN.
- 15.“OH, I’M WAT, WAT!”
- 16.ARTHUR H. HALLAM.
- 17.EDUCATION THROUGH THE SENSES.
- 18.VAUGHAN’S POEMS, &c. — The Timber. — The World. — Man. — Cock-crowing. — Providence. — The Dawning. — The Law and the Gospel. — Holy Scriptures. — The Night. (John iii. 2.) — Death. — The Water-fall. — The Shower. — “The Rainbow” — The Grave. — Heart’s-Ease — Ode to Psyche. — Ode to Psyche. — An Argument in Rhyme. — I. — II. — III.
- 19.DR. CHALMERS.
- 20.DR. GEORGE WILSON.
- 21.ST. PAUL’S THORN IN THE FLESH: WHAT WAS IT?
- 22.THE BLACK DWARF’S BONES. — THE BROWNIE OF BLEDNOCH.
- 23.NOTES ON ART. — BEAUTY, ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE.
- 24.FOOTNOTES
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