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THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST
THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST
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This work is designed mainly for juvenile readers.
The scene of the story is laid in England, in Cromwell's day, and the events of it are interwoven with the history of that eventful period. The story is well conceived and well told; the characters are natural and well-sustained, and the moral on the whole is exceptionable. If the 'Captain' has ever written anything worse than this, then we still would have had little occasion to find fault with him.
The young will find this an entertaining book, and about as profitable as the better sort of this kind of reading usually is.
Story summary:
"The Children of the New Forest," which, was the last work published during his lifetime, Captain Marryat once more gives us a hero prone to revenge. Edward Beverley, the elder brother of Humphrey, had certainly wrongs enough, inasmuch as his father had been killed at Naseby, and his house had been burned down by the Puritans either through carelessness or by intention during their search for King Charles the First after his escape from Hampton Court. Edward, with his brother and his two sisters, were saved from destruction by a devoted old forester, Jacob Armitage, who took them to his cottage and brought them up as his grandchildren, allowing the world to believe that the young Beverleys had all perished. That Edward, therefore, should desire to retaliate upon his foes was only natural, but his vengeance fell upon quite the wrong people. Mr. Heatherstone, a moderate supporter of Cromwell and a man of much influence, discovered the Beverleys under their assumed names and suspected their identity. He behaved to them, and especially to Edward, with studious and most delicate kindness, but at last, owing to some misunderstanding which might easily have been cleared up, he aroused very unreasonable indignation in Edwards breast. As a consequence, Beverley, though by this time deeply in love with Mr. Heatherstone's daughter, took himself off abroad in a very ungracious and ungrateful manner, and it was beyond his deserts that the fair Patience should ultimately forgive his conduct.
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27 Illustrations in Black & White and 8 Illustrations in Full-Color by E. Boyd Smith
The scene of the story is laid in England, in Cromwell's day, and the events of it are interwoven with the history of that eventful period. The story is well conceived and well told; the characters are natural and well-sustained, and the moral on the whole is exceptionable. If the 'Captain' has ever written anything worse than this, then we still would have had little occasion to find fault with him.
The young will find this an entertaining book, and about as profitable as the better sort of this kind of reading usually is.
Story summary:
"The Children of the New Forest," which, was the last work published during his lifetime, Captain Marryat once more gives us a hero prone to revenge. Edward Beverley, the elder brother of Humphrey, had certainly wrongs enough, inasmuch as his father had been killed at Naseby, and his house had been burned down by the Puritans either through carelessness or by intention during their search for King Charles the First after his escape from Hampton Court. Edward, with his brother and his two sisters, were saved from destruction by a devoted old forester, Jacob Armitage, who took them to his cottage and brought them up as his grandchildren, allowing the world to believe that the young Beverleys had all perished. That Edward, therefore, should desire to retaliate upon his foes was only natural, but his vengeance fell upon quite the wrong people. Mr. Heatherstone, a moderate supporter of Cromwell and a man of much influence, discovered the Beverleys under their assumed names and suspected their identity. He behaved to them, and especially to Edward, with studious and most delicate kindness, but at last, owing to some misunderstanding which might easily have been cleared up, he aroused very unreasonable indignation in Edwards breast. As a consequence, Beverley, though by this time deeply in love with Mr. Heatherstone's daughter, took himself off abroad in a very ungracious and ungrateful manner, and it was beyond his deserts that the fair Patience should ultimately forgive his conduct.
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27 Illustrations in Black & White and 8 Illustrations in Full-Color by E. Boyd Smith
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