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قراءة كتاب Springtime and Other Essays

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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BY SIR FRANCIS DARWIN

AUTHOR OF “RUSTIC SOUNDS”
AND OTHER ESSAYS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1920

CONTENTS

	page
Springtime	1
Some Names of Characters in Fiction	15
Thomas Hearne, 1678–1735	29
Recollections	51
Old Instruments of Music	71
The Traditional Names of English Plants	99
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker	115
A Great Hospital	137
Sir George Airy	161
Sydney Smith	175
Charles Dickens	199
A Procession of Flowers	201

ILLUSTRATIONS

	To face page
Psaltery and Dulcimer (By kind permission of Messrs Cornish)	72
Mandore, Pandurina, Lute, Theorboe, Archlute, and Guitar	76
The Crwth	79
The Tromba Marina	81
Viola d’Amore, Cither Viol, and Hurdy-gurdy or Organistrum	82
Recorders	84
Pibcorn or Horn-pipe	89
Cornetts, Serpent, Bass Horn, Ophicleide, and Keyed Bugle	91

The above illustrations are all taken from “Old English Instruments of Music,” by the kind permission of Canon Galpin.

TO
F. C. C.

SPRINGTIME