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Springtime and Other Essays

Springtime and Other Essays

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SPRINGTIME
AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY SIR FRANCIS DARWIN

AUTHOR OF “RUSTIC SOUNDS”
AND OTHER ESSAYS

 

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

 

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1920

All rights reserved

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 fromOld English Instruments of Music,” by the kind permission of Canon Galpin.

TO
F. C. C.

SPRINGTIME

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