The Warner Library
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217285575
Paperback|9780217285575
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WILLIAM BLACK (1841-1898) ]n View of Mr. Black's accurate and picturesque descriptions of natural phenomena, it is interesting to know that of his varied youthful studies, botany most attracted him, and that he followed it up as an art pupil in the government schools. But his bent was rather for journalism than for art or science. Before he was twenty-one he had written critical essays for a local newspaper on Ruskin, Carlyle, and Kingsley; and shortly afterward he wrote a series of sketches, after Christopher North, That at this early age gave, evidence of his peculiar talent, the artistic use of natural effects in the development of character, the pathos of the gray morning or the melancholy of the evening mist when woven in with tender episode or tragic occurrence. William Black was born in Glasgow, Scotland, November,6th, 1841, and received his early education there. He settled in London in 1864, and was'a special correspondent of the Morning Star in the Franco- Prussian-war, but after abfeut ten years of the life of/a newspaper man, dufing which he was an editor of the London, News, he abandoned journalism for novel-writing in 1875. In the intervals of his work he traveled much, and devoted himself with enthusiasm to out-door sports, of which he writes with a knowledge that inspires a certain confidence in the reader. A Scotch skipper once told him he need never starve, because he could make a living as pilot in the western Highlands; and the fidelity of his descriptions of northern Scotland have met with the questionable reward of converting a poet's haunt into a tourist's camp. Not that Mr. Black's is a gamekeeper's catalogue of the phenomena of forest or stream, or the poetic way of depicting nature by similes. The fascination of his writing lies in our convic...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217285575 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217285570 |
| Weight | 1.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.25 In |
| List Price | $33.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 562 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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