CharacterAndConduct

Readings for November 11 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Duty of Happiness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n331/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_315 Authors featured today: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury Charles Dickens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Image: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg

Reading for November 10 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Rest" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n331/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_314 Author featured today: Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) Book featured today: "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog Image: Portrait of Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832-1916), photographed by Frederick Hollyer, ca. 1890 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stopford_Brooke_c1890_Hollyer.jpg

Readings for November 9 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Unrest" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n329/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_313 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Books featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm "Pax Vobiscum" by Henry Drummond https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9373/9373-h/9373-h.htm Image: Henry Drummond FRSE FGS (1851 – 1897), Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/henry-drummond-scottish-evangelical-mary-evans-picture-library.jpg

Readings for November 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Essentials of Happiness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n329/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_312 Authors featured today: Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) Rev. John Keble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keble Alexander Chalmers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chalmers Germaine de Staël https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl Books featured today: "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog "Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance" by Rev. John Keble https://archive.org/details/LettersOfSpiritualCounsel Image: Portrait of John Keble (1792-1866) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Keble.jpg

Readings for November 7 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Sharp Ferule of Calamity" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n327/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_311 Authors featured today: Graham Balfour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Balfour John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury Book featured today: "The Life Of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Graham Balfour https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.235428 Image: Sir Graham Balfour, biographer to Robert Louis Stevenson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham_Balfour_jr.jpg

Readings for November 6 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Appetite for Condolence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n327/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_310 Authors featured today: Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Augustus Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Hare Books featured today: "Studies in the Christian Character" by Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/studiesinchristi00page "The Story of my Life" by Augustus Hare https://archive.org/details/thestoryofmylife01hare Image: Augustus J. C. Hare https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35589/35589-h/images/ill_vol_2_pg096_large.jpg

Readings for November 5 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "True Patience" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n325/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_309 Authors featured today: Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) William Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Books featured today: "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog The Third part of King Henry the Sixth, Act 5, Scene 4, by William Shakespeare http://shakespeare.mit.edu/3henryvi/3henryvi.5.4.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI_(play) Image: Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), attributed to John Taylor (1585–1651) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare.jpg

Readings for November 4 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Struggling" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n325/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_308 Authors featured today: Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Monckton_Milnes%2C_1st_Baron_Houghton Juliana Horatia Ewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_Horatia_Ewing Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Book featured today: "Mrs. Ewing's Letters" by Juliana Horatia Ewing http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ewing/canada/letters.html Image: Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milnes.jpg

Reading for November 3 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "There shall never be one Lost Good" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n323/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_307 Author featured today: Robert Browning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-browning Poem featured today: "Abt Vogler" by Robert Browning https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43743/abt-vogler https://readingnorton.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/robert-browning-abt-vogler/ Image: Woodburytype portrait of Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud (1845 – ca.1896) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Browning_by_Herbert_Rose_Barraud_c1888.jpg

Readings for November 2 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Aspiration" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n323/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_306 Authors featured today: Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Image: Henry David Thoreau, portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_D._Maxham_-_Henry_David_Thoreau_-_Restored_-_greyscale_-_straightened.jpg

Readings for November 1 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Evil of Brooding" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n321/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_305 Authors featured today: Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Charles Benjamin Newcomb https://www.thenewcombs.org/2010/12/charles-benjamin-newcomb-1845-1922.html Book featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: The Reverend Henry Latham (1821-1902), Master of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (1888-1902),painting by Frank Holl https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Reverend_Henry_Latham_(1821%E2%80%931902),_Master_(1888%E2%80%931902).jpg

Readings for October 31 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Pressing Forward" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n321/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_304 Author featured today: Frederick William Robertson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Robertson Image: Frederick William Robertson https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw114922/Frederick-William-Robertson

Readings for October 30 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Gaining or Losing Ground" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n319/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_303 Author featured today: William Wordsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth Poem featured today: "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45512/character-of-the-happy-warrior Image: William Wordsworth, "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" by Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wordsworth_on_Helvellyn_by_Benjamin_Robert_Haydon.jpg

Readings for October 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Day by Day" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n319/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_302 Authors featured today: Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Henry Vaughan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Vaughan Image: Thomas Carlyle, photo by Elliott & Fry, 1860 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Carlyle_lm.jpg

Readings for October 28 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Day by Day" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n317/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_301 Authors featured today: Ada Ellen Bayly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Ellen_Bayly Dante Alighieri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Book featured today: "The Divine Comedy" Purgatorio: Canto XIV, by Dante Alighieri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy https://archive.org/search.php?query=divine%20comedy https://ia800500.us.archive.org/32/items/divinecomedylong01002gut/2ddcl10.txt Image: Ada Ellen Bayly (1857–1903) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/The_literary_digest_(1890)_(14598388938).jpg/742px-The_literary_digest_(1890)_(14598388938).jpg

Readings for October 27 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Living in the Present" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n317/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_300 Authors featured today: Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Image: Charles Kingsley, photograph by Charles Watkins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Kingsley._Photograph_by_Charles_Watkins._Wellcome_V0026646.jpg

Readings for October 26 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Never Lose a Battle" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n315/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_299 Authors featured today: James MacCunn Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Likely to be Alexander Bain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bain_(philosopher) http://fair-use.org/mind/1904/01/notes/professor-bain Books featured today: "The Making of Character" by James MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22fourth+maxim%22 "The Mind of the Master" by Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Alexander Bain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bain_(philosopher)

Readings for October 25 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Stepping-stones" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n315/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_298 Authors featured today: Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Thomas à Kempis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis Image: Thomas à Kempis, Prince-Archbishopric of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_von_Kempen_JS.jpg

Readings for October xyz from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "As Night Enters, Darkness Departs" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n313/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_297 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Book featured today: "The Mind of the Master" by Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Phillips Brooks https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_Brooks.jpg

Readings for October 23 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Mental Hygiene" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n313/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_296 Authors featured today: Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MacCunn%2C+John%2C+1846-1929%22 Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Books featured today: "The Making of Character" by Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/172/mode/2up?q=simply+to+know "The Mind of the Master" by Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Ian Maclaren, pseudonym of Rev. John Watson (1850 – 1907), Scottish author and theologian https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Maclaren_001.jpg

Readings for October 22 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Love the Destroyer of Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n311/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_295 Authors featured today: Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MacCunn%2C+John%2C+1846-1929%22 Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Book featured today: "The Making of Character" by Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/172/mode/2up?q=simply+to+know "The Mind of the Master" by Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916), composer, conductor, teacher https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamish_MacCunn.JPG

Readings for October 21 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Love the Destroyer of Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n311/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_294 Author featured today: Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Book featured today: "The Ideal Life" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22822 Image: Henry Drummond, frontispiece of "The Life of Henry Drummond" by George Adam Smith, published i1898 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drummond_Henry_frontispiece.jpg

Readings for October 20 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Un-self-consciousness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n309/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_293 Authors featured today: Bishop Samuel Wilberforce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilberforce Likely to be Jean Nicolas Grou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Grou Image: The Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Wilberforce2.jpg

Readings for October 19 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Un-self-consciousness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n309/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_292 Author featured today: Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Book featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: The Reverend Henry Latham (1821-1902), Master (1888-1902), Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Reverend_Henry_Latham_(1821%E2%80%931902),_Master_(1888%E2%80%931902).jpg

Readings for October 18 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Our True Selves" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n307/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_291 Author featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Image: George Eliot (1819-1880), aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-1886) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg