Good Men and True; Biographies of Workers in the Fields of Beneficence and Benevolence

by Alexander Hay Japp

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... PAGE Arnold Toynbee.... Frontispiece NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D.... 14 JOHN CONINGTON....176 BISHOP HANNINCTON.... 24O DEAN STANLEY'S FATHER.... 272 DEAN STANLEY'S MOTHER... 289 DEAN STANLEY... 301 SAMUEL PLIMSOLL.... 402 NORMAN MACLEOD, DD. the autumn of 1867, a somewhat severe blow, though in nowise an uncommon one, fell on the writer of these lines, which naturally called forth from his more intimate friends their ready expressions of sympathy. But what was his grateful surprise to find, amongst the mournful correspondence that kept dropping in day after day, a letter from one whom he had looked on as being too much engaged and preoccupied to be warrantably troubled even with an intimation of such loss as had fallen on him and his. Tidings, however, had been indirectly carried thither, and the over-busy man at once wrote a letter to cheer and strengthen. And such a full-hearted human letter it 16 A FRIENDL Y LETTER. was--so unaffected in its manly courage, yet so frank in its acknowledgments of common weakness, and above all so faithful in its aim! Surely no one will blame the writer, now that Norman Macleod has gone from among us, for setting it down here, to show how truly considerate and sympathetic he was. For the writer's connection with him before that date had been an incidental and professional one, rather than aught else; and, though he had already had good cause to love and admire Dr. Macleod, he had no claim whatever to such friendly consideration as this letter bespeaks: --"Thursday, Sept. 2, 1867. "My Dear Friend, --In the light of a glorious summer, with seven children in health and strength, I am yet able, in some degree very truly, to sympathize with you, who, amidst the turmoil and fret of London, have been burying your dear...

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First published September 12, 2013

About the author

Alexander Hay Japp (1837–1905) was a Scottish author, journalist and publisher. Japp was versatile and prolific writer, writing under pseudonyms such as "H. A. Page", "A. F. Scot", "E. Conder Gray", and "A. N. Mount Rose" as well as in his own name. In his own name he issued in 1865 Three Great Teachers of our own Time: Carlyle, Tennyson, and Ruskin, which Ruskin found perceptive. He issued a selection of Thomas de Quincey's Posthumous Works (vol. i. 1891; vol. ii. 1893) and De Quincey Memorials: being Letters and other Records here first published (1891).

Japp tried many genres. Under a double pseudonym he issued in 1878 Lights on the Way (by "the late J. H. Alexander, B.A.", with explanatory note by "H. A. Page"), which was semi-autobiographical fiction.