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Re: A Glasgow bookcase

From: <mystery1881~at~verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:57:05 -0500 (CDT)
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il

What? No Rabbie Burns?

David McCallister

Aug 12, 2010 12:58:57 PM, jvf@Gilead.org.il wrote:

>
>I have just read a delightful book entitled "I Remember" by J J Bell
>
>published in 1932. The author recounts his life as a child in the West
>End of Glasgow in 1880 (an area visited by Verne in both 1859 and 1879).
>It includes a fascinating account of family summer holidays "Doon the
>watter" (Down the Clyde in a paddle steamer) as followed by Verne in
>1879 and exploited in The Green Ray. But more interesting is the
>author's account of the content of the family bookcase;
>"Uncle Tom's Cabin stood incongrously enough, beside A Floating City,
>an
>early story by Jules Verne, its scene placed on board the monster
>steamship "The Great Eastern". The Verne stories were then coming
>out in
>shilling volumes,with stiff paper covers, and I was old enough to be
>excited when, one evening, my father brought home a copy of
>Twenty-five(sic) Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which was to give so
>many people their first idea of a submarine".
>It is interesting also to notice which books acccompanied Verne in the
>bookcase...including Walter Scott,Charles Dickens, Fenimore Cooper
>together with Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson. Had he been
>able to read English, Verne would have had plenty of books to interest
>him had he visited this Victorian Scottish family.
>Ian Thompson
>

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