To Our Readers ~

We urge you to take a minute to read a comment by one of our favourite followers.  Thank you, Maria, for your comments regarding "poetic perception" (July 20, 2013 Obscure Life). Children do have a natural fascination with small details that go unnoticed by adults.  And bless the parent who takes the time to share!

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New heights of popularity for Jane Austen* ~
British novelist, Jane Austen, will be honoured on the 10-pound banknote.  Bank of England announced. The design will feature an 1870 portrait and include the Pride and Prejudice quotation, "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading."

"Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognized as one of the greatest writers in English Literature." ~ Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor.

~ CBC News, July 24.
* (Jane Austen, born December 16, 1775; died July 18, 1817)


Photo:  Cover of Jane Austen : her life, by Park Honan, 1987.  U.S. Edition. St. Martin's Press.  First published in Great Britain by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited.

Nostalgic ~

In Rivers of Canada, Hugh MacLennan refers to "The gentle Grand ... I kept marvelling at the Grand.  How does it generate enough force to move at all?

"Streams with low banks running through rich tillage can be very deceptive.  They remind me of quiet, apparently docile women who periodically lose their tempers and are all the more terrifying because you don't expect it.  The Grand River has a long history of losing its temper in the month of April."

p. 147 Rivers of Canada, 1974 Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd.

Photo:  Conway Park, Cayuga.  lbw files.