Memorial Sketches of Rev. George B. Atwell

Title

en_US Memorial Sketches of Rev. George B. Atwell

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Told by John Waller

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:01Z

en_US 2003-08

en_US 1880

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1880

Abstract

en_US The Rev. George B. Atwell was a Baptist minister in Connecticut until his death in 1879. There is a frontispiece of him at the age of 85. His serious look sets him a long way from Aesop playing with kids in the street! This book is composed of fifteen chapters written by his children as biographical sketches of periods of his life. During his pastoral duty, he wrote a series of original fables, a few of which were published. He meant to title the collection Pearls for the Poor, Contained in Proverbs and Parables, in Which Fact Is Drawn from Fable. (In fact, Pearls for the Poor still is at the bottom of the cover of this book.) Chapter X, Pearls, offers a good selection of these fables (89-126). Some of the fable subjects include the wrangling of vowels and consonants (90), an argument between the sword and the plough (94), the refusal to share of a man who has stood on another's shoulders to get grapes (95), and an argument between snow and ice (98). The latter takes a good turn when the sun dissolves both, and they find themselves becoming one. There is something humorous about The Short Man and Long Shadow (93). A man sensitive about his height notices at dawn that he now casts a long shadow. Wondering whether the shadow reflects reality, he decides to wait until sunset to check again whether his shadow has become long. Atwell enjoys punning, as when the river tells the fire that he has two banks, from which the fire will receive a check for all that is demanded of him. A turn of the screw worthy of the fable tradition occurs when a hen being sued for custody of her children has a fox as a lawyer, who pleads brilliantly and then demands the children as his fee (109). Atwell likes to pun and play with letters and sounds as when U and I square off in Woman's Rights (116).

Identifier

en_US 5124 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80709

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company

en_US Hartford, CT

Subject

en_US BX6495 .A78 1880

en_US George B. Atwell

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole