Herbert Hudson Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor (April 3, 1861 - June 6, 1950), British Protestant Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and eldest son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission and Maria Jane Dyer. He served there for over 50 years the last three as one of the prisoners of the Japanese at the Weifang internment camp during World War II along with Eric Liddell and 1500 others. Herbert Taylor was four when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He had been born in London during his parents first furlough in England together. At the time of his birth, they were living with his aunt and uncle Amelia and Benjamin Broomhall at 63 Westbourne Grove, in Bayswater. In 1866 at the age of five Herbert and his parents, three siblings and sixteen other missionaries sailed to China aboard the Lammermuir (clipper) as part of the famous Lammermuir Party. During the four-month long voyage the ship was nearly wrecked by two typhoons. On arrival in China, the family adopted Chinese clothing and food and set off to find a place to establish a mission cente in Zhejiang. On the way, Herbert almost drowned when he fell overboard into the Grand Canal of China during their travels. Another scare happened shortly afterward when he was bitten by a dog on the face. His sister, Grace Dyer Taylor died of meningitis near Hangzhou within the first year. When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during the Yangzhou riot in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings with Emily Blatchley to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home. Like his father, he enrolled in the Royal London Hospital medical college. After two years he decided to return to China to become one of the charter teachers at the newly founded China Inland Mission Chefoo School at. After marrying a fellow missionary, Jeanie Gray, they endured tumultuous years in China, including the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Warlord era, and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). In 1930 the China Inland Mission published Ren Ch'eng-Yan, A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain. Or the Autobiography of Pastor Ren. Translated and edited by Herbert Hudson Taylor & Marshall Broomhall. At the age of 80 he was interned by the Japanese at the Weihsien or Weifang concentration camp after Japan had entered the war in 1941. Everyone at Weifang were liberated in 1945 by American paratroopers. Descendants of Herbert Hudson Taylor continued his full-time ministry today in the communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Grandson, the late Rev. James Hudson Taylor III (1929-2009) and his son Rev. James Hudson Taylor IV in Taiwan. Another of Herbert Taylors grandchildren is Mary Previte who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.

J Hudson Taylor's Books:

[A Retrospect | A Ribband Of Blue | Separation And Service]

John C Champion

John C Champion

John C. Champion was an American producer and screenwriter.

D Champion's Books:

[The Man Who Wasnt There | The Man Without A Head]

Ella Arcy

Ella Arcy

Ella D'Arcy (1856-1939) was an author of novels and short stories of the late 19th and early 20th.

Ella Arcy's Books:

[A Marriage | The Villa Lucienne]

Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth (17 January 1829 - 4 October 1890) was the wife of the founder of The Salvation Army, William Booth. Because of her influence in the formation of The Salvation Army she was known as the 'Army Mother'. She was born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward. Her father was a coach builder. Her family later moved to Boston, Lincolnshire, and later lived in Brixton, London.

Catherine Booth's Books:

[Godliness]

Abby Barry Bergman

Abby Barry Bergman

Abby Barry Bergman is a science educator, author, and school administrator. Bergman earned a doctorate in science education at Columbia University and authored and co-authored several books in the area of science education and school administration. He served as a school administrator in public and private schools in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Bergman has received numerous awards and commendations for his work. A library was named in his honor at the Ralph S.

J Bergman's Books:

[Kalervo | Nurmeksen Kapina]

Henry Drummond 18511897

Henry Drummond 18511897

Henry Drummond (17 August 1851 - 11 March 1897) was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.

Henry Drummond's Books:

[Addresses | Beautiful Thoughts | Eternal Life | Pax Vobiscum | The Greatest Thing In The World | The Monkey That Would Not Kill]

Gil Student

Gil Student (1972-now)

Gil Ofer Student (born August 8, 1972) is the Managing Editor of OU Press, and an Orthodox Jewish blogger who writes about the interface between different facets of Judaism, specifically Orthodox Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism, including modern, controversial topics. He is an ordained non-pulpit serving Orthodox rabbi.

A Student's Books:

[Etheric Vision And What It Reveals]

Hendrik Conscience

Hendrik Conscience

Henri "Hendrik" Conscience (December 3, 1812 Antwerp - September 10, 1883 Elsene) was a Belgian writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besanon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France. Hendrik's mother was a Fleming, Cornelia Balieu. When, in 1815, the French abandoned Antwerp after the Congress of Vienna, they left Pierre Conscience behind them. He was a very eccentric person, and he took up the business of buying and breaking-up worn-out vessels, of which the port of Antwerp was full after the peace. The child grew up in an old shop stocked with marine stores, to which the father afterwards added a collection of unsellable books; among them were old romances which inflamed the fancy of the child. His mother died in 1820, and the boy and his younger brother had no other companion than their grim and somewhat sinister father. In 1826 Pierre Conscience married again, this time a widow much younger than himself, Anna Catherina Bogaerts. Hendrik had long before this developed an insatiable passion for reading, and revelled all day long among the ancient, torn and dusty tomes which passed through the garret of The Green Corner on their way to destruction. Soon after his second marriage Pierre took a violent dislike to the town, sold the shop, and retired to the Kempen region which Hendrik Conscience so often describes in his books, the desolate flat land that stretches between Antwerp and Venlo. Here Pierre bought a little farm, with a great garden round it, and here, while their father was buying ships in distant havens, the boys would spend weeks, and even months, with no companion but their stepmother. At the age of seventeen Hendrik left the paternal house in the Kempen region to become a tutor in Antwerp, and to prosecute his studies, which were soon broken in upon by the Revolution of 1830. He volunteered as a private in the new Belgian army, and served in barracks at Venlo, and afterwards at Dendermonde, until 1837, when he retired with the grade of sergeant-major. Thrown in this way with Flemings of every class, and made a close observer of their mental habits, the young man formed the idea of writing in the despised idiom of the country, an idiom which was then considered too vulgar to be spoken, and much less written in, by educated, Francophone Belgians. Although, close by, across the Scheldt, the Dutch possessed a rich and honored literature, many centuries old, written in a language scarcely to be distinguished from Flemish, a foolish prejudice denied recognition to the language of the Flemish provinces of Belgium. As a matter of fact, nothing had been written in it for many years, when the separation in 1831 served to make the chasm between the nations and the languages one which could never be bridged over. It was therefore with the foresight of a prophet that Conscience wrote, in 1830: "I do not know how it is, but I confess I find in the real Flemish something indescribably romantic, mysterious, profound, energetic, even savage. If I ever gain the power to write, I shall throw myself head over ears into Flemish composition. " His poems, however, written while he was a soldier, were all in French. He received no pension when he was discharged, and going back idle to his fathers house, he determined to do the impossible, and write a Flemish book for sale. A passage in Guicciardini fired his fancy, and straightaway he wrote a series of vignettes set during the Dutch Revolt, with the title In 't Wonderjaar 1566. His father thought it so vulgar of his son to write a book in Flemish that he turned him out of doors, and the celebrated novelist of the future started for Antwerp, with a fortune which was strictly confined to two francs and a bundle of clothes. An old schoolfellow found him in the street and took him to his home; and soon various people of position, amongst them the eminent painter Wappers, interested themselves in the brilliant and unfortunate young man. Wappers even gave him a suit of clothes, and presented him to the king, who expressed a wish, which was not immediately carried out in consequence of some red tape, that the Wonderjaar should be added to the library of every Belgian school. But it was under the patronage of Leopold I that Conscience published his second work, Fantasy, in the same year, 1837. A small appointment in the provincial archives relieved him from the actual pressure of want, and in 1838 he made his first great success with the historical romance called The Lion of Flanders, which still holds its place as one of his masterpieces, and whose influence extended far beyond the strictly literary sphere.

Hendrik Conscience's Books:

[Argent Et Noblesse | Avondstonden | Bavo En Lieveken | De Baanwachter | De Omwenteling Van 1830 | De Ziekte Der Verbeelding | Eene Gekkenwereld | Histoire De Deux Enfants Douvrier | Hoe Men Schilder Wordt | La Nia Robada | La Tombe De Fer | Le Pays De Lor | Redevoeringen | The Amulet | The Poor Gentleman]

Frances Minto Elliot

Frances Minto Elliot

Frances Minto Elliot (1820 1898) was a prolific English writer, primarily of non-fiction works on the social history of Italy, Spain, and France and travelogues. She also wrote three novels and published art criticism and gossipy, sometimes scandalous, sketches for The Art Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, and The New Monthly Magazine, often under the pseudonym, "Florentia".

Frances Elliot's Books:

[The Italians]

James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

James Branch Cabell, pronounced /kbl/ (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare. " Interest in Cabell declined in the 1930s, a decline that has been attributed in part to his failure to move out of his fantasy niche. Alfred Kazin said that "Cabell and Hitler did not inhabit the same universe". Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. H. L. Mencken disputes Cabell's claim to romanticism, characterized him as "really the most aciduous of all the anti-romantics. His gaudy heroes... chase dragons precisely as stockbrockers play golf. " Cabell saw art as an escape from life, but once the artist creates his ideal world, he finds that it is made up of the same elements that make the real one.

James Branch Cabell's Books:

[Jurgen A Comedy Of Justice]

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College. She is author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Bad Daughter.

J Gorham's Books:

[Alice In Wonderland]

Douard Glissant

Douard Glissant

douard Glissant is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lyce Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aim Csaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Csaire had met Lon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Lopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of ngritude. Csaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Muse de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'tudes, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. He now divides his time between Martinique, Paris and New York, where he has been visiting professor of French Literature at CUNY since 1995. In January 2006, douard Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade. An English translation of Chirac's speech can be found here

Edouard Le Roy's Books:

[A New Philosophy Henri Bergson]

Krishnamurti Journal

Krishnamurti Journal

Krishnamurti's Journal is a diary of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986). It was kept at various dates between September 1973 and April 1975 while he was staying at Brockwood Park, Rome and California, and was originally published in 1982. As was the case with his earlier Notebook, Krishnamurti did not give any particular reason for the keeping of this journal which (also like the Notebook) started and ended suddenly. Krishnamurti biographer Mary Lutyens

J Krishnamurti's Books:

[Education As Service]

Jason Snell

Jason Snell

Jason Snell is a writer and editor whose professional career has been spent covering Apple Computer's Apple Macintosh computers and related technologies. He was also one of the early users of the Internet as a publishing medium, with several magazines and web sites to his credit. He is currently the editorial director of Mac Publishing, the publishers of the U.S. edition of Macworld. His column appears monthly in that magazine.

F Snell's Books:

[The Customs Of Old England]

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 August 9, 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi), each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.

Hermann Hesse's Books:

[Knulp | Siddhartha]

A Merritt

A Merritt (1884-1943)

Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) known by his byline, A. Merritt was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction.

A Merritt's Books:

[Dwellers In The Mirage]

Epifanio De Los Santos

Epifanio De Los Santos (1871-1928)

Epifanio de los Santos y Cristbal (April 7, 1871-April 18, 1928) was most distinguished as a Filipino historian, intellectual titan, literary critic, jurist, antiquarian, and patriot. He was appointed director of the Philippine Library and Museum by Governor General Leonard Wood in 1925.

Francisco Balagtas's Books:

[Florante At Laura | Florante]

Mike Brotherton

Mike Brotherton

Mike Brotherton (born March 26, 1968) is an American science fiction writer and astronomer. He began writing in 1980.

Mike Brotherton's Books:

[Star Dragon]

Flora Annie Steel

Flora Annie Steel

Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 - 1929) was an English writer. She was the daughter of George Webster. In 1867 she married a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected.

Flora Annie Steel's Books:

[English Fairy Tales | The Adventures Of Akbar | The Potter Thumb Vol I | The Potter Thumb Vol Ii | The Potter Thumb Vol Iii | Tales Of The Punjab]

H A Guerber

H A Guerber

Hlne Adeline Guerber (1859 1929), better known as H.A. Guerber, was a British historian most well known for her written histories of Germanic mythology. Her most well known work is Myths of the Norsemen s:Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas: From the Eddas and Sagas - George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1909 in London. Other histories by Guerber include Legends of the Rhine (A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1895; new edition 1905), Stories of the Wagner Opera, The Book of the Epic, The Story of the Ancient World, The Story of the Greeks, The Story of the Romans, Legends of the Middle Ages, The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation, The Story of the Thirteen Colonies, and The Story of the Great Republic.

H Guerber's Books:

[Contes Et Lgendes]