Böcker av Charlotte Mary Yonge

CONTENTSGlossary of Christian NamesThe Spirit of NomenclatureHebrew NomenclaturePatriarchal NamesIsraelite NamesNames from the PersianNames from the GreekNames from Greek MythologyNames from Animals, etc.Historical Greek Names consisting of EpithetsChristian Greek NamesLatin NomenclatureLatin PrFnominaNominaCognominaNames from Roman DeitiesModern Names from the LatinNames from Holy DaysThe Keltic Race - The Keltic Languages - The Keltic NomenclatureAncient Keltic NamesGaelic NamesNames of Cymric RomanceTeutonic NamesThe Teuton RaceNames from Teuton MythologyNames from Objects connected with MythologyHeroic Names of the NibelungThe Karling RomancesDescriptive NamesNames from the SlavonicModern Nomenclature

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - One summer afternoon, Helen Woodbourne returned from her daily walk with her sisters, and immediately repaired to the school-room, in order to put the finishing touches to a drawing, with which she had been engaged during the greater part of the morning. She had not been long established there, before her sister Katherine came in, and, taking her favourite station, leaning against the window shutter so as to command a good view of the street, she began, 'Helen, do you know that the Consecration is to be on Thursday the twenty-eighth, instead of the Tuesday after?' 'I know Lizzie wished that it could be so,' said Helen, 'because the twenty-eighth is St. Augustine's day; but I thought that the Bishop had appointed Tuesday.' 'But Papa wrote to him, and he has altered the day as Papa wished; I heard Mamma and Mr. Somerville talking about it just now when I went into the drawing-room,' answered Katherine