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An edition of Spare Hours (1861)

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John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), containing essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. Best remembered are his dog story "Rab and his Friends" (1859) and his essays "Pet Marjorie" (1863), on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy..., "Our Dogs", "Minchmoor", and "The Enterkine".

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Ticknor and Fields
Language
English
Pages
458

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Subjects

English essays, English literature, Biography, Dogs, Medical History

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Scotland, England

Times

19th Century
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Cover of: Spare hours
Spare hours
1884, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
- 4th ed.
Cover of: Spare hours
Spare hours
1883, Houghton, Mifflin and company
in English
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Spare hours
1867, Ticknor and Fields
Cover of: Spare hours.
Spare hours.
1866, Tichnor
Cover of: Spare hours.
Spare hours.
1862, Ticknor and Fields
in English
Cover of: Spare Hours
Spare Hours
1861, Ticknor and Fields
in English

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Table of Contents

Rab and His Friends. 21
“With Brains, Sir”. 41
The Mystery of Black and Tan. 65
Her Last Half-Crown. 77
Our Dogs. 83
Queen Mary’s Child-Garden. 107
Presence of Mind and Happy Guessing. 115
My Father’s Memoir. 125
Mystifications. 215
“Oh, I’m wat, wat!”. 229
Arthur H. Hallam. 241
Education Through the Senses. 297
Vaughan’s Poems. 311
Dr. Chalmers. 353
Dr. George Wilson. 385
St. Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh. 397
The Black Dwarf’s Bones. 419
Notes on Art. 439

Edition Notes

A selection from the author's Horae subsecivae.

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Boston

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458 p.
Number of pages
458

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OL17365183M
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27153

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