In visits to London, I’ve walked the short two blocks of Essex Street many times. It’s in the area called the Temple, and it connects the North Embankment and Fleet Street. I’d walk from the Temple tube station, travel up Essex, and arrive at Fleet. Historically, the buildings have been occupied by law offices; The Royal Courts of Justice site right on Fleet across from Essex. It was here that I located the offices of the character Trevor Barry in Dancing King and Dancing Prophet, counselor and advisor to Michael Kent-Hughes. I was completely charmed this week to read about the street at A London Inheritance, thinking “that’s where my character works!”
Historian Eric Strener has two articles this week, both about a famous figure of colonial and Revolutionary America named Samuel Brady. He was once a household name, but he’s largely forgotten today. He became famous for the rescue of a frontier woman, Jane Stoops, and became even more famous with what was called “Brady’s Leap,” which may or may not have been true.
At Front Porch Republic, writer and poet Benjamin Myers considers the Oklahoma landscape, remembering scenes from childhood, and how he came to internalize the concept of nature. You can see some of his books here; his poetry collection Black Sunday is a personal favorite.
I read The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth way back in college; I think I even glowingly reviewed it for the campus newspaper. Forsyth died this past week at age 86, and the tributes are pouring in. The Guardian has a fine obituary; Nigel Jones at The Spectator writes about the Frederick Forsyth he knew.
More Good Reads
British Stuff
The Spitalfields Roman Woman – Spitalfields Life.
America 250
250 Years ago Today, the Continental Army is Created - Mary Maloy at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Book Review: Virginia in the American Revolution by Charles Mills – Gene Procknow at the Journal of the American Revolution.
Lafayette’s lasting impact on America – Matthew Smith at The Conversation.
James Madison’s Appeal to Reasonable Discourse – Susan Brynne Long at Real Clear Public Affairs.
What the Bill for Regulating the Government of Massachusetts Really Entailed – Bob Ruppert at the Journal of the American Revolution.
Life and Culture
Tragedies of Trust – Andrew Klavan at The New Jerusalem.
Lessons From My Father – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Faith
We Believe in God the Father Almighty: The First Article of the Nicene Creed – Kevin DeYoung for Sola Media (video).
Called, Loved, Kept: A Sermon That Still Holds on to Me – Bob Kauflin at Desiring God.
New Dead Sea Scrolls U.S. Exhibit – Bible History Daily / Biblical Archaeology Society.
American Stuff
“Death is so common”: Soldiers’ Views of Death in the Summer of 1862 – Kevin Pawlak at Emerging Civil War.
Writing and Literature
I Can Read You Like a Book: On Northanger Abbey – B.D. McClay at The Paris Review.
Tragic Floss – Adam Roberts at Adam’s Notebook on The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.
Joseph Conrad’s Crooked Cross: Transcending the Tragic Sense of Life – Joshua Hren at Church Life Journal.
Holden Caulfield and the Ducks of Central Park – Nina Tarpley at Front Porch Republic.
Poetry
Yeats’ Warning to the West –Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.
“The Wild Swans at Coole,” poem by Wiliam Butler Yeats – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“When the Child Appears,” poem by Victor Hugo – translation by Bruce Phenix at Society of Classical Poets.
Here is Love, Vast as the Ocean – The Gettys & Sandra McCracken
Painting: A Girl Reading in a Sailboat (1869), oil on canvas by Alfred Chantrey Corbould (1852-1920).
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