Other Non-Fiction Kingsley, Charles: The Hermits V1. 02-Jun-2011

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Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.
As a novelist his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties. The descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago, are brilliant; and the American scenery is even more vividly and more truthfully described when he had seen it only by the eye of his imagination than in his work At Last, which was written after he had visited the tropics. His sympathy with children taught him how to secure their interests. His version of the old Greek stories entitled The Heroes, and Water-babies and Madam How and Lady Why, in which he deals with popular natural history, take high rank among books for children.
Kingsley also wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons.

Contents

• SAINT ANTONY
• THE LIFE OF SAINT PAUL, THE FIRST HERMIT
• HILARION
• ARSENIUS
• THE HERMITS OF ASIA
• BASIL
• SIMEON STYLITES
• THE HERMITS OF EUROPE
• ST. SEVERINUS, THE APOSTLE OF NORICUM
• THE CELTIC HERMITS
• ST. MALO
• ST. COLUMBA
• ST. GUTHLAC
• ANCHORITES, STRICTLY SO CALLED

Extract:
St. Paphnutius used to tell a story which may serve as a fit introduction to this book. It contains a miniature sketch, not only of the social state of Egypt, but of the whole Roman Empire, and of the causes which led to the famous monastic movement in the beginning of the fifth century after Christ.
Now Paphnutius was a wise and holy hermit, the Father, Abba, or Abbot of many monks; and after he had trained himself in the desert with all severity for many years, he besought God to show him which of His saints he was like.

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