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Magnum Bonum

Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Brownlow sense, and mind had been more stifled than wanting in him. Nobody had ever put things to him by the right end, and when he once let me do it for him, it was quite a revelation, and he has been so happy and prosperous that he hardly knows himself. Poor boy, there is something very honest and true about him, and so affectionate! He is a little like his uncle, and I can't help being fond of him. Then Robin is just as devoted to Jock, though I can't say the results are so very desirable, for Jock is a monkey, I must confess, and it is irresistible to a monkey to have a bear that he can lead to do anything. I hear that Robin used to be the good boy of the establishment, and I am afraid he is not that now."

"But can't you stop that?"

"My dear, nobody could think of Jock's devices so as to stop them, who had not his own monkey brain. Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, an. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I don't know the original date I read this book, but I read most of it again yesterday :)

It didn't seize my heart in quite the way 'Pillars of the House' did, but then, that is a 10 star story! She had a wonderful eye for characters and their motivations, no-one is wholly good or bad, the melodrama isn't overdone, although there is a pervading religiousness there is no religiosity - I t

A fairly interesting novel from 1879 about three families of the lower nobility or well-to-do middle class in England at that time. The alternative title is Mother Carey's Brood, and this is actually much the more suitable one as the focus throughout is on the character of Caroline (Carey) Brownlow,

Really 3 1/2 stars. I am a Charlotte Yonge fan, and this was a reread to help me write a paper. There are two very confusingly-named large families, coping with bereavement, moral choice and ups and downs of riches and poverty, fairly typical Yonge. The mother (Mother Carey) is more lively and moder