Quotes from Charles Kingsley's books, and about them
The Water-Babies on Peter Simple: “In the first picture they saw these Doasyoulikes living in the land of Readymade, at the foot of the Happy-go-lucky Mountains, where flapdoodle grows wild; and if you want to know what that is, you must read Peter Simple.”
The Water-Babies on Malleus Maleficarum: “_Exorcisms_, _for which the read Maleus Maleficarum_, _Nideri Formicarium_, _Delrio_, _Wierus_, _etc._”
The Water-Babies on Formicarius: “_Exorcisms_, _for which the read Maleus Maleficarum_, _Nideri Formicarium_, _Delrio_, _Wierus_, _etc._”
The Water-Babies on The Forsaken Merman: “come out in the night—like the forsaken Merman in Mr. Arnold’s beautiful, beautiful poem, which you must learn by heart some day”
The Water-Babies on Ode to Duty: ““Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead’s most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face:”
The Water-Babies on Beauty and the Beast: “But Tom thought he would sooner have a jolly good fairy tale, about Jack the Giant-killer or Beauty and the Beast, which taught him something that he didn’t know already.”
The Water-Babies on Triumph of Antimony: “Sympathy, after the method of Basil Valentine his Triumph of Antimony, and Kenelm Digby his Weapon-salve, which some call a hair of the dog that bit him.”
Westward Ho! on Arcadia: “And lucky it was, perhaps, for her that Sidney's Arcadia was still in petto, or Mr.”
Westward Ho! on The Cruelties of the Spaniards: “…window in the hall, and the translation of "Las Casas' History of the West Indies," which lay beside it, lately done into English under the title of "The Cruelties of the Spaniards."”
Westward Ho! on The Discoveries of the World: “…many a good story of the Indies, and told it well; and over and above his stories, he had among his baggage two books,--the one Antonio Galvano's "Discoveries of the World," a mine of winter evening amusement to Amyas; and the other, a manuscript book, which, perhaps, it had been well for Amyas…”