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Title: Lumsden of the Guides, a sketch of the life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, with selections from his correspondence and occasional papers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lumsden, Peter Stark, (Sir) 1829-1918 Elsmie, George Robert, 1838-1909
Subjects: Lumsden (Sir) Harry Burnett, 1821-1896
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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arm of the whole place, full offun and brightness, genial and kindly alike to old and youngfriends, interested in everything, the most delightful of hosts.He was a picture to gaze upon, dressed ordinarily in a darktweed suit, which showed off to advantage his marvellouslyyoung, open, bright face and kindly eye. His hearty greetingat once set his guests at ease. EEs garden, stables, kennels, poultry-yard, workshop—which w as also his gunroom—together with his petanimals, all presented sources of endless interest. Inhis workshop he had his wood-carving table, his lathe,his magazine of rifles, rods, nets, and hawking para-phernalia of every description, whilst on shelves andin the presses were rows of chemicals, encyclopaediasand practical books on subjects such as agriculture,botany, chemistry, horticulture, the veterinary art, andphotography. He settled down to a country life, but0 regulated it that no day was ever too long; he readmany hooks, and was happy in the possession of the
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1869 WOOD-CAEVING 281 faculty of retaining and applying the knowledge heacquired ; he had endless resources, and he educatedhimself in his own hobbies : of these none was morefascinating to him than representing flowers and birdsin wood-carving. Gifted as a draughtsman, and enthu-siastic as an ornithologist, he threw a life-like spiritinto his work. On his annual migration to Londonhe used, with the bashfulness of a pupil to hisprofessor, to submit his works for the criticism ofone of the master wood-carvers of his day, the lateMr. G. A. Rodgers, of Maddox Street. That artistappreciated the originality of the work, and used inva-riably to retain it for long periods on view, superscribedthe work of a pupil. There is a speciality in SirHarrys work, he would say, with feeling, eye, andhandling not given to many. The Military Exhibition of May, 1890, awarded tohim a diploma of merit for two panels designed andexecuted by himself. In later years he carved areredos, which has been erected t

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