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Follow the heartwarming story of a new friendship in this
innovative title, comprised of two books telling two different
perspectives of the story of Joe and Mae! It's Joe's first day at a
new school. It's big, scary and different. He misses his school,
his old friends and his old life. Can't he just go back to the way
things were? When Mae hears that there's a new kid starting school,
she can't wait to meet him. Is this her chance to make a true
friend? A New Friend is the next book in the One Book, Two Stories
format. With this innovative format,two books, telling two
different stories, are bound together. One book follows Joe on his
first day at school, and the other shows Mae on her quest to make
friends with the new kid. The stories can also be read
side-by-side, as spreads from each book complement each other and
are linked with corresponding page numbers. The final spread at the
back of the book reveals a shared ending, in which Joe and Mae are
united in the playground! This uplifting tale of overcoming fears
and making new friends is the perfect gift for anyone struggling
with new challenges, and the innovative format means kids can read
the story again and again, each time in different ways!
Though the mists of time have closed down to some extent on those
early days, Adamnan wrote his Life of Columba only a hundred years
after the Saint's death. Cuimine the Fair was abbot at lona when
Adamnan was there as a monk, and Cuimine had known Columba, had
been trained under him as a lad and had himself written a short
Life, De virtutibus sancti Columbae, which Adamnan quotes almost
entire in his Third Book. Adamnan had therefore every advantage for
the writing of Columba's life: he lived soon after the Saint among
those who had known him; he had all the manuscript records of the
monastery to draw upon; he wrote at Iona amid the scenes and in the
atmosphere in which Columba had lived, probably even in the very
hut he had occupied. And Adamnan was a native of Connacht; he
belonged to the same royal race as Columba and was born only
twenty-seven years after the Saint's death. Abbot of lona from 679
till 704, Adamnan was a remarkable man for those times, a scholar
who could write Latin and was acquainted with Hebrew and Greek, a
diplomat who persuaded the Celtic Church to make several important
changes in its government and who secured the "lasting liberation
of the women of the Gaels" from taking part in battle. These points
are mentioned to show that Adamnan was not merely a monk on a
lonely island, but one of the representative men of his time. It
was at the request of his brethren that he undertook to write the
life of the founder of the Columban Church, a document which is the
earliest piece of historical literature connected with the
Highlands-" the most complete piece of such biography. Europe can
boast of, not only at so early a period, but through the whole
Middle Ages." It may be asked why, when that Life still exists,
there is any occasion for this one. The answer is that Adamnan's
so-called Life is not a biography. It is a collection of anecdotes
not arranged in chronological order and not complete. Adamnan does
not tell us all he knows; he tells us nothing he considers
derogatory to his hero, and most of his stories are chosen because
they lead up to a miracle or a vision. History is of little
importance to Adamnan, what he wants to do is to give a portrait of
Columba as he saw him. Consequently although his Life is a
priceless document of antiquity, there is a great deal which it
does not tell us as it might conceivably have done. To the student
of Celtic antiquity, of early religion, and particularly of the
pre-Christian religion of our own country, Adamnan's Life of
Columba is as full of riddles as it is of information. It gives us
a bright and fresh picture of one particular phase of Scottish life
in those early times: we see the monastic system as it was
practised in Ireland and then in Scotland in the sixth century of
our era, painted in vivid colours with a considerable amount of
detail, but as to what lay outside of monastic life we gain from it
very little information. A bright piece of real life with a great
circle of darkness round it into which we would give much to be
able to penetrate, that is what Adamnan gives us. By inference we
learn much from his pages that he does not directly tell us, but
his Life is incomplete, and must be supplemented by the old Irish
Lives: that in the Book of Lismore, edited by Dr Whitley Stokes:
that in the Leabar Breac or Speckled Book of MacEgan and that of
Manus O'Donnell, a member of the clan from which Columba sprang,
who in 1532 caused a Life of his illustrious kinsman to be compiled
from every available source both in Latin and in Irish, in
manuscript and in tradition. But these Lives, too, are collections
of stories and legends rather than biography.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Contents Include: Foreword by The Right Rev. A.F. Winnington
Ingram, D.D., Formerly Bishop of London - Parentage and Youth -
Assistant Priest at St. Peter's, London Docks - Vicar of St. Peters
- His Church - His Methods of Evangelism - His People - His
Children and his Schools - Visiting the Sick - His Preaching - His
Friends - His Jubilee: Failing Strength: Last Days - The Family
Likeness - Fr. Wainwright, By Evelyn Underhill
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