title: The Book of Books
author: H. I Hester
description: The Church Study Course is comprehensive.  Its purpose is to help Christians to row in knowledge and conviction, to help them to grow toward maturity in Christian character and competence for service, to encourage them to participate worthily as workers in their churches, and to develop leaders for all phases of church life and work.
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  # The Little Manx Nation - 1891
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Hall Caine
  
  
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  * [THE STORY OF THE MANX KINGS](manx_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [THE STORY OF THE MANX BISHOPS](manx_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [THE STORY OF THE MANX PEOPLE](manx_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE LITTLE MANX NATION
  
  
  By Hall Caine
  
  
  Published by William Heinemann—1891
  
  
  To the REVEREND T. S. BROWN, M.A.
  
  
  You see what I send you—my lectures at the Royal Institution in the
  
  
  Spring. In making a little book of them I have thought it best to leave
  
  
  them as they were delivered, with all the colloquialisms that are
  
  
  natural to spoken words frankly exposed to cold print. This does not
  
  
  help them to any particular distinction as literature, but perhaps it
  
  
  lends them an ease and familiarity which may partly atone to you and to
  
  
  all good souls for their plentiful lack of dig