"Alexandria And Her Schools "is a book written by Charles Kingsley .This is a kind of fairytale about a boy chimney-sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century.The story also mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, gently satirising their reactions. He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution, and was one of the first to praise Darwin's book... As a novelist his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties.

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