Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal immortalised as the "Cheeryble Brothers" in Charles Dickens' book, Nicholas Nickleby. Donald's mother was the sister of the Canadian explorer John Stuart, partner of the North West Company who rose to become Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Smith was educated at Anderson's Free School and on leaving at age sixteen he was apprenticed to become a lawyer in the offices of Robert Watson, Town Clerk of Forres. By the age of eighteen, Smith chose another career path: offered entry into mercantile life at Manchester, and a career in the Indian Civil Service, his choice was to pattern himself
The Hundred Brothers house are like. Within these confines, however, can be found "a remarkably complete catalog of the things that men do and feel among men":Football, fisticuffs, food fights, chess playing, bullying gambling, hunting, drinking, pornography, pranking, philanthropy, power tools, homosexual cruising, anxieties about incontinence, penis size and middle-age weight gain. "The book also, despite its brevity, contains a deftly telecoped genealogy of human knowledge and experience, reaching from pre-history up through a very belated present day in which civilization seems on the brink of collapse." The Hundred Brothers The Hundred Brothers is a 1997 novel by American author Donald Antrim. The