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
Brothers (Yu novel) Baldy Li (李光头) and Song Gang (宋钢), and the collapse of their family during the Cultural Revolution. Labelled as a social novel of late 20th century by The New York Times, "Brothers" deals with the Cultural Revolution and the emergence of Chinese economic reform, which are prevalent within the story plot". Brothers" has experienced great success, shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and awarded France's Prix Courrier International in 2008 and has sold nearly one million copies in China. It is the longest novel written by Yu Hua. It has over 18 thousand characters in Chinese, well over the