called the a second volume of this annual appeared in but the expenses of the illustrations and of the getting up generally were found too great to justify the publication of a third volume in he brought out at volume of sermons on and practical subjects this volume was followed next year by the publication of five preached before the university of cambridge m m sa f t i the rev thomas these mr delivered before that university sometime previously the young s guide proceeded from his pen in and in the following year a collection of his poetical works was brought out in the course of the same year he published his for the christian practically considered this was a small volume in the form of four last of all came in a memorial of pastoral also in the form of sermons of mr s published sermons i need express no opinion after what i have said in speaking of him as a preacher his poetry is of a very superior cast in his widow of and indeed in all his poems there are passages of great power while his smaller pieces every now and then sparkle with beauties and are deeply throughout with the finer feelings of human nature where is the father who has lost a beloved child in whose bosom there will not be th� rev thomas found a cordial response to the truth and tender ness of the following lines entitled a father s grief to trace the bright rose fading fast from a fair daughter s cheek to read her pensive brow the fears she will not speak to mark that deep and sudden flush so beautiful and brief which tells the progress of decay � this is a father s grief when languor from her couch hath scared sweet sleep away and that comes with night not with the day to mark the fond smile that seeks with false relief awhile to calm his bursting heart � this is a father s grief to listen where her gentle voice its welcome music shed and find within his lonely halls the silence of the dead to look unconsciously for her the chosen and the chief of earthly joys � and look in vain � this is a father s grief f m m mm the rev thomas to stand beside the sufferer s couch while life is fast to mark that once d eye with death s dull to watch the struggles of the frame where earth has no relief and hopes of heaven are breath d in this is a father s grief and not when that dread hour is past and life is pain no more � not when the dreary tomb has d o er her so d before not then does kind come to lend his woes relief but with him to the he bears a father s rooted grief for oh to dry a mother s tears another babe may bloom but what remains on earth for him whose last is in the tomb f to think his child is above � to hope their parting brief these these may soothe � but death alone can heal a father s grief some of my readers may be desirous of seeing a specimen of mr s projected new of the i therefore the following only that i do not single it out because i deem it the most to the rev thomas his talents as a of the of david but because the the eighth is one of the shortest � o lord i our lord to thy dread name through earth s wide what praise is given how hast thou set thy above the highest arch of heaven from infant lips at thy command glad hymns of praise triumphant flow ordained to the adverse band and still and shame the foe when on the bright broad heavens i gaze d by s hand divine the silver moon � the rays � and own the living glories thine oh what is man vain man that he should thus thy kind remembrance share or what his race that such should be the object of s care if not in angel robes of light thy hand the son array d another name a crown more bright his transient repaid thy love to him unbounded sway o er all thy subject works has given bowed at his all obey or tribes of earth or hosts of heaven mr s personal appearance is not imposing he is under the middle stature but the rev thomas rather firmly made in his gait he had a slight stoop when walking in the streets his eyes look towards the pavement ad if he were lost in contemplation i believe his mind is often occupied with some train of thought when proceeding along the streets or lanes of london his complexion is of a dark pale if there be not a contradiction in the expression his face is somewhat thin his brow is narrow and slightly contracted his eye brows are prominent and projecting his features are not otherwise marked his hair is and stands as the phrase is erect especially that portion of it which the forehead his light grey eye has a comparatively heavy dull appearance when out of the pulpit in the pulpit especially when he has fairly entered into the heart of his subject it is clear quick and penetrating the usual expression of his countenance is that of a on melancholy but when he the pulpit it appears much more lively and animated his age i should take to be forty seven or forty eight thb rev john the of st ann s is a well known clergyman among the the celebrated mr was many years of st aim s a was erected to his memory soon after his death at the farther end of the church the contains the following inscription � 