The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

Ito give our prefernee to those lovely " Stanzas to
Wordsworth," in which, while doing homage
to his chosen Poet, Mr. Worsley proves
himself beyond all doubt to be a poet also! Milton
he apostrophises on the preceding pagein a noble
sonnet beginning finely—
" God gave to thee :he keys of heaven and hell 1"
But in this very sonnet he says to MiEon, a little
further on,
almost in the language of a genuine
Irish Bull, that Jehovah
io ndet
do we
thythan
a passing
e t
tonguetrust to
speak
a tihe
lei
e anticipation
anawfulntsipoenak unspeakable
s gloomli
Earnestly
'
hat it
n is pre-
sentimentt
n which induces Mr. Worsley i his manly but most
affecting preface to remark of these poetic effusion&
—" It is my hope that kindly critics may, never-
theless, be able to detect in them the germ of some-
thing better, and that possibly with some readers
they may have a permanent value of their own, if,
as 1 bare good reason to fear, my /ve should not be
ash
spared for future efforts," Before closing our refe-
rence to these pages of graceful, and scholarly, and
pathetic verse by Philip Worsley, it would be un-
grateful on our part, as numbered among his
readers, and, therefore, also by necessity, among
his admirers, if we did not mention here in terms of
fitting admiration his two classically imagined
and eloquently written Poems opening the Col-
lection—" Phaethon" and " Narcissus," but more
especially the latter. A bounden duty also it
seems almost to us, here, to thank this gifted young
Translator for his metrical versions towards the
close of the volume, of some of the sublimest of
the Catholic Hymns, such as Thomas of Celano's
Dies free, and Giacopone's Stabat Mater. Com-
pletely satisfactory they are not, any one of them
as a whole—very far from it in our estimation.
But here and there they are undoubted improve-
ments upon all preceding translations; here andthere
they are more than simply satisfactory, they are
wonderfully felicitous. We shall yet hope to have
occasion to congratulate Mr. Worsley later on upon
his having adventured upon " fresh fields and pas-
tures new," with his pains and sorrows passed and
his constitution reinvigorated.

Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography.
By David Page. pp. 193. Wm. Blackwood and
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The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties is
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students of Mr. Page's Text-Books. Already he has
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God ! " It is wonderful how much book learning has
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As an introduction to the science of Physical Geo-
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