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John Keble, the author of the " Christian Year," has
gone to his rest. To most ease in the rough work of_
the world the name, if to them a name at all, belongs to the
past ; but everywhere throughout this empire are hearts
and households to which the news will come like a far dis-
tant sound, more felt than heard. So retiring were the
personal habits of the man, so quiet and unambitious his
course, that we must begin with dates, places, and names.
It was an Oxford tradition that Keble was only 18 when he
obtained, with the greatest ease, a double-first—that is, the
first class both in classics and mathematics. This was at
Easter, 1810, and would put his birth in 1792, so that he
would have died in his 75th year, but as we see different
statements on this point we make ours under correction.
It was commonly said that at the ago of 14 he became a
scholar at Corpus, where they used to elect very early, and
soon became known as an exact and elegant scholar. Few
of his admirers would suspect him of mathematical powers,
but no one who knew his force of mind and resolute will
could doubt that he would master any task his friends and
tutors set him to. He was soon elected Fellow of Oriel,
of which Coplestone was then Provost. It was not till
two years after his degree that his name appeared in any
prize list. Ho then had the chance of writing "a Prize
Composition in Verse" on "Moses conducting the children
of Israel," on " Mahomet," and on "John the Baptist ;"
and no doubt be made the attempt, but the mould was
probably too stiff for him, and he did not succeed. In
1812 he obtained at once the prizes for an English Rssay,
on Translation from Dead Languages, and a Latin Essay
comparing the military memors of Xenophon with those
of Caesar. Both subjects have a curious bearing on his
works and character, of which more by and by. He be-
came tutor, and some of the most distinguished men of the
age passed through his lecture room. He was Public
Examiner In 1814 and 1815, at an ago when most
young men are trembling in the hope of a " pass "
—that is, if we are right as to his age, and again in 18.1
and 1822. About this latter date he ceased to reside, and re-
tired to his father's living of Fairford, where he had a few
select pupils, and whence he made frequent visits to Ox-
ford. During the whole period of this residence at Oriel,
Keble was in contact with Coplestone, Whateley, Davison,
and several other menof great intellectual power, and rather
boldly speculative in religion as well as politics. The old
"Oriel School" was then one of the facts and one of the
terrors of the age, and Keble can have had no easy time
of it. But Davison he loved and admired ; he gathered
about him young friends, Hurrell Froude, Newman, and
the Wilberforces ; and, as men looking out for a prophet
and teacher, all these had a great admiration for an almost
forgotten man, John Miller, of Worcester College.
In 1827, 39 years ago, mune out the Christian Year, than
which no book of modern times has come nearer to what
we may call a Divine work. The greater part had already
existed for some time in albums, written under great va-
riety of circumstances. Bome of the poems were the work
of a day—a few hours. It was only when half or more
than half the year had been written that Keble would
listen to thc.e -who wantedilts whole year, and'in print.
The root springing up out of a dry ground was tender and
sensitive ; and in these days and in that small circle it was
thought even shocking to publish a sermon actually
preached. But with much violence to feeling the MSS.
were collected, printed, advertised, and sold. They were not
for everybody and overybody was not for them ; but, with
all their faults, which are great, they came straight from the
inner soul of a good, and true, and saintly man, and they
went straight to the inner soul of every hearty and honest
member of the Church of England. All who were then
at Oxford, in the first ring raised by the pebble in the
glassy pool, remember the effect there. Men read the poems,
and shortly found that without one conscious effort at
learning they could say every word. An undergraduate
would enter a room, seat himself at the fire, and, in a
tremulous voice, pour our " Keble " without end, re-
ceiving the faintest sign of impatience in his host
with indifference, if not contempt. It was a positive
possession, and soon a wide, a spreading, and a
growing one. Woe to men not naturally saints or blessed
with good memories ! Mon of standing could hold their
own and venture to criticise. The Goliath of the Low
Church party talked of Keble's " obscure lyrics," and asked
what they were about. But that Low Church party itself
was having meetings of its own and running off to Dissent,
and protesting, even in the University pulpit, against the
Church of England, root and branch, altogether. But "The
Christian Year" did notprosper the less for being addressed
0 ears willing and prepared. It was soon found every-
where. To the surprise of the Oxford world, edition ra-
pidly succeeded edition. At that time it was thought im-
possible to get a spontaneous sale for a really sound reli-
gious work, the thing must be done by subscription. But
this book had a life of its own. The editions, and the
thousands published, were counted with pride. To be
sure, something was taken out of that pride by the vastly
greater sales of Robert Montgomery's books, and Pollock's
" Course of Time ;" but then those were addressed ad
populum, and this book ad gregem, Tho " Christian Year"
has, however, survived them, and has reached its 80th edi-
tion. It will survive them, and be the Church of England's
manual of meditative poetry for centuries to come.

It is presumptuous to criticise what we have already de-
scribed as in some sort Divine, but men now do that and
more. The " Christian Year" seems to tell too well its
own tale—the sweet country parsonage, the Church of
England not quite the Church of the people ; a rather re-
stricted system—a religious community of high descent
and lofty pretension—a world of foes around and indiffe-
rent friends within—a faith held in its purity, but preached
wiih discretion—a pure sentiment, and a generous self-
confidence to be cherished with care and tact—and the
surrounding monuments of three great compromises—the
Reformation, the Restoration, and the Reovlution of 1688.
The path of the Anglican devotee through all these
stumbling-blocks, cavernous recesses, sloughs of despond,
and real terrors must be narrow and difficult. It is not
much to say of an undertaking in this present year
of grace that it is an unbroken tradition from the
great Caroline Divines. It so happens that per-
plexity, obscurity, peculiarity of opinion verging on error,
the marks of particular schools and of personal character,
have kept this tradition very winding, low, and narrow.
It has been complicated with the political mistakes of the
Non-Jurors, the abstruse wisdom of Norris of Bemerton,
the singular philosophy of Hutchinson, which even now
has High Church followers, and the opinions of almost
every man who could obtain for the Church the most tem-
porary and the most useless battle ground. If we venture
to say that the "Christian Year" is too exclusively the
manual of well-educated Church people, we must take
a test. Let that test be the cleverest and best girl in a
National School, the teacher—perhaps we might say the
schoolmistress Can she use these meditations intelligently,
easily, and usefully, even with every favouring circum-
stance ? We fear not. Out of more than 100 poems only
20 are not absolutely obscure, though even in this case we
should expect such a person as we have supposed to read
them with some fixed and inveterate misunderstandings of
the text. There are about 15 more that such a person
would master with more difficulty and even loss success.
More than 70 are really only meant for people who with a
little aid could make out the train of thought in a Greek
Chorus. In one of them there is a transition so violent
that nobody was yet found who could bridge it over or say
what reference the end of the poem had to the beginning.
Indeed we were once told that the author himself expressly
declined to help an admirer through the gap.
The natural and most rightful comparison is with
George Herbert, and here something is to be said
on both sides. George Herbert also would be difficult
to all but the highly educated. He wrote, however,
two centuries and a half since, and it is not fair to
him to
to write when Shakspere was in his
grave, and yet the plays of Shakspere are performed
co compare
him
with poets of these days.. On the
other hand,
without the change of a word to understanding and
enthusiastic audiences at Sadler's-wells. It may be
answered that the affairs of the world, and in-
deed all the matters that enter into conversation, and the
game of social life, are more beaten ground, and more
familiar modes, than the secret workings of the soul. Be
A §o, NiArely tli9rio btter pxo 119 excufie f9r extreme

Against George Herbert must be put his extreme quaint-
ness and sometimes almost barbarous inelegance. In
mother-wit, shrewd observation on men and manners,
general knowledge of human nature in its religious bear-
ings, and didactic wisdom, the Poet of Bemerton has not
yet been surpassed—we think we must add, even with the
author before us, rivalled. We know not why the attempt
has not even been made. By whom could the " Country
Parson" of the 19th century, or its " Church Porch," have
been described so well as by Keble ?
Thus was Keble, at the age of 33 orlittle more, the author
of the great religious work of his age, with a circle of warm
friends and admirers, and of almost unequalled standing at
Oxford. He was, of course, twice chosen Public Examiner,
twice Select Preacher, and when Dean Ireland founded a
University scholarship for the encouragement of classical
literature, Keble had to help in starting it as one of the first
Board of Examiners. Perhaps he was fastidieus, but he
complained that there was more scholarship than poetry
in the papers. He soon had to be disappointed—yes, Keble
to be disappointed, though lightly and lovingly, indeed, did
he bear it. In 1828, a year after the publication of the "Chris-
tian Year," Dr. Coplestone became Bishop of Llandaff, and
the Provostship was \recant. Mr. Keble was the senior of
those who bad any pretensionsto succeed, and hodid not re-
serve his wish to succeed. He had spent many years in the
College, and had his own views for ifs management
—for views there then were, and had long been. He spor-
tively proposed that the red gown should be given to Tyler
(late of St. Giles's and St. Paul's), the work to the present
Provost, and the money to himself. There were a few in
the college who most honestly felt, and not without
grounds, that Keble did not understand the management
of young men. A college contains a great number and
variety of young men, who have to be treated at once uni-
formly and variously ; some with entire confidence, and
even closer regards ; all with delicate caution and careful
respects. It was probably feared that Keble would have
his favourites in the college, men deserving to be favourites,
but that a good many others would find themselves in the
position of outsiders, the outer world of the college. This
fear decided the election, though Keble did not think it
well founded, as he thought he did understand young men.
There can be no doubt that he did understand both good
young men and young men not so good ; but perhaps that
was not the question the college had to decide. It is need-
less to say that it made not a particle of difference in his
feelings to his friends. Soon after, about 1831, Keble suc-*
seeded Milman as Professor of Poetry, the most popular of
the Oxford professorships. His chief subject was Homer,
and perhaps he had a share in reinstating the father of
poetry in that favour from which the revival of "scholar-
ship" and the Greek plays had somewhat deposed him.
The lectures were at first and for some time well attended;
but undergraduates do not easily catch Latin flying, and
the elaborate punctuation with which Keble tried to make
the dead language easy to living ears only made it more
tedious. Milman had resorted to the irregular expedient
of introducing long and lively translations, some amusing
as wollas interesting; but even Coplestone, with a majestic
Latinity of his own, with much copiousness of thought,
and a most melodious voice, had had to complain of flag-
ging attendance. Keble held the professorship for the
usual term of ten years, and when that was over the great
religious controversy was raging, and of the two candi-
dates that offered themselves one was rejected because he
was a friend of Keble and a High Churchman ; the other
was elected because he was'not.

It is necessary to pass over academic incidents, as well
as passages of our political history, that affected the state
of opinion and parties at Oxford. But ;Keble was a Tory,
he was a very fast friend, he 'entered warmly into the
troubles of the generous and good, and was readily at their
call. In justice to his noble qualities, and in deep reverence
for his nature, we shall make no further reference to an
" Address to the Electors of the United Kingdom," now
lying before us, published by him on the occasion of the
reform bill, in 1831. Could the gentlemen of England have
caught the angel Gabriel in those days we are quite sure
they would have made him write up the corn laws, the
game laws, the rotten boroughs, and close corporations.
But the storm was now brewing, and on Sunday, July 14,
1833, Keble preached an assize sermon at St. Mary's on
the national apostacy, which he declararthen to have set
in, and which he invited the Church to follow him entreat-
ing as Samuel had done Saul and the children of Israel,
As the parallel required, the sermon assumed that hereto-
fore the British commonwealth had been a theocracy, while
the people were now abundant for a civil government, ex-
ternal to the Church, and only receiving its counsels and
influence as it might choose to do. The Church of the
Apostles was now the only refuge and guide for those who
had hitherto dreamt that the Church and State were one.
That sermon was the epoch, if not the turning point, of
Keble's life. It explains not only why he joined the Ox-
ford movement, and became one of the three mighty men
in its foremost rank, but also, and still more, the special
part he has taken in it. His line ever since has been one
continued protest against secular indifference and civil
assumptions ; and this protest has been rather of a passive
than an active character. From the retreat provided him
by his old college pupil, Sir William lleathcote, at Hors-
ley, near Winchester, he has steadily and sternly, yet
kindly, protested against any supposed injustice, or
slight, to the Church of his fathers. Most of these pro-
tests will too readily recur to the memory of our readers.
Where the cause is held to be sacred, and the question
vital, it seems impossible to censure assistance, and is cer-
tainly vain to argue with it. But we may be permitted to
express our deep regret that many useful and excellent
men should have felt themselves unable to resist Mr.
Keble's invitation to join in a protest against, for example,
the acceptance of the Lutheran King of Prussia as spon-
sor at one of our Royal baptisms. Wo cannot see why it
was necessary that any clergyman or layman not personally
compromised should even recognize the fact, which in the
days of our forefathers might easily not have reached him.
The same may be said for a good many protests and con-
troversial declarations, the only use of which to a states-
man of supposed secular bias is to furnish him with a list
of mon carefully to be avoided. Tho course thus taken
has told doubly. On the one hand, it has tended to ele-
vate the pretensions and to isolate the position of tho Esta-
blished Church; and, on the other hand, it has tended
further to divest the State of the quasi-sacred character it
once had in Tory eyes. It has dislodged many anxious
minds from their old anchorage and set them down the
stream past our Church to Rome. We think it important
to mark the distinct character of the line taken by the
Vicar of Hursley. It scarcely bears out the promise of the
"Christian Year," unless the Church is to look for the
fulfilment of that in a state of perpetual protest and an-
tagonism to the State, such as the Nonjurors looked for,
The lines taken by Keble's two great coadjutors, the one
still with us and the one who has left us, proved more
constructive and more practical.

There never was a man of whom it was more true that
he was not made for this world. We say that in no invi-
dious sense, but in the highest and best Roble was made
for the Church ; he was made for any sacred office, except
possibly that of spiritual government, not for the world.
So long as ho had to deal with men looking out fora sacred
authority he could advise them and minister to them.
He worked as " working curates" profess to do, in his
widely scattered parish. He ministered continually
in the beautiful church he had raised out of the profits of
the Christian Year, strangely enough, over the remains of
the Cromwell family. He assisted with his advice and aid
writers and translators. He won the hearts of everybody
about him not only by his goodness but by a wit sparkling
like diamonds, and a gentle humour soft as pearls. He was
totally without affectation in thought, word, or deed ;
never once on stilts in his whole life. Had he attempted
it, he must soon have come down. He was not made for a
wide circle ; and he shunned gatherings. He found his
church in the parish, and the parsonage, and perhaps we
should add the squire ; but nations and great towns were
out of his soundings. Very early he pronounced a great
town a great evil, and held it at least a sin for a villager to
seek his fortune in the wide world. It almost adds to the
claims of the Christian Year to be a sort of Revelation, that
having brought it, in an almost preternatural manner, as
if from the skies, the author had done so little since. It is
not that he has not laboured ; for he has never ceased to
labour, but the Christian Year is his work. He has written
a metrical version of the Psalms, but his reverence for the
original has driven him to follow the Hebrew order as
much as possible, and to add not a word more than ho
could help. The result is useless for any purpose, except
the scholars ; for the translations cannot be sung, and can
hardly be read with pleasure. Keble had a fine ear for ex-
pression, but, like some of his college contemporaries, had
no ear for music, and deplored his deficiency. As Profes-
sor of Poetry ho had to write the Ode on the Installation
of the Duke of Wellington. It was a good ode, and must
have reminded Keble's friends of an old saying of his, that
if he were not a clergyman he would be a soldier. But
the Professor of Music had to play sac/ havoc with the Ode
before he could set any part of it to music—much to the
indignation of the author's young admirers. It is needless
to say that lieble has edited many books and authors, in-
cluding Hooker ; he has contributed many religious poems
to collections made by his friends, such as the Child
ss
Christian Year; he has lived, indeed still lives in onesioeune:
so continually has he been at the service of his
and that
s frds
But he has only done one thing—if that be to.crne: e i g
thing, and a thing that shall live for generatio
is the Christian Year.

inhabitants of Southwa—rk" T
is
Mr. ROGERS moved
ohfaot
pti
nh iiso
nmteheat
that
meeting
eo fptrhe e_
sent Government are honest in their desire to for-
ward the cause of Reform by the introduction of
and although it does not
the present Reform 13111,
contain such provisions for the enfranchisement of
the people as their advanced education and politi-
cal knowledge demand, the 'Meeting felt it their
duty to support the Government, and to use
their influence for the • passing of the measure."
He believed Earl Russell to be sincere in his desire
to effect a good measure for the people, and when
he found the greatest orator of the age—Mr. Glad..
stone, and the greatest friend of the people—John
Bright (cheers) supporting the measure which Lord
Russell had introduced, he could not for a moment
hesitate to give his hearty assent to the Bill.
Mr. SHARP seconded the resolution, and it was
carried unanimously.
Dr. JONES then moved that a petition be prepared
in accordance with the foregoing resolution, signed
by the chairman on behalf of the meeting to the two
Houses of Parliament, and that the members for the
borough be requested to support the Bill in its
passing through the House of Commons. He ad-
mitted that he slibuld have preferred seeing a much
more comprehensive Bill, but he had heard it said
that half a loaf is better than no bread, and as the
Bill had received the indorsement of John Bright
he presumed that the measure extended as far as it
was practicable on the present occasion.
Mr. Scorr seconded the resolution, and said he
did so on the principle of getting all he could now
and hereafter looking out for more.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. LOCKE, M.P. for the borough of Southwark,
then came forward and was received with great
cheering. He expressed his pleasure at meeting so
large an assemblage of his constituents, and hoped
it would not be said that it was a scanty meeting,
for he had been told that upwards of 500 persons
had gone away, not being able to gain admittance.
He had represented Southwark since 1857, and his
sentiments on the subject of Reform were well
known. Allusion had been made to the Ballot ; he
believed the Ballot to be a most excellent measure,'
but that was not at present the question. They were
met to say Aye or No ; were they ready to support
the Government Reform Bill ? (Cheers.) Let them
confine themselves to that, and not go into the
question of a larger extension of the franchise.
With regard to the Bill itself neither he nor his
colleague, although a member of the Govern-
ment, had the slightest idea of what its pro-
visions would be until they heard them stated
by Mr. Gladstone on the motion for the first read-
ing of the measure. Meeting one of his consti-
tuents in the house, and who had not been able tol
get into the gallery, he wan asked what he thought
of the bill, and since then he had had no reason to
change his opinion. Although this was the fifth
Reform Bill which had been introduced since 1832,
it was the first that had dealt with that most objec-
tionable part of the original Reform measure which
made it necessary for voters to pay their rates before
having their names entered on the register. The
present bill entirely got rid of that requirement,
and if it contained no other clause than that it would
be deserving of support. With regard to the pro-
posed
£7 franchise, he was not prepared to say that
that was precisely the right sum to be fixed upon.
On the contrary, he himself had always been in fa-
vour of household suffrage. (Cheers.) But every
member of the House of Commons had a right to
their own opinion on that subject ; they cuuld not
be driven ; they must be convinced ; and, therefore,
upon that ground he presumed Mr. Gladstone fixed
upon a£7 franchise. After some further remarks
on this portion of the measure, the hon. member ob-
served that by its operation no less than 400,000
voters would be added to the present electoral list—
a most important matter, and one which it would be
most foolish for the people to reject. (Cheers.) The
hon. gentleman then adverted to the pledge which
Mr. Gladstone had given to introduce a bill for the
redistribution of seats immediately after the second
reading of the Enfranchisement Bill. (Cheers.) No
man could conceal from himself that such a measure
was one of the greatest importance, and a necessary
adjunct to the Enfranchisement Bill. (Cheers.)
A Voice—What about the dockyards ? (Cheers.)

Mr. LOCKE said he should be extremely sorry to
disfranchise anybody unless they deserved it. It
did not appear to him to be a very good reason for
disfranchising the workmen because they voted
against the Government ; but he must leave that
matter to be discussed in the House of Commons.
He, however, did not feel at all disposed to
vote for that disfranchising clause of the bill. But
his object that night was to speak to them in a busi-
ness-like way, and to explain to them what the bill
really was. He was quite satisfied that, if they
gave it due consideration, they would come to the
conclusion that it was a most excellent measure, and
that it was for the benefit and happiness of the
country that it had been introduced. (Cheers.)
Mr. LAYARD, on rising to address the meeting,
was received with rapturous applause. He said he
knew that the borough of Southwark would not be
behind the rest of the country in expressing their
opinion on the subject of the bill then pending be-
fore Parliament. He understood the objections to
that bill were chiefly two—that was to say, two ex-
pressed, but he thought there was another, which
was not mentioned, though it was by many acted
upon. The first objection was that the bill was not
required ; and the second, that it did not go far
enough. These two objections might in themselves
be very valid, but they could not go together. As
regarded the necessity of the bill, he could not un-
derstand those who maintained that argument. It
seemed as if a gentleman said to his bootmaker or
tailor that he would not pay him until he served
him with a writ. Such a man he should charac-
terise3lr as a shabby and good-for-nothing fellow.
0.
Gladstone had already pointed out in the House
e of Reform,
Commons that the Government was under a
_geat.
moral obligation to introduce a mebasect:ir
no clamour,
and the very fact of there having
easthat had been
thes people, assuming a
or large public meetings of
the Government,
threatening attitude towards
large measure
given, and were prepared
proved that they relied on
whatever Government might exist,
of Reform from -iv to receivepledg
and that Government would have
ld h
een wanting in
its duty if it had refused to grant such a measure
the union at present so h •
by which —apply existing
among all classes of the people of this country
could alone be permanently maintained. (Cheers.)
As to the bill not going far enough,
there could be no doubt that whatever might
have been the measure some ob' • jections would
have been made against it. lie considered
the bill to be an honest measure. He had always
maintained that a Reform 13.11 was necessary for the
country. When Lord
Palmerston offered him office
he accepted it upon
the understanding that his opi-
nion on the subject of Reform should never be made