The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-06-22

thorities quoted. The volume is dedicated To
the brotherhood of the Breaved: but there are
few devout hearts that will not be helped and
comforted by these calmly solemn and dispas-
sonate chapters.
The Harper Brothers reprint of the Morley
Series of English Men Of Letters gives us. as
one of its latest issues, the monograph of Words
North, from the hand of the English poet, Fred
erick w. II. Myers, author Of the fine, thought
full poem of Saint Paul. The worship of Words
worth, as illustrated to us in the overweening
adulation of DeQuincey, Lamb, Prof. Wilson,
Emerson, and scores of the best generation of
literary men, is now, a thing Of the past The
shrine of the high priest Of Nature" is still
visited but not as it used to be. The Poet de
served his need of praise for the protest his poe
try made against the Romantic School which he
helped to abase. After Byrons passionate
heats, the cool naturalness of Wordsworth was
strengthening and elevating But ether minor
priests have since ministered in Natures temple,
with scarcely less effect, and with deeper warmth
of service, so that we are fain to turn from The
Excursion and The Prelude, to the more grace
full lyrics of the later singers. Nevertheless, the
influence of the Lake School will never be lost
out of English Literature. Mr.. Myers has given
us calm and well-considered Study of Words
worth's genius and his works He never allows
himself to go into rapture over him: he never
unduly lauds: he is well aware of the weight
his muse carried; and he does not attempt to
deny that at times his Poet is prosaic and dull
and longwinded Yet he does ample justice to
his high and fine qualities-his truth to Nature:
his lofty aims: his purity of principle his deep
sincerity of soul: his reverent attitude towards
God and all Gods works. 1t is well for the
present generation of readers, who are too dis
posed to put aside the noble teaching of Words
worth for the drawings of Morris, the raptures
of Swinburne. the i'll digested PHILOSOPHERS of
Matthew Arnold, and the obscurities of Robert
Browning, to have the high purpose and the
exalted endeavor, and the plain Christianity of
the old Poet commended to them in the digni-
fed, artistic. and loving way in which Mr..
Myers has done it in this pleasant volume.
Who that has readily Summer in Gar
den-Back-Log Studies Badeck-M the LIE
rGnt-ha the Wilderness-of Charles Dudley
Warner, needs to be urged to Join him in his
Winter on the Nile3 The Houghton house has
JueV -lssueu d new eultlon OF this delightful
book of travels to which careful revision has
been given. The volume while permeated from
hrst to last with that delicious humor which
must necessarily always trickle from Mr.. Warn
ers pen, is nevertheless filled with serious in
struction as well as light entertainment. One
learns vast deal about the present status of
Egypt-the Pyramids-the Nile Bank ruins
Stories In Stone-Nubia-"M Mysterious Phle"-
Mummies' Haunts- doings of the Khedive
The Track of the Israeltes-The Fellahs-
harnac-Luxor, and a thousand Oriental things
besides. Life on the far famed Nile boat the
" Dahabeak"- most pcturesquely described.
One would be almost willing to float up and
down the historic old river forever Moslem
creeds, customs worships, meetings, come in for
full recognition. The account of the poor, mis-
governed land of the Pharaohs, makes the
modern reader sigh for the up-r rising of new
Joseph who shall build provision cities" and
feed the starving fellaheen. Nobody who takes |
passage with Mr.. Warner on his Dahabeah,
" Rip Van Wrinkle" will be inclined to be left
behind at any of the landings, till he will be
too content with his comradeship to wish the
voyage any shorter. NIP.