The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-21

t. ,,or,h, ~ The name "Holy Georse ~
-, rh,ch the world has besto"eu
-, him Wanon's Life" or TINS s.,'ro,,r
man was not published until IT, '.os IN
vears .ster his ashes were oepos ...,,,cb
tho little church at Bemerton' " ,ade
rs~verent piIgrimages have pee n
a..S. .,ncn and have been ihnnhnasedd
,.,,h,n t,,e las, few years by the s.a'n ~
v,ndov through which Mr.. Shnus. enc
oast- a aim religious light tnrousno" rrar-
norch OF this church trluinp''a''Ir, ~, rren.
bert or his first editor Nicho'as ~ into
divided these divine canticles Vi ,.socnIo-
sacred Poems" and private .srra
tIors." and subdlvided tnese m, ~, .rrhe
Church Porch" "The |nu I'~a,a sactton
c.',,rch Militant" the second see.iois
Nn .ns,si.s- che greater number OF tnese
,~s,I,..s lyrics OF which there are Del
'..s'., ona hundred and sixty and seventy
"s Zee The old-time spelling ~ care
IN. fo,Iowed. The charm Of this new edi-
49,. onart from its text, consists In its
,,,..s,rations. of which there are seventy
saven. selected from the choicest examples
- D,,rer. Whitney. Murnee. Marcantorhe'
Ven Leyden, Schongann, Hoibeih' ftahai'
cn,,er kIdenuire Alcitus. Siler and Scoop
,,e- tho Mains Of honor falling upon the
rreap Master of Nuremberg The galleries
Of Furope have yielded up their treasures
Tor the adornment Of this volume the
nrlnt room of the British Museum stand
ing foremost among them We shaii not
extract the poem by which Herbert -
best known-"Sweet day. so cool, so CAIN,
so bright"-nor more than one-tnird oi
it's equally famous follower. Here 1t is;
30 day most calm, most bright,
The fruit Of this. the next worlds bud,
Tn Endorsement OF supreme delight,
Writ by friend, and with his blood;
The couch of time, cares balm and bay;
The couch were dark but for thy light;
Thy torch does show the way.
The Sundaise of mans life.
Thee add together as times sting,
Make bracelets TO adorn the wife
OF the eternal glorious King:
On Sunday heavens gate stands ope;
Blessings are plentiful and rife,
More PLENTIFUL than hope.
Thou art day of mirth;
And when the week-dayes trail on ground,
Thy flight is higher, as thy birth.
o, let me take thee at the bound,
Leaping with thee from sewn 10 sewn,
TIL that we both being toss'd from earth,
File hand in hand to heavenw
What was it Sir Philip Sidney said of a
volume like this? Live ever, sweet
Bookew (McMillan & Coz
We have from Messrs. Fords. Howard
e. Hubert, in an Illuminated cover Of
red and black 1.-THE Sistine Madonna"
by Amory H. Bradford This booklet OF
forty-one pages is a Christmas Medita-
ton" in prose and verse. Here beginneth
the first lesson, Different men have
different gifts" and ends the last in
prose: "Mystery is the appropriate gar
ment of divinity" Like Saint Sextus and
Santa Barbara. in Raphael's picture. we
adore and are silent before their ineffable
glory"
Mr.. George II. Ellis, of Boston, ono.
al Franklin Square,, sends "Heart-
Beats" by Protap Chundar Mazoomdar
with a brief biography of that saDient
Sahib. by Mr.. Samuel r. Barrows. Short
as it IS this sketch is very intcresting
We shall make no extract from it, but
give. instead, two selections, which
viii explain themselves: '"fhere is no real
religion without miracles. Until the i'm
possible becomes accomplished end the
so-called unnatural an undoubtcd fact,
nature viii not rise above itself, and the
Divine would never be proved" Here IN
Sanskrit. choice no doubt. we have the
substance of the Old Fathers faith
81 believe. because it Is impossible We
conclude with this: "Only the sense of
the inrossibie must come before IL begins
to be possible" There have been other
see-s than those of judah, and other
taberr acles than those in the desert,
or In the Holy Place at Jerusalem.
"The conscious stone 10 beauty grew;
They buided better than they knew