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reared. Can the kingdom of God ever
come upon the earth where such Things

reared. Can the kingdom of God ever
come upon the earth where such Things
be-?
ANNA POETAE; Being Extracts from
the Motel Books Of Samuel Taylor
Houghton, Mifiln & Co., Boston.
This volume supp.ements the Letters,
which made up an Garner volume and
shows indeed the life of the poet. We
were prepared to believs that iColeridge
bad jotted down his thoua hts in all sorts
tofore been clear that there would be
found such a msas of this sort Of literary
work, nor known that it was ever con-
tom plated to publish them. 1t now turns
out that the poet was IN the unbroken
habit OF making notes on all themes ~
part of his everyday life, though not with
m uch method. Every wallet and pocket
book was found full of these penoiliugs,
written in scrawls sometimes, and It has
been a work requiring great patience
and industry to rewrite and ararnge this
confuse and confusing mass.
In 1926 Coleridge wrote to Wordsworth
that his pocket books were his only con.
now the innermost thoughts of the man
whose lips were closed in death more
than sixty years ago. In this collection
Of notes and short fragments of writings
we have more of the secrets of the poet
and the philosopher than any other vol.
ume has ever offered.
In his preface the editor (nephewl
among otner things says: The invisi-
BILE pageantry OF thought and passion
which forever foated into his spiritual
ken. the perpetual hope. the half belisr.
that the veil of the senses would be rent
in twain, and that he and not another
would be the first to lay bare the mys-
teries of being, and to solve the problem
of the ages-oi these was the breath of
his soul. It was his fate to wreste from
night to morn with the Angel of Vision,
and of that unequal com bat he has left,
by way of warning or encouragement, a
broken but an inspired and inspiring
record"
The underlying thought in all the
writings of Coleridge was religion. 1t
is the Grand refrain of his work and his
life. So deeply and constantly dit lie
dwell upon religious themes that he was
a dreamer and we'll nigh a mystic, or
rather would have been but for his
| naturally wholesome nature. His in
tellectual strength was perhaps too con-
stantlv directed to solve what must al
ways have hidden meanings to mortals.
Here is one of his many definitions of
religion: "Reli ion consists in truth and
virtue. that is, the permanent, the form q
efformans. In the Aux of thin,s without,
OF feelings and images within. Well,
therefore, does the Scripture speak of the
spirit as prayilg to the spirit, the Lord
said to my Lord. God is the essence
as we'll as the object of religion
Speaking OF the mystery. and restoring
power Of sleep and how all things grow
the while, he has this almost startling
thing to say: 1--WE are not to inert in the
grave. 81. Paul's corn in the Rround
proves this scribturally, and the growth
of infants IN their sleep BY natural
analogy. What, thsn, if our spiritual
growth be in proportion to the length
and depth OF sleepl With what mystsr
ioua grandeur does not this thought in
vest he grave and how poor ON pared with
this an Immediate Paradise"
OF q strong. sweet spirit he declares
that "the intrepidity Of pure conscience
and . simple principle may be com pared
"a q lifeboat, an somewhat in detail,
stem ming With q little rudder the
tum bling ruins of the sea, rabounding
from the rocks and shelves in fury
II 10 plain that Ccleridge had purpose
to have these i'm mense note books pub.
lished, but We are assured that only a
portion are to be gwen to the w"rld.
Enough. however. are given here to make
large and very handsome volume. the
best type OF literature in tho best style
Of art.
Senator Sherman's Recolle0tions, the
lrst volume Of which has rsxohed us,
10 valuable and welcome contriub ti0n
to the country political history. It has