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imposed upon him by the sometimes unmeaning decencies of the fashionable mode of writing. It may seem right to give a few examples. We have taken the passages almost ad aperturam.

Both delight in suggestive thoughts arising from the derivation or real meaning of proper names:—

'It may be well said, Bethlehem was never Bethlehem right, had never the name truly, till this day this birth, this Bread, was born and brought forth there. Before it was the House of Bread, but of the "bread that perisheth;" but then of the "bread that endureth to everlasting life.”—Andrewes, vol. i. p. 170 (Anglo-Catholic Library).

The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the twenty-four hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy, or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy city and sea-haven of the world!'--Carlyle, Past and Present, p. 89.

'And this is Cushi's prayer, like himself: some would have him an Ethiopian; but some black swart fellow, as his name giveth.'-Andrewes, iv. p. 8.

At that village, named of the Mud-baths, Saint Amand des Boues, matters are still worse.'-Carlyle, Revolution, iii. p. 202.

They manufacture words at pleasure:

'The very miniminess as I may say of it.'-Andrewes, i. p. 160. Carlyle has Valet-hood (Past and Present, 116), and its synonym Flunkeyism (passim), as duplicates of servility.'

They do not hesitate to use the vulgarest colloquialisms :—

'She stood and she wept; and not a tear or two, but she wept a good, as we say.'-Andrewes, iii. p. 7.

'An excellent officer; listens to what you say, answers often by a splash of brown juice merely, but punctually does what is doable of it. Puddingheaded Hodgson, the Yorkshire captain, is also there; from whom perhaps we may glean a rough lucent-point or two.'-Cromwell, ii. p. 177.

A pedantic play upon words is of constant occurrence:

'Else there is an aërgy, but no energy in it.'-Andrewes, iii. p. 393. In the way of eulogy and dyslogy,' &c.-Carlyle, Misc., v. p. 200. Similar to this is their etymological punning :

• So here is λύτρον and λάτρον λύτρον in our delivery, and λάτρον in our recompense.'-Andrewes, iv. p. 383.

'König (king), anciently Könning, means ken-ning (cunning), or which is the same thing, Can-ning.'-Sartor, p. 257.

Forcible, but irreverent description of Scripture incidents :—

'Out of little Bethlehem came he that fetched down great Golias.' -Andrewes, i. p. 167.

From the time of Cain's slaying Abel by swift head-breakage.'— Past and Present, p. 177.

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Abrupt exclamatory sentences:—

'A strange kind of love, when for very love to Christ we care not how we use Him or carry ourselves towards him.'-Andrewes, iii. p. 30. 'Veteran men: men of might and men of war, their faces are as the faces of lions, and their feet are swift as the roes upon the mountains; -not beautiful to honourable gentlemen at this moment.'-Cromwell, ii. p. 382.

Quaint inversions :

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'To repair our nature He came, and repair it He did.'-Andrewes, ii. p. 217.

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Shriek ye; acted have they.'-Revolution, iii. p. 60.

Both are fond of the emphatic, demonstrative epexegesis.

'We are so dead and dull when we are about it, this business.'Andrewes, i. p. 437.

It is a strange camera-obscura, the head of man!'-Cromwell, ii. p. 288.

They are both addicted to quoting,-the Bishop from Latin or - Greek, Carlyle from German or French-and they always add translations calculated to extend the use of the passage. In the careful minuteness of their comparison they are strikingly alike— there is no point of resemblance-from the name downwards— which escapes their notice. See, for example, the elaborate comparison of the hypocrite and the stage-player in Andrewes (i. p. 406), or in Carlyle, Hero-worship (p. 358). Let any sceptic take up any one of Andrewes's sermons immediately after half an hour's reading of Carlyle-and we make sure of a convert. He will agree with us that the description of the Bishop's style, as at once striking and familiar' (Angl. Cath. Libr., v. p. 6), is fully applicable to our contemporary's; and, for ourselves, in spite of all the quaintness and pedantry with which they are both chargeable, we read them both with much more of pleasure than annoyance. In his Cromwell,' in particular, Mr. Carlyle has exhibited himself as a first-rate artist in a department which is naturally alien from the subjects of the Bishop's pen-namely, in the description of scenery. We have not seen better word-painting than his landscapes of St. Ives and Dunbar (i. p. 112, ii. p. 199).

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ART. V.-From Oxford to Rome: and how it fared with some who lately made the Journey. By a Companion Traveller. London. 12mo. 1847.

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HE Voice which addresses us in this unquestionably striking work, is clear as though close at hand, yet mellow as if it sounded from a distance, and solemn as one issuing from among the tombs. It declares itself to be the voice of one who has overleaped the fearful chasm that separates the actual living systems of the Churches of England and Rome, and who has made the late but not wholly ineffectual discovery of having been betrayed into a portentous error. Not ineffectual, at least for others; for, as it seems, this one at least among the deluded of the last few years, pressed in conscience by the law of love, which makes Christians care for others as for themselves-has sent back among us, for our admonition and instruction, an echo of deep and manifold sorrows, the fruit of the ill-considered and ill-starred transition.

Let us, however, take the description of the writer from the introductory notice prefixed to the tale :

It is a history which will speak deep meanings only to those before whom the course it describes has arisen as a temptation and a snare— to them it is addressed. It should be remarked, that it was put together and prepared for the press in the midst of strong excitement, and the opposite disadvantages of feeble health, by such a one as its title-page indicates. Subsequent revisions have, it is hoped, corrected some harshness and some incertitude of language: but should it happen that any such remains-should it seem that the writer has been so unhappy as to add to, instead of in measure expiating, the sin of rashness and impatience, and, it may be, insufficient consideration in past dealings with the holiest things-let it incite the reader not to anger or to scorn, but to the prayer of charity, for the weakness of one who has made, and who has witnessed the course, of which no mere conjecturer can know the trial-the course which he who has gone can never more 66 think as he hath thought, or be what he hath been again."

We subjoin another of the least indistinct among the shadowy and enigmatic passages, in which the personality of the writer falls within the reader's perspective. It relates to the Church of England with her services, and is deserving of regard on its own

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'Now that we see her far off, and remember all the way she led us, now that we have lost our paternity in her for ever, we sit down in the strangers' land and weep for the thought of the sweet help she gave us to wean our affections from earthly things, and gather all their strength round the glorious eternal; in the many days of remembrance of the events of our blessed Saviour's human history, reminding her children ever of His wonderful grace and merciful kindness; and in the times K 2

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set for meditation on the characters of the holy Apostles, when she leads them gently to long for, and guides them in efforts to attain to, those high standards of moral virtue, and self-denying charity, and eminent spirituality; and her blessed Sabbath services, when we have so often exclaimed with joyous fervour, "A day in the courts of the Lord is better than a thousand in the palace among princes!" when the voice of the people was as the sound of many waters urging forward to the footstool of the Holy One, and they made meek reverence in receiving from His appointed minister the pardon and the blessing supplicated; those days, so hallowed and so hallowing, that after each recurrence of their hours we would involuntarily shrink from the returning secularities of weeks; and the continual sacrifice in every city of her dwelling where, in one holy house at least, prayer is made for the forgiveness of sin at morning and at evening every day, where praise is offered with the voice of melody, and they "sing to the Lord with a merry noise ;" and the vestments of her priests, holy garments for glory and for beauty, white robes, signifying that they who minister before the Lord must be pure as He is pure; and the wearers of those vestments, in their moral splendour, so often living witnesses in their places of that glorious Shechinah which is the everlasting light of the Heavenly Altar. We remember all these things, and we are sad, for we have lost our part in them.'— pp. 226-7.

Upon one, or rather upon two narratives, which, taken as they stand, are probably fictitious, is suspended that record of seemingly genuine observation and experience which we are desirous to commend to the notice of our readers. The first relates to a young clergyman who joins the Church of Rome and diesthough with fondly reverted eye-within her pale: the other to his sister, who makes her profession of the Romish faith under strong domestic pressure, and who also dies, but not until having been again received into our communion in Scotland.

Eustace A, a young man endowed with every worldly gift, and with deep piety, becomes, at Oxford, the disciple of a personage plainly intended for Mr. Newman. Adopting his general views of religion, such as they were supposed many years ago to be, and without any doubt of the Catholicity of the English Church, or of the obligation to abide with her, Eustace receives Holy Orders at the hands of a Bishop, who is represented as addressing the newly commissioned pastors in this nervous and lofty strain :

'Brethren, who are about publicly to take upon you such solemn vows and promises, consider the obligations under which they will place you now, and for ever. You are going to promise before the Church, and in the presence of Her Chief Ministers, to lay aside henceforth the study of the world and the flesh; and that promise once made will stand against you through life: it will rise in condemnation against you when

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you are following, though but for a day, the vanities of the world, or looking but for an hour on its sinful pleasures. You are going to promise to give your faithful diligence in the ministration of the cure and charge committed to you: your own word will condemn you when you are indulging in luxurious ease, or any other needless gratification of the bodily appetite, or deferring any duty. You are going to ratify your belief in all the doctrines of the Christian Faith; and the angel who records that solemn pledge will see and note if ever you turn to the right hand or the left, indulging irreverently in speculation, or even listening unnecessarily to the doubts and disbeliefs of others. Now, THEREFORE, WHAT MAN IS HE THAT IS FEARFUL AND FAINTHEARTED AMONG YOU, LET HIM Go and retURN TO HIS PLACE.

'You must wear the Daily Cross, and conquer the Daily Sin, till you become wholly crucified to the world, and are faultless in the eyes of the world. Before God it may not be given you to be pure while this life lasts; but beware that you cast no stumbling-blocks of conduct in the way of His people, "for they are the sheep of Christ, which He bought with His death, and for whom He shed His blood. The Church and congregation whom you must serve is His spouse, and His body. And if it shall happen the same Church, or any member thereof, to take any hurt or hindrance by reason of your negligence, ye know the greatness of the fault, and also the horrible punishment that will ensue." You will be placed in the midst of many trials. The more striking (as they are called) Misfortunes of life may indeed be less likely to visit you than many of those about you, who are the large proprietors of life's goods; but they only bear the war and detriment of their commonwealth; you must sustain what it shall be given you to suffer in yours. And take pattern in a measure by them and their wisdom, for they are wiser in their generation than the children of light. See to it, my brethren, that you do not bear your daily little Cross less bravely than they their crushing weights of Evil Chances. Keep the true image of this Holy Badge ever in your mind; realise it in all your conduct. If you do not wear this Daily Cross, show me what Cross you profess to wear; what Cross it is that you are promising to take up to-day to follow your Lord with :— for, as far as we can see in probability, you will be subjected to no forms of fiery trial; you will not have to seek hiding-places for yourselves and for your flocks in dens and caves and thick forests from the persecution of men. Churches of noble architecture are awaiting your ministrations, and congregated multitudes of the Refined and the Courteous will give you their soft applause, and the rewards of their pleasant smiles. Then beware that ye forget not the Lord your God, and lay not aside His Cross, which He has laid upon you. In your daily life, in your every work, in your most secret thoughts, serve Him under the Shadow of the Cross. There are few Great Saints of late days. Why is it? Men have left off to go up in their daily work, and in their household thoughts, in the ways of the Lord. They have not been earnest and faithful in a few things, therefore He will not make them rulers over many things. If the world is to be regenerated, my brethren, your part is to be awake, and every man at his work, unceasingly, unwaveringly. Now ANY MAN

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