BOOKS WRITTEN BY J. B. WARING. 7s. 6d. THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: ITS FAITH, DOCTRINE, AND CONSTITUTION. "An extraordinary book. thought and culture."-The Weekly Dispatch, January 16, 1870. Every page bears the impress of "No one can give half-a-dozen hours to an examination of the ideas contained in this book without receiving useful, and, possibly, most valuable contributions to mental and spiritual health.”—The Truthseeker, June, 1870. "Till this new St. Paul brings better letters of recommendation than anything we have yet discovered, we shall keep to the obsolete faith which he despises."-The Spectator, July, 1870. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL. 2s. 6d. BROADCAST. "A collection of eleven essays on striking subjects. All are good, but here and there we come to passages of rare beauty or surprising force."The Truthseeker, September, 1870. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL. 2s. 6d. POEMS BY AN ARCHITECT. "The Deserted Shrine' is of a sweeter southern melancholy.”— Athenæum, 1858. "Written with taste, and with a lively sense of melody."-Critic, July 31, 1858. "We most admire The Monk in the Desert,' and 'Karin,' a Swedish story."-Freemasons' Magazine, June 16, 1858. HARDWICK, 192, PICCADILLY. 1s. 6d. THE ENGLISH ALPHABET PHILOSOPHICALLY CONSIDERED. BY A GREAT FOOL. "Like Touchstone of imperishable memory, the author uses folly as his stalking-horse."-Weekly Dispatch, 1870. This pamphlet contains several predictions, some of which have come to pass, e.g., the fall of Louis Napoleon and of the Pope's temporal power (p. 36); the evacuation of Rome by the French (p. 43); Rome the capital of Italy in 1871 (p. 79); the completion of German nationality (p. 78). Amongst the unfulfilled ones, we would draw attention to the Anglo-Teutonic League (p. 78). See also pp. 70, 76, and 82. JOHN B. DAY, 3, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. 10s. 6d. A RECORD OF MY ARTISTIC LIFE, ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHS. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL. ON RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND PERSONAL SUBJECTS, FROM 1843 TO 1873; TO WHICH IS ADDED "THE STORY OF THE KING'S SON." BY J. B. WARING, ARCHITECT. Writer of "The Universal Church: its Faith, Doctrine, and Constitution." "For every word man may not chide or plaine, VOL. II. GEOFFREY CHAUCER. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59, LUDGATE HILL. A RECORD OF THOUGHTS. 516 1871. WHEN we enter life we meet with two slightly diverging main roads, on one of which we must needs travel till we arrive at the tomb; over one is inscribed," Love of God;" over the other "Love of Self." There are innumerable other paths and bye-ways, but all of them, however divergent they may appear, return into the main lines at last. These two main roads are also connected by paths here and there, so that throughout life, up to the time of death, men may leave the main routes and wander about at will, with more or less difficulty in returning to one or the other. Still, with much care, pain, and trouble, man can do so till he dies, for both are still in reach of each other up to death; but after? Well, we have looked across the gulf of darkness and have seen that these two main roads start likewise from the land of the new birth, but from points having no apparent connection with each other. One, the path of the "Love of God," broad, even, and beautiful, passing through a real Eden, and filled with a goodly company, stretching out into endless visions of celestial loveliness and brightness, for ever fair, for ever full of delight. But the other road, beginning in a dull obscurity, through which I could hardly make out the inscription, "Love of Self," stony and rough, passing through a land full of bogs, marshes, torrents, and rocks, stretching out into unfathomable darkness, towards which went forward, stumbling and shrieking for help, a mass of monstrous and deformed B |