The gorgeous fabric totters to the ground, Lo! here the end of all thy vaunting pride! And all its glory is a thrice-told tale.

The good seed crushed, the tares have grown
apace;

The gates of Hell and Death are opened wide;
Wrath is gone forth, and past the hour of

one of our poets whom the English know or | Nor blameless life, nor beauty's charms avail : care about. The conversation became gen- Weighed in the balance, all are wanting eral, and soon after it was necessary to found; leave, lest the safety of the nation should be endangered by overstepping the fixed limits of a morning call. Later, I learned that Miss Ingelow was extremely conservative, and was very indignant when a petition for woman's right to vote was offered for her signature. A rampant Radical told me this, and shook her handsome head pathetically over Jean's narrowness; but when I heard that once a week several poor souls dined comfortably in the pleasant home of the poetess, I forgave her conservatism, and regretted that an unconquerable aversion to dinner parties made me decline her invitation. M. L. Alcott in the "Queen."

grace:

Time's fiery baptism ends what this begins,
And France still bears the weight of that day's

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From the Contemporary Review.

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. THERE are few books in the world which present attractions to so many different classes of readers as the Confessions of Augustine. In this more fully than in any other among his voluminous productions is reflected that mixture of passion and gentleness, of authority and sympathy, of largeness of mind and logical rigour," which has given him such rare influence in the Christian Church. The man of letters finds

the field of the Church- which may be triumphantly quoted by the Roman Catholic controversialist. Yet he will discover also abundant indications of a theological system, to which, as a whole, he may apply that which Gibbon has shrewdly observed of one portion of it—namely, that "it has been received with public applause and secret reluctance by the Latin Church."* Still more may he trace the consistent lines of a method, of which it is no exaggeration to say that with its lofty reverence for human reason and its deferential appeals to in it the very first specimen of those revela- Holy Scripture, it is anti-Roman in its very tions of an inner life, utterly unknown to this delightful volume are we to forget those substance. Nor among the readers of classical antiquity, which have an especial whose approbation its author most valued, charm for the modern spirit. He recognises the men who give it a place among the in it a style, unquestionably clouded by the books which they read before or after they false and affected rhetoric of a declining have knelt in their Saviour's presence, who civilization, yet rising at times into flights feel in it, across the gulf of years, the very which human oratory has never surpassed, heart-pulse of its saintly author's religious whose contorted antitheses are more than affections, who bless him for wise warnings atoned for by touches of irresistible tenderand undying hopes. We may, I think, go ness, and by those occasional utterances even further than this. It is true of Auguswhich become lodged in the memory of the tine's Confessions more than of most uninhuman race, those one or two words engrav-spired books, ea est qua crescit cum parvulis; it en by the hand of genius upon the rock, which are better than a thousand written upon the sand. The psychologist who turns over the pages feels, perhaps, at first, some impatient contempt of the sighs and prayers which interrupt a scientific discussion. But he is startled by some subtle piece of mental analysis, by speculations on Creation, Time, Eternity, Memory, which seem to anticipate not only Reid and Jouffroy, but even Kant and Descartes. The preacher who understands his art may find in the Confessions, not, indeed, ready-made weapons for the nineteenth century, but materials which may be forged into weapons that will reach the soul of every man in every age The greatest sacred orators have seldom appeared more original than when they were borrowing judiciously from the Confessions The theologian of our own Church will discover in the book occasionally expressions and occasionally something more than expressions some of the unguarded rhetoric which was frozen into logic by succeeding generations, some of the tares that already began to grow rankly in

grows with our growth. Each age of human life finds in it a peculiar line of attraction. In youth it charms us by its delineation of passion, by those living sentences which vibrate as we touch them, and of which, as Montaigne has said, we feel that psychology seems hopelessly obscure, its if they were cut they would bleed. But its metaphysics hopelessly mystic, the whole mass of the composition destitute of those notches and marks for analytic measurement which are exacted by a student trained in our modern schools. Yet after we have not only studied other men's thought, but suffered, and doubted, there are rays which thought ourselves; after we have felt, and open up an avenue of light into the very heart of that which once appeared to us but a silver mist, and the intellect perceives substance where it suspected nothing but confusion. We may even say that these

*E.g. the invention of the bodies of Protasius and Gervasius, x. 7, and the request for prayer for Patricius and Monica, ix. 13.

† Chapter xxxiii,

Cardinal Perrone may have had the system and method of Augustine in view, rather than particu lar "texts," when he said, "Ötez à ceux de la reli*M. Guizot, in his admirable rationale of the Pegion cet Autheur, ils sont défaits, et n'ont plus rien." lagian Controversy. Histoire de la Civilisation, i.

180-189.

1 may instance the use made by Massillon in his sermon, Délai de la Conversion, of the passage:Retinebant nugæ nugarum. et subcutiebant vestem meam carneam, et submurmurabant: dimittisne nos? et a momento isto non erimus tecum ultra in æternum? et a momento isto non tibi licebit hoc et illud ultra in æternum?-Confess., viii. 11.

Perroniana, p. 100. An amusing passage follows, from which it appears that it was the habit of French preachers to speak of Monseigneur Saint Paul as in the first chapter, "De la Prognostication Pantagrueline." The other saints of the Roman calendar they treated only to Monsieur and Madame. "Monsieur d'O. said that those who in preaching talked of Monsieur Saint Augustine only proved that they were not familiar with that saint."