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ST. PAUL’S ROAD CHAPEL,
ST. PAUL’S ROAD, CAMDEN TOWN.
The Ladies of the St. Paul’s Road-Chapel, Camden Town,
having formed themselves into a Committee, earnestly appeal
to all friends for aid in the promulgation of those great
principles so successfully advocated by their highly gifted
teacher, Mr. M. D. Conway : the aim of whokS teaching
is, the unrestricted freedom ’ of' thought and expression
in all religious matters, the duty of exercising the greatest
of God’s gifts—beason, and the building up in those who
come under his influence a pure,’ generous, intelligent, and
useful life.
The present Chapel is insufficient for accommodating an
increasing congregation, and owing to its proximity to the
Midland Railway, the services cannot be conducted there
with tranquillity and comfort.
The Ladies, therefore, seek to
raise a fund for the purpose of obtaining a larger and more
convenient building; and any contributions towards this
object may be forwarded to Mrs. Squibb, Lady President,
or to any member of the Committee of Ladies.
�COMMITTEE OF LADIES:
Mrs. SQUIRE, Lady President, 14, Camden Square.
Miss G. CROCKFORD, Hon. Sec., 190, Camden Road.
Mrs. AKROYD, 2, St. Alban’s Villas, Highgate.
Mrs. BARTLETT, Duke’s. Road, Euston Road.
Mrs. BROWNE, 22, Camden Square.
Mrs. DAVIDSON, 12, Arthur Road, Holloway.
Mrs. EDWARDS, Heywood House, Camden Road.
Mrs. GILCHRIST, 50, Marquess Road.
Mrs. HARVEY, 36, Camden Square.
Mrs. W. HICKSON, 36Q, Camden Road.
Mrs. A. MOIR, 7, Merton Road, Hampstead.
Mrs. MORTON, Burnard House, Tufnell Park.
Mrs. PRESTON, 26, Fellows Road, South Hampstead.
Mrs. TAYLER, 5, Stanley Gardens, Belsize Park.
Mrs. WARREN, 3, Stock Orchard Villas.
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Thucydides, against the modern “ temptation to read into an inscrip
tion more, than is really to be found in it.”
Mr. Moncure Conway, following up his invaluable elucidations of
Folk-lore, discusses in his new book the significance and the teaching of
the legend of the Wandering Jew.9 It is scarcely necessary to remark
that the book is full of interest. The main feature in the argument
is that this legend of the Wandering Jew is a notable example of that
“ sacerdotal sorcery which, for the lover of enemies, substituted a
curser of enemies in the earliest Christian theology.” We are told,
first of all, how the legend is recorded in Roger de Wendover’s “ Ilistoria Major,” and how the Wandering Jew himself appeared in Ger
many in 1547, and in various other European countries, with a clever
and wonderful knowledge of previous history, and so forth. From
this we are led on to a most instructive account of the more general
legend of “ the Undying Ones” and. of Curses. The ramifications and
amplifications of the Wandering Jew legend are portrayed with most
entertaining and instructive detail. And the story is carried through
the ages of popular ignorance and vivid beliefs to the more recent
renovation of the Ahasueres as a poetic ideal. The Eternal Jew
becomes the favourite “ subject” of great German poets from Schubert
to Goethe.
Edgar Quinet, Eugene Sue, and Grenier follow the
same lead in France. And we have an admirable account of the in
fluence of the legend on the English drama and on English poetry. But
underlying the whole, and gradually working its way in the end to
prominence, comes a powerful vindication of the Jewish race, and a
powerful exposition of the hoped-for approach of better times for
humanity at large.
The growing prosperity of India and its consequently increasing
importance to Englishmen of all classes ensure a welcome for Mr.
Talboy Wheeler’s “Tales from Indian History.”10 The author himself
had some misgivings concerning this title, and it is matter for regret
he did not allow these misgivings more influence; for the title fails
to convey to the ordinary mind an adequate idea of the character and
value of the book. It is, in short, an epitomized account of most things
Indian ; and he who has read it will have no bad idea of nearly every
point that Indian affairs present to English notice. The author in
this volume manages to communicate to the reader his own firm hope
in a great future for India—closer bound to the British empire by
representative and business connections; and his belief that the
English, having instituted law and order in India, are now offering
most favourable opportunities for the great native races to work out
their own advancement by assimilating the educational and science
achievements of Western civilization.
Yet another national history11 is put before the public, and it may
9 “The Wandering Jew.” By Moncure Conway. London: Chatto & Windus
1881.
10 “Tales from Indian History.” By J. Talboy Wheeler. London: W.
Thacker & Co. 1881.
11 “A History of the British Empire.” By Edgar Sanderson. London:
Blackie & Son. 1881.
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Contemporary Literature.
well be asked how it comes about that such a uever-ending issue can
“pay.” It will be observed that the title, “History of the British
Empire,” might lead us to expect more account than is usually given
of the oversea realms the nation has ruled from time to time. But
beyond a short chapter devoted to the history of the Indian Empire,
and three pages devoted to the growth of our Colonial Empire, the
book is merely a new version of the oft-told tale of the successions of
sovereigns and the wars of the English nation, rigidly confined to the
British Islands. Of its kind the work is good, and it has a very
complete accompaniment of tables, maps, plans, illustrations, and
index.
It would be well if the numerous class of reformers would carefully
study an admirable outline of the history of the English Constitution
now published by Messrs. Longman.* They would thus understand
12
the true story of the development in English history of self-govern
ment, and learn that kings and nobles, as well as the commons, have
each in turn assisted’ in the good work. The politician of to-day is
too apt to forget that the future will be worked out of the past. Our
land reformers will do well to bear in mind the result worked out in
the book, “All ownership in theory is tenancy; in practice all tenancy
is ownership.” And in regard to Ireland it is interesting to trace the
obstruction Celtic influence has always opposed to the spread of repre
sentative self-government. In Scotland the same influence delayed
this for some three hundred years after its introduction into England;
and in Ireland local Parliamentary government, inaugurated in 1300,
could only take root “within the pale” when English descent and
custom came to prevail. As a whole this little work is admirably
written. We would, however, point out that in its opening chapters
the Norse element in our population is altogether ignored, though
it is now proved to have largely modified our institutions and our
national character. Again, on the last page there is a very partial
account of the main principle of free-trade. It is described as
merely prescribing that ho import duty should be levied on necessary
food, and so securing the people “ from being overcharged for the
necessaries of life.” The utter inadequacy of such a description of
free-trade should be remedied in the future editions to which the
work is sure to run.
It has been termed a natural function of Women to provide for the
education of children ; and the compiling of schoolbooks for the special
use of children is a task by no means neglected by women. “A French
History for English Children” is a full, clearly-written account of historica^France suited to schoolroom capacities.13 It has no pretensions to
advanced erudition, and is a plain matter-of-fact account of persons and
events that young people are expected to be familiar with. The book
13 “ Historical Outline of the English Constitution, for Beginners.” By D. W.
Itannie. London : Longmans. 1881.
13 “French History for English Children.” By Sarah Brook. London: Mac
millan. 1881.
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WILLIAM WISWBLL against WILLIAM GREENE, et al.
Reply to the Argument of II. C. Whitman, Esq., Counsel for the
Church of 4m Redeemer.
Counsel for tlie defen dmtsBffimt treiwif those memllrs who
went off because of their “ widelyWfferin|H’ with the pastor in
his religious views, are secederslthey lose all legal right to the
Church property. But he .says they are not seceders, because
they did not go off of “ their own motion.” Here he has mis-'
taken the facts. Let us see how they are. When this suit was '
brought, there was no agreement to divide and separate. There
was no second or independent organization formed, but Messrs
Hosea and associates, refused to attend the preaching of the
pastor, and kept up a constant clamor for a sale and division
or the unconditional deposition of the pastor. After this suit
was brought, they organized another religious society, called
the Church of the Redeemer. Notwithstanding the injunction
herein granted, and the pendency of this suit, they continued
to agitate in the Church until they succeeded in getting the
resolutions of 23d of May passed.
. Did they go off with the consent of those who remained?
Was it intended that they should Constitute a branch of the f
First Congregational Church, Averned by its Trustees, the A.
funds to be invested-by them and the new oiBanization con- ,
trolled by them? Was it a society organized Unfhin the juris
diction and under the control of those trustees y Was the Firs®P*'
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Congregational Ohtirch to control and mafiago it in any way
whatever ? The record answers all these questions in the neg
ative ? Again: those members went off before there was any
division, some before the litigation and some after it was com
menced. No sale could be had until the Court sanctioned it,
and yet long before they filed their answer in this case, the
Church of the Redeemer was organized, an antagonism of the
old ChurchHand to all intents and purposes they ceased to be
members of the First Congregational Church. They were not
driven out of the Church, but left of “ their own motion.”
They voluntarily withdrew, organized another, and independ
ent society, without respect to the one they withdrew from,
proclaimed a new covenant or creed and completely ignored
the First Congregational Church, the doctrines therein taught
having become heresies Po them. If this is not seceding, it is
difficult to understand what state of case will make it out.
II. Counsel for the Church of the Redeemer admits that if
this is a case of a division of the Church property among
individual members, it would not be valid, but he denies that
it is such a case. Let us see.
• 1st. When this suit was brought to restrain the sale of the
property, there was no separate organization. 2d. When the
resolution of the 11th of April was adopted there was no such
organization. The demand on the part of these gentlemen,
who went off, that Mr. Conway should be dismissed, because
they could not accord to his religious views, coupled with the
threat, which they instantly executed, that they would no
longer worship under his administration, all took place before
they procured the passage of the resolutions of the 23d of May.
These were steps taken by them, as individuals, as pew-owners,
and predicated of what they called their personal rights as
such, viz.: their ownership in the Church property as pewowners. They desired to retire from the First Congregational
Church, and to take with them their respective shares of the
property as measured by the value of their pews.
They did nothing afterwards that was not predicated of this
claim. Counsel speaks of an equitable rule of division, i. e.,
that the property should be equally divided. That rule was
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proposed by these dissatisfied gentlemen because they claimed
their pews in value represented about one-half of the value of
the whole church property.
III. I am not able to perceive Hie force of the counsel’s
proposition, that the cause of religion in this Church will be
promoted by granting the prayer of his clients to divide this
property, Ho speaks of the impossibility of his clients longer
remaining in that Church, because if they do it will be filled
with “ discord and strife.” To avoid this, he eloquently appeals
to the Court to let them take one-half of the property and
“ depart in peace.” How far this condition of things accords
with what the counsel says al*n«r place in his brief, when
speaking to the proposition of secession, it is not worth while
here to speak : nor do I stop to inquire who is responsible for
this 11 discord and strife.” I may remark that this state of
things is not exactly consistent wit»S|laiouM tMmngs. It
may be inquired if a division is made, how the First Congrega
tional Church is to be benefitted, or the cause of religion, in that
Church, promoted, by giving these gentlemen, who will, counsel
fears, “agitate” if they stay, one-half of the property to go away.
The resolutions do not contemplate,. nor do the parties
expect, that they are in any way to be held awountable by the
First Congregational Church, for the disposiwn they may make
of the funds so to be paid over to them. TItom ch^^tc^md they
will take the money, by force of their ownership as pewowners, and will do wit™ it whatever they may choose, which
may be to build up another Church, or divide it among them
selves, and use it for any other purpose. The moment the
Church property is divided, the tHu^Bcontemplated by the
Charter and the founders of thoMiurch ceases to control such
of it as is given to these scceders.
IV. Counsel claims that it would promoffl the interest of the
First Congregation® Church, to give these dissaj^^ed pew
owners one-half of the property, and let them go off and form
another Society. Not being able to see that, ^raqui™whether
it can seriously be claimed that this Church can divide up its
property, and give one-half of it to establish another Society,
for the promulgation of different religious tenets and doctrines
�than those taught in the Church? Nay, more: is it claimed
that this property can be used to establish another Society,
outside of this one, beyond its control, having no connection
with it? Counsel is not very explicit in this; occurrent nubes;
and yet the case shows that these gentlemen want the property
to set up an independent Society, beyond the jurisdiction of
and having no connection whatever with, the First Congre
gational Church. I know he claims that unless it is done,
there will be “ bitter feelings,” and a wreck of the Church.
How can that be ? These malcontents have left it, have formed
another Society, and, it is to be hoped, are in the full fruition
of that peace and calm which they could not find with their
late co-worshipers in the old Church. Of course they would
not return to “stir up the strife,”.which drove them from it.
How, then, can such dreadful things befall the “ old church.”
“ Peace and concord^ reign there now. I will not say it is
because these gentlemen have left the “ old church.” However
that may be, I am not prepared to believe that they will
voluntarily return there, if they apprehend a renewal of the
terrible scenes which the counsel so elegantly depicts and so
mournfully deplores.
I have examined the cases cited by counsel for the Church
of the Redeemer.
The case in 21 Conn, does not sustain the point for which it
is citedw
There is no such case as that of Uckerly v. Leyer, cited as
being in 2 Serg. & Rawle, 38.
The case referred to in 2 Wendell has no bearing whatever
on the proposition for which it is designed to use it; and the
paragraph particularly referred to is wholly outside of the
case, and the mere obiter dictum of the judge who drafted the
opinion.
The case in 23 Barb, is directly adverse to the proposition
for which counsel cites it. So, too, of the case of the Methodist,
Church v. Remington, 1 Watts, 227; and, also, the case in 1
Watts & Serg.
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MOTION TO DISMISS.
I call the attention of the Court to the motion to dismiss
this suit. It will be observed that the suit was instituted to
prevent a sale of the Church property as was contemplated
by the resolutions of the 11th of April and the 23d of May,
1859.
It will also be observed that the Church has repealed those
resolutions, and all others, which were designed to provide for
a sale of the Church and a division of its property. It like
wise appears that the trustees who filed an answei’ in the
case, in the Common Pleas, by their counsel, Messrs. Taft and
Perry, have requested their answer to be withdrawn, as they
no longer desire to sell the Church property. I, also, file the
letter of Messrs. Taft and Perry, requesting the answer to be
withdrawn; also the notice served on the counsel of the Church
of the .Redeemer, and Taft and Perryjadvertising them that
this motion would be made by the plaintiff. Copies of the
Church resolutions and the order of the Trustees, were served
«n the counsel of defendants. This motion is made, because
there now remains no necessity for pursuing this suit fur
ther. The object being to restrain the sale of the Church
property, now that there will be no sale, the further prosecu
tion of this suit is rendered superfluous. The right to dismiss
a pending suit, before final action, I suppose will not be ques
tioned, unless new rights have supervened, and that will not be
seriously contended in this case. In the first place, supposing
the resolutions to divide the property had been legally passed,
and gave any of the parties a right which they did not enjoy
before this suit was brought, having been passed “lis pendens,”
they can claim nothing through these resolutions. In the second
place, the power of the Church which passed the resolutions,
to elect to repeal them, and to decline to sell the property, can
not be questioned. That power is reposed in them, to be exer
cised only within the Charter. Supposing that the Chureh
may sell and divide, they may elect to sell or not sell, at a par
ticular time, according to their discretion. But if it can be
�done at all, it can be done only by the sanction of the Court.
2 Kents Com. 314; 3 Barb. Ch. 122. At common law it
could not be done at all, and it is by no means clear that it can
be done in Ohio, except upon the precedent consent of all the
members, under the statute of March 11th, 1853, Swan, 247,
which must be strictly pursued. It is very clear that the
Court will not require the corporation to sell its property.
16 Barb. 241; also, 23 Barb. 335. ,
If these gentlemen, who claiifi to be participants in the
fund, acquired any new rights by the resolutions of the 23d of
May, it was to enjoy them when the property is sold, but they
can not compel a sale against the judgment of the Church and
the Trustees. The sale is one thing and the division of the
proceeds another and very different thing.
There is no decree or judgment in this case. The one ren
dered by the common pleas was vacated by the appeal, and the
case comes into the court by reservation. It is, as if this suit
was now to be heard for the first time.
The case of Wyatt v. Benson, 23 Barb. Sup. C. II., 339, de
cides that no intervening or precedent action of the Church or
the Board of Trustees can impair the plaintiff’s right to ques*
tion the validity and legality of any order of sale made by
them. The order’ of sale and the declaration as to the dispos
ition of the proceeds, are yet in fieri, not having been, exe
cuted, and no rights having been acquired under th pm, it is
not only in the power of the corporation to rescind such order
of sale, etc., but the Court will refuse to act when the Trustees
ask to withdraw their application for a sale. The application
can be made by none but the Society itself, or by some one
authorized by them. Swan, 248. The supplemental answer
now filed by the Trustees takes away from the Court all power
to order a sale.
R. M. CORWINE,
*
Attorney for the Plaintiff and the Trustees.
�SUPREME COURT OF OHIO.
WILLIAM WISWELL against WILLIAM GREENE, et al.
Reply to some of the Points made by Mlsrsl Whitman & Collins, in
their Oral Argument.
1st. Counsel for defendants say that the opinion of the
lawyers given to the Trustees, (Printed Record, page 3G), was
followed inEMJpassage of the resolutions of the 23d of May*
Thisd® a mistake. An examination of that paper will show
that they advised that the division should be made in such a
way as that thcTcharter should be complied with: that is, that
no second organization could be made, except it was a part of
the First Congregation®. Church. That is the fair interpreta
tion of it. See the last paragraph in that opinion, and note its
guarded language.
2nd. On the application to withdraw the answer of the
Trustees, counsel say that the court should not entertain it,
because thewesolutions of the 2Gth May, 1862, were not passed
by a legal body, and because they were passed after this case
was reserved. I answer if that is true, it does not help the
resolutions of the 23d of May, 1859, since they weHpast after
this suit was brought. The one is no bettei’ than the other, so
far as this objection is concerned.
3d. The resolutions of the 23d of May do not pretend to
dispose of the question, but leave the whole matter to 'the
Court, to whom it is referred for “Judicial /Sanction.” How
could those membersBwho withdrew, after their adoption,
claim that they gave them any rights, or conferred upon them
�any privileges until the court
them? ^he whole
question was purposely left in abeyance. They could have
taken no steps in the purchase of property predicated of these
resolutions. It is not, therefore, a case of vested rights, as the
counsel suppose. No legal rights could intervene by reason
of what these resolutions contain. The Corporation could do
nothing in the way of disposing of the property, or dividing
the proceeds without the sanction of the Court. So that the
whole thing was immature—was in fieri.
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A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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William Wiswell against William Greene et al: reply to the argument of H.C. Whitman, Esq., Counsel for the Church of the Redeemer
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Place of publication: [Cincinatti]
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Notes: From the library of Dr Moncure Conway. Hearing held December term, 1862. The case concerned a schism in the First Congregational Church, part of the congregation disapproved of Conway and left; questions arose of dividing church property. Compare 'Ohio. Supreme Court of Ohio. William Wiswell v William Greene, William Goodman, and others' in Conway Tracts 10.
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K, Mn Moncure Conwayr the popular preacher of '
Wouth Place, Finsbury, has completed his great
book on “ Demonology «the Dark Science of the
Dark Ages.” It has cost the labour more or less of
tenWears, and has merits which may |3W^it at
i the head of all works of the class, as it includes all
that is known as the result of modern research.
His church having won many new adherents, a re
ception was held there by Mrs. Conway, that she
might become acquainted personally with the fresh
hearers. Carpet, floral, and other decorations lent
their gaieties to the scene. An unexpected pre
sentation of £350. was made to Mr. Conway as a
memorial of the pleasant reception, and perhaps
I of congratulation that he had at last laid the
demons—who in all times have given trouble.
The Nineteenth Century Club has been opened in
Brighton through the munificence of Mr. P. H.
Taylor, M.P., who takes upon himself to meet any
losses for the first two or three years in order to see
whether the members care to render it self-supporting. The building was once the famous KentI field Billiard Rooms, where in George IV.’s days
i all the noble gamblers of the time played. The
| building and alterations will have cost from £3,000.
to £4,000., including fittings, and a fine library.
ii The club without and within is a really handsome
place. Strange to say, Mr. Taylor’s condition,
that the library of the club should be open
| to non-members on Sundays, has been well
I accepted. It was thought that objections
; would be made thereto ; but the members
are a little nervous about recreation in the
• club—of billiards or chess—on Sunday. Mrs.
j Grundy is a good deal about in Brighton. The
I fresh air does her good; and at a meeting of mem
bers it is expected Mr. Taylor will be asked to see
the old lady. The object of the club is to enable
members of the working-class who may belong to it
to have the same freedom of innocent and moral
i enjoyment of any kind and on any day as gentle
men use in their clubs, never condescending to ask
permission of any one, never suffering the inter
ference of others with them. If, however, the comijmittee think that the majority of members are
I without the self-respect which would value this in■ dependence, or are wishful, from any scruple, to
prohibit this honourable freedom to their asso- i
’ dates, Mr. Taylor will be asked to consent that
for the first year all recreation on Sunday, save
. reading, lectures, and music, shall be suspended, fl
I; on the understanding that at the end of that time i
the question shall come up for reconsideration and I
adjustment. It is expected that Mr. Taylor will :
leave details of enjoyment to be determined by the j
members, the principle of the club being open on .
the Sunday being respected. Working people never |
had such a chance of a club as this.
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[Demonology and Devil-Lore]
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Collation: 1 leaf ; 19 cm.
Notes: From the library of Dr Moncure Conway. Mounted untitled cutting from an unidentified newspaper. An unnamed review of Moncure Conway's work 'Demonology and Devil-Lore'.
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NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Life of John Co/criaje Patteson, Missionary
Bishop of the Melanesian Islands. By Charlotte
Mary Yonge. In two volumes. (Macmillan.)—
•Missionary enterprise forms one of the brightest
■and most glorious chapters in the history of the
Christian Church—the one common ground on
which all the sects may stand. It has had its
triumphs and its misfortunes, its victories and its
defeats, its disciples, apostles, and, alas! its mar
tyrs. In the roll-call of the latter, Coleridge
Patteson, first bishop of the Melanesian Islands,
takes a foremost place. Never were there more
enthusiastic, single-minded, devoted servants of
the great cause than Williams, Patteson, and
Livingstone. It is well, therefore, that the story
of their lives and labours should be told—not
only as a record of duty faithfully performed, but
as example and encouragement to others. In
these two volumes the authoress of the “Heir of
Bedclyffe ” shows herself a most capable biogra
pher. There was comparatively little of incident
tn the life of Bishop Patteson ; nothing, indeed,
df an extraordinary character, except his deplorable
assassination at the hands of the fanatical Maories ;
and yet how full of interest is the whole narrative !
Briefly enough may the story of his life be related.
John Coleridge Patteson was the son of the wellknown “ Mr. Justice Patteson,” by his second
wife, Frances Duke Coleridge, sister of his friend
and fellow-barrister, John Taylor Coleridge,
nephew of the poet. Fie was born in Gower
(•Street, Bedford Square, on the 1st of April, 1827.
’Early showing a taste for reading and languages,
he was sent, in bis eleventh year, to Eton, where
he equally distinguished himself in learning and
cricket. He entered as undergraduate at Balliol
College, Oxford, in 1845 5 passed his college
Cpurse with credit; in due time took his degrees ;
made the usual Continental tour, of which he
kept a diary ; took holy orders, and, in 1853, be
came curate of Alfingham, a hamlet of the parish
of Ottery St. Mary. Up to this time his life had
differed little from the lives of other well-educated
and well-conducted young men ; but, upon making
tire acquaintance of Bishop Selwyn, a growing
desire for missionary work, “which,” he says,
tl has for years been striving within me, and ought
no longer to be resisted,” determined his future
Career. The next year, therefore, he received or
dination as a priest at the hands of Bishop Phillpotts, in Exeter Cathedral; and in March, 1855,
departed for New Zealand, greatly to the grief,
though not without the consent, of his father and
friends. The scene of his labours was the group
pf islands in the South Pacific between New Zea
land and New Guinea, marked on the maps
Loyalty Islands, Solomon’s Islands, and the
New Hebrides, but now known as the Melane
sians—a group of some seventy islets, included
in the Bishopric of New Zealand. Here the defi
nite work of his life began, and here it sadly
ended. He landed at Norfolk Island, about
haif-way between the North Cape of New Zealand
apd the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, on the 16th
of May, 1856. He soon accommodated himself
to his new life. He visited all the islands in the
s extensive group; he set up his church in the midst
1 of the savages—every one of whom, he says,
I might, under proper treatment, be a Man Friday;
he learned their language, taught their children,
and for seventeen years made himself a home
among them. He was universally beloved. But
the time came wh.en these poor savage men grew
i , be iealcus of their need Bisope. Trouble
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arose; whence no oT^knew^ and none now can
tell. The Maori war broke out; and Coleridge
Patteson, its first Bishop, became the first martyr
of the Melanesian Church. There was a disturb
ance among the natives. He went ashore at the
little island of Nukapa, and was there assassinated
—the victim of a fatal mistake, arising out of the
suspicions of the islanders as to the designs of
the English, then in force in Melanesia. Such
is the story of the good Bishop’s life; but
the story, even as told by Miss Charlotte Yonge,
constitutes but small part of the charm of the
biography.
That will be found in the extensive^
correspondence of Coleridge Patteson. He was an
indefatigable and entertaining letter-writer. As soon
as he got to Eton he began to write to his father, his
sister, his cousins—of whom his biographer was
one, though some degrees removed, on his mother’s
side—and to all his old school and college friends.
Some of his letters are very amusing. He tells
us, for instance, how at the Eton Montem of
1838, when the Queen visited Salt Hill, he was
pressed by the throng against the wheel of the
royal carriage, and was on the point of being
dragged beneath it, when her Majesty, with ready
presence of mind, held out her hand, which the
boy grasped, and was so enabled to regain his feet
in safety; but so great was his fright, that the car
riage passed on before he could show any sign of
gratitude. Again, he tells his father how gleeful
he was at his step from class to class ; and to his
sister he writes informing her of what success the
“Eton fellows ” had in their cricket match against
the “Harrow boys.” “ We began our match by
going in first. We got 261 runs by tremendous
hitting ; Harrow 32, and followed up and got 55 ;
Eton thus winning by 176 runs—the most decided
beating ever known at cricket! ” And so of his
college days, his first impressions of missionary
life; his visits to the show places of France and
Germany ; his first voyage ; his efforts among the
islanders, almost down to the last day of his life,
which ended so miserably, yet so nobly—for was
he not at the post of duty, so often the post of
danger ?—before he attained his forty-fifth year !
It would be easy to show how excellent a corre
spondent and how thoroughly good a missionary he
was ; easy to exhibit his many-sidedness, his affec
tionate nature, his tender care for others, his dis
regard of self; but, says his biographer—“ What
more shall I tell ? Comments on such a life and
such a death are superfluous : and to repeat the
testimonies of friends, outpourings of grief, and
utterances in sermons, is but to weaken the im
pression of reality ! ” We need only add that the
memoir is adorned with two portraits—one show
ing Coleridge Patteson in the fresh beauty of his
youthful manhood ; the other, the grave, bearded
soldier of the Cross, at almost the close of his
career—in addition to a fac-simile of his hand
writing and a map of the Melanesian islands.
Lancashire Worthies. By Francis Espinasse.
(Manchester: Abel Heywood.)—Lancashire holds
a high, and perhaps the highest, place in the
history of British commercial progress. It was
well, therefore, that Mr. Espinasse, well known
for many years as a Manchester journalist, should
give us biographies of its greatest worthies.
Beginning with the first Stanley, Earl of Derby,
he tells us all he knows—and tells it well—of
Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter and founder of
the Manchester Grammar School; John Bradford,
saint and martyr; Jeremiah Horrocks, the Preston
cotton-spinner; Humphrey Chetham, the founder
�. of the library and Hospital; the Great Duke of
thafeit
valuable anthology of the Scrip
; Bridgewater, who made the canal-that unites
tures of all races—a garland of beautiful passages
Manchester to Liverpool; John Kay, James Har ? from the writings of many authors, principally
greaves, and Richard Arkwright—men who will
Oriental. Believing that such a collelfidn would
be honoured through all time. In addition, we
be useful for moral
re, h JfEs
have notices of John Byrom, the poet-laureate
aimed at bringing together the converging teMlI
of the Jacobites ; John Collier, the author of the
monies of ages and races, and separating “the*
famous “Tim Bobbin;” and Booth, the actor.
more universal and enduring treasures, contained
To Byrom, whose witty pen was never idle, and
in ancient scriptures from the rust of superstition
whom Warburton, the irascible, acknowledged as
and the ore of ritual.” Of course ljehal omitted
“certainly a man of genius,” is attributed the
much that seemed local and temporary, but he
celebrated epigram—
has retained also many noble sentences highly
venerated in the lands of their birth and not
“God bless the King I I mean our Faith’s defender;
God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender I
generally accessible to European readers. Under
But who Pretender is, or who is King,
such headings as Law, Worship, Wisdom, Charity,
God bless us all, that’s quite another thing ! ”
Nature, Justice, Friendship, and Love, he has
John Collier yas Byrom’s contemporary, and
made large extracts from the Hebrew, Chinese,
shares with him the honour of Lancashire’s con
Persian, Arabian, Scandinavian, and Christian
tributions to English literature in the eighteenth
poets,—not omitting those wide fields of theolo
century._ “ When,” says Mr. Espinasse, “worthy
gical and moral disquisition, the Hindoo and
Dr. Aikin published, some seventy years ago, his
Buddhist scriptures. It is curious to note the
‘ Description of the Country round Manchester,’
likeness or sympathy between many of the say
the literary biography of the region was represented
ings of the early Indian and Hebrew poets: and
by memoirs of Byrom and Collier exclusively, nor
it would almost seem as if some of the latter had
does he seem to have been guilty of any glaring
borrowed from the former. We find, for instance,
oversight. Both were humorists—Collier, how^
in the “ Wisdom of the Brahmins,” many such
ever, more distinctly than Byrom ; both wrote
passages as these:—“Devoutly look, and naught
prose as well as verse, and they were about the
but wonders shall pass by thee; devoutly read,
first authors of any note—Byrom slightly, Collier
and all books shall edify thee ; devoutly speak,
conspicuously—to employ the broad, easy, and
and men shall listen to thee; devoutly act, and
expressive dialect as a literary vehicle. In the
the strength of God acts through thee.” And in
eyes of their contemporaries, Byrom was far the
the Hindoo “Hitopadesa” such as these:—“Si
most celebrated of the two.” The “whirligig of
lence for the remainder of life is better than false
time brings in his revenges, ” Shakspeare tells us,
speaking. Empty are all quarters of the world
and it now happens that, “for one reader of
to an empty mind. Many who read the Scrip
Byrom’s metrical theosophy, there have been, and
tures are grossly ignorant, but he who acts well is'
there are, thousands of Tim Bobbin’s ‘ Tummus
a truly learned man.” And from the Chinese:—
and. Meary.’” Since then Lancashiremen have
“ Words are the key of the heart. A little im
cultivated verse and prose in the vernacular of the
patience causes great trouble. Riches adorn a
County Palatine till now we reckon them, not by
house, but virtue adorns the person. ” And from
twos or threes, but by dozens, with Edwin Waugh,
the Persian :—“ All nations and languages repeat
still living, at their head. This poet has himself
the name of God. Yet cannot His praise be duly
written a memoir of Collier, and corrected some
expressed by mortal till the dumb man shall be
errors in Baines’s Flistory of Lancashire concerning
eloquent, the stocks and stones find a voice ; and,
this worthy. It would, perhaps, have been as
the silent universe rejoices in language.” Might
well had Mr. Espinasse omitted Booth from his
they not have been written by David or Solomon ?
list, and, instead, have included some of the
Side by side with such extracts from ancient
county’s later versifiers. Booth was certainly of
writers we have quotations from the Old and New
Lancashire parentage; but he can hardly be
Testament, so arranged, by simple omission of
esteemed as one of Lancashire’s worthies. Dean
extraneous sentences, as to present a sequence of
Stanley has reminded us that the surname of this
idea and language very easy to follow and under
actor has acquired a fatal celebrity ; but we think
stand. The extracts, though all of a moral cha- i
it has elsewhere been stated that Wilks Booth, the
racter, are, however, by no means confined to the I
assassin of President Lincoln, is not a descendant
religious scriptures of the ancients. Many a quaint
of the Booth who created the part of Cato in
apothegm and amusing fact find their way into this
Addison s now forgotten tragedy. It would be
Anthology. Here is one from the Persian :—
easy to find fault with many of Mr. Espinasse’s
“ The philosophers of India once possessed a book
statements respecting the Arkwrights,the Stanleys,
so large that it required a thousand camels to bear
and others—for nothing is easier than fault-finding
it. A king desired to have it abridged, and it
but we prefer to take his book as it stands, and
was reduced so that it could be carried by a hun
to pronounce it a painstaking, entertaining, and
dred camels. Others demanded that it should be
well-written production ; only too brief in that it
still more diminished, until at last it was reduced
omits the mention of many worthies—the later
to four maxims. The first bade kings to be just;
dialect pdets, the manufacturers, and the merchant
the second prescribed obedience to the people; '
pnnces especially — whom Lancashiremen are
the third recommended men not to eat except
proud to honour and unwilling to forget.
when they were hungry ; and the fourth advised
Sacred Anthology: A Book of Ethnical Scrip
women to be modest.” Here is another quoted
tures. Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel
from Sir William Jones’s Persian Fables:—“A ,
Conway. (Triibner.)—Prefacing his works by an
raindrop fell into the sea.
‘ I am lost! ’ it
aphorism from Hesiod,—“ The utterances of many
cried; ‘ what am I in such a sea? ’ Into the shell i
peoples do not whollyperish: nay, they are the voice
of a gaping oyster it fell, and there became a j
of God ”—Mr. Conway proceeds to describe the
beauteous pearl. Humility creates the worth it i
purpose of his book as simply moral. There was
underrates.” With the following from the Scan- I
no necessity, however, to quote the Greek poet
dinavian we must close our extracts
“ There j
by way of either justification or apology; for a
was once a giantess who had a daughter ; and this '
very slight examination of the volume will show
child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. •
�I he Bookseller, L'et. 3>■fs®’ -— r—'———- —- —
undulation; this is very-necessary to be well
She ran and picked him up with her finger and
apprehended, and, when, properly understood| wi 11
thumb, and put hinr and his plough and his oxen
smooth
way fqr much that follows, in the
into her apron, and carried him to her mother.
‘ Mother,’ said she, ‘ what sort of a beetle is this ; lecture on the “ interference of light,” and ‘‘dif
fraction. ” It was Dr. Young who finally placed
I have found wriggling on the land ? ’ But the
mother said, ‘ Child, go put it on the place where . the qndulatory theory of light on a firm and
enduring foundation, notwithstanding, the severe
thou hast found it. We must be gone out of this
strictures passed on his writings by Lord Broug
land, for these little people will dwell in it.’ ”
ham, in the Edinburgh Review of that day. These
The late Prince Jyonsoft happily versified this
criticisms are worth reading, at this time (now
gMttle fable under the title of \
'
that all which Young wrote has been proved
THE TOY OF THE GIANT'S CHILD,
as showing how much the Doctor was in advance:'
BUBl'tle. giant’s daughter once came forth the castle gate
of his time. In his fourth lecture the Professor ex
before,
plains the cause of the beautiful blue of our
.. And played with all a child’s delight before her father’s
door;
summer skies; an observed fact which it had long'
Then sauntering down the precipice, the girl would
puzzled philosophers to account for; and goes on
Mr2 gladly go,
:
.
to show how artificial skies may be produced, and
MToBge, kierehance. how matters went in the little world
their identity with the natural one proved beyond
below.
. AnSi^l^he gazed, in wonder lost, on all the scenes around,
doubt; that is, as regards the blue colour, namelyj
I She saw a peasant at her feet a-tilling of the ground.
the presence of scattered particles in our atmo
‘ O pretty plaything,’ cried the child, ‘ I'll take thee home
sphere, small by comparison with the ether waves.
with me.'
.
Therfivith her infant hand she spread her kerchief on her
To read these lectures, illustrated by diagrams,
■knee,
instead of listening to the Professor himself, illus
And cradling man and horse and plough so gently on her
trating with all his perfect experimental appliances,
' arm,
She lio re them home quite cautiously, afraid to do them . would, perhaps, be dull by comparison; but ii,SdB
harm.
happens, in this case, that there are very few of
‘See, father! dearest father ! what a plaything I have
the experiments recorded in the book that could
found !
not be performed, sufficiently well for the purposes
‘ I never saw so fair a thing on all our mountain ground !’
But the father looked quite seriously, and shaking slow
of study, by an ingenious student, without any ex
ik’
Ulis head,
pensive apparatus: and although a principle may
* jjyfetlhast thou brought me here, my girl? This is no
be well apprehended by the mind, the exacttoy,’ he said.
Q ‘ Go take it to the vale again, and put it down below ;
agreement of experiment with theory always
The peasant is no plaything, child ! how could’st thou
serves to fix more vividly the truth of the law,
think him so ?
and should always be resorted to where possible.
So ga, without a sigh or sob, and do my will,’ he said ;
The student who reads the text of these lectures, I
* For,know, without the peasant, child, we none of us had
Bi bread.
and makes for himself the experiments, will have
’Tis from the peasant’s hardy stock the race of giants are—
a very good knowledge of the nature and proper
The pedant is no plaything, girl; and God forbid he
ties of light.
were'.’ ”
At Nightfall and Midnight: Musings after
The poem, we think, is longer; but we quote
Dark. By Francis Jacox. (Hodder and Stough
from memory enough of it to show how closely
ton.)—Intelligent, earnest, and indefatigable are
Prince Albert followed the original fable. Many
the terms by which we may characterise the
other equally pleasant and instructive Moralities
authorship of Mr. Jacox. He is evidently an in
will be found in Mr. Conway’s “ Sacred Anthodustrious reader and a judicious annotator of his
logyr which, with its index, list of authorities,
literature of the hour. We gather much from the j
explanatory notes, and chronological memoranda,
work. He does not appear to have a very exten
is as complete and entertaining a volume as one
sive acquaintance with what are called out-of-thewould wish to read.
way books, but every volume he reads he reads
Air Lectures on Light, delivered in America,
thoroughly. Hence, when he undertakes to make
1872-1873, by John Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S.
a collection of elegant extracts on any special topic,
(Longman and Co.)—Readers who take up this,
we are satisfied that, as in this instance, the work
Dr. Tyndall’s latest volume, will recognize in it the
will be thoroughly and conscientiously performed,
same forcible style, and apt illustration, which
and the result a really interesting and useful comB
was so conspicuous in the same author’s “ Heat
pilation. It is not every reader who has leisure,
as a Mode of Motion.” Beginning with the most
ability, or taste to select for himself choice passages
elementary ideas concerning the properties of light,
from his favourite authors, much less method
these lectures take the student by easy steps
enough to classify and properly arrange them ; but
through all the phenomena presented by beams of
for most readers such a collection, when intelli
mght’under varying conditions ; some of them
gently made, possesses an indescribable charm. In
very complex, and difficult to make clear to the
uninitiated. It seems strange to us, now, that 1 his present volume Mr. Jacox tells us what the
poets and essayists have said about twilight and
such a mind as Newton’s should have failed to
midnight; how they and their friends have mused
hbfn^cia'te the undnlatory theory of light, and
in the sunset and the gloaming, rejoiced in the
^rayganaintained against it the corpuscular, which,
warm cozy room with the shutters closed and. the
although it was competent to account for nearly
curtains drawn ; Sat absorbed and watched the
,,all the phenomena observed, yet required the
faces in the fire ; found food for contemplatioiSn
invention’of some new principle every time that
the shadows on the wall; consolation or terror
teameJnMiv discovered fact presented itself for
explanation. On the other hand, the undulatory
from the dreams of night. Taking a character
from Dickens, Thackeray, or Bulwer, he shows what
theory, pure and simple,leaves nothing unaccounted
such a man or woman might have thought or said
for, and has, even by Theoretical considerations
only, led to the prediction of certain phenomena
or done under peculiar circumstances, and then
not previojjslyftpjjs^fved ; but which, on experi gives a few judiciously-made extracts to show what
they did think, say, or do. In other chapters he
ment,- were found to yield results exactly agreeing
withthos^B^juirM by the theory. The Professor
tells us of the last words and the last looks of the
dying, the thoughts of the sleepless, the nocturnal
has been very careful to explain, with great
feniwmimSM'vmwj should be understood by an
wanderings of the restless, the terrors of the
�imaginative, the studies of the aged, the dead
friends who visit us in the dark, and the night
"tho'^ghts, fears, and fancies ,of poetg and j^gilar *
[writers,'—n^^iy
of bald .and detached pa£sages, but strung together by a graceful thread of
pleasant and'appreciative comment. Mr. Jacox’s
last volume is an agreeable and appropriate com- .
panrontohis previously published, books, and, like
his “Traits of Character ” and “Aspects of Authorship,” will be received with a warm welcome by
all sorts of readers.
Contemporary English Psychology. Translated
from theFrench of Th. Ribot. (Henry S. King and
Co.)—We are not quite satisfied that Psychology
is the right word under which to describe the
writings of Messrs. John Stuart Mill, Herbert
Spencer, George Henry Lewes, and the rest of the
Philosophers named in this volume. Would the
once popular member for Westminster have so
employed it? Did he ever discourse upon the
soul ? Has he not in his Autobiography almost
said that he had no belief in souls ? Are not the
principles professed by Mr. Mill and his followers
just a trifle too hard and practical for any dealings
^with the poetical Psyche? Mental philosophy,
free-will, metaphysics, anything but the soulscience, would seem nearer and more applicable to
Mr. Mill’s philosophy. These questions apart,
however, there is much in M. Ribot’s treatise
that will compel attention. Beginning with an
inquiry into the origin of philosophy, the essayist
Eiscusses the association of ideas, the science of
character, the law of intelligence, the growth of
voluntary power, and other characteristics of
the sensations, the senses, and the will; thence
he proceeds to the history of philosophy and
the theories adopted by the ancients and
moderns, from Plato to Hobbes, and thence to
the present time; discussing, as he goes on, the
science of languages, of morals, and the meta
physical doctrines upheld by Descartes and the
rest; of idealism and realism, motive and resolu
tion, perception and imagination, consciousness
and causality, logic and ethology, the reasoning
powers, the appetites, and the instincts, conclud
ing with the dictum that pyschology can be and
ought to be a distinct science; that the word
“ liberty” must be expunged from it—as an inexact
term, and serving only to create confusion—and
“aptitude” substituted for it, as all voluntary facts
are subject to the universal law of causality.
Though a little too profound for the general reader,
this treatise will fitly take its place in Messrs.
Henry S. King’s “International Scientific Series,”
beside the “ Mind and Body” of Professor Bain.
Toilers- and Spinsters-; and other Essays. By
Miss Thackeray. (Smith and Elder.) — Very
cheerful and pleasant reading are these Essays,
collected from the .Cornhill and the Pall Mall,
where they have been accepted as the opinions of
a really earnest and practical writer.
Miss
Thackeray’s first paper, which gives its name to
the. volume, shows that, contrary to the common
notion, old maids need not be melancholy, pining,
restless women, but that there are for them many
and varied spheres of usefulness, which the
majority of the sisterhood are only too glad and
ready to fulfil. Again, in “ Little Scholars” we
see how poor gutter-children are fed and taught by
energetic and well-meaning ladies—the feeding
generally more efficacious than the teaching. In
like manner we have bright pictures of Country
Sundays, Easter Holidays, and New Flowers, with
gossips about Jane Austen’s tales, Five O’clock I
Teas, Books of Autographs, and the contrasts
between the earlier and later heroines of popular |
fiction—-all charmingly penSM in th" manner,
though not consciously imitated, so familiar to
everybody in “ Pendennis ” and the “ Newcomes. ”
Diamonds and Precious (Stones: A Popular
Account of Gems. Containing their history, their
distinctive properties, ancMal description of the
most famous ; gem-cutting, and engraving, and the
artificial production of real and counterfeit jewels.
From the French of Louis Dieulafait, Professor,
of Physics. Illustrated by 126 Engravings on
Wood. (Blackie and Son. ^-From time imme
morial, diamonds and precious stones have had a
peculiar and wonderful fascination for all sorts of
people. They have a history and literature of
their own. Though nowr used simply as ornaments,
they w’ere formerly supposed to possess medicinal
and spiritual powers of remarkable potency : by
their aid diseases were cured, calamities averted,
and the demons of earth, air, and sea set at
defiance. In the dim half-knowledge of the
ancients, the alliance between religion and science
was close and intimate ; every part of man’s body
was believed to have a corresponding part in the
world of nature, and thus it was that gems came
to be regarded as having a real and abiding influ
ence upon the actions of mankind and the fate of
the soul. These notions, born in the East, travelled
through Egypt to Greece and Rome, and ulti
mately permeated the whole civilized world. So
it might be possible, says Babinet, to follow the
history of gems through that of humanity ; from
the Ephod of Aaron to the Pastoral Cross of the
Archbishop of Paris ; from the offerings of rubies,
sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds, in the temples
of Jupiter, to the riches accumulated in what in
the sixteenth century was called the Treasury of
Christian Churches. Mythology, sculpture, and
ballad history are full of references to precious
stones and their symbolic value ; and in the astro
logical formularies that preceded modern chemistry
we find special virtues attributed to the emerald,
the sapphire, and many other scarce and brilliant
gems. All this, and much more, is related in
Mons. Dieulafait’s interesting little volume. The
origin, history, modes of cleaving, cutting, polish
ing, and setting all kinds of gems are given in
perspicuous detail, together with explanations
respecting the manufacture of artificial jewels and
means of distinguishing the true from the false ;
the whole amply illustrated with carefully engraved
woodcuts, and forming a popular treatise on a sub
ject which has undoubted claims to consideration.
Master-Spirits. By Robert Buchanan. (Henry
S. King and Co.)—Justifying his title by a quotation
from Milton—“ Good books are like the precious
life-blood of master-spirits ”—Mr. Buchanan has
reprinted some of his contributions to the “ Fort
nightly,” the “Contemporary,” and other perio
dicals, and asks the indulgence of the reader for
any verbal blunders they may contain, on the
valid plea that the state of his health “ does not
permit the laborious verification of quotations.”
We greatly regret that, as in the only chapter we
have read—and read, we may add, with consider
able pleasure—on the “Good Genie of Fiction,”
there are several statements that, with the later
knowledge we all possess of Dickens’s works,
might have been advantageously modified. But
this apart, who is there unwilling to read what a
clever writer may say of* Tennyson, Browning,
Victor Hugo, and De Musset—to say nothing of
what he has to tell us of George Heath and other
obscure poets ? Admirers of Mr. Buchanan—
and we presume they are many, despite Mr. Swin
burne—will accept this reprint thankfully. It is
a handsome and acceptable volume.
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P^Bi.mMSe god of wind and messenger of heaven, to ascertain th® cause of this indifference. Pavana returning, reports to the gods that the corruptions which had
crept into their religion and the rise of Christianity had weakened the old faith. Tn
a rage, the entire Pantheon sallies forth in battle array to attack the intruders, but is
confronted by a Seraph, who overwhelms the foe with a glance, informing the old
gods that—
“ Jehovah will no longer bear
Your lawless presence here;
For He’s sole King, must ever reign I
Hence to the abodes of night 1
Hence to the brimstone sod !
The land where darkness reigns unblest,
And weary spirits never rest;
Where sinners be, sinners away
From hallow'd ground far driven ;
Immortal life to ye belong,
Go taste immortal pains,
With sighs and wails and blasphemies,
Amid the funeral screams of hell.’’
Though not perfectly simplified or polished, this poem is conceived in a spirit of
sympathy and kindness, and will be liked by all who are truly religious withou*
being strictly critical. One could readily conceive that the “Vision of Sumeru,” and
many other of the smaller poems, might have been far better in Hindi : so much do
they seem like goo d work not very well translated.
We have received a valuable contribution to mythological literature in Demonology
ancl Devil-lore, by Moncure Daniel Conway (Chatto & Windus : 1879). Acomplete
history of the devil and all his angels, with that of all the lurid horrors and smoky
phantoms accompanying them, would, if written with the accuracy which even the
mob who read with ease now exact, be a tremendous task. It would be ahistory of
religion, of superstition, of occult philosophy, of half the popular legends known,
and would make deep inroads on poetry. As the reverend author admits, “any attempt
to catalogue the evil spectres which have haunted mankind were like trying to count
the shadows cast upon the earth by the rising sun.” The older demonographers,
such as Bodinus, and Bakker in his Monde Enchante, satisfied themselves by simply
giving all they could collect, and by entertaining the reader with interminable stories^
But in an age when even many soundly religious people havefgrave or quiet
misgivings as to a personal devil, these marvellous legends are simply regarded as
fairy-tales. As history and theories of evolution are becoming popular, the stories
lose, however, none of their interest, only the interest is transferred to another field,
that of explaining and illustrating change or progress. The thinking world is as
much interested as ever in the history of the diabolical idea, its tremendous influence
on mankind is still too apparent to be treated with indifference; but faith in the
details is now lost in examination of a leading fact, as belief in the Elohim became
absorbed in the unity of Yahveh. Such is the ground taken by Mr. Conway, an
honest and sincere Rationalist, yet one who is, like most of the Boston Unitarian
clergymen, too deeply penetrated by a conviction of what is good and pure in
Christianity to believe that God could ever allow man, in his helplessness, to be
tempted and tormented by a devil. His book is not an attempt to tell all that might
be told about Demonology, and herein lies its merit and its fault. Recognising the
impossibility of detailing the devil with all that is devilish, he has subordinated the
innumerable illustrations to a theory of development which is well enough conceived,
whatever other theorists may think of it; and it is this very fidelity to the principle
or theory which induced classification or method, which leads him to indulge in
many pages of disquisition, which some readers will wish had been devoted to
mere facts. On the other hand, it must be admitted that this disquisition never
degenerates into idle rhapsody or padding. Thousands of readers—and we may
well say thousands of a book of which three thousand copies have already been
sold—will prefer Mr. Conway's preaching to his facts ; others who do not, will be
of the class who are capable of drawing their own conclusions. In fact, there is
much good writing among these disquisitions, a vast fund of humanity, un
deniable earnestness, and a delicate sense of humour, all set forth in pure English.
It is much to say that we have found the nine hundred pages of these two large
volumes, without exception, interesting.
The early religions were generally without a devil. The Hindus, notwithstanding
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THE CONTEMP ORA W&REVIEW*
their Rakhshas and fiends, maintain that their vast Pantheon contains no su<
creature. The gods were both good and evil. There were punishing demon
demons of storms and of death, but no such quintessence of malignity, decei
anti-godness, cruelty and petty meanness, as is incarnate in the Christian Sata
In “The Sketch-Book of Meister Karl,” Satan is represented as vindicating his raise
d’etre on the ground that he represents the necessary suffering and pain atte
dant upon the destruction of the old, leading to higher beauty in the new,
creation. itself, but is promptly snubbed by the author, who informs him that j
is ^nothing of the kind, but “only the transitory ugliness of the ruins of t’
tempest and the pestilence.” The old religions represented the devil as he repi
sented himself to the writer: Christianity has made him an abstract of the revoltin
Mr. Conway, beginning with Dualism, proceeds to the degradation of divinities ai
ex-gods into devils, and then finds causes for the existence of others in hunger, het
cold, the elements and animals,in enemies and barrenness, obstacles,illusion,darknes
disease and death. From these he proceeds to a history of the decline of demo
and their generalization as shown in art and in the decay of mythologies. T
next step is of course an account of the principal types of demons or devils, such
the serpent and dragon. Hence we have connections and affinities with these—su
as Fate, Diabolism, or the direct connection of incarnate evil with demons, and h
tories of degraded powers, such as Ahriman, Elohim, Visramitra, the consuming fi
and others. The second volume is in part occupied with the numerous deductio
from these types through the Middle Ages down to the present day. The great me
of the work consists, not merely in great research and a shrewd selection of striki
examples and interesting illustrations, but in the clearness with which Mr. Conw
develops his ideas. Its demerit is an exaggerated susceptibility to simile, and
readiness to assume derivations and connections without proving them—the gre
sin of all symbolists from Creuzer, Godfrey Higgins, and Faber, down to Inms
Not that we would class Mr. Conway with these blunderers ; on the contrary, he h
tried hard to avoid their company, but he often unconsciously falls into their fault
the fault, it is true, of a poetic mind, but one to be guarded against when one is n
writing poetry. We* should do injustice to this work did we not mention th
1
Mr. Conway writes like a man without prejudice against aught save tyranr
Abstractly speaking, his freedom from bigotry is almost naively amusing. Had
been a Calvinist he would probably have prayed, as did the Scotch clergyman, for t
conversion of “ the puir deil.” As it is, he sets forth his own very broad faith in t
following words, with which he concludes his first volume :—
“It is too late for man to be interested in an ‘ Omnipotent’ Personality, who
power is mysteriously limited at the precise point when it is needed, and whose moi
government is another name for man’s own control of. nature. Nevertheless tl
Oriental pessimism is the Pauline theory of Matter, and is the speculative protoplas
out of which has been evolved in many shapes that personification which remai
for our consideration—the Devil.”
These be plain words, but we have thought it best to cite them, that the read'
whether heterodox or orthodox, may know exactly what he may expect in this i
teresting and singular work.
THE PROFESSIONAL STUDIES OF THE CLERGY.
To the Editor of the Contemporary Review.
Sir,—I have to acknowledge an error of some importance in my account of the varic
courses of theological study now pursued in the different Divinity Schools of England.
In describing the subjects for the Theological Tripos at Cambridge, I set down or
the variable portions, omitting the fixed and more important part of the course whim
make it fully equal in character and value to the Theological Honour Course at Oxfoi
I cannot charge myself entirely with the mistake, as I applied to Cambridge for t
list of subjects, and was furnished with no more than I set down. I have similarly
omitted to credit King’s College, London, with having lately added Logic or Moi
Philosophy to its ciu’riculum ; while I learn that Logic is also the alternative of t'
compulsory subjects at Lampeter.
I am glad to make these corrections, and trust that if I have done unintentiou
injustice elsewhere, that it may be brought to my notice.
Your obedient servant, R. F. Ltttledale.
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SOUTH-PLACE CHAPEL,
SOUTH PLACE, FINSBURY.
MR. MONCURE D. CONWAY
Will deliver the following Discourses, during the present and ensuing
months, on Sunday Mornings:
March 21,1869.
THE RELIGIONS OF EGYPT AND CHALD2EA.
Anthem. (Welden) : “In Thee, 0 Lord !”
March 28.
THE HINDU RELIGION.
Anthem (Dr. Boyce) : “The heavens declare the glory of God.”
April 4.
■
THE PERSIAN RELIGION.
Anthem, (Kent) : “Lord, what love have I?”
April 11.
’
THE CHINESE RELIGION.
Anthem, (Anon.) : “Like circles, widening round.”
April 18.
THE ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION.
Antitem, (Mendelssohn) : “ Oh, come, every one that thirsteth !”
April 25.
THE HEBREW RELIGION.
Anthem (Dr. Clarke Whiteield) : “ In Jewry is God known.”
May 2.
•
MOHAMMEDANISM.
Anthem, (J. Goss): “The Wilderness.”
May 9.
THE SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.
Anthem, (Kent) : “ Blessed be thou.”
May 16.
THE RELIGION OF HUMANITY.
Anthem, (Mendelssohn) : “How lovely are the messengers !”—St. Paul.
“ Why are we not willing to consider all religions merely as progressive steps, by which
the human understanding has developed itself in every time and place, and will still
develop itself in the future ?”■—Lessing.
This Series of Discourses will not be interrupted unless some special subject requires
attention.
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The Service begins at 11.15 a.m.
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V. 4
Notices of Books.
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Church of England, and accepts the Articles, the Creeds
(even the Athanasian) and the Prayer Book, in a sense
•which is quite satisfactory to his own mind. The fact is
an interesting example of the possible pliability of a vigo
rous and an honest intellect, but hardly a contribution to
the scientific knowledge and clearness of thought of by
standers. Mr. Hutton may very well plead that we ought
not to look for completeness of exposition in a volume of
essays which are avowedly occasional; and we admit, with
the utmost frankness, the justice of his plea. But we cannot
help thinking that it belongs to the genius of this school
of Broad-church thinkers to lay great stress on a few preg
nant ideas, and to decline the task of bringing them into
mutual order and proportion. Only if it be so, they must
be content to look at their form of belief as only a phase of
transition, it may be of very temporary duration, towards a
clearer and more scientific, if not a deeper and a simpler,
faith.
There is much in the form of Mr. Conway’s “Earthward
Pilgrimage,”* and also in its wealth of allusion and its tone
of earnest scepticism, which reminds one of Mr. Carlyle’s
Sartor Resartus. At all events, we imagine that Mr. Carlyle
is a writer with whom Mr. Conway would very willingly be
associated, and from whom he has probably drawn a portion
of his inspiration. The conception of the book is that of
honest revolt against the religious attitude depicted by Bun
yan in his Pilgrim’s Progress. The author affects to place
himself in the position of that celebrated Pilgrim, and de
scribes the weariness that at length came upon him after
sitting on a purple cloud with a golden trumpet, and the
eagerness with which he sought to exchange the region of
idle worship for the so-called City of Destraction with its
earnest work. The Interpreter by whom he is accompanied
gives an unsparing exposure of Christian doctrine as ordi
narily taught in England ; and the succeeding chapters are
continued in the same key. In the chapter called An Old
Shrine, the author takes as his text the inauguration of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. He went to the ancient city “ to
witness the consecration of a plain old Scotch gentleman to
* The Earthward Pilgrimage.
Camden Hotten. 1870.
By Moncure D. Conway.
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the task of presiding over the work of maintaining in Great
Britain the worship of a dead Jew.” “ The Thirty-nine Arti
cles shall mean many things, but one thing definitely shall
they mean: thirty-nine pieces of money to him who shall
betray Reason for them.” In a chapter called Contrivance,
he criticises as vain and needless the effort made by the
Rev. James Martineau and others to preserve to Theism
“ the great religious heart and history of Christendom.” He
affirms,
“•— that every religious form or rite was once real, every watch
word of conservatism was once the watchword of radicalism, all
things old were once new. The Litany, idly repeated by happyhearted youth, who. yesterday were at croquet and cricket, was
the outburst of stricken hearts amid convulsions of nature, war,
plague, and famine : uttered now, it is the mummy of a revival,
set up where a real one is impossible. The first silent Quaker
meeting was accidental; the emotion of that hour is vainly sought
for by the formal imitations of its silence. And so the rantings,
shoutings, love-feasts, communions, baptisms, are attempts to
recover the ecstasies of shining moments by copying the super
ficial incidents that attended them,—attempts as absurd as the
famous fidelity with which the Chinese manufacturers imitated
the tea-set they were required to replace, even to the extent of
preserving all the cracks and flaws of the originals.”—“That
which calls itself conservatism adheres to forms that must become
fossil, whereas any true conservatism must rescue the essence by
transferring it to forms which have their life yet to live.”*
' In the chapter on Voltaire, it is rather a one-sided com
parison, to say the least, to place him in the same class
with “the greatest freethinker who ever trod the earth,
whose death-cry was, ‘ My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?’ A terrible freethinker’s end! Yes, every
drop of his blood w’as paid for free thought! ”f In a
chapter called The Rejected Stone, commencing with a
striking report of theological discussions under the railway
arches at St. Pancras, he says :
“What convictions have we corresponding to those which
sculptured the Phidian Jove or the Milonian Venus, or painted
the great Italian pictures, or built St. Peter's dome? None.
Then for the present no real Art. The one thing we really believe
< in is Scepticism : this is the inspiration of our Science, of our
Pp. 102, 103.
+ Pp. 253, 254.
�279
Notices of Books.
clamour foiwnore education, of our democracy ; they are all the
utterances of the clear and vigorous Misgiving which distinguishes
this age.”*
>.
It may comfort some readers to find that the author is
not, at all events, an infallible prophet, for in the chapter
called the Pilgrim’s Last Reflections, he remarks, though
his book was published only last year :
“ Already it seems doubtful if the West can see another Wel
lington or another Napoleon I. It requires warlike ages to pro
duce such men; and such ages require peoples capable of being
thoroughly drilled and massed.”!
We must find room for the following passage from the
conclusion:
“ There is a story of the Holy Grail which the Laureate has
passed by, but which we may remember. In the days when men
wandered through the world seeking that cup, made of a single
precious stone, holding the real blood of Christ, a Knight left
England to search for the same in distant lands. As he passed
from his door, a poor sufferer cried to him for help. Absorbed
in his grand hope, the Knight heeded him not, but went on. He
wandered to the Holy Land, fought in many wars, endured much,
• but found not the precious cup and at last, disappointed and
dejected, he returned home. As he neared his own house, the
same poor sufferer cried to him for help. ‘ What dost thou re
quire V asked the Knight. The aged man said, ‘ Lo, I am perish
ing with thirst.’ The Knight dismounted and hastened to fetch
a cup of water. He held the half-clad sufferer in his arms, raised
his head, and proffered the water to his parched lips. Even as
he did so the cup sparkled into a gem, and the Knight saw in
his hand the Holy Grail, flushed with the true blood of Christ.
And you, my brothers, may wander far, and traverse many realms
of philosophy and theology, to find the truth which represents
the true life-blood of the noblest soul; but you shall find it only
when and where you love and serve as he did. If you can but
give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the
wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God.’ |
/
f
Even from the very fragmentary description of the book
which we have been able to give, it will be perceived that
it is strong meat for men of full age, rather than milk for
babes. There is, we think, a good deal of paradox, arising
Pp. 335, 336.
+ P. 397.
Pp. 405, 406.
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Notices of Books.
from the violence of the writer’s reaction from what he
regards as antiquated creeds and superstitions ; but the book
is full of suggestive thoughts, poetically and pointedly ex
pressed ; and though to a thoughtful and judicious reader
he may sometimes seem extravagant, one-sided and unfair
in his statements and representations, the general impres
sion left by the whole is that it is the earnest and healthy
scepticism of a man of real genius. A vigorous mind will
be none the worse for the rough handling of many approved
maxims and professions of faith. At the same time, there
is something to be said in favour of that religious attitude
which the author sets out with condemning. However
needful and noble a duty it may be in this present world
to contend with evil in its various forms of suffering and
sin, the very repose and refreshment which we habitually
seek among congenial minds in our domestic and social
circles, direct our aspirations to a future sphere where suf
fering and sin will be unknown. We can conceive of work
and progress without the necessity of painful strife with
evil. Moreover, we cannot help feeling doubtful how far the
general realization of the author’s views and tone of thought
would really tend to the formation of that generous devotion
to holy duty which we are accustomed to reverence as the
ideal of a Christian character, and which the author himself
admires and commends. Certainly it is most strikingly
exemplified by many of those whom he regards as held in
bondage to superstitious creeds. We cannot help fearing
that the ultimate result of the emancipation for which he
contends would be an Epicurean, rather than a spiritual,
condition of mind. Mr. Conway adopts as the motto of his
title-page a maxim from Confucius : “ Respect the gods, but
keep them at a distance.” Surely that soul has attained to
a higher and holier region of thought and life, which habi
tually rejoices to feel, with Jesus, “I am not alone, for my
Father is with-me.”
A careful inquiry into the theology of the New Testa
ment must be valuable to every candid mind, whether it
agrees or not with the conclusions arrived at. Such a work
is the translation of Dr. Van Oosterzee’s Handbook Defin*
* The Theology of the New Testament. A Handbook for Students. By
the Rev. J. J. Van Oosterzee, D.D. Translated from the Dutch, by Maurice
J. Evans, B.A. London : Hodder and Stoughton.
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Unitarianism
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[Necklace of Stories and other reviews]
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Conway Tracts
Moncure Conway
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& Bibliographer.
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full and consecutive account that has yet been published of the restoration
and remodelling of the Benedictine Order in England, abridged from the
two folio volumes of Weldon’s original “ Memoirs,” which were finished
in 1709, it is to be hoped that the wants hitherto felt have, in some
measure, been supplied. The editor has appended to his introductory
remarks a full and interesting biographical sketch of Bennet Weldon, the
pious and learned author of these “ Notes.”
Travels in South Kensington, with Notes on Decorative Art ana
Architecture in England. By MONCURE D. Conway. Triibner &
Co. 1882.
In this handsomely-illustrated volume, the author of “ Sacred Anthology,”
&c., tells in an amusing, and at the same time instructive manner, a great
deal that is worth knowing concerning the rise and progress of the South
Kensington Museum, from its establishment in 1857 down to the present
time, and discourses at length
on its collection of objects,
its educational or art training
method and character, and
on what is to be learnt that
may be useful in architecture
and decoration by a study of
its contents. “ The little six
penny guidebook sold at the
door,” as our author tells us,
“ is necessarily provisional ;
the historical and descriptive
volume which such an institu
tion requires must remain a
desideratum so long as the
Museum itself is changing
and growing daily before our
eyes.” In the volume under
notice, Mr. Conway has at
tempted to do no more than
convey his impression of the
value of the collection as a
whole, as a medium of edu
cation. He has illustrated
his remarks with engravings
of several interesting objects,
including a Chasse, or reli
IVORY TANKARD (AUGSBURG, I7TH CENT.)
quary (13th century), pastoral
staves (14th century), an ancient Persian incense-burner, an Italian salt
cellar (15th century), and the Cellini sardonyx ewer, mounted in enam
elled gold, and set with gems (Italian, 16th century). This last-named
engraving, and also that of an ivory tankard (Augsburg, 17th century), we
are enabled, by the kindness of the publishers, to reproduce as examples
of the illustrations.
The second half of Mr. Conway’s book, dealing with “ decorative art
and architecture in England,” embraces a wide range of subjects, from the
railway-bridge at Charing-cross and the Albert Memorial in Hyde
Park, to the decoration of Penkiln Castle in Ayrshire, and of Sir Walter
Trevelyan’s house at Wallington, in Northumberland.
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The Antiquarian Magazine
Mr. Conway concludes his work with a short and graphic account of
that “ Utopia in brick and paint in the suburbs of London,” called Bedford
Park, in the neighbourhood of Turnham-green,—a little red-brick town,
made up of the quaintest of “ Oueen Anne” houses.
Kelly's Directory of the Six Home Cotinties. o. vols. Edited by E. R.
Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. London : Kelly & Co. 1882.
A quarter of a century ago Kelly’s Post Office Directory for the Six
Home Counties was a modest volume of less than 1,500 pages ; but such
has been the increase of population in the suburbs of London of late
years, that it has been found necessary to divide the work into two parts,
each forming a volume, and embracing the home counties north and
south of the Thames respectively. The first volume, dealing with Essex,
Herts, and Middlesex, extends to over 1,500 pages, the corresponding
portion of the same book in 1845 having been comprehended in rather
less than 300 pages ; whilst in the second volume the County of Surrey
alone claims 915 out of a total of 2,474 pages. In contrasting the present
edition with those of earlier years, one cannot fail to be struck with the
great improvement which has taken place in the historical portion of the
work, and consequently, the antiquarian and archaeologist may now find
plenty of food to suit his taste in the notices of the several parishes, for
not only is mention made of the foundation of its church, schools, and
other institutions, but short descriptions are added of its ancient castles,
fortifications, ho^telries, and manor-houses, where such are to be found.
Exception must be taken, perhaps, in some instances to the editor’s state
ments with respect to the styles of ecclesiastical architecture ; but in such
matters there is ample room for differences of opinion, for it must be
remembered that until a very recent date nearly every Norman building
was set down as “ Saxon.” However, it may be safely stated that in by
far the majority of instances Messrs. Kelly’s descriptions are thoroughly
correct.
Les Melanges Poetiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin. Par B. HAUREAU,
Membre de l’Institut. 8vo. Paris : Pedone-Lauriel.
The works of Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, were pub
lished in 1708 by the Benedictine monk Beaugendre, in one folio volume ;
they comprise, as most scholars are aware, not only metaphysical treatises,
but a considerable number of poems, which procured for their author,
among his contemporaries, the reputation of an elegant writer and of an
enthusiastic admirer of classical antiquity. We might easily fill pages
with quotations testifying to the popularity enjoyed in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries by him who was universally designated as the “ egregius versificator,” but want of space prevents us from doing so, and we
shall merely transcribe, by way of specimen, the following elegiac couplets
of Laurentius, Abbot of Westminster:—
‘ ‘ Inclytus et prosa, versuque per omnia primus,
Hildebertus olet prorsus ubique rosam.
Diversum studium fidei subservit eidem ;
Multa camcena quidem tendit ad illud idem.”
Students of mediaeval literature are, of course, anxious to know whether
Hildebert de Lavardin deserves all the praise which has been lavished
upon him, and they would naturally turn either turn to Beaugendre’s
edition or to the reprint given in the Abbe Migne’s collection, and by the
Abbe Bourasse. Unfortunately, the learned Benedictine, who was nearly
eighty years old when he undertook to publish the Archbishop’s works,
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Travels in South Kensington
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Place of publication: [London]
Collation: 251-252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes: From the library of Dr Moncure Conway. A review by an unknown reviewer of Moncure Conway's work 'Travels in South Kensington' from 'The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer', May 1883.
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Book Reviews
Conway Tracts
Kensington (West London)
Moncure Conway
South Kensington Museum