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Author of Heir of Redclyffe, 467

Valley of Cauteretz, 434. Wm. Cullen

POETRY.-At Morning, 434. My Soldier, 434. Bryant's Sevent.eth Birthday, 466. In Sickness, 466.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Great Age of Trees, 450. Museums in Paris, 456. Desiccation of Dead Bodies, 456.

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HYMNS FROM THE GERMAN.

To the Original Melodies.

BY REV. N. L. FROTHINGHAM, D. D.
AT MORNING.

Brich an, Du Schones Tageslicht.
BREAK forth, thou beauteous light of day!
Appear in all thy purple splendor !
To Him, the fount of every ray,

My tribute I will with thee render.
Yea, Lord! Lift all my soul and sense,
To praise thy bright beneficence.

Thou hast, with loving hand to guide,
Protected me in need and sorrows;

All danger softly turned aside,

And borne me through to many morrows.

For guardian care through this night's shade,
Be humble thanks devoutly paid.

Now light in me the flame anew,-
The life awaking-spirit-firing;
That I the right path may pursue

To highest life and truth aspiring;
Not halting in myself alone,
But-Christ within me-on and on.

Grant, thou who all things in us dost,

Awakened faith's serene enjoyment; That through the steady power of Trust, I may fulfil thy high enjoyment; Then shall my love-enkindled heart Share weal or woe, my neighbor's part.

I aim, O Lord! at no high state,

Adopt me; that alone can raise me. And wealth I cannot richly rate:

"Tis Christ alone supplies and stays me. But dwell thy Spirit in my breast, And I can well forego the rest.

My Father? I myself resign

This day anew to thy good pleasure.
Oh! graciously my heart incline

My steps in thy true fear to measure,
Let all my works in thee proceed;
Thy name be hallowed in my deed,

-Monthly Religious Magazine.

MY SOLDIER.

UPON a hard-won battle-field,

Whose recent blood-stains shook the skies,

By hasty burial half concealed,
With death in his dear eyes,
My soldier lies.

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Oh, thought more sharp than bayonet-thrust-Thy Of blood-drops on his silken hair,

Of his white forehead in the dust,

Of his last gasping prayer,

And I not there!

And all along the valley, by rock and cave and

tree,

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

1. Le Maudit. vols.

8vo.

same condemnation. Men learn in suffering Three what they teach in song, and it appeared as

From The Edinburgh Review.
Par l'Abbé * *.
Paris: 1863.

2. La Religieuse. Par l'Abbé *
vols. 8vo. Paris: 1864.

if it were "out of the depths" that this Two voice cried, so loud and so strident, so wild in its cadences, as hoarse with anger and with pain, it has stirred the whole of Catholic Europe. The name of the author of "Le Maudit

THE principal characters in these novels are interdicted priests: the lives of two men at variance with the hierarchy to which they was instantly in demand; but that belonged, and finally proscribed by its power, name has been as studiously withheld, neither furnish the Abbé * * * with many scenes taunts nor sympathy, neither praise nor and combinations new as yet in fiction. In blame, having as yet tempted him to reveal presenting these views of French society and it. How long will the mystery last? LitFrench clerical life, he necessarily dwells erary secrets are seldom well kept. The more on the dark than on the bright side of author of the Waverley novels did not even his subject. No class of men are more mis- wait till all his tales were told, before erable than interdicted priests, and were a he ceased to be to the public vox et præterea new Dante to describe the circles of our so- nihil; the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and cial Inferno, a special place must be reserved Acton Bell did not long conceal the three in it for the outcasts of the church. With daughters of the rector of Haworth; "Owen sorrow be it said that their number is con- Meredith can hardly be said to be a nom siderable in every Catholic country, though de plume, so flimsy is the mask its owner the Abbé ✶ ✶✶ naturally confines his ob- wears; that of "George Eliot" ceased to be servations to the French priesthood, whose impenetrable when " Adam Bede" had made ruined members congregate for the most part another lady-novelist famous; and Junius in Paris. These men, deprived of their spir-alone remains, the riddle of our century as itual functions by absolute authority, are of his own. The Abbé *** can hardly incapacitated from resuming their civil char- flatter himself that he is to be a second Junacter and existence, and they have to seek ius; the singularity of that exception, the in the capital for the bare means of subsistence which are too often denied to them. They are Pariahs even in French society. The descent to this Limbo may be rapid, but many paths lead to the edge of the abyss. Some priests are ruined by flagrant acts of misconduct, some by breaches of ecclesiastical discipline; some have despised things which the church delights to honor; others have held opinions which the church has agreed to condemn. But if the guilty suffer for their misdeeds, innocent victims are also to be found who can blame others and not themselves for their reverses, and say that an enemy hath done this." For them, however, as for their compeers, there is no redress; their persons are insignificant, their means slender, their position equivocal, and their advocates few; and it may easily be imagined with what concentrated hatred men so circumstanced will regard the power which has thrust them out into the wilderness.

That hatred has at last found a tongue; those wrongs have at last found an expositor; that class has at last found an apologist, and one so ardent that it is almost impossible not to believe that he has himself come into the

narrow limits within which the doubt lies, the very near certainty which was arrived at in that solitary instance, ought not to encourage any satirist to hope that notoriety and secrecy can at once be his portion; and if the system of religious espionnage be as perfect in France as the abbé represents it to be, it is almost incredible that such a book should have been written by a priest still in the exercise of his charge.

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That it is not the work of a layman we think we may take on us to aver; for its merits and still more its faults would seem to show that it has not a lay origin. Its enemies themselves found their position untenable when they at first contended that only a secular person could and would have writter it, and in the preface to the "Réligieuse' the "orders" of the writer are placed beyond a doubt. The next resource was to declare that it was written by a "Maudit," and that its doctrines were only less scandalous than the life of the writer, prelates and presbyters darkly hinting as they thus spoke that they could, if they chose, supply the name which the abbé had left blank. Here the Ultramontane party had the public with

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