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Call and comfort me! Call me to the pasturară az
Where I fil would beli Lonely is my seeking heart,
Lone the path I roam Call me little pilgrim star Tho the way be hard and far Where the changeless meadows
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Magazine.
77
The Christmas Book,
Columbus, ask your strect trabu 30 king begging cigarette-pictures or fish. On March 94t was one hundred ing in a choked gutter, if treasure-years since the death of Mrs. Anna seeking is not the most thrilling of Letitia Barbauld, one of the all occupationsBut what is the leaders of the famous Bluestock discovery of the Americas or a biting Circle in London about 1800. of old Chelsea compared with the They were all with the exception thrill that will sometimes come of Fancy Burney, very complacent over you, however hardened you ladies with a proper sense of thely are to new, books, as you pick up own position and importance. But a volume with a strange name on among them, Mrs. Barbauld was ita cover and a virgin title page conspicuous for her good sense, and, running your hand through and she was in her day a real its half-cut leaves, exclaim- pioneer in education. She was don't know--I'm not quite sureborn and reared in the atmosphere but I think it's got a feel to it?" of schools. She was the daughter Clemence Dane in "Good House-of Dr. Aiken, a well-known school- keeping.
The Coming of Wendy. Hush That sound, from: o'er the
tree-tops,
Peter Pan, whose hopes were
vaing Pipes with joy his sweetest music,fhently at three years.
Wendy dear has come again! Sitting by his tiny fireside..
Rocking in the tallest trees, Peter's heart is full of gladness
"
As he pipes and lolla at ease,
"Tis the time of spring awaken
Sing the blackbirds as they pass; In the villages the mild breeze
Glads the heart of lad und lass, Then, with liquid, fairy clearness, Comes the voice of Wendy dear! Calling to her playmate Peter,
A book is such a particularly delightful Christmas present be- cause it is the donor's obvious duty to read it first. But to dis- like it, to shift it doubtfully from name to name on your list, from niece to lesser uncle from uncle to second cousin, from cousin to courtesy aunt, and be forced to leave it on the shelf at inat, dusty, unbestowed. "to do for a birth- day," that is a souring of the whole Christmas adventure, from the preliminary October shopping-E.M.C.. in the "George Square to the final curl-up on the sofa on the day after Bank Holiday, with a saucerful of Christmas-dinner relics--devilled almonds and can died cherries for choice and a book for company, your own sort of book, the ook you've been meaning to read this month of Sundays: the new Munroe prob. ably, or that volume of E. O'Neill's plays, that, as a matter of fact,
In the spring of every year,
Chronicle."
The Poor Soul's Carol. Were I a reed that in the wind is
shaken, Then by some shepherd's hand I
might be taken, And be with patient thought To simple music wrought,
Fluting Noël. Noël!
Were I a blossom filled with gentle
sweetness,
you had bought as a little Christ- mas present for yourself! Pity the conscientious reviewer who, foreseeing all this, swallows down the newly published plums by the And win by wisdom thence handful, until his literary diges-Fragrance ar frankincense,
Breathing Noël, Noël! tion is completely ruined, and still must go on burning his fingers and
Some sage might gather me in my
completeness,
lying f
..
I might be lifted, and my age-long
sighing Enriched till it should raise Sort melodies of praise,.
Murm'ring Noël, Noël!
his tongue that your Christmas Were a shell upon the sea-floor dish of snapdragon may be a toothsome one! Nevertheless, he has his rewards.. He may have to taste a sufficiency of windfalls and withered fruit, but there is always the chance that some strange new plum has been dump- ed into his dish, delicate in flavour, unique in shape. Those who de- clare that a reviewer is n blasé creature, who never credit him with rejoicing over his occasional opportunity of letting his feelings run away with him, know little of human nature. Ask your old- timer, ask your collector, ask your
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Lo, I um either shell nor reed nór
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Only a piece of Hent and tarnished
metal,
Yet some great angel's love May shape a shrine thereof,
All_gold, Noël, Noël! -May Byron, in the "Windsor
Magazine."
master and eminent Noncom- formist minister, who delighted to pour knowledge into the mind of his little Letitia from the time that she could walk, Letitia, we are assured, could read when she was twenty months old, end At ive she was a constant student of the New Testament under her father's direction, and sometimes even the Flearned doctor himself was put out of countenance by her reasoning. powers. On one occasion he was entertaining another divine at dia ner, and the conversation turned upon joy, Dr. Aiken gave it as his opinion that nobody should be encouraged to believe that joy could increrse or vary in the next world, because it would be perfect from the moment of death. "I think you are mistaken, "said the infant pedant, Pape,' aged five. For did I not read to you this morning that there is joy among the angels of heaven
In the anthologies of over one sinner that repenteth?" to-day we do not often greet the Bluestockings, except where Mr. E V. Lucas revives their grandilo- quence to make us smile. But in every good collection of verse we
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