on the books taments, introduced by powerful the assumptions and postulates required as the ugar, but have still a tone of impetuous preconditions of a fair examination of Christiansincerity and strong party feeling, uncontrolled ity as a scheme of doctrines, precepts, and hisby much taste or courtesy. The following song tories, drawn or at least deducible from these is rough, but nervous : books." LITTELL'S LIVING AGE-No. 535.-19 AUG., 1854. SUSQUEHANNA. WHILE gazing on this grand and beautiful river, Fiction-romance- -the wildest sketch of imag sparkling in the sunlight and reflecting on its surination—furnishes not the faintest parallel to the face the blue summits and feathery sweeps of the unimaginable horrors of that awful night. Reader, mountain ridges between which it glides, Fancy if you do not wish to have your heart wrung alpeoples its winding shores and deep ravines with most to bursting, your eyes filled with hot tears, the pale and distracted fugitives of Wyoming, sees your whole frame trembling with indignation and its broad waters stained with the blood of their de- pity; if, in short, you would avoid having the apfenders, and hears amidst the wail and shriek of palling scene presented with all the vivid accuracy outraged women and children, the brutal voices of of truth as passing before your eyes, do not read an exulting soldiery and the demoniac yell of the Lossing's account of it in his "Field Book of the pursuing Indians, all rendered more terrible by the Revolution." wide spread conflagration of their burning homesteads. - The Songs and Small Poems of the Holy Scrip-| tures; also, the Lamentations of Jeremiah. New and literal translations from the Hebrew text of Van der Hooght, 1705.(Hatchard.) It is an interesting attempt, and one that has been often made, to throw our English prose into metrical lines, so as to preserve the real character of Asiatic poetry. The following version of one of the prophecies of Balaam, shows how much more wild and impetuous the words flow when thrown into this form: And he uttered his oracle, and said. "From Aram led me Balak king of Moab, 'And come, execrate Israel!' And how abhor, whom Jehovah abhorred not? And with the nations shall not be reckoned. A почит. With showers of sparks and clouds of smoke, A sheet of fire illumes the track The slave will doff his yoke and chain; Good news the harness'd lightning's bringing; Athenæum. When I sent you my Note on this subject at the last of the above references, I had not read Letters. Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, Moxon, 1836. The subjoined extracts from that work confirm that note, vol. 1, pp. 104, 156, 162. August 8, 1820. Coleridge: Nebraska: a Poem Personal and Political. (Boston: Jewett & Co.) This poem is so full of local allusions to "caucuses," and "Hampshire "I at least am as well as I ever am, and' my grit," etc., that we can really only make out that it regular employment, in which Mr. Green is weekis written by a strong anti-Šlavery advocate of the ly my amanuensis, [is] the work on the books spasmodic school of poetry, and an admirer of of the Old and New Testaments, introduced by Uncle Tom. The lines are alternately powerful the assumptions and postulates required as the and vulgar, but have still a tone of impetuous preconditions of a fair examination of Christiansincerity and strong party feeling, uncontrolled ity as a scheme of doctrines, precepts, and hisby much taste or courtesy. The following song tories, drawn or at least deducible from these is rough, but nervous : books." ford the time, trouble, and cost of the undertak- The editor will, I doubt not, be good enough years of my life have been devoted, and on which my hopes of extensive and permanent utility, of fame, in the noblest sense of the word, mainly rest, etc. Of this work, etc., the result must finally be revolution of all that has been called Philosophy or Metaphysics in England and France since the era of the commencing predominance of the mechanical system at the restoration of our second Charles, and with the present fashionable views, not only of religion, morals, and politics, but even of the modern physics and physiology. Of this work, something more than a volume has been dictated by me, so as to exist fit for the press, to my friend and enlight-"Essay of Truth" (which is dated 1625) with ened pupil, Mr. Green; and more than as much these words: again would have been evolved and delivered to paper, but that for the last six or eight months I have been compelled to break off our weekly meeting," etc. Vol. ii. p. 219. Editor: Birmingham. "WHAT IS TRUTH?" - Bacon begins his "What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly, there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting freewill in thinking, as well as in acting." sermon Of the Resurrection, preached in 1613: There is a similar passage in Bishop Andrews's "The prospectus of these lectures (viz. on Philosophy) is so full of interest, and so well worthy of attention, that I subjoin it; trusting that the Lectures themselves will soon be furnished by, "Pilate asked, Quid est veritas? And then or under the auspices of, Mr. Green, the most some other matter took him in the head, and so constant and the most assiduous of his disciples. up he rose, and went his way, before he had his That gentleman will, I carnestly hope-and doubt answer; he deserved never to find what truth not-see, feel, the necessity of giving the whole was. And such is our seeking mostwhat, seldom of his great master's views, opinions, and antici- or never seriously, but some question that comes pations; not those alone in which he more encross our brain for the present, some quid est veri. tirely sympathizes, or those which may have tas? So sought as if that we sought were as more ready acceptance in the present time. He good lost as found. Yet this we would fain have will not shrink from the great, the sacred duty he so for seeking, but it will not be." has voluntarily undertaken, from any regards of prudence, still less from that most hopeless form of fastidiousness, the wish to conciliate those who are never to be conciliated, inferior minds smarting under a sense of inferiority, and the imputation which they are conscious is just, that but for Him they never could have been; that distorted, dwarfed, changed as are all his views and opinions, by passing athwart minds with which they could not assimilate, they are yet almost the only things which give such minds a status in literature. How has Mr. Green discharged the duties of this solemn trust? Has he made any attempt to give publicity to the Logic, the "great work" on Philosophy, the work on the Old and New Testaments, to be called The Assertion of Religion or the History of Philosophy, all of which are in his custody, and of which the first is, on the testimony of Coleridge himself, a finished work? We know from the Letters, vol. ii. pp. 11, 150, that the Logic is an essay in three parts, viz. the "Canon," the "Criterion," and the "Organon; of these the last only can be in any respect identical with the Treatise on Method. There are other works of Coleridge missing; Perhaps Bacon heard the bishop preach (the sermon was at Whitehall); and if so the passage in Andrews will explain the word "jesting" to mean, not scoffing, but asking without serious purpose of acquiring information. Notes and Queries. Ben Jonson has the following remark on this word: "Cassock, in the sense it is here used, is not to be met with in our common dictionaries; it signifies a soldier's loose outward coat, and is taken in that acceptation by the writers of Jonson's times. Thus Shakspeare, in All's Well that Ends Well: 'Half of the which dare not shake the snow from their cassocks.'" This is confirmed in the passage of Jonson, on which the above is a note. "This small service will bring him clean out of love with the soldier. He will never come within the sign of it, the sight of a cassock.”Every Man in his Humour, Act II. Sc. 5. to these I will call attention in a future note. The cassock, as well as the gown and band, For the four enumerated above Mr. Green is seem to have been the usual attire of the clergy responsible. He has lately received the homage on all occasions in the last century, as we find of the University of Oxford in the shape of a from the paintings of Hogarth and the writings D.C.L.; he can surely afford a fraction of the of Fielding, etc. When did this custom cease? few years that may still be allotted to him in re- Can any reader of "N. & Q." supply traditional creating the fame of, and in discharging his duty proof of clergymen appearing thus apparelled in to, his great master. If, however, he cannot af-ordinary life?-Notes and Queries. |