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dignity Of the bard no less than Homer, and in
his era we hear of no other priest than he 1t will
not avail 70 call him heather because he per-
sonfes the sun and addresses it and what if his
heroes did worship the ghosts Of their fathers
their thin, airy, and unsubstanual forms ? we but
worship the ghosts of our fathers in more sub
stantial forms. We cannot but respect the vlgor-
Gus faith of those heather, who sternly believed
somewhat, and are inclined to say to the critics,
who are offended by their superstitious rites, don't
interrupt these mems prayers. As If we knew
more about human life and God than the
heathen and ancients. Does English theology
contain the recent discoveries


Osslan reminds US of the most refined and
rudest eras, of Homer, Pindar, Isaiah, and the
American Indian. In his poetry, as in Homer's,
only the simplest and most enduring features of
humanity are seen, such essential parts OF man
as Stonehenge exhibits Of temple: we see the
circles of stone, and the upright shaft alone. The
phenomena of life acquire almost an unreal and
gigantic size seen through his mlsts. Like al
Older and grander poetry, it is distinguished by
the few elements in the lives Of It's heroes. They
stand on the heath, between the stars and the
earth, shrunk to the bones and sinews. The
earth is boundess plain for their deeds. They
lead such simple, dry. and everlasting life, as
hardly needs depart with the aesh but is trans
mltted entire from age 10 age. There are but
few objects to distract their sight, and their life
is as unincumbered as the course of the stars they
gaze at.