though its course did not always run smooth. His first volume of poetry, entitled "The Wanderer of Switzerland, and other Poems," appeared in 1806. It had already gone through two editions, and his publishers had just issued a third when the "Edinburgh Review" attacked the poor volume with a brutal insolence that mortal verse could scarcely hope to survive. The reviewer predicted that "in less than three years nobody would know the name of the Wanderer of Switzerland' or of any other of the poems in the collection;" but let the author, "crushed to earth" by a critique, take courage and "rise again;" for in spite of this friendly oracle, edition after edition of the condemned volume has been issued, and it had, years ago, reached to nearly twenty of them! Of Montgomery's longer poems "The Pelican Island" is thought to be the best. It is characterized by his own felicity of diction, and by a minute and delicate description of natural phenomena. Though he is most popularly known by his sacred lyrics, Montgomery has given ample proof that his powers were not restricted to purely spiritual themes. Thoughtfulness and simple grace, combined with a musical flow, are the especial characteristics of his hymns, which among the serious have attained a popularity almost equal to the verses of Moore among the lovers of lighter song. This beautiful lyric is a fair specimen of Montgomery's style: "Friend after friend departs: Who hath not lost a friend? That finds not here an end: "Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime "Thus star by star declines Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines Nor sink those stars in empty night, But lose themselves in heaven's own light." LIST OF POEMS QUOTED OR MENTIONED. ABOU BEN ADHEM (Leigh Hunt), | Battle of Blenheim (Addison), 229. 445. Address to the De'il (Burns), 293-294. Albion's England (Warner), 110. Ancient Mariner (Coleridge), 321, 329-331. Angel in the House (Leigh Hunt), 446. Antonio and Mellida (Marston), 126. Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 142. Arcades (Milton), 188. Arcadia (Sidney), 90-91. As You Like It (Shakespeare), 143. Auld Robin Gray (Lady Anne Barnard), 278. Battle of Blenheim (Southey), 342. Baucis and Philemon (Swift), z24 226. Beggar's Opera (Gay), 219. Burial of Sir John Moore (Wolfe), 495. CADENUS AND VANESSA (Swift), 223. Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 51. Casa Guidi Windows (Mrs. Browning), 430. Castle of Indolence (Thomson), 239, 240, 241. Cato (Addison), 228. Cenci, The (Shelley), 463-465. Aurora Leigh (Mrs. Browning), 431- Challenge for Beauty (Heywood), 432, 433, 434, 437-438. Autumn (Hood), 475–476. 125. Chaucer Modernized (Horne), 52. Childe Harold (Byron), 374, 378-380. Christabel (Coleridge), 321, 325, 331333. Chronicle of King Lear (NormanSaxon), 37. City Madam (Massinger), 123. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers English Traveller (Heywood), 125. Conquest of Granada (Dryden), 173, Epipsychidion (Shelley), 467-468. 174. Cooper's Hill (Denham), 164-165. Cotter's Saturday Night (Burns), 279, Court of Love (Chaucer), 59. Coy Mistress (Marvell), 168. Crazed Maiden (Crabbe), 396-398. Creation, The (Cædmon), 34. Epistle from Eloisa to Abelard (Pope), 210. Epitaph on Ben Jonson (Cleveland), 165. Epitaph on a Mineralogist (Mrs. Epithalamium (Spenser), 84. Equipage of the Queen of the Fairies Curse of Kehama (Southey), 339, Essay on Criticism (Pope), 207. 340-342. DAMON AND PYTHIAS (Edwards), Dance, The (Dunbar), 275. Davideis (Cowley), 170. Essay on Man (Pope), 210-211. Eulogium of Hakon, King of Nor- Euphues; or, The Anatomy of Wit Eve of St. Agnes (Keats), 453–454. Death's Final Conquest (Shirley), Every Man in his Humor (Jonson), 130-131. Decay of Life (Quarles), 104-105. Description of a Miser (Pollok), 492- 493. 119-120. Excursion, The (Wordsworth), 313. FABLE (Warner), 110. Deserted Village (Goldsmith), 246- Faery Queen (Spenser), 79, 81, 82, 84, 247. Don Juan (Byron), 377-378. Don Sebastian (Dryden), 178. Dream, The (Byron), 381. Drinking (Cowley), 171. 86-88. Fair Inez (Hood), 478. Farmer's Boy (Bloomfield), 393. Duchess of Malfy (Webster), 128- Faustus (Marlowe), 117-119. France (Coleridge), 329. Fugitive Poem, A (Lydgate), 61-63. GAMESTER, THE (Shirley), 157. Gentle Shepherd (Ramsay), 277. Giaour, The (Byron), 349. Green Grow the Rashes, O (Burns), HALLOWEEN (Burns), 291. Hamlet (Shakespeare), 142. Hare with Many Friends (Gay), 219- Lancashire Witches (Heywood), 125. Laodamia (Wordsworth), 306–312. Lear (Shakespeare), 142. Lines to Anne Boleyn (Wyatt), 67–68. Little Song, A (Wolfe), 495. Love, Hope, and Patience in Educa- tion (Coleridge), 333. |