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century prose writers that might aptly be j the ' Faithful Minister" he draws an in-
styled the moral preceptors. JeremyTay-1 teresting likeness of, but the "Good
lor is to this group what Moses was to Wife, ” the " Good Husband, " the
the Hebrews and Solon was to the good all along the line of human pro-
Greeks. His code of moral precepts is | fessions, vocations and crafts, and right
i very full and comprehensive, and as hard | well he does it. adding suggestiveness
to read for a recitation in college as the | and life with the use of appropriate fig-
i Proverbs of Solomon. To criticise Tay- ures. His style, too, has much of the
from a rapid glance through j seventeenth century prose ch .rm.
this voluihe, or evfn after a careful read-1 As an observer, Fuller shows himself
ing, would be as unsatisfactory as a study j not less accurate and scrutinizing in the
of Blackstone, not for its basic principles subjects treated under " The Profane
in law, but as a literary exercise. Taylor i State " than in those under "The Holy
does not parade his learning as Burton, j Stale. " He is a philosopher of no mean
and is superior as a moral preceptor to j ability, and 1 cannot see how the world
either Felltham or Selden. His apparent j has kept a Bacon so fully alive and al-
meekness reminds me of Herbert. 11 lowed a Fuller to die as dead as Hector,
should place his " Holy Living and Holy
Dying" as a companion piece to the
Some Seventeenth Century
Books and Authors.
(By W. P. Lawrence.)
HOWELL AND SELDEN.
These were two Oxford men and
were given to prose more than poetry.
Selden said : " Tis ridiculous for a Lord
to print verse." "Verse proves nothing
but the quantity of syllables." " Tis a
fine thing for children to learn to make
verse; but when they come to be men,
they must speak like other men, or else
they will be laughed at." " Tis ridicu
lous to speak, or write, or preach in
verse." We may suppose these quota
tions express in general the opinion of
poetry held by the average Oxford sen.
Bible.
IZAAK WALTON’S "LIVES'
AND "THE COMPLETE
ANGLER."
As a biographer, Walton magnifies the
subject’s religious qualities and throws such
a halo of glory around him that one comes
away feeling that Donne, Hooker and
Herbert were saints. 1 he charm of
Walton’s style is in its simplicity and the
skill in portrayal of personal qualities of
character.
" The Complete Angler " is the next
best thing to the actual sport it so simply
yet so attractively describes. TTiere is
the element of comradeship, dialogue
well written, remarkable familiarity wilh
the subject, in short a classic without the
; author being classical either In knowledge
It is to be hoped a resurrection will come
through a new edition and popularization
of his works.
And it is not surprising that Cambridge, i * should put Walton in a class
then, is the home of English poetry. j to himselr. i j i ■
_! in this peiiod that equaled turn m
field. " The Worthies of England " and
"The History of the Rebellion" cannot
PEPYS’ DIARY.
There is variety enough in the books
we have been talking about to suit the
most capricious mind— " Anatomy of
Melanncholy," "Religio Medici," "Table
Talk," "Worthies of England," "Thei
Rebellion," " Pilgrim’s Progress" and
the rest, and now " Pepys’ Diary."
There is variety for you. And the last
is as varied within itself as the whole
group. We do not want to approach a
diary expecting literary merit. Such a
work is not written for public inspection
and criticism. " Pepys’ Diary" is in
teresting above all things as a series of
snap-shots of life, high and low, from
1660 to 1670. As I sailed through it
—not having time or the desite to read it
all—1 found it as gratifying to my curios- I
ity wherever I chanced to light as if 1 had, j ,
enteenth century prose fiction,—all these
put him beyond 'the scholarly religious
writers we have studied. Genius is al
ways greater than scholarship. Soul is
greater than mere intellect.
"The Holy War" is scarcely in
ferior to " Pilgrim’s Progress" except in
plot. The style is essentially the same,
but the characters are less vividly drawn.
" Grace Abounding to the Chief of
Sinners," 1 think, is superior to Wal
ton’s " Lives, " as a work of biog
raphy. Here both the bad and the
good in the character are set forth as in
Bible biographies.
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" Lives. "
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itself both as to matter and form. It is so
well done as to have a lasting vitality,—
a characteristic or quality of every classic.
CLARENDON’S HISTORY
THE REBELLION.
OF
Howell and Selden both had
cellent prose style. The one, widely
traveled, is instructive and entertaining in
™ Familiar Letters" and the other, an
encyclopaedia of law, theology, etc., is a
delightful philosopher m "Table Talk."
Ben Jonson said of him :
" You that have been
Ever at home, yet all countries have seen.
And like a compass, keeping one foot still
Upon your centre, do your circle fill
Of general knowledge; watched men,
manners too.
Heard what times past have said, seen
what ours do."
OWEN FELLTHAM.
Several years since I read Francis
Bacon’s essays and was so taken with |
them that I made my own version of sev
eral of them. 1 thought I had forgotten ;
them till I came to read Felltham. This ^ lawyer’s brief. The language is that of
eading conjured up so much of the Bacon ^ learned parliament, and the phrasing is
matter that I suspected Felltham had (hat of the court. This is due in a
drawn largely from that distinguished : i^fg^ measure to the manner in which the
philosopher. Then a comp^ison. Many j, bujjt up. Like Carlyle’s Crom-
We have had no biographer i overhearing a curtamed
secret, either pf private life or of the!
English governmtnt. Its quaint style i
makes It a first-rate stereopticon lecture j
on the great plague of 1 665-6, the ter
rible London fire, September, 1666,
the London stage, and the lives of many
great men in state and in literature during
the period it covers.
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Ton wiil c'o tii R twcx t3 f?.etttlon thli publlottwL
JOHN BUNYAN.
The three fine old folio volumes of this i
, 1 , J [ .L ■ -1 me some years ago
most valuable record or the civil wars in ;
England and of the commonwealth, are ■
a reprint from the first edition, and were
published in 1 703. As to their con-:
tent, it is interesting reading because i
the author’s life—a very active, vigor
ous existence in a most stormy period—is
woven into the whole narrative.
As to their style, it is, in a way, that of
Hawthorne’s " Celestial Railway " led
to read " Pilgrim's
Progress." My experience with this fa
mous allegory was pleasing in a high de
gree. In the aptness of the whole plan
of the book,—the names of the charac
ters and the part each plays, the reality of
action and the simplicity of language
there is a sensation akin to that which
comes over me on going from a library ^
full of heavy learning into the depths of
wild nature on an ideal June day. Bun-
yan’s originality, his fervent soul, getting i
itself expressed so clearly and so charm
ingly, and his invention so novel in sev-
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essays of the two bear the same title, but
In the contents of half a dozen compared
therie is not the slightest suggestion that
Felltham was Influenced by Bacon. Both
the essays, " Marriage and Single Life,"
refer to the opinion of matrimony among
the Turks, but to different phases of it
no other resemblances.
Felltham has not Bacon’s mental grasp
or penetration, and is often tedious. His
"Resolves" ve a barrel of conceits
packed in plenty of excelsior.
JEREMY TAYLOR’S HOLY LIV
ING AND HOLY DYING.
There was a group of seventeenth
well, it is a series of petitions, overtures,
and the like, that passed between the
representative heads of the two opposing
factions, woven into a narrative full of
personal feeling and comment frorti the
viewpoint of a staunch royalist.
The chief value of the work is in
its historical fact, rather than in its style.
THOMAS FULLER.
Fuller’s " Holy and Profane States "
is constructed very much as George Her
bert's "Priest to the Temple," except
he has extended his precepts beyond the
parson, to a greater part of characters,
both domestic and public. It is not only
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