NOVEMBER 109 



1 st vol. in the order in which they are marked, using 

 the 2 nd vol. (in which they are translated) as the key. 

 You will find the numbers of the pieces in the 2 nd vol. 

 corresponding with those in the 1 st . I have also sent 

 you a little volume of Schiller's poems, with a few 

 which I like marked. I should advise you, if any took 

 your fancy, to learn them by heart ; it is an agreeable 

 way of getting into one's mind a great fund of words to 

 be serviceable on all occasions. I had some difficulty in 

 getting you the " Morgen und Abendopf er, " but I was 

 anxious that you should have these little poems. They 

 are written by a German clergyman. The poetry is 

 very pretty and simple, and I like them for the cheerful 

 view which they take of religion. I have also ventured 

 to send you a little book of selections from different 

 authors, principally for the sake of those which have 

 been made from the works of four men whose writings 

 I have often perused with almost unmixed satisfaction. 

 I mean Jeremy Taylor, South, Bacon, and Milton. I send 

 them to you, not only as samples which will, I think, 

 please you, but in the hope that they will induce you to 

 look further into the works from which they are taken. 

 I had inserted some loose pages containing parallel 

 passages and observations upon the text, but think, 

 upon the whole, it would be to expose you to observa- 

 tion were I to send the book with them in and anybody 

 but yourself happened to look into it. I only send you 

 with it some verses of Southey's which struck me as 

 very pretty, and which I have but lately met with. You 

 can take them out. Taylor is a writer of the greatest 

 eloquence and the most exuberant imagination I am 

 acquainted with in any language. He had at the same 

 time an humble mind, and was thoroughly imbued with 

 a true spirit of Christian charity. South is distinguished 

 for y* vigour and nervous energy of his style and 



