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book called " The Paradise of the Soul ; " it con- 

 tained instructions and devotions for various occa- 

 sions, and was mainly an adaptation for English 

 Churchmen of extracts taken from the manual of 

 the Roman Church, " The Garden of the Soul " 

 a book which Mr. Morris used to say contained so 

 much that was good and beautiful, that it was much 

 to be regretted that we had not something corre- 

 sponding to it in the Church of England for general 

 use. Staunch Anglican though he was, he was ever 

 ready to join hands with those outside the pale of 

 the Church to which he belonged, and to stand 

 with them on common ground whenever it could 

 be done without sacrifice of principle. No one 

 deplored the unhappy divisions of Christendom 

 more than he did, because, independently of other 

 considerations, no one realised more fully than him- 

 self the fearful waste and loss of power caused by 

 such divisions in the great conflict between the 

 opposing forces of good and evil in the world. 



We must again turn our thoughts back a year or 

 two to touch very briefly on Mr. Morris's authorship 

 of a series of volumes which it took some years to 

 complete, though in one sense they were never 

 completed. 



New publications were constantly being produced 

 at Mr. Fawcett's printing-house, and it was about 

 the year 1864 that my father was engaged to write 

 the letterpress for the most costly work Mr. Fawcett 

 ever executed, and one which greatly extended his 

 fame as a most enterprising and skilful engineer 



