626 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



In Forster's Life of Landor, Hare's name as '' Julius " comes before 

 tis associated with those of Wordsworth and Southey, in some lines 

 of blank verse, written by Landor at the parsonage at Hurstmonceux 

 when the vicar (Hare) was suiFering from severe illness. (Hare had 

 placed in Landor's hands a short unpublished poem by Wordsworth.) 

 Landor says : — 



Derwent ! Winander ! your twin poets come 



Star-crowned along with you, nor stand apart. 



Wordsworth comes hither, hither Southey comes, 



His friend and mine, and every man's who lives, 



Or who shall live when days far off have risen. 



Here are they with me yet again, here dwell 



Among the sages of antiquity. 



Under his hospitable roof, whose life. 



Surpasses theirs in strong serenity, 



Whose genius walks more humbly, stooping down, 



From the same height, to cheer the weak of soul 



And guide the erring from the tortuous way. 



Hail, ye departed 1 hail ! thou later friend, 



Julius ! but never by my voice invoked 



With such an invocation — hail, and live i 



" Among the sages of antiquity, under the hospitable roof " of the 

 parsonage at Hurstmonceux, my Upistolce Ho-Eliance had once its 

 local habitation. To me, a particle of the Hurstmonceux atmosphei-e 

 clings about the volume to this day.^ — Julius Charles Hare adopted in 

 the "Guesses at Truth" and in his other publications a peculiar mode 

 of rendering a number of English words, lopping off and striking 

 out superfluous letters. His past passive participles he generally 

 made to end ia t, instead of ed, gravely writing preacht for preached, 

 practist for practised, cought for coughed, kist for kissed ! Tree he 

 wrote tre, simile, simily, etc., etc. Mitford, we remember, in his 

 History of Greece, and some other writers, indulged in like crochets. 

 From modern editions these eye sores are for the most part removed. 

 It were to .be wished that publishers would speedily take the same 

 liberty with Hare's books. At present these peculiarities are, of 

 course, great disfigurements, (Landor's writings want the same kind 

 of friendly revision). — ^Howell, too, the author of the Epistolae 

 Ho-Elianae, advocated, to some extent, a phonetic mode of spelling 

 English. Doubtless the following address to the Intelligent Reader, 

 at the end of the volume which I possess, was read with satisfaction 

 by Hare at Hurstmonceux, " Amongst other reasons," Howell says, 



