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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
SANITARY AXIOMS AND MUNICIPAL BYE-LAWS. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. APPLETON, F.R.I.B.A. 
(Read November 16th, 1882.) 
Sanitary science known to the ancients. Present era of sanitary 
science and legislation. Some old forms of sewers. Public Health 
Act of 1848, and Amendment Acts up to 1875. Model Bye-laws 
of 1877. Axiom No. 1. Defect in Bye-law No. 6. Axiom No. 2. 
Suggested addition to Bye-law No. 28. Axiom No. 3. Sewer and 
drain ventilation ; bye-laws needed for same. Domestic water supply. 
Axiom No. 4. 
WORDSWORTH'S LIFE AND POETRY. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY REV. W. E. MELLONE. 
(Read November 23rd, 1882.) 
Wordsworth's place among poets. The father of a higher school 
of poetry. The time in which he lived, and its effects. Other 
poets more affected by the active spirit of the age ; Wordsworth, 
by the principles underlying the action. The progress of mankind 
in the habit of reflection shown by the history of poetical literature. 
Wordsworth not the intellectual peer of the greatest poets. Not 
too much to be claimed for him. He is the interpreter of nature. 
His devotion to work, and ideal of duty. Conduct under deprecia- 
tion and derision. His deficiencies and faults. " Lumps of gold 
engulpht in gravelly beds." The fault often in the reader. A 
glance at some of his greatest works. The Prelude. The modern 
forcing system of education. The " model child " and his trainers. 
Wordsworth's idea of what childhood should be. Brief review of 
his life. School and college days. The year in France. Words- 
worth and the French Revolution. Intimacy with Southey and 
Coleridge. Honours at Oxford. Poet-laureate. Quiet happiness 
of his old age. His own benediction applied to himself. 
