In Small Crown Octavo Volumes, printed on Toned Paper, bound in extra bevelled cloth, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d. each, (sold separately) LIFE LIGHTS OF SONG. A Selection of Poetry, IN FIVE VOLUMES. COMPRISING Songs of God and Nature. Songs of Home and Fatherland. EDITED BY DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., AUTHOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY," ETC. HILE numerous Selections of Poetry have been published-some to indicate the thought of the age, others the peculiar styles of the authors; some to exhibit beauty of sentiment, and others merely to afford subjects for pictorial illustration-few have appeared 2 possessing a definite and practical life-purpose. The object of the present Selection is eminently didactic-to bring the charms of poesy and the memory of its expression to bear on the conduct and character. The first volume refers to the reverential relations that ought to subsist between man and nature and the God of nature; the second, to man's duties of love and benevolence to his fellow-men; the third, to the realities of the life and labour in which all must engage; the fourth, to the ever-guiding principles of truth and honour; and the last, to those ennobling sentiments which link mankind to their homes, hearths, and fatherlands. The aim is to embrace a circle of Life-duty, without descending to details-to enlist the attractions of poesy where the precepts of prose might fail to inculcate. 66 Song from baser thoughts should win us; Song should charm us out of woe ; "Pains and pleasures, all man doeth, War and peace, and right and wrong,- "Song should spur the mind to duty, Should be crown'd by starry Song!" |