November and December Numbers, 1905, FREE TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES Canadian Art and Artists. Wild Sports of Canada. Life on the Frontier. With the Mounted Police. The New West Our National Park. Life Behind Prison Bars. Life in a Hospital. Royalty at Home. England in Egypt. British Guiana. Old Toronto. Ice-Boating in Canada. Humors of the Post Office. The Mother of Parliaments. Life on the Ranch. Bits in Paris. In Tonga Land. House-Boats on the Thames. The Playground of Ontario. The Graveyard of the Atlantic-Sable Island. Climbing the Matterhorn. Canadian Northland. Genoa the Superb. In Tropic Seas. New Russia. China in Reconstruction. Bits in Spain. The Garden Province of Canada - Prince Edward Island. History in Cartoon. In the Lumber Camps. With the Pioneers. HER MAJESTY QUERN ALEXANDRA. Illustrating "The King an 1 Queen at Home." A CORRIDOR WITH CELL DOORS OPEN. TOMB OF THE PRETENDERS. PROF. ANDREW STEWART, D.D. Illustrating "The Last of the Stuarts." FURTHEST NOT IN CANADA. CHARACTER SKETCHES AND STUDIES Recollections of Schliemann, the Re-discoverer of Troy. MRS. M. E. T. DE The Evolution of a Saint. Mrs. Chester D. Massey. CHANCELLOR BURWASH. A Great Historian. W. H. PRESCOTT. John Falk, a German Philanthropist. George Whitefield. G. K. BRADSHAW, B.A. Elihu Burritt, a Prophet of Peace. Henry Ibsen and His Message. A Great Scholar-Professor Palmer. Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Hannah Schwanick-Scholar, Poet and Social Reformer. Tragedy of a Palace-Marie Antoinette. The Last of the Stuarts. Dr. Drummond and His Work. Public Men of Canada. Literary Bits in London. A Jewish Mystic. MANY OF THEM ILLUSTRATED. Why I Believe in Missions. C. SYLVESTER HORN. Missions in Manchuria. British Burma. The Miracle of Pentecost Renewed, Gilmour of Mongolia. When the South Wind Blew Softly. At the River Ahava; or, How to Face a Crisis. Our Pacific Coast Missions. Missions in Japan. Our Missions in China. The Stranger Within our Gates. Canadian Mission in Formosa. A STEAM SHOVEL. Illustrating "Making a Railway." POPULAR SCIENCE MANY OF THEM ILLUSTRATED Earth's Interior Fire. The Turbine Steamer. The Birds of Canada. The Psychology of Christian Science. Development of the Automobile. The Future of the Trolley. Romance of the Railway. The New Astronomy. The Beneficence of Science. The White Plague. New Finds in Egypt. THE DAIRY OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, Illustrating "The Tragedy of a Palace." SERIAL AND SHORT STORIES CONVALESCENT. Illustrating "Life in a Hospital." Book Notices. "The English Works of George Herbert." Newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life. By George Herbert Palmer. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Toronto: William Briggs. Three vols. Pp. xx-429; xiv-443; 455. Price, $6.00. "Holy George Herbert " is better known now-a-days by that pious phrase of Izaak Walton's than by the study of his works. He was one of the most popular poets of two centuries and a half ago. Within a year of his death twenty thousand copies of a high-priced edition were sold, and soon many editions were published. Then for a hundred years not a single copy was printed, but during the last quarter of a century a new edition has appeared almost every other year, but none so sumptuous or edited with such minute and loving care as the one under review. "This work," says the writer, "is a box of spikenard poured in unappeasable reward over one who has attended my life." "Before I could well read," he adds, "I knew a large part of his verse." This handsome edition is the labor of a lifetime and a labor of love. It is probably the most thoroughly edited edition of any English poet in existence. The poems are printed only on the right hand page, while the notes, which are often more than the text, face them on the left. In Herbert the purest poetry and the most devout piety are mingled. No expense has been spared either in money or the book-makers' art in making this an ideal edition of his works. It was a romantic life, that of George Herbert. He was descended from the Earls of Pembroke and was born in Montgomery Castle, Wales. His brother was the famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury, where he was born, 1593. Our author remarks that he lived in the very crisis of English history. All history before him seems mediæval, all after him seems modern. The defeat of the Spanish Armada took place only five years before his birth. He lived through a large part of the reign of Elizabeth, the whole of that of James I., and a third of that of Charles I. He won distinction at Cambridge University and was the friend of Wotton, Dr. Donne and Lord Bacon, who is said to have had such high regard for his learning and judg ment that he submitted his works to him before publication. He was in high favor with King James, and received from him a sinecure office worth one hundred and twenty pounds per annum which Queen Elizabeth had formerly given Sir Philip Sidney. The death of the king destroyed his court hopes, and he entered sacred orders. His life was spent in exemplary devotion to the duties of his holy office. "He changed his sword and silk clothes," says Izaak Walton, "for a priest's gown." He married in his thirty-sixth year his wife, a kinswoman of the Earl of Danby, after three days' acquaintance, and she proved a faithful and loving wife for three short years till his death. When inducted into his parish he said, "You are now a minister's wife and must so forget your rank as to not take precedence of any of your parishioners. are to know that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place but that which she purchases by her obliging humility." So meek a wife was she as to assure him that "it was no vexing news to her, that he should see her observe it with cheerful willingness." You But the poet's monument is his prose work "The Country Parson," and the warm and fervent piety which breathes through his volume of poems, entitled "The Temple." The one of these poems best known is that on Sunday, two stanzas of which we quote: O day most calm, most bright, Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace arched lies: Which parts their ranks and orders. This poem shows the author's quaint conceits. It is a pleasure to handle and read these handsome volumes, which are |