THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. OLD SERIES COMPLETE IN LXIII. VOLS. JANUARY, 1844, TO DECEMBER, 1864. WP LIBRARY NEW SERIES, VOL. LXVIII. NEW YORK: E. R. PELTON, PUBLISHER, 19 EAST 16TH STREET. 1898. INDEX TO VOLUME LXVIII. PAGE A TROLL IN NORWAY. BY P. A. Wright Henderson....... AFRICAN GUANO ISLANDS, The... ...... Blackwood's Magazine..... AFTER CORN HARVEST. By Alfred Wellesley Rees.. AN OLD FAMILY PORTRAIT. By H. N. M.. ANGLO-AMERICAN FUTURE, THE. By Frederick Green wood.. ARE THE AMERICANS ANglo-Saxons?. ASPECTS OF EMPIRE AND COLONIZATION: ...... Nineteenth Century..... PAST AND PRO .... Westminster Review. 838 359 493 819 422 57 289 296 721 708 298 532 BISMARCK, PRINCE-PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. By Will BRAIN-POWER OF PLANTS, THE. By Arthur Smith.. Speaker..... Contemporary Review.. Sunday Magazine.. BRITISH RECORD IN CHINA, THE. By Alexis Krausse......Fortnightly Review............. CAPTURE OF HAVANA BY ENGLAND, 1762, THE. 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Its primary appeal, as every one would admit, is to our common Christianity; but it appeals also, and with scarcely less power, to our common patriotism. Transcending every difference and distinction of rank, and sect, and party, it unites us all as Englishmen. Historically it is interwoven with the growth of our political liberties, and its successive versions are indissolubly linked with names forever memorable in our annals. In its moral and social influence it lies at the root of what is strongest and best in the national character. Unique among books in its unapproachable dignity and grandeur, it holds among us an undisputed pre-eminence as the most splendid literary monument that we possess of the genius of our native tongue. For nearly eight hundred years the only Bible from which paraphrases or metrical versions could be made was the Latin Vulgate, the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew being during that period practically non-existent. In the In the famous abbey on the cliffs at Whitby, Cadmon had sung the scripture story of man's creation and of his fall, of Israel and of Christ. The dying hours of Bæde, the grand old monk of Jarrow, had been devoted to the completion of a translation into English of he Gospel according to St. John. AldNEW SERIES.-VOL, LXVIII., No. 1. helm had made a version of the Psalter, King Alfred of the four Evangelists, Elfric of the seven first books of the Old Testament. But for our present purpose we may set on one side the merely fragmentary renderings that have come down to us. Adaptations rather than translations of the more familiar portions of the Vulgate, they are full of interest as witnessing to the continuity of our literature; but what with the costliness of early manuscripts, the tardiness with which copies were multiplied, and the absence of any reading public, their circulation must have been practically confined to circles of private friends or of brother ecclesiastics. It is not until we reach the fourteenth century that we find a really close translation of any one complete book of Scripture. Dating from the first half of that century we have two such translations of the Psalms, the one by William de Schorham, the other by Richard Rolle, the author of The Pricke of Conscience, and better known as the Hermit of Hampole. To the last half of the century belong two works whose widespread and lasting influence it would be difficult to exaggerate, and which, by their rapid dissemination among the common people, contributed in no inconsiderable degree to that great religious revolution in England which we call the Reformation. The one is Langland's Vision 1 |