of the earth one plain psalm, a world-wide call to man to render thanks to God.”  Dr. Wesley and several others contributed the music, and the best scholars of all lands did the literature:  the mere printing of so many languages was pronounced a marvel in its way; and I have a bookful of notices, of course laudatory, where it was not possible to find fault with so small a piece of literature.  It may be well to give the hymn admission here, as the booklet is excessively scarce.

The title goes—­“A Hymn for all Nations,” 1851, translated into thirty languages (upwards of fifty versions).

    “Glorious God! on Thee we call,
    Father, Friend, and Judge of all;
    Holy Saviour, heavenly King,
    Homage to Thy throne we bring!

    “In the wonders all around
    Ever is Thy Spirit found,
    And of each good thing we see
    All the good is born of Thee!

    “Thine the beauteous skill that lurks
    Everywhere in Nature’s works—­
    Thine is Art, with all its worth,
    Thine each masterpiece on earth!

    “Yea,—­and, foremost in the van,
    Springs from Thee the Mind of Man;
    On its light, for this is Thine,
    Shed abroad the love divine!

    “Lo, our God!  Thy children here
    From all realms are gathered near,
    Wisely gathered, gathering still,—­
    For ‘peace on earth, towards men goodwill!’

    “May we, with fraternal mind,
    Bless our brothers of mankind! 
    May we, through redeeming love,
    Be the blest of God above!”

Beside this, I give from memory a list of others of the pamphlet sort, perhaps imperfect:—­

1.  “The Desecrated Church,” relating to ancient Albury,—­whereof this matter is remarkable; I had protested against its demolition to Bishop Sumner, and used the expression in my letter that the man who was doing the wrong of changing the old church in his park for a new one elsewhere would “lay the foundation in his first-born and in his youngest son set up its gates” (Josh. vi. 26); and the two sons of the lord of the manor died in succession as seemingly was foretold.

2.  “A Voice from the Cloister,” whereof I have spoken before.

3.  “A Prophetic Ode,”—­happily hindered from proving true, only because the Rifle movement drove away those vultures, Louis Napoleon’s hungry colonels, from our unprotected shores.  There are also in the poem some curious thoughts about the Arctic Circle, its magnetic heat, and possible habitability; also others about thought-reading and the like; all this being long in advance of the age, for that ode was published by Bosworth in 1852.  Also, I anticipated then as now—­

        “To fly as a bird in the air
        Despot man doth dare! 
    His humbling cumbersome body at length
      Light as the lark upsprings,
    Buoyed by tamed explosive strength
      And steel-ribbed albatross wings!”