THE PALACE OF ART.

1. Saturn, shining as it does by the light of the sun upon it, casts upon his ring perpetual shadows.

2. Arras. Tapestry. Note the perfection of the wordpictures which follow.

3. A reference to the fact that olive-leaves are whitishgray upon the underside, and that this color shows when the wind turns the leaves over.

4. The Ionian father. Homer.

5. The picture here is a symbol of France in the great revolution.

6. She. The soul.

7. Verulam. Lord Bacon.

8. The statue of Memnon, near Thebes, was said to give forth the sound of music at the rising of the sun. 9. A reference to the swine of Gadara. Matt. viii, 32. 10. The pitiable death of Herod is related in Acts xii. II. Compare the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel v. 12. Circumstance. The surrounding universe. 13. Dully. Poetical for dull.

14. "The essence of the sin was not culture, but the selfishness and aristocraticism of cultured pride; not delight, whether of the senses or of the mind, but delight unshared by others; not abstention from the partisanship of creeds, but contemptuous isolation from those who accept them, and lack of sympathetic appreciation of the truth they contain. Such isolation, such pride, such culture, are indeed damnable." Bayne.

1. He.

THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.
Sir Bedivere.
Sword.

2. Brand.

3. Excalibur. The mystic sword received by Arthur from the Lady of the Lake, which Sir Bedivere is now commanded to return to her.

4. Bedivere, in the “Coming of Arthur,” is described as "the first of all his knights, bold in heart and act and word."

5. Lief. Beloved.

6. Lightly. Swiftly.

7. Note here the subtlety with which Sir Bedivere argues against his clear sense of duty.

8. For. Here in the sense of "because."

9. "Never yet in any poetry did any sword, flung in air, flash so superbly."

IO. Northern morn. The Aurora Borealis.

II. Samite. A silk stuff generally interwoven with gold.

12. The five lines following contain “as clear a piece of ringing, smiting, clashing sound as any to be found in Tennyson."

13. Ware. Aware.

14. Black-stoled. Robed in black.

15. Cuisses. Armor for the thighs.

16. Elders. The wise men from the east, led by the star to the birthplace of Christ at Bethlehem.

17. The Celtic heaven, where all wounds are healed and where dwells perpetual youth.

IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

1. Oorali. A drug which acts by paralyzing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left unimpaired.

MERLIN AND THE GLEAM.

I. A reference to the early conviction of his call to be a poet, and of his first inspirations.

2. By this we may understand the poet's critics, who disparaged alike his work and his calling.

3. Describing the themes over which his poetic gift threw graces of verse and splendid imagination.

4. A reference to his numerous and extended attempts at suitably interpreting the story of King Arthur.

5. A testimony to the eagerness of soul with which, even in old age, he followed the spirit of his calling as a prophet of truth.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

OUR MASTER.

1. Holocaust. Burnt offering.

2. Cf. Coleridge:

"He prayeth best who loveth best

All things, both great and small."

3. Litanies and liturgies here stand for religious forms in general.

THE ETERNAL GOODNESS.

I. Mete and bound.

2. Cf. Tennyson:

Measure and limit.

"But O, for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!"

3. Isaiah xlii, 3.

4. Fronded. Having leaf-like expansions which include both stem and foliage.

MY SOUL AND I.

1. Whittier's part in the anti-slavery struggle is well known.

2. Inane. n. Void.

3. Genesis xxxii, 26.

4. Cf. Wordsworth:

"Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
Like harmony in music. There's a dark

Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one society."

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

THE LEGEND BEAUTIFUL.

1. The Elysian Fields are, in Greek mythology, the abode of the blessed after death.

2. Matthew xxv, 40.

THE BLIGHT OF WORLDLINESS.

1. Morituri Salutamus. "We who are about to die, salute you!" The Roman gladiators, before engaging in their contests, made this salutation before the imperial throne.

THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.

1. St. Augustine, Sermon III, De Ascensione: "De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus."

JAMES RUSSELL LOWell.

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL.

1. Compare Wordsworth:

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"

2. We Sinais climb. We come into exalted surroundings.

3. Benedicite. The canticle or hymn beginning, in Latin, "Benedicite omnia opera Domini;" in English, "O, all ye works of the Lord, bless the Lord."

4. Nice. Fastidious, discriminating, exact.

5. Rushes were formerly strewn upon floors by way of covering.

6. Maiden. New, fresh, hitherto untried.

7. Made morn. Sir Launfal comes out of the gloom

like the sun out of the night.

8. 'Gan shrink. Began to shrink.

9. Luke xxi, 3.

10. Wold. An open tract of country.

11. Corbel. A projection from the vertical face of a

wall, serving as a support.

12. Seneschal. Steward.

13. Reck. To take heed of.

14. The same idea of the Christ-life noted in the preceding poems by Lowell.

15. Expresses the knight's contrition.

16. St. John x, 9.

A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

1. Savage clime. North America.

2. Daniel v, 5.

3. Thebes. An ancient city of Bœotia in Greece. Mythology tells that, during the building of the walls of Thebes, Amphion had but to strike his lyre, and large stones followed whither he led the way.

4. There most is He, for there is he most needed. The same idea of Christ's protectorate over the weak and the downtrodden that we note in "A Parable," "The Search," and "The Vision of Sir Launfal." In this poem we find an application of the idea to a living, practical interest.

5. More force in names than most men dream of. Cf. Shakespeare: "What's in a name?"

6. Fond. Foolish.

7. Hampden was mortally wounded in a skirmish on Chalgrove Field in 1643.

THE SEARCH.

1. Thebes. A chief city of ancient Egypt, remarkable to-day for its splendid ruins.

2. Witless. Wanting thought; therefore, careless.

A PARABLE.

1. The Jews looked for the Messiah to come with pomp and glory. So, to-day, men forget the humility, the lowliness of the Master.

2. This description refers to any worship that considers form, doctrine, or precedent to the exclusion of the more immediate applications of Christ's teachings.

3. Cf. Matthew xxv, 24, 25.

4. Cf. Matthew xxv, 45.