of the Soul, the Betrayer of Faith to the cruel kindness of worldly lusts, the Worm gnawing, impotently in the end, it is true, yet fiercely, foully gnawing at the root of the Tree of Life.

The heart readily compassionates the per

sonal deformity which the eye at once detects; unkindness here is sin. But we cannot do our duty and suppress our disgust at moral deformity; since men are so apt to mistake it for beauty, and so fond of making the mistake contagious. Against this pre-eminent contagion, this gigantic deformity that affects almost a world, Scorn and Indignation cannot speak too loud and look too stern.

If Poetry is the offspring of Mind in its sublimest strength, of Soul in its divinest ardour— the fullest expression of the Beauty we admire and love, of the Deformity we disdain and hate; how can she be better employed than in the service of Truth, in the war against Error? in

what more suitable company can Truth be found? The party who brings them together may do his business ill or well; but in the alliance itself there is nothing inconsistent and uncongenial. Such an alliance has the author endeavoured to effect; may Poesy and Truth have equal reason to rejoice in the endeavour!

THE FORTUNES OF FAITH;

OR,

CHURCH AND STATE.

L'Église doit étre dans l'État, independante, inaperçue ; l'État n'a rien à demèler avec elle; le pouvoir temporel ne doit prendre des croyances religieuses aucune connaisance; qu'il les laisse ss rapprocher, separer, vivre et se gouverner, comme il leur convient; il n'a pour intervenir dans leurs affaires ni droit ni bon motif.-Guizot, Histoire de la Civilisation eu France, tome 1, leçon 3