Jane Taylor. JANE TAYLOR was born in London, in 1783. Born 1783. Died 1823, Her father became after wards a dissenting minister at Colchester, where he educated his family, In conjunction with her sister Anne, she wrote and published a collection of children's hymns and rhymes, which have been universally admired. Jane is also the author of " Display," a prose work. She died in 1823. CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST. Lo at noon 'tis sudden night, Nail'd upon the cross, behold, How His tender limbs are torn; They have made him one of thorn: See the blood is falling fast, From his forehead and his side; He who was King above Left his kingdom for a grave, Out of pity-out of love, That the guilty He might save. Reginald Heber. Born 1783. Died 1826. REGINALD HEBER, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, was born on 21st April 1783, at Malpas in Cheshire, a living held by his father. He entered at Brasenose College at the age of seventeen, and, in his twentieth year, his poem "Palestine" gained the prize for English poetical composition. The poem caused a great sensation in the University, and was the occasion of his being brought prominently into notice. He appeared as a poet again in 1809, when he published "Europe." Having been educated for the Church, Heber obtained the living of Hodnet, where he devoted himself to the duties of his charge with great zeal and success; at the same time he married Amelia Shipley, daughter of the Dean of St Asaph. His leisure time was constantly engaged in literary work; and during this period he wrote many of those beautiful hymns which must ever be connected with his name. In 1823 he was appointed Bishop of Calcutta, and he entered on his work of supervision with great zeal and prudence. His whole mind seemed to have been occupied with how best to advance Christianity in the East. In one of his tours he was taken ill at Trichinopoly, and died very suddenly on 3d April 1826, universally lamented. FROM "PALESTINE." YET still destruction sweeps the lonely plain, And who is He? the vast, the awful form, Lo! cherub hands the golden courts prepare, Hail the glad beam, and claim their ancient home? THE COMING OF CHRIST. THE Lord shall come! the earth shall quake, And, withering from the vault of night, The Lord shall come! but not the same The Lord will come! a dreadful form, Can this be He who wont to stray Go, tyrants! to the rocks complain! Leigh Hunt. Was born in Southgate, Middlesex, 19th October 1784. Born 1784. Died 1859. His father was a clergyman of the Church of England, who was enabled to give his son a good education. So early as his sixteenth year he wrote and published verses. In 1805 he connected himself with a newspaper, and was so unfortunate as to be prosecuted for a libel on the Prince Regent. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which was relieved somewhat by the kind attentions of his friends, among whom were Moore and Byron. He also adorned his room with busts and flowers, and in a small corner of the yard contrived to cultivate flowers and young fruit trees. On leaving prison he published the story of "Rimini" in verse, and also two volumes of miscellaneous poetry. In 1842 he published a drama, a "Legend of Florence." He was also a writer of biography and a novelist. Mr Hunt obtained in 1847 a pension of L.200 a-year from Government, which he enjoyed till his death in 1859. JAFFAR. JAFFAR, the Barmecide, the good Vizier, All but the brave Mondeer-he, proud to show "Bring me this man," the Caliph cried; the man From wants, from shames, from loveless household fears; Restored me-loved me-put me on a par, With his great self; how can I pay Jaffar?" Haroun, who felt that on a soul like this, The mightiest vengeance could but fall amiss, And hold the giver as thou deemest fit." "Gifts!" cried the friend. He took, and holding it Bernard Barton. Born 1784. Died 1849. THE QUAKER POET was born near London, in 1784. He was employed for most part of his life as clerk in a banking-house in Woodbridge. Barton's first poems were published in 1811, and various other volumes followed, they are characterised by much simplicity and purity of style, but have never been very popular. In his later days he obtained a pension of L.100 a-year from government. He died at Woodbridge, in February 1849. POWER AND GENTLENESS. NOBLE the mountain-stream, Bursting in grandeur from its vantage-ground; Of brightness-thunder in its deafening sound! Mark, how its foamy spray, Tinged by the sunbeams with reflected dyes, Arching in majesty the vaulted skies; Thence, in a summer-shower, Steeping the rocks around-O! tell me where Be clothed in forms more beautifully fair? Yet lovelier, in my view, The streamlet flowing silently serene; And livelier growth it gives-itself unseen! |