with others became gentle and holy, and he
rose up once more, and walked up the steps to the altar, and, while
the tears flowed freely down his cheeks, knelt down humbly and
hopefully, to lay down there his share of a burden which had proved
itself too heavy for him to bear in his own strength.

Here let us leave him--where better could we leave him than at the
altar, before which he had first caught a glimpse of the glory of his
birth-right,[20] and felt the dawning of the bond which links all
living souls together in one brotherhood--at the grave, beneath the
altar, of him who had opened his eyes to see that glory, and softened
his heart till it could feel that bond?

[20] #Birth-right#: here, the highest manhood. (See Ephesians
iv. 13.)

And let us not be hard on him, if at that moment his soul is fuller of
the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it
speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young
and brave souls who must win their way, through hero worship, to the
worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes. For it is only
through our mysterious human relationships, through the love, and
tenderness, and purity of mothers, and sisters, and wives, through the
strength, and courage, and wisdom of fathers, and brothers, and
teachers, that we can come to the knowledge of Him, in whom alone the
love, and the tenderness, and the purity, and the strength, and the
courage, and the wisdom of all these dwell for ever and ever in
perfect fulness.

INDEX TO NOTES.

[D.H.M.]

A, 44
Accidence, 163
Achates, 257
Act'ly, 87
Addled, 271
Adscriptus glebae, 18
Affected, 202
A fortiori, 24
Agamemnon, 314
Aganippe, 258
Agincourt, 2
Aim, 35
Alfred, 11
Allowance, 322
Alma, 12
Amateur nest, 250
Amateurs, 290
Ambrosial, 251
Amy Robsart, 97
Angular Saxon, 18
A'nigst, 41
Antediluvian, 15
Argus, 164
Arnold, Dr., 372
Arra, 37
Arter, 85
Arthur, 239
Asser, 12
Assizes, 21
At large, 160

Baal, 228
Babel, 165
Backsword, 8
Bagmen, 82
Bails, 349
Balak, 11
Balances, 197
Balliol, 127
Barrows, 14
Basket handle, 38
Bath, 296
Bating, 133
Beagles, 128
Beating, 271
Bee-orchis, 7
Beggars, 182, 205
Belauded, 66
Belle Sauvage, 74
Bell's Life, 281
Bequest, 303
Berks, 5
Berkshire, 8
Bewick, 252
Big School, 147
Bile, 266
Bill, 2
Bird-f