us forming, no preparatory molding.

When I mentioned this to Mr. Stanley, "the education," replied he,
"which now prevails, is a Mohammedan education. It consists entirely in
making woman an object of attraction. There are, however, a few
reasonable people left, who, while they retain the object, improve upon
the plan. They too would make woman attractive; but it is by sedulously
laboring to make the understanding, the temper, the mind, and the
manners of their daughters, as engaging as these Circassian parents
endeavor to make the person."

CHAPTER XV.

The friendly rector frequently visited at Stanley Grove, and, for my
father's sake, honored me with his particular kindness. Dr. Barlow
filled up all my ideas of a country clergyman of the higher class. There
is a uniform consistency runs through his whole life and character,
which often brings to my mind, allowing for the revolution in habits
that almost two hundred years have necessarily produced, the
incomparable _country parson_ of the ingenious Mr. George Herbert.[1]

[Footnote 1: See Herbert's Country Parson, under the heads of the parson
in his house, the parson praying, the parson preaching, the parson
comforting, the parson's church, the parson catechizing, the parson in
mirth, &c., &c. The term parson has now indeed a vulgar and
disrespectful sound, but in Herbert's time it was used in its true sense
_persona ecclesiae_. I would recommend to those who have not seen it,
this sketch of the ancient clerical life. As Mr. Herbert was a man of
quality, he knew what became the more opulent of his function; as he was
eminently pious, he practiced all that he recommended. "This appellation
of parson," says Judge Blackstone, "however depreciated by clownish and
familiar use, is the most legal, most beneficial, and most honorable
title, which a parish priest can enjoy." _Vide Blackstone's
Commentaries._]

"I never saw _Zeal without Innovation_," said Mr. Stanley, "more
exemplified than in Dr. Barlow. His piety is as enlightened as it is
sincere. No errors in religion escape him, through ignorance of their
existence, or through carelessness in their detection, or through
inactivity in opposing them. He is too honest not to attack the
prevailing evil, whatever shape it may assume; too correct to excite in
the wise any fears that his zeal may mislead his judgment, and too
upright to be afraid of the censures which active piety must ever have
to encounter from