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e of the heavenly city of which Christ, the 'living stone, elect and precious,' is the foundation. Cf. 1 Peter 2. 3-6. 29. Thou without shore (i.e. unbounded in extent), thou without time (i.e. never ceasing to flow), fountain that art soon a stream. 34. Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. --Neale. 49. Plaude...Deus: Exult, O dust and ashes! The Lord shall be thy part. --Neale. HILDEBERT. 1057-1184 A.D. THE HEAVENLY CITY. Hildebert, a contemporary and fellow-countryman of the Bernards, became Archbishop of Tours in 1125. His verses number more than ten thousand. The selection is taken from his _Address to the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity_. Cf. Revelation 21 and 22. 3. Auctor lucis: Genesis 1. 3. 5. lapis vivua: 1 Peter 2. 4, 6. 6. Rex festivus: Matthew 22. 2. 12-14. Revelation 21. 4; 1 John 3. 2. 15-18. Cf. O civitas sancta, civitas speciosa, de longinquo te saluto, ad te clamo, te require.--Augustine, _De Spiritu et Anima_. 26. Revelation 21. 24. The following is a portion of Neale's translation (_Mediaeval Hymns_, pp. 35-36): Mine be Sion's habitation, Sion, David's calm foundation: Built by him, light's source immortal,-- To whose streets the cross is portal: In this city, uninvaded Peace,--spring endless, light unfaded: Endless breath of flowerets vernal, Festal melody eternal. Home, no change nor loss that fearest, From afar my soul thou cheerest: Thee it seeketh, thee requireth, Thee affecteth, thee desireth. --- LATIN COLLEGE LATIN SERIES _Odes and Epodes of Horace_ Edited by Professor CHARLES E. BENNETT, of Cornell University 12mo, cloth, 464 pages. Price, $1.40. _Satires and Epistles of Horace_ Edited by Professor JOHN C. ROLFE, of the University of Pennsylvania, 12mo, cloth, 458 pages. Price, $1.40. _Complete Works of Horace_ Edited by Professors BENNETT and ROLFE. Printed on Bible paper and bound in flexible covers. 12mo, cloth, 922 pages. Price, $2.00. IN these volumes each poem is preceded by a careful analysis, giving in a line or two all necessary information regarding the subject, date, and metre. The comprehensive Introduction to the Odes and Epodes has sections devoted to Horace's Life and Works; Manuscripts, Scholia, and Editions; Classification of the Odes and Epodes; Language (treating the poet's most striking deviations from standard
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