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4 So also with ”A Creed, &c,” which bears the imprint of Simpkin & Marshall, and the date 1870 Its chief peculiarities are su lines:--
”So then, in brief, my creed is truly this; Conscience is our chief seed of woe or bliss; God who s below by rights above; Evil seeood be shown, And Good ift that Evil to atone; While creatures, link'd together, each with each, Of one great Whole in changeful sequence teach, Life-presence everywhere sublimely vast And endless for the future as the past”
For I believe in some future life for the lower animals as well as for their unworthier lord; and in the immortality of all creation Some other poems and hymns also are in this pamphlet
5 My ”Fifty Protestant Ballads,” published, by Ridgeill be mentioned hereafter
6 ”Ten Letters on the Female Martyrs of the Reformation,” published by the Protestant Mission
7 and 8 ”Hactenus” and ”A Thousand Lines,” most whereof are in my ”Cithara” and Miscellaneous Poems
9 A pamphlet about Canada, and its closer union to us by dint of imperialism and honours, dated several years before these have come to pass
10 Sundry shorter pamphlets on Rhyme, Model Colonisation, Druidism, Household Servants, My Newspaper, Easter Island, False Schooling, &c
&c Not to o in the _Times_ about the Coronation, Ireland, and divers other topics Every author writes to the _Times_
11 As a matter of course I have written both withto editorial rule) in azines and reviews, from the _Quarterly_ of Lockhart's time to the _Rock_ of this, not to count numerous reviews of books _passim_, besides innumerable fly-leaves, essayettes, sermonettes, &c &c, in the _Rock_ and elsewhere
12 I was editor for about two years of an extinct three-lo-Saxon_: in one of which I wrote nine articles, as the contributions received were inappropriate I never worked harder inthat the monied man who kept it alive insisted upon acceptance when rejection was inevitable
13 Some printed letters of mine on Grammar, issued in small pamphlet form at the _Practical Teacher_ office; and sundry others unpublished, called ”Talks about Science,” still in MS
14 ”America Revisited,” a lecture, in three numbers, of _Golden Hours_
15 Separate bundles of ballads in pamphlet form about Australia, New Zealand, Church Abuses, The War, &c &c
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CHAPTER XX
PATERFAMILIAS, GUERNSEY, MONA
When I returned in the autumn of 1855 from my principal continental tour, wherein for three months I had conducted h the usual route of French and Swiss travel,--I committed my journal to Hatchard, who forthwith published it; but not to any signal success,--for it was anonymous, which was a mistake: however, I did not care to rie The pretty little book with its fine print of the Pass of Gondo as a frontispiece, nevertheless uide-books as a convenience if not a necessity to travellers on the sah in these days of little practical use: indeed, wherever we stopped, I contrived to exhaust, on the spot all that was to be seen or done, with the advantages of personal inspection, and therefore of graphic and true description The book has been praised for its interest and includes divers accidents, happily sur (as the Mauvais Pas, which I touch experimentally at the end of Life's Lessons, in ”Proverbial Philosophy,” Series IV), divers grand sights, as the Great Exhibition, close to which we lived for some weeks in the Chas with friends, old and new, and other usual _ these let me mention the honest kindliness of Courier Pierre,--always called Pere by reat favourite--the one to ”the bourne whence no traveller returns,” so he needs no recommendation from his late employer This, then, I say is memorable At Lucerne, as ed toit was ”great pity not to pass the Simplon and see Milan,--and, if Monsieur would permit hiain” Certainly I said this was very kind, and so I borrowed at his solicitation:--it was 100, as I find by the journal; our travel was costing us 40 a week Well, to recount briefly, when, after having placed in our _repertoire_ Bellinzona, Como, Milan, &c &c, I foundme, my first act was to place in Pierre's hands 105,--and when he counted the notes, he said, ”Sare, there is one five-pound too many”--”Of course, my worthy Pierre, I hope you will accept that as interest”--”Non, Monsieur, pardon; I could not, I always bring money to help my families:”--and he would not Now, if that was not a model courier, worthy to be commemorated thus,--well, I hope there are some others of his brethren on the office-books of Bury Street, St
James's, who are equally duteous and disinterested ”Some people are heroes to their valets; my worthy help is a hero to me:” so saith ht earthquakes at Brieg, and Turtain a bad accident One of our spirited wheelers got his hind leg over the pole in going down a hill: at once there was a chaos of fallen horses and entangled harness, and but for the screwboth hind-wheels weand kicking at first was frightful; but Paterfaer children out into the road, and other help was nigh at hand, and the providential calle was at hand too, and in due tihted: that those two fiery stallions did not kick everything to pieces, and that all four steeds did not gallop us to destruction, was due, under Providence, to the skill and courage of our good Pierre and the patient Muscatelli”--Railways have since superseded all this peril, and cost, and care: and trains now go _through_ the Sie, four to the light one,” pulling us steadily and slowly _over_ it: thus losing the splendid scenery clie: but letbeen out of print, and its author is glad that he made at the time a full record of the happy past, and recommends its perusal to any one who can find a copy anywhere My friend, the late Major Hely, who claiht it ”the best book of travels he had ever read”
Guernsey
Guernsey is another of the spots where your author has lived and written, though neither long nor much He comes, as is well known, of an ancient Sarnian fas ofthere occasionally, they are confined to some druidical verses about certain croht-Sail in the Race of Alderney,”--and in chief that in which I ”Raised the Haro,” which saved the most picturesque part of Castle Cornet froineer Here is the poe some may wish to see it: especially as it does not appear in lis It occurs (I think solely) in Hall & Virtue's extinct edition of my Ballads and Poems, 1853, and is there headed ”'The Clan, 1850”:--
”Haro, Haro! a l'aide,out Duke Rollo's Norainst the Castle walls: Haro, Haro! a l'aide, ma Reine!
Thy duteous children not in vain Plead for old Cornet yet again, To spare it, ere it falls!