“_Polished, classical, and winning, these sermons bear the marks
of literary labour. A study of them will aid the modern preacher
to refine and polish his discourses, and to add to the vigour which
is now the fashion the graces of chastened eloquence and winning
rhetoric._”――ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.
=SELECTION FROM THE SERMONS PREACHED DURING THE LATTER YEARS OF
HIS LIFE, IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF BARNES, AND IN THE CATHEDRAL
OF ST. PAUL’S.= By HENRY MELVILL, B.D., late Canon of St.
Paul’s, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. Two vols. Crown
8vo. 5s. each.
“_Melvill’s chief characteristic was humility, that truest mark of
real nobility of soul and of genuine genius; and his sole actuating
principle in life was devotion to duty――duty to God and duty to man,
and never were the two more beautifully blended together than in him.
‘While the pure truths of the Gospel,’ observes his biographer in the
memoir prefixed to these sermons, ‘flowed so persuasively from his lips,
the pure spirit of Christianity ever reigned in his heart, and the
purest charity influenced his every thought and every action.’... The
style of Canon Melvill’s sermons is rather Ciceronian than Demosthenic,
rather splendid and measured than impetuous and fervid._”――STANDARD.
“_Two other volumes of the late Canon Melvill’s sermons contain forty
discourses preached by him in his later years, and they are prefaced by
a short memoir of one of the worthiest and most impressive preachers of
recent times._”――EXAMINER.
“_These outlines contain probably the last specimens of the work of
a great master in the art of preaching the Gospel. In the sermons of
Henry Melvill there are a certain dignity and elevation of style and
handling which belong rather to the past than to the present.... There
are in the sermons before us all Melvill’s wonted grace of diction,
strength of reasoning, and aptness of illustration._”――WEEKLY REVIEW.
=SERMONS.= By HENRY MELVILL, B.D., late Canon of St. Paul’s,
and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. New Edition. Two vols.
Crown 8vo. 5s. each. Sold separately.
“_Messrs. Rivington have published very opportunely, at a time when
Churchmen are thinking with satisfaction of the new blood infused into
the Chapter of St. Paul’s, sermons by Henry Melvill, who in his day was
as celebrated as a preacher as is Canon Liddon now. The sermons are not
only couched in elegant language, but are replete with matter which the
younger clergy would do well to study._”――JOHN BULL.
“_Henry Melvill’s intellect was large, his imagination brilliant, his
ardour intense, and his style strong, fervid, and picturesque. Often he
seemed to glow with the inspiration of a prophet._”――AMERICAN QUARTERLY
CHURCH REVIEW.
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