to an ideal Church; and what he has done will have to be estimated by wise men hereafter, when (as in the case of most great geniuses) a hundred indirect influences, subtle, various, often seemingly contradictory, will be found to have had their origin in Frederick Maurice. And thus I end what little I have dared to say. There is much behind, even more worth saying, which must not be said. Perhaps some far wiser men than I will think that I have said too much already, and be inclined to answer me as Elisha of old answered the over- meddling sons of the prophets: "Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to-day?" "Yea, I know it: hold ye your peace." Footnotes: {0} The edition of "Literary and General Essays" that this transcription was taken from also contained "Phaethon; or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers" as the final part. This has been released separately by Project Gutenberg and is not, therefore, duplicated here.--DP. {1} This Lecture was given at Harrow in 1873, and in America in 1874. {35} Fraser's Magazine, November, 1853. {61} "Poems," by Alexander Smith. London: Bogue. 1853. Fraser's Magazine, October, 1853. {103} Fraser's Magazine, September, 1850.--"In Memoriam." Moxon, Dover Street. 1850.--"The Princess, a Medley:" by Alfred Tennyson. Third Edition. 1850.--"Poems:" by Alfred Tennyson. 1852. {127} North British Review, No. XXXI.--1.--"Elliott's Poems." London, 1833.--2. "Poems of Robert Nicoll." Third Edition. Edinburgh, 1843.--3. "Life and Poems of John Bethune." London, 1841.--4. "Memoirs of Alexander Bethune." By W. M'Combie. Aberdeen, 1845.--5. "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver." By William Thorn, of Inverury. Second Edition, London, 1845.--6. "The Purgatory of Suicides." By Thomas Cooper. London, 1845.--7. "The Book of Scottish Song." By Alexander Whitelaw. Edinburgh, 1848. {187} Fraser's Magazine, March, 1849.--"Sacred and Legendary Art." By Mrs. Jameson. 2 vols. London. 1848, Longman and Co. {199} Since this was written, Mrs. Jameson's volume on the Legends of the Madonna has succeeded excellently in giving us, if not a complete, yet still a readable and modest picture of medieval Mariolatry.