JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, OXFORD: PARKER AND CO.; A. R. MOWBRAY. CAMBRIDGE: HALL AND SON. DERBY: J. AND C. MOZLEY. MDCCCLXVI. Letters from a New Zealand Emigrant. 24, 99, 179, 276, 365, 435 S. Thomas the Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury Sisters of S. Margaret's, East Grinsted Suffering for CHRIST's sake What is Death to the Faithful? Return of the Army REVIEWS: Carus' Sermons before the University of Cambridge Catechism of Theology 471 188 232 208 318 146 364 Illuminated Texts 406 "But thou,' said I, 'hast missed thy mark.'"' The Two Voices. Ar the early part of the present century there lived, in the remote government of Tamboff, a certain land proprietor, who had a small estate and sixty slaves; and a large family, consisting of a meek wife and eleven children, besides two grandmammas, and several elderly distant relations, who had no home of their own, who all went by the name of Aunty, and who vied one with the other in petting and spoiling the children and in quarrelling entre elles. I know that I am not the first to discover that the elder and younger children of a large family have generally more notice bestowed on them than the middle ones, but in this case number six was decidedly the pet. He was a lovely boy, "ruddy and of a fair countenance," like King David of old; of the most amiable, obliging, and affectionate disposition. He was beloved more as a sweet gentle little girl is loved, than as boys generally are; his caressing manners, his readiness to do everything or anything to please those whom he loved, (and he loved everybody,) rendered him the idol of the household till he was about ten years old, when he was packed off to the military academy at Moscow, by his father, a stern old warrior, who had married late in life, and had begun his own military career in the time of Catharine II. |