other illustrations by FRANCIS' photo-chromolithograph process, from photographs taken chiefly by GRIFFITHS of BRECON expressly for us: negatives and stones alike being erased on completing our limited number of impressions. These are strictly limited to 50, and like our CRASHAW being prepared, were all taken up within a few weeks of the issue of our Proposals. At the close of the present Volume I give the names of those who have thus responded to our wish to do special honour to the memory of the Silurist: (b) Our usual large paper (8vo) in 106 copies and (c) Our small paper (12mo.) 156 copies.

It is my pleasant duty to acknowledge with all thankfulness the lavish co-operation of many friends towards rendering our VAUGHAN more worthy of welcome. In our Memorial-Introductions and in our Essay, the names of such appear in the places: but I must specify five particularly, viz. Dr. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, Rev. J. H. CLARK, M.A., West Dereham, Norfolk, W ALDIS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, his Honour THOMAS FALCONER, Esq., Judge of the County Court, Monmouthshire, and JOSEPH JOSEPH, Esq., F.S.A., Brecon.

And now as humbly yet gratefully conscious of herein supplying a real desideratum, I leave the

Works of HENRY VAUGHAN to make their own assured way to many heads and hearts of the best among us. If I were a saint-worshipper I should pray to our Worthy as the Catholic to Bendedict in Paradisus Anime:

"Oh make our life and death like thine

In rule of holy discipline,

That like to thine our crown may be."

Memorial-Entroduction.

IKE the most potent force of Nature, the

life of

Henry Daughan

was, in Bible phrase, 'hidden'. There was the true fire of genius within him, but abiding rather as the silent electricity than as the out-flashing lightning, with its clamour of thunder. So that

the outward facts of his Life are few and simple, and do not need long to tell. The inner facts on the other hand, are of deep and wide reach, and in a special Study of both the man and his Writings, I have sought to bring these out, so as to lead to a very much higher recognition of the Silurist than hitherto. To our Essay therefore we invite the Reader to turn for the significances of a lowly and beautiful Life and

1 Essay on the Life and Writings of Henry Vaughan : prefixed to Vol. IId.

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an unique and remarkable Poetry-a LIFE a-thrill in the outset with a rapture of passion for some 'fair one', comparable with what we have found in the love-verse of LORD BROOKE and PHINEAS FLETCHER and later, mellowed into a pathetically humble and intense Christian-hood, and a POETRY transfigured with the white light of personal experience, and autobiography, and personal interrogations and answerings on Nature and the God of Nature, anticipative of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH and SHELLEY. HERE I wish only briefly to record such slight and inadequate memorials as remain at this late day-following in the footsteps and now confirming and now correcting and enlarging the fine Memoir by the REV. H. F. LYTE, a Singer who in some of his Hymns has proved himself not unworthy of his master.

It were very easy to shew from manifold authorities, that the descent of our Worthy was through bluest of blue blood. But albeit, he was nicely careful to mark his line among the many lines of the VAUGHANS, by placing 'Silurist' after his name, of which more anon-he has pro

1 Mr. Lyte says Vaughan was so designated by his contemporaries: but it was his own elected title, as is evidenced by its appearance so early as in his Latin Verses to Dr. Powell and in his own title-pages.