gedy of Darius,' and other productions forgotten of all but book collectors. Shairp's poetry is of a gentle and loving sort. The cadences are at times exquisite; but the reader feels that the spirit of Wordsworth has moulded the manner of the writer. Though a true poet, he never gets quite out of sight of his master. It is, we believe, as a critic, not as a poet, that Shairp will be remembered by those who had not the advantage of knowing him personally. His 'Poetic Interpretation of Nature' and Culture and Religion' are works which stand far apart from the ordinary books of essays with which the bookshelves of libraries are loaded. It must be very long before they cease to be a delight and a solace to mind-weary souls troubled with the endless controversies which go on around them. It may, however, most truthfully be said of Shairp that he was greater than his books. He had the faculty of attracting men of the most widely diverse natures. 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