As a proof that the days of the county recluse
and scholar are yet not vanished, here is a volume, Verses and Versions, published from Salisbury (H. Simmonds, Salisbury, 7i. 6d.) by Mr. George Engleheart. It consists of original verses in English, and translations from the French, and to and from Greek and Latin. Naturally, in a figure so redolent 01 a vanishing civilization, one would not expect to find ideas typical of our modern emotional, moral, and social chaos: r The following poem on a subject of undying interest may therefore be quoted as representative of Mr. Engleheart's verse " God made the woman, men's meet help to be,
When days in Eden yet serenely ran. In these sad days of man's perplexity
God help him if she make herself a man; Woman, from part, not all of man created, And thus with man so meetly, sweetly mated, Fear lest, if you re-make yourself all mannish, Your meetness all and sweetness all shall vanish.'
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