page was yet unstained, the petal full of fragrance and colour, the hand that placed it there still throbbing with life? Something similar is the effect of studying the Psalms through human history. There is scarcely a leaf in the Psalter which is not stained by some withered flower of the past. To gather some of these petals and read their meaning, as they fall thick from the pages, has been the purpose of this book. Vain must be the effort to recall to life persons or events divided from us by centuries of change. But as we read the familiar verses, the words bring before us, one by one, the hundreds of men and women, who, passing from tribulation into joy, have, in the language of the Psalms, conquered the terrors of death, proclaimed their faith, or risen to new effort and final victory. APPENDIX A PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES CHAPTER I (pages 1-8). ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER-The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity. 1877. (Bampton Lectures for 1876.) C. L. MARSON-The Psalms at Work. 2nd ed. 1895. JOHN KER-The Psalms in History and Biography. 1886. [See also my Article on The Psalms in History " in the "" Quarterly Review for April 1897, vol. clxxxv., p. 305.] JOHN SMEATON-A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with stone, etc. 1791. Official Description and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of 1851. MRS. ALFRED GATTY-The Book of Sundials. Enlarged and reedited by Horatia K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd. 4th ed. 1900. Charles Leadbetter—Mechanick Dialling; or, The New Art of Shadows, etc. 1737. 1899. HERBERT A. GRUEBER-Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain Begun by the noble and learned gent. Sir Philip Sidney, Kt., and finished by the Right Honourable the Countess of Pembroke, his sister. Now first printed from a copy of the original manuscript transcribed by John Davies, of Hereford, in the reign of James the First. 1823. FRANCIS BACON-Certaine Psalmes in Verse. 1625. GEORGE SANDYS-A Paraphrase upon the First Booke of the Psalmes of David. 1636. HENRY HOWARD, Earl of SURREY-Poems. I 547. |