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• � 0 ;: ...:: � � � :It � =- a 0- , CO' �... 110 R:J !'l' u:t 5' � r;; Q' tp�- lA ...S- � �s:: � � o 't:s m � a< 't:s a 'Hl "'" �- ...0 d" s:: 10< lA � ... C" Cl lA... - tQ.. ... 00 �er< co -.0 =I'::S � .... 0 ... ... � lA � 'i... c a � ::I er< la ... lA -0 � � " � I I The Subscliption for the current year is fixed at 4/6; it includes CONTENTS Nos 90, 91 and 92. Subscribers who pay One Guinea in advance will be supplied with the Magazine for five years, dating from the Term in which the payment is made. PAGE Resident subscribers are requested to pay their Subscriptions to Thomas Ashe (with portrait) 109 Mr E. Johnson, Bookseller, Trinity Street: cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Treasurer of the Eagle jlfagazine. Notes from the College Records 135 The Editors would be glad if Subscribers would inform them of any of . The College Pictures at thc Tudor Exhibition 152 their friends who are anxious to ta:ke in the Magazine. 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Book of Private Prayer [as presented to Convo cation]. 4to. Oxford, n. d. A. 6 ..••...• Siegel (C. C. F.). Handbuch der christlich kirchlichen Alterthiimer in alphabetischer Ordnung. 4 Bde. 8vo. Leipzig, 1836-38. 9.19 .............. ...... ........ .... .. Horatius. Q. Horatius Flaccus ad nuperam R. Bentleii Editionem accurate express us. Bequeathed by the late Notas addidit T. Bentleius. 8vo. Canta- Professor Kennedy, D.D. THOMAS AS HE. brigiae, 17'3. Ii. II .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. " Wilberforce (R. I. and Samuel). The Life of William Wilberforce. 5 Vols. 8vo. Lond. 1838. II.26 " .. ......... .... ........ ---- The Correspondence of William Wil berforce. 2 Vols. 8vo.Lond. 1840. 11.26. With 124 other volumes. Addzlions. Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and West Indies, 1669-74. Edited by W. N. Sainsbury. Rolls Series. 8vo. Lond. 1889. 5·4· Cambridge University Calendar for the year 1889. Library Table. Cambridge University Examination Papers. Michaelmas Term, 1888 to Easter Term, 1889. Vol. XVIII. 4to. Camb. 1889. °-4-18. Camclen Society: Laughton (J. K.). Memoirs relating to the Lord Torring. ton. 4to. Lond. 1889. 5.17.151. Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen. Vol. XIX. 8vo. Lond. ,889. 7.4.19. Exchequer Rolls of Scotland: Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum. Edited by G. Burnett. Vol. XII. (1502-1507). 8vo. Edin. 1889. 5.32.23. Fulke (William). A Sermon preacbed at Hampton Court, Nov. 12, 1570• . black letter, 4to. Lond. 1574. A. 3.65. -- A Comfortable Sermon of Faith. Preached at S. Botulphes wythout Aldersgate, Feb. xv, 1573· black letter, 4to. Lond.1574. A.3.64. -- A Sermon preached on March 17, 1577, at S. Alpheges, Creplegate. black letter, 8vo. Lond. 1577. A. 3.66. Grey (Zach.). Manuscript Note Book of. (While a Student at Trinity Hall). Aa. 2. Hazlitt (W. C.). Supplements to the third and fmal Series of Bihliographical Collections and Notes. 1474-1700. 8vo. Lond. 1889. Gg. 15.52• Lightfoot (J. B.). Essays on the Work entitled Supernatural Religion. Reprinted from tlle Contemporary Review. 8vo. Lond. 1889. 9.36.36. Onomasticon to Forcellini's Lexicon. Tom. IV. Distributio XXXV. Wyclif Society: Wyclif (Joh.). Tractatus de Officio Regis. Edited by A. W. Pollard and Charles Sayle. 8vo. Lond. 1887. 11.16.11. �NYONE who is curious enough to take down m from the College Library, or from the book- - � shelves of some antiquated J ohnian, the first volume of the Eagle, will find on page 3 I some simple, rough, very rough, translations of Death-Songs by Vlzland;. the first of which tells how a little dying see- child sees the angels-·-which the mother c"annot VOL. XVI. Q omas Ashe. I II IIO Th omas Ashe. Th our bookshelves beside th ose of th e creeping under the win dow with pleasan t songs to and pu t th em on d th e Johnian Wordsworth."· carry its soul away with th em to heaven. Thomas Johnia,n Herrick an summer of 1836 at Stockport, Ashe,'" th e singer of th is rough melody, was destined Ashe was born in th e hills which are th e scene of his to sing many a smoother song hereafter about little near th ose Cheshire fa th er, a Manchester manu children, many a song abou t drea ms and visions, longes t poem, Bdt'th. His ar tist of considerable merit, mostly sad ; destined to be read indee d an d love d by facturer an d an amateur clergyman (p repare d for a few, but to be neglected by th e wide hurrying worl d, became, in later days, a and vicar of St Paul's an d to be brough t to a prematqre grave, in part at ordination by his own son) ther he tells us in one le as t, by the sense of failure ; but de stined also, in Ch urch in Crewe. Of his mo -in language th at the opinion of th e ,wri te r-:-who di d not know him so of his earlies t poems (Memory) tive and suscep tible well as to fe el barre d from ju dgmen t by fr iendship th rows ligh t on his own sensi influence of her to fin d a place in any competen t Select10'J1.S fro m Lyrzcal ure, as well as on th e soothing ' nat Poetry of the /Vtneteenth Cel�tu?'y th at may be ma de "h ealing eyes "-how she in th e first half of th e Twen t ieth; in any case led the heart in early days and truth; deserving of more th an a passing notice from his To gentle thoughts and good doubtful April youth fe Ho w-:-collegians, an d especiC!-lly in, th is magazine o f And sow'd the the winding ways. wh ich he was one of th e fO llnders , With lilies, up held the cloudy trouble off An autobiographical interes t attaches to mos t of And That gather'd with the gaining years: his best poetry. Not indeed th a t all his loves an d And knew to check the oozing tears, l>Qrrows an d farewells and dreams are to be accepted And heal the wound of worldly scoff. in every de tail as literal fa ct; but so vivid are many of "April" From th e cradle to th e grave it was always the pictures th at th e reader must sometimes fe el th at th e brightes t wi th th is poet; an d in th e midst of th is or th at scene is not wholly imaginary, an d th at he des t voices of spring th ere was m sunshine and glad may gain insigh t into th e poe s by kn,owing somethin g off. In a la te r always th e "cloudy tr ouble" not far of th e poet. To supply th is knowledge is th e object (Bettws-y-coed, poem he th us de scribes his childhood o f th is notice; not to cri ticise nor analyse, apd still le ss to assign th e poe t his exac t place in th e degree s . P·27S): As once I in my cradle slept, of Parnassus, but simply to connect a few of his best A spirit lean'd o'er me: poems by such � th read of biographical record as may , She was so beautiful, I wept: th row ligh t upon th em-wi th th is fu rther possible Her name was Poesy. :re sul t th at �om e J ohnians who, besides loving th ei r volume, was published .