would share the triumph and partake the gale of European civilisation, use your influence, not in cherishing and protecting the anti-social superstitions of your more ignorant countrymen, but in persevering attempts to explode them, and certainly lose no opportunity of showing that you are personally superior to all such ideas as are inherited from an effete barbarism. And to apply these remarks to the matter before us, rid yourselves of the silly prejudice that you will get any harm by reading the greatest of English classics and the most popular collection of literature in the world. Do not lower yourselves to the level of the Banian who is unwilling to look through a microscope for fear of seeing something unpleasant in his drinking water. Such reluctance in an ignorant man deserves commiseration, in the "educated" it calls for contempt. You will find in the English version of the Bible (we are not now speaking of the matter, but the style) just that pure, simple, straightforward languageadapted equally to humble domestic narrative and the most najestic flights of poetry-that your teachers of English composition, if they know their business, would select for your imitation. There you will find no otiose epithets, no vain repetitions, no triplication of synonyms, no unnecessary expansions of what is already clear, no unseasonable rhetoric, no rambling from the point, no vulgarity of taste, no slang. It is the best corrective we can suggest for the shambling, slip-shod manner which native writers are apt to acquire from reading tenth-rate European literature by predilection, as well as for the immethodical prolixity and the tone of exaggeration which are their own by birthright. We hope that this advice will be taken as quite distinct in aim from any that may be offered by theologians from their special point of view, and will be received as it is given, in candour and good faith. ART. VIII.—THE LATE REVEREND PHILIP ANDERSON. THE connexion of the Reverend Philip Anderson with this periodical was sufficiently well known to permit our disregard of the ordinary circumstances of a Review and the expression of our sense of the loss which the society of Bombay has sustained by his removal from amongst us. Mr. Anderson came to this country as a chaplain on the East India Company's Establishment in 1842, and was soon after appointed to Candeish, where he remained until 1847. At Malligaum in Candeish he applied himself successfully to the study. of Mahratti, in which language he preached, and he gathered into the church a small flock. In 1847 he was removed to Surat, and from thence after a short residence he returned to England for the benefit of his health. On his return to India in 1849 he was appointed to the chaplaincy of Colaba, which had become vacant by the lamented death of the Reverend George Pigott, and excepting one year's absence at Mahabuleshwur, he continued in that post until his death. It is only a few months since he returned after his year's sojourn at the Mahabuleshwur Hills, and he was looking forward with great pleasure to the consecration of the new Church at Colaba, which had been commenced during the incumbency, and principally in consequence of the active zeal of his predecessor, Mr. Pigott. Mr. Anderson took an equal interest in the good work, and largely aided in surmounting the financial and other difficulties which retarded its completion. His friends hoped that he had returned from the Hills with renewed health, but it seems probable that he brought back the seed of his fatal illness within him. In the midst of his preparation for the consecration of the Church he was taken ill, and gradually grew weaker, until, in about three weeks after the first symptoms of serious illness, so many of us saw him laid to rest at sunset on the shore of Colaba. The death of the righteous is no mean event in the circle in which he lived and acted. It lifts the witnesses for a time at least above their ordinary selves in many respects; but the human judgment is still weak; and freed from the weight of ordinary VOL. VI.-NO. II. 50 differences, prejudices, and envies, and perhaps influenced by strong personal affection, errs in the affluence of its charity to the memory of those who, removed by death, least need it. We desire to avoid this error, and not to impair our testimony by speaking of Mr. Anderson or his labours in exaggerated terms. Thus seeking to speak the words of truth and soberness, we nevertheless say that Philip Anderson was no common man. He had gifts of intellectual powers and acquirements, dignity of countenance, natural cheerfulness and courtesy, above the average of educated English gentlemen; and these and all other talents were devoted by him in a most catholic spirit to the good of his fellow-men and the glory of God. He was not merely a zealous clergyman; still less was he the mere accomplished member of society and professional Minister. He gave himself to the special duties of his calling with uncompromising preference and untiring zeal, but nevertheless took an active interest and part in other means of usefulness. We need but allude to his carefully accurate and entertaining account of the English in Western India during the earlier periods of their settlement, derived from the original records of the Surat and Bombay Governments, to his share in the transactions of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and to his principal part in the establishment and conduct of this Review, which he edited until within a few weeks of his death, and to which he constantly and largely contributed, in order to remind our readers of the varied modes in which his earnest desire found opportunity to be useful in his generation. Mr. Anderson was a man of keen and quick feelings and temper, and when these were stirred by witnessing dishonor to his Master, he would rebuke sharply, not, it may be supposed, without sometimes incurring odium thereby. We were told the other day how, on Mr. Anderson's officiating for the first time at an outstation, where the congregation behaved only as an audience, neither by voice nor gesture offering any outward worship, he, on entering the pulpit, and before he gave his text, addressed them in these words:" I protest I never saw such an ungodly congregation as this. You neither kneel in prayer nor respond in praise." The congregation was so offended at the moment that they would not attend the evening service at all. Such rebukes, however, were given in very faithfulness. He was remarkably free from personal or professional arrogance. He had a fine and powerful voice, and in the pulpit an earnest and even fervid delivery, which was appropriate to the style The late Reverend Philip Anderson. 393 of his sermons. The conviction that his principal business in the pulpit was to deliver his Master's message, superseded all scholarly tendencies to theological essaying. He preached, not discoursed. His training and sympathies, and especially a certain catholicity which practically realises that every gift of God is good, and that of all which He has given for man's bodily, intellectual, and spiritual sustenance and delight, offering is to be made back to Him for His glory, and that the delights, of Sound, of Color, and of Form, are not turned to their full purposes, nor fully enjoyed, if they be not made to take their share in glorifying the public worship of God and elevating the minds of His worshippers, caused Mr. Anderson to attribute great value to the ritual and ceremony of Prayer and Praise, and so led many who, from the accidents of association, connect such sympathies with narrow views and sacerdotal assumption, to regard him and his labors with suspicion. It will suffice to say here that it was a most undeserved suspicion. In private society he was a very delightful companion. To the characteristic qualities of a Scholar and a Gentleman was added just that amount of humour which seems to be so often allied to the catholicity of which we spoke; which lends such important aid in giving any man with an earnest purpose due influence in general society, and which is so essential to the full enjoyment of the hours of relaxation in private intercourse. Our own special loss in connection with this Review we may reasonably dwell upon, for it is not less a loss to the community of Bombay. So large a portion of it hitherto was his work that we might speak of the Review when in his hands without identifying ourselves with its claims. Although he had lately resigned the Editorship, under the conviction that it demanded more of his time than could be spared from his paramount duties, we confidently relied on his advice, on his character, and his pen, to maintain the influence and the usefulness of this Review. It is one of the best signs of moral health in any society that it can recognise a man without the aid of distinguished services or high position. Mr. Anderson had neither claim in the ordinary sense of the terms. Considerable as were his attainments, these were not the cause of the unusually large attendance of all classes at his funeral, or of the public meeting to pay tribute to his memory. We believe that it was the largeness of his sym |