THE NEW-CHURCH LIFE for April, 1900, contains several remarkable articles on philosophical subjects: The Sun and its Power, by H. Clinton Hay; The writer gives the definitions of "matter as proposed by Huxley, Lewes, and Swedenborg: Huxley says: "All that we know about matter is that it is the hypothetical substance of physical phenomena."

G. H. Lewes says: "According to the definitions I have proposed, matter and the changes of matter mean the felt and the changes of the felt, and all our knowledge of matter is in feeling and the changes of feeling."

"Swedenborg says: "All things which exist in the natural world are effects, and all things which exist in the spiritual world are causes of those effects; there does not exist a natural thing which does not derive its cause from a spiritual one." (Divine Love and Wisdom, p. 134.)

"Effects may indeed be seen, but unless the causes of the effects are seen st the same time, the effect can only appear as it were in night." (Divine Love and Wisdom, 107.)

"The Sun is the grand phenomenon of the material universe. Upon its power all other phenomena depend. What lies within it, or above it, as its cause; what mighty spiritual powers make their appearance by means of it to the earthly senses of men, natural science, unaided by divine revelation, cannot possibly discover and unfold. What is the sun? What is fire, energy, or force? What are the atmospheres? What are heat, light, and electricity? What is matter? These questions can only be answered by a knowledge of the causes which exist in the spiritual world." (H. Clinton Hay.)

The above article alone, from which the extracts are taken, is worth the price of the quarterly. Also, a book reviewed we will call the attention of our readers to: "Suns and worlds of the Universe." Outlines of Astronomy according to the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg. By Rev. J. E. Bowers. London, $1.75. Published by James Spiers.

With what delight did we in our younger days read Sweden. borg's work, "Earths in the Universe." The author of "Suns and Worlds" has freely drawn from this work as well as "The Principia." The latter is a fountain of philosophy. Another article of much interest to us and should be to all students of the Swedish Seer, is "How shall' temperatura' be translated?" $2.00 a year. 16 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass.

EARTHS IN THE UNIVERSE. Swedenborg's work referred to on page 204 of this magazine is entitled as follows:

Concerning the Earths in Our Solar System, which are called Planets, and concerning the Starry Heaven; together with an Account of Their Inhabitants, and also of the Spirits and Angels there, from what has been seen and heard. Translated from the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg, published at London by the author, in 1758. Boston, 1828. Adonis Howard. Pp. 198.

MESMER AND SWEDNBORG. The Relation of the Developments of Mesmerism to the Doctrines of and Disclosures of Swedenborg. "It certainly is agreeable to reason, that there are some light effluxions from spirit to spirit, when men are in presence one with another, as well as from body to body." -Bacon. By George Bush. Second edition. New York, 1847.

Wesley and Swedenborg. A Fraternal Appeal to Metho dist Ministers, inviting the to consider them Relations of Metho dism to the New Church. By E. R. Keys. Philadelphia, 1872.

WESLEY AND SWEDENBORG. A Review of Rev. John Wesley's "Thoughts on the writings of Baron Swedenborg." By Rev. John Bruce. London, 1877.

SWEDENBORG AND CHANNING. Showing the Many and Remarkable Agreements in the Beliefs and Teachings of these Writers. By B. F. Barrett. Philadelphia, 1899.

THE SECRET OF Jesus; or The Open Door. Being a Key to Spiritual Emancipation, Illumination, and Mastery. By John Hamilton Dewey, author of the "The Christian Theosophy Series." "I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pleasure." New York, 1892. (See Secret of Hegel, Swedenborg, and Jesus, in this volume, pp. 75, 165.)

"Paul was probably the greatest man in the history of the world since Jesus Christ."-Rev. Thos. Chalmers, Pastor of the Hanover-Street Congregational Church, as quoted in the Manchester daily press, in a sermon before 700 Odd-Fellows, Sunday evening, May 12, 1900.

Where do Swedenborg, Hegel, Spinoza, Darwin, Spencer, and a host of others come in?

Two Sonnets.

SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTHDAY, APRIL 23.

(A sonnet contrived line by line from his sonnets.)

We will award Vols. XVI and XVII, for 1898 and 1899, of NOTES AND QUERIES, to the first two persons from whom we receive a reference statement to Shakespeare's sonnets from which the lines composing this sonnet are taken. Should more than two be received in the same mail, then the same award to each one.

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Oh, how I faint when I of you do write!
So, all my best is dressing old words new;
The perfect ceremony of love's rite

Is poorly imitated after you.

And my sick muse doth give another place
For Beauty's pattern to succeeeding men;
My verse alone hath all thy gentle grace
It robs thee of and pays thee back again.
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence-
For what is best is take the worst to be-
And you shall shine more bright in these contents,
Whose influence is thine and born of thee.

Let me but copy what in thee is writ,
To witness duty, not to show my wit.

ABBIE FARwell Brown.

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This sonnet is so beautiful and in sentiment and diction that we republish it with the above, both of which are from the Bos. ton Transcript.

ALICE CARY.

Poet of the people, of the home, the heart,
Who that has ever read thy verse can see

The April grass without sweet thoughts of thee
Who loved the springtime so? This was thine art
To lend each flower fresh beauty and to give

A new song to the bird, to make us share

The love thou hadst for all things bright and fair,

The poor enjoyment that it was to live.

This was not most, not even to paint the morn
In hues devoid of triteness, nor the wood;
But all men listened till they understood,
Each in the language wherein he was born,
As the sweet singer sang life's varied song,
Sometimes so sad, but always clear and strong.

FRANK BIGELOW-Transcript.

Biblical Mnemonics.

It has been suggested that we again print the mnemonics on the biblical books referred to in the May No. (p. 120), which were published in Vol. II, pp. 487 and 531, and we here do so:

OLD TESTAMENT.

The great Jevovah speaks to us in Genesis and Exodus;
Leviticus and Numbers see followed by Deuteronomy,

Joshua and Judges sway the land, Ruth gleans a sheaf with trembling hand;
Samuel, and numerous Kings appear, whose Chronicles we wondering hear;
Ezra and Nehemiah now Esther the beauteous mourner show;

Job speaks in sighs, David in Psalms, the Proverbs teach to scatter alms.
Ecclesiastes then comes on, and the sweet Song of Solomon,
Isaiah, Jeremiah then with Lamentations takes his pen.
Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea's lyres swells Joel, Amos, Obadiah's,
Next Jonah, Micah, Nahum, come,
While Zephaniah, Haggi calls,
And Malachi, with garments rent,

and lofty Habakkuk finds room. Rapt Zachariah builds her walls; concludes the ancient Testament.

NEW TESTAMENT.

Mathew, Mark, Luke and John, tell what by Christ was said and done;
Acts both of the Apostles tell, and how the Holy Spirit fell,

Romans, Corinthians and Galatians, hard by Ephesians take their stations.
Then the 'hilippians hand in hand, with the Colossians take their stand
By Thessalonions; each and all, claim for their author great St. Paul,
Who, next writes twice to Timothy,
While Hebrews the last letter claims.
While Peter, John and good St. Jude

Then Titus and Philemon see,

Next comes the Epistle of St. James,
with Revelation both conclude.

QUESTIONS.

"Bring me a book about this, or any footstep of knowledge, if it be true."

1 In what geographical or mathematical work be found giving the miles in each degree from the the poles at each degree of latitude?

can a table equator to K. S. G.

2. In som book I have read an account of a theory that Homer's Iliad was a dawn or sun-myth, the names being taken from the Hindu. Can any reader inform us where such K. S. G.

a theory is given ?

"A man is never perfectly born till after his death."—Franklin,

Stabat Mater.

ENGLISHED BY JOHN M. RICHARDSON.

Heart-all-broken, bosom heaving,
Stood the Mother, weeping, grieving,
Near the cross which bore her son.
Through her soul, remorseless driving,
Piercing, tearing, cutting, riving,

Lo, the sword its work hath done!
Oh, how sad beyond all others,
Was that grieved yet blessed Mother
Who had borne the Son of God!
Oh, what woe was her infolding,
Tender Mother, whilst beholding

God's sole Son beneath the rod!

Who could see and keep from weeping-
Christ's own Mother watch-word keeping
In such agony of soul!

Who, beholding, would not hasten
His own soul with grief to chasten,
Sharing in the Mother's dole!'
For the sins mankind committed,
He to mankind's rage submitted
Them to save to uttermost!
For the sins of mankind dying -
All the prophets testifying

Him she see give up the ghost!
God of mercy unpolluted
Grant that I, by love transmuted,

In that load of grief may share!
Grant that I, from self now turning
And with love of Jesus burning,

May to Thee become most dear!
Holy Father, this be given —
That my heart with His be riven,

That I feel His weight of woe!
That I from His wounds may borrow
Stripe and thorn and pain and sorrow,
That I all His way may go!

Grant that I with her be moaning,
With the Crucified be groaning,

Whilst I live this earthly life!
Near the cross with her stand praying
Ever by his side be staying,

Never with the world cease strife!

Maid of maidens, all excelling,

Never scornful or repelling,

Who would not lament with thee!
By my life I'd teach Christ's dying,
To its merits testfiving!

Father show his life in me!

With His stripes, O Father, heal me!
With His cross, O bless and seal me!
Be His flesh my living bread!
So enkindled and transported,
May I be by Him supported,

When to judgment rise the dead!
By His cross, O Father, save me!
By His death enthuse, embrave me
He my ransom sacrifice!
When my frame to dust is passing
Grant my soul the joys surpassing
Of Thy holy paradise!

Daingerfield, Texas.