Sweet home! where Wisdom, like a mother, shall lead her children in pleasant ways, and to their thoughts a touch of heaven lend! From thee I claim for my faith and my country more blessings than I can speak,--
Our scattered knowledges together bind; Our freedom consecrate to noble aims. To music set the visions of the mind; Give utterance to the truth pure faith proclaims. Lead where the perfect beauty lies enshrined, Whose sight the blood of low-born passion tames.
And now, how shall I more fittingly conclude than with the name of her whose generous heart and enlightened mind were the impulse which has given to what had long been hope deferred and a dreamlike vision, existence and a dwelling-place,--Mary Gwendolen Caldwell.
=Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education=. 12mo, 235 pages, $1.00.
The bishop writes out of the fullness of his heart, and with abundant love and charity. His works make the world wiser, happier, and better. These "Thoughts and Theories" are couched in polished English, in sentences terse and full of meaning; few living writers command a more charming style.
=Education and the Higher Life=. 12mo, 210 pages, $1.00.
Bishop Spalding has struck a note which must vibrate in every heart which loves the glory of Christianity and the progress of humanity.... The book is a stimulant, a tonic, a trumpet-call to higher things, a beacon light for better days.--_The Catholic Union and Times_.
=Things of the Mind=. 12mo, 237 pages, $1.00.
Out of a disciplined and fertile mind he pours forth epigrammatic sentences and suggestions in a fashion which recalls Emerson. He is always and everywhere American, and the last chapter is at once wisely critical and soundly laudatory of our country.--_The Sunday School Times, Philadelphia_.
=Means and Ends of Education=. 12mo, 232 pages, $1.00.
Bishop Spalding comes nearer being an essayist in education than any other American. He has that rarest of educational gifts,--the ability to throw light brilliantly, and yet softly, making his paragraphs both bright and mellow, all without "preaching," without pedantry, and without being cranky.--_Journal of Education_, Boston.
=Opportunity, and Other Essays and Addresses=. 12mo, 228 pages, $1.00.