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    f ' ' ' •-••r TuTT 1034 The Publishers 1...

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    188 Fleet Street, London : December 1 1330

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    IN a c Song for the Times,' by a poet wh...

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    F ' ' ' •-••R Tutt 1034 The Publishers 1...

    f ' ' ' - •• r TuTT 1034 The Publishers Circular Dec | 6 j | %

    188 Fleet Street, London : December 1 1330

    188 Fleet Street , London : December 1 1330

    In A C Song For The Times,' By A Poet Wh...

    IN a Song for the Times , ' by a poet who lived and died almost without recognition in th service of the National Church , and who , although possessed of high literary ability and

    _ _ _ v -j «* UU scholarshi 11 1 « p , never got beyond the 1 modest All salary of Goldsmith /~ N "I 1 I 's count ry parson , we are assured that in the good old times of which he

    sang—Christmas was merry Christmas then And Eastertide the same ,

    and the natural inference from his words would be that in these later da } 's of the race for wealth , of ceaseless political strife , and , unfortunately it must be added , of religious conflicts

    of the its Yule former season self has . Whether lost its time , however -honoured , the characteristics utterance of such , and a is rank little heresy better ^ T was than not the after - ghost - » ^» all MJ 1

    only another illustration of a poet ' s licence , is , we are inclined to think , a point on which our readers will have very little doubt , for although as the world grows older it can scarcely be denied that the time to laugh' is being curtailed , and that the hours of festival are gradually

    being jostled out ' of their due place in our lives by the pressure of what men call business Christmas still retains its hold on hearth and home , and it may be safely affirmed that as

    long as time lasts and children hold their sway they will not allow it to be dethroned . And it is well that it should be so , for it is after all the festival of a common humanity—' a

    hallowed and gracious time , ' as old Will Shakespeare hath it—and until we can afford to forget for ever * the old recollections and the dormant sympathies , ' the awakening of which was in

    the eyes of Charles Dickens the chief of Christmas joys , we shall refuse to let it go . Writing with the Christmas of 1880 near at hand , and at the close of a year which has not merely

    witnessed stirring events abroad , but a political struggle of considerable animation at home , we are able to anticipate with perhaps something more than our usual zest the little break

    which Christmas brings , and whether or not it be true that at this season . . . . No spirit walks abroad ,

    The nights are wholesome , and no planets strike , certain it is that even the brief respite which it offers from c the daily round , the common

    task , ' will not for many a long year have been more thoroughly welcome . But as it is not only a time for pleasant reunions arid hearty greetings , but demands

    substantial tokens from those who claim the sunshine of its genial presence , we will not longer delay the reader on the threshold of our Christmas store ; and if we are compelled to admit

    that in some cases there is an absence of the richness and profusion which we noted a few years ago , there is still a goodly company of gifts whether for old or young , learned or unlearned ,

    and so great has been the progress of pictorial art , and especially of colour-printing , amongst us of late that there has never been a Christmas marked by a larger supply of low-priced

    books of real beauty in this particular direction . Nor must we forget that our Christinas reading is this year enriched by a coincidence of rare occurrence , in the issue almost on the

    same day of a new volume from the English Laureate ' s pen , and of yet another work marked b , y all the touches of what is - still , we are g lad to find , very «/ far from being CD' a vanished hand ,

    and which , like many of the novels bearing the simpler name of Benjamin Disraeli on their face , recalls the poet ' s words : —

    For there the drama of the world abidea , Yet in full p lay « r , immortally % t performed M . .

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    brush the pl , easan have t competed verse in which for , the penci honour l and of the , an children d not ' s unfreq vote of uen thanks tly the . artist And ' now s many let - us colou to red the

    feast .

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    notes . g Messrs . Bagster , are also publishing , the i Free Church pages Services on / 1 g adapted * fro " m t " " M ^ . m fc . * m a a m * m ¦¦ a-ri ¦ _ mw' 7 I

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1880, page 1034, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121880/page/2/