. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... favor of returning to the nomadic mode of life ?—/ Gaa-Fishing. O MOTHER DEAR, JERUSALEM This old hymn needs no words of praise to commendit. It is a grand poem, and one or another portion ofit will reach every heart with its power and beauty. Ithas been a comfort and a joy to very many people, bothin this form and in the numerous variations, abbrevia-tions, and alterations in which it has from
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... favor of returning to the nomadic mode of life ?—/ Gaa-Fishing. O MOTHER DEAR, JERUSALEM This old hymn needs no words of praise to commendit. It is a grand poem, and one or another portion ofit will reach every heart with its power and beauty. Ithas been a comfort and a joy to very many people, bothin this form and in the numerous variations, abbrevia-tions, and alterations in which it has from time to timeappeared among the sacred poems of the Christian WILLIAM COIVPER PRIME 63 world. . .It was sung by the martyrs of Scot-land in the words we have here. It has been sung intriumphant tones through the arches of mighty cathe-drals ; it has been chanted by the lips of kings, andqueens, and nobles ; it has ascended in the still air abovethe cottage roofs of the poor; it has given utterance tothe hopes and expectations of the Christian in everycontinent, by every seashore, in hall and hovel, until ithas become in one or another of its forms the possessionof the whole Christian PRINGLE, Thomas, a Scottish poet, born atBlaiklaw, in Teviotdale, in January, 1789; died in1834. During his infancy an accident occurred tohim which rendered him a cripple for life. He wasgraduated at the University of Edinburgh, and wasappointed to a small position under the govern-ment. In 1816 he wrote The Autumnal Excursion, apoem which secured for him the friendship of SirWalter Scott. In 1817 he commenced the publi-cation of the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, out ofwhich subsequently grew Blackzvoods and other literary enterprises which he hadundertaken proving unsuccessful, he, with hisfather and several brothers, emigrated to SouthAfrica in 1820, and established a little settlementamong the Kaffirs. He soon went to Cape Town,the capital of Cape Colony, where he set up a
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