I don't in the least know what became of that valuable book; I tried Macmillans with it, and it was sent on by them to someone who was preparing a series of church books for the young; later I had a letter from a Church brotherhood offering to publish it, if I would give it as an "act of piety" to their order; its ultimate fate is to me unknown.

* * VILLAGE BELLS. 'To the heart the solemn sweetness steals, Like the heart's voice, unfelt by none who feels That God is love, that man is living dust; Unfelt by none, whom ties of brotherhood Link to his kind; by none who puts his trust In naught of earth that hath surviv'd the flood, Save those mute charities, by which the good Strengthen poor worms, and serve their Maker best.

Among the Greeks the curiae are called phratriae and phatriaein other words associations, brotherhoods unions, guildsfrom the fact that men of the same phratry phrased or revealed to one another their own intentions without scruple or fear.