[Footnote: Bede, Hist.

It is called the Northumbrian School; its center was the monasteries and abbeys, such as Jarrow and Whitby, and its three greatest names are Bede, Cædmon, and Cynewulf.

BEDE (673-735)

The Venerable Bede, as he is generally called, our first great scholar and "the father of our English learning," wrote almost exclusively in Latin, his last work, the translation of the Gospel of John into Anglo-Saxon, having been unfortunately lost.

In all strictly historical matters Bede is a model.

Every known authority on the subject, from Pliny to Gildas, was carefully considered; every learned pilgrim to Rome was commissioned by Bede to ransack the archives and to make copies of papal decrees and royal letters; and to these were added the testimony of abbots who could speak from personal knowledge of events or repeat the traditions of their several monasteries.

Bede believed these things, as all other men did, and records them with charming simplicity, just as he received them from bishop or abbot.

The words were written about 665 A.D. and are found copied at the end of a manuscript of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

What little we know of Cædmon, the Anglo-Saxon Milton, as he is properly called, is taken from Bede's account of the Abbess Hilda and of her monastery at Whitby.

Here is a free and condensed translation of Bede's story: There was, in the monastery of the Abbess Hilda, a brother distinguished by the grace of God, for that he could make poems treating of goodness and religion.

Though we have Bede's assurance that Cædmon "transformed the whole course of Bible history into most delightful poetry," no work known certainly to have been composed by him has come down to us.

His important translations are four in number: Orosius's Universal History and Geography, the leading work in general history for several centuries; Bede's History, the first great historical work written on English soil; Pope Gregory's Shepherds' Book, intended especially for the clergy; and Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy, the favorite philosophical work of the Middle Ages.

Bede, our first historian, belongs to this school; but all his extant works are in Latin.

Bede's History, in Temple Classics; the same with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (one volume) in Bohn's Antiquarian Library.

For what is Bede worthy to be remembered?

Tell the story of Cædmon, as recorded in Bede's History.

Bede | | 750 (cir.).

Three novels followed rapidly, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Silas Marner (1861).

Adam Bede is the freshest, healthiest, and most delightful of her books.

Among her books (mostly novels) are "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas Marner," "Romola," "Felix Holt," "The Spanish Gypsy," "Middlemarch," "Daniel Deronda," and "Impressions of Theophrastus Such."

I'll come to the vestry door, if there is a vestry door at St. Bede's.

I may tell you, Miss Cohenson, that I've seen two duchesses standing at the back of the aisle of St. Bede's, and glad to be.

I once wrote to him to ask him if he would paint a Holy Family for St. Bede's.

They think that their Werowances and priests which they also esteeme quiyough-cosughs, when they are deade doe goe beyond the mountains towards the setting of the sun, and ever remain there in form of their Okee, with their bedes paynted rede with oyle and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beads, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing with all their predecessors.

"O Lord," she said, "Jesus Christ, That sinful mannes bedes, Underfong this present, And help this seli innocent!