On this principle we may explain his enthusiastic regard for the chorister Eddlestone, from whom he received the cornelian that is the theme of some of his verses, and whose untimely death in 1811 he sincerely mourned.

The man, who had the air of a murderer (or a Spanish Cathedral chorister), volunteered to go and seek his master.

It was preceded by a chorister and a boy, who sang in unison with a strange, uncomfortable echo in the roof.

* Vespers; after which the monks retire, a chorister leading an old monk who is blind.

A chorister, with golden hair, Guides hitherward his heavy pace.

What a dear little chorister, to be sure, a chubby little cherub if ever there was one!

If you mind your music, I'll get you a place as a chorister-boy in the Chapel Royal, after all.

FIRST CHORISTER Tell us of Father Erebus, tell us of Mother Night!

SECOND CHORISTER From thy ancestral tree springs many a monster forth.

THIRD CHORISTER Who yonder dwell, in sooth, for thee are far too young.

FOURTH CHORISTER Orion's nurse of old, was thy great-grand-daughter.

FIFTH CHORISTER Thy cherished meagreness, whereon dost nourish that? PHORKYAS 'Tis not with blood, for which so keenly thou dost thirst.

SIXTH CHORISTER

SEVENTH CHORISTER Thine

The music of this colored, or rather "amalgamated" choir, directed by a colored chorister, and accompanied by a colored organist, was in good taste.

The music of this colored, or rather "amalgamated" choir, directed by a colored chorister, and accompanied by a colored organist, was in good taste.

NOBLE, PHILIP R. The training of the boy chorister.

The training of the boy chorister.

Our Correspondent P.Q. earnestly observes "it was in and near this hospital that he was educated; in its noble church he was a chorister, and his feelings of veneration for the whole establishment, dedicated to the highest of Christian virtues, will never be effaced."

Barring my voice, I was a good chorister, and, like all good choir-boys, I was distinguished by that seraphic passiveness from which a reaction of some kind is to be expected immediately after a service or rehearsal.

The preacher, shut up in an octagonal box high above our heads, gave us sermons over an hour long, and the chorister, in a similar box below him, intoned line after line of David's Psalms, while, like a flock of sheep at the heels of their shepherd, the congregation, without regard to time or tune, straggled after their leader.

[Footnote C: Chaucer's phrase is "a litel clergeon," Wordsworth's, "a little scholar;" but "clergeon" is a chorister, not a scholar.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome.

RAVENSCROFT, THOMAS, musical composer, born in London; was a chorister in St. Paul's Cathedral; composed many part-songs, etc., but is chiefly remembered for his "Book of Psalmes," which he edited and partly composed; some of the oldest and best known Psalms (e. g. Bangor, St David's) are by him (1592-1640).

He was a chorister or sacristan in a Roman Catholic church, with several others, and was arrested, with his companions, by the civil guard, charged with "sacrilege."