had been receiving a Christian education. The stanzas which follow are particularly fine: "Though in distant lands we sigh, "When the dreams of life are fled, There we three shall meet again." These Indians afterwards met in the same place and composed another hymn, which is as beautiful and touching. It begins: "Parted many a toil-spent year, VII. RECENT HYMN-WRITERS AND THEIR HYMNS. 1. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER. 2. REV. JOHN KEBLE. 3. HORATIUS BONAR, D. D. 4 CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT. 5 SARAH FLOWER ADAMS. 6. PHOEBE CARY. 7. RAY PALMER, D. D. 8. REV. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE. REV. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. RECENT HYMN-WRITERS AND THEIR HYMNS. FABER. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER, the author of some of the most finished, ornate, and peculiarly beautiful poems of the present generation of hymn-writers, was born in 1815, was early schooled at Harrow, and graduated at Oxford, in 1836. He was a minister of the Established church for some ten years, but at the age of thirty-one he became a communicant of the church of Rome. After the change in his views, he established a brotherhood of priests at London, and lived a somewhat secluded and ascetic life. He died in 1863. His hymns are flowers from both Catholic and Protestant soil, but are generally as liberal in spirit as they are pure in diction and lofty in sentiment. He had many religious doubts and conflicts, and his life, though uneventful, was one of peculiar experiences. He died in the prime of manhood, yet lived to say: "A weary actor, I would fain Be quit of my long part, Lies heavy on my heart." Both of the hymns which we give, are from a collection of Faber's poems, called "Oratory Hymns," and |