∗ See List of the Establiahment at the end of this paper. Google Scholar

∗ The following poetical remarks on the beauty of our site occur in one of the published Lectures by the late Frederic Bobertson of Brighton, a thinker, whose premature death must lie deplored by all who wearied with the strife and narrow thoughts of our popular theology, look with hope to the broader teaching of the Church of the future. Google Scholar

“Nay, oven round this Brighton of ours, treeless and prosaic, as people call it, there are materials enough for Poetry, for the heart that is not petrified in conventional maxims about beauty. Google Scholar

“Enough in its free downs, which are ever changing their distance and their shape, as the lights and cloud-shadows sail over them, and over the graceful forms of whose endless vriety of slopes the eye wanders, unarrested by abruptness, with an entrancing feeling of fulness, and a restful satisfaction to the pure sense of form. And enough upon our own sea-shore and in our rare sun-sets. Google Scholar

“A man might have watched with delight, beyond all words, last night, the long deep purple lines of cloud, edged with intolerable radiance, passing into orange, yellow, pale green, and leaden blue, and reflected below in warm, purple shadows, and cold green lights, upon the sea, and then the dying of it all away. And then he might have remembered those lines ot Shakcspcre; and often quoted as they aro, the poet would have interpretateti the sun-set, and the sun-set what the poet meant by the exclamation which fullows the disappear ance of a similar aerial vision: Google Scholar

“We are such stuff Google Scholar

As dreams are made of; and our narrow life Google Scholar

Is rounded with a sleep.” Google Scholar

“No one has taught us this so earnestly as Wordsworth, for it was part of his great message to this century, to remind us that the sphere of the poet is not only in the extraordinary, but in the common and ordinary. Google Scholar

“The common things of earth and sky Google Scholar

And hill and valley, he has viewed Google Scholar

And impulses of deeper birth Google Scholar

Have come to him in solitude. Google Scholar

From common things, that round us lie, Google Scholar

Some random truths he can impart; Google Scholar

The harvest of a quiet eye, Google Scholar

That sleeps and broods on its own heart.” Google Scholar

“But of course, if you lead a sensual life, or a mercenary or artificial life, you will not read these truths in nature. The faculty of discerning them is not learnt either in the gin-palace, or the ball-room. A pure heart, and a simple manly life alono can reveal to you all that which seer and poet can.” Google Scholar

∗ “It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick (says Miss Nightingale) that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most, is a dark room, and that it is not only light, but direct sunlight they want. I had rather have the power of carrying my patient about after the sun according to the aspect of the rooms, if circumstances permit, than let him linger in a room when the sun is off. People think the effect is upon the spirits only, this is by no means the case. Without going ynto any scientific position, we must admit that light has quite as real and tangible effects upon the human body. * * * The sick should be able, without raising themselves, or turning in bed, to see out of window from their beds, to see sky and sunlight at least, if you can show them nuthing else, I assert to be, if not of the very first importance for recovery, at least some thing very near it. And you should, therefore, look to the position of the beds of your sick, one of the very first things. If thty can see out of two windows instead afone so much the better. Again, the morning sun and the mid-day sun, the hours when they are quite certain not to be up, are of more importance to them, if choice must be made, than the afternoon sun.”—Florence Nightingale. Notes on Nursing. Google Scholar

∗ If any of my readers desire to see what I consider an efficient system of ventilation and warming, I would advise a visit to the new convict prison in course of erection under the superintendence of Sir Joshua Jebb, on Woking Common. It is built for 400 inmates, and it is effectively heated and ventilated with two boilers. As a- perfect model of simple economical con struction it is worthy of inspection by any one concerned with the erection of any public asylum or similar building. Google Scholar