Introductory material
Reading edition
JOHN MILTON Photogravure from an engraving.
THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE One of Heinrich Hoffmann's wonderful scenes in the life of Christ: the earnest, wise-faced Boy, and the eager or doubtful but thoughtful Scribes and Doctors of the Law, are graphically depicted.
ISAAC WATTS From a contemporary engraving.
THE HOLY NIGHT "It was the winter wild While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies."
From photogravure after a painting by Martin Feuerstein.
CHARLES WESLEY From a contemporary engraving.
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD "Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? Who is there? 'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly, Never such was seen before."
From photo-carbon print after the painting by Holman Hunt.
SIR GALAHAD "My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."
From photogravure after the painting by George Frederick Watts.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON From a photogravure after life-photograph.
DINA M. MULOCK CRAIK From a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London.
THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN "Two went to pray? O, rather say, One went to brag, the other to pray; One nearer to God's altar trod, The other to the altar's God."
From engraving by Brend'amour, after a design by Alexander Bida.
DANTE ALIGHIERI After a photograph from the fresco by His friend Giotto, discovered under the whitewash on a watt of the Bargello palace; now in the Museo Nazionale, Florence, Italy.