LD WORSHIP. BY BANOR GRIFFITHS. vapour, and the stormy wind fulfil His word. ts and thoughts lighter and wilder than these, ould forget it?" London: ISBET & CO., BERNERS STREET. MDCCCLIII. 663. WORLD WORSHIP. BY ELEANOR GRIFFITHS. The snow, the vapour, and the stormy wind fulfil His word, DEDICATION TO THE REV. FRANCIS FORGIVE me, my dear Francis, for the liberty I have taken with the letters which compose your baptismal name, and for dedicating a small octavo volume, which looks so like that thing you hate-a religious storybook—to so grave a personage as yourself. I am presuming upon our long-tried friendship; and although possibly, when the accompanying parcel in sheets is presented to you it will be thrown aside with disgust, and if you have not quite studied yourself dumb, like the companion of Sir Roger de Coverley, I shall soon be assailed with a torrent of censure and criticism. I will not stand, however, to make any further apology for my little book and myself. It is true I might plead that the following narrative, like most tales of the present day, is no fictitious romance, but rather a series of biographical sketches. I need not remind you that Winfred Egerton, and the Sculptor, and others are real characters; although, for obvious reasons, invested with an artificial interest, and |