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brought to me I strive to learn humility; And trust in Him who rules above Whose universal law is love. Thus only can I kindly view The world that I am passing through. When I approach the setting sun And feel my journey well-nigh done, May earth be veiled in genial light And her last smile to me seem bright. Help me till then to kindly view The world that I am passing through. In 1836 Mrs. Child published Philothea, a Greek romance in the time of Phidias, Plato, Anaxagoras, Pericles, Alcibiades, and Aspasia. It was pronounced the crowning achievement of her intellectual efforts, and was received with something of the enthusiasm that had greeted her early novels. Everybody read it, every library contained a copy. It is one of the pathetic reverses of the whirligig of time, that these same copies are now dusty and unread, completely out of favor with modern sensational taste. The classical allusions in which it abounds are carefully explained in an admirable appendix, which clo