THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 333
Rev. J. F. Guenett." The original has two more stanzas, as follows
" Happy they who reach that place
In those regions find their home ; Tears are wiped from every face,
Toil and danger never come ; They no pain nor sorrow know, Eansomed from this world of woe. " To that festival on high,
To that banquet of the skies, To that glorious company,
May we all at length arise ; Mingle with the joyful throng, Join the everlasting song."
��JOSIAH CONDER.
17891855.
IT is sufficient praise for this most productive writer of prose and poetry, to say that he added lustre to a name rendered honour able amongst Nonconformists alike by those who bore it be fore him, and by those who bear it now. The opening genius of young Josiah Conder was encouraged by the stimulus of the great metropolis in which he was born ; and, as his father was a bookseller, his mind early met with the pabu lum it needed. While still young he displayed much literary taste, and wrote articles in the "Athenasum ;" and at the age of twenty-one he produced, with the assistance of a few poetical friends, a volume of poems entitled, "The Associate Minstrels." This was published in 1810 and reprinted in 1812.
In 1814, in his capacity as a publisher, he purchased the " Eclectic Review." He also became its editor, and continued in that position till the year 1837, having retired from the book selling business in 1819. During this brilliant period in the history of the " Eclectic," its pages were enriched by contributions from his friends, Robert Hall, John Foster, Dr. Chalmers, and
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