Tor-Mohun.
_"Now the fierce bear," &c._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the
author of the following lines?
"Now the fierce bear and leopard keen,
All perished as they ne'er had been;
Oblivion's their best home.
. . . .
There is an oath on high,
That ne'er on brow of mortal birth,
Shall blend again the crowns of earth."
[theta].
_Prejudice against Holy Confirmation._--I have found among my rural
parishioners an idea very prevalent, that it is wrong, or at least highly
improper, for a married woman to become a candidate for, or to receive holy
confirmation; and this quite apart from any sectarian views on the matter.
I should like to know if any of my {441} clerical brethren have noticed the
same superstition as I must call it. Labourers' wives in some cases have at
once stated their being married as a valid objection; and in others their
husbands, although Churchmen, have at once entered their _veto_ on their
being confirmed. Can it arise from any vague reminiscence of the practical
rule of the Church of England on the subject, which has been so long
ignored?