Does anyone know what happened over at the ShopTalkForums? All the posts on the Type 4rum is gone!!

What is England? She is Elizabeth... To live alone, to go alone, to reign alone, to be alone,—such is Elizabeth, such is England... England has two books: one which she has made, the other which has made her,—Shakespeare and the Bible. These two books do not agree together... Shakespeare thinks, Shakespeare dreams, Shakespeare doubts... Moreover, Shakespeare invents.

Being a very strong, active man, with gift of versatile hand and brain, and early acquaintance with handicrafts, Christopher Bert could earn his keep.

Of all the blessings which the study of nature brings to the patient observer, let none, perhaps, be classed higher than this; that the further he enters into those fairy gardens of life and birth, the more he learns the awful and yet most comfortable truth, that they do not belong to him, but to One greater, wiser, lovelier than he ; and as he stands, silent with awe, amid the pomp of Nature's everbusy rest, hears, as of old, ' the Word of the Lord God walking among the trees of the garden in the cool of the day.