1822. Palestine, by Heber, and The Bard, an Ode, by Gray, translated into Welsh by W. O. P. London. 1844. Palæstina, Poema Latine Redditum. N. L. Torre. I 2mo. Leamington. 8vo. (Hatchard.) 1807. The Gentleman's Magazine: Humorous Contributions. 8vo. John Murray. 1811. Hymns in Christian Observer. 1827. Hymns, written and adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year. [Edited by Amelia Heber.] London. 8vo. 1828. Fourth Edition of above. 1834. Tenth Edition in 16mo. The book is still used in Hodnet Church. 1812. Morte D'Arthur: a Fragment, covering 56 pages of vol. ii. of Memoir by Mrs. Heber. 1861. Poetical Works, with George Herbert's Poetical Works. 8vo. 1816. The Masque of Gwendolen, taken from Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale," for home performance at Christmastide. Mrs. Heber published extracts in her Memoir. Heber versified, also for the same purpose, the Oriental stories of Il Bondocani and 1816. Bluebeard: A Serio-comic Oriental Romance in One Act. Reprinted in 1868 in Lacy's Acting Plays. 1837. Notes on the Works of Lord Byron. As a discriminating admirer of the genius and some of the works of Lord Byron, who was the cousin of his friend Wilmot Horton, Reginald Heber wrote many critical notes of great value on the principal poems. In this he was associated with Walter Scott, Jeffrey, Moore, Lockhart, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Rogers, Milman, George Ellis, and Christopher North. The notes are at length in the one-volume edition of Byron published by John Murray. 1816. The Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter Asserted and Explained at the Lecture founded by the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury. Oxford. 8vo. 1817. A Reply to Certain Observations on the Bampton Lectures of the Year 1815 contained in the "British Critic." Oxford. 8vo. The critic to whom Heber replied was a clergyman named Nolan. 1819. A Sermon on Matthew ix. 38, preached in the Cathedral Church of Chester at an ordination, 26th September 1819. Chester. 8vo. 1826. A Sermon on Acts ii. 38, 39, preached at Bombay in aid of the S.P.G. Calcutta. 8vo. 1828. Sermons Preached in England. 1829. American Edition of above. 1829. Sermons Preached in India. 8vo. New York. London. 8vo. Both these volumes of Sermons were edited by his Widow. Two of Heber's Sermons were separately published, in 1844, in the series of Tracts for Englishmen, to which Bishop Mant, Dr. Manning, Dr. Pusey, and others contributed. 1837. Sermons on the Lessons, the Gospel, or the Epistle, for Every Sunday in the Year, preached in the Parish Church of Hodnet, Salop. 3 vols. Edited by Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. 8vo. 1822. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination 10 volumes. 8vo. London: Ogle, of his Writings. 1854. The Same, Revised and Corrected by Rev. Charles Page Eden, M.A. 1828. The Life of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. 3rd Edition. London: Rivingtons. 1826. A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Calcutta, 27th May 1824. Calcutta. 4to. 1827. London Edition of above. 4to. 1828. Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India (with Notes upon Ceylon), Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, and Letters written in India. [Edited by Amelia Heber.] 2 vols. 4to. John Murray, London. 1828. Second Edition of above. 3 vols. 8vo. 1829. Third and Fourth Editions of the Same. 1859. Viaje desde Calcuta a Bombay. Fernandez Cuesta, Nuevo Viajero Universal (Spanish translation abridged). tom 2. 8vo. 1829. A Series of Engravings from the Drawings of Reginald Heber, illustrative of the scenes described in the Indian Journal, together with a large and excellent Map of India by Walker. 4to. John Murray. 1830. A Ballad, etc.: Lithographed by W. Crane, Chester. Oblong 4to. In the Grenville Collection bequeathed to the nation by Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, who died 1846. This copy belonged to Hon. Thomas Grenville, and is entitled "An Old and Approved Receipt for Raising the Devil, founded on Tradition, and now Offered to the Public by an Amateur of the Black Arte." It consists of nine stanzas, and is illustrated by eight lithographs. A jeu d'esprit, or amusing satire on exorcist arts, ascribed, evidently by Grenville himself, to his friend Heber, but not mentioned or found elsewhere than in the British Museum. In 1830. The Boke of the Purple Faucon. Metrical romaunt. 1847 this was privately printed from a MS. in possession of John Robert Curzon. 1886. From Greenland's Icy Mountains, with fifteen illustrations. London. 8vo. (Nelsons.) A facsimile of the original MS. of this hymn appeared in the Church Missionary Gleaner for April 1882. In the second verse "savage" is erased, so as to read "The heathen in his blindness," and in the fourth verse the first word, "Waft," is erased, and no word is substituted. These are the only corrections in the famous Hymn, composed at a white heat for Whit Sunday 1819. In 1841 Heber's Poetical Works were published for the first time in a collected form. The whole Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, D.D., were published, without date, by Frederick Warne and Co. in "The Chandos Classics," with illustrations. For ten years after 1812 Heber worked at a Dictionary of the Bible, to which he turned at every spare hour, but his departure to India prevented its completion and publication. A few of Heber's Letters to Charlotte Dod appeared in the Memoir by his Widow, but in a mutilated form. Besides those which are published for the first time in this volume, there are many which have disappeared, but may yet be recovered. None of Charlotte Dod's letters to Heber have seen the light, having probably been destroyed. APPENDIX THE HEBER FAMILY ON page 7 we have briefly traced the origin and descent of the Heber or Hayber or Hayberg family from the time when Thomas Heber was witness to a deed in 1461, and in 1535, in the reign of Henry VIII., the family became possessors by purchase of the estate of the Martons in Yorkshire. Not long before that time, on the Shropshire border of Wales, Alice, co-heiress of Hodnet, married Humphrey Vernon, third son of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon. They settled at Hodnet in the year 1514, in the reign of Henry VIII., becoming ancestors of the Vernons of Hodnet and of the Hebers, their successors there. Sir Henry Vernon, created Baronet in 1660, left, besides a son and heir, a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Esquire, and became ancestor of the Hebers of Hodnet. The male line becoming extinct by the death, in Poland, of Sir Richard Vernon, unmarried, who had sold property and woods to the Hill family, Hodnet devolved upon his sisters, Diana and Henrietta. These were the last Vernon possessors, and they died unmarried. By bequest, Hodnet devolved upon their cousin, Elizabeth Heber, wife of Thomas Heber of Marton, county of York, Esquire. Thomas Heber of Marton and Hodnet was succeeded in 1752 by his son, Richard Heber. On his death, in 1766, the Hodnet estates passed to his second brother, the Rev. Reginald Heber, who, in 1803, succeeded to the family estate in Yorkshire also, by the death of his brother's widow. He died in 1804. His widow, Mary, the mother of Bishop Heber, survived her husband thirty years and her distinguished son eight years; she died in 1834, and was buried at Hodnet. |