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Seas, London, 1884; W. W. Gill, Jottings from the Pacific, ib. 1885; idem, From Darkness to Light in Polynesia, ib. 1894; G. S. Rows, A Pioneer. J. Thomas, Missionary to the Friendly Isles, ib. 1885; A. Williamson, Missionary Heroes in the Pacific, Edinburgh, 1885; E. E. Crosby, Per, secutiona in Tonga, 1886, London, 1886; A. Bingham, Story of the Morning Star, Boston, 1886; A. Buzacot, Mission Life in the Pacific, London, 1888; J. Inglis, In the New Hebrides, ib. 1887; A. Penny, Ten Years in Melanesia, ib. 1887; J. Chalmers, Pioneer Life in New Guinea, ib. 1888, new ed., 1895; idem, Work and Adventure in New Guinea, ib. 1902; J. B. F. Pompallier, Early History of the Catholic Church in Oceania, Auckland, 1888; R. H. Codrington, Melanesian Studies in Anthropology and Folklore, London, 1891; A. Monfat, Div ann6es en MelanEaia, Lyon, 1891; O. Michelsen, Cannibals won for Christ, London, 1893; The New Hebrides South Sea Islands. Quarterly Jottings of the J. Q. Paton Mission Fund, Woodford, 1893; G. Cousins, Story of the South Seas, London, 1894; idem, From Island to Island in the south Seas, ib. 1894; J. M. Alexander, The Islands of the Pacific, New York, 1895; C. S. Horns, Story of the London Missionary Society, 1796-1896, London, 1895; Pyre Margaret, Mgr. Batallion et lea missions de fOcganie centrals, 2 vole., Lyon, 1895; A. E. Keeling, What he did for Convicts and Cannibals. Life and Work of S. Leigh, London, 1896; H. H. Montgomery, The Light of Melanesia. Record of thirtyfive Years Mission Work in the South Seas, ib. 1896; A. C. P. Watt, Twenty-five Years' Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides, Paisley, 1898; J. King, Christianity and Polynesia, Sydney, 1899; idem, W. G. Laves of Savage Island and New Guinea, London, 1909; R. Lovett, Hist. of the London Missionary Society, 1796-1896, vol. i., ib. 1899; idem, Tamale: Life of James Chalmers, ib. 1902; E. Nijland, J. Williams, de Apostel van Polynesie, Nilkerk, 1899; E. S. Armstrong, History of the Melanesian Mission, London, 1900; R. W. Thompson, My Trip in the " John Williams " to the South Sea Islands, ib. 1900; J. Wateford, Glorious Gospel Triumphs as seen in my Life and Work in Australasia, ib. 1900; P. Delord, Societe des missions 6uangeliquea. Voyage d'enqu8te en Nouvelle-Caledonie, Paris, 1901; F. Awdry, In the Isles of the Sea: the Story of fifty Years in Melanesia, London, 1902; C. Lennox, J. Chalmers of New Guinea, ib. 1902; H. A. Robertson, Erromanga, the Martyr Isle, ib. 1902; F. H. L. Paton, Lomai of Lenakei: a Hero of the New Hebrides, ib. 1903; H. H. Montgomery, The Light of Melanesia, ib. 1904; R. Parkinson, 30 Jahre in der Siidsee. Land and Leute, Sitters and Gebrauche in Bismarckarehipel and . . . Salomoinseln, Stuttgart, 1907; G. Brown, Autobiography, London, 1908; idem, Melanesians and Polynesians: their Life Histories described and compared, London, 1910; H. A. Krose, Katholische Missionstatistik, Freiburg, 1908; H. N. Allen, The Islands of the Pacific, from the old to the new. A Collection of Sketches missionary and diplomatic, New York and Chicago, 1908; F. W. Christian, Eastern Pacific Lands; Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands, London, 1910; J. C. Lambert, Missionary Heroes do Oceania, Philadelphia, 1910; P. G. Peekel, Religion and Zauberei auj dem mittleren Neu Mecklenburg, Bismarckarchipel, Sfidsee, Munster, 1910; C. G. Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge, 1910; W. D. Westervelt, Legends of Ma-ui, a Demigod of Polynesia, and of his Mother Hina, Honolulu, 1910.

SOUTH, ROBERT: Church of England prelate and preacher of first rank; b. at Hackney, London, Sept. 4, 1634; d. in London July 8, 1716. His father was a wealthy London merchant, who afforded his son every advantage for a thorough education. His preparatory studies were pursued in the Westminster School, where he became a king's scholar, under the famous master, Dr. Richard Busby. In 1651 he was admitted as a student of Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1655; M.A., 1657, also 1659 at Cambridge; B.D., and D.D., 1663; and D.D., at Cambridge, 1664). During this year he composed a Latin poem congratulating Oliver Cromwell on the peace which he had concluded between England and Holland. South was ordained in 1658 by one

of the bishops who had been deprived of his bishopric during the protectorate. In 1660, the year of the restoration of the monarchy, he was elected orator to the University of Oxford, and preached before the royal commission a sermon entitled the Scribe Instructed, which immediately placed him in the front rank of English preachers. He delivered the university oration when Clarendon was installed chancellor of Oxford-a discourse which so impressed Clarendon that he appointed him his domestic chaplain. This led to his installation, in 1663, as the prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster. In the same year he took the degree of doctor in divinity; and in 1670 he was made a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. In 1678, he was presented to the rectory of Islip in Oxfordshire, the revenue of which, some £200, he applied, half to the payment of his curate, and half to educating and apprenticing the poorer children of the parish. He soon became one of the king's chaplains, and preached a sermon before Charles IL, marked by invective against Cromwell, and, what is not very common with South, violation of good taste. This recommended him to the monarch, who suggested his appointment to the next vacant bishopric. But South declined all such offers. While he was a strenuous defender of the English church, he was a determined enemy of the Roman Catholics. The concealed popery of Charles and the open popery of James met with determined opposition from South. His stiff loyalty led him to refuse to sign the invitation, drawn up by the archbishop of Canterbury and bishops, to the prince of Orange to assume the throne; but subsequently, when James had formally abdicated, and the crown was settled upon William and Mary, South gave in his allegiance to the new government. While he did not seek the honors of the Establishment, he was the determined enemy of dissent, and preached against it. He opposed the Act of Toleration (see LIBERTY, RELIGIOUS). When an attempt was made, through a royal commission, to unite the Dissenters with the Established Church, by modifying the liturgy, South entreated them to part with none of its ceremonial. In 1693, due to his Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Book, entitled: A Vindication of the Holy . . . Trinity (London, 1693; cf., Tritheism Charged upon Dr. Sherlock's New Notion of the Trinity, 1695), he had a controversy with William Sherlock, a fellow churchman, and dean of St. Paul's, who, in his construction of the doctrine of the Trinity, fell into tritheism. South advocated the Nicene view. The last part of his life was clouded with sickness and debility which laid him aside from the active duties of his calling.

South's distinction is that of a preacher, and he is second to none in any language. No one has combined and blended logic and rhetoric in more perfect proportions. He argues closely and rigorously; but the argument never interferes with the fluency and impetuosity of the discourse; even such subjects as predestination and the Trinity are made popular and interesting by his powerful grasp and handling, and all this is heightened by his remarkable style. The closeness and intimacy of the connection between thought and word is hardly excelled by Shakespeare.