Yet,  while  we  have  this  side  of  life  given  with  such  exquisite
tact  and  insight,  and  while  we  are  presented  with  such  grace-
ful women  of  Puritan  type  as  Mercy  and  Christiana,  we  have
also  creations  of  masculine  strength  and  force  such  as  might
have  stood  in  the  ranks  of  Cromwell's  Ironsides.  We  have
Greatheart — stout  champion  of  womanly  chastity  and  gentle-
ness ;  Old  Honest,  sturdy  in  greatness  of  soul ;  and  Valiant-


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for-Truth    wielding   a    right    Jerusalem    blade,    and    leaving

marks  of  his  valour  on  the  foes  he  fought,  fighting  one  against

three :

"  Who  would  true  valoiir  see,

Let  bim  come  liilher  ;

One  here  will  constant  be,

Come  wind,  come  weather  ;
There's  no  discouragement
Shall  make  bim  once  relent
His  first  avowed  intent
To  be  a  pilgrim."*

Even  this  hasty  glance  at  its  story  may  serve  to  show  that
this  Second  Part  of  the  "  Pilgrim's  Progress  "  is  not  altogether
unworthy  of  the  First,  Inferior  to  that  no  doubt  it  is,  has
more  incongruities,  is  less  powerfully  sustained,  and  presents
dialogues  of  mediocre  type  such  as  its  predecessor  does  not.
