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372 ONCE  A WEEK. [October 29. 1859.

This choice  quality  of  unconscious  characters,  a his  last  trip  to  Norway,  Robert  Stephenson  was genuine boyishness,  was  the  peculiarity  of  both , just  such  “a  noble  boy  at  play,” — a boy  till  the Stephensons in  a remarkable  degree. Even up  to  last  fell  grip  of  disease  laid  him  low,  and  we  were

ROBERT 8TEPIIENSON.

(From a Photograph  by  Maall  and  Poly  blank.)

startled to  learn  that  a great  man  was  gone  from  I countrymen,  and  whose  ashes  have  been  fitly  laid us, one  who  had  rendered  immense  services  to  his   in  the  national  mausoleum. Cl.

IN MEMORIAM.

I8AMBARD K.  BRUNEL,  ROBERT  STEPHENSON,

DIED

SEPTEMBER 15TH,  OCTOBER  12TH,

Together dead! while living,  separate To outward  seeming; treading  each  a path Self-chosen, onward,  upward,  to  an  end:

A common end,  though  crossing  footsteps  mark The steep  hill-side  whose  summit  is  their  goal. Men call  this  rivalry, — word  all  too  mean Utter’d of  those  whom  earth  and  sea  combine To own  victorious, — victors  over  them.



Gone from  us  now,  as  sets  the  summer  sun,

Leaving behind  the  fruits  of  glorious  day.

Hush every  jarring  raem’ry  of  the  past;

Accept the  judgment  of  the  double  grave —

“These two  for  science  travail'd,  toil’d,  and  won — Apart in  labours,  join’d  in  death  and  fame.”

G. R.  Tatlor.