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 the "Death of Camoëns" is the most interesting and beautiful of these pictures; but we quote a few lines from the subject of "Alexander on the Banks of the Hyphasis," chiefly as an instance of philosophical deduction of general inferences from individual facts. After a splendid picture of the conqueror weeping as he kept his midnight watch, the poem thus concludes:—

In those mighty tears o'erflowing Found the full heart scope, For the bitter overthrowing Of its noblest hope. So will many weep again; Our aspirings have arisen To another world— Life is but the spirit's prison, Where its wings are furled, Stretching to their flight in vain, Seeking that eternal home Which is in a world to come.

Like earth's proudest conqueror turning From his proudest field, Is the human heart still yearning For what it must yield Of dreams unfulfilled, and powers. Like the great yet guided ocean ls our mortal mind, Stirred by many a high emotion, Yet subdued, confined. Such are shadows of the hours, Glorious in the far-off gloom, But whose altar is the tomb."

The headings of the chapters in Ethel Churchill, which, with one or two exceptions, were written expressly for that work, are gems of thought and feeling, frequently reminding us, in their richness, power and concentration, of some of the finest passages in the olden dramatists.

We give the following gently satirical lines, as