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strongly moulded natures were forming, he, bright, vivid, graceful, and radiant with life, stood like a young Apollo in their midst.

Such an one, though in smaller measure, was Henry Lushington. That there, was a rare charm about his youth, and rich promise about his ripening manhood, is clear from the testimony of men to mix with whom familiarly is in itself a kind of fame. He was born in 1812, and entered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1829. His college career, which promised to be a most brilliant one, was interrupted by a serious attack of illness, which laid the foundation of a chronic state of ill health under which he suffered until his early death in 1855. Born of a family which has yielded many distinguished members to the service of the State, he entered life with every advantage, and, had health been granted to him, he might easily have achieved distinction in the arena of political life. But the state of his health, and a certain moral langour which often mars the steady development of the most brilliant men, seem to have prevented that close application without which in such an age as ours no prizes are to be won. There was danger of his sinking into the mere literary idler through life, when, in 1847, Lord Grey offered to him the post of Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta. He gladly accepted the office, and devoted himself with great assiduity to the fulfilment of its duties, until increasing weakness rendered a visit to England necessary, as the only chance of saving his life. But the disease had rooted itself too deeply; on his way home he died, August 6th, 1855.

The sketch of his life by his friend Mr. Venables is earnestly and gracefully written; nor will we question the truth of its judgment, though the passages both in verse and prose which are quoted with the most lofty eulogium seem to us worthy of only moderate praise. Mr. Venables knew the man; we know but a little of his

work, and a few of his words. His comrades heard his word-that is, the words plus the man; we hear the words only, and in the case of a man like Mr. Lushington, not of the very highest order, this is an essential consideration. There is nothing beyond clear and clever writing in anything contained in this volume of Mr. Lushington's remains. The most important part of it consists of two essays contributed to the "Edinburgh Review," on the history of the Italian struggle in 1848-9. Mr. Lushington's post at Malta gave him a good opportunity of studying "The Italian Question." He availed himself of it thoroughly. The essays contain a clear, concise, and able history of the movement, an impartial account of the causes of its failure, and prophecies concerning the future of Italy which the year 1859 has strikingly fulfilled. It is no small praise to say that through the confusion of Italian politics, Mr. Lushington forecast with tolerable certainty the destiny of Piedmont in relation to Italy. His words of warning to the enthusiastic talkers about liberty have a striking bearing on the analogous condition of Italy at the present day.

"Enthusiasm, to be respected, must be deep as well as real: circoli (clubs) are not regiments, terrifying proclamations do not dispense with accurate drilling. There may be flashes and outbursts of real feeling demonstrations of passion by no means fictitious, in a cause worthy of the truest passion; floods of merited invective, patriotic tears, embracings, eloquence, and effusions without end. Yet, compared with all these, the stern stroke of the worlddividing sword shall not be ignoble."

MAGDALENE: a Poem. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1859.

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"Enthusiasm, to be respected, must be deep as well as real: circoli (clubs) are not regiments, terrifying proclamations do not dispense with accurate drilling. There may be flashes and outbursts of real feeling demonstrations of passion by no means fictitious, in a cause worthy of the truest passion; floods of merited invective, patriotic tears, embracings, eloquence, and effusions without end. Yet, compared with all these, the stern stroke of the worlddividing sword shall not be ignoble."

MAGDALENE: a Poem. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1859.

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"Enthusiasm, to be respected, must be deep as well as real: circoli (clubs) are not regiments, terrifying proclamations do not dispense with accurate drilling. There may be flashes and outbursts of real feeling-demonstrations of passion by no means fictitious, in a cause worthy of the truest passion; floods of merited invective, patriotic tears, embracings, eloquence, and effusions without end. Yet, compared with all these, the stern stroke of the worlddividing sword shall not be ignoble."

MAGDALENE: a Poem. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1859.

IN the medley of verse before us, there are both very fine single lines and combinations of lines-pathos, ability, and a humane spirit presiding over their composition, and commending the fallen woman to our The hissympathies and our cares.

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