of him on earth should be as lovely as was his life. As he was horn among flowers, 

 so among them he lived and was buried. 



In the earoful culture of his beautiful home, he never jiermitted any evidence of 

 neijloct. p]very fallen leaf, even, was constantly removed ; so in his death there 

 was no evidence of decay, in the full beauty and prime of numhood ; without a 

 spot or blemish was he stricken down; neither old age, nor sickness, nor misfor- 

 tune had laid their heavy hands upon him, but like a beautiful meteor he disap- 

 ])eared ; and many years must roll on ere those who admired and loved him will 

 have forgotten his bri(/htness. 



The adoption of the texts as above must be deemed every way satisfactory, 

 and more in accordance with proper feeling than any elal)orate ell'ort of the Muse ; 

 and yet there have been successes; I am tempted to quote two examples, which 

 in their sentiments seem to apply to the departed. The first is the 

 Epitaph on John Dryden, hy the Bishop of Rochester. 



This Sheffield raised, to Dryden's ashes just, 

 There lix'd his name, and tliere his laurell'd bust. 

 What else the Muse in raaii)le miglit express. 

 Is known already ; praise would make it less. 



Hogarth's is in the proper spirit, and applicable in some respects : — 



Epitaph on Hogarth, by Garrick. 



If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; 



If nature touch thee, drop a tear ; 

 If neither move thee, turn away, 



For Hogarth's honored dust lies here. 



Many will l)e the feet in future years that will wend their way to this shrine of 

 one greatly endeared to a large circle. 



Well, indeed, in Downing's instance, might the beautiful words of the poet 

 have been applied, as his coffin disappeared among his trees. And now — 



" Linguenda tellus et dormus et placens. 

 Uxor, neque harum quas cells arborum, 

 Te prieter iuvisas cupressos, 

 Ulla brevem dominum sequetur." 



Which, literally translated, would read thus: "The world must be given up, 

 and home, and the gentle wife ; and not one of all these trees you have cherished, 

 except the envious cypress, shall follow thee, their short-lived master, to the 

 grave." — 



VISITS TO COUNTRY PLACES.— No. 8. 

 AROUND. NEWPORT, R. I. 



TriouGn climate exercises less influence upon the life and health of animals 

 than on plants, it is very desirable to the animal — man — neither to be roasted nor 

 frozen ; at Newport, by general consent, it is admitted there is a more agreeable 

 temperature, both summer and winter, than in any latitude of ours so far north. If 

 the people of this country are ever able to afford it, and they will be, most assuredly, 

 they will have two cities, one for winter and one for summer; one where trade and 

 manufactures can flourish, and another on the sea-coast, or in the mountains. It 

 is fast coming to this ; our desirable watering-places are now crowded ; those who 

 can manage to do so, have their own dwellings, and Newport can boast of some 

 f the best in the country. Bancroft, the historian, George Calvert, of Baltimore, 

 id Sears, Robert Mason, Sidney Brooks, and Mr. Ritchie, of Boston, William 



