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girl, who died at the age of five, daughter of 

 Sir Brooke Boothby), from the chisel of 

 T. Banks, R. A. which, for execution and design, 

 would do credit to the talents of any artist. 

 On a marble pedestal, a mattress, sculptured 

 from the same material, is laid; on this the 

 child reposes, but apparently not in quiet ; her 

 head reclines on a pillow, but the disposition 

 of the whole figure indicates restlessness. 

 The little sufferer, indeed, appears as if she 

 had just changed her position, by one of those 

 frequent turnings to which illness often in vain 

 resorts for relief from pain." There are four 

 inscriptions on the tablet of this exquisite 

 monument all bearing testimony to the feel- 

 ings and learning of the afflicted parent in 

 English, Latin, Italian, and French. We pre- 

 fer the English and French ones, particularly 

 on account of the melancholy ideas expressed 

 in the latter portions of them. 



It shows, perhaps, wrong taste in us to touch 

 upon such grave matters in a fishing-book. 

 But let the reader reflect, that we are just at 

 the end of our work that such a position 

 naturally suggests to the mind, that some day 

 will arrive it may be near or it may be 

 remote when there will be a final end to 

 all our earthly labours let him suppose us, as 

 we really are, writing by the twilight of a dark, 



