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says, " lighted a perfumed pastille, 

 modelled from Vesuvius. As soon 

 as the cone of the mountain began 

 to bla,ze, I found myself an inhabi- 

 tant of the devoted city ; and, as 

 Pliny the elder, thus addressed 

 Bulwer, my supposed nephew : 

 ' Our fate is accomplished, nephew ! 

 Hand me yonder volume. I shall 

 die as a student in my vocation. 

 Do thou hasten to take refuge on 

 board the fleet at Misenum. Yon- , 



der cloud of hot ashes chides thy 

 longer delay. Feel no alarm for 

 me ; I shall live in story. Tho 

 author of Pelkam will rescue my 

 name from oblivion.' Pliny the 

 younger made me a low bow, &c." 

 "We strongly suspect James of quiz- 

 zing "our host." He noted, by 

 the way, that in the chamber were 

 the busts of Hebe, Laura, Petrarch, 

 Dante, and other worthies ; Laura 

 like our Queen. 



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LADY BACON. 



Lady Bacon displayed at an early 

 age her capacity, application, and 

 industry, by translating, from the 

 Italian of Bernardine Octine, 

 twenty-five sermons on the ab- 

 struse doctrines of predestination 

 and election. This performance 

 was published about the year 1550. 

 A circumstance took place, soon 

 after her marriage, which again 

 called forth her talents and zeal. 

 She appeared as the translator into 

 English, from Latin, of Bishop 

 Jewell's Apology for the Church 

 of England, in which he retorted 

 upon the Bomanists the charges 

 previously preferred by them 

 against the reformers ; and with 

 fidelity and elegance she accom- 

 plished her task. 



She sent a copy of her work 

 to the primate, whom she consid- 

 ered as most interested in the safety 

 of the church ; a second copy she 

 presented to the author, lest, inad- 

 vertently, she had in any respect 

 done injustice to his sentiments. 

 Her copy was accompanied by an 

 epistle in Greek, to which the 

 bishop replied in the same lan- 

 guage. The translation was care- 

 fully examined both by the primate 

 and author, who found it so chastely 

 and correctly given, as to stand in 



no need of the slightest emenda- 

 tion. The translator received on 

 this occasion a letter from the 

 primate, full of high and just com- 

 pliments to her talents and erudi- 

 tion. 



Lady Bacon survived her hus- 

 band, and died about the beginning 

 of the reign of James I., at Ger- 

 hamburg, near St. Albans, in Hert- 

 fordshire. She was the mother of 

 the wisest, brightest of mankind. 



TOWNLET'S "HTJDIBRAS." 

 Horace "Walpole says of Hudi- 

 bras that it was long esteemed an 

 impossibility to give an adequate 

 translation of that singular work, 

 in any language, still more in 

 French, the idiom of which is very 

 remote from the conciseness of the 

 original. To our astonishment, 

 however, Mr. Townley, an English 

 gentleman, has translated Hudibras 

 into French, with the spirit and 

 conciseness of the original. 



WILLIAM TYXDALE. 



Tyndale was a disciple of Luther. 

 He was bom in the year 1500. 

 About the year 152G, he translated 

 the New Testament into English, 

 of which two editions were sold ; 

 but he was obliged to perform his 

 work out of the limits of England. 

 He was, however, at length be- 



