272 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



that once great master of Horse Anatomy, 

 James Ward. Hallam is buried on the same 

 headland where Tennyson sat when Arthur 

 Hallam died, with the wild waves murmur- 

 ing, and the stately ships at his feet, as he 

 dreamed of 



1 The touch of a vanished hand 

 And the sound of a voice that is still.' 



" Washington Irving, whose works Dickens 

 used as a boy to place under his pillow, and 

 from whose glorious simplicity and delicate 

 wit the author of ' Pickwick ' has too often 

 wandered away, can come to England no 

 more to revisit the scenes of his ' Brace- 

 bridge Hall,' and to wield the poker which 

 he dubbed his 'sceptre' at the Red Horse 

 Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon ; De Quincey, too, 

 with all his strange feverish dreams has gone 

 to join the Coleridges, Samuel and Hartley 

 (father and son), Wordsworth, Southey, 

 Arnold, and all that brilliant band which erst 

 made the " Lake country" something far 

 more than a pleasant summer resort ; Leigh 

 Hunt will gladden us no more with his 

 quaint old stories, running back to the very 



