Parsonage," ," "Can You forgive Her?" "The Last Chronicle of Barset," and several other novels of great merit. Ralph, the Heir," now publishing. CHARLOTTE BRONTË. - 1816-1855. Better known as "Currer Bell," a novelist of original power, true genius. "The Professor," "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," and "Villette." WILKIE COLLINS. 1824. "Life of his Father," " Antonina,' "The Frozen Deep," a drama; "The Dead Secret," No Name," "Basil," "After Dark,” Life," "Queen of Hearts," "Woman in White," and others of much popular favor. GEORGE ELIOT (Miss Evans?). - Very popular author of "Scenes of Clerical "The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede," 66 "Silas Warner," Felix Holt," The Spanish Gypsy," and "How Lisa loved the King." WILLIAM CARLETON.-1798. "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry," "Fardorougha the Miser," "Valentine McClutchy," "Willy Reilly," and others. WILLIAM H. AINSWORTH. - - 1805. "Rockwood," "Jack Sheppard,” “The Tower of London," Old St. Paul's," and "Windsor Castle," of an historical nature. SAMUEL WARREN.-1807. "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician," "Ten Thousand a Year," and others. 66 DINAH MARIA MULOCK.-1826. "The Ogilvies,' ," "John Halifax, Gentleman," "Olive," and several others; also volume of poems. JAMES HANNAY.-1827. "Singleton Fontenoy," "Eustace Conyers," "Lectures on Satire and Satirists," and "Essays from Quarterly Review." ELIZABETH GASKELL. GEORGE GLEIG. 1796. 66 Mary Barton," and "Life of C. Brontë." "The Subaltern," "The Chelsea Pensioners.” SAMUEL LOVER.-1797. "Rory O'More," "Handy Andy," and Irish songs. JOHN BANIN. 1800-1842. "The O'Hara Tales." ANNE MARSH. — 1798. "Two Old Men's Tales," "Emilia Wyndham." CATHERINE GORE. 1799-1861. "Mothers and Daughters;" "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb." "The Munster Tales," "The Collegians." GERALD GRIFFIN. 1803-1840. WILLIAM H. MAXWELL.-1850. ANNA M. HALL." The Buccaneer," Life." ALBERT SMITH.-1816--1860. pole," and " Mr. Ledbury." 99 66 "Mont Blanc and China," "6 Christopher Tad SHIRLEY BROOKS. 1816. "The Gordian Knot," "Aspen Court," "The Silver Cord," and others. ANGUS B. REACH. 1821-1856. "Clement Lorimer," "Leonard Lindsay," "Natural History of Bores and Humbugs," Claret and Olives." 99 66 JAMES GRANT. — 1822. "Romance of War," "Jane Seton," "Memorials of Edinburgh Castle." GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. - "Gaslight and Daylight in London," "Hogarth," "Seven Sons of Mammon," and others. CHARLES READE. — “Peg Woffington," "Christie Johnston," "Never Too Late to Mend," and several others. THOMAS HUGHES. - "Scouring of the White Horse," "Tom Brown's SchoolDays,' ""Tom Brown at Oxford." FRANK SMEDLEY.—“Frank Fairlegh's Lewis Arundel.” MAYNE REID.-"Scalp-Hunters." GERALDINE JEWSBURY.-"Zoe," and "Half-Sisters." Mrs. CATHARINE CROWE.. "Susan Hopley," "The Night-Side of Nature." And a legion, besides, of modern novelists. ALFRED TENNYSON. BORN 1810. Poet Laureate since 1850. Critics somewhat divided as to his merits. Resembles Longfellow; and equally popular at home and abroad. The first of living English poets. PRINCIPAL PIECES. "The May Queen;""In Memoriam; " "Locksley Hall;" "Maud;" "The Idylls of the King; ""The Princess, a Medley; ""Morte d'Arthur; ""Godiva;' "Enoch Arden;" "The Holy Grail." IN MEMORIAM.* I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings But who shall so forecast the years, Or reach a hand through time to catch Let Love clasp Grief, lest both be drowned; Than that the victor Hours should scorn II. OLD Yew, which graspest at the stones The seasons bring the flower again, Oh! not for thee the glow, the bloom, * A hundred and thirty short poems in memory of the poet's friend, Arthur II. Hallam, And gazing on thee, sullen tree, III. O SORROW, cruel fellowship! O Priestess in the vaults of Death! "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; "And all the phantom, Nature, stands, And shall I take a thing so blind? Embrace her as my natural good? Or crush her, like a vice of blood, Upon the threshold of the mind? IV. To Sleep I give my powers away; "O heart! how fares it with thee now, That thou shouldst fail from thy desire, Who scarcely darest to inquire, 'What is it makes me beat so low?' "Something it is which thou hast lost; Some pleasure from thine early years. Break, thou deep vase of chilling tears, That grief hath shaken into frost!" Such clouds of nameless trouble cross All night below the darkened eyes: With morning wakes the will, and cries, "Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal, And half conceal, the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, VI. ONE writes that "other friends remain," That loss is common would not make O father, wheresoe'er thou be, Who pledgest now thy gallant son! O mother, praying God will save Thy sailor! while thy head is bowed, Ye know no more than I who wrought And ever met him on his way With wishes, thinking, "Here to-day, Oh! somewhere, meek, unconscious dove, For now her father's chimney glows In expectation of a guest; And thinking, "This will please him best," She takes a ribbon or a rose : For he will see them on to-night; (And with the thought her color burns :) And, having left the glass, she turns Once more to set a ringlet right; |