gentleman who once walked at his own funeral and the editor or perhaps his late paris correspondent adds the adverse circumstances have been various in the philosophy of ill luck it may be laid down as a principle that every point of to one common centre of defeat when the do in one discomfiture their is wonderful so has it happened in the case of the constitutional in the first place a delay of some months consequent upon the of the newspaper stamp on the minds of many who were originally parties to the enterprise in the next the majority of those who remained faithful were wholly inexperienced in the art and mystery of the practical working of an important daily journal in the third and consequent upon the other two there was the want of those abundant means and of that wise application of resources without which no efficient organ of the the interests of any class of men � to say nothing of the interests of that first and greatest class whose welfare has been our dearest aim and most constant object � can be successfully established then came farther on the part of friends and the of friends in disguise the venture proved in every way a disastrous one although supported by a joint stock company the burden of the undertaking really rested upon the original of whom major was the principal while his mr also lost nearly all that remained of his fortune it was shortly after the failure of the constitutional that mr married in paris a miss sister of the captain an indian officer who was one of the at his funeral an irish lady of good family who bore him two daughters the elder of whom has recently shown something of her illustrious father s talent in the remarkable story of elizabeth written by her and published in the magazine in he left that city with his family and resided for two years in london when for the and the man of letters first time he began to devote himself seriously to literary labour adding according to a french writer occasional work as an we are told that he contributed some papers to the times during s � an article on among them he is believed to have been connected with two literary papers of his time � the torch by esq and the which must not be confounded with a literary journal with the same name recently existing the torch which was started on the th of august ran only for six months and was immediately succeeded by the which had a longer existence in neither paper however is it possible to trace any sign of that shrewd criticism or overflowing humour which distinguish the papers in for the latter publication he and it was at this time that the papers appeared with occasional notices of the of paintings in london among his writings of this period we also find s or the fatal boots contributed to his friend s comic for the and since included in the by a long continuous story founded on the crime of the celebrated of the last century and intended to ridicule the novels of the school of jack and u two stories and to the in he visited paris again at the request of the proprietor of in order to write an account of the french exhibition of paintings which appears in the december number on his return he devoted himself to the writing of the shabby genteel story which was begun in for june and continued in the numbers for july august and october when it stopped unfinished at the ninth chapter the story of this strange failure is a mournful one while busily engaged in writing this beautiful and affecting story a dark shadow descended upon his household making all the associations of that time painful to him forever the terrible truth long suspected that the chosen partner of his good and evil fortunes could never in the success for which he had toiled became confirmed and the man of letters the mental disease which had attacked his wife rapidly developed itself until the hopes which had sustained those to whom she was most dear were wholly extinguished mr was not one of those who love to parade their domestic sorrows before the world no explanation of his strange failure to complete his story was given to his readers but years afterwards in it in his he alluded to the circumstances which had his hand and rendered him incapable of ever the thread of his story with a touching for those who knew the facts the tale was interrupted he said at a sad period of the writer s own life when the of the was announced it was his intention to complete the little story � but the colours were long since dry � the artist s hand had changed it was best he says to leave the sketch as it was when first resigned seventeen years ago the memory of the past is renewed as he looks at it it was in that mr contributed to the westminster a beautiful and vol r p the article upon the productions of his mend george illustrated � an unusual thing for the great organ of the philosophers of the schools of j mill and sir w � with numerous specimens of the comic sketches of the subject of the papers his defence of from the of those who loved to dwell upon his defects as a is fall of sound criticism his claim for his friend as something far greater a man endowed with that of all faculties the power to create are inspired by a generous enthusiasm which give a life and spirit to the paper not often found in a critical review but perhaps the finest passage in the article is the concluding words � many artists we hear hold his 