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fidelity records the death of
perished before its walls, con-
protest against the injustice
wing comrades.
be continued.)

orks of the late Alfred John-
oiworth ; with Memoirs of the
ited by Dr. Gearge Sexton.
Vol. I. London : C. J.

first be surprised to find " Childe
ipell of Love and War," reaching
- in two years; not because it
to do so, for it is by no means
:poetical power, but because its
most glaring and repulsive kind,
reading of it both difficult and
2is surprise, however, vanishes as
consider the extraordinary circum-
' in the memoir prefixed to the
iublic have been attracted by a
re purchased a wild fiction of the
for the sake of an equally wild
feteenth which is bound up with
tergyman lost his life on Snowdon,
so far as to read his sermons.
recorded his opinion that if a King
been elected by universal suffrage
1814, the choice might have
Breton gentleman, who was
descended from Louis XIII.
Man in the Iron Mask. So much
do. When we consider that the
poet now before us is as doubtful
iebrated character just mentioned,
-orth is only the name of the nurse
intrusted in infancy, we should
surprised at the success of his
ten times the faults or but a tenth
.ich they actually have.
poems derive so much of their
the character of their author, we
Abridge for the reader's benefit the
here printed.
year 1818 a child was born near
Of his father nothing whatever is told
mother little more than the fact that
child under the care of an old
Hollingsworth, who was to pass
The boy seems never again to
upon his true mother. He re-
the old woman till he was about
and then passed into the family of
Aving on his cure near Liverpool,
tcealing his name, communicates all this
about his charge. From this
boy, who showed himself to possess
ick parts and an inquisitive spirit.,
_ readily to his book, derived that
northern antiquities which gives to his
peculiar and rather disagreeable
was an old-fashioned boy, not
waywardness, the love of solitude,
in nursing the images of his own
derived from books, which are
presage the coming poet. He was
and not very amiable ; in fact, his
a very decided disposition extrava-
-errate himself and underrate his
Ibis course of study was completely
►y the influence of his imagination.
•hat interested him, and could never
ipon to study anything which did
►ve usually indulged themselves in
and it is commonly supposed that
best fitted for these exceptional
its is the one which they give them-
the other side, the judgment of
be quoted, who regretted nothing so
life as the licence he had allowed
Jose years when his genius was being
reading and reflection.
up, the riddle of his birth neces-
., itself upon Hollingsworth's atten-
account for the difference of his posi-
- roof of a clergyman, and that which
,bered in the humble abode of the old
he had been taught to call mother,
rich uncle in London having taken
fortunes was invented, but as this
..- showed himself and the nephew was
Aced to visit him, Hollingsworth natu-
- suspicious and discontented. Assured,
that his subsistence was provided for,

with praiseworthy
every officer who p(
taro so strong a
shown to his surviv
( To
The Poetical Word
stone Hollingswo,
Author. Edited
Second Edition.
Skeet.
WE might at first
Erconwold, a Spell
a second edition
does not deserve 1
without marks of
faults are of the m,
and make the rea
unpleasant. This
soon as we consid
stances related in
volume. The put
romance, and have
eleventh century I
story of the ninet(
it. When a clerg:
the public went
ljeranger has rem
of France had bee
of the nation in
fallen upon a
believed to be
through the Man
could mystery do
very name of the
as that of the celet
that Hollingswort
to whom he was i
not need to be E
poems had they t(
of the merit whit]
Since the poe
interest frlm the
may as well abri(
memoir of him he
About the yea'
London. Of his
us ; of his mothe
she placed her
woman named F
for his parent. '
have set eyes u
mained with the
ten years old, ani
a clergyman livii
who, concealing
information alx
guardian the bol
remarkably quit
and who took re;
taste for norther
poems their pe
flavour. He NI
without the wa
the pleasure in
fancy or those
supposed to pre
delicate,
shy, ani
poems display a
gently to oven
neighbours. II
determined by
He studied wha
be prevailed up
not. Poets has
this manner ; a
the education
creative spirits
selves, On ti
Goethe may be
much in later li
himself in those
formed by read
As he grew
tardy forced it:
lion. To
ace°
lion under the
he remembere
nurse whom ,
the story of a
charge of his I
uncle never sb
never allowed
rally grew sus
however,
that