The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

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To measure heights with patriots, let them stand

Beside the man is his Oporto shroud,
And each vouchsafe to take him by the hand,

And kiss him on the cheek, and says aloud,
Thou, too, hast suffered for our native land!

My brother, thou art one of us. Be proud.' "
Very noble and beautiful is this, and worthy of a
woman's heart, and a woman's intellect, and a
woman's enthusiasm. Nevertheless, twenty lines
even though they be as meritorious as the foregoing,
are insufficient to redeem a volume which is other-
wise worthless as a specimen of tedious and affected
versification. Considered, moreover, in regard to its
design, the work must be denied all claim—even the
faintest—to originality, it being literally neither more
nor less than a very hoarse amen, croaked somewhat
tardily to the aspirations syllabled in the " Roman"
of Sydney Yendys. Altogether the book is calculated
in no manner to extend Mrs. Browning's popularity,
tending, we believe, on the contrary, very seriously to
deteriorate her reputation.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE. James Truscott.

Railway companies generally would do well to
emulate the enterprise evinced in the present publi-
cation. In it are described, in a very lively and
graphic manner, the various localities noticeable along
the line of the Eastern Counties Railroad, the letter-
press being agreably interspersed with woodcuts, re-
presenting the principal features of the double pano-
rama of landscapes. A species of vignette displays
" our starting train" at the commencement of the
narrative. Further on we have a sketch of the
Bishopsgate Station ; and before quitting the pre-
cints of the metropolis we catch glimpses of
the Victoria Park gates and of Bow- bridge,
passing on until we arrive at the Stratford
works, and turning on to the main line at the Strat-
ford Junction. Tottenham Cross is not overlooked,
neither are the Waltham Abbey gates, or Waltham
Abbey itself, Rye House, or Broxbourne. To the
travelled reader it will be interesting after this to
note successively Nether Hall and Nell Gwynn's
House, Audley End, and the little town of Saffron
Weldon. Arrived at Cambridge, we find sprinkled
over the descriptive chapters relating to that Uni-
versity, cuts of King's College, of the view from
Castle-hill, of St. Sepulchre's, of King's College
Chapel, of Trinity, of St. John's, and of Clara Hall.
Ely is the next engraving, and opposite to this comes
one of Ely Cathedral. Several drawings of spots
well known at Norwich are given immediately after-
wards, such as the market-place, the castle, the Nor-
man tower, Pull's ferry, the bridge, and station, with
one or two of the
,ancient gateways. Thorpe is the
next place particularized, and afterwards comes a
capital view of the quay side at Yarmouth. Together
with these are clever little woodcuts of the column, of
the jetty, of the market-place, and of the canal.
Somerleyton, Lake Lothing, and Lowestoft, are de-
picted both in a literary and pictorial manner with much
exactitude. Connected with the engraving of Lowes-
toft are minor ones of the bridge and harbour, of the
beach and pilot station, and of High Light. Romford
is then reached, and thence, through Epping Forest,
we come upon the pretty little village of Chigwell,
renowned as the scene of so many romantic occur-
rences described in Charles Dickens's " Barnaby
Rudge." Chelmsford is represented hard by in two
views, and is closely followed by Maldon, with a
glimpse of the Maldon railway station. Braintree
and Colchestor are next perceived, with a sketch of
the railway station at the latter place, and others of
St. Botolph's Priory, of Wix Belfry, of Mr. Bag-
shaw's house (both interior and exterior), of the
Landguard Fort, and the Club-house. Then we
behold The Brinks, with engravings of the Corn-
market, and of the outside and inside of Peterborough
Cathedral. On reaching Hertford, the excursionist
has his attention directed to the castle and college,
and so passing pleasantly from terminus to terminus,
becomes familiarized with the whole route of the
Eastern Counties Railway. As a specimen of the
charmingly anecdotal and gossiping style in which
the guide has been written throughout, we trans-
cribe the following note entire, as it occurs at pages
22 and 23, on the occasion of its being observed that
Trinity College, Cambridge, has in modern times pro-
duced two of the greatest geniuses in their respective
walks that England, or probably the whole of Europe,
possesses :