New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-03

his friends embarked on board small sailing .vesse
for trip Of few hours Excellent sailors all, and
familiar with the coast they Gent back the Atmen,
and undertook themselves the management of the
little craft. Danger was not dreamt OF by any one ;
after the catastrophe no one could divine the cause
but in Re minutes after their embarkation, and in
sight their very Windows Just as they were cross
ing the bar, the boat went down. and ali who were
in her persisted. Even the bodies were never found
was told by party who were travelling that year
in DevonshIIe and Cornwall, that 1t was mos. affect
ing to see ON the corner houses Of every village
street, on every church door, and almost on every
cliff for miles and miles along the coast, handbills
offering large rewards for linen cast ashore marked
with TIE initials OF the beloved dead for 1t 80
Glanced that all the three OF the dearest and
the best one, believe, an only son, the other the
eOn OF widow.
utterly Frustrated by the horror and the grief
and by natural but most unjust feeling thai she
had been ID some sort the cause of this great misery
1t was not until the following year that she could be
removed in an invalid carnage. and BY journeys OF
twenty miles day, to her afflicted family and her
London hone. The house that she occupied al Tor
ouay had been chosen as one of the most sheltered
IN The place IL stood at the bottom of the cliffs al.
most close to the sea and she told me herself that
during that whole winter the sound OF tho waves
rang In her ears like the means ot one dying SUI
she cluI TO literature and TO Greek In all prooa-
biliiy she would have died without tina. wholesome
diversion to her thoughts. Her medical attendant
did not always understand this To prevent Ice re-
monttrapces of her friendly physician, Dr. barry,
as to resemble novel. lie cid not know, skufui
and kind though he were, that TO her such books
were not an aYduous and painful study, cuE conso-
lasion and delight.
Returned 70 London, she began the LIE which she
continued for many confined 10 one large and
commodious but daTkened chamber, adnitsDg only
nor own alec,ionate family and a few devoted
friepcs o. myself, have often joyfuliy travelled i've
snd. forty miles to see her, and retired the same
eveling without entering another house } reading
almost every cook worth reading in almost every
language, and giving herself heart and soul to that
poetry Of which she seemed born to be the priesess
Gradually her health improved. About four years
ago she married NJ. Browning. aud Immediately
accompanied him TO Pisa. They then settled at
Florence and this summer have had the exquisite
pleasure Of seeing her once more in London with
lovely boy at her knee, almost we'll as ever aud
telling tales Of Italian rsmbles Of Losing herself in
che smut forests, and scrsmbling on mule back up
The sources OF extinct volcanoes, May Heaven con-
iiLue to her such health AID such happiness.
We must leave our readers the pleasant task
OF discovering the gems OF poetry with which
the volume is profusely enriched. They GER
tsmly lose nothing from the brilliant setting
which they have received from the admirable
taste OF the reminiscent, although in themselves,
they are sufficient to beguile many'a weary hour.