"The barren, optimistic sophistries Of comfortable moles, whom what they do Teaches the limit of the just and true, And for such doing have no need of eyes,"-- thus favouring the public in a sonnet with his views touching the onward progress of society:-- "Yet, when I muse on what life is, I seem Rather to patience prompted, than that proud Prospect of hope which France proclaims so loud-- France, famed in all good arts, in none supreme. Seeing this vale, this earth, whereon we dream, Is on all sides o'ershadowed by the high Uno'erleap'd mountains of necessity, Sparing us narrower margin than we deem. Nor will that day dawn at a human nod, When, bursting through the network superpos'd By selfish occupation--plot and plan, Lust, avarice, envy--liberated man, All difference with his fellow-man compos'd, Shall be left standing face to face with God." What would our friend be at? If he is a Tory, can't he find work enough in denouncing and exposing the lies of the League, and in taking up the cudgels for native industry? If he is a Whig, can't he be great upon sewerage, and the scheme of planting colonies in Connaught, to grow corn and rear pigs at prices which will not pay for the manure and the hogs'-wash? If he is a Chartist, can't he say so, and stand up manfully with Julian Harney for "the points," whatever may be their latest number? But we think that, all things considered, he had better avoid politics. Let him do his duty to God and man, work six hours a-day, whether he requires to do so for a livelihood or not, marry and get children, and, in his moments of leisure, let him still study Sophocles and amend his verses. But we hope that, whatever he does, he will not inflict upon us any more such platitudes as "Resignation," addressed "to Fausta" or any sonnets similar to that which he has written in _Emerson's Essays_. We tender our counsel with a most sincere regard for his future welfare; for, in spite of his many faults, the _Strayed Reveller_ is a clever fellow; and though it cannot be averred that, up to the present time, he has made the most of fair talents and a first-rate education, we are not without hope that, some day or other, we may be able to congratulate him on having fairly got rid of his affected misanthropy, his false philosophy, and his besetting sin of imitation, and that he may yet achieve something which may come home to the heart, and secure the admiration of the public. NEW LIGHT ON THE STORY OF LADY GRANGE.