of the hour, who attempted to palm upon him his ill-digested learning. Literature with him was religion; and he, its high-priest, with a whip of scorpions scourged the money-changers from the temple. In all else he had the docility and kind-heartedness of a child. No man was more quickly touched by a kindness—none more prompt to atone for an injury. For three or four years I knew him intimately, and for eighteen months saw him almost daily; much of the time writing or conversing at the same desk; knowing all his hopes, his fears, and little annoyances of life, as well as his high-hearted struggle with adverse fate—yet he was always the same polished gentleman—the quiet, unobtrusive, thoughtful scholar—the devoted husband—frugal in his personal expenses—punctual and unwearied in his industry—_and the soul of honor_, in all his transactions. This, of course, was in his better days, and by them _we_ judge the man. But even after his habits had changed, there was no literary man to whom I would more readily advance money for labor to be done. He kept his accounts, small as they were, with the accuracy of a banker. I append an account sent to me in his own hand, long after he had left Philadelphia, and after all knowledge of the transactions it recited had escaped my memory. I had returned him the story of “The Gold Bug,” at his own request, as he found that he could dispose of it very advantageously elsewhere. “We were square when I sold you the ‘Versification’ article; for which you gave me first 25, and afterward 7—in all $32 00 Then you bought ‘The Gold Bug’ for 52 00 ——— I got both these back, so that I owed $84 00 You lent Mrs. Clemm 12 50 ——— Making in all $96 50 The review of ‘Flaccus’ was 3¾ pp, which, at $4, is 15 00 Lowell’s poem is 10 00 The review of Channing, 4 pp. is 16, of which I got 6, leaving 10 00 The review of Halleck, 4 pp. is 16, of which I got 10, leaving 6 00 The review of Reynolds, 2 pp. 8 00 The review of Longfellow, 5 pp. is 20, of which I got 10, leaving 10 00 ——— So that I have paid in all 59 00 ——— Which leaves still due by me $37 50 ”