She visits Sweden and England 339 Lord Byron 339, 340 1814. Louis XVIII., repays to Madame de Staël the two Millions of Francs advanced by Necker to Louis XVI. 339 The Duke de Broglie marries the Daughter of Madame de Staël 340 Ill-health of M. Rocca 340 Madame de Staël's Character and Sentiments 341 1817. Ætat. 51. Her Death in Paris 341 Death of M. Rocca 341 Criticism on the Writings of Madame de Staël 342 The Viscount de Chateaubriand's Opinion of her 343 Her "Dix Années d'Exil" 343 Her "Germany" 343 Her political Sentiments 343 LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN. VOLTAIRE 1694-1778. It is impossible to commence the biography of this extraordinary man without feelings of apprehension as to our power of well executing the task. To write the life of Voltaire in a full and satisfactory manner, is to write not only the biography of an individual author, and the history of French literature during the course of nearly a century, but also of a revolution in the minds of men, in their opinions and rules of action, which, if not brought about entirely by him, was fostered and supported by his influence, in a manner the most singular and powerful. We are apt, as we read his letters, to laugh at the petulance which he evinced when attacked, and to reprove the vehemence with which he attacked others in return. But when we consider that an absolute monarch and a powerful hierarchy supported opinions which he and his friends struggled to subvert, we feel that it required all his dogmatic spirit, all his bitterness of sarcasm and vehemence of temper, to combat opposition, and to support both his own courage and that of his followers, in his attempt.