Rosicrusius Rev. T. F. Dibdin. Sir Tristram Walter Scott, Esq. Sycorax Joseph Ritson. Ulpian Edw. Vernon Utterson, Esq. (1.) Attributed to Birt } In Sir Francis (2.) ---- Churton } Freeling's copy. Page 164. Right-hand neighbor Mr. George Nicol. Left-hand ditto Mr. R. H. Evans. Opposite ditto Mr. Thomas Payne. Page 249. Literary friend Sir Henry Ellis. W. P. * * * * * PARALLEL PASSAGES.[1] 1. "In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy Branches ne'er remember Their green felicity," &c.--_Keats._ "What would be the heart of an old weather-beaten hollow stump, if the leaves and blossoms of its youth were suddenly to spring up out of the mould around it, and to remind it how bright and blissful summer was in the years of its prime?"--Hare's _Guesses at Truth_, 1st series, p. 244. 2. "Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars that on earth's firmament do shine." Longfellow, _Flowers_. "And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green." Hood, _Plea of the Midsummer Fairies_, xxxvi. [And see the converse thought,-- "Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky." D. M. Moir, quoted in _Dubl. Univ. Mag._, Oct. 1852.] 3. "But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a _midnight_ made of her own hair." Hood, _Hero and Leander_, cxvi. "Within the _midnight_ of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps," &c. Barry Cornwall, _The Pearl Wearer_. "But, rising up, Robed in the long _night_ of her deep hair, so To the open window moved." Tennyson, _Princess_, p. 89. 4. "He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all." M. Milnes, _To Myrzha, on returning_. "I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most,-- 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." Tennyson, _In Memoriam_, xxvii. 5. Boileau, speaking of himself, when set in his youth to study the law, says that his family-- "... Palit, et vit en frémissant Dans la poudre du greffe un poëte naissant." While Pope, in his _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_, speaks of-- "Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross." HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.