Shut in these few pages we find the substance of a three-volume novel; and while the mind sways slowly to the music of its "sculptured lines," the lives of men move on from birth to death, leaving their meaning stamped in rhythmic beauty on our heart and brain. Nor must we forget, while contemplating the two principal poems in the volume,--finished heroic lessons of the poet's mature life,--the songs, singing themselves like summer ripples on the strand, which are their melodious companions. Among them we dare to mention "In the Valley of Cauteretz,"-- "Sweeter thy voice, though every sound is sweet." FOOTNOTES: [A] _Madame Recamier, with a Sketch of the History of Society in France_. By Madame M----. London. 1862. [B] _Causeries de Lundi_. [C] _Coppet et Weimar: Madame de Stael et la Grande Duchesse Louise_. [D] Madame de Chateaubriand. [E] This term designated a larger class of young men than that to which it is now confined. It took in the articled clerks of merchants and bankers, the George Barnwells of the day. [F] Since writing this article, we have been informed that the object of our funeral oration is not definitively dead, but only moribund. So much the better: we shall have an opportunity of granting the request made to Walter by one of the children in the wood, and "kill him two times." The Abbe de Vertot, having a siege to write, and not receiving the materials in time, composed the whole from his invention. Shortly after its completion, the expected documents arrived, when he threw them aside, exclaiming, "You are of no use to me now: I have carried the town." [G] _Cornhill Magazine_, June, 1864, Vol. IX. p. 654. [H] Gates was an Englishman, and has a damaged reputation. Lee was another, who has no reputation at all. Conway was an Irishman, and the same is true of him. But these men all did something to forfeit esteem. Jones never did. Montgomery died in the full flush of his deserved honors. He was Irish by birth. [I] Not bound to the Baltic, as Mr. Thackeray supposes. Cf. Beatson's _Naval Memoirs_, Vol. IV. pp. 550-553.