_Cartoon_ is derived from the Italian _cartone_, a painting or drawing upon large paper. Raphael died on the same day of the year on which he was born, Good Friday, in 1520, at the age of thirty-seven, deeply lamented by all who knew his value. His body lay for awhile in state in one of the rooms wherein he had displayed the powers of his mind, and he was honoured with a public funeral; his last produce, the _transfiguration_, being carried before him in the procession. The unrelenting hand of death (says his biographer) set a period to his labours, and deprived the world of further benefit from his talents, when he had only attained an age at which most other men are but beginning to be useful. "We see him in his cradle (said Fuseli); we hear him stammer; but propriety rocked the cradle, and character formed his lips." P.T.W. * * * * * TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. WRITTEN ON VISITING WESTMINSTER ABBEY. My murder'd queen, as on thine image once The gaze alike of prince and peasant rested-- As if, unsated of thy thrilling glance, They never until then of beauty tasted: So I, by lonely contemplation led To muse awhile amid the silent dead-- Turn me from all around I hear or see-- From all of Shakspeare and of great to thee: And think on all thy wrongs--on all the shame That dims for ever thine oppressor's name; On all thy faults, nor few nor far between, But then thou wert--a woman and a queen. Proud titles, even in a barb'rous age, To stem th' impetuous tide of party rage; While as I gaze each well-known feature seems To stir with life, and realise my dreams That paint thee seated on the Scottish throne, With all the blaze of beauty round thee thrown; Then see thee passing from thy dungeon cell, And hear thy parting sigh--thy last farewell. _Stray Leaves._ * * * * * ANCIENT GRECIAN SEPULCHRE [Illustration] A beautiful illustration of an ancient Grecian sepulchre or funeral chamber, heads the second chapter of Mr. Britton's "Union of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting," from which work we have copied the annexed engraved view. The interior of the chamber exhibits a skeleton and the urns containing the ashes of the dead. The combat leads us to the conclusion, that the tomb contains the remains of a chief; for it was the barbarous custom of the Greeks to sacrifice captives at the tombs of their heroes. Of the funeral rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and other nations, we subjoin the following:--