Southey was Poet Laureate with, in 1834, a pension of £300 per annum. The "bitter Bengalee," W. M. Thackeray, came of age in 1832, and his first regular literary employment was for _Fraser's Magazine_, wherein _The History of Samuel Titmarsh, and The Great Hoggarty Diamond_ appeared during 1837-38. Nor, in this list, must be forgotten painstaking John Timbs, whose works are indispensable for reference. John Wilson, perhaps better known as Christopher North, contributed his celebrated _Noctes Ambrosinæ_ to _Blackwood's Magazine_ up to 1835; in which year Wordsworth published his _Yarrow revisited_. Nor must we omit mention of the fair sex in their literary work. Mrs. Sarah Austin, who produced two of her famous translations in this reign--viz. _A Tour in England, Ireland, and France by a German Prince_ (1832), and _Raumer's England in 1835_, in 1836; in which year Joanna Baillie published three volumes of dramas. In 1836, also, Mrs. Bray brought out her _Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy_. The Brontës were too young to write, but were young women. E. M. Barrett Browning produced her first acknowledged work, a translation of _Prometheus Bound_, and some of her early poems in 1835. Maria Edgeworth was getting too old to write; and Mrs. Gaskell had not commenced. Mrs. Jameson published her first book in 1831--_Memoirs of Female Sovereigns_, and, in 1837, _Sketches of Germany_. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) wrote her best prose work, _Ethel Churchill_, in 1836. Miss Mitford published a fifth series of _Our Village_ in 1832. Hannah More died in 1833. Lady Morgan, _The Wild Irish Girl_, was writing, and making money by it. The Hon. Mrs. Norton, who let all the world know her grievances, brought out her poem of the _Undying One_ in 1831, and her novel of _Stuart of Dunleath_ in 1835. Miss Jane Porter produced, in 1831, what was probably her best work, _Sir Edward Seaward's Diary_, which was frequently mistaken, at the time, for genuine history. And last, though not least, Miss Agnes Strickland published the _Pilgrims of Walsingham_ in 1835. I had almost forgotten; which would have been inexcusable, that Sir Walter Scott died in September, 1832. The New British School of Art was just commencing. The National Collection of pictures was commenced in 1824, and in 1832 Parliament voted £15,000 to build a gallery for their reception. The Royal Academy of Arts, instituted in 1768, held their annual exhibition of pictures, up to 1836, at Somerset House, but in 1837 they removed to the new National Gallery. There were, besides, exhibitions of paintings held by the Society of British Artists, the Society of Painters in Water Colours, and the New Society of ditto. In May, 1834, there was an Exhibition of the works of the Old Masters; and in 1832 Haydon held an exhibition of his own pictures. The following is an attempt at a list of the principal British artists of the reign.