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children, and numerous members of the female clubs of industry, after attending church service, were regaled at the expense of their benefactresses."

"Always, ma'am," he answered, "I'll try to remember it always."

"What a good child!" said she after he and his mother were gone; "and of a good stock; that child will be true as steel! I so enjoyed his glance at the cake, it was so much more natural that he should remember that than an old woman, so little taller than himself!-Children always connect size with respect,—a dear child-I hope he may be spared to his lonely mother."

Not the least interesting part of the life of Mrs. More is yet to be noticed,-her green old age. Without being entirely free from the infirmities of temper and disposition so commonly attendant upon advanced years, she retained, in a remarkable degree, that youthful freshness of heart which, in a person of her age, like the autumn rose, exhales a fragrance grateful in itself, and still more so because it is so rare. An anecdote is related of her, when in her eightieth year, which is interesting as an elucidation of this fact. A widow and her little son paid a visit to Mrs. More at Barley Wood. When they were about to take their leave, Hannah stooped to kiss the boy"not," says an eyewitness, "not as old maidens BENEATH ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS

usually kiss children-with a kiss of necessity -or a kiss of compliment. She took his smiling, rosy face fearlessly between her hands, and looked down upon it for a moment, as a mother would, then kissed it fondly more than once."

"And when you are a man, my child, will you remember me?" The boy's eyes glanced at the remnants of the fruit cake upon the table from which he had been eating,-" Well, remember the cake at Barley Wood," said she, reading his thoughts and laughing.

"Both," replied the little fellow; "it was nice cake, and you are so kind."

"That is the way I like the young to remember me," she rejoined, " by being kindthen you will remember old Mrs. Hannah More ?"

Hannah More died on the 7th of September, 1833, aged eighty-eight. She was buried in Wrighton Churchyard, in a quiet and retired spot, beneath an old, but still vigorous and flourishing tree. An iron railing surrounds the lowly resting-place, and on the flat stone which covers it is this inscription:—

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THE REV. HENRY HART MILMAN.

BY GEORGE CHAMBERS.

THIS distinguished scholar and poet was born in London, on the tenth day of February, 1791, and is consequently, at the present time, just fiftynine years of age. He is the youngest of the three sons of Sir Francis Milman, an eminent member of the medical profession, Fellow of the Royal Society, and President of the London College of Physicians. His mother was Frances, daughter of William Hart, Esq., of Stapleton, in Gloucestershire. During his early youth he attended school at the academy of Dr. Charles Burney, of Greenwich, and afterward, during nine years, at Eton. At the age of nineteen he was sent to Oxford, and entered at Brazennose College. His application to his studies at the University, and the energy and talent which he possessed to make his application effective, may be appreciated when it is

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remembered that he obtained the greatest number of prizes ever secured by one individual. Even thus early he exhibited evidence of the eloquence and the poetic power which have since made him so well known; one of the prizes to which we have just alluded was for English verse, a second for Latin verse, and a third and fourth for an English and a Latin essay.

every one exhibits some beautiful expression, some pathetic turn, some original thought, or some striking image."

His next work, a dramatic poem, entitled the Fall of Jerusalem," made its appearance in 1820. That it did not injure the reputation he had acquired by his previous efforts, may be inferred from the fact of his election, not long afterward, to the professorship of Poetry in the University of Oxford. The principal results of his after labours were his dramatic poems, "Anne Boleyn," "The Martyr of Antioch," and "Belshazzar;" "A History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire," 3 vols.; a

In 1817, Mr. Milman entered into holy orders, and received the vicarage of St. Mary's, Reading. In the same year he first claimed public attention as a poet by the publication of a play called "Fazio," which though not eminently successful upon the stage, abounds in true poetry, and has many passages of remarkable merit. His next work, "Samor, Lord of the Bright City," was published about one year afterward. "Samor" is an heroic poem, celebrating an imaginary event-the defeat and expulsion of the Saxon invaders from Great Britain. An estimate of its merit may be formed from the praise which it extorted from the London Quarterly Review. "There is," says the reviewer, "scarcely a page of the book (of 374 pages) which does not testify that the author is a poet of no ordinary powers;

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History of the Jews," 3 vols. ; and a laboriously annotated edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 12 vols.

Mr. Milman's literary labours though so extensive were not suffered to impair his usefulness in the Church, his position in which has been constantly advancing. From the vicarage of St. Mary's he removed to that of St. Margaret's, Westminster, thence to a prebend stall in Westminster Abbey, and recently to the Deanery of St. Paul's, to which accrues an annual revenue of two thousand pounds.

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THE incident in the early part of the life of this great artist, which Mr. Ward has chosen as the subject of his picture, and which we have the pleasure to lay before our readers in the present number of the Magazine, was thus described in the March number for last year.

"One of his sisters, who had been married some time before, and who had a daughter, came with her infant to spend a few days at her father's. When the child was asleep in the cradle, Mrs. West invited her daughter to gather flowers in the garden, and committed the infant to the care of Benjamin during their absence; giving him a fan to flap away the

flies from molesting his little charge. After some time the child happened to smile in its sleep, and its beauty attracted his attention. He looked at it with a pleasure which he had never before experienced, and observing some paper on a table, together with pens, and red and black ink, he seized them with agitation, and endeavoured to delineate a portrait; although at this period he had never seen an engraving or a picture, and was only in the seventh year of his age. Hearing the approach of his mother and sister, he endeavoured to conceal what he had been doing; but the old lady observing his confusion, inquired what he

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