Wales born at Windsor since the birth of that other Edward who, as the third of the name, carried the glory of England in war higher than any King who had previously drawn the sword in our country's cause. May the later (Albert) Edward, in due time, make her more glorious in peace; setting an example to all England, by following that which he received in his own paternal home; and hand-in-hand with the fair Dane-for whom there is already laid up in every English household a rich tribute of respectful affection-go on through a long life, happy, honoured and beloved: the love and the honour as great as ever were rendered to mortals, with as abundant happiness as it is good for mortals to enjoy!"

It is stated in the Athenæum of January 3rd, 1863, that a chance reference to the number for January 5th, 1833,"suggested a brief comparison of the things which excited attention thirty years ago with the affairs which occupy us now. We found the process rather amusing. In the first week of January, 1833, the President of the United States communicated a warlike message to Congress, in answer to a conditional declaration of independence promulgated by the Legislature of South Carolina on the 24th of November, 1832......Scott, Crabbe, Mackintosh, Goethe, Say, Rémusat, Spurzheim, are reported among

1863.

1833 and 1863 compared.

the losses of the preceding year. We see mention of the names and writings of two who are still among us, Dr. Boott and Miss Martineau...... On one point this journal—in the best of company-made a great mistake. It speaks of the 'extinct Napoleon dynasty,' and makes nihil out of the initials of Napoleon, Joseph, Hieronimus (Jerome), Joachim and Louis. Political prophecy is like a journey to Corinth - non cuivis contingit." On January 5th, 1833, the Athenæum entered on its sixth year. The number of that day consisted of sixteen pages at fourpence. "Few serials had then beaten us in cheapness; but the journal of that day looks small, as to quantity of matter, compared with what it is to-day. Taking our issue (No. 1834) for December 20, 1862 (the day on which we are making these notes), we find 40 pages at threepence. To this it must be added that our large-type columns are now 4 lines longer and 4 letters broader. No. 271 gives 37 columns of reading and II columns of advertisements; No. 1834 gives 52 columns of reading and 68 columns of advertisements. Thirty years ago our readers got 12 columns for a penny; on the 20th of December last they got 40 columns for the same sum."

The obituary of the year 1863 includes that

of Lansdowne.

"friend of literature and of learned men" Lord The Marquis Lansdowne. Among his many generous acts was secretly placing 1,000l. in the hands of Mr. Longman to cover Moore's liabilities in the Bermuda accounts. On February 7th the Athenæum says: "Of living men of letters, it would not be easy to name a single one of eminence who has not lost in him a personal friend."

Cornewall

Lewis.

The sudden death of Sir George Cornewall Sir George Lewis on the 13th of April took the world of politics and society by surprise. The Athenæum of the 18th says that he "was something more than a statesman among scholars and a scholar among statesmen. As author, editor, Privy Councillor, and Cabinet Minister, he was alike noticeable......There would be no use in saying that the late Editor of the Edinburgh Review was a popular author. His writings won the respect, even where they failed to conquer the conviction, of scholars and authors; but they were, at best, too dry and abstruse, too solid and consecutive, to please the subscribers of a library, and the reading public, who heard him spoken of as one of the literary men of the Cabinet, knew him chiefly by name."

On September 26th the death is recorded of Mr. William Tooke, once Treasurer of the Mr. Tooke. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,

of which Society he was one of the founders.

Mrs. Edmund
Jenings.

Frances Trollope.

Dr. Whately.

Mr. Tooke was born in St. Petersburg......Mr.
Tooke was a lawyer, with strong literary tastes.
He published, with his name, in 1844, 'The
Works and Life of Churchill,' which, forty years
previously, he had put forward anonymously."

The death of Mrs. Edmund Jenings is mentioned in the same number: "Under the pseudonym of Wycliffe Lane, a novel, 'My Good for Nothing Brother,' was published in the spring, with a success which was due to the real merits, the originality, and the excellent promise of the work. It remains the first and last work of its gifted author, Mrs. Edmund Jenings, of Hawkhurst, Kent."

On October 10th it is recorded that "another member of the noble army of workers has gone to her rest. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Trollope died at Florence. The public will hardly expect to hear that this lady was in her eighty-fifth year. It is scarcely thirty-five years since she commenced that literary career which made her one of the most remarkable women of her period. But at the time alluded to, Frances Trollope was fifty years of age."

Richard Whately, twenty-second Archbishop of Dublin since the Reformation, died on the 8th of October, and a notice of him appears on the 17th. He founded and endowed the Chair of Political Economy in Trinity College, Dublin,

and dispensed the great bulk of his income of 7,000l. a year in acts of gracious charity.

Nichols.

On October 24th note is made of the death of John Bowyer Nichols at the age of eighty- John Bowyer four, "after a life of labour as a printer and editor." For some time he edited, printed, and published the Gentleman's Magazine. Among his literary works were "one on the Guildhall of the City of London, others on the Royal Hospital of St. Katherine by the Tower and Fonthill Abbey; and Anecdotes of William Hogarth, with catalogues of his works, 8vo., 1833. Mr. Nichols added some volumes to the series of Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, commenced by his father."

On the morning of the 6th of October, at twenty-two minutes past three, an earthquake shock was felt in the centre, west, and northwest of England, and on the 17th a communication appears from Prof. Airy, giving particulars of the observations made at Greenwich.

On the 24th of December, 1863, the evening papers announced that Mr. Thackeray had that morning been found dead in his bed.

An earthquake observed at Greenwich.

William Makepeace This Thackeray.

sudden loss was felt as a shock by thousands in the midst of their preparations for Christmas gatherings. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in India in 1811. He was educated at the Charterhouse, and kept seven or eight

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