. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ngs to the present time. The samegeneral characteristics run throughthem: a learned, exuberant fancy, pro-digal of imagery; a taste for all thatis delicate and refined, pure and elevat-ed in nature and art ; a skilful adap-tation of old world sentiment to newworld incidents and impressions; aheightened religious fervor as his musetranscends things temporal, and reachesforward to the things which are eter-nal. The gentle ministry of poetry,fertile in consolation, has seldom sooth-ed human sorrow in more winning
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ngs to the present time. The samegeneral characteristics run throughthem: a learned, exuberant fancy, pro-digal of imagery; a taste for all thatis delicate and refined, pure and elevat-ed in nature and art ; a skilful adap-tation of old world sentiment to newworld incidents and impressions; aheightened religious fervor as his musetranscends things temporal, and reachesforward to the things which are eter-nal. The gentle ministry of poetry,fertile in consolation, has seldom sooth-ed human sorrow in more winning, pa-thetic tones than have fallen from thelips of this amiable bard, ever delight-ing and instructing his race. It is now some years since Mr. Long-fellow resigned his professorship atHarvard, to be succeeded by anotherdisciple of the muses, the accomplishedpoet Lowell; but he still continues tobreathe the old atmospheie in thehouse of Washington, cheered amidthe trials of life l)y tlie affections of hiscountrymen, and of those who read theEnglish lanouanre throughout the E nW IN BO OTH. THIS eminent tragedian, the son ofthe celebrated English actor, Ju-nius Brutus Booth, by his third wife,an American lady, was born at hisfathers country residence at Balti-more, Maryland, in November, reputation of the elder Booth hasbeen somewhat marred by the blend-ing of a certain eccentricity with hisgenius, and the intemperance which, asin the case of George Frederick Cooke,often came to disappoint the public inhis theatrical engagements. But, apartfrom this failing, which was the pecu-liar temptation of his day and profes-sion, his merits as an actor in thehigher walks of his profession wereunquestioned. Born of a good Eng-lish family, his father being a solicitor,and his mother related to the cham-pion of the popular cause, the memora-ble political agitator John Wilkes,after whom he named one of his sons,of unhappy fame. Junius BrutusBooth, after some discursive attempt
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