The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . and made it the mostbrilliant in Great Britain ; contributed to Blackicoods and Bentleifs later ; andin 1838 he wrote tlie Homeric Ballads for Frasers. His literary feuds v/ereendless and savage. After running down for years and once being in a debtorsprison (Thackeray portrays him as Captain Shaudon iu Pendenui3),hedied August 21, 1842.] The churchyard of Inistubber is as lonely a one as
The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . and made it the mostbrilliant in Great Britain ; contributed to Blackicoods and Bentleifs later ; andin 1838 he wrote tlie Homeric Ballads for Frasers. His literary feuds v/ereendless and savage. After running down for years and once being in a debtorsprison (Thackeray portrays him as Captain Shaudon iu Pendenui3),hedied August 21, 1842.] The churchyard of Inistubber is as lonely a one as youwould wish to see on a summers day or avoid on a wintersnight. It is situated in a narrow valley, at the bottom ofthree low, barren, miserable hills, on which there is nothinggreen to meet the eye — tree or shrub, grass or weed. Thecountry beyond these hills is pleasant and smiling : rich fieldsof corn, fair clumps of oaks, sparkling streams of water, housesbeautifully dotting tlie scenery, which gently midulates roundand round as far as the eye can reach ; but once across thenorth side of Inistubber Hill, and you look upon is nothing to see but, down in the hollow, the solitary. Oj —^ if *= rt be O St- — 0^ -** A VISION OF PURGATORY. 5517 churchyard with its broken wall, and the long lank grass grow-ing over the gravestones, mocking with its melancholy verdurethe barrenness of the rest of the landscape. It is a sad thingto reflect that the only green spot in the prospect springs fromthe grave 1 Under the east window is a moldering vault of the DeLacys, a branch of a family descended from one of the con-querors of Ireland ; and there they are buried when the allottedtime calls them to the tomb. On these occasions a numerouscavalcade, formed from the adjoining districts in all the pompand circumstance of woe, is wont to fill the deserted church-yard, and the slumbering echoes are awakened to the voice ofprayer and wailing, and charged with the sigh that
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