. Ireland in London. this respect maybe said to have been the precursor of that largeand discriminating fine art criticism which haseiuee sprung up in England. She devoted thelater part of her life to the improvement of theposition of her own sex, and in her Lectures onthe Social Employment of Women, evinces thatdeep sympathy with their labour which onlyan earnest worker could do. For some year6previous to her death, which occurred on Day, 1860, she was in receipt of a well-deserved pension from the Civil List, as a rewardfor hex seivices to literature. In his Noctes Ambrosianes, P
. Ireland in London. this respect maybe said to have been the precursor of that largeand discriminating fine art criticism which haseiuee sprung up in England. She devoted thelater part of her life to the improvement of theposition of her own sex, and in her Lectures onthe Social Employment of Women, evinces thatdeep sympathy with their labour which onlyan earnest worker could do. For some year6previous to her death, which occurred on Day, 1860, she was in receipt of a well-deserved pension from the Civil List, as a rewardfor hex seivices to literature. In his Noctes Ambrosianes, Professor John Wilson, the well-known Scotch critic, speaks of her as one of themost eloquent of our female writers, full of feelingand fancy, a true enthusiast with a glowingeoul. Higher up on the left is Grafton-street, leadinginto Fitzroy-square, once famous as a resort ofartists. In Upper Fitzroy-street lived, from 1843till his death, Nicholas James Crowley, the cleverIrish painter. He was born in Dublin on Peecm-. 7 WILLIAM HAZLITT. AutogTaph. U/~ -tfx4syj2*3£& ber 6th, 1819, and died here on 4th of November,1&57, aged nearly 38 yeais. His most remark-able work, Cup-tossing, is known and admiredeverywhere. In Russell-place, also close by,Maclise lived for a time in the earlier part of hislife, and also at Upper Charlotte-street,within sight. A little distance farther on, Tottenham Court-road ends and Hampstead-road begins. Runningat angles to both is Euston-road, extending fromMarylebone to Kings Cross and Pentonville. In Pentonville Prison were confined for aperiod of six months, from December, 1885, toMay, 1886, sixteen of the Fenian prisoners con-victed of treason-felony in Dublin a short time pre-viously, and sentenced to various terms of penalservitude. Among them may be mentionedODonovan Rossa (sentenced to imprisonment 53 Ireland in London. for life), John OLeary, T. C. Luby(twenty yearsImprisonment), the gentle and gifted Klekham(fourteen years), Charles OConuell,
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