lished Shakespeare's Mind and Art (1875), a volume of Poems (1876), many of which are in the form of sonnets. Shakespeare Primer (1877); Introduction to Shakespeare (1893); Studies in Literature (1895); Transcripts and Studies (1888); Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles (1880); The Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor (1890); an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets; an edition of The Passionate Pilgrim (1891); Lyrical Ballads (1892); Wordsworth's Poetical Works, edited in seven volumes; Shelley's Poetical Works. His later works include: The French Revolution, and English Literature (1897); History of French Literature (1898); and Puritan and Angelican (1900). He has also contributed numerous articles on various topics to magazines, including The Contemporary Review; The Fortnightly Review; The Nineteenth Century, and others. His books show the work not only of a thorough Shakespearian scholar, but of a profound critic of uncommon insight and ability. He served as secretary of the Irish Liberal Union.

TWO INFINITIES.

A lonely way; and as I went, my eyes

Could not unfasten from the Spring's sweet things:
Last-sprouted grass, and all that climbs and clings.
In loose, deep hedges where the primrose lies

In her own fairness; buried blooms surprise
The plunderer bee, and stop his murmurings;

And the glad flutter of a finch's wings
Out startles small blue-speckled butterflies.

Blissfully did one speedwell plot beguile.
My whole heart long; I loved each separate flower,
Kneeling. I looked up suddenly - Dear God!
There stretched the shining plain for many a mile,

The mountain rose with what invincible power!
And how the sky was fathomless and broad!

WISE PASSIVENESS.

Think you I choose or that or this to sing?
I lie as patient as yon wealthy stream,
Dreaming among green fields its summer dream,
Which takes whate'er the gracious hours will bring
Into its quiet bosom; not a thing

Too common, since perhaps you see it there
Who else had never seen it, though as fair
As on the world's first morn; a fluttering

Of idle butterflies, or the deft seeds
Blown from a thistle-head; a silver dove
As faultlessly; or the large yearning eyes
Of pale Narcissus; or beside the reeds
A shepherd seeking lilies for his love,

And evermore the all-encircling skies.

YOWNING, ANDREW JACKSON, an American

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landscape gardener; born at Newburg, N. Y., October 20, 1815; died near Yonkers, N. Y., July 28, 1852. In 1841 he published A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, which was received as the standard work on the subject, and which was very popular both in England and in America. Cottage Residences (1842), was equally successful. In 1845 he published Fruits and FruitTrees of America, which had passed through fourteen editions in 1852, and in 1846 became editor of The Horticulturist, published in Albany. Hints to Persons About Building in the Country, an addition to George Wightwick's Hints to Young Architects, ap

peared in 1849, and Architecture for Country Houses in 1850. In 1851 he was commissioned to lay out and plant the public gardens of the Capitol, White House, and Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. As a landscape gardener he stood pre-eminent among Americans and had few superiors in Europe. A collection of his articles in the Horticulturist was published in 1854 under the title of Rural Essays.

A HINT ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

The great mistake made by most novices is that they study gardens too much, and nature too little. Now gardens, in general, are stiff and graceless, except just so far as nature, ever free and flowing, re-asserts her rights, in spite of man's want of taste, or helps him when he has endeavored to work in her own spirit. But the fields and woods are full of instruction, and in such features of our richest and most smiling and diversified country must the best hints for the embellishment of rural homes always be derived. And yet it is not any portion of the woods and fields that we wish our finest pleasure-grounds precisely to resemble. We rather wish to select from the finest sylvan features of nature and to recompose the materials in a choicer manner by rejecting anything foreign to the spirit of elegance and refinement which should characterize the landscape of the most tasteful country residence a landscape in which all that is graceful and beautiful in nature is preserved - all her most perfect forms and most harmonious lines but with that added refinement which high keeping and continual care confer on natural beauty, without impairing its innate spirit of freedom, or the truth and freshness of its intrinsic character. A planted elm of fifty years, which stands in the midst of a smooth lawn before yonder mansion - its long graceful branches towering upward like an antique classical vase, and then sweeping to the ground with a curve as beautiful as the falling spray of a mountain, has all the free

dom of character of its best prototypes in the wild woods, with a refinement and a perfection of symmetry which it would be next to impossible to find in a wild tree. Let us take it then as the type of all true art in landscape gardening - which selects from natural materials that abound in any country, its best sylvan features, and by giving them a better opportunity than they could otherwise obtain, brings about a higher beauty of development and a more perfect expression than nature herself offers. Study landscape in nature more, and the gardens and their catalogues less is our advice to the rising generation of planters, who wish to embellish their places in the best and purest taste.- Rural Essays.

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OYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN, a British novelist; born at Edinburgh, May 22, 1859. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was a practicing physician at Southsea from 1882 to 1890. He published a large number of novels and short stories for magazines and other periodicals. His first success was The Mystery of the Sassassa Valley, published at the age of nineteen. In 1894 Mr. Doyle visited the United States, where his books are very popular, and lectured in the principal cities. His works include A Study in Scarlet (1888); Micah Clarke (1888); Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales (1888); The Sign of Four (1889); The White Company (1890); Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891); Firm of Girdlestone (1890); Great Shadow; and Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other Stories (1892); Beyond the City and Refugees, a Tale of Two Continents (1893); An Actor's Duel; The Winning Shot; The Parasite; Round the Red Lamp; and The