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SKETCHES FROM LIFE: By LAMAN BLANCHARD;


Edited. with Memoir. by EDWARD BULwEE LrT-


TON. Bart. In Two arts (31i cts. each) Wiley


& putnams Library OF Choice Reading Nos 80 3l
Weread many of these Sketches with pleasure
ten years ago, when we had mere leisure tor such
reading, as they appeared from month to month in
the New Monthly Magazine. They are lively
agreeable delicate. tender and often witty-ln pas
sascs very like the Essays of Ella withou, being,
as whole. quite so good They are capital reading
for an easychar and slippers, when the weather is
sury tdoors and there is absolute necessity for
Drawing it or turning TO work IT there be any
body in the world thus luxurously situated-and
we have heard that there is-we commend him TO
the pages of Laman Blanchard.


But by far the better portion of the book Is
Bulwer's Memoir-slight, indeed as he terms It, but
delicate. truthful sucgestve-ore Of the most use
ful contributions to Literary Biography we ever met
with We entreat the innumerable army OF ounS
Writer'S and aspirants LiteEary Life TO read this
Memoir No; one of them who has brains enough
20 enable him to construct decent couplet can ial
of drawing sautary impressive monliions from these
thirty pages. Let them study true picture OF the
career of successful contributor TO Periodical
Literature known aud read with delight over half
the world. yet dying at forty of an overworked
brain and leaving young family 10 charity or des
titution-and then if they choose 10 lock 10 Ltera
ture for Bread let them do So bat never ask us 10
encourage their aspirations. O. young friends 1t Is
far better and nobler 10 beg delve for bare acre
of earth on which TO grow the vegetables which will
render YOU truly independent if yoar wants are sim
pie than descend 10 the abjectness of asking any
Editor Publisher even the many-headed Million
10 buy your verses so that you may have bread =
If you feel resstless impulse 10 write, obey it :
means OF livelihood if you have arm TO WELD an
AK or a trowe Write if you will. and ,rhat you
will but never with thought OF filthy lucre; let
some one publish who will. if any one will but
never seek employment as n writer; leave that TO
seek you. Should it do So you can accept it with
dignity; but rather than ask it, ask aims sweep
streets, clean plates dig ditcbes-If you deem your
talents transcendant and certain out for you
dazzling career read this sonnet of Blanchard s.
youthful eilusion-and Judge how soon you will
be able TO write better


"TODAY


"A liberal wording gay philosopher,


Art thou tha, lifIst Thy young and yellow head
Ger the dim burial o! the scarce-cod dead


Building above thy brothers sepulchre
home of love, that sense might almost err,
Deeming thine end therein and we'd
The flower haired Earth for ever. Yet the red
In ycndcr may well such dreams deter
Yes. thou all haed To Day whose outstretched hand


Scstiers ooss riches bankrupt land.
Even thou art but leaf from OF The tree
OF yellowius Time a grain OF gstening sand
Dashed from the waters of that unssed sea,


Where thou tonight shalt sins and as soon may be