

 his eyes, and train him to the turning of a wheel, were a better destiny for the mon- arch-bird than the enjoyment of Heavens own gifts, and the range of the illuminated airg Thus was Burns, the glorious, the best lyrist of an age, appreciated by his penny-saving cOuntry--and it is not the posthumOus apotheosis, and their eulogies that cost them nothing now that he is dead, {, that will wipe out from the page of history the dark lines that will record it. How long will men put to the hewing of wood and the drawing of water, the angels they entertain unawareS? E.. . u.-..

 Lord ByrOn.-Flint's Western Review for June contains an article on Moore's Life of Lord Byron the following is an extract:

 We find fault-and we wish to make it emphatic-with the indifference with which the biographer speaks of the vices of his friend. Away with all softenings upon such points. Atheism and adultery and seduc- ton and prostitution and drunkenness and gambling and gin and the fancy,' and do- ; mestic quarrelling and the discharge of poker and tongs back and forward, between mother and son, and separation of hus- band and wife-are not at all less repre- hensible in the upper, than in the lower 1 walks of life; but thousand times more 1 so-inasmuch as the fortunate inmates have thousand more motives and re- straints, and in the same proportion, less temptations. May the public vision in the United States never become SD far per- verted, as to call light darkness, and dark ness light, or allow an American to speak, either with complacency, or even soften- ing extenuation, of such crimes as were woven into the very wool and tissue off Lord Byron's Life. No matter how such crimes are viewed by tho haut ton of Eng land. Death is death, though patricians may choose to call it decease and drunk enness and gin and adultery and fighting remain the same things, however lords and fine ladies may phrase them by more palli- ating and fashionable terms. There is a real and positive evil influence, likely to flow from an affected softening, in speak ing of the follies and crimes of such man as the person we are considering. It is much easier to copy the prohigacy of Lord Byron, than to acquire his genius and tal- ents. Many weak and silly Roman ad- vocate walked with his neck awry, because Cicero had wen, and was physically O. bliged so to walk. We have known more than one fool fancy himself a genius and to create the same illusion in others, quar- rel with his wife, and part from her, to be- come more like Byron. Men are suffi- ciently prone to gratify their propensities, without the example of the rich and titled and talented and admired, to bear them out in doing it. And there is ridiculousness ofinefable degradation, in copying the fol- lies and deformities of those above us.