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GENUS AND cRIaE.-By Bglrer.--If
we regard narrowly the lives of great
criminals. we are often very much startled
by the extraordinary acuieness-ihe pro.
iound calculalion--ihs patient, mcdilAiiye
energy which they have employed upon
the conception and execution oil a crime
We feel inclined 10 think that such iniellec.
tual power would have commanded grea,
distinction, woHhiy used and guided hut
We never find that these grea, criminals
seem 10 have been sensible oi The oppor.
tuniiics to real eminence which they havc
thrown away. Often we observe that
there has been oelorc them yis,as into
worldly greatness, which, BY no uncom.
mon prudence and eNcriion. would have
conducted homes, men, half as clever, to
Game an power; but, with strange obliuui.
~ vision, they appear TO have looked from
these broad, clear avenues, into some dark,
tangled dcdle, in which, by the subiilest
ingenuity. and through the most beseiiing
pcrils they may attain at last to the success
oi a fraud or, the enjoyment Of a vice. In
crime once n1nlgcd, there is wonderful
iaseination-and the fascination is, not
rarely, great in proportion to the intellect Of
tho criminal. There is always hope Of
reform for a dull, uneducaied. stolid man,
led by accident or temptation into guilt; but
where man of great ability and highly
educated besots himself into the inioHica.
tion oidark and terrible excitements, lakes
impure d,light ioriuous and slimy ways,
the good angel abandons him forever.