done.'"

Many a man would gladly live his life over again, were he allowed to bring
to bear on his {44} second life the _experience_ he had acquired in that
past. For in the grave there is no room, either for _ambition_ or
_repentance_; and the degree of our happiness or misery for eternity is
proportioned to the state of preparation or unpreparation in which we leave
_this world_. Instead of many a man, I might have said most good men; and
of the others, all who have not passed the rubicon of hope and grace. The
vista of the past, however, appears a long and dreary retrospect, and _any_
future is hailed as a relief: yet on second and deeper thought, we would
mount again the rugged hill of life, and try for a brighter prospect, a
higher eminence.

JARLTZBERG.

[Footnote 9: Fontenelle.]

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"Immo Deus mihi si dederit renovare juventam,
Utve iterum in cunis possim vagire; recusem."
Isaac Hawkins Browne, _De Animi Immortalitate_, lib. i., near the
end.

(See _Selecta Poemata Anglorum Latina_, iii. 251.)

F. W. J.

_Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--The
passage alluded to by SIR A. ALISON appears to be the celebrated
description of the moral effects produced by the conflicts of the Greek
factions, which is subjoined to the account of the Corcyraean sedition,
iii. 82. The quotation must, however, have been made from memory, and it is
amplified and expanded from the original. The words adverted to seem to be:

[Greek: mellesis de promethes deilia euprepes, to de sophron tou
anandrou proschema, kai to pros hapan xuneton epi pan argon.]

Thucydides, however, proceeds to say that the cunning which enabled a man
to plot with success against an enemy, or still more to discover his
hostile purposes, was highly esteemed.

L.

_Archbishop King_ (Vol. vii., p. 430.).--A few days since I met with the
following passage in a brief sketch of Kane O'Hara, in the last number of
the _Irish Quarterly Review_:

"In the extremely meagre published notices of O'Hara (the celebrated
burletta writer), no reference has been made to his skill as an artist,
of which we have a specimen in his etching of Dr. William King,
archbishop of Dublin, in a wig and cap, of which portrait a copy has
been made by Richardson."

This extract is taken from one of a very interesting series of papers upon
"The Streets of Dublin."