lest the rustic in his furrows,
Toil- and sweat-embossed;
Blest are honest souls in sorrows.
All is lost!

Wifely love, the closer clinging
When men need thee most,
Shall I come, dishonor bringing?
All is lost!

Babe in silken cradle lying,
To low music tossed,
Will they wake thee for my dying?
All is lost!

Yonder where the river grimly
Whitens, like a ghost,
Must I plunge and perish dimly;
All is lost!

INTERESTING MANUSCRIPTS OF EDMUND BURKE.

Macaulay opens his most remarkable article on Milton by saying, "The
dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and miracles of a
saint, till they have awakened the devotional feelings of their auditors
by exhibiting some relic of him,--a thread of his garment, a lock of his
hair, or a drop of his blood." If we were in the mood, we might take
advantage of interesting manuscripts of Edmund Burke, which are now
before us, to say something of this remarkable character. But we shall
confine ourselves for the present to a passing glance at the manuscripts
which have strayed across the Atlantic.[A]

[Footnote A: These manuscripts are now in the possession of the Hon.
Charles Sumner, who is also the fortunate owner of the _Album Amicorum_
containing the autograph of John Milton.--ED.]

The authentic manuscripts of Burke have passed through several hands. On
his death, they were intrusted to the eminent civilian, Dr. French
Lawrence, of Doctors' Commons, and to Dr. King, afterwards Bishop of
Rochester. To these two gentlemen we are indebted for the first eight
volumes of the London octavo edition of Burke's Works. The career of Dr.
Lawrence was cut short by death in 1809. His associate had the exclusive
charge of the papers till 1812, when the venerable widow of Burke died
at Beaconsfield, and by her last will gave to Earl Fitzwilliam, the
Bishop of Rochester, and the Right Honorable William Elliott the entire
direction of the printing and publishing of such parts of the works of
her late husband as were not published before her decease,--bequeathing
to them all the printed and manuscript papers for this purpose. Eight
more volumes were published by the Bishop, who died in 1828, a few
months after the publication of the fifteenth and sixteenth volumes. Mr.
Elliott had already died in 1818. The papers now came into the sole
possession of Earl Fitzwilliam, the distinguish