ost of which, I think, were prepared by himself, and
usually a long series of obituary notices. These last were of citizens
of different parts of the country, and came undoubtedly from different
hands. But of people of distinction, citizens of Boston, who died from
1831 to 1835, my father's pen probably produced almost all of the
eulogies. The warmth of his friendship, his readiness to see all good,
to forgive all imperfections, his skill as a writer, made such articles
from his pen exceedingly interesting and admirable.

In December, 1834, my father wrote his valedictory, and on the first of
January, 1835, announced that the proprietorship had passed into the
hands of Dr. Samuel G. Howe and John O. Sargent, Esq. In looking over
the papers of the seven volumes, which filled out my father's
editorship, very many articles are found of the highest merit,--as the
names of the contributors given above would assure the reader; and if
some of inferior worth are at times mingled with them, they probably had
some interest at the time they were written; and the Magazine on the
whole would be pronounced, I suppose, worthy of general commendation.

* * * * *

It is the Nemesis of pedantry to be always wrong. Your true prig of a
pedant goes immensely out of his way to be vastly more correct than
other people, and succeeds in the end in being vastly more
ungrammatical, or vastly more illogical, or both at once.--_Cornhill
Magazine._

IRISH HOME RULE AGITATION:

ITS HISTORY AND ISSUES.

BY REV. H. HEWITT.

By far the most thorny problem of British statesmanship at the present
moment is the persistent and pressing demand made by the Irish people
through the Irish press and their representatives in Parliament for the
repeal of the Union and the recognition of their right to national
self-government. Incessantly, earnestly, eloquently, the question has
been agitated for the past dozen years or so. Adroitly and skilfully it
has been manipulated by some of the most brilliant, sagacious, and
resolute agitators Ireland has ever known. Slowly but steadily it has
grown, passing from stage to stage with ever-brightening prospect of
ultimate success, until it has now become the aspiration, we might
almost say, the one, quenchless, all-absorbing passion of the Irish
people. The consequence is that the first calm moment after a most
exciting and vigorous electoral contest, during which "the fire out o