WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED was born in London on the 26th of July, 1802. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He died on the 15th of July, 1839. His Poems were edited in New York by R. W. Griswold in 1844; with a Memoir by W. H. Whitmore, 2 vols., 1859; and a complete edition, with a Memoir by Rev. Derwent Coleridge, was issued by his sister, Lady Young, in 2 vols., in 1804.

[THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES was born at Rodney Place, Clifton, on the 29th of July, 1803; he was the son of the famous physician, Dr. Thomas Beddoes, and nephew of the no-less famous Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Bath and at the Charterhouse, and entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1820. From 1825 to 1846 he resided in Germany and Switzerland. He left England again after a stay of a few months, and died under somewhat mysterious circumstances in the hospital at Basle, Jan. 26, 1849. He published during his lifetime The Improvisatore, 1821, and The Bride's Tragedy, 1822, besides various works in German; after his death appeared Death's Jest Book, 1850, and Poems, 1851.]

A ho! A ho!
Love's horn doth blow,
And he will out a-hawking go.
Now woe to every gnat that skips
To filch the fruit of ladies' lips,

His felon blood is shed;

And woe to flies, whose airy ships
On beauty cast their anchoring bite,
And bandit wasp, that naughty wight,
Whose sting is slaughter-red.

[BORN in Norfolk, May 25, 1803. The youngest of three sons of William Earle Bulwer and Elizabeth Lytton. Educated at Cambridge; gained the Chancellor's prize for English verse by his poem on Sculpture (1825); graduated at Trinity Hall, 1826. Author of numerous works of fiction, among which are Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman (1828), The Disowned (1828); Paul Clifford (1830), Last Days of Pompeii (1835), Rienzi (1835), The Caxtons (1854), What Will He Do With It? (1858), etc. His novels have great popularity in England and in this country, and have been translated into several languages. His dramas entitled The Lady of Lyons (1838) and Richelieu were very successful, as well as the comedy of Money, which came out soon after. He was made a Peer in 1866, with the title of Baron Lytton. Died Jan. 18, 1873.]

[BORN in Cork, Ireland, about 1805; educated at Jesuit colleges in Paris and Rome: took orders in the Catholic church, and relinquished that profession to connect himself with Fraser's Magazine, about 1831; he was also a contributor to Bentley's Miscellany, 1837, and afterwards Paris correspondent for the Globe. His closing years were passed in a monastery at Paris, where he died, May 19, 1866.]