shaped sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed tbe grouod, the table being too small for aught besides the desk. A little bi^- backed cane chair, which gave you any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the author's pam- phemalia.**

"Miss Landon was not strictly handsome, her eyes being the only good feature in her face ; but her countenance was intellectual and piquant, and her figure slight and beautifully proportioned. Altogether, however, her clear complexion, dark hair and eyes, tbe vivacious expression with which the latter were lighted up when animated and in good health, combined with her kind and fiisci- nating manners, to render her extremely attractive; so that the rustic expression of sentiment Arom the Ettrick Shepherd, when he was first introduced to her, *1 did nae think ye had been sae bonny/ was perhaps the fueling experienced by many when they first beheld L. E. L."

Such is the portrait of this fascinating writer, drawn by one of her biographers. William Howitt, in his notice of Miss Landon, gives a sweeter touch to the picture. "Your first impressions of her were — what a little, light, simple-looking girl I If you had not been aware of her being a popular poetess, you would have m- pected her of nothing more than an agreeable, bright, and joyous young lady. This feeling in her own house, or among a few con- genial people, was quickly followed by a feeling of the kind-heart- edness and goodness about her. You felt that you could not be i long with her without loving her."

In her later productions, Miss Landon greatly improved in tbe philosophy of her art. She addresses other feelings besides Aw; her style has more simplicity and strength, and the sentiment becomes elevated and womanly — for we hold that the loftiest, pnr^ and best qualities of our nature, the mond feeUngs, are pecahariT suitable, for their development and description, to the genios of woman. "The Lost Pleiad" and "The History of the Lyre," ha« many passages of true and simple feeling, united with an elevated moral sentiment, and that accurate knowledge of life, which shows the observing and reasoning mind in rapid progress.

In 1838, Miss Landon married George Maclean, Governor of Cape- Coast castle, and soon afler sailed for Cape -Coast with her husbano. She landed there in August, and was resuming, for the benefit of her family in this country, her literary engagements in her soliia^ African home, when one morning, after writing the previous nigW some cheerfi^ and affectionate letters to her fHends in England, she was f October 16th.) found dead in her room, with a bottle which haa contained prussic acid, in her hand. It was conjectured that she had undesignedly taken an over-dose of the fatal medicine, as a relief from spasms in the stomach, to which she was subject. Her last poems are superior in freedom, force, and orlginalityf w her first. She is most distinguished for her poetical writings, thoyn her tales and romances show great wit, vivacity, and knowjedge of life. Her principal poetical works are "The Improvisatnce;^ **The Troubadour;" "The Golden Violet;" "The Golden Bracelet; and "The Vow of the Peacock." Besides these, she has wntten three novels, "Romance and Reality;" "Francesca Carrera;" and "Ethel Churchill," and a volume ot tales, entitled ^Trntt*^