PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. 1816 [BORN at Nottingham, April 22, 1816. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1840, In 1839 he published Festus, a poem which treats of the highest theme of philosophy and religion, He wrote other poems also, entitled The Angel World, 1850; The Mystic, 1855; The Age, A Satire, 1858; and The Universal Hymn, 1867.] [BORN Jan. 16, 1816, at Stranolar, Donegal County, where her father was the village postmaster. She lost her sight in infancy, but learned many of the lessons of her brothers and sisters. In 1840 she published Songs of Our Land, followed by contributions to the Athenæum and other Magazines. In 1847 she removed from Ireland to Edinburgh. In 1852 she removed to London, and has since contributed to the light literature of the day.] [BORN about 1818 in Southwark. At an early age she contributed to various periodicals, and in 1840 published a volume of poems, which at once attracted the attention of the public and stamped her as a writer of merit and originality. Her poems reprinted in a collected form have passed through numerous editions. In 1864 she obtained a literary pension of £100 per annum.] EMILY BRONTË. 1819-1848. [EMILY BRONTË was born at Hartshead-cum-Clifton, near Leeds, in 1819, and lived at the parsonage at Haworth from 1820 to her death. The monotony of this existence was broken only by a brief attempt to be a governess and by a short stay at Brussels in 1842, all exile from home being excessively painful and hurtful to her. She died of consumption at Haworth on the 19th of December, 1848. She published, in conjunction with her sisters, Poems, by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, in 1846, and, alone, the novel of Wuthering Heights in 1847.] LAST LINES. No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, STANZAS. OFTEN rebuked, yet always back re turning To those first feelings that were born with me, And faith shines equal, arming me from And leaving busy chase of wealth and |