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WILLIAM COX BENNETT.

1820

[BORN at Greenwich in 1820. Son of a watchmaker, at which business he was put when he was 14 years old. He has taken an active part in all the agitations for popular education during the past thirty years, is the Hon. Sec. to the Greenwich branch of the National Education League, and a member of the London Council. Has published several volumes of poems, but is best known as a song-writer. Dr. Bennett is a practised political writer, and was for several years on the editorial staff of The Weekly Dispatch. The University of Tusculum conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1869. A collected edition of his poems appeared in 1862, in Routledge's British Poets.]

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[BORN in Ireland about 1820; published in 1850 a volume of Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, with translations from several modern languages. Issued in 1853 a translation of Calderon's dra mas; in 1857 two new volumes of Poems; and, in 1872, Shelby's Early Life, from original sources. In 1871 he received a pension of £100, in recognition of literary merit. Died April 7. 1882.]

SUMMER

AH! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May,-

Waiting for the pleasant rambles
Where the fragrant hawthorn-brambles,
With the woodbine alternating,
Scent the dewy way.

Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
Waiting for the May.

LONGINGS.

Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May, -

Longing to escape from study
To the young face fair and ruddy,
And the thousand charms belonging
To the summer's day.

Ah! my heart is sick with longing,
Longing for the May.

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[BORN in 1821, son of Mr. E. H. Locker, a civil commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, and founder of the Naval Gallery there. Mr. Locker has contributed reviews to the Times, and verses to the Times, Blackwood, the Cornhill, and Punch, which have been collected in a volume called London Lyrics. His Poems have also been recently published in this country.]

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MATTHEW ARNOLD.

1822-1888.

[ELDEST Son of the late Rev. Thos. Arnold, D.D., head-master of Rugby, born Dec. 24, 1822, at Laleham, Middlesex Co. Educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Baliol College, Oxford; graduated in 1844, and was elected a Fellow of Oriel College in 1845. Secretary to Lord Lansdowne from 1847 to 1851, when he was appointed one of the Lay Inspectors of Schools, under the Committee of Council on Education, a post which he still holds. In 1854 he published a volume of Poems under his own name, his previous volumes in 1848 and 1853 having been published without the name of the author. Elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, which office he held till 1867. He has published several volumes of Poems and Essays, which are highly esteemed. "The strain of his mind," says an anonymous critic, is calm and thoughtful; his style is the reverse of florid; deep culture, and a certain severity of taste have subdued every tendency to gay or passionate exuberance."]

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More strictly, then, the inward judge obey!

Was Christ a man like us? - Ah! let us try

And sigh that one thing only has been If we then, too, can be such men as he !'

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