THE LAST REDOUBT. ALFRED AUSTIN. KACELYEVO'S slope still felt The cannon's bolt and the rifles' pelt; For a last redoubt up the hill remained, Mehemet Ali stroked his beard; His lips were clenched and his look was weird; "Clear me the Muscovite out!" he cried, Then the name of "Allah!" echoed wide, And the rifles were clutched and the bayonets lowered, And on to the last redoubt they poured. One fell, and a second quickly stopped The gap that he left when he reeled and dropped ; The second,‚—a third straight filled his place; The third, and a fourth kept up the race. Many a fez in the mud was crushed, Over their corpses the living sprang, W do I know that love is blind, for I Now Can see no beauty on this beateous earth, The heavens expand, the earth grows less and less, II.-LOVE'S WISDOM. OW on the summit of Love's topmost peak NOW Kiss we and part; no farther can we go: And better death than we from high to low Should dwindle, or decline from strong to weak. We have found all, there is no more to seek; All have we proved, no more is there to know; And time could only tutor us to eke Our rapture's warmth with custom's afterglow. We cannot keep at such a height as this; For even straining souls like ours inhale But once in life so rarefied a bliss. What if we lingered till love's breath should fail! Heaven of my Earth! one more celestial kiss, Then down by separate pathways to the Vale. Richard Garnett. 1835. RICHARD GARNETT, the son of the Rev. Richard Garnett, was born at Lichfield on the 27th of February, 1835, and was educated privately. At the age of sixteen he entered the British Museum as an assistant in the Printed Book Department, of which he was appointed Keeper at the beginning of 1890. From 1875 to 1884 he had been Superintendent of the Reading Room, and had carried the general catalogue through the press from 1881 until his appointment as Keeper. He retired in 1899, and has since resided at Hampstead. The most important of the numerous remarkable acquisitions made for the Library during his term of office are commemorated in a volume by Messrs. Pollard and Proctor, entitled "Three Hundred Notable Books." In 1883 the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL.D., and he was made a C.B. in 1895. Mr. Garnett's first book was an anonymous volume entitled "Primula and other Lyrics," the authorship of which was acknowledged in the preface to "Io in Egypt, and other Poems," published in the following year. To 1862 belongs "Poems from the German," to 1869, "Idylls and Epigrams, chiefly from the Greek Anthology," republished as "A Chaplet from the Greek Anthology," in 1892. In 1890 appeared "Iphigenia in Delphi"; in 1896, "One hundred and twenty four sonnets from Dante, Petrarch, and Camoens," in 1901, "The Queen, and other Sonnets," and in 1904, "William Shakespeare, Pedagogue and Poacher," a drama in blank verse. A short excerpt from this last work is conveniently inserted here: "SHAKESPEARE. Sir Thomas, I will stand your friend at Court: You do unclose the path you stopped last Christmas: LEICESTER. What moveth thee to this? SHAKESPEARE. My Lady Lucy Surmiseth shrewdly, so doth Mistress Shakespeare. Between my past and future, signifying The new life to be led. Too long I 've lingered In my dark morning hours, but, now the sun Of regal favour rises on my path, Needs must I follow this to glorious noonday, And then, unto my native place reverting, Which ne'er was aught but dear to me, or shall be, LEICESTER. 'Tis nobly spoken, And know the Earl of Leicester for thy friend, The Hollander and we in union vanquish, Or separate perish. This we know, and soon Shall bristle with our pikes, throb with our drums, The thunder of our cannon. I shall fill The regent's seat, and my imperious truncheon Stuff for thy art by practice of the world. What various shapes shall crowd the tented field! Whom deaths of lovers slain most treacherously Impel to hurl the Dons to Devildom; Dicer and cut-purse, page, groom, beggar, minstrel ; Of marching hosts, pent cities, trenched leaguers, For know, my nephew Sidney tends my person, The poems of 1859 were republished in 1893 with numerous additions and omissions. While, however, Dr. Garnett's contributions to poetical literature have been far from voluminous, he has not failed to earn other laurels in other fields. He has shown the width of his poetic sympathy and the extent of his culture in many an elegant translation, especially from the Greek Anthology and the Italian poets; and to his qualities as an editor and anthologist, let the lovers of Shelley, De Quincey, and Coventry Patmore bear witness. He has, moreover, produced some of the best of short biographies, notably that of |