the father of a family. My uncle wished that to his character of a man of letters and a man of business, he could himself have added that he had educated a family of children. The very last addition to his poems were the lines advising young men to marry, beginning

"Hence to the Altar."

In carly life he had been of a weak constitution, which showed itself in a pale and sickly countenance

"From his cheek, ere yet the down was there,

Health fled."

This made him more than usually careful in his manner of living; and he grew stronger as he grew older. He was zealous in practising, as in praising, the use of the flesh-brush, which he called the art of living for ever. He was active in his habits; and when advanced in years was still a great walker. He was not easily tired. He had no sofa or arm-chair in that room of his house in which he for the most part lived, and he never made use of either till he broke his leg at the age of eightysix. When that misfortune befell him, nothing could be better than the manner in which he bore it. He was henceforth, for what remained of life, to be confined to the bed or chair. But he never murmured, and he spoke of his accident with regret only for the trouble that he gave to others. He often used the words of Galileo: "If it has pleased God that I should be lame, ought not I to be pleased?" He died at his house, No. 22, St. James's Place, on the 18th of December, 1855, full of years and honour. His memory had latterly rather failed him; but it was only during the last eighteen months, when he was more than ninety years of age, that life began to be a burden to him, and the visits of his friends troublesome. Till then he had lived alone; but when his health failed, a nicce devoted herself to him, to supply that watchful care which his sinking powers required, but were unable to ask for. He was buried agreeably to his own wish in Hornsey churchyard, in the same grave with his unmarried brother and sister.

After his death his valuable works of art, pictures, drawings, engravings, vases, sculpture, coins, and books, were sold by auction, at a sale which lasted twenty-two days, and produced a large sum, making the property that he left behind him about what he used to wish it to be, not much more nor less than what he inherited. But the proportions into which it was divided were very remarkable; the house and its contents produced a sum equal to three times that portion of his property which had brought him an income.

In religion and politics Mr. Rogers ended life with nearly the same opinions that he began with; opinions which in his youth were frowned upon by the worldly and the timid, and which shut out their owners from many social advantages, but were less unpopular in his later life. When

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"Revive but once a generous wish supprest;
Chase but a sigh, or charm a care to rest;
In one good deed a fleeting hour employ,

Or flush one faded cheek with honest joy.”

Such was his aim at the age of thirty when he wrote these lines; and every reader of his poems will at once grant, that when he laid down his pen at the age of ninety, he might justly feel satisfied that he had used the gift of Poetry throughout his long life in the honest endeavour "to make the world the happier and better for his having lived in it."