The pile of buildings composing the palace and convent of San Lorenzo has, in common usage, lost its proper name in that of the Escurial, a village at the foot of the hill upon which the splendid edifice, built by Philip the Second, stands.

It need scarcely be added, that Wilkie is the painter alluded to.' On XXXIX.: 'Frail ties, dissolving or dissolved On earth, will be revived, we trust, in heaven.' 'In the class entitled "Musings," in Mr.Southey's Minor Poems, is one upon his own miniature picture, taken in childhood, and another upon a landscape painted by Gaspar Poussin.

It is possible that every word of the above verses, though similar in subject, might have been written had the author been unacquainted with those beautiful effusions of poetic sentiment.

But, for his own satisfaction, he must be allowed thus publicly to acknowledge the pleasure those two Poems of his friend have given him, and the grateful influence they have upon his mind as often as he reads them or thinks of them.'] 453.

*_Upon seeing a coloured Drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album_.