celebrated garden, which served as "an example" of his great work on "forest trees. Cowley, who has commemorated Evelyn's love of books and gardens, has delightfully applied them to his lady, in whom, says the bard, Evelyn meets both pleasures;

"The fairest garden in her looks,

And in her mind the wisest books."

The house of HALLER resembled a temple consecrated to science and the arts, and the votaries were his own family: the universal acquirements of HALLER were possessed in some degree by every one under his roof; and their studious delight in transcribing manuscripts, in consulting authors, in botanising, drawing and colouring the plants under his eye, formed occupations which made the daughters happy and the sons eminent. The painter STELLA inspired his family to copy his fanciful inventions, and the playful graver of Claudine Stella, his niece, animated his "Sports of Children." I have seen a print of COYPEL in his studio, and by his side his little daughter, who is

intensely watching the progress of her father's pencil; the artist has represented himself in the act of suspending his labour to look on his child; at that moment, his thoughts were divided between two objects of his love. The character, and the works of the late Elizabeth HAMILTON, were formed entirely by her brother; admiring the man she loved, she imitated what she admired; and while the brother was arduously completing the version of the Persian Hedaya, the sister, who had associated with his morning-tasks and his evening-conversations, was recalling all the ideas and portraying her fraternal master in her "Hindoo Rajah."

Nor are there wanting instances where this FAMILY-GENIUS has been carried down through successive generations; the volume of the father has been continued by a son, or a relative. The history of the family of the ZWINGERS is a combination of studies and inherited tastes. Theodore published, in 1697, a folio herbal, of which his son Frederic gave an enlarged edition in 1744; and the family was honoured by their name

having been given to a genus of plants dedicated to their memory, and known in botany, by the name of the Zwingera. In history, and in literature, the family name was equally eminent; the same Theodore continued a great work, "The Theatre of Human Life," which had been begun by his father-in-law, and which for the third time was enlarged by another son. Among the historians of Italy, it is delightful to contemplate this family-genius transmitting itself with unsullied probity among the three VILLANIS, and the MALASPINIS, and the two PORTAS. The history of the learned family of the STEPHENS presents a dynasty of literature, and to distinguish the numerous members they have been designated as Henry I., and Henry II., as Robert I., the IId., and the IIId. Our country may exult in having possessed many literary families; the WARTONS, the father and two sons; the BURNEYS, more in number; and the nephews of Milton, whose humble torch at least was lighted at the altar of the great bard.

No event in literary history is more impressive

than the fate of QUINTILIAN; it was in the midst of his elaborate work, which was composed to form the literary character of a son, that he experienced the most terrible affliction in the domestic life of genius-the deaths of his wife and one child after the other. It was a moral earthquake with a single survivor amidst the ruins. An awful burst of parental and literary affliction breaks forth in Quintilian's lamentation,-" My wealth, and my writings, the fruits of a long and painful life, must now be reserved only for strangers; all I possess is for aliens, and no longer mine!" Such was the agony of the husband, the father, and the man of genius!

Deprived of these social consolations, we see JOHNSON call about him those whose calamities exiled them from society, and his roof lodges the blind, the lame and the poor; for the heart must possess something, it can call its own, to be kind to.

In domestic life, the Abbé DE SAINT PIERRE enlarged its moral vocabulary, by fixing in his language two significant words; one served to

explain the virtue most familiar to him-bienfaisance; and that irritable vanity which magnifies its ephemeral fame the sage reduced to a mortifying diminutive-la gloriole!

- It has often excited surprise that men of ge nius are not more reverenced than other men in their domestic circle. The disparity between the public and the private esteem of the same man is often striking; in privacy we discover that the comic genius is not always cheerful, the sage is sometimes ridiculous, and the poet not delightful. The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves-the creature of habits and infirmities. Men of genius, like the deities of Homer, are deities only in their "Heaven of Invention:" mixing with mortals, they shed their blood like Venus, or bellow like Mars. In the business of life the cultivators of science and the arts, with all their simplicity of feeling and generous openness about them, do not meet on