After looking at these things for a while, and lingering over them with a fort of vague feeling that they ought to tell fomething of him to whom they were once familiar—the feeling, I suppose which made men brave every danger to vifit Jerufalem, and which still impels them to traverse the defert that they may tread the streets of Mecca-I paffed out by a back-door into the garden, which is nicely laid out with gravelwalks, and in the middle of which may be seen some carved ftones taken from the ruins of New Place. This fupplied Mr. Edwards with another view of the house.

There was a scheme, I think, fuggefted of planting this garden exclusively with plants mentioned in Shakefpere's works, but it was abandoned. Perhaps it would be impoffible to carry the idea out thoroughly; but I would certainly plead for a place for poor Ophelia's "rosemary, that's for remembrance," and "panfies, that's for thought;" her fennel and her columbines, and "herb-o'-grace o' Sundays." I would have here

"Daifies pied, and violets blue,
And lady's fmocks all filver white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue;"

and Titania's "mufk-rofes" fhould be there toonot forgetting the "little western flower," which