it abruptly, leaving only space enough for a path, and on others it washes the feet of gentle grassy slopes. This is one of the many charmiag pictures to be found in the landscape of Sunnyside. After strolling along the pathways in various directions, sometimes finding myself upon the domains of the neighbours of Sunnyside (for no fence or hedge barriers exist between them), I made my way back to the cottage, where (the eldest and only surviving brother of Mr. Irving, and his daughters, reside. These daughters were always as children to the late occupant, and by their affection and domestic skill they made his home a delightful one to himself and friends. ^ But the chief light of that dwelling is removed, and there are shado'ws at Sunnyside that fall darkly upon the visitor who remembers the sunshine of its former days, for, as his friend Tuekerman wrote on the day after the funeral, --

" lie whose fancy wove a«i)ell As lasting as the scene is fan-, And made the mountain, stream, and dell. His own dream-life for ever share ;

"He who with England's liousehold's grace, And with the brave romance of Sijain. Tradition's lore and Nature's face, Imbued his visionary brain :

" Mused in Granada's old arcade

As gu^h'd the Moorish fount at noon.

With the last minstrel thoughtful stray'd,

To ruin'd shrines beneath the moon ;

"And breathed the tenderness and wit Thus garner'd, in expression pure, As now his thoughts with humour flit. And now to pathos wisely lure ;