Not long after the Ars Poetica was published, Mæcenas died at the age of about sixty-five. Almost with his parting breath he commended his friend to the kindly remembrance of Augustus: "Horati Flacci ut mei esto memor - Let Horatius Flaccus be borne in memory as myself." Mæcenas died at midsummer. Before the year ended Horace also passed into the Hereafter. He had neither kith nor kin, and left what modest means he possessed to Augustus Cæsar. He was buried on the slope of the Esquiline, hard by the tomb of his friend Mæcenas. The marble tomb has long since crumbled to dust; but the poet had built for himself a monument which will outlast all marble or bronze. Where howls loud Aufidus and came As one who rose from mean estate, Then grant, Melpomene, thy son - Translation of THEODORE Martin. ORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST, an Eng lish dramatist, poet and essayist; born at Lon don, January 1, 1803; died at Margate, March 13, 1884. He was educated at the Royal Military College of Sandhurst, served in the Mexican army during the war between Mexico and Spain, traveled in the United States and Canada, and on his return to England devoted himself to literature. In 1837-38 he published three tragedies: Cosmio de Medici; The Death of Marlowe; and The Death Fetch. These were followed by The Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public (1838); Gregory the Seventh, a Tragedy (1840); Judas Iscariot, a Miracle Play (1840); The Life of Napoleon (1841); Orion, an Epic Poem (1843), first sold at a farthing a copy-the author's way of expressing his sense of the low estimation in which epic poetry was held; A New Spirit of the Age (1844); Ballads and Romances, and The Spirit of Peers and People, a tragic-comedy (1846); The Poor Artist, or Seven Eyesights and One Object (1850); The Dreamer and the Worker, a novel (1851); The Good-Natured Bear, a story for children; and Prometheus the Fire Bringer, a lyrical drama. In 1852 he went to Australia, where he lived for twelve years. After his return to England he published Laura Dibalzo, a tragedy; John the Baptist, or the Valor of a Soul; and The Apocryphal Book of Job's Wife. THE ASCENT OF ORION. The cloud expanded darkly o'er the heavens, The heroic dead, yawned with its sacred gloom, And iron-crowned Night her black breath poured around, Which by gradations of high harmony Merged in triumphal strains. Their earnest eyes With pale gold shield, like a translucent Moon Of happy change that o'er the zodiac round VOL. XIII.-25. The future path whose light runs through death's glooms; In grandeur, like the birth of Motion, rose The glorious Giant, tow'rd his place in heaven; "I came into the world a mortal creature, Then felt strange longings in the grassy woodlands, "Thou Earth, whom I have left, and all my brothers! Followers of Time through steep and thorny ways; Wrestlers with strong calamity, and falling Forever, as with generations new Ye carry on the strife-deem it no loss That in full vigor of his fresh designs, Your Worker and your Builder hath been called To rest thus undesired. Though for himself More, were a vain ambition. Therefore strive, So that ye may through night, as ye behold me, And also through the day by faithful hope, Ascend to me; and he who faints half-way, Gains yet a noble eminence o'er those Whose feet still plod the earth with hearts o'erdusted. "Then with aspiring love behold Orion! Not for his need, but for thine own behoof: Aspires, and would make active through the world, Become both Time and Nature, whose fixt paths Are spiral, and when lost will find new stars, And in the Universal Movement join." The song ceased, and at once a chorus burst From all the stars in heaven, which now shone forth! The ocean swells to her forgivingly: Bright comes the dawn, and Eos hides her faces, Installed midst golden fires, which ever melt With nightly brilliance, merging in the dawn- L ORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL, an English clergyman; born at London, October 20, 1780; died there, January 27, 1862. His first work, A Brief View of the Necessity and Truth of the Christian Religion, published in 1800, passed through several editions. His great work, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, appeared in 1818. The next year he was admitted to the ministry of the Anglican Church. In 1833 he was given a rectorship in London. Forty-five volumes were published by him, on commerce, law, theology, and art. Of some he was editor, of others translator, of others author. Among them are The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland; The Works of William Hogarth Elucidated by Descriptions, Critical, Moral, and Historical; A Protestant |