had the good sense to abolish its infinitely less heart-breaking prison-equivalent ? "I am, Mr. Punch, "Yours, respectfully,

"A SUFFERER."

The death of Alfred de Musset reminds us, as we look from Our Window, of soft spring nights in Paris, when Madame Allan played his proverbes at the Français, with exquisite grace; and, more sadly, it adds another to the list of talent early gone astray and lost. The following notice is from the London Leader, and touches with the gentleness of friendship the frailties of genius:

"In the midst of a dry heap of diplomatic and political news in the Times of last Tuesday, appeared the following short paragraph::

"M. Alfred de Musset, one of the youngest and most distinguished members of the French Academy, died yesterday, after a short illness."

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Two paces of the vilest earth are all that remains even to a King when once the breath is out of his body; and two, or at the most three, lines are all that can be spared to a poor poet-a mere child of grace and genius, whose lamp of life is shattered, and whose light in the dust lies dead-when the movements of a Grand Duke and of the Crédit Mobilier have columns at their service. Nevertheless, as it is the fashion of Courts to go in mourning for their great ones, we may be allowed in this place to offer, from beyond the sea, the last tribute of respect to the memory of a poet. Alfred de Musset was one of those children of a summer star,' who lose their way early in this busy world of harsh and cold realities; who drain the wine of life with fevered lips to the very dregs, exhaust the bitter and the sweet of love, and awake from disenchantment to despair. His last volume of minor poems was published in 1850, and in those few pages there was nothing that bore a later date than '39-'42.

"To him, as to many other greater men, the reward of fame came late. For many years he had been treated by the serious critics as a trifler; and although his Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie, his Spectacle dans un Fauteuil, and his exquisite lyrics were the delight of women and of young men;

although his life had enough of romance in it to be interesting, it was not until about ten years ago that the singular success of one of his Proverbes (Le Caprice) gave a sudden lustre to his name. Two or three more of his Proverbes were subscquently performed at the Français-Il ne faut jurer de rien, Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée, and his dramatic pieces, La Quenouille de Barberine, Les Caprices de Marianne -- with a success belonging rather to the poet than to the dramatist, as the failure of the drama, Andre del Sarto, a fine subject wasted, clearly proved. It was one thing to compose with a diamond pen a Proverbe, and another to construct a drama of sustained interest and passion. We incline to believe, that it will be for his minor poems that Alfred de Musset will be remembered. In these, the passionate warmth of color, the reckless elegance, the mocking grace, the almost feminine languor and inconstancy of humor smiling through tears, are infinitely charming. The influence of Byron upon the young countryman of Voltaire is easily perceived, but enough remains of individuality to give the poet a personal rank. His election into the Academy was especially remarked at the time, as it was almost a single instance of pure literature being admitted by the disbanded senators who fill the benches of that august body, and conspire in choice language against the Order that is not of their making. No doubt, his literary title to academic election was a sound one. A romanticist by habit and association, he was always a rigid classicist in theory. But poor Alfred de Musset was not at home in the Palais Mazarin; and, indeed, wherever he appeared of late, it was as a ghostly visitant from some débraillé world. way of life had become perplexed in the extreme; silent and shattered was that fragile lute

His

"On whose harmonious strings The breath of heaven did wander, a bright stream

Once fed with many-voiced waves, a dream Of youth which night and time have quenched forever!""

"Peace be with him! As he wrote of a brother poet of Italy, Leopardi-

"L'heure dernière vint, tant de fois appelée. Tu la vis arriver sans crainte et sans remord, Et tu goûtas enfin le charme de la mort.'"

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