deep;
They raise a wail of sorrow,
While I for ever weep."

Mrs. Shelley returned to England, and for nearly twenty years supported
herself by writing. In the last ten years--more especially since 1844,
when her son succeeded to the Shelley estates--she had no need to write
for money, and it is understood that she devoted the time to the
composition of _Memoirs of Shelley_.

The _Frankenstein_, _or Modern Prometheus_, of Mrs. Shelley,--a fearful
and fantastic dream of genius--was never very much read; it was one of
those books made to be talked of; her _Lodore_ was more easily
apprehended; it is a love story, from every-day life, but written with
remarkable boldness and directness, and a real appreciation of the
nature of both woman and man. The hero of this novel is the son of a
gentleman ennobled for his services in the American war, and some of the
scenes are in New-York. The _Last Man_ has for its hero her husband,
whose character is delineated in it with singular delicacy, but the book
is in the last degree improbable and gloomy, while abounding in scenes
of beauty and intense interest. She wrote also _Perkin Warbeck_,
_Falkner_, _Walpurga_, and other novels, _Journal in Italy and Germany_,
and _Lives of eminent French Writers_, besides editing the _Poems_ and
the _Letters_ of Shelley--a labor which she performed judiciously, and
with feeling and accuracy.

Mrs. Shelley's son succeeded to his grandfather's baronetcy on the 24th
of April, 1844, and is the present Sir Percy Florence Shelley, Bart., of
Castle Goring, in Sussex.

REV. H. N. HUDSON'S EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE.

It has been known among his friends for several years that the Rev.
Henry N. Hudson was preparing for the press an edition of the works of
Shakspeare. The office of a Shakspeare restorer and commentator at this
time is one of the most ambitious in the republic of letters. More than
any collection of works except the Holy Scriptures--to which only they
are second in dignity and importance among books--the Works of
Shakspeare demand for their fit illustration not only the most varied
and profound scholarship but the most eminent qualities of mind and
feeling. Mr. Hudson had vindicated his capacities for the noble service
upon which he has entered in his Lectures upon Shakspeare, published
about three years ago. The fame he then acquired will be increased by
his present performance, of which, we understand, the initial volume
wil