us journey, which proved fruitful of royal
caresses, but fatal to his enfeebled frame. Falling ill by the way, he
had barely strength to reach Rome to die. In the year 1572, the
sixty-second of his age, he was laid beside his companions in toil and
glory, and his predecessors in power, Loyola and Laynez.

* * * * *

"After long experience of the world," says Junius, "I affirm before God,
I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy." Very likely: another author
had intimated before the observations of Junius, that even the righteous
"is of few days and full of trouble."

FOOTNOTES:

[K] Nicolas Antonio.

[L] Psalm liv. 7. The Vulgate Psalm liv. is our Psalm lv.

From the North British Review.

DICKENS AND THACKERAY.

Our impression of the difference between the two authors in the matter
of style is very much what it has always been from a general reading
acquaintance with their works, namely, that Mr. Thackeray is the more
terse and idiomatic, and Mr. Dickens the more diffuse and luxuriant
writer. Both seem to be easy penmen, and to have language very readily
at their command; both also seem to convey their meaning as simply as
they can, and to be careful, according to their notions of verbal
accuracy; but in Mr. Dickens's sentences there is a leafiness, a
tendency to words and images, for their own sake; whereas, in Mr.
Thackeray's, one sees the stem and outline of the thought better. We
have no great respect for that canon of style which demands in English
writers the use of Saxon in preference to Latin words, thinking that a
rule to which there are natural limitations, variable with the writer's
aim and with the subject he treats; but we should suppose that critics
who do regard the rule would find Mr. Thackeray's style the more
accordant with it. On the whole, if we had to choose passages at random,
to be set before young scholars as examples of easy and vigorous English
composition, we would take them rather from Thackeray than from Dickens.
There is a Horatian strictness, a racy strength, in Mr. Thackeray's
expressions, even in his more level and tame passages, which we miss in
the corresponding passages in Mr. Dickens's writings, and in which we
seem to recognize the effect of those classical studies through which an
accurate and determinate, though somewhat bald use of words becomes a
fixed habit. In the ease, and at the same time thorough polish and
propriety with wh