Izaak Walton and His Pupil.

From painting by Walter Dendy Sadler.

a big salmon, and then a line of modern anglers on a river-bank indulging in a fishingmatch, or the like. Of late years, though, Mr. Sadler has changed his note, and paints with equal acceptance pages of life wherein sentiment and humour are pleasantly mingled, — a "Darby and Joan " toasting each other over their walnuts and wine, old, but tender and loving still; or an attractive widow, with some gallant old beaux dangling after her; and scenes reminiscent of the days of stage-coaches, of country taverns and "Mine host," of old-fashioned gardens and old-fashioned lovers.

As we recall them, we cannot but say that Walter Dendy Sadler well deserves the success he has won.

MILTON.

SHAKESPEARE died when Milton was but seven years old, but they are in a special manner connected through the noble tribute to the great dramatist which the great poet wrote in 1630, and which was prefixed to the folio of 1632.

"What needs my Shakspeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in pilèd stones?

Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid
Under a star-ypointing pyramid?

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,

What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment

Hast built thyself a livelong monument.

For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book
Those Delphic lines with deep impression took;
Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving;
And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die."