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I DEEPLY regret to record the departure from life of the Rev. Alexander Dyce. He was born at Edinburgh on the 30th June, 1798. His family was Scotch. His father was a general officer in the East India Company's service. He was for some years a pupil of the Edinburgh High School, which he quitted for Exeter College, Oxford: here he received a bachelor's degree in 1819. He studied for the church, and after his ordination he was for some time Curate of Llanteglos in Cornwall, and afterwards of Nayland, a village on the borders of Essex, though nominally in Suffolk. Theology, however, was less to his taste than literature, and he surrendered the curacy of Nayland. He made London his home about 1827. He appeared before the public as an author in this year; his first work was Specimens of British Poetesses." In course of time he brought out editions of George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Middleton, and John Skelton, which were remarkable for their care and learning. These were followed by editions of Beaumont and Fletcher and Marlowe, with excellent biographies; Shakspeare's, Pope's, Akenside's, and Beattie's poems; and the biographical notices of these authors, which appeared in Pickering's Aldine edition, were by him, and I have seen it stated that "he was also the author of numerous other works which appeared without his name." It may be remembered that Gifford left unfinished his edition of James Shirley's works. Mr. Dyce completed it with a biography and the poems, "and his edition did much to make popular the productions of a man who, though far less widely known than he deserves to be, has been not inaptly termed the last minstrel of the English stage,' with whom what may be properly called the school of Shakspeare expired." Mr. Dyce did not confine his labors as an editor to our mother tongue alone; he likewise brought out editions of more than one ancient classic. But the crowning work of his life was a complete edition of the works of Shakspeare, judiciously annotated, with an excellent bibliography of previous editions. The first volume of this work appeared in 1850, the sixth and last was published in 1858. He found a few years since a poem, Timon, long forgotten, but which was republished by the Shakspeare Society as the work which suggested Timon of Athens to the great dramatist. Mr. Dyce's last work was the edition of John Ford's works just published. He, with Messrs. John Payne Collier, Halliwell, and Wright, was one of the Percy Society for the reprinting of old English ballads, plays, and poems. His health had been infirm recently, but his last days were unracked by pain: in peace and life's quiet he breathed his last on Saturday, the 15th May, at his house, 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. In him "the world of letters has just lost one of its most learned members-a man who, during a long life of study, united the patient industry of the antiquary with a real, yet chastened feeling for the beauties of our earlier poets and dramatists, and who was contented to work on, year after year, with unwearied diligence, and without much hope of being appreciated by the general reader; yet within the smaller circles of real scholars and men of refined tastes, no one stood higher as a Shakspearean scholar; and it is a question whether we or certain of our poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are in reality more deeply indebted to his labors."

I am pained to be obliged to add to the record of the death of the Rev. Alexander Dyce, mention of Mr. Peter Cunningham's death. He was born in London in April, 1816. His father was the late Mr. Allan Cunningham. He was educated

at Christ Hospital. Sir Robert Peel felt great respect for Mr. Allan Cunningham, and offered (I believe), at all events gave young Peter Cunningham a clerkship in the audit office when he reached 18. He rose in the usual routine of promotion until he became one of the heads of the audit office. He was the author of many works, namely, "The Life of Drummond, of Hawthornden," (selections from his poems were added to the life); "The Songs of England and Scotland;" "The Handbook of Westminster Abbey ;""The Life of Inigo Jones" (for the Shakspeare Society); "Modern London ;" "The Story of Nell Gwynne;""The Memoir of J. M. W. Turner" (prefixed to "Turner and his Works," by John Burnet); and the "Handbook of London," which has run through several editions, and is a universal favorite with residents as well as with travellers. He was, too, a laborious editor and annotator; his editions, published in Murray's "Library of the British Classics," of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," "Horace Walpole's Letters,' ," "The Works of Oliver Gold smith," etc., had an extensive sale. But I dare say his labor most familiar to your subscribers was the “Table Talk" and antiquarian gossip which he supplied during a great many years to the "Illustrated London News." This was not the only periodical whose pages he enriched with his industry; the "Gentleman's Magazine" and "Once A Week" very frequently numbered him among their_contributors. He married, in 1841 or 1842, Miss Zenobia Martin, daughter of the very eminent painter, whose Deluge, Belshazzar's Feast, etc. are familiar to everybody-I mean the late Mr. John Martin. After 26 years of hard work in the audit office he retired from public service in 1860 on a pension. His health had begun to break some years before. The moment he was free he quitted London, and made St. Albans, Herts, his home. There he expired on Tuesday, the 18th May, at the untimely age of 54.

As many of your readers have seen Countess Guiccioli's book upon Lord Byron, they will probably read with satisfaction an account of Byron's life at Venice which may be found in the "Athenæum."

We have had an unusually interesting anniversary dinner of the Royal Geographical Society. There were present at it Sir Roderick I. Murchison (who was in the chair), the Prince of Wales, Prince Hassan, Duke of Sutherland, Sir Henry Holland, Sir F. Grant, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Sir George Back, Prof. Owen, Dr. W. H. Russell, Baron Bunsen, Prof. Huxley, Prof. Ramsay, Sir M'Clure, Mr. Hassam, etc. After the usual loyal toasts, the President proposed "The Royal Medalists of the day, Prof. Nordenskiold and Mrs. Somerville," and added: "Instead of alluding in the first instance to the recipient of the Founder's Medal, I will pass at once to say a few words respecting that venerable and eminent lady, Mrs. Somerville, on whom the council had bestowed the Patron or Victoria Medal. This admirable woman, now in her 89th year, and who had been singularly distinguished throughout her long life by the highest attainments in physical science, and had written admirable works on physical geography, was even at that hour occupied in solving abstruse mathematical problems. Having known Mrs. Somerville for nearly half a century, and having formed the highest estimate of her remarkable qualities, including all those which pertained to the feminine character, I shall have the most sincere satisfaction in conveying to her this medal. The Founder's Medal has been adjudicated to Prof. Nordenskiold, of Stockholm, as being the leading man of science in the memorable expedition which the Swedes, to their great honor, had been carrying

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