speare, Milton, Dryden, Goldsmith, and others long since departed:—
"In those bright halls no harp was strung
To sweeter notes than those which rung
To Shelley's wierd majestic tongue;
The joyous sound
Was like the strains Prometheus sung
When first unbound."
The poem is altogether above the common run of metaphor, and well worthy perusal. "The Poet's Ambrosia," is an elegant piece of word-painting, as will be seen by this:—
"His ideal joy of all created things
Is lovely woman, beautiful, serene;
Her eyes the fount of intellectual springs;
Her face the impress of the great Unseen;
Her voice the echo of an angel's hymn;
Her smile a gleam of sunshine's rippling light;
Her footfall like a seraph journeying;
All seem a dream of heaven to his enraptured sight."
John Howell is a native of Bath, Somerset, where he was born July 4, 1832. He was educated at a Grammar School in Bristol, in the immediate vicinity of a large shipping industry. At the age of 14 he entered the Navy as naval apprentice, and served on board H.M.S. "Ganges," 84 guns, in the Mediterranean, and afterwards in H.M.S. "Rodney," 92 guns, attached to the Channel Squadron. Quitted the Navy at the expiration of his indentures, and joined the Merchant Service as second officer, trading between Bristol and the African gold coast, and Liverpool and Savannah, U.S. Was cast away in the barque "Ellen," of Liverpool, in the Bay of Biscay, and rescued and taken to Liverpool. Afterwards sailed thence to Sydney, N. S. "Wales, arriving there in 1854. Traded between that port and Newcastle, and was cast away on The Nobbys. Rescued and returned to Sydney,
