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Magazine; and in 1840 he entered upon a more serious undertaking-founding the Art Union, a title afterwards changed to the Art Journal. Of this periodical Mr. Hall has continued to be the chief spirit for now nearly forty years, and, in its pages, has done incalculable service to the cause of art in the United Kingdom. To her husband's journal Mrs. Hall contributed "Midsummer Eve," a fairy tale (republished in 1847), in which there is a skilful mingling of the picturesque legendary lore and the comicalities of real life in Ireland. In the same journal also appeared "Pilgrimages to English Shrines," a series of "pleasant illustrated sketches of the homes and haunts of genius and virtue in our own land." This work was published in its collected form in 1850. Mrs. Hall's pen had meantime been busy in other works. In 1840 appeared a new series of Irish portraits under the title Tales of the Irish Peasantry. In 1841-43 was produced from the combined pens of herself and her husband an interesting work, Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. In 1845 appeared a novel, The White Boy; in 1857, A Woman's Story; Can Wrong be Right? in 1862; The Fight of Faith, a story of Ireland, in 1868–9.

ful-" Marian Raymond," and "The Trials | Campbell as the editor of the New Monthly of Lady Montague." In both the moral is the sad one that loving and noble natures are powerless to check the follies or elevate the characters of worthless and weak beings to whom their fate has strongly attached them. In the first a proud, beautiful, high-minded woman finds that the lover of whom she had dreamed as perfection, and to whom she was united after years of separation and the death of a first and worthless husband, has been transformed by a soldier's life and bad surroundings to a dissipated, sensual, unprincipled fellow; and the end of her girlish dreams of perfect happiness is early death from a broken heart. In the second story the loving sufferer is a mother; and the worthless persecutor a son, who ends a life of follies and vices in a street row. Uncle Horace came next, and then followed, perhaps, Mrs. Hall's most powerful work. This was Lights and Shadows of Irish Life (published in 1838). The tales here told are-as the title implies-descriptive of the brighter and the darker sides of Irish life --of the passionate affections of home, the gay hearts, and also the dark passions of Irish men and women. There is a story in the chapter headed "Ruins,”-it is the story we quote of the desolation brought on an Irish home by the seduction of a peasant girl by the squire, which is very powerful, and cannot be read without keen excitement. The character of the seducer, too, is delineated with great skill, and is one of the best descriptions in Irish literature of the bad and good sides of the Irish squire. Foolish, improvident, and vicious, Terence O'Toole yet attracts by his kindliness of heart, his high spirit, his unbending pride; and the story of the heavy retribution he paid for the sin of his youth is deeply moving. The tale is also remarkable for giving a picture of the extraordinary relations which used to exist between the Irish tenant and landlord. Another story in this series was produced on the stage under the title of The Groves of Blarney, and proved highly successful. The French Refugee, a shorter piece, had been brought out in 1837, and was received with much favour.

Marian, or a Young Maid's Fortune, was published in 1840, and at once became popular. It has passed through several editions, and has been translated into German and Dutch. Meantime, the literary fortunes of Mr. Hall had been influencing strongly those of his wife. In 1830 he had succeeded the poet

Long as is this list, it gives but a faint idea of the indefatigable industry of Mr. and Mrs. Hall. A writer has recently calculated that the two have had some share in the production of no less than 500 volumes! We have mentioned already several of their joint productions: to those we may add, The Book of the Thames and The Book of South Wales.

It is much to the credit of both Mr. and Mrs. Hall, that, notwithstanding their severe literary labours, they have found time to take an active part in the chief philanthropic movements of the time. Mrs. Hall was the originator of the fund in honour of Miss Florence Nightingale; it was in her drawing-room that the first subscription was commenced; and the result of the labours of herself and her husband was a fund amounting to £45,000. They have also assisted in founding the Hospital for Consumption, and other useful institutions. The cause of temperance has found most earnest and untiring advocates in Mr. and Mrs. Hall; and they have written many tales and sketches in which the evils of intemperance have been graphically portrayed. In 1874 came the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hall; and the "golden wedding" was made the occasion of a remarkable testimony to the esteem in which

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