Is it not to be lamented that a man who was so conversant with permanent truth, and whose writings are so valuable an acquisition to our country's literature, should have _required_ an impulse from such a quarter ?[10] [10] In pencil on opposite page, by Mrs.Quillinan--Daddy dear, I don't like this.

Think how many reasons there were to depress his Muse--to say nothing of his duties as a Priest, and probably he found poetry interfere with them.

He did not _require_ such praise to make him write, but it just put it into his heart to try again, and gave him the courage to do so.

(See Notes and Illustrations at close.

G) Mrs.Hemans was unfortunate as a Poetess in being obliged by circumstances to write for money, and that so frequently and so much, that she was compelled to look out for subjects wherever she could find them, and to write as expeditiously as possible.