ADVERTISEMENT. The following Papers first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, and are now collected at the suggestion of the many admirers of their gifted Author. LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1859. SHAKSPEARE PAPERS: PICTURES, GRAVE AND GAY. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. MAGINN. WILLIAM MAGINN is no more! The bright spirit whose wit was the delight of thousands, whose learning was the admiration of a quarter of a century, -whose poetry could win the applause of Byron himself, and whose guileless simplicity and modesty were the charm of all who knew him, has now some years passed the portals of death, and his place knoweth him no longer! The drama is over-the last scene of his eventful history has descended, and the picturesque little village of Walton-on-Thames now contains all that was mortal of one of the most distinguished critics and scholars of the age. He died B |