ST. Stephen's Green.

Entrance To Trinity College, Dublin.

'•Sound again, Clarion, Clarion loud and shrill! Sound! for the captive's plaintive voice Is still; is still."'

Alas! the voice of the singer of those words is also still. But all the blare of Earth's brief triumphs and the tumult of the passing world will never silence its sweet echo in the inner chamber of my heart, until that heart has ceased to beat.

Old Trinity College, Dublin, is famous alike for the illustrious men who have been educated there, and for the literary treasures it possesses. The oldest of its classic halls is a rather sombre, but imposing, structure, three hundred feet in length and ornamented with Corinthian columns. I looked upon it with great interest, for this old Irish University, founded by Queen Elizabeth, has been for more than three hundred years a brilliant beacon-light, piercing the gloom of Ireland's history; and through its entrance-archway many youthful forms have passed whose spiritualized outlines glow imperishably now in some of the most prominent niches in the Pantheon of Fame. Some of these forms have also found their replicas in bronze and marble; and that of Goldsmith stands beside the College Gate. The pose is natural, and well expresses the character principally ascribed to Goldsmith, - that of a "dreamer."

Statue Of Oliver Goldsmith, Dublin.

Although a wanderer from his native land, it was of Ireland that he really wrote both in his " Deserted Village" and the "Vicar of Wakefield." The little village of Lis-soy, near the Shannon, is supposed to be the " Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain," which he immortalized in his poem; and here the poet's father (theoriginalof the "Vicar"), lived as a poor country clergyman, more blessed with progeny than with provisions for their maintenance. Poor Gold-smith ! He was a typical child of Ireland, - talented, impecunious, improvident, and unfortunate; producing literary master- pieces which place him in the front rank of English writers, yet receiving for them miserably insufficient compensation, and dying at last in London, to lie for years in an almost unknown grave, until the world awoke to an appreciation of his genius. Oliver Goldsmith's place in English literature is now secure forever. His works are classics. The "Deserted Village" has appeared in nearly every educational series for reading published in the United States during the last three-quarters of a century, and, like Gray's "Elegy," is an exquisite picture of rural loveliness and peace; his comedy, "She stoops to conquer," still ranks among the best plays in the English language; while the " Vicar of Wakefield " is so ideally realistic, that it will always be a perfect type of simple, trustful, human nature. Little did the young student imagine, as he worked his way through Trinity College in poverty and discouragement, that Dublin would one day be proud to rear a bronze memorial at this gateway in his honor, and that the products of his genius would be read and his name cherished wherever the English language should be known.

' The Sheltered Cot, The Cultivated Farm."

A Typical Irish Village, Glencoe.

Statue Of Edmund Burke, Dublin.

Statue Of Thomas Moore, Dublin.

On the left of the College entrance, and forming a pendant to the statue of Gold-smith, stands another admirable work by the same artist, - the Irish sculptor, Foley. It is the manly, spirited figure of Ed-mund Burke. This gifted Irishman was a student here at the same time as Goldsmith, but there is no evidence that they were then particularly acquainted; though later, in their London literary life, they were somewhat allied. The bold, impassioned, parliamentary orator and polemical essayist was not cast in the same mould as the retiring poet; yet each in his own way conferred undying glory upon Ireland. Burke's advocacy of his native land, in denouncing the tyrannical trade-restrictions placed by England upon Ireland, has been described by even an English statesman, John Morley, as being "accurately, absolutely, and magnificently right "; his splendid championship of the oppressed in the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings also elicited the admiration of the world; and every American will recollect with gratitude Burke's noble efforts, at the time of the Revolution, in behalf of the struggling Colonists, to whom he gave his entire sympathy. He had foreseen the approaching conflict, and had protested against the imposition of unjust taxes on the King's North American subjects, but in vain. His speeches on "American Taxation," in 1774, and on " Conciliation with America," in 1775, have an imperishable place in literature. For rhetorical fervor, thrilling eloquence and sound wisdom, the world has rarely seen their equal.