15 JUNE 1878, Page 3

America has lost one of her best poets in William

Cullen Bryant,—one of the very few poets who was ever at the same time a successful journalist. The New York Evening Post was always, under his management, a journal of high character and no little influence, and though as a poet Mr. Bryant could not ex- actly be placed in the highest or even the second rank, his poetry was really beautiful, and partook in the highest degree of that curious and almost rarified refinement, in which, oddly enough, American literature seems to surpass even the literature of the Old World. Mr. Bryant died at a great age,-84, in full possession of all his faculties.