We note with sincere regret the death of Mr. Aubrey
de Vere at the age of eighty-eight. The son of the Sir Aubrey de Vere whose "Mary Tudor" won the admiration of Glad- stone, Matthew Arnold, and other distinguished critics, he was the intimate friend in his youth of the great mathema- tician, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, and of Wordsworth, and throughout his long life endeared himself to all whom be encountered by the charm of his conversation, the beauty of his character, the gracious courtesy of his manners. Though his poetry was debarred by a certain austere purity from appealing to a wide circle of readers, it was marked by un- failing nobility of aim, dignity of treatment, and distinction of style. Indeed, it may be said of him that he never har- boured an ungentle thought or penned a harsh line.
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