18 JUNE 1864, page 12

The Somersets.

MEE Duke of Beaufort, the head of this splendid clan, whose name has for four centuries been synonymous with aristocracy, is the lineal representative of a branch of the......

Nathaniel Hawthorne.

'TITHE ghostly genius of Hawthorne is a great loss to the American people. He has been called a mystic, which he was not, —and psychological dreamer, which he was in very slight......

The Herberts.

A DESCENDANT of the lady in question corrects a state- ment in our account of this family. It was not the Lord Jefferies, as Collins says, who married the daughter of the Earl......