Note and Comment.

Harper's Weekly has the following on James Russell Lowell's return from England to private life:-

"Ex-Minister Lowell makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Edward Burnett, at her beautiful and commodious villa in Southborough, near Boston. His library is on the third floor of the building, away from the noise of his grandchildren, with whom he is a great favorite. He still keeps his house at Cambridge, where some of his most famous poems were written. His long absence from this country has served to make him more of an American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that not all whom the gods love die young. Few poets have been so notable for the charm of their conversation, and to spend an afternoon in Lowell's study is an event of events.