From the Same. 
“Boston, March 20, 1867.

“The world has claims on you which you ought not to evade; and, if the path in which you walk of preference, leads to no wide popularity or brilliant profits, it is, at least, one you have much to yourself, and cannot fail to enjoy.  You have chosen it from faithful love, and will always love it; I suspect partly because it is your own choice, because it is peculiarly your own”.

From the Same. 
“Boston, July 3, 1867.

“Considered from this point of view, I think that in your present volume ["Mysteries of Corpus Christi”, or “Autos Sacramentales” of Calderon] you are always as successful as you were in your previous publications of the same sort, and sometimes more so; easier, I mean, freer, and more happily expressive.  If I were to pick out my first preference, I should take your fragment of the ‘Veneno y Triaca’, at the end; but I think the whole volume is more fluent, pleasing, and attractive than even its predecessors”.

From the first of English religious painters.

“I cannot resist the impulse I have of offering you my most grateful thanks for the greatest intellectual treat I have ever experienced in my life, and which you have afforded me in the magnificent translations of the divine Calderon; for, surely, of all the poets the world ever saw, he alone is worthy of standing beside the author of the Book of Job and of the Psalms, and entrusted, like them, with the noble mission of commending to the hearts of others all that belongs to the beautiful and true, ever directing the thoughtful reader through the love of the beautiful veil, to the great Author of all perfection.

“I cannot conceive a nation can receive a greater boon than being helped to a love of such works as the religious dramas of this Prince of Poets.  I have for years felt this, and as your translations appeared, have read them with the greatest possible interest.  I knew not of the publication of the last, and it was to an accidental, yet, with me, habitual outburst of praise of Calderon, as the antidote and cure for the trifling literature of the day, that my friend (the) D——­ made me aware of its being out”.

[The work especially referred to in the latter part of this interesting letter is the following:  “Mysteries of Corpus Christi (Autos Sacramentales), from the Spanish of Calderon, by Denis Florence Mac-Carthy”.  Duffy, Dublin and London, 1867.]

Extracts from American and Canadian Journals.

From an eloquent article in the “Boston Courier”, March 18, 1862, written by George Stillman Hillard, Esq., the author of “Six Months in Italy”—­a delightful book, worthy of the beautiful country it so beautifully describes.