a biscuit, tossed from any of them would strike very near its base, and its fragments go bounding and falling still further.

I certainly miss here the glaciers of Chamouni; but I know no single wonder of nature on earth which can claim a superiority over the Yosemite. Just dream yourself for one hour in a chasm nearly ten miles long, with egress for birds and water out either extremity, and none elsewhere save at three points, up the face of precipices from three thousand to four thousand feet high, the chasm scarcely more than a mile wide at any point, and tapering to a mere gorge or cañon at either end, with walls of mainly naked and perpendicular white granite, from three thousand to five thousand feet high, so that looking up to the sky from it is like looking out of an unfathomable profound, and you will have some conception of the Yosemite.

Correspondence of the Tribune 1859.

CROMWELL AND HIS MEN.

After the Painting by R. Smirke, R. A.

Engraved by Joseph Thompson.

OBERT SMIRKE, a noted painter and illustrator of the eighteenth century, was born near Carlisle, England, in 1752. He died at London, January 5th, 1845. Sir Robert Smirke, the architect who designed

the British Museum, was his son.