University of Virginia Library

ROSCOE.

One of the first places to which a
stranger is taken in Liverpool is the
Athenæum. It is established on a liberal
and judicious plan; it contains a good
library, and spacious reading-room, and
is the great literary resort of the place.
Go there at what hour you may, you
are sure to find it filled with grave-looking
personages, deeply absorbed in
the study of newspapers.

As I was once visiting this haunt of
the learned, my attention was attracted
to a person just entering the room. He
was advanced in life, tall, and of a form
that might once have been commanding,
but it was a little bowed by time—perhaps
by care. He had a noble Roman
style of countenance; a head that would
have pleased a painter; and though some
slight furrows on his brow showed that
wasting thought had been busy there,
yet his eye still beamed with the fire of
a poe