"W.E.M."

“ Many a time and oft has the grand old commander of the Highland Brigade recounted for the son of his old comrade the deeds of heroism performed by his brothers in the field, and mourned the misadventure—mischance, or whatever it was which drove him to the less exciting pursuit of literature—a pursuit, albeit, associated with so many of those unaccountable fatalities which, has plunged some of the most brilliant of its adherents into premature graves. ”

“ He was a radical of radicals in politics, and his outspoken, sympathies and hatred of conventionalities won for him the esteem of such men as Lord Rosebery, Marcus Clarke, and the Victorian liberal phalanx with, whom the latter was closely identified in Victoria, and which carried the powerful Berry regime into power on the memorable 11th May 1887. Poor Clarke in his 'Future of the Australian race," considers that all vegeterians are Conservatives, and 'Red Radicals' for the most part meat-eaters, while fish-eaters are invariably moderate Whigs. ”

“ More sad are those we daily see,
It is—but hadn't ought to be.
I knew the deceased journalist well. Almost since the death of his dearest friend, the late Marcus Clarke, we have been intimately associated in literary and other business concerns, an intimacy which. imposes upon me the sad duty I owe my departed friend, to pen these few poor lines by way of an epitaph to his memory. Mr. Mackinnon was of Scottish birth and parentage, being the younger son of a distinguished General, an officer in the British Army, and a near relative of the late Mr. ”