THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

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Voltaire's Chateau, at Ferney.

[Illustration]


Voltaire is the bronze and plaster poet of France. Cheek by jowl with
Rosseau, (their squabbles are forgotten in the roll of fame), you see
him perched on mantel, bracket, _ecritoire_, and bookcase: in short,
their effigies are as common as the plaster figures of Shakspeare and
Milton are in England. How far the rising generation of France may
profit by their household memorials--or the sardonic and satanic smile
of their great poet--we will not pretend to determine; neither do we
invite any comparison; although Voltaire, with all his trickseyings and
panting after fame, never inculcated so sublime a lesson as is conveyed
in

"The cloud-capp'd towers," &c.

which are inscribed beneath the bust of our immortal bard.