"Oh German minstrel."
The monument of Handel bears a full length statue, which is said to be a striking likeness of the original. The attitude is noble and expressive. One arm rests on a group of musical instruments, and the countenance displays the delighted abstraction of listening to an angel's harp from the clouds above. In allusion to his composition of the "Messiah," there is inscribed, on a scroll by his side, the sublime passage, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Only his name, and the dates of his birth and death are added, the marble most happily comprehending in itself both his character and eulogy. Apart from its own fitness and beauty, it is viewed with interest as the last work of the eminent sculptor, Roubiliac.
"Nor to the sceptred Stuart bowed him down."
The anecdote of Dr. Busby walking with his hat on, when Charles the Second came to visit his celebrated school at Westminster, and the reason given by him to the king, that "if his boys supposed there was a man in the realm greater than himself, he should never be able to govern them," is well known. The severity of his sway as a teacher is equally well authenticated. Yet with whatever majesty he arrayed himself, it would seem to have been devoted to the interests of science, and to the improvement of those under
