LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL

Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his *British Poetesses* on account of the following verses:— TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND. "Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth; His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight, My husband dear, more than this world's light, Death hath me reft. But I from death will take His memory, to whom this tomb I make. John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say), Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay." Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that these verses could not hav…