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LIVING LITTERATEURS.

No. I.—SAMUEL LOVER, AUTHOR or “ Roar
’Man.”

Allow us. Gentle Reader, to introduce you
to our Gallery of Literary Lions; to invite
your admiration of our sketches from life of
the living literati. And first of our series
commend we to your notice and acquaintance—
ship as fine a specimen of the clever Irish—
man as London can boast—a poet, novelist,
musician, and painter — Ronv O’Monn
Lonny—Esquire by courtesy, and one of
“ Nature’s nobles” in fact.

Samuel Lover was born in Dublin, dis-
played in early life great quickness for study,
and a love for music, poetry, and paint-
ing remarkable in a child; but his tastes were
thwarted in these respects by his being des-
tined by circumstances to attend to,mercantile
pursuits until the age of three-and-twcnty,
when the thraldom became intolerable, and he
plunged into the arts. He soon began to
exercise his pen, and the success of some le-
gendary sketches,which appeared anonymously
in a magazine, led to the publication of his
first series of “Legends and Stories of Ire-
land,” in which “ The Gridiron ” gave him no
small reputation as a comic writer. A se-
cond series soon followed. The exhibition
of a miniature in Somerset House at once
brought him over to London to practise in
that art; while in those of poetry and music,
the appearance of “The Angel’s Whisper "
and “ Rory O’More " obtained for him credit
as a song writer. These songs were followed
up in rapid succession by many others which
have become popular; that grand test of
popularity, viz. being sung and whistled and
_ ground on organs through the streets, has
‘_ been conceded to Mr. Lover’s works as much
as to those of any modern composer. En-
couraged by his growing popularity, the offer
of ahandsome sum from Mr. Bentley tempted
him to venture on the production of a three
volume work, and the Irish romance of “ Rory
O’More” placed him on higher ground than
he had yet occupied. This he afterwards dra-
matised for Power, whose inimitable acting
of it is yet fresh in our memories. Besides
this drama he wrote two others for Power,
as well as musical pieces for Madame Vestris
at the Olympic, and for Balfe at the English
Opera, in the last of which the present popu—
lar song of “ Molly Bawn” first was heard.
In literature, “ Handy Andy” and “ Treasure
Trove” have followed up Mr. Lover’s suc-
cesses as a novelist, while nine dramatic
.. works, and upwards of a hundred songs, bear

testimony to his industry, if to nothing else.

 

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