The period of Mr. Drew's conversion to God, under the ministry of Dr. Adam Clarke, and his connexion with the Methodists' society, is recorded on a plain marble, in the Wesleyan chapel at St. Austell. The inhabitants of the town of his nativity have given expression to their feelings of affectionate remembrance, by placing in the parish church a very handsome tablet, bearing this inscription:

TO THE MEMORY OF

SAMUEL DREW,

A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH,

WHOSE TALENTS AS A METAPHYSICAL WRITER,
UNAIDED BY EDUCATION,

RAISED HIM FROM OBSCURITY

INTO HONOURABLE NOTICE,

AND WHOSE VIRTUES AS A CHRISTIAN

WON THE ESTEEM AND AFFECTION

OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

HE WAS BORN MARCH 3RD 1765,

LIVED IN ST. AUSTELL UNTIL JANUARY 1819,

AND, AFTER AN ABSENCE OF FOURTEEN YEARS,

DURING WHICH HE CONDUCTED A LITERARY JOURNAL, HE RETURNED TO END HIS DAYS IN HIS NATIVE COUNTY, AS HE HAD LONG DESIRED,

AND DIED AT HELSTON, MARCH 29TH 1833.

TO RECORD THEIR SENSE

OF HIS LITERARY MERIT AND MORAL WORTH,
HIS FELLOW-TOWNSMEN AND PARISHIONERS

HAVE ERECTED THIS TABLET,

SECTION XXVI.

Mr. Drew's personal appearance

His domestic habits

Training of his children - His affability and readiness to

instruct Familiarity in correspondence

stance of mono-mania.

THE leading events of Mr. Drew's life have been narrated in nearly chronological order. Other particulars, illustrative of his character and talents, we have yet to notice. To these a brief description of his personal appearance may be deemed an appropriate introduction.

Slender in form, with a head remarkably small, his stature exceeded the common height. In its repose, his dark, expressive eye indicated a placid disposition, and a mind at ease; but frequently might it be seen, either beaming with gratitude to God and benevolence to man, or lit up with the brilliancy of mental conception. A playful or an arch smile often stole over those features on which the lines of thought were deeply indented. His voice, neither harsh nor melodious, was clear and powerful; producing, by the firmness of its intonations, a conviction that the speaker was no ordinary man. Without exhibiting the polish of gentility, his gait and gesture were not ungraceful; while a general rapidity of motion indicated great physical activity, and decision of purpose.

Aided by the print prefixed to this volume, and the verbal portrait thus roughly sketched, the fancy of the reader who has not seen Mr. Drew will, perhaps, complete the likeness.

"The fixed glance of his eye," a gentleman intimately acquainted with Mr. D. in the latter years of his life, remarks, "was particularly searching. When I first became known to him, I used involuntarily to shrink from it. He seemed to be searching the secrets of one's soul; yet it was a glance entirely destitute of fierceness." Another gentleman, to whom he was known about the time of his first becoming an author, observes to him, in a letter dated 1802, Your restless mind abhors indolence, as men too frequently abhor exertion. From your very make, I am led to calculate upon some future enterprize; and be that what it may, you will not attempt it but on a conviction of personal adequacy."

Whatever change his features may have sustained, through advancing age, a circumstance related by him a few weeks before his decease shews, that, in their general expression, they must have continued from his early manhood with little alteration. Riding to his office, as he was latterly accustomed, he was asked by a person who sat opposite to him in the vehicle, if he were not called Drew; and, on being answered in the affirmative, the gentleman remarked, "You and I, sir, were next-door neighbours at Crafthole." "How long is it, sir, since you lived there?" inquired Mr. D. "About fifty years.' "And have you not seen me since ?" Never, sir, till now."

was the answer.

In describing Mr. Drew's DOMESTIC HABITS, the reader's attention is chiefly directed to the period subsequent to 1805-the year in which he relinquished trade for literature, and was enabled to follow a systematic distribution of his time. Previously to this, the frequent and irregular calls of business scarcely permitted the formation, much less the pursuit, of any settled plan.

That time might be taken by the forelock,' which was one of his favourite phrases and rules of conduct, the family clock was kept a quarter of an hour in advance of the town time. When this clock struck seven, he regularly rose, except in the depth of winter; and, if the weather permitted, walked till eight, the family breakfast hour. Sometimes this walk would be solitary; but usually he was accompanied by his children, and their young companions. To join his morning walk was esteemed a privilege. Even the little ones were eager to be of the party;- for the child that was too young to keep pace with the others generally rode upon his father's back or shoulder. In this manner Mr. Drew's first morning hour was spent, not idly, but in delivering lectures on some topic which he endeavoured to render interesting to his young disciples. Grammar was frequently the subject ―at other times, geography - at others, natural science, drawn from any object which might happen to strike his or the children's attention-and sometimes, a rehearsal of poetry. In fair weather, as duly as the clock struck eight, might he be seen returning, with sometimes half-a-dozen children or more in company; and the appearance of the party

was often a signal to the neighbours that the hour of eight had arrived.

From eight to nine was occupied by the morning repast and family devotion. At this, a chapter was read by one of his children; on each of whom, if capable of reading, the duty devolved in succession. Unless the portion of scripture appeared to require explanation, the reading was followed immediately by an extemporaneous prayer, in which Mr. Drew manifested the liveliest feeling for the best interests of his dependants, and all whose welfare might, at the time, occupy his thoughts. He then entered his study, which he never designated by a more classical name than his chamber, and generally continued there, with the interruption only of dinner and tea, until seven o'clock; nor was this room interdicted to his children, while they refrained from noise. On those evenings when he delivered his lectures on grammar, &c., he left his study at an earlier hour — these lectures occupying his time from six to eight.

Independently of his engagement with his pupils, he regarded seven as his hour for leaving work.' A portion of two or three evenings weekly was devoted to the public duties of religion:- his other vacant hours were either given to the society of his friends to conversation with his children to occasional correspondence to visiting the sick-or to the reading of such books as did not fall within the course of his ordinary occupation. The only time in which he was wholly released from mental exercise, was the period immediately preceding his retiring to rest. After supper the adults of the family were