POET, CLOSE, ON HIS FEET AT LAST. - "A Lover of Genius", who appears to have modelled his style of composition on that of the poet of Kirkby Stephen, writes to the papers as follows: - " A remarkable change of events in the life of this poor old Poet has by a singular turn of fortune come to pass. One week a broken-hearted man walking the streets of Bowness, not knowing where to place his book-stall, and very ill in addition, the next week basking in the smiles of a lady of fortune, who came from Paris, with her servants and secretary, expressly to visit CLOSE at the Lakes, and who now lodges at the Old England Hotel, Bowness, when one morning after breakfast she present MR. CLOSE with a packet of Bank of England notes - it is said £500 - be this less or more, this we can affirm, that she has paid all MR. CLOSE's debts, and at last a free man without the aid of a pension; and also paid for his 'Swiss Cottage', in which he now sells his books. Truth is stranger than fiction". ________________ Barb, Ontario, Canada.