"The poem takes a different turn, and introduces us to scenes that delight the senses, encourage the daring, and reward the enterprises of heroic valour. The poetry, which is much diversified in metre, is highly respectable in its character, bringing before us at times coruscations of thought which border on the sublime. To the lovers of chivalry, romance, crusades, and the tumultuous ebullitions of the dark ages, The Citadel of the Lake' will furnish much enter-lightful freshness about the work. The verses seem not to be dis tainment."-Imperial Magazine.

"His memory is stored with recent and diversified reading, which is freely given out in his copious and curious illustrative notes, and which likewise appears abundantly in the course of the poem. We have met with no finer description of the approach of morning, even in Lucretius, than the following.-It affords us unfeigned pleasure to have it in our power to state, that his feelings are ardent and excellent, that his piety is pure and devout, and that his views of religion are enlightened and evangelical.-His poem, all things consider. ed, is an extraordinary performance."-Edinburgh Evening Post.

"A more enthusiastic child of song than Charles Doyne Sillery, has rarely appeared on this terraqueous globe. We have seen him in retirement, and we have seen him in society, and whether seated in the dark penetralia of our office, or acting the gay and gallant cavalier among fair women and brave men, we found him invariably the same single-hearted, frank-spoken, honest fellow. Like Anacreon Moore, his wit flashes in incessant coruscations. Like the same illustrious bard, he sings his own songs, and dashes even his prose with poetical ornature. He possesses, moreover, the astronomical enthusiasm of a Newton, the philosophic vein of a Brown, and the mechanical skill of a Watt. About the ordinary size, and exceedingly slender in figure; we never look upon his eye, gleaming with intellectual fire, but we think of the

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SIR WALTER SCOTT has now concluded his self-imposed task of supplying the youth of this country with an accurate summary of the past events of Scottish history. Taking the work as a whole, there can be no doubt that it is a beautiful specimen of simple and interesting narrative; and that it will long continue to hold undivided possession of the public attention, as by far the best book upon the affairs of Scotland which can be put into the hands of the rising generation.

he says, "is not intended to be a controversial work. Indeed, if disputed points should be stated here as subjects of discussion, there is no space to argue them; and all that could be brought forward would be the assertion of the author's own opinion, for which he is not entitled to claim any particular deference from his readers." The accuracy of the two statements contained in this last sentence we are not prepared to grant. In the first place, in a work extending to nine volumes, surely some little space might be found, if sought, not only for the statement, but even for the enforcing of opinions upon "disputed points ;" and, in the second place, Sir Walter is entitled to claim that a more than ordinary deference should be paid to his In the "Prefatory Letter" to his Grandson, with simple assertions of opinion, being one who stands forewhich the third series commences, Sir Walter observes, most in the world's eye, and who, in his single person, that he has had a bloody and tragic tale to tell. "The combines more information than could be found in mulgeneration of which I am an individual," he says, "and titudes. But our author proceeds in these words:which, having now seen the second race of their successors, "Like most men of some experience in life, I entertain must soon prepare to leave the scene, have been the first undoubtedly my own opinions upon the great political Scotsmen who appear likely to quit the stage of life, with- questions of the present and future times; but I have no out witnessing either foreign or domestic war within their desire to impress these upon my juvenile readers." This country. Our fathers beheld the civil convulsion of is not exactly meeting the whole of the objection. If an 1745-6,-the race who preceded them saw the commo-author chooses to keep his political opinions to himself, in tions of 1715, 1718, and the war of the Revolution in so far as these are connected with the times in which he 1688-9; a third, earlier generation, witnessed the lives, no one has any right to complain; but many questwo insurrections of land-hill and Bothwell-bridge,tions were alluded to, both by the Westminster Reviewers and a fourth lived in bloody times of the great civil war; a fifth had in mory the civil contests of James the Sixth's minority; and a sixth race carries us back to the long period when the blessings of peace were totally unknown, and the state of constant hostility between England and Scotland, was only interrupted by insecure and ill-kept truces of a very few years' endurance." This brief retrospect of the continual broils in which we have been engaged, would seem fully to justify the application | of the epithet perfervidum to the ingenium Scotorum. It is pleasant, however, to think, that a period has at length arrived, when there seems little probability of the terrors of actual war being soon again renewed among us, and of which the future historian will have to record the intellectual, rather than the martial triumphs.

Our readers may perhaps recollect, that in reviewing the Second Series of "Tales of a Grandfather," we took occasion to express a doubt whether Sir Walter Scott would not have been doing a greater service to his juvenile readers, had he more frequently and decidedly mingled up opinions with his bare statements of fact. We thought that, by carefully avoiding such a course, he had given to many parts of his narrative an air of frigidity, and that by contenting himself with requesting his readers to draw their own conclusions, he perhaps scarcely performed all that was expected from him as a great guide and instructor of youth. The Westminster Review afterwards stated the same objection in still fuller terms, completely coinciding with all our own sentiments upon the subject. The matter has appeared of sufficient moment to Sir Walter Scott to elicit from him an answer and de

and ourselves, concerning which Sir Walter Scott has carefully avoided explaining his own sentiments, although they are now more to be regarded as moral problems than as political bones of contention. Is it, or is it not, the historian's duty to guard, on the one hand, the memory of the great and good of past ages from undeserved obloquy, and on the other, to hold up the conspicuously wicked to merited reprobation? If this question be answered affirmatively, will it be maintained that a mere cold statement of facts is sufficient to give a proper moral impulse to the mind of the reader? Let us, however, hear Sir Walter once more:

be understood, because a friendly and indulgent critic," (al"I am more anxious that the purpose of this work should luding to the Westminster Review for April, 1829,)“ whose general judgment has been but too partially pronounced in favour of the author, has in one point misunderstood my intentions. My friendly Aristarchus, for such I must call him, has paid me the great compliment, (which I may boast of having, to my utmost ability, deserved,) that my he admits that I have not either concealed or falsified the little work contains no fault of commission; that is to say, truth of history in controverted points, which, in my opinion, would have been, especially in a work designed for the use of youth, a most unpardonable crime. But he charges me with the offence of omission, in leaving out inferences which he himself would have drawn from the same facts, and which, he seems to think, are too obvious not to It is, on the be discerned, and too stubborn to be refuted.

contrary, my opinion, and has been, ever since I came to years of understanding, that in many of these points his conclusions are liable to direct challenge, and in others, to much modification. I must not, therefore, leave it to be

tleman, The Advocates are possessed of a noble library,
and a valuable collection of medals. To this learned body,
Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon. (by birth, a daughter of the
noble house of Howard, and a keen Jacobite,) sent the pre-
sent of a medal for their cabinet. It bore on the one side
the head of the Chevalier de St George, with the motto,
Cujus est? (Whom does it represent?) and on the reverse,
the British Isles, with the legend, Reddite. (Restore them.)
The Dean of Faculty having presented this very intelligible
emblem to his brethren, a debate arose, whether or not it
should be received into their collection, which was carried
on in very warm language, and terminated in a vote, which,
by a majority of sixty-three to twelve, resolved on the ac-
ceptance of the medal. Two advocates were deputed to ex-
press, in the name of the learned body, their thanks to the
Duchess; and they failed not to do it in a manner express-
ing pointedly their full comprehension of the import of her
Grace's compliment. They concluded, by stating their
hope, that her Grace would soon have a farther opportu-
nity to oblige the Faculty, by presenting them with a se-
cond medal on the subject of a restoration. But when the
proceeding became public, the Advocates seem to have been
alarmed for the consequences, and, at a general meeting of
the Faculty (27th July, 1711,) the medal was formally re-
fused, and placed in the hands of the Lord Advocate, to be
restored to the Duchess of Gordon. The retractation, how-
ever, could not efface the evidence, that this learned and im-
portant public body, the commentators on the laws of Scot
land, from whom the guardians of her jurisprudence are
selected, had shown such boldness as to give a public mark
of adherence to the Chevalier de St George."

hat I have deserted my banners, because I have
is time and place, thought it necessary to un-
But I could not introduce political discussions
elementary work designed to inspire a love of
more mature years, the juvenile reader will have
unity of forming his own judgment upon the
ontroversy which have disturbed our history,"
ingenious, but it does not strike us as being al-
bund.
"Political discussions" and "points of
y," are surely two very separate things; yet
to be used by Sir Walter as convertible terms.
work as the "Tales of a Grandfather," political
were, of course, out of the question, and it is
ant of these that is complained of. It is the
more distinct tone from beginning to end, the
iding of all "controverted points," and the de-
n to show no leaning whatever to one party
wherever any doubts might be entertained as to
s in the right. The consequence is, that as the
ver leads us to suppose that he himself thinks
ut the matter, the youthful reader does not
ecessary to think either; and knowledge is
put into him as machinery is put into a clock-
out exercising one intellectual faculty, or ex-
heartfelt emotion. This is, no doubt, better than
but it is not enough. A Grandfather like Sir
cott should have done more. There can be no
at had Sir Walter made it a rule to state his
ons when the occasion required it, they might
y have been erroneous, but there is certainly
on to believe that they would have much more
been correct. What does he think of Mary,
Scots?-what does he think of John Knox ?-
he think of the Covenanters? These, and in
other points, he has left in complete doubt.
because his opinions might be controverted.
at they could only be controverted by an autho-
ual weight, and where shall we find such in the
ay? Is it not, then, much to be regretted that
=r has been so scrupulously cautious? Why has
ded a treble value to his facts, by drawing from
rences?

Shortly after the insurrection of fifteen broke out, a lamentable event happened in East Lothian, which Sir Walter details in these words:

CATASTROPHE IN THE FAMILY OF HEPBURN OF KEITH.

censured very gener into a personal enco liar friend; he vin tentions were to s which his rash z precipitate that ger ought to have been man, with arms in mode of opening h he who attempts t verts by compulsio of such violence as Upon a subject we meet with the

THE O

"The origin of

ercise the curiosity bered, and from the audacity with whic conceived and execu with which the en were much inclined actors men of rank longing to the mu Broken and imper guise of women, a trayed a sex and announced. Oth aggerations, and frame or execute cer, as the popul rendered him obr fully preserved on and fidelity whic other when enga probably ever wil but it is understo apprehension of t night's proceeding the voice of fame from that countr dies in improved on account of the the conspiracy w and seemed in its the degree of pro was necessary as as the most prob man, who long b of some trust as f tune in Fife, was death-bed, that h hanging of Port deed was scheme village of Path-h proceed-resolve life of Wilson, w ed by the ties of trade, and for th vengeful band met together at distributed the p they had in han soon saw it und

"Among other families of distinction in East Lothian, that of Mr Hepburn of Keith was devotedly attached to the interests of the House of Stewart, and he determined to exert himself to the utmost in the approaching conflict. He had several sons, with whom, and his servants, he had determined to join a troop to be raised in East Lothian, and commanded by the Earl of Winton. This gentleman being much respected in the county, it was deemed of importance to prevent his showing an example which was likely to be generally followed. For this purpose, Mr Hepburn of Humbie, and Dr Sinclair of Hermandston, resolved to lay hird Series of the "Tales" relates almost excluthe Laird of Keith under arrest, and proceeded towards his the two rebellions of fifteen and forty-five. The house with a party of the horse-militia, on the morning of ne, and a part of the second, are not quite so the 8th October, 1715, which happened to be the very morn g as the remainder of the work, because the ma-ing that Keith had appointed to set forth on his campaigu, orded for history by those who took up arms for having made all preparations on the preceding evening. The alier de St George, are by no means so spirit- family had assembled for the last time at the breakfast-table, when it was observed that one of the young ladies looked s those supplied by the more gallant and vigo- more sad and disconsolate, than even the departure of her er of Prince Charles Edward. Sir Walter, how father and brothers upon a distant and precarious expedigone through the whole in that easy and flow- tion seemed to warrant at that period, when the fair sex of narrative for which he is so remarkable, and were as enthusiastic in politics as the men. he does not write with the same enthusiasm, or acobite spirit, as Chambers, (to whose Histories deserved compliment,) he may, nevertheless, be almost undiminished interest, even after the oductions of the other. Any lengthened analynarrative is, of course, out of the question here. r selecting one or two detached passages, which ead with interest, and which, as the work itself be published till the 21st, have not yet made earance anywhere else.

commencement of the eighteenth century, poliery high in Edinburgh between the partizans of nne and those of the house of Stewart. Of this ving anecdote is an amusing illustration:

LTY OF ADVOCATES AND THE DUCHESS OF GORDON.

Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, that is to say, orated society of lawyers entitled to practise at the body even of more weight and consequence than d to them in most countries from the nature of ession. In the beginning of the 18th century, esthe Faculty comprehended almost all the sons of ly who did not embrace the army as their choice; word or gown, according to the ideas of that time, only occupations which could be adopted by a gen

"Miss Hepburn was easily induced to tell the cause of her fears. She had dreamed she saw her youngest brother, a youth of great hopes, and generally esteemed, shot by a man whose features were impressed on her recollection, and stretched dead on the floor of the room in which they were now assembled. The females of the family listened and argued-the men laughed, and turned the visionary into ridicule. The horses were saddled, and led out into the courtyard, when a mounted party was discovered advancing along the flat ground, in front of the mansion-house, called the Plain of Keith. The gate was shut; and when Dr Sinclair, who was most active in the matter, had announced his purpose, and was asked for his warrant, he handed in at a window the commission of the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Lieutenant of the county. This Keith returned with contempt, and announced that he would stand on his defence. The party within mounted their horses, and sallied out, determined to make their way; and Keith, dischar ging a pistol in the air, charged the Doctor sword in hand; the militia then fired, and the youngest of the Hepburns was killed on the spot. The sister beheld the catastrophe from the windows, and to the end of her life persisted that the homicide had the features of the person whom she saw in her dream. The corpse was carried into the room where they had so lately breakfasted, and Keith, after having paid this heavy tax to the demon of civil war, rode off with the rest of his party to join the insurgents. Dr Sinclair was

minds were pre posed them to f According to th

the scheme fled authorities havi investigations of enquiry of the s found disposed and to allege th to support the s Porteous Mob, to it, but, on th taxed, as he son affair. The re many

of its circ ble account of th of a few resolut by the multitu from the slighte We cannot al

censured very generally, for letting his party zeal hurry him into a personal encounter with so near a neighbour and familiar friend; he vindicated himself, by asserting that his intentions were to save Keith from the consequences into which his rash zeal for the Stewart family was about to precipitate that gentleman and his family. But Dr Sinclair ought to have been prepared to expect, that a high-spirited man, with arms in his hands, was certain to resist this violent mode of opening his eyes to the rashness of his conduct; and he who attempts to make either religious or political con verts by compulsion, must be charged with the consequences of such violence as is most likely to ensue."

Upon a subject of peculiar interest to the Scottish reader, we meet with the following interesting passage:

THE ORIGIN OF THE PORTEOUS MOB.

Each of the volumes is, as formerly, embellished with The a frontispiece and vignette. The frontispieces are : Chevalier de St George, John Campbell Duke of Argyle, and Cameron of Lochiel. The subjects of the vignettes are:-The execution of Lords Derwentwater and Kenmure; the death of Clan Ranald at the Battle of Sheriffmuir; and a small, but spirited and interesting, portrait of Flora Macdonald, The only other matter worth mentioning is, that in reading the work, we felt a considerable want of dates. They might be multiplied with advantage in a new edition.

Elements of Practical Chemistry, comprising a series of Experiments in every department of Chemistry, with directions for performing them, &c. By David Boswell Reid, Experimental Assistant to Dr Hope, Conductor of the Classes of Practical Chemistry in the Edinburgh University, Lecturer on Chemistry to the Leith Mechanics' Institution, &c. Edinburgh. Maclachlan and Stewart. 8vo. Pp. 511.

MB REID is already known to the public as the author of a work entitled, "Academical Examinations on Chemistry," which is a very excellent conversational introduction to the principles of that science. Thomson, Murray, Henry, and Turner, have presented us with elementary works on chemistry, which have been deservedly referred to as standard authorities, and the study of either of their valuable compendiums may undoubtedly introduce the student to the general doctrines of this important and difficult science; but there can be no doubt that, to obtain a competent and precise knowledge of its numerous facts and various and extensive applications, he must frequent the chemical laboratory,-he must there examine the substances which he proposes to analyse,— he must there become familiarized with their properties, and, by experimenting himself, acquire a knowledge of those complicated theories of chemical action which are, by mere reading, difficult to understand or recollect. We might as reasonably, indeed, expect a man to become a good anatomist from reading alone, without witnessing a single anatomical demonstration, as that he should succeed in acquiring a precise knowledge of chemistry with out witnessing and conducting its several important processes and operations. Mr Reid, therefore, judiciously chooses as his motto the appropriate remark of Bacon "Nec manus nuda, nec intellectus sibi permissus, multum valet; instrumentis et auxiliis res perficitur; quibus opus est, non minus ad intellectum, quam ad manum."

"The origin of the Porteous Mob continued long to exercise the curiosity of those by whom the event was remembered, and from the extraordinary mixture of prudence and audacity with which the purpose of the multitude had been conceived and executed, as well as the impenetrable secrecy with which the enterprise was carried through, the public were much inclined to suspect that there had been among its actors men of rank and character, far superior to that belonging to the multitude who were the ostensible agents. Broken and imperfect stories were told of men in the disguise of women, and of common artizans, whose manner betrayed a sex and manners different from what their garb announced. Others laughed at these as unauthorized exaggerations, and contended that no class were so likely to frame or execute the plan for the murder of the police officer, as the populace to whom his official proceedings bad rendered him obnoxious, and that the secrecy so wonderfully preserved on the occasion arose out of the constancy and fidelity which the Scottish people observe towards each other when engaged in a common cause. Nothing is, or probably ever will be, known with certainty on the subject; but it is understood, that several young men left Scotland in apprehension of the strict scrutiny which was made into that night's proceedings; and in your Grandfather's younger days, the voice of fame pointed out individuals, who, long absent from that country, had returned from the East and West Indies in improved circumstances, as persons who had fled abroad on account of the Porteous Mob. One story of the origin of the conspiracy was stated to me with so much authority, and seemed in itself so simple and satisfactory, that although the degree of proof, upon investigation, fell far short of what was necessary as full evidence, I cannot help considering it as the most probable account of the mysterious affair. A man, who long bore an excellent character, and filled a place of some trust as forester and carpenter to a gentleman of fortune in Fife, was affirmed to have made a confession on his death-bed, that he had been not only one of the actors in the hanging of Porteous, but one of the secret few by whom the deed was schemed and set on foot. Twelve persons of the village of Path-head-so this man's narrative was said to proceed-resolved that Porteous should die, to atone for the life of Wilson, with whom many of them had been connected by the ties of friendship and joint adventure in illicit trade, and for the death of those shot at the execution. This vengeful band crossed the Forth by different ferries, and met together at a solitary place near the city, where they distributed the party which were to act in the business which they had in hand; and giving a beginning to the enterprise, soon saw it undertaken by the populace of the city, whose minds were precisely in that state of irritability which disposed them to follow the example of a few desperate men. According to this account, most of the original devisers of the scheme fled to foreign parts, the surprise of the usual authorities having occasioned some days to pass over ere the investigations of the affair were commenced. On making enquiry of the surviving family of this old man, they were found disposed to treat the rumoured confession as a fiction, and to allege that although he was of an age which seemed to support the story, and had gone abroad shortly after the Porteous Mob, yet he had never acknowledged any accession to it, but, on the contrary, maintained his innocence, when taxed, as he sometimes was, with having a concern in the affair. The report, however, though probably untrue in many of its circumstances, yet seems to give a very proba ble account of the origin of the riot in the vindictive purpose of a few resolute men, whose example was quickly followed by the multitude, already in a state of mind to catch fire from the slightest spark.'

We cannot afford room at present for more extracts.

The science of chemistry has, within the few last years, made rapid and signal progress; and we think we are warranted in saying, that there is perhaps not a university in Europe in which its principles are more clearly explained, or more successfully illustrated, than in the University of Edinburgh. Mr Reid, having devoted himself almost exclusively to the cultivation of this science, has, by his talents and industry, well qualified himself to superintend the various chemical and pharmaceutical operations which it is the object of every practical course of chemistry to exhibit and explain. The methods of obtaining the different gases, acids, alkalis, metallic substances, &c.,-the result of their various combinations with each other, and their decompositions, the analysis of animal and vegetable substances,--the use of the blow-pipe and tube apparatus,---and, indeed, every department of chemiand manufactures, that the study of chemistry is of the cal science, is so connected with different professions, arts, highest consequence to a very great number in society, whose business it is to contribute to the comforts and necessities of daily life. Chemistry may be said to constitute, in a great measure, one of the principal cornerstones of medical science. By its aid only, are we enabled to prepare the various medicinal substances that combat and frequently arrest the progress of disease; by its assistance only, have we it in our power to detect,

W

THE EDINBURGH LITERARY JOURNAL; OR,

of exciting additional interest in the minds of the rational
part of the public by an expedient like this, we content
ourselves with knowing that the simple fact remains the
same, that the Rev. Mr Lyte has written six Tales in
verse, and that they are entitled, "Harford,"—" The
Missionary," "The Widow,"- "Edward Field,"-

"The Brothers," and "The Preacher."

Mr Lyte's style is evidently founded upon that of Crabbe, but he has also infused into it a considerable portion of the amenity and strong good sense of Cowper. This volume is a very unpretending one; but its intrinsic merits are, beyond a doubt, much greater than many of far higher assumption. We are not indeed acquainted with any compositions of this sort, since the days of Crabbe and Cowper, which we prefer to the Tales now before us. Though not distinguished by the highest poetical attributes, they evince a sincerity of feeling, a knowledge of the human heart, a perception of the beauties of nature, a facility of versification, and an occasional dignity and vigour of thought, which are well calculated to win approbation, if they cannot command applause. The morality they inculcate is, besides, of a pure and refining kind; and the religious precepts which they contain, rather encourage by their liberality, than startle by their dogmatism.

y by the most delicate tests, those poisonous or
us substances which, whether from ignorance or
gwickedness, may have been administered to our
eatures; and finally, by its knowledge only, are
ed to understand many of the most important
esting phenomena of animal and vegetable life.
anufactories, the art of dyeing, calico-printing,
, glass-making, and the working of various kinds
, are conducted purely by chemical processes. In
life, distillation, brewing, the use of steam, and
ulinary preparations, require a knowledge of the
y principles of this science. In agriculture, it
the nature and influence of different soils, and
s of various temperatures and external agents on
ess of vegetation. We believe, indeed, that there
nce more interesting in itself, and none certainly
ensively applicable to the general benefit of man-
hemistry, on this account, has been zealously
from the earliest periods, and the most illustri-
sophers of Europe have, during the present cen-
ted themselves zealously to its pursuit; and, in
the prejudices and superstitions which arrested
ss in the darker ages, have added to the amount
dge many of the most brilliant discoveries that
-ned the history of the human mind. What❘
holy fathers of the Inquisition of the 13th
ink, could their disembodied spirits now take
to the lecture room of Dr Hope, and there
formation of water from the union of invisible
substances burning with a brilliant flame even
tself? What, indeed, would Roger Bacon him-
, could he lift his head from out the grave, and
am-boats, in the face of wind and tide, breast-
ormy billows of the Atlantic?

The best mode of making our readers more directly appreciate their various excellencies, will be to present them with several extracts. In the tale entitled "The Missionary," the hero is thus described, and part of his history told :

apprehend sufficient has already been said to importance of the study of chemistry, and it nly for us now to direct the attention of our the volume, which has just appeared, by Mr e have examined it with considerable attention, te not to pronounce it one of the very best prac-books to the experiments conducted in the aboratory that has yet been published. The f conducting the different chemical processes escribed, and the theories of their actions exa very clear and simple manner, by the aid of Our author informs us, that the object of his ork is "to present the student with a systemaf experiments, sufficiently broad to lay a proper for acquiring habits of practical skill in cheations, with precise and minute directions for im to perform them;" and we need only add, s executed this task in a manner that reflects credit on his judgment and abilities. We reMr Reid's "Elements of Practical Chemistry" ntlemen who are engaged in the study of this science, and doubt not that to all who take re in such pursuits, it will be found an enterI instructive companion.

"Yet deem him not, untutor❜d as he was,
A thing of sense, a lump of clay and dross.
His heart was warm, and open as the spring,
A rich-toned lyre, that thrill'd through every string,
Alive to bliss, and prone to melt and move
At each appeal of friendship and of love.
He banqueted on music; and his taste
Was quick to all of beautiful and chaste.
He look'd on nature with a painter's eye,
And caught the soul of speaking poesy.
And, though possess'd of no outstanding trait
Which burden'd memory cannot put away,
No character energic, bold, defined,
Yet, see him, hear him, and anon there stole
That haunts, and fills, and triumphs o'er the mind;
A spell around that rivetted the soul;
And a mysterious interest gradual grew,
Till all about him strange observance drew,
And round his influence breathed, and spread a tone
O'er other minds congenial with his own.
"Such, and so circumstanced, it was his lot
To dwell with those who knew and prized him not.
His sphere was narrow-Fate had set him down
On the dull confines of a country town,
Where he was made the idol and the dupe
of creatures to whose arts he scorn'd to stoop.
Thence friends throng'd round him, and professions loud,
Fled from all brows before him; and he moved
And greeting smiles, attended him. The cloud
In every circle courted and beloved.
The ladies thought him sweetly sentimental-
Their mothers canvass'd o'er his handsome rental;
And though all thought him odd, nay, some said mad,
None could esteem his face or person bad;
And then, how fine a property he had!
Sure, a good spouse and jointure must await
The maid that might secure her such a mate.
"Thus, many a sigh was breathed; and not in vain.
There was one blue-eyed girl among the train,
Retiring, gentle, graceful, fair, and tall,
Little she said; but oh, that eye!--that eye!
Who bore the prize away from midst them all!
What did it not in its blue archery?
He shrunk before it; yet return'd to ask
Permission in its milder light to bask;
Was heard, received,-and nothing now there needs
But fix the day, and draw the marriage deeds.

Terse, illustrative of the several Petitions of the Prayer. By the Rev. H. T. Lyte. London. nd Miller. 1829. 12mo. Pp. 180.

a much better book than its affected and ridiwould lead one to suppose. What put it into the Rev. Mr Lyte to write six Tales, which strate the following six sentences, we cannot

omprehend, or how these six sentences could Dasis of any tales at all:-1st," Our Father n heaven, hallowed be thy name;" 2d, "Thy me;" 3d, "Thy will be done;" 4th, "Give our daily bread;" 5th, "Forgive us our treswe forgive them that trespass against us ;" and, d us not into temptation, but deliver us from ving, therefore, to its own absurdity, the idea

"I say not how the hours from hence were spent ;
I pass each sigh, and look, and blandishment,

The air-built cast
With trembling a
'Bout poetry, and
And young Love
Nor can I tell ho
What husband h
For, when all els
Remain'd but jus
News came that
He rested, and r
Of his affairs, w
The bulk of all h
"Pursuit was 1
The perjured vil
And home his du
His loss of subst
Of one so loved.
Upon a faithless
Iuto his heart.
A thousand beau
The world lost h
Was rent, and th
The tendrils of h
And twine roun
Were nipp'd, his
The curdling life

The conseque
mistress jilts hi
lowing strain o
ful verse:
"It was enoug
He wept not, t
He raved not,
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