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flourished. There is, however, a "James Watt Club," which meets on the very spot where stood the house in which Watt was born, the most illustrious man which Greenock has produced. Jean Adam, the authoress of "There's nae luck about the house," was also a native of Greenock; and in one of the churchyards lie the remains of "Highland Mary," immortalised by Burns. Neither is the fact generally known that it was in the arms of a Greenock seaman that Nelson was conveyed to the cock pit, after receiving his death-wound on the quarter-deck of the Victory, at Trafalgar. Greenock, too, has lately produced several' poets and men of literary character. Among these are Mr Mennons, the Editor of the Greenock Advertiser and the Literary Coronal, Mr Steele, the author of the "Hope of Iminortality," lately published by Blackwood, Mr Weir himself, and others.

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Some Account of the Life of Reginald Heber, D.D.
Bishop of Calcutta. With a Portrait. 12mo, pp. 239.
London. Simpkin & Marshall. 1829."

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THIS is a work of humble pretensions. Indeed, when we read, in a preliminary notice, "These pages are compiled from the various reviews of the Bishop of Calcutta's works, and are published without authority from his family," we were inclined to shut the book at once. On second thoughts, however, it struck us that any memorial of such a man as Heber was valuable. Rising, therefore, and taking a turn or two across the room, to regain that equanimity of temper which the suspicion of a flagrant instance of book-making had somewhat ruffled for,

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Light breezes will ruffle the flowers some times". we proceeded to read the volume with our paper cutter. We perused with pleasure the extracts from the Bishop's Russian and Indian Journals, and, as we anxiously collected the few biographical facts thinly scattered through the pages, we anticipated the gratification we should find in bestowing our best attention on the full memoirs of this truly Christian gentleman, and scholar which will shortly appear from the pen, we believe, of Mrs Heber,

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

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BENNEVIS, AND ITS ADJACENT SCENERY. A TOURIST'S SKETCH., FORT WILLIAM is a military station, calculated fully as much to excite the smile as the terror of the foe; but to the lion-hunter, the village which lies beneath its cannon has every thing to recommend it; for, besides affording him a good inn, a good bed, and a good dinner, he will find radiating from this comfortable centre, many objects worthy of his attention. Among these are Glencoe, alike interesting and alike terrific in its natural scenery and in its associated recollections,—— Moidart and Lochiel, where Prince Charles first raised his standard, and where the trustiest and noblest-minded of his adherents ruled, Glenroy, with its parallel road, the Caledonian Canal and Neptune's staircase, which will turn his thoughts from the vast achievements of nature, to one of the most stupendous of the works of man, and lastly, Bennevis, of which we are about to speak more at length immediately. When of these objects" meditation has had its fill," he has only to take his place aboard a steam-boat, and be steered either northward, through locks and lochs of fame, or southward through that striking archipelago where rises Staffa, the fairest of all Neptune's temples, and Iona, where Columba kept alive the sacred flame of religion and of learning, amid dark and stormy times..

for morning, Sandy Rankine, than whom you will not
find a more intelligent or a more obliging guide, will
knock lustily at your door, ere well the lark has roused
his brother choristers, or the cock his fellows of the
roost; and whilst you are buckling on your panoply,
Mrs Cameron is buckling upon Sandy's back a basket of
most interesting contents. Having sallied forth, we cross
the mouth of Glennevis and its forming stream, and we
pass the castle of Inverlochy, washed by a fine full river,
This castle, now in
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ruins, was one of the many strongholds of the redoubted
family of Cumming, although tradition says, that in earlier
times it was a royal seat; and there is something that
bids the mind acquiesce, without much questioning, in a
tradition which places the palace of the Scottish, me-
narch at the base of the loftiest of his country's hills, and
in a district where the Caledonian Forest, sheltering the
bison and the boar, in its recesses, spread itself over
mighty mountains, and mirrored itself in majestic lakes,

But now comes the tug of war, By a grassy steep ascent you begin to climb Bennevis on its western front. In half an hour you are fatigued to faintness; but ten minutes' rest on one of those grey masses of stone that it is a fact which I cannot account for, but which all here and there jut through the sward, restores you ; and hill-climbers will bear me out in, that after the first

breathing you will not again suffer from fatigue in a degree so painful and oppressive. A few more heats and a few more halts, and you have ascended what is called Bennevis' Resting-hill. It is rather the steepest, but by far the smoothest part of the ascent. You now cross a boggy plain of some extent, in which there is a lake and a thousand rills, heard incessantly, but scarcely ever seen, so buried are, they under the long heather and the swollen mossy earth. Having traversed this landing-place in the Titanic staircase, you are called upon again" to put a stout heart to a stay brae," for long and rough is the path which lies above you. Your course leads up by the side of a stream, gelid and crystalline, that rushes in a thousand cataracts down the hill. You now begin to feel that you must bid farewell to the vegetable, and enter the mineral kingdom. No plants are to be met with except some of the hardiest and most alpine or aretic of the grasses, mosses, and saxifrages. Even these are few and far between, and nearer the summit they disappear altogether. This want of vegetable life is chargeable, no doubt, in a great degree, upon the pitiless exposure, but partly also, and in no small measure, on the want of soil. For two miles next its summit, the surface of the hill is wholly covered (I had almost said slated) with large loose fragments of stone. They are of a dark blue-coloured clay-stone porphyry, very hard and sharp-edged; which last character (one that the visitor will hardly fail to remark) becomes more striking as you approach, the summit of the mountain, as if the stones farther down had suffered some process of attrition in their descent. About a mile from the highest peak there is a spring, above which no water is to be found, and around which a thousand “ disjecta membra,” give the hint that here it is customary for the aspirant, to leave his stores till his return. Here, then, do we deposit our fowl, our deaf, our kebbuck; but, most venerable and venerated greybeard! here do we not deposit thee. He who toils along a mountain's breast, knows too well the virtue that is in thee to trust thee anywhere save near his heart; and when we stand on the pinnacle of the loftiest of King George's bills, shall not our loyal lips pronounce his royal name over that essence which he esteems and henours? Shall we not give a cheer to our good Admiral from his own top-gallant head?dito not voer mT

Though the sweetest of sunshine may be in the vales, Well, we have at length reached the summit; and, it is scarcely during more than one day in the week that gentle reader, or rather, sweet fellow-traveller, we hope the broad summit of Bennevis is altogether free from you are not overmuch fatigued. We now stand upon a clouds; and the travelling party must wait patiently at long, narrow, irregular piece of table-land, horribly gashFort-William till a suitable day appear. On the wished-ed by the Corries. These are the sinuosities of a tre

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mendous precipice, which forms the north side of the mountain, and which certainly is the most striking feat ture it presents. Its height is 2000 feet, and it scarcely declines from the perpendicular. Launch over it one of these hard blocks of porphyry, you will hear a hundred wild echoes, and see smoke rising from a hundred jutting crags, but in that smoke the substance of the stone is dissipated,—it never reaches the bottom of the cliff. Many and varied, and far asunder, are the objects over which our eyes can range. We see at once the Atlantic and the German, the Western and the Eastern oceans. The Linnhe Loch, beginning at the hill's foot, runs far, far southward; a painter would say it was foreshortened, for the hilly isles which gorge it at its junction with the At lantic, forty miles away, seem just beneath our feet. There is something grand in looking down upon a thou sand hill-tops, as now we do in common with the eagle. Far in the west, overtopping many intervening chains, are the singularly abrupt and ragged hills of Coolin, in Skye. To the south, Ben Cruachan, a two-headed giant, stands conspicuous; and, in the east, springing graceful and conical from the margin of Loch Tay, Benlawers, ** above the rest in form and posture proudly eminent, stands like a tower." Here and there through a niche in the sombre mountains, you gain a glimpse of some silvery current glittering down its narrow valley, or of the broad-most a contempt for the prattle about les beaux arts, er sheen of some expansive lake. Several patches of snow, like the remains of wreathes, sparkle in the shaded places, and with handfuls of these it is a pleasant July occupa tion to pelt each other. The chill air, however, which at first was grateful, after the exertion of ascent, is soon felt piercing and painful, and we shall therefore not pro tract our stay.*: $56 #ihp229oei burad zice bræmolt a Our descent, including a proper allowance of time for doing justice to our basketful at the well, will not occupy one-third so long as our upward struggles It is on the southern part of the mountain, and by a route of much more uninterrupted steepness. You are soon imparadised in Glennevis, with a warm atmosphere around you, a soft sward beneath your feet, and for your companion down the glen, a sweet stream, with a fringe of fields and trees. Twenty minutes' walk conducts you to the inn from which you started in the morning. The last effort of the day is a scramble who shall have the sofa. And as you enjoy your siesta there, and are gratified by the sympathizing alacrity with which Nancy arranges the dinnertable, you find that it is full eight hours since you set out on your excursion, and you begin to wonder whether it be possible that you are not somewhat tipsy after having gulped your quarter of a quart of mountain/dew Be satisfied that at its proper level the liquid has no quality of poison, and be assured, that without its kindly aid, you could not have scaled the capitol."

the large room of the Argyll Arcade, the other their columns, with or about them. Never was there so much written on so small a matter, and, on the whole, well written too. All our Glasgow newspapers, save one, rushed into the field, and had each their favourites. The | criticisms in the Chronicle, surmised to be from the practised pen of a member of the Dilletanti Society, were, in general, happily conceived, and tersely, perhaps too terse ly, expressed; but they were based on notions of art essentially correct. A young writer of talent, disguising himself in broad Scotch, for the purpose of saying shrewder things, followed the classical critic. The Free Press and its able editor entered with enthusiasm, but at perhaps too great length, and with too friendly and gentle a spirit into the merits of nearly every picture, and found redeeming points in them all. The Times was more eclectic, and this year had no favourites. A young litterateur from Edinburgh, at present connected with the Courier, has distinguished that paper by very clever criticisms, with the most of which I agree, saving that which attacked my friend Henderson, who has one of the best portraits in the Exhibition. As to the Herald, it is the exception to which I alluded, and, I think, fitly and properly so. Its honest and excellent editor, though himself an accomplished scholar, and a man of taste, has al

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and objects of virtu, which so often makes up the whole
of the pretensions of travelled connoisseurs and would-
be dilletanti respecting the beautiful; and, assailed on
every side by the solicitations of the partisans of exhibit-
to give some space to,"- to look favourably on,”—
"to say something kind of," &c. &c., he has stoutly, perhaps
gruffly, refused to meddle with a nest of hornets such
as congregated artists frequently are.
This is all very
well for one Journal, but it would never have done had a
second stood out in the same way. The originality of
resistance would then have been no more.—But now for
our very brief coup d'œil of the catalogue the rose leaf
added to the filled-up and brimming cup.

The Edinburgh artists have this year shown much more of their temper than their talent to us. They certainly do not all seem to have the mildness of the Kid. One of their number took the pet, last year, because he was presented with a piece of plate instead of money; and his brethren, in their most disinterested "love for art,"

that is the established phrase and their anxiety for diffusing a knowledge of its principles," have not sent, this season, hálf-a-dozen pictures to aid in civilizing us Boeotians! Aberdeem is too far north for the indulgence of such folly.A Mr Giles, resident there, has sent an inconceivable number of pieces from his own pencil, and all of them clever. Some of them, indeedy are excellent ; but just because so smány from the same hand are to choose upon; I presume, not one of them has found a purchaser Not fewer than a round dozen of amateurs are exhibitorsj›with very diversified talents indeed. The water-colour drawings of Mr Davie, and the oil pictures, chiefly marine pieces, of Mr. C. Hutcheson, are very creditable; as are some beautiful pencil-sketches, particularly one of Doune Castle. However, the politeness of the

The height of the mountain, I need scarcely add, is 4380 feet. It is shapeless and huge, and from no point of view is the form it exhibits fine. It was in the middle of July we ascended it, and we were told that during the season only twelve adventurers had preceded us, and that among these there were two or three courageous fair ones. We were pleased with the spirit of an English gentleman who, we were informed, had a few weeks before left the steam-vessel at Fort-William, where she lies over night previous to entering the canal, had seen the rising of the midsummer sun from the top of Bennevis, and resumed his place on board before the boiler had begun to hiss. ‹ i Vol 14. 15 22 sunnng sile an hauls and bastion. One comprises Glover's landscapes; the second, ༄ཟླཝསཾཋཱནཱ། FINE ARTS IN GLASGOW. 1 261A

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hangmen" of the Society, as the picture committee are facetiously called by all artists, is, with many of the pieces of amateurs," much more conspicuous than the severity of their tasted toitst:bsor “zanaida senti) to aad 4/ basThere are, I think, three sets of gems in the Exhibi

Barber's and the third, Graham's portraits. According to the relative appreciation of these which have all posiitive and admitted merits I should judge of the taste of a critic in the arts. Glover's pieces appear to me to be exactly in landscape painting what Chantrey's works are in sculpture, showing that which is beautiful in Nature with intense sympathy and great power, but without exaggeration and without soaring into the purely ideal. Barber, on the other hand, looks at Nature through a Claud

Lorrain glass. His painting is like Arabian poetry-all
sunshine and roses. It is delicious to dream of such sunny
skies and landscapes brightly green. It would be very
tedious to live beneath the one, or amid the other. As for
Graham, he will be the Titian of Scotland, when he for-
gets that Titian, and Guido, and Carlo Dolce, lived. At
present, wherever he can, he makes his sitter-however
Caledonian in reality-Italian in attitude and air; and his
glimpses of landscape are recollections of the Val d'Arno,
rather than of the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire. It is a
glorious fault, but he will amend it. Henderson, Gib-
son, M'Nee, and perhaps Ross, are all good portrait
painters, but not surpassing. Gibson is a fine colourist;
Henderson, a minutely faithful and fastidious copier of
Nature. This is well; but he is also equally so of tables
and chairs, and this stiffens his pictures. He hates glare
too, and he paints in dingy reds and russets; but he has
capital stuff about him. M'Nee promises to be-nay, is
a bold and admirable sketcher; but he is, as yet, too
sketchy. His chalks are excellent; and, in a year, he will
work closer into his canvass. Mr Ross is surely clever;
but this season he has not been very successful in any
thing but getting to be Professor of Painting in Ander-
son's University. We have several pieces from that cle-
ver artist, William Brown, who delineates so well the
palaces of Scotland. They are unequal, but none of them
below par.
That his superb view of Dundonald Castle
should not have sold, is surprising. Donaldson, another
Glasgow artist, makes rapid strides, Fleming a Green-
ock one, has made them. Bonar and Paterson send from
Edinburgh the cleverest figure pieces in the Exhibition;
but the latter asks too much for his, considering his pre-
sent standing. Ten guineas is no bad proffer for his
"Boys Swimming." I made it, but no purchase.
The
sales, however, have on the whole been good. One gen-
tleman-A. M'Lellan, Esq.-has distinguished himself
greatly by his liberal and tasteful selections. We could
say to many that we wot of, "Go thou and do likewise."

MR CAMPBELL'S STATUARY.

LAST week we announced to our readers that Mr Campbell's model for a statue of the Earl of Hopetoun, had been placed in the exhibition rooms of the Royal Institution. Since that time, some other pieces of sculpture, by the same artist, have been added. The hurried and unsatisfactory manner in which we were formerly able to notice the principal work, and the additional materials now supplied for forming a judgment of Mr C.'s talents, have induced us to return to the subject.

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heightening and protrusion of the brow has been introduced with good effect. The only detail that we feel inclined to object to is the right arm, which is not suffi ciently rested on the neck of the horse, and leaves in consequence a feeling of exertion in the mind of the spectator, at variance with the general impression of the statue. The execution of the whole, however, is classical and highly finished.-The female figure is represented sitting on a block of stone, the head bent forward and depressed, as if looking at a vessel she holds in her hands. It is naked except the legs, around which some drapery is wrapped, There is great beauty of form in this statue, and a fine fleshy effect. The arrangement of the drapery is perhaps a little too finical.The figure of the child is, we have no doubt, a successful likeness, but there is nothing particular about it. The best busts are, that of a gentleman, near the child, and that of a lady, on the chimney-piece, beside the female figure. There is a bust of a lady, beside the child, to which Mr Campbell seems to have wished to give a high finish, but which he has made formal, and rendered the outlines too sharp and cutting.

From these remarks, our readers will be able to gather that we think highly of Mr Campbell's talents; although we must decline pronouncing a definitive sentence on him, until we have opportunities for a larger induction.

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MADAME VESTRIS concluded her engagement of twelve nights on Thursday evening. The houses she drew were in general respectable, though not either crowded or brilliant. She has not made a great impression in Edinburgh, and the general opinion unquestionably is, that she is but a second-rate actress. For our own part, we have seen no cause to deviate from the sentiments we expressed last Saturday. In a very inferior line of parts, she is graceful and clever, and this is all the praise to which we deem her entitled. As to her singing, we have been told that her," Cherry Ripe" is superior to Miss Noel's, We deny the fact; but even though it were the case, why, in Hea ven's name, bring her into comparison with Miss Noel, whose style of singing was entirely different, and of a far higher order? One verse of Miss Noel's "Kathleen O'More," or of any of her Scotch ballads, was worth all the "Cherry Ripes" Madame Vestris ever chanted. There was soul and feeling in Miss Noel's songs;-there is nothing but a little glitter and a little execution in those of Vestris. In one word, she knows how to do a smart thing, but she has little or no conception of aught beyond.

In a dramatic article in the Scotsman of Wednesday The works of this gentleman at present in the rooms of last, we find the following passage in reference to what the Institution are, the statue of Lord Hopetoun, a female we and others have said of Vestris :-"Certainly the tone figure, a child, and five busts. The statue of the nobleman assumed by some of our critical brethren is not calculated is colossal. His lordship is represented in a Roman dress, to attract the visits of the Metropolitan actors; which we the toga falling in simple folds over the left arm, the hand are sorry for, not only on account of the privation we may of which holds his sheathed sword. The right hand, thereby suffer in our theatrical amusements, but for the holding a bridle, rests on the mane of his horse, which injury it may occasion to the interests of the Theatre itstands directly behind him, its head depressed, and, as it self. In this instance, received as Madame Vestris has were, rubbing on one of its fore-legs. His countenance is been by the public, with applause and approbation, we turned a little to the left, and looking down on the spec- hope she will not suffer the opinions of a few individuals The outline, from the depressed head of the horse to prevent her returning to us; for, in the present dearth along its neck, up to the head of the human figure, is of dramatic talent, the loss would be serious, not only to easy; with regard to the descending line on the other side, us, but we suspect also to the Theatre." Now this is the protrusion of the animal's haunches breaks it into two, sheer nonsense. In criticising an actor or actress, we do in a manner not quite so satisfactory to the eye. The not, in the first instance, care one farthing whether our head of the horse we almost incline to pronounce perfect, remarks may frighten the metropolitan actors, or be deso fine is its form, so expressive of life and fire, with its trimental to the pecuniary interests of the Theatre here. starting eyeballs, its swelling veins, and the conformation We are anxious only to state what we feel to be just reof its mouth champing on the bit. The bends of the fet-garding the individual in question; and, we are well locks in the legs upon which it is planted are highly expressive of elasticity. The whole figure of the horse is good. The attitude of the Earl is natural, unconstrained, and dignified. A likeness to the original has been retained in the countenance, but not so slavishly as to interfere with the effect of the statue as a work of art. The idea

aware, that if we conscientiously observe this rule, car criticisms, however severe they may sometimes be, will not deprive us of a visit from one really clever actor, and so far from injuring the Theatre, will ultimately do it a most important service, by pointing out to the manage ment, those persons who are most likely to be received

with well-deserved applause. It is true, we may have been instrumental towards frightening Vestris a little, but this was exactly what we meant to be, and we do not anticipate the downfall of the drama among us, though we should never again behold the light of her counte

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The Edinburgh Theatrical Fund Society are to have a public dinner early in the ensuing year, for the benefit of the Fund. This society, of whose plan and purposes we highly approve, has existed since the year 1819, but was remodelled upon a more comprehensive scale in 1827. Our readers will not have forgotten the splendid public dinner which took place upon that occasion, attended by upwards of three hundred gentlemen, with Sir Walter Scott in the chair. It was, perhaps, the most memorable public dinner which has ever been seen in Edinburgh, for it was there that the Author of " Waverley" first spoke to his countrymen, and said, "I am the man ;" and when the youngest who were present are old and grey, it will be something for them to tell their grandchildren that they themselves saw the iron-mask removed from the wizard's face, and heard from his own lips the confession of his immortality. To a certain extent this event was extrinsic to the occasion, but it is enough to hallow with delightful associations any subsequent dinner of the same = society. We have no doubt, therefore, that whether Sir Walter Scott, or the Duke of Buccleuch, or Lord Elcho, or any one else, be in the chair, the meeting will be numerous and brilliant. We are glad to know that the affairs of the Fund are in a prosperous condition, supported principally by the annual subscriptions of non-resident members, and by many handsome donations which have been received from various quarters. The resident members do not exceed fifteen or sixteen, and consist of the most respectable portion of the company here, who contribute each one shilling a-week during the theatrical season. The affairs of the society are managed by a committee, consisting of Messrs Pritchard, Denham, G. Stanley, and Mackay, the latter acting as treasurer. Mrs H. Siddons and Mr Murray are the trustees, in whose hands are deposited the funds for behoof of the society. The annual subscription to non-resident members is two guineas; and side the benefit to be derived from becoming either a or non-resident member, is thus expressed in the of "Rules and Regulations:" "-"Any Member of this Society who shall have regularly contributed to its fund for the space of seven years, shall, on being incapacitated by age, accident, or infirmity, to exercise his or her duties as an actor or actress, be entitled to an annuity of forty pounds from the Society, unless his or her independent income shall exceed forty pounds per annum, în which event the annuity given by this Society shall suffer an abatement equal to such excess. But should any part of that additional income be derived from the industrious exercise, by the claimant, of any faculty or talent, then the claimant shall be allowed half of the annual sum so sayed to the fund." To this is added another rule:

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Any Member of this Society who shall have regularly contributed for seven years, shall, upon attaining the age of sixty, if a male, and of fifty-five, if a female, be entitled to claim upon the ground of age," it being understood that no person who is above the age of forty-five at the time of application can be admitted a member. It is perfectly clear that the objects of the Society are in the highest degree benevolent and useful, and ought to meet with every proper encouragement. In the words of Sir Walter Scott, It would be ungrateful and unkind were those who have sacrificed their youth to our amusement, not to receive the reward due to them, but bé reduced to every kind of hardship in their old age. Who can think of poor Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or of Macbeth feeding on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo?" We shall be glad on all occasions to lend our assistance towards forwarding the views of the Theatrical Fund Society." Old Cerberus. "

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That lured you frae your cozie hame?
Whichever, I can hardly blame,
Though you'll repent it;
For wiser folk have done the same,
And sair lamentit.

I've kent the rich, but restless swain,
For Liberty, or sordid gain,
Leave Albion's fair and fruitful plain
Wi' scornfu' ee,

To search beyond the western main
For bliss to be:

And in Columbia's forests deep,
Where Indians prowl and serpents creep,
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If Pleasure for a moment blink,
Her noon-tide sun will never sink;
And birds and men

She leads to dark destruction's brink
Before they ken.

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Go to the palace of light and song

Smile with the young and the fair!

My spirit is with thee in that bright throng,
To bless and to guard thee there!

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'Mid the sparkle of wine and mirth,
When the soul ascends with the joyous notes,
As the lark up to heaven from earth!
But if a lone harp, that once answer'd to joy,
There hangs untouch'd, unstrung,

Think of the soul whose bliss you call'd forth,
Whose chords you so wildly wrung!

Then go to the palace of light and song,

Smile with the young and the fair!

My spirit is with thee in that bright throng,
To bless and to guard thee there!
But come when the fever of pleasure is past
Once more to my silent bower;

When my soul has fled to its home at last,
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One of our enterprising Edinburgh publishers has the following new works in preparation ;-An Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America; including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a NorthWest Passage; with Observations on Emigration. By Hugh Murray, Esq., F.R.S.E. Illustrated by a Map of North America. 2 vols. 8vo.-Political Economy; an Enquiry into the Natural Grounds of Right to Vendible Property, or Wealth. By Samuel Read. SraMemoirs of Rear-Admiral Paul Jones; now first, compiled from his original Journals, Correspondence, and other Papers, brought from Paris by his Heirs at the time of his Death, and from his Letters to his Relations in Scotland. Including an Account of his Services under Prince Potemkin, in the celebrated Russian Campaign against the Turks, in the Black Sea, in 1788. 2 vols. 12mo-Studies in Nstural History; exhibiting a popular View of the most striking and interesting Objects of the Material World. By William Rhind, Menber of the Royal Medical, and Royal Physical Societies of Edinburgh, Illustrated by Engravings. 12mo.-Oliver Cromwell, a Poem In Three Books.-A Glance at London, Brussels, and Paris. By the same Author..

There is announced, for early publication, a work, entitled Celtic Manners, as preserved among the Scots Highlanders; being an Account, Historical and Descriptive, of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Peculiarities of Scotland, more particularly of the northern, or Gaelic parts of the country, where the singular habits of the aboriginal Celts are most tenaciously retained. By James Logan, Corresponding Member of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland. In one thick volume, demy 8vo, illustrated by numerous Engravings, and accurate Drawings of the Tartans, &c. of the various Highland Clans.

Shortly will appear, The Home Book; or Young Housekeeper's Manual. A Complete System of Domestic Economy, calculated for the guidance of persons having the management of a household of either great or small extent; and containing useful rules for the ge neral government of a family; with a simple and comprehensive * system of Household Accounts, and valuable directions for effectual ly checking the many impositions practised upon respectable families,' by servants, &c. The whole deduced from forty-five years' practical experience, by a Grandmother.

The Athenaid, or Modern Grecians, a Poem; with Notes charac teristic of the manners and customs of the Greeks and Turks, by Henry J. Bradfield, is announced.

Sir Walter Scott's forthcoming History of Scotland, from the earliest historic records down to the union of the crowns, is not, like the series of the Tales of a Grandfather, avowedly selected and adapted for young persons, but was undertaken with a different view, and for a different class of readers. It is intended to form a part of the His

tory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in six small delavo volumes, which we have already announced-Sir James Mackintosh being enaged for England, and Moore for Ireland, which work he will earthine sot s mence as soon as he publishes his, long-promised Life of Byron, now nearly ready.

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