events: for thy pages, to our thinking, realize the fable of the East: they are rich in the enjoyment of immortal youth, and destined never to know a wrinkle or grey hair. Ever smiling with fresh bloom, ever fair to look upon and delicious to remember, these five volumes will endure as long as the true idiomatic character of our language shall be understood and appreciated; and, even when that decays, they will still be loved for the beautiful benevolence, the true taste, the genuine complexion of nature, which they exhibit with an uniformity that nature only could bestow.”October, 1832, 205–284.

Our Village' is one of the books destined to be always read. Buy it and give it to your daughter, and it will improve her mind and cultivate her heart."-Lon. Athen.

See also Blackw. Mag., May, 1855,-Modern Novelists, Great and Small.

S. Julian; a Tragedy, 1823, 8vo. First performed in 1823, with Macready for the hero. Very successful: see No. 9. 9. The Foscari; a Tragedy, 1826, 8vo. First performed in 1826. Very successful. The Foscari and Julian were subsequently pub. together in an 8vo volume. 10. Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and other Poems, 1827, Svo. This vol. contains The Siege, Cunigunda's Vow, The Painter's Daughter, The Fawn, Emily, Alice, The Bridal Eve, Henry Talbot, and other pieces.

"The productions of this very pleasing and talented writer, in particular of the dramatic kind, have of late, as we long since predicted, begun to be favourably distinguished above the standard of similar compositions. Her powers, though not of a first-rate order, she employs to the best advantage, and always under the regulation of good taste, genuine simplicity, and natural feeling." -Lon. Month, Mug., June, 1827, 235.

11. Rienzi; a Tragedy, 1828. First performed in 1828. Successful. 12. Charles the First; a Tragedy. Coleman refused to license this play, and it was therefore brought out at the Coburg theatre. Successful. 13. Stories of American Life by American Writers, 3 vols. p. 8vo. Contents: I. Otter Bag; II. The French Village; III. The Country Cousin; IV. The Esmeralda; V. The IndianHater; VI. Pete Featherton; VII. The Drunkard; VIII. The Marriage Blunder; IX. Romance of the Border; X. The Ghost; XI. The Seaman's Widow; XII. Scenes in Washington; XIII. The Catholic Iroquois: XIV. The Captain's Lady; XV. The Fawn's Leap; XVI. The Little Dutch Sentinel; XVII. The Rifle, &c. These volumes have already been noticed in our life of WASHINGTON IRVING, p. 941 of this Dictionary. 14. American Stories for Children above Ten Years of Age; 2d Series, 1832, 3 vols. 18mo. Contents: I. The Sen-Voyage; II. The Canadian Travellers; II. The New England FarmHouse; IV. The Talisman, &c. Noticed in Lon. Athen., 1832, ix. 15. Belford Regis; or, Sketches of a Country Town, 1835, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1846, 12mo, (Stand. Novels, eii. ;) also 1849, 12mo. The materials of this work are drawn from the town of Reading, not far from Swallowfield Cottage,-Miss Mitford's residence. 16. Country Stories, 1837, p. 8vo; and in The Parlour Library, vol. Xxxix., 1847.

This may be received as a supplementary volume either to Our Village or Belford Regis, according to the purchaser's pleasure. Like its predecessors, it is full of kind. healthy feeling and fine observation of nature, with occasional touches of quaint and delieate humour."-Lon. Athen., 1837, p. 570.

-all Tragedies: see Nos. 8, 9, 11, and 12, ante. Vol. ii., Sadak and Kalasrade, in two acts; Mer de Castro, in five acts; Gastron de Blondeville, in three acts; Otto of Wittelsbach, in five acts; and eleven shorter pieces, entitled Dramatic Scenes, previously pub. in the London Magazine and in various Annuals. No small part of the value of these volumes-which have been highly commended-consists in the autobiographical introductions, to which we refer the reader.

"In the annals of modern literature there are few collections of plays by a woman, including tragedies in verse, which have succeeded on the English stage. Here, however, is an instance. In her ripeness of age, Miss Mitford has collected into one chaplet the laurels gathered in her prime of authorship; and she has given it to the world with a graceful and loving letter of reminiscence and benediction. We read these words with the tenderness of an old friendship. . . . It will be seen by our extracts that Miss Mitford gossips lightly and gracefully about her early successes and failures. her friends and foes. . . . Laid by the side of the volume of Dramatic Works of Joanna Baillie,' these volumes suffer no disparagement. This is high praise; and it is well deserved. The books which we thus venture to place together might appeal to the judgments of literary Europe, and we should have no fear of Britomart or Bloomer producing any thing which could make a competent jury uncrown either of the two kindred-yet distinctfemale tragic poets of England."-Lon. Athen., 1854, 931–933.

In addition to the literary labours now noticed, Miss Mitford contributed four stories to Mrs. Johnstone's Edin

burgh Tales, 1845,-viz.: I. The Freshwater Fisherman; II. Country-Town Life; III. Christmas Amusements, Stories. and Characters; IV. Old Master Green;-and she edited four of the annual volumes of Finden's Tableaux.

In 1838,-to the great credit of those in power,-Miss Mitford's name was added to the pension-list. We noticed an announcement, some time since, that it was in contem

plation to publish a selection from her correspondence, from the numerous papers in the hands of her executor, the Rev. W. Harness. Should this project be carried outand it ought to be carried out-we hope that application will be made to our friend Mr. James T. Fields, of Boston, (see p. 595 of this Dictionary.) for some of the many letters of friendship and literary memoranda addressed to him by Miss Mitford. We have quoted many critical opinions on the characteristics of this excellent writer; but there are a number before us still unnoticed.

"Miss Mitford's books are, in their way, the most charming companions by the fireside or in the woods and fields that have

yet appeared in our literature."-PROFESSOR WILSON.

"Scott," remarks Lord Byron, “ found peculiar favour and imitation among the fair sex; there was Miss Holford, and Miss Mitford, and Miss Francis; but-with the greatest respect be it spoken -none of his imitaters did much honour to the original except Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd," &c.—Moore's Life of Byron, vol. ii., Letter CCCXCV.

Her first claims on the public were no doubt as a poetess, in her early Sketches, and in her Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a six-canto production of the Sir Walter Scott school, of considerable merit: but she is chiefly to be remembered as the author of Our Village, so full of truth, and raciness, and fine English life; and for her three tragedies, Julian.' The Vespers of Palermo, and Rienzi,' the last of which was, I believe, eminently successful in representation. Her latter verses are all able and elegant; but she is deficient in that nameless adaptation of expression to thought accomplished by some indescribable, some inexpressible collocation of the best words in their best places, apparently quite necessary for the success of poetical phrase. This power, on the contrary, Mary Howitt possesses in perfection; while

Atherton' is a charming tale, and refreshes the reader like a drive in the country. It is written in a cheerful, kindly, buoyant spirit, and leaves but one thing to be desired.-that it had been longer and the plot more worked out."-Lon. Athen., 1854, 433.

"The hay is carried; and the Hours
Snatch, as they pass, the linden flowers;
And children leap to pluck a spray
Bent earthward, and then run away.
Park-keeper, catch me those grave thieves,
About whose frocks the fragrant leaves,
Sticking and fluttering here and there,
No false nor faltering witness bear.
I never view such scenes as these
In grassy meadow girt with trees,
But comes a thought of her who now
Sits with serenely patient brow
Amid deep sufferings. None hath told
More pleasant tales to young and old.
Fondest was she of Father Thames,
But rambled to Hellenic streams;

Mitford, William, M.P., 1744-1827, the eldest son of John Mitford, and the brother of Lord Redesdale. (ante,)

was a native of London, and studied at Queen's College, Oxford, and subsequently in the Middle Temple. In 1761, on succeeding by the death of his father to the family estate, he forsook law for letters, and especially devoted himself to the cultivation of Greek literature, for which he had displayed an early predilection. In 1769, he became a captain in the South Hampshire Militia, of which Gibbon was then major: (see GIBBON, EDWARD. p. 661 of this Dictionary;) in 1776, he visited the Continent; on his return home became a county magistrate, and, in 1778, was appointed Verderer of the New Forest, (on the borders of which he resided;) succeeded Gibbon as LieutenantColonel of the South Hampshire Militia in 1779, was appointed colonel in 1805, and resigned in 1806; sat in the House of Commons as a member for Newport, Cornwall, 1785-90; represented Beeralston, 1796-1806, and from 1812 to 18 was member for New Romney. 1. An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Languages, and of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and Ancient, 1774, 8vo; 2d ed., 1804, 8vo.

We think that he who proposes schemes for improving the euphony of the English language would be heard with more deference if he were studious of writing that language, as it now exists, with propriety and elegance. The work has, however, intrinsie merit. which will compensate the faults of style; and we think it our duty to recommend it to the attention of all who take any interest in such speculations.”—Edin. Rev., vi. 357-386. (Review of 2d ed.)

Talked of Mitford's 'Harmony of Languages,' praised by Lord Lansdowne]. ... Lord Lansdowne said... the best remarks on the use of these words ["will" and "shall"] he had ever seen were in Mitford's Harmony of Languages.'"-Thomas Moore's Memoirs, d., ii. 155, 346, 1853.

2. Treat. on the Military Force, and particularly the Militia, of this Kingdom, 8vo. 3. The History of Greece from the Earliest Accounts to the Death of Philip, King of Macedon: vol. i., 1784, 4to; 2d ed., 1789, 4to: Addits. and Corrects. to vol. i., 4to; ii., 1790, 4to; iii., 1796, 4to; iv., 1808, 4to; v., 1818, 4to; new ed. of vols. i., ii., 1795, 8 vols. 8vo; new ed. of vols. i., ii., iii., iv., 1814-15, 8 vols. 8vo; 2d ed. of whole work, 1808-18, 5 vols. 4to; 4th ed. of whole work. 1822, 10 vols. 8vo; 5th ed. of whole work, with a brief Memoir of the Author by his brother, Lord Redesdale, edited by William King, 1829, 8 vols. 8vo; also, 1829, 10 vols. 12mo; also, 1830, 8 vols. 8vo; also. 6th ed., 1835, 10 vols. 12mo; also, 7th and last ed., (we write in 1858,) 1838, 8 vols. 8vo; also in 1833, 10 vols. 12mo. Mitford's History closes with the death of Alexander the Great: he had intended to continue it to the subjugation of Greece by the Romans. There is an edit.-1835, 8 vols. 12mo"continued by Davenport;" but this is merely a repub-, lication of the earliest, and, of course, unrevised, edition of the first two vols, of the quarto edit.; and the remainder of the work, which has necessarily been substituted for the 3d. 4th, and 5th vols.,

"bears no more resemblance to the classical composition of Mr. Mitford than Turner and Simpson's Histories of England bear to that of lume."-Lon. Courier.

disposition to dispute his supremacy. But we hasten t the citation of critical opinions on Mr. Mitford's History: "His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plu tarch, spelling oddly, and writing quaintly; and-what is strange, after all—his is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and he is perhaps the best of all modern historians whatsoever. Having named his sins, it is but fair to state his virtues,-learning, labour, research, wrath, and partiality. I call the latter virtues in a writer, because they make him write in earnest."-LORD BYRON. His lordship's concluding observation reminds us of the brought his profound scholarship to bear upon the illuscomment of an esteemed historian, recently deceased, who tration of the annals of the haughty conquerors of Greece:

"This, I think, is the merit of Mitford; and it is a great one. His very anti-Jacobin partialities, much as they have interfered with the fairness of his history, have yet completely saved it from being dull. He took an interest in the parties of Greece becauso he was alive to the parties of his own time. He described the Popular party in Athens just as he would have described the Whigs of England. He was unjust to Demosthenes because he would have been unjust to Mr. Fox."-DR. ARNOLD.

Looked into Mitford's History of Greece. The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of government, and justifies Aristotle in saying, 'I Anpokoaria ʼn redevraia Tupavris Est-and of the worst sort, we may add. The account of the expe dition and retreat of the Ten Thousand is above measure interesting. How much more than men do the Greeks appear compared with the effeminate and pusillanimous Persians! One can hardly believe them of the sanie species!"-Green's Diary of a Lover of Lit., Oct. 30th. 1798. Ipswich, 1810, 4to, 113.

"Mr. Mitford is the first who brought to the arduous task of Grecian history the extensive research, accurate inquiry, and profound reflection which characterize the scholars of recent times. His great work was chiefly composed during, or shortly after, the French Revolution; and it was mainly intended to counteract the visionary ideas in regard to the blessings of Grecian democracy which had spread so far in the world from the magic of Athenian genius. . . . The cause of truth has been essentially aided by his exertions; and the experiences of the workings of democracy in our own times have been such as to forbid a doubt as to the accuracy of the facts he has stated, whatever hesitation may be felt as to the wisdom of the expressions in which they are sometimes conveyed. . . . It may appear strange to say that there is equal truth in the monarchical history of Greece by Mitford and in the republican by Grote; but, nevertheless, it is so. Both tell the truth, and nothing but the truth, but neither the whole truth."-SIR ARCHI BALD ALISON: Hist, of Europe, 1815-1852, chap, v.

The admirable historian of ancient Greece,-clarum et venerabile nomen."-Blackw. Mag., xv. 73, Jan. 1824.

"There are very few works which do more honour to the lite rature of the present time than Mr. Mitford's History of Greece.

Mr. Mitford has indeed conferred a very eminent service upon his country by writing a History of Greece in the true English spirit.. Assuredly he is one of the most philosophical of his torians. His book we think one of those which no man who reads it once will be satisfied without reading over and over again; we think, on the contrary, it is formed to be one of the most stable companions of a reflective man's solitude."—Ibid., v. 443–451, July, 1819.

This great work is distinguished for its accuracy, freedom, and its trustworthiness. He does not scruple to tell the truth, and the whole truth, and to paint the stormy democracies of Greece in all their grandeur and in all their wretchedness."-CHANCELLOR KENT: Course of Eng. Reading, Oakley's ed., 1853. 4.

Considered with respect not only to the whole series of entient events which it comprises, but also to any very prominent portion of that series, Mr. Mitford's history is the best that has appeared since the days of Xenophon. By calling it the best, we mean that it is the strongest in that quality which is the cardinal virtue, or rather the four cardinal virtues in one, of historic composition,trustworthiness. Such praise, it will instantly occur to the reader, is seldom bestowed where it is best due without a credit-account of censure being opened at the same time; and, in fact, it is ou purpose to conform to this general practice. The work before us, indeed, is one which bears to be commended with discrimination, and its excellences, if faithfully displayed, may sustain such a centrast of shadow as would perfectly extinguish the farthing brigat ness of those novels founded on fact commonly called histories. Upon the whole, though we think it rather unfortunate that the story of the Grecian republics should have been told by one who has so many anti-republican partialities, we think it our duty to testify that it has been more justly told by Mr. Mitford than by any preceding author, and that those who differ from him in his

tions in the shape of notes,) 1838, 8 vols. 8vo: fine wove paper, hot-pressed, £4 48.; or in 10 vols. 12mo, £2.

Mitford's History of Greece has already come under our notice in our comments on the histories of the same country by Dr. John Gillies and Mr. Grote, (see pp. 672, 747 of this Dictionary:) but it is too important a work to be dismissed without a more careful consideration. To imagine that the faults of style, errors of statements, and partisanship in polities which are alleged against Mitford are sufficient reasons for his entire banishment from the library is to imagine a great absurdity. Doubtless Mitford was superseded as an authority by Thirlwall; and both Mitford and Thirlwall have been superseded by Grote. Supersede means, to occupy a higher seat, not to exclude from the premises. If Mr. Grote will "brook no brother near the throne," he will as little quarrel with those who have no

clearness and fulness of his narrative."-LORD BROUGHAM: Edin. Rev.. xii. 478-517. July, 1808. (Review of vol. iv. 4to, pub. 1808.)

Mr. Mitford, the last in time, is certainly not the least in merit, amongst the modern compilers of Grecian annals. He has brought to his task acuteness and patient investigation, and by the aid of these valuable qualities he has generally been successful in unravelling the intricate web of Grecian politics; yet in the higher faculties and accomplishments of an historian, and particularly an historian of Greece, he is, we lament to say, singularly deficient. ... Of the style which Mr. Mitford has adopted in his work it is scarcely possible to speak in terms of too severe reprobation. It is obscure, inharmonious, and ungrammatical. It is obscure, not from negligence, but by system; and inharmonious, not by chance, but upon principle. . . . These passages (and such are found in almost every page) outrage, it will be seen, not only harmony, but even the most common principles of composition. They are abso lutely a disgrace to a person of such talents and acquirements as the author of the work before us. . . . Mr. Mitford has applied to this (as well as to his preceding volumes) the title of the History of Greece: he should have denominated it a Narrative of Alex

ander's Conquests in Asia; for very little is said of the country whose name it bears."-Lon. Quar. Rev., xxv. 154-174, April, 1821. (Review of vol. v., 4to, pub. 1818.)

"Though we cannot pretend to the possession of any great share of democratical prejudice, we must acknowledge that both in perusing the pages of Mr. Mitford and those of M. Clavier we have been much fatigued by the perpetual recurrence of a defensive or a laudatory tone whenever a tyrant happened to appear on the ground. Both these authors, it is true, are too conscientious and too accurate materially to warp facts; but it is not less true that a strong predisposition will inevitably infect the mode of viewing an object even where the intentions are the most honest."-Lom. Quar. Rev., v. 33, (see also 35-37,) Feb. 1811: Clavier's Histoire des Premiers Temps de la Grèce.

Mitford appears to be the great master of political wisdom whom Mr. Mitchell has chosen to follow; and our readers must be pretty generally aware of what respect is due to the prejudices of an historian who makes heroes of the cold-blooded Darius, the cruel Xerxes, and almost of the frantic Cambyses, while he can bestow an elaborate frigidity upon his account of Marathon and oil to deepen every stain upon the patriotic virtues of Demosthenes. We say this without meaning in the least to detract from the praises he deserves for the great care and attention he has em ployed in the compilation of his history; but the student will be bitterly disappointed who expects to find it rich either in impartial views or liberal opinions."—Edin. Rev., xxxiv. 312, Nov. 1820: Mitchell's Aristophanes.

"Indeed. whenever this historian mentions Demosthenes, he violates all the laws of candour and even of decency: he weighs no authorities, he makes no allowances, he forgets the best-authenticated facts in the history of the times and the most generally-recognized principles of human nature. The opposition of the great orator to the policy of Philip he represents as neither more nor less than deliberate villany.-LORD MACAULAY: Miscell., Phila. ed., 1848. 430: Mitford's Hist, of Greece.

The only modern historian of Greece who attempted or even affected criticism on evidences-Mr. Mitford-made almost no other use of it than to find reasons for rejecting all statements discreditable to any despot or usurper. Dr. Thirlwall has effectually destroyed Mitford as an historical authority, by substituting (though so unostentatiously as to give no sufficient idea of the service rendered) a candid and impartial narrative for the most pre judiced misrepresentation by which party passion has been known to pervert the history of a distant time and a foreign people."— Elin. Rev., 1xxxiv. 345, Oct. 1846: Grote's Hist. of Greece, vols. iii.

He contracts the strongest individual partialities; and, accord

See also Dibdin's Lib. Comp., 1825, 114; Lon. Meath. Rev., xcii. 156; Lon. New Month. Mag., June, 1827, 265266; MITCHELL, THOMAS, 1783-1845; THIRLWALL, CONNOP, D.D.

4. Considerations on the Corn-Laws, &c., 1791, 8vo. 5. Observations on the History and Doctrines of Christianity as historically connected with the Primeval Religion of Mankind; with an Enquiry into the Heathen Mysteries, both Mystical and Philosophical, 1823, 12mo. We judge from a carefully-annotated copy of this work, left by the author at his decease, that he meditated a new edition. "A work which will ere long be sufficiently familiar to every one."-Blackw. Mag.. xv. 73, Jan. 1824.

The word "sufficiently" admits of a wide latitude of interpretation; but certainly this work cannot even yet-at the distance of more than thirty years-be said to be "familiar to every one," nor to many.

Mitton, Peter. Edict touching the Merchants of Roan, Lon., 1615, 12mo.

Moberley, C. E. 1. Stories from Herodotus, Lon., 1847, 18mo, (Burns's Cab. Ser.) 2. Lects. on Logic, 1848, 12mo.

Moberley, George, D.C.L., Head-Master of Winchester College, late tutor and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. 1. Introduc. to Logic, Lon., 12mo. 2. Prac. Serms., 1838. 8vo. 3. Five Serms. on the Forty Days, 1844. 8vo; 3d ed., 1846, 8vo. 4. Serms. at Winchester College; 1st Ser., 1844, fp. 8vo; 2d Ser., 1848, fp. 8vo. 5. The Law of the Love of God, 1854, fp. 8vo.

"Mainly didactic and practical. . . . Worthy of the author's reputation as a divine and his high position as a scholar."-Scot. Eccles. Jour.

We also notice The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, after the Authorized Version, newly compared with the Original Greek and revised by John Barrow. D.D., George Moberley, D.C.L., Henry Alford, B.D.. William G. Humphry, B.D., and Charles J. Ellicott, D.D.

Mocket, Richard, D.D. Tractatus de Politia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Lon., 1616, fol.: publicly burnt; 2d ed., 1677, 4to; 3d ed., cui accesserunt Ricardi Zouch De

or the qualifies, he expands or he cuts down the documents on which he has to proceed. With regard to the bright side of almost every king whom he has to describe, Mr. Mitford is more than credulous; for a credulous man beheves all he is told: Mr. Mitford believes more than he is told. With regard to the dark side of the same individuals, his habits of estimating evidence are precisely in the opposite extreme. In treating of the democracies or of the democratical leaders, his statements are not less partial and exaggerated."-Westm. Rev., 1826.

·· Talked (with Lord Lansdowne] of Mitford's History,'-the bad taste of carrying back the virulence of modern politics into a history of the Grecian republic."-Thomas Moore's Memoirs, dr., ii. 155, 1853.

1705. Svo.

"Well esteemed as a learned and useful system."-Nicolson's Eng. Hist. Lib., 1776, 132.

See also Athen. Oxon. Mocket, Thomas. Serms., &c., Lon., 1642-44-51. Mockler, William. 1. Law of Stamp in Ireland, Dubl., 1842, 12mo. 2. Do. in G. Brit. and Ire., 1812,

12mo.

Modell, A. Of Tryths; or, A Discovery of certaine Reall Passages of this Parliament, Lon., 1642, 4to. Modell, A. D. Dissert. de Borace Nativa, Lon., 1747, 8vo.

Moffat, J. M. Book of Science, 3 Pts., Phila., 1835, 16mo. See JOHNSON, PROF. WALTER R., Nos. 1, 2. Moffat, James C., D.D., Prof. of Greek in the Col

For Harmodius and Aristogeiton (note on v. $89) we expected no quarter; and, rejoicing in the editor's eulogy of the fine poetry' lavished on their names, we regret only that as to other igatters he [Mr. Mitchell] depends on an authority so inferior to Lis own as that of Mr. Mitford."-Edin. Rev., Ixi. 329, July, 1835: Mitchell's Acharnenses.

"The principal characteristic of his historian-the origin of his excellencies and his defects-is a love of singularity. He has no notion of going with a multitude to do either good or evil. An exploded opinion or an unpopular person has an irresistible charm for him. The same perverseness may be traced in his diction. His style would never have been elegant. but it might at least have been manly and perspicuous; and nothing but the most elahorate care could possibly have made it so bad as it is. It is distinguished by harsh phrases, strange collocations, occasional solecisms, frequent obscurity, and, above all, by a peculiar oddity which can no more be described than it can be overlooked. Nor is this all. Mr. Mitford piques himself on spelling better than any of his neighbours, and this not only in ancient names.-which he mangles in defiance both of custom and reason-but in the most ordinary words of the English language."-LORD MACAULAY: Mitford's History of Greece: Miscellanies, Phila. ed., 1848, 421-432. And see pp. 63-64,-History, (also in Edin. Rev., xlvii. 360-361, May, 1828.)

History cannot fall within a survey of elegant literature except so far as relates to its rhetorical execution. In this particular, some writers of the age-as Mitford and Turner, for examplehave been so abominably perverse that it would seem as if they were willing to try what degree of bad writing the public would tolerate for the sake of the valuable matter it may contain.”—WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, the historian: N. Amer. Rev., xxxv. 192, July, 1832: English Literature of the Nineteenth Century.

land, with Addits., edited by J. C. M., Cin.. 1851, 12mo. 2. Life of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D., edited by J. C. M., 1853, 12mo. 3. An Introduction to the Study of Esthetics, 1856, 12mo, pp. 284.

"It contains chapters which would excite pleasure in a general reader; but to those who delight in a display of artistic research and critical acumen it offers a rich source of enjoyment."—Lon. Critic, July 15, 1836.

"He is often excursive and vague, and sometimes strangely conventional. . . . We have been much interested in Mr. Moffat's essay, which exhibits thought and learning, although he appears in some instances to have warped his views to suit the prejudices of certain social schools."-Lon. Athen,, 1857, 470.

Moffat, John, M.D. Medical works, 1785-88. Moffat, Rev. Robert, a native of Inverkeithing, Scotland, a member of the Secession Church, was sent by the London Missionary Society to South Africa in 1817, and is still labouring there at this day, (Feb. 4, 1858. He visited Great Britain in 1840, and whilst there puk. Missionary Labours and Scenes in South Africa, 1842, Svo, 128.; cheaper ed., 1845, r. 8vo, 38. There have been at least twelve eds. pub. in America; and an abridgment has also appeared,-Scenes and Adventures in Africa, Phila., 18mo. Moffat's work was highly commended by the London Month. Rev., Athenæum, Method. New Connex. Mag., and the Foreign Missionary. See also Bayard Taylor's Cyc. of Modern Travel, 1856, 561-578; Moffat's Farewell Services, edited by Dr. Campbell, 1843, fp. Svo; Phila. Eclec. Mus.. i. 41. During his visit to England, Mr. Moffat carried through the press, at the expense of the Brit. and For. Bible Soc., a trans. of the New Testament and the Psalms in the Bechuana language. He also pub. the Secuana Hymn-Book, Lon. Rel. Tract Soc., 1843,

characterise his happiest compositions; some of them are beautiful in a cheerful spirit that has only to look on nature to be happy, and others breathe the simplest and purest pathos. His scenery, whether sea-coast or inland, is always truly Scottish; and at times his pen drops touches of light on minute objects that till then had slumbered in the shade, but now shine well where they stand' or lie, as component and characteristic parts of our lowland landscape."-PROF. WILSON: Recreations of Christophe North: and in Blackw. Mag., xxxi. 984.

FETT, THOMAS, M.D.

Moffatt, Rev. J. M. 1. Duty and Interest, &c., 1778. 8vo. 2. Protestant's Prayer-Book, Bristol, 1783. 3. Hist. of the Town of Malmesbury, &c., Lon., 1807, Svo: posth.

Moffet, T. W. Selections from Bacon, 1847, 8vo. Moffet, William. The Irish Hudibras, Lon., 1755, Svo. See Lon. Retrospec. Rev., iii. 1821, 318. Mogg, Edward. 1. London Street Directory, 1800, 12mo. 2. Survey of Roads from London, 1808.

Mogridge, George. See HUMPHREY, OLD. Mohr, Francis, Ph. D., Assessor Pharmacia of the Royal Prussian College of Medicine, and Theophilus Redwood, Prof. of Chemistry and Pharmacy to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Practical Pharmacy, Lon., 1848, 8vo; Amer. ed., with extensive Addits. by William Proctor, Jr., Prof. of Pharmacy in the Phila. College of Pharmacy, Phila., 1849, 8vo.

"We know of no other publication so well calculated to fill a void long felt."-Med. Examiner.

"The country practitioner, who is obliged to dispense his own medicines, will find it a most valuable assistant."-Month, Jour. and Retrospect.

Moile, Nicholas Thirning, of the Inner Temple, Special Pleader. State Trials: Specimen of a New Edition, Lon., 1838, 8vo; 2d ed., 1842, 12mo. In this curious vol. we have three State Trials in verse,-viz.: I. Anne Ayliffe for Heresy; II. Sir William Stanley for High-Treason; III. Mary Queen of Scots-for Beauty, we were about to add; for therein, perhaps, was the gravamen of her crime in the eyes of Elizabeth.

They may be called Poems,-and three fine ones."-Blackw. Mag., xlvi. 548–572, q. v.

See also Eelec. Rev., 1839, 385; Marvin's Leg. Bibl., 522; 21 Law Mag., 328.

"A work of singular beauty, and which I rejoice to see advanced to a second edition. . . . I was glad to find Montgomery [James, the poet] as ardent an admirer of Tennyson and of Moile's State Trials as myself, my review of the latter pub. in the Eclectic having first brought them under his notice."-Howitt's Homes and Haunts of the Brit. Poets, vol. ii.

Moir, David Macbeth, M.D., 1798-1851, a native of Musselburgh, Scotland, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, obtained a surgeon's diploma when eighteen years of age, and for the rest of his life practised physic during the day and wrote prose and poetry at night. He was a man of great excellence of character, and refused to remove to Edinburgh, where professional advancement was awaiting him, from unwillingness to leave the many poor patients who had long depended on his ministrations.

"His, indeed, was a life far more devoted to the service of others than to his own personal aggrandisement,-a life whose value can only be appreciated now. when he has been called to receive his reward in that better world, the passport to which he sought so diligently-in youth as in manhood, in happiness as in sorrow-to

obtain.

Bright as the flowers may be which are twined for the coronal of the poet, they have no glory when placed beside the wreath which belongs to the departed Christian. We have represented Delta as he was, -as he must remain ever in the affectionate memory of his friends; and with this brief and unequal tribute to his surpassing worth we take farewell of the gentlest and kindest being, of the most true and single hearted man, whom we may ever hope to meet with in the course of this earthly pilgrimage."-Blackw. Mag., 1xx. 240-250: The late D. M. Moir, q. v.

To the excellent periodical from which we have just quoted, Moir (4) commenced contributing, it is supposed, as early as 1817, (the year in which it was established :) and his last paper-the Lament of Selim-appeared in the magazine for July, 1851. A list of his contributions to Blackwood, amounting to nearly four hundred in number, will be found in the general Index to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vols. i.-1. p. 128, Delta, (D. M. Moir.) Before the establishment of Blackwood he made Constable's Edinburgh Magazine and the Scots Magazine his vehicle of communication with the public. Many of his fugitive pieces were subsequently pub. in volumes. 1. The Bombardment of Algiers, and other Poems, Edin. 2. The Legend of Genevieve, with other Tales and Poems, 1824, 3vo.

"He has produced many original pieces which will possess a permanent place in the poetry of Scotland. Delicacy and grace ¦

Blackwood's Mag. in 1824, and pub. there serially for nearly three years. It was generally attributed to Moir's friend John Galt,-for whom, by-the-by, Moir wrote the concluding chapters of The Last of the Lairds, left unfinished on Galt's departure to America. Mansie Wauch was so popular that eight edits. (the last, 1849, fp. Svo) were pub. in Great Britain; and it was reprinted in America and France.

"A most amusing volume,-embodying that quaint, quiet humour which seems to belong to Old Scotia, in all its national peculiarity, very happily, and a scene or two of more sombre cast, touching to a degree."-Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1828, 243.

the imagination, scarcely excepting The Chronicles of the Canongate,' none equads the genuine humour, the simple truth, the freshness and life of the autobiography of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith."-Lon. Spectator.

"Of all the productions of the season in the class of works of

"Burns has almost completely missed those many peculiar features of the national character and manners which are brought out so inimitably in Mansie Wauch. Mausie himself is a perfect portraiture; and how admirably in keeping with the central autobiographer are the characters and scenes which revolve around his needle!"-THOMAS AIRD: Memoir of Moir.

“There (in Blackwood's Magazine] · Delta' flooded the land with many thousand lines of unreadable poetry,' and showed, by his Autobiography of Mansie Wauch, Tailor at Dalkeith, that not in

sentiment but in humour was his real strength, in which, had he pleased, he might have surpassed Galt himself."-DR. R. S. MACKENZIE: Hist. of Blackw. Mag., pref. to his ed. of Noctes Ambros., 1855, i., XV.

Dr. Mackenzie, it will be observed, does not estimate Moir's poetical abilities at a very high rate: he remarks on another occasion that to Blackwood's Magazine

"he contributed some 395 poems, about six of which are very good. His line was homely humour, as displayed in his autobiography of Mansie Wauch, Tailor; but he wrote only one volume of that sort."-Noctes Ambros., ii. 21, n.

4. Outlines of the Ancient History of Medicine; being a View of the Healing Art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabians, 1831, 12mo; 1834, 12mo. Moir contemplated the preparation of two more parts as a continuation to this work, bringing the History of Medicine down to the middle of the eighteenth century.

"This is a book of great and laborious research, and will be in the hands of every disciple of medicine, and, indeed, of every scholar, who wishes to trace up the history of the healing art to the earliest times. It will be valued as long as medicine is cultivated in this country; and the student would do well to master its contents among his initiatory steps in acquiring professional knowledge. Mr. Moir has laid the profession of medicine under deep obligations to him for this valuable present."-THOMAS CAMPBELL. 5. Practical Observations on Malignant Cholera, 1832, pamphlet. 6. Proofs of the Contagion of Malignant Cholera, 1832. Both of these treatises were highly commended. 7. Domestic Verses, 1843, fp. Svo. Among these poems are several on the death of three of the author's children, (Ode to Casa Wappy, &c.)

"I cannot resist the impulse of thanking you with all my heart for the deep gratification you have afforded me, and the soothing, and, I hope, bettering, emotions which you have excited. I am sure that what you have written is more genuine pathos than any thing almost I have ever read in verse, and is so tender and true, so sweet and natural, as to make all lower recommendations indifferent."-LORD JEFFREY.

8. Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past HalfCentury, 1851, 12mo; Posth., 2d ed., 1852. These six excellent Lectures, from which we have often quoted in this Dictionary, were delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution for the session 1850-51. nating eyesight. And throughout all this volume he has praised very few indeed who have not, in some field or another of poetry, eminently distinguished themselves. We mention again the wide knowledge of the poetry of the period which his lectures display. This bursts out, as it were, at every pore of his book. . . . He goes to criticise, too, in the spirit of a poet. . . . But, instead of dwelling on Delta's faults, or quoting any of the eloquent and beautiful passages in which his lectures abound, we close by calling on our readers to peruse for themselves. His book is not only worthy of his reputation, but is really one of the heartiest, sin cerest, and most delightful works of criticism we have read for many a long year."-GEORGE GILFILLAN: Third Gall. of Literary Portraits, N. York, 1855, 200-217.

"His general enthusiasm seldom or never blinds his discrimi

See also N. York Eclec. Mag., xxiii. 219; Eelec. Rev., 4th Ser., xxx. 129.

"The subject is well worthy of all the energies of criticism, tho most learned, candid, and exalted. We cannot bring oursel is to think that Mr. Moir has done with it all that might be done, but