So it is, that Valentine's Day, which with the Laplander and the Siberian is clad in a cold grey habit, is with us rose-coloured and bright. We array it beforehand with haes gayer than the Iris. Our fancies, our hopes, are active. Custom has decided that it shall be a day of love; and though Custom is but too often a tyrant and spurned at, in this case he has always willing subjects. A Valentine--who would not have a Valentine? I ask the question again.

Hark! the postman is sounding at the door. How smart is his knock, how restless his tread upon the pavement. He comes burthened with gay tidings, and be knows it. Door after door is opened before he knocks. The passages are filled with listeners, and the windows thronged with anxious faces. How busy. how expectant are the girls. Observe, the copper is parted from the silver, and ready for immediate pay ment or the solitary sixpence is brought forth, with a doubt (between hope and fear) as to its being required.

him, that he has stood under a weight of 2000lbs.
supported by a board on his back; and has
walked round the Halle au blé at Paris, carry-
ing on his back two sacks of corn, and a man
bearing another sack, making altogether a load
nearly equal to eleven hundred weight!

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR,

SIR,-You will much oblige a constant reader by inserting the following remarks on the science of Mag

netism.

Mr. Clarke's theory was, that an emanation flowed from the magnet, and displaced the atmosphere between the magnet and the steel and that the pressure of the atmosphere on the opposite side of the steel forced it to the magnet. That the magnet did not throw out invisible hooks to pull the steel to it, for, that he had employed an highly magnifying power and could see none, that he had put his finger between and could feel none; and that if any thing tangible passed between them, it must be sensible to the sight or touch.

M. Roussel having been led by curiosity and Clarke in Manchester a few weeks ago, I was highly Having attended the philosophical lectures of Mr. the fame of this country to make it a visit, has, gratified by his theory of Magnetism, as it was altowith great complaisance and liberality, consent-gether new to me, and at the same time seemed very ed to exhibit the athletic powers and excellent plausible; but being partial to the old term attraction, proportions of his figure to our artists for their determined to put it to the test. study and improvement. For that purpose he appeared at the rooms of Mr. Henry Sass, in Streatham Street, on Monday last and the preceding Thursday, before his scholars and many other persons who had assembled there, including, on the day first mentioned, several Members of the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts. Although his figure is below the middle stature, being only five feet two inches in height, yet that defect, if it is one, is immediately forgotten on a view of the grand and powerful expression of his muscles, and the agility and suppleness of his movements. He successively placed himself in the attitudes of fighting and dying gladiators, of the Hercules farnese and other antique statues, as well as in that of the Atlas of Michael Angelo; and then rapidly Can a victory by land or by threw himself into numerous postures of his the air influences it. own invention, representing athletes or warriors engaged in combat or expiring; and into others of an equally fine character, which excited the admiration of the judicious and enlightened assembly, and merited the applause which was bestowed on him.

The carrier of letters is pitied, "because he has such
a load;" the neighbours are noted,-those who receive
If
Valentines, aud particularly those who have none.
you look from an upper window, you will see the par-
lour crowded. You may hear the loud laugh, and see
the snatch, the retreat, the struggle to get a sight of
the Valentine. In general the address is in a feigned
hand; sometimes it is very neat, and written with a
crow quill; but oftener the letters are so staring and
gaunt, that the serious postman forgets his post and
almost smiles. The giver, the receiver, the messenger,
are all happy for once.

sea do as much? Can a dinner--a dance-a coronation?
No; some of these are sensual, and all have their

drawbacks. It is only on Valentine's day that enjoy ment is pure and unalloyed. Never let us permit the splenetic to rail at it without defence. Above all, never let us allow its pleasant privileges to fall into disuse or decay.

FINE ARTS.

REMARKABLE FOREIGNERS

The attention of the professors and lovers of the Fine Arts in the metropolis has been directed, during a few weeks past, towards three remarkable foreigners, M. Cleisse of Berne, M. Roussel of Lille, and M. Debrayat of Lyons, who have lately arrived amongst them. The first-mentioned person has distinguished himself as a teacher of gymnastic exercises, and is his own best example of their beneficial effects in improving the health and increasing the strength and beauty of the human figure. M. Roussel has been long known on the Continent by the appellation of "L'Hercule du nord," and Debrayat (although more recently) by that of "L'Hercule du Midi ;" and both have exhibited themselves, and sat as models to artists of great reputation abroad, and at various continental academies of the Fine Arts, from which they have brought very flattering testimonials of their excellence, so far as regards the beauty and grandeur of their forms, and the spirit and genius with which they display them in attitudes, similar to those of the finest of the antique statues which have descended to us, and in others of a great and energetic character.

In the story of Roussel there is something highly interesting. Like an invincible Pancra tiast of ancient Greece, who had finally retired, amidst the plaudits of the spectators from uninterrupted victories which he had gained at Olympia, or Delphi, to his native country, he returned to his loaded with honours, and, what is more useful to himself, with wealth sufficient to enable him to purchase in the neighbourhood of his native city a farm of many acres, which he carefully cultivates. His strength infinitely surpasses that which usually falls to the lot of man, and no longer suffers the imagination to be astonished at the prodigies attributed to the hero whose name he takes. It is reported of

Now to examine this theory I employed a steel needle ballanced on a vertical pin, and placed it under the exhausted receiver of the air pump, and found that the needle was attracted and repulsed exactly the same as it was before exhaustion, and that iron filings and other bodies were attracted in the vacuum the same as before.

As there was no air in this case in the receiver to

push the needle to the magnet, I cannot conceive that

Mr. Clarke allowed that glass is impervious to elec

tricity and air. But it is not so to magnetical influence; to this I gave a fair trial and used two receivers one inside the other, and the magnet acted through all.

R. L.

Mr. Clarke's theory, in my opinion, implies many contradictions; for, if the emanation be sufficient to displace the air, how does it happen that the air being, As the room is surrounded by plaster casts of weaker forces the steel against the superior stream? many antique statues, a fair opportunity was I hope some of your more able correspondents will afforded to the company of comparing his form take up this subject, and that one of Sir Isaac Newton's with that of several of those so much celebrat-fundamental laws shall not fall to the ground unless better supported. Yours, &c. ed; and it is but justice to observe, that although he might in some instances appear inferior in that which has been named ideal beauty, yet he excelled in energy and expression; which naturally led to this serious reflection, that perhaps material; and for obscurity read o scenity.]" too much had already been sacrificed by the artists of modern Europe to the slavish study of that part of antique sculpture which had hitherto held the first rank in the galleries of Italy.

The feats of strength and activity of M. Roussel are unexampled, of which the following are an instance or two-He sat on the ground with his feet extended, and by the mere strength and elasticity of his muscles, he sprang on his feet, holding at arm's length a half hundred weight in his right hand; and again resuming his place on the ground, he bore two men in his arms, stretched out, and without a rest, and sprang in like manner on his feet with that great load.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.

Bradford Road, Feb. 5th, 1822.

[In the letter of Veritas in our last, for materials, read

A GENTLEMAN.

MR. EDITOR,-Your correspondent Veritas wishes to "ascertain the point, distinction, or qualifying material which constitutes the gentleman;"I shall endeavour to give him the distinguishing marks of one, as when an artist would express any remarkable character in sculpture, he endeavours to work up his figure into all the perfections his imagination can form, and to imitate not so much what is, as what may or ought to be.—I shall follow his example, with the idea that I am going to trace out a true gentleman, by assembling together such qualifications as seem requisite to make the character complete. And in order to this

I shall premise in general, that by a gentleman I mean a man completely qualified, as well for the service and good, as for the ornament and delight, of society. When I consider the frame of mind peculiar to a gentleman, I suppose it graced with all the dignity and. this I would have joined a clear understanding, a reaelevation of spirit that human nature is capable of. To son free from prejudice, a steady judgment, and au extensive knowledge. When I think of the heart of

This year's Prospectus of Lectures, begin ning this day, at the Royal Institution, offers much of promise to science. Those on Experimental Chemistry, including the principal oper- a gentleman, I imagine it firm and intrepid, void of all ations of Chemical Analysis, are by Mr. Brande; inordinate passion, and full of tenderness, compassion, those on the Improvements and Discoveries and benevolence; when I view the true gentleman that have taken place in Natural Philosophy, with regard to his manners, methinks I see him modest and particularly in the subjects of Optics and without bashfulness, frank and affable without imperMagnetism, by Mr. Millington; those on Com-tinence, obliging and complaisant without servility, parative Physiology, comprising an examination cheerful and in good humour without noise. These of the Structure and Economy of the different there many men that have a genius to excel this way. amiable qualities are not easily obtained; neither are classes of Animals, by Dr. Roget; those on the Scientific Principles of Arithmetic (considered as a branch of the Mathematics) and the Elements of Algebra, by Mr. Walker; and those on music by Dr. Crotch.-Feb. 1, 1823.

all the great characters in life. Besides the natural A finished gentleman is perhaps the most uncommon of endowments with which this distinguished man is to be born, he must run through a long series of education. Before he makes his appearance and shines in

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No. 55.-VOL. II.

THE LIVERPOOL CONCENTRIC FRIENDS.

No. I.

In the Reading Room, precisely at six o'clock, P. M. were assembled, Friends Medicos, Constant, Frivolous, Paradox, Trueman, and Man; and at five minutes after six, the

Deliberation Chamber

was entered, and a letter opened from Friend Nol;-Contents

MY DEAR SIR,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1823.

subjects, which are, almost literally, masses of putridity

and filth! Indeed, Mr. A. states, that they are obliged to depend upon a precarious supply of bodies which have been suffered to BECOME PUTRID,' even before interment! Then what condition must they be in when taken from the grave? This revolting consideration leads us to inquire-Is human dissection an indispensable requisite for the medical practitioner? It apThe Concentric Friends have unrestricted pears indispensable, inasmuch, as a student cannot controul over all my contributions; their plea-obtain his diploma without exhibiting a certificate from sure has the entire sanction of his Lecturer, specifying that he has carefully dissected the human body. For what purposes is this complete course of actual dissection essential? Why must every muscle, from its origin to its insertion, every

Yours, &c. &c.

N. NOL.

To C. MAN, Esqr.
Mored by Friend Trueman, and Seconded by gland, and veins, arteries, and nerves, in all their
Friend Constant- That the Strictures of Friend ramifications, be traced and examined with the knife?
Nol upon the attempt of Mr. Abernethy to ob- Why have Munros, Bells, Hunters, furnished such
tain Human Bodies for the Dissecting Rooms, elaborate and exact representations from many thou
saud dissections, if these dissections can never be
from Hospitals, Poor Houses, &c, be now read, superseded by plates models, or museums? Were
and considered.'-Agreed, and read as follows:-
they, with Boerhaave, Haller, Cowper, Cheselden,
"A paper (by Mr. Abernethy) has been circulated Albinus, and others, urged on in these terrible inves-
in London, in which the writer remarks It is true,tigations, by purely an insatiable propensity? Or, did
indeed, that Medical men have by degrees converted
the hospitals of this country into schools of Medical
Instruction.—that is, into THEATRES OF ANATOMY.
Bat,' (proceeds Mr. A.) this has often been done
in opposition to the wishes of the benevolent directors
of these charities.'

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"Mr. Abernethy as a Lecturer on Anatomy, is deeply interested in this matter; unquestionably bis students would be more numerous were Human Bodies in a sound state more easily obtained, and at a less expense. No doubt Mr. A. is slightly influenced by these considerations when he says-There are unhappily in this, as in other countries, numbers who die without friends or relations to mourn their loss. If, then, the superintendants of Prisons, Poor Houses,

and Eleemosynary Establishments, would but consent that the remains of those who die in such circumstan

and as accurate, information to the student, as he can

PRICE 31d.

Why do not these Abernethys, these anatomicalpseudo-philanthropists bring forward their own deceased relations? Why do not they, as in the contemptible fiction of a pretended opium eater, bequeath their own carcases to hospitals and private dissecting rooms? Then, and not till then, can we accredit in fellowships and professorships) expect to be treated them! And until then, they must (however elevated as knaves, ever remembering, that- Specto ad utilitas respublica at improbus punio!'

"This is an interesting subject; it contains many important considerations and queries-queries to which it behoves civilized man to attend! Anatomical Lecturers must be observed, and where they appear, if our places of sepulture are not secure and entrusted to men of virtue and fidelity, we must seek others; and should these be also invaded, we have no other resort than that of reducing the remains of our parents, children, and bosom friends, to earth, and consigning them, literally, dust to dust!"

Friend Medicos now moved "that the thanks

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of the Liverpool Concentric Friends be conveyed
to Friend Nol, for his judicious and very inter-
esting paper."-The motion was supported by
all present.
On mature consideration I am of opinion,"
observed Friend Paradox, "that dissections
cannot be safely abolished; it is necessary that
medical men should be instructed in the use of
the knife, and how to operate dexterously."

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they act the part of nefarious impostors, in professing, that pursuits and labours would prove useful to society, which were only calculated to enrich themselves? tions are not demonstratively studied in the disTrue," replied the President, "but operaThese queries require distinct and particular solutions secting rooms; neither, if the practitioner be "It is, indeed, a poor museum that does not contain subjects which are sufficient to convey as much, well informed as to the construction, situation, and connexion of the several parts,-is it absopossibly obtain from the actual dissection of a human lutely necessary that this dexterity in flesh body, in which, from putrefaction, there is a general cutting should be acquired in a human body— dissolution of continuity. Mr. A. would do well to flesh and bone generally, will answer the purconsider this-he should also fully and unequivocally pose. The parts and structure of the human explain what benefit can possibly result to society from body, as well as the entire circle of comparative an actual dissection of the trunk or extremities, every organization, are now well understood, and gebone, muscle, gland, nerve, artery, and vein, nay, neral dissections might be very safely abandoned: almost every fibre and particle of which may be now correctly shewn in plates, models, and natural and sionally arise, of which we are not accurately a morbid state of some of the viscera may occaartificial subjects? Why should not lectures upon informed; but surely in such cases, persons ces, or are unclaimed, should be made the subjects of those parts be confined to these mediums? Were all anatomical instruction,' &c.—he would no longer bribe the burial grounds and all the hospitals in Europe open having in charge the lifeless body, will never Resurrection Men to plunder graves!!! This is, indeed, to Resurrection Men and Lecturers, could they possi- withhold a boon from themselves and the world, an undisguised, a bold avowal! Mr. A. also endea-bly ascertain more than that muscles, nerves, veins, by refusing to have it examined. The observavours to promote this object, by adulatory insinuation; &c. answer such and such purposes? Can they hope tions of Friend Nol are very just, and were he says, I know of no instance, except the present, to explain the cause of muscular motion to identify practitioners candid enough to declare the truth, in which the Governors of an hospital have, of their the active principle of nerves, or the nature of sensi-they would admit that their subsequent practice own accord, established and patronized a school of bility? Why then this disingenuous sophistry? To owed very little to initiatory dissections. Selfmedical instruction, [dissecting rooms] in connexion increase the pecuniary resources of Mr. A., Mr. B., interest is the chief object; and Lecturers advowith the practice of the institution [the care of dis- with the entire host of dissectors, and resurrection cate demonstrative instruction from the identical eased poor]. Surely then this act must be considered men, must we still submit to violations of the grave? honourable to the Governors [How many of these Go- Nay, must our charitable efforts be made subservient feelings that urge Spaniards to prosecute the vernors were medical, or the relations of medical, to their duplicity, by law? Shall our chambers be slave trade, and Resurrection Men to the stealing men?] It claims my especial gratitude.'-This cannot be at all doubted-for how much more grateful must it be to Mr. A.'s olfactories, to be engaged over a sound, than over a putrid, subject?

But, there is a more decisive tone assumed in the anomalous address of this presumptuous man, which cannot be passed over; we are told, that- In other countries, hospitals have been founded and supported by the government, with a view to their becoming schools of medical [anatomical] instruction.' And again, that, In other countries the police can direct that to be done, which is contributory to the public good, THOUGH CONTRARY TO THE FEELINGS AND WILL OF THE PARTIES IMMEDIATELY CONCERNED.'

of inanimate bodies."

opened perforce, and shall those remains which nature
instinctively holds precious, be torn from us, under "Every trade and profession aims at mono-
the most fallacious pretences? Surely, it cannot be ! poly," observed Friend Trueman, "and many
"Alas!-the grave is no longer the resting place-have obtained, by parliamentary enaction, some
the sanctuary-the last, the hallowed home of the exclusive privileges. This appears to me a
mortal remains of humanity! Diabolical wretches in- grievance; why not allow the human mind full
vade it-it is robbed of the flesh and bones we loved, exercise, and human ingenuity unrestricted
we embraced, we cherished!—And they are seized
by Anatomical Lecturers, to be hoarded up in mu-
scope? The paper of Friend Burgh is in point,
seums, or mangled and dispersed in rivers, ditches, and places this particular in a very just view,-
and common receptacles of filth! Is this to be borne? I am fully of his opinion, and hesitate not to
Can the Clergy allow the consecrated ground to be attribute many medical abuses, to immunities
thus despoiled of its sanctity? If they do we must
which have been injudiciously granted, and
find burial places elsewhere!'
which are collusively exercised."

with far other feelings than those of unmingled,
or predominating pleasure, on the taste and
literary charcter of the present day. We are
yet young,-have no antiquated feelings to hu-strate the extent of their knowledge,
mour or to suppress,-and cannot with justice
be accused of the very common partiality of
old age to the years of childhood. Like the
works it has been our lot to review, we our-
selves are but the creatures of yesterday.-But
on the score of youth and inexperience, we
neither expect nor desire the forbearance of our
readers. We wish to stand upon equal ground
with those who may see fit to differ from, or
oppose us.With this sentiment, we take leave
of our readers, and conclude our remarks upon
'The Augustan age of England.' Neve hæc
nostris spectentur ab annis quæ ferimus.
Liverpool.
J. B. M.

too narrow-minded to allow the author a more than
ordinary fund of variety; the third is composed of
puerile opinionists, whose fatile arguments demon-

THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLEY," &c.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting worldthough the cant of hypocrisy may be the worst-the cant of Criticism is the most tormenting!-STERNE.

TO THE EDITOR,

SIR,-The merits and defects of the " great unknown," form subjects of controversy and criticism for every species of writers, from the ingenious scholar to the snarling, invidious, hyper-critic. We can find a Zoilus snarling at Plato and Homer, where we cannot meet with a Persius, correct and generous in his opinions.-The author of Waverley has unquestionably conferred a great and lasting benefit on his country; he has, to all intents and purposes, combined the utils

dulci of Horace

Profit and pleasure, then, to mix with art,
To inform the judgment, nor offend the head,
Shall gain all votes.-
FRANCIS.

Need I reiterate the public opinion of the novels
written by this author? Need I say what has been
said for years, and which the people of this and other
countries know already, that he has "gained all votes,"
for blending useful instruction with innocent amuse-
ment? To become acquainted with the history of any
country or nation, how perspicuous soever in style, or
faithful in narration of events, we must have some
idea of the language, customs, manners, &c. of such
nation. Now the history of Scotland is greatly in-
volved in doubt and obscurity, so that no chronicle
could have so effectually (and at the same time pleas-
ingly,) elucidated the local manners, &c. as these
novels; and who can charge the author with partiality
to his country? Has he not portrayed the various
traits of English manners, with the same masterly
skill, with the same ingenious pencil as he has done

his own countrymen's? Has he not fascinatingly

sketched the numerous situations in life, from the
"swine herd" of the "proud Saxon Chief," to the
Royal Courts of John and Elizabeth? True, be has
left the sons of the "Emerald Isle" in neglect as yet,
though report says that he is busily employed in com-
bining materials for a "luring mirror" of the "sweet
isle of the ocean,-Erin-go-Brab."-But, we are not
deficient in this respect; Miss Edgeworth has produced
admirable pieces, whose brilliancy of wit, originality
and moral tendency justly rank them with the first
novels of the day. The novels of Waverley are not
(properly speaking) novels or romances; they have the
descriptive charms of the former, without their frivo-
lity; and the sublime pathos of the latter, without their
terrific incredibleness: superadded to this, are excel-
lently entwined historical facts, finely polished, as it
were, which we had but formerly in the rough. It is
with mingled sentiments of surprise and regret, that I
find many critics of the day endeavouring (it can never
be
any thing else!) to deteriorate the merit of these
productions: some write from the opinion of others,
without perusing the novels themselves; others deliver
their opinion with all the stentorian eloquence imagin-
able, because the author has written so much! A third
class of people, more egregiously ignorant, if possible,
than either, unhesitatingly deliver their judgment on
finding the taste of a friend or two similar to their own!
The first of these classes has no critical stability, be-
cause it yields to every one's opinion; the second is

I am sorry to find, by your last number, that your elegant and often judicious Essayist, J. B. M. has derogated, (I greatly fear) so much from his usual candonr and equity of criticism, as to require a few goodnatured hints from a reader of the novels of Waverley. He says, (Augustan Age No. IV,) that," the fondness for the barbarous idioms of Scotland's rudest peasants, strongly argues against the taste of the present age;" and that "the works of Ossian and Burns introduced a rage for the scenery, dress, manners, &c. of Scotland, which was amply satisfied in these novels."-By But, Ossian and Burns could not have introduced this the bye, the former quotation is subsequent to the latter.

if their works were written in "the barbarous
rage,
idiom of the rudest peasants of Scotland."--Yet such
was the fact, Burn's Halloween," and "Cotter's Sa-
turday-Night," are written in the barbarous idiom of,
and describe the innocent local amusements of the
"rudest peasants of Scotland." Dr. Carrie, the
amiable biographer of Burns, thought that "Burns
wrote the genuine feelings of his own heart, in a lan-
guage that (though common to the peasantry of Scot-
land) was excellently adapted to poetry, on account of
its harmonious flow, &c."-Professor Stewart and
others class it with the Italian for beauty in song.
Ossian was written in barbarous, though sublime lan-
guage, the Gaelic; but England got it in its own ele-
France, Germany, and Italy, have it in their several
gant language, and since, in Latin and Greek.*
tongues.

When up-borne to the sapphire of the east,
The lark on airy wings of fancy roves :
Soft, o'er the ambient air,

Her richest music pours;

Beside yon dazzling streams meand'ring course,
Where myriad flow'rs the velvet banks bedeck,
And to the heav'us high vault
Their grateful insence breathe,

His lot how blest with thee sweet maid to sit,
While thus from human turmoil far remov'd,

And with enraptur'd soul

List to thy soothing voice :

Or when pavilion'd on her ebon car,

Eve, fair-eyed goddess, her grey mantle spreads;
Gives to the varied scence,

Her peaceful, soft delights;

When countless myriads of orient stars,
From the ethereal their bright lustre shed,
And in Elysium,

Wrap the wondering soul.

With thee, enchanting maiden, let me haste,
To where yon grove its front fantastic rears;
Where echo warbles back,

The night bird's tender tale.
While Cynthia from her silver fretted throne,
In majesty of sweetness beams sublime;
Luring the pleased eye,

To gaze upon her charms.

Then let me think of fairest dreams destroy'd;
Visions of joy and bliss for ever fled;

And Hope's balm-breathing smile,
Chac'd hence by lean despair.

As some pale wild flow'r rears its pensile head,
Alone and friendless on the barren waste;

Till winter comes, and then,

It with'ring droops and dies.

Oh nymph ador'd, if that a muse so young.
With earnest suit can move thee to attend ;
Can woo thy lovely form
To list unto her pray'r.

Instruct her in thy dear and tranquil hour,
Thy bosom's peerless happiness to gain;
Upon thy tender breast,
Hush thou her cares to peace.

Feby. 4th, 1823.

N. W. HALCESRISA,

FINE ARTS.

BRITISH INSTITUTION GALLERY.

The celebrated Dr. Blair, professor of German Epic Poets; but compares it to Homer himBelles Lettres, has not only classed Ossian with the self; and surely there is no one bold enough to assert that the eloquent strain of Homer has introduced a rage for the idiom of barbarous Grecians, or the uncouth manners of the Trojans, more than the taste of ages and literature can bear! To return to the productions allowed the lasting triumph of Milton and Shakespeare's of Waverley, J. B. M. says that " they will not be works;" this is true, though I think Waverley will and certainly he now gets more than either Milton or find as many readers in after ages, as he does now, Shakespeare; the former of these owes his fame and popularity to the exertions of the amiable Addison, and the latter, greatly to Johnson and Stevens. The Author of Waverley's productions are no less esteemed that if they bad not intrinsic merit to support their on the stage, than they are in the library; add to this popularity, they would not be found in the best private libraries. To read Ivanhoe, which is half-romance, we Hame and Smollet could never have depicted-to become acquainted with many historical traits, which Adam and Eve entertaining the Angel Raphael, peruse Kenilworth, we wish to know more of the mi- J MARTIN.-The first look at this picture gives nute transactions of the Elizabethan reign-This the impression of strongly chequered colours, author has done a public service; he has withdrawn light, and shade, like the sudden approach to a the veil which for ages clouded individuals, and he has bed of variegated tulips, together with that of a towards Scottish literature and Scottish manners. broken down the strong prejudice which we entertained profusion of graceful and noble objects and yield the same gratification to the fancy, and instruc-persons in discourse; altogether producing the Waverley, or Sixty years Since,' will as assuredly immense distance, with an angel and two naked day. The author has been compared to a "meteor;"tion to the mind, Sixty years hence, as it does at this beautiful and the grand, especially as prodigious mountains, rising in light, terminating the I can only say, I wish we had our horizon constantly distance. We are next struck with the forefull of such rare and intelligent luminaries." Like ground, an open, undulating lawn, or, as Roderick Random and Tom Jones, these Novels will MILTON well and more simply terms it, " be always read, because they will be always new; they where the blissful pair and their guest sit in green," will ever please old age and gratify youth. ed by flowering shrubs and beautiful and various caverned recess, overgrown and nearly surroundfront of a bower, consisting of a cool and trees, and bright clustering flowers. This and the shady wood that immediately borders the enclosed plot, and the multiplied objects beyond, give by contrast an openness, a felicitous expansion, to this soft and verdantly-heaving bosom of sequestration, this mildly-cheerful and wisdom-loving spot, delicious to the eye, the heart, and the fancy. Beyond the wood the scene again opens among other lawns, slopes, chamA gentleman of one of the Northern Universities of Scot-paigns, sudden and steep ascents, rocks, mist

dialect may be true, though I never knew that it had
What your correspondent has said of the Lancashire
notwithstanding my having compared the celebrated
the fluency and copiousness of the Scotch language;
"Tim Bobbin," with the admirable Burns.

If I have in the least asserted any thing contrary to
truth or analogy, or been led for a moment to give
sophistical opinions, I shall be glad to stand corrected.
I am, Sir, your constant reader
Liverpool, Jan. 5th, 1823.

MYSELF.

land translated Ossian into Greek heroic verse; I never saw a

copy in Liverpool. The Novels of the Author of Waverley

have been translated into French and German, I believe.

colours, and forms, rising straight, or spreading mantled waterfalls, and trees of numerous kinds,