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But before it went to the press the stigma 
of dulness was removed from the brow of 
Smyth, and he becomes half sharer in the 
redeeming glory of the vandal university. 
“« Tho? printers condescend the press to soil 
With rhyme by Hoare, and epic blank by Hoyle.” 
S» sunk.in dulness, and so lost in shame 
That Smyth and Hodgson scarce redeem thy 
« fame.’’ 
But as a still more striking instance of 
this caprice of splenetic humour, which 
renders satiric criticism something worse 
than mockery, before Lord Carlisle offend- 
ed him he was the very Apollo of the 
peerage :. 
~ «© On one alone Apollo deigns to smile 
And crowns a new Roscoinmon in Carlisle.” 
But after the resentment of the satirist 
was excited, the case was entirely reversed 
—Apollo and the Muse 
“ No more will clear with renovating smile 
The paralytic paling of Carlisle ;"— 
, and-he is recommended, at the end of a 
long tirade of . contemptuous ridicule for his 
pulings from “ puny boyhood” to “ grey 
hairs,’ to case his volumes in congenial 
calf : 
*€ Yes! doff that covering where morocco shines, 
And hang a calf skin on those recreant lines.”* 
But let any man well read in the poetry 
of the age, and who has a taste and judg- 
ment of his own, read the whole poem ; and, 
admirable as it is in wit and pungency of 
satire, ask himself seriously whether praise 
and censure are not alike scattered through 
the whole as spleen ? partiality, or the hu- 
mour of the hour, might dictate, frequently 
without the least regard to the merits or 
demerits of the parties. But we must take 
our leaye of Mr. Dallas’s ‘‘ Recollections,”’ 
by acknowledging, that though in bulk it is 
but-a book-making sort of concern, the rea- 
der who knows how to pick his way, through 
publications of this description, may gather 
information and amusement from it, to re- 
ward his pains. 
Greece, in 1823.and 1824; being a series 
of Letters and other Documents an the»Greck 
Revolution, written during a Visit to that 
Country. By the Hon. Col, Leicester Stan- 
hope, &c. 8yo., is a publication of much 
more sterling value, and entitled to a much 
larger portion of attention than we could 
have found space to have given to it, even 
if we had allotted to it the whole of our 
literary proémium. Its contents are docu- 
Ments and materials towards a very impor- 
tant part of a very important history; and 
reflect the highest honour not only upon 
the writer but upon the Greek Committee, 
whose. very active and. very enlightened 
agent he was; and to whom the. letters 
that form the, principal part of these. con- 
tents were addressed. They hold out very 
promising and gratifying prospects of the 
ultimate issue of that glorious struggle in 
which the redemption and the future fate 
of “that birth-place of all-existing mind,” — 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
[Dec. 1, 
that country of earliest and most generous 
admiration depends. The interest of this 
work is not, however, of a mere ephemeral , 
description, and we lay it, therefore, aside 
for the present, in the storehouse of those 
materials, from which we haye it in con- 
templation to prepare for ourreaders a very 
different and much more comprehensive 
supplement to our present volume, than 
those with which the preceding half-yearly 
collections have usually been closed. 
The | Scrap-Book, Vol. I1., by John 
M‘Diarmid, is justly described in the title- 
page, ‘ A Collection of Amusing:and. Strik- 
ing Pieces in Prose and Verse.’’. ‘They 
are exclusively selected from modern au- 
thors, and exhibit. a sufficient: extent of 
variety to be alluring to those readers:who 
prefer light reading, of this description, to 
the trouble of selecting, for themselves, fram 
more voluminous compositions. . The ori- 
ginal contributions, by the Editor, are not 
inferior to the selections. 
We recommend to the particular atten- 
tion of our readers, a small closely-printed 
tract, entitled, Summary of the Report of a 
Select Committee, appointed to inquire into the 
causes which have led to the extensive depre- 
ciation or ‘reduction of the’ Remuneration for 
Labour in Great Britain, and the extreme pri- 
vation and calamitous distress consequent 
thereon. We know not a subject, which 
demands a more prompt and effective con- 
sideration, either from the philanthropist or 
the politician. As nothing can be more 
demonstrable than the concluding axiom of 
this summary, ‘‘ That labour, and. labour 
alone, constitutes the only real wealth of a 
nation ; and nothing can be more: clear than 
that; as long as the artizans. and, labourers 
of the country produce the same quantity 
of commodity, the nation is just as rich, 
valuing the total produce of the «soil at 
240,000,000. of farthings, as it is valuing it 
at £24,0,000,000 :” so it is, as undoubtedly 
an imperative duty, for those who enjoy the 
advantages of that labour, to take care that 
the labourers have their proper remunera- 
tion, calculated, not by.the denomination of 
money, but by reference to the quantum of 
the produce of their labour. requisite for 
their healthful and comfortable support. 
James Forbes, a Tale founded :on Facts, 
1 vol. 8v0.—This little unpretending work 
is apparently designed and well calculated 
for the instruction of the youth leaving his 
school-desk for that of the counting-house ; 
and endeayours to. point out»the danger 
incurred. by the too. presumptuous opinion 
of capabilities .to resist the temptations 
which, at that particular peried of life; sur- 
round us. It, is, therefore, of a: religious 
character, though untainted -by fanaticism 
or bigotry. _ The incidents are of every-day 
occurrence ; and we think the author might 
have dwelt more on one of the «principal 
causes of the melancholy catastrophe of the 
tale—and pointed out to parents and: tutors 
the dangerous tendency of a practice, often 
originally 
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