288 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
and it is obviously desirable that the whole of jt should appear before the next meet- 
ing of Parliament. From its length; and the nature of our’publication, it would neces- 
sarily require to,be divided through three os four numbers, and we purpose commencing it 
in the ensuing, unless we should previously be informed that our Correspondent would pre- 
fer its appearing éntire’in.our next Supplement, which will not be published till towards 
the,end of January.) 5): j leek: ti ieee 
Weare much obliged to our Corréspondent “* Thermes’’ for haying pointed out to us the 
very ample.and honourable use made of our publication by the Editors of a continental 
Journal of such high celebrity as the “* Bulletin Universel des Sciences et de U Industrie,” in 
whose pages for July last we have had the pleasure of finding several of our articles avowedly 
translated. : ; 
A specimen of close and abstract reasoning ypon the recondite question of “ the Eternily 
or Non-eternity of the World ?” has laid by us for some time, from the reluctanee we have 
of being drawn eyen to the verge of metaphysical controversy. However, variety is the 
motto of our Miscellany; and, for once, we will venture into the depths of entity 
and eternity, and, pay even a, visit to Chaos and old Night, — It will appear in our next 
number, with a commentary by another hand, who boldly pushes the inquiry from an indi- 
vidual world to the immensity of matter. : , 
A Correspondent, who will remember the words, perhaps, though he finds them*not ia 
our poetical columns, would do well to ask himself by what possible delusion of the ear 
he could mistake, any part of the following sentence for verse :——‘ Even then the Muse 
joys, midst the solemn stillness, to outpour her, secret soul, and giye each burning thought 
its voice and utterance.’’ And yet it comes something nearer to yerse as it here stands than 
in the author’s MS.: for where something like a verse does o¢cur, it neither begins: nor 
ends‘as the author had measured it on his fingers. If those who.think they are writing 
yerses, would write them down occasionally in this way, and ‘try them by the mere test of 
the ear, how frequently would they discover their mistake ! ‘ 
Another Correspondent, (who liyes in long remembrance and personal respect) muist ex- 
cuse us for saying, that where poetry is the question, ar the form of poetry is assumed, it is 
to the poetry alone that we.can look. Subject is nothing unless it be poetically handled and 
poetically expressed. } oe TT teit 
The favours of B. are received; and with a few occasional retouchings of the hyde 
might be admissible, » But‘ we prefer. originality ‘to mutation; and’suspect that it'is be 
to leave Ossian.as he’is than to’\deck him out in rhyme. At least it would require sonvé- 
thing like Miltonic fire to render him more interesting in xyegular verse than’ he is in’ his 
own wild mountain prose. ; hy. 
J. F,’s two communications on “ The Fifteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” and ‘ De- 
fence of the Age we live in,” are much too juvenile for our pages. We advise him, in the 
spirit of kindness, to satisfy himself, at present at least, with being a reader.’ We should do 
him a wrong, not.a' service, ‘did we flatter him with the idea that we discover any indica- 
tions of his becoming a successful writer in the way of authorship. ‘ 
Mr, T. S. Davies ‘¢ On his Demonstration,” shall appear in our next: as will also, we 
trust, the brief communications of ‘* 0. QO. O.;” E. S. ‘on the. Strawberry,” &c. 3 A 
Lodger in Lambeth ;”’ and Mr. E. Duvard on the word “ Idiotism.’’ ~ Some of these ought - 
to have had immediate insertion; but though dated as far back as the 16th, they did not 
reach the editor till the 23d, when the Correspondence part of the present number was al- 
ready printed off... : [ : 
We find so many promises.of insertion yet unfulfilled, that we fear to make specific pro- 
mises as to time; but we persuade ourselves that N. B. on Nestorian progenitorship,; G* 
on Female Education ; Exotic Plants and Animals; Y: Z. on Antiquity of Parts of the 
Old Testament; T. H. on Bayley’s History of the Tower; Horne Tooke on THE; and 
Mr. Jennings on Mechanics’ Institutions ; will, most of them, if not all,'appear in our 
next, ‘* Importation of Foxes” on the earliest-opportunity. Pay 
It is with great reluctance that we have delayed, even for an instant, the reply of N. Y. 
to “A Son of Adam.” It is somewhat tart, but we do not like it the worse for that ; and 
N. Y. may depend upon it he shall have justice anda fair field > r, 
A Correspondent informs us that the Burmese Imperial State Carriage, which was cap- 
tured at an early period of the present sanguinary Indian war, has just reached this country, 
and is now preparing for a public exhibition. It is described to us as, without exception, 
one of the most splendid works of art that can be conceived, presenting an entire blaze of 
gold, silver, and precious stones. All this may be perfectly true ; but as we have not seen 
it, we cannot enter into the detail. The pages of the Monthly Magazine are always open 
for the announcement of every novelty, literary, scientific, curious, or useful, in which the 
public or the inventors, importers or proprietors, can be interested: but if opinions, or de- 
scriptions involving, opinions, are expected to be giyen, the opportunity must be furnished 
to us of seeing and judging for ourselves,, The Monthly Magazine must not be considered 
as “ Every Man his own Reviewer,” ny atte eee 
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