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delivery and temperameut with which he applied himself to juries, whose minds 

 were of the same stature with his own.." 



Family Library — Scottish Worthies, by P. F. Tytler, Esq. 



These worthies are Alexander III., Michael Scott, and, the eternals, Wallace 

 and Bruce. The lives are written with spirit, and especially that of Alexander 

 III. The details of the invasion from Norway form a piece of very distinct and 

 picturesque description, which stands apart, like an episode, in Scottish history. 

 Michael Scott, stripped of his necromantic robes, makes a respectable scholar, 

 statesman, and courtier ; while Wallace and Bruce ar£ what they were — extra- 

 ordinaiy men, doubtless, but familiar to every body — too much so to read over 

 again in a new set, and scarcely a new set of phrases. 



The JNovelist's Library — Humphry Clinker. 



Nothing in the getting up of the "Libraries" will match this edition of the 

 old novels, which comes forth under the auspices of the new and spirited pub- 

 lishers, Cochrane and Pickersgill. Four Sketches by Cruikshank, a poitrait 

 of Smollett, and a memoir of him by Mr. Roscoe, add to the value of a volume, 

 the externals of which are worthy of the jewel they enclose. It will require an 

 extensive sale to redeem the adventurous outlay, and we only hope the attempt 

 will meet with the encouragement it deserves. 



Encyclopaedia Britannica, new edition. Part XVI. 



Monthly publications are now so numerous, that we find it impracticable to 

 notice them all, or at least all of them month by month, without suffering 

 other works to fall too much in arrear. An occasional glance, therefore, is all 

 that must be expected from us. The Encyclopfcdia Britannica, however, is one 

 of those publications, which, by its well-considered and independent articles, par- 

 takes of a permanent character, and calls for more frequent notice. The editor 

 is punctually fulfilling his engagements. The sixteenth portion is before us ; 

 and we have not observed one article, on any subject of importance, throughout 

 the work hitherto, which does not bear marks of recent and careful revisal. 

 The main article of the present part, entitled " Army," extends to 44 pages, and 

 is as comprehensive a thing of the kind as we have ever looked into. In the 

 section dedicated to the ancient state of military matters, the description of the 

 Roman army, as to its composition and tactics, is remarkable for its precision 

 and intelligibleness, whilst the review of the military system of every portion of 

 the civilized world (that there should be occasion to make use of such a term in 

 such a matter !) will be found more complete and instructive, as to statistical 

 points, than any similar attempt to be met with elsewhere. Modern tactics are 

 probably reserved for their alphabetical position. It is but justice to notice the 

 plates which accompany the work — they are of the first quality. 



Waverley Novels, Vol. XXVI, — Fortunes of Nigel. 



The success with which the author, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, awakened 

 an interest for one who had none of the common accomplishments of the 

 heroine, prompted him to make a similar attempt with a hero of the same 

 stamp. Worth of character, goodness of heart, and rectitude of principle, were 

 of course the only qualities which could compensate the lack of high birth and 

 romantic positions, and he accordingly looked among the realities of life, till he 

 finally pitched upon George Heriot, a man who had left proofs in the gude 

 town of Edinburgh of benevolence and charity, sufficient to warrant the exten- 

 sion of them into the interior of private life. These qualities he brought to bear 

 upon the amendment of a young nobleman misguided by the aristocratic 

 haughtiness of his class, and the seductions of pleasure; "and though," adds 

 the author, at once truly and gracefully, " I am, I own, no great believer in the 

 moral utility to be derived from fictitious composition, yet, if in any case a word 

 spoken in season may be of advantage to a young person, it must surely be 



