XX. HUGH MILLER. 



enlighten the recesses that yawn around us. And 0, what more unworthy 

 of reasonable men than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster 

 quarrel than, when it unveils to us nauch of what could not otherwise be 

 known, and without the knowledge of which we could not be other than 

 unhappy, it leaves to the invigorating exercise of our own powers what- 

 ever, in the wide circle of creation, lies fully within their grasp ! " — The 

 Antiquary of the World, pp. 56-58. 



The next work published by Mr Miller was entitled " First 

 Impressions of England and its People,"* — a popular and in- 

 teresting volume, whicb has already gone through two editions, 

 and which may be read with equal interest by the geologist, 

 the philanthropist, and the general reader. It is full of know- 

 ledge and of anecdote, and is written in that attractive style 

 whicli commands the attention even of the most incurious 

 readers. 



This delightful work, though only in one volume, is equal 

 to three of the ordinary type, and cannot fail to oe perusea 

 with high gratification by all classes of readers. It treats of 

 every subject which is presented to the notice of an accom- 

 plished traveller while he visits the great cities and romantic 

 localities of merry England. We know of no tour in Eng- 

 land written by a native in which so much pleasant reading 

 and substantial instruction are combined ; and though, we are 

 occasionally stopped in a very delightful locality by a preci- 

 pice of the Old Red Sandstone, or frightened by a disinterred 

 skeleton, or sobered by the burial-service over Palaeozoic 

 graves, w^e soon recover our equanimity, and again enter upon 

 the sunny path to which our author never fails to restore us. 



Mr Miller's new work, the "Foot-prints of the Creator," 

 of which we publish now another edition, authorized by the 

 writer, is very appropriately dedicated to Sir Philip Grey 

 Egerton, Bart., M.P. for Cheshire, — a gentleman who pos- 

 sesses a magnificent collection of fossils, and whose skill and 



• London, 1847, pp. 409. 



