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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



VI. — Stewart^s Planter's Guide, and Sir Walter 

 Scott's Critique. 



We have noticed tliat a sensation has been pro- 

 duced in a certain quarter, particularly among per- 

 sons of a certain age, by a publication of Sir Henry 

 Steuart of AUanton, on removing large trees, eked 

 out by a very clever article in the London Quarter- 

 ly, on Landscape Gardening, ascribed to Sir Walter 

 Scott. 



It may seem unnecessary to direct the attention of 

 the public again either to this volume or its subjectj, 

 both of which have already engaged the public atten- 

 tion to a degree greatly beyond their value and im- 

 portance; but Sir Henry, with all his foppery and pa- 

 rade of decorating parks, approaches^ and lawns, and 

 all that sort of chateau millinery, has now and then 

 risen above his subject^ and not only given us seve- 

 ral hints useful in rm*al economy, but has also pre^ 

 tensions to have brought out some fects hitherto but 

 imperfectly known, and to have traced them to ge- 

 neral principles. 



