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tuning their yet unformed notes to melody. Now 

 eveiy twig has raised its new column of foliage to 

 the sun ; and branch, and root, and stone, embel- 

 lished all over in the richest variety of cryptogamic 

 beauty, swarm of insect life. This smooth path has 

 been paved by the lightsome foot ; how superior to 

 the gravel-walk on which the labom'er has grudged 

 his useless toil ! Even the cart-ruts possess an inte- 

 rest, which useful labour has worn. After the smooth 

 monotony of the park ; the turf-dykes, the fluting 

 of the ridges, the different kinds of crops, are most 

 agreeable diversity. The dunghil, and chanticleer 

 among his dames, the toiled horse, the lean milch- 

 cow, and the superhumanly- sagacious-looking shep- 

 herd- coUey, — every thing we behold commands a 

 sympathy, draws forth a wish of benevolence. 



As Sir Walter Scott's Critique came under our 

 notice prior to Sir Henry's Guide, we shall proceed 

 in the same order. 



In the first half of this article, Sir Walter gives 

 the history, and describes the varied character, of 

 Landscape Gardening, in a very imaginative and fe- 

 licitous manner, which, as depending on genius and 

 literature alone, was to be expected ; but, in the lat- 

 ter part of the essay, when he comes to treat of ac- 



