Retrospect of Domestic Literuture——Poetry. 
‘which wind up the description of Phile- 
mon’s education. Em , 
‘‘ If knowledge best supports religign’s 
cause, Sint Ohl 
And states depend on morals more than 
laws, ay at 
To such desert must Scotia’s vdice ascribe 
The draughts of learning which her sons 
imbibe, GRU 
Their strong sagacity, their manly sense, 
Their steady vigour, and pursuit intense, 
Their frugal bent, which poverty defies, 
Their industry, whence honest, riches rise, 
Their ardent spirit panting for renown, 
The hero’s trophy, or the scholar's crown. 
If, Caledonia! this applause be thine, 
if these fair virtues in thy story shine, 
Say, do not those who train thy rising race, 
Deserve their country’s gratitude, and 
grace ? 
O! let not then their merits be forgot, 
Severe their task, and indigent their lot 
In the third book, the person of Ithu- 
rel, Philemon’s guardian angel, is intro- 
duced, for the employment of whom Dr. 
Brown offers an apology, or rather a de- 
fence, in the preface, { 
On the subject of the reformation im 
Scotland, we haye these spirited lines :— 
“ Why, Knox! illustrious in the Scottish 
Page, : 
Why stain thy zeal with desolating rage? 
Could’st thou not true religion’s ro re= 
store, 
And drive corruption from thy natal shore, 
Unless, while hayoc howl’d with savage 
yell, 
The sacred temple, with the idol, fell; 
Unless whate’er was elegant and grand, 
All art had rear’d to beautify the land, 
Was yiclded to th’ infuriate moba prey, 
And ‘swept, with more than vandal rage 
Away? % 5: 
In the eighth hook we are presented 
with Philemon’s judgment of the Belgian 
character. 
Tn the ninth, which brings Philemon 
to manhood, the travellers pursue their 
course along the banks of the Lake of 
Geneva, and enter on the deep vallies 
of Sayoy. 
« At once, Mount Blanc his awful glory 
shews ! 
His hoary head the firmament defies ; 
Below his breast, the farked lightning flies ; 
Before him ev'ry mountain fades; his seat 
Yow’rs o’er their heads diminish’d at ‘his 
feet. . 
Old as the world, a shining mantle hides 
His shoulders; and descends along his sides. 
The sun, when Cancer all his rage awakes, 
Here, darts his fires, and no impression 
makes, r 
His flames are quench’d amidst th’ abyss of 
snow, 
-As iron ceases inthe wave to glow. 
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665 
’Tis ev’ning, Day's declining orb retires 
From all the summits of inferior spires. 
Still on Mount Blanc it flames, te purple 
bright 
'Fransforming all his garb of spotless white. 
The rosy splendour of the lofty clime - 
Fills their rapt souls with majesty sublime. 
They gaze insatiate, nor withdraw their 
eyes 
Till night has spread her veil along the 
skies.” 
These, as well as other passages too 
pumerons to quote, will atford a just 
idea of the merit of Philemon. Written 
in an even tenor, it does equal credit to 
the head and heart of Dr. Brown. ___, 
Another work of intrinsic merit will be 
found in the Poems of Sir Joun Carr, 
who calls them “ Wild Notes of the’ 
Simple Shepherd.” The Poem on the 
Loss ofa Brother, is beautifully plaintive. 
A short specunen inay serve the reader's 
purpose. THe wall find the whole volume 
equally attractive. 9 
“ When, through the hour, with “une 
resisted skull, 
I’ve scen thee mould each feature to thy 
will— 
When friends drew round thee with atten- 
tive ear, ihe: 
Pleas’d with the raillery which they could 
not fear, 
Oh! how I’ve heard thee, with concealing 
art, pe 
Join in the song, though sorrow rent thy 
heart ; Ly 
How have I seen thee too, with venial 
guile, pine 
Q’er many an anguish force the faithless 
smile, — Sas 
Seen suffering nature check each sigh, each 
fear, 
To rob maternal fondness of a tear! 
Alas! those scenes are past! vain was the 
prayer 
That ask’d of fate to soften and to spare ; 
Ah! vain, if wit and virtue could not 
_ save 
Thy youthful honours from an early 
grave.” ie 
Among the minor productions of the 
muse, the. praise of sprigiithness and 
humour must certainly be given to 
“Gastronomy, or the Bon Vivant’s Guide Ke 
translated from the Freach of M, Ber- 
caoux. The progress of Cookery is tol- 
lowed from its earliest state to its pre- 
sent improvement: acco panied by pre- 
cepts which the lovers of good eating 
will hardly fail to approve. 
Nor ought we to withhold aur praise 
from the zealous effusions of “ relish 
Loyalty,” by My. Masi. 
MISCEL= 
