ary, a failure? Is Heaven and Earth, that magnificent confusion of two worlds, in which mortal beings mingle in love and hate, joy and despair, with immortal, the children of dust claiming alliance with the radiant progeny of the skies, till man and angel seem to partake of one divine being, and to be essences eternal in bliss or bale,-is Heaven and Earth, I ask you, James, a failure? If so, then Apollo has stopt payment-promising a dividend of one shilling in the pound-and all concerned in that house are bankrupts. TICKLER. You have nobly-gloriously vindicated Byron, North, and in doing so, have vindicated the moral and intellectual character of our country. Miserable and pernicious creed, that holds possible the lasting and intimate union of the first, purest, highest, noblest, and most celestial powers of soul and spirit, with confirmed appetencies, foul and degrading lust, cowardice, cruelty, meanness, hypocrisy, avarice, and impiety! Yet, in a strong attempt made to hold up to execration the nature of Byron as deformed by all those hideous vices, you, my friend, reverently unveiled the countenance of the mighty dead, and the lineaments struck remorse into the heart of every asperser. You wrote a noble prose commentary on those verses of my friend Charles Grant-although, perhaps, you never saw them-but congenial spirits speak one language on all great themes, in every age and in every country, separated though they may be by lands or seas, or by the darkness of centuries. Beautiful verses they are. Talents, 'tis true, quick, various, bright, hath God And all the dread sublimities of song These, Virtue! these to thee alone belong! SHEPHERD. Gude safe us, man, Mr Tickler, but these be bonny, bonny verses. Wha's the composer ? TICKLER. College University-Cambridge-Prize verses, James. SHEPHERD. The deevil they are!-that's maist extraordinary. NORTH. It is the fashion to undervalue Oxford and Cambridge Prize Poems-but it is a stupid fashion. Many of them are most beautiful. Heber's Palestine! A flight, as upon angel's wing, over the Holy Land! How fine the opening! Reft of thy sons! amid thy foes forlorn, Mourn, widow'd Queen! forgotten Zion, mourn! TICKLER. e than one of Wrangham's Prize Poems are excellent-Richard's Abori ginal Brutus is a powerful and picturesque performance-Chinnery's Dying Gladiator magnificent-and Millman's Apollo Belvidere splendid, beautiful, and majestic. NORTH. Macaulay and Praed have written very good Prize Poems. These two young gentlemen ought to make a figure in the world. By the way, you would be glad to see, Tickler, that Knight's Quarterly Magazine is rediviva? TICKLER. I was so. May it flourish. It is an able and elegant miscellany. Methinks I see the Õpium-eater in last number. Having now connected himself with gentlemen, may his career be bright and prosperous, for he is a man of a million. NORTH. His original genius and consummate scholarship speedily effected the damnation of Taylor and Hessey's Magazine, according to my prophecy. All the other contributors looked such ninnies beside him, that the public burst out a-laughing in the poor Magazine's face. Then one and all of them began mimicking our friend, and pretended to be Opium-eaters. Now, the effect of the poppy upon the puppy is most offensive to the bystanders, and need not be described. A few grains more administered to the Ass's head in the Lion's skin, who forthwith opined himself to be an editor, and brayed upon the contributors, in the language of Shakspeare, Friends, countrymen, and Luddites, Taylor and Hessey, hearing "the din of battle bray," fled from the field. TICKLER. I fear the commissariot-department is at present badly conducted. The army is in great want of provisions. SHEPHERD. Puir fallows! they seem sairly disheartened, and to have lost a' discipline. What's the use o' their aye tantararaing wi' the trumpet, and rat-a-tooing on the drum, when the troops are maistly a' without musquets or beggonets, have never got richtly out o' the aukward squad, keep trampin' on ane anither's heels, and aye cursin' and swearin' like so mony limmers lugged alang by the poleish to Bridewell? TICKLER. Political Economy is not a subject for a Magazine. Its principles should be explained at once-brought continuously before the mind. They may be applied to important subjects of trade and polity in a Magazine, as they often have been in yours, North-but the elements of the science must be given in a volume. The Opium-eater frittered away his philosophy of that science in detached papers that produced no effect on the public mind. I NORTH. agree with you perfectly. Would that we had his promised "Romance!" For, with all his logic, he is a man of imagination, and, bateing a little formal pedantry now and then, a master of the English language, God bless him. TICKLER. James, you are the worst smoker of a cigar in Christendom. No occasion to blow like a hippopotamus. Look at me, or North-you would not know we breathed. SHEPHERD, It's to keep mysel' frae fallin' asleep. I never heard you baith muckle mair stupider than you have been a' the nicht. A' my wonder is, how you contrive to keep up that Magazine. It's a waefu' sight to see a' the other Magas pining awa in a kind o' green-sickness, just for want o' contributors, little bigger in boulk than the Living Skeleton now in London. But there gangs our ain Maga, a strapping quean, wi' a satisfied ee, a lilting voice, and a step o' elasticity, and, may I say't without coorseness, she's perpetually in the familyway. But Maga's your honest wedded wife, Mr North-and all her productions are legitimate. Hear till that auld watchman, crawing the hour like a bit bantam. What's the cretur screeching? Twa o'clock !! Mercy me!-we (Exeunt omnes.) maun be aff. WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. Nearly ready, a fifth edition, revised and corrected, of the Rev. T. H. Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. In four large vols. 8vo, illustrated with numerous Maps, and Fac-Similes of Biblical MSS. Sketches, Political, Geographical, and Statistical, of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata; to which are added, a Description of the Mines in that Country; and an Appendix, concerning the Occupation of Monte Video by the Troops of Brazil and Portugal. Sir J. Barrington's Anecdotes of Ireland will soon appear. A Series of Sixty Engravings of Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery, and dedicated by permission to his Majesty, is preparing by Captain Batty of the Grenadier Guards. 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