plished satirist England has ever seen. His name will form one of our great national trophies as long as any trace or memorial of our literature exists.

The works of Dryden of any importance which we have not already mentioned, are 'Edipus' and 'The Duke of Guise,' tragedies written in conjunction with Nat. Lee;- Britannia Rediviva,' a poem on the birth of the prince of Wales;-translations of the Life of St Francis Xavier, and of a part of Mainebourg's history of the League;-Tracts in a controversy with Stillingfleet;-a Character of Polybius; a Life of Lucian, and translations of the principal satires of Juvenal and of all Persius, to which is prefixed a long Essay on Satire. Besides these, there is a vast storehouse of prologues, epilogues, epistles, prefaces, translations, epitaphs, odes, songs, letters, elegies, and occasional poems. The only collections of his writings, which it is material to notice, are his Miscellaneous Works,' containing all his original poems and translations, in 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1760. edited by Derrick; Critical and Miscellaneous Prose works,' with notes, and a life by Malone, in 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1800;- Poetical Works' by Todd, with notes by Warton, in 4 vols. 8vo. London, 1812;—and the complete edition of his works, with valuable notes, and a life by Sir Walter Scott, in 18 vols. 8vo. London, 1808.

John Locke.

BORN A. D. 1632.-DIED A. D. 1704.

Few names occur in the history of English literature more deserving of veneration than that of Locke. The study of metaphysics is never likely to become very common, and those who are unacquainted with its applications, and its important bearings on almost every branch of moral science, are usually inclined to regard it as more favourable to dangerous speculation than productive of any practical good. Under this impression, the bulk of general readers lose sight of the influence which the metaphysical writers of all ages have secretly exercised on the other branches of literature. They forget that both the poet and the moralist, if they be men of education, generally owe much to this class of philosophers; that criticism, as a science, is almost entirely founded on their discoveries; and that, considered in another light, metaphysics is to literature what chemistry is to external nature, the study which helps us to discover its proper elements, and separate the pure metal from its alloy. To the writers, therefore, who, like Locke, first fixed the attention of scholars on inquiries of this nature, the highest gratitude is due; they have deepened the channels of thought itself; they have raised the value of pursuits purely intellectual by showing how subordinate all others are to that which concerns the management of the mind; and by directing curiosity to the mysterious movements of the soul, have led men to look with such steadiness upon that portion of their being, that they have become as it were more intensely conscious of their spirituality-more assured of the distinct place they occupy as human creatures in the scale of existence. At the time when the subject of this memoir appeared in the field of letters, considerable