lished what he called “ A Reply to the Calumnies of the E. R. against Orford," in their review of Strabo, the northern critics have here sat in judgment on the reply. The article shews too much temper, otherwise we think they have made out a very fair case. Speaking of the respondent's literary talent, they make it a question "if mere natural dulness, unaided by punch, ever before produced such writing, p. 183. In the article "Rose on the Influence of the Crown," they have recanted the political sentiments of No. XXX. which, with the as sistance of Mr. Hunt's powerful exposure in the Examiner, subjected them to so much ridicule and contempt. They have done this sneakingly, however, still observing the principle on which they so frequently review, that is, adopting as their own all the instruction offered, and then affecting to despise their instructors. Lord Erskine's Speeches are of course reviewed by himself, or his amicus curia. Cambridge. The members' prizes this year. For senior bachelors-Utrum majori prudentiâ, eloquentiâ, fortitudine, patriæque amore, M. T. Cicero, an Comes Clarendiarus, temporibus gravissimis, rempublicam administrârit? For middle bachelors-Utrum in optimâ republicæ formâ intuendâ plus valeat ingenium an experientia ?-than which there never was a thesis or question more absurd and ridiculous. Smedley, one of the masters of Westminster School, has in the preɛs a poem called Erin, which he publishes by subscribers. One of the verses has given much offence to the scholars-it runs thus: 66 full forty years I've taught dull youth." A new edition of Bishop Earle's "Microcosmography; or, a Piece of the World discovered; in Essays and Characters," is in the press. This curious and entertaining volume was originally printed in 1628, and coutains a variety of allusions, illustrative of the manners of our ancestors at that period. To the re-impression about to be published, will be added notes, and an Appendix. Mr. Brewster, already known in the literary world as the author of the "Meditations of a Recluse," has another volume in the press, intitled, "Meditations for the Aged." |