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London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

LITERATUitE.

Tice ENTAIL;. or, The LAIRDS of GRIPPV.
This is another production of the Author of
" The Annals of the Parish," possessing all the characteristic
excellencies and peculiar ties of-the Balquidder achool. But
the founder of this school has, upon the present occasion, aimed
his flight beyond the simple pathos, and broad or quaint hu-
mour, which distinguished his former narratives. He has chose*
to represent, as the central- figure of his work, a strong-minded '.
though uneducated man, acting from boyhood to old age,
under the enslaving influence of one master-passion, struggluig
with natural feeling, and maintaining a hopeless warfare
with conscience. The mixed chamcter of ClauMt alkinshlw
doubtless affords scope for much powerful writing ; but the vul-
gar ambition of a vulgar mind. is a passion too alien to our
common humanity to possess any enduring command over our
sympathies. The Lain! of Grippy is, therefore, store an ob-
ject of curiosity than of intense interest ; we prize him for the
pains the artist has bestowed upon him, and not for any value
inherent is himself.—Now, we love the single-hearted Micah,
and the long-headed Pawkie, for their own dear sakes. t°
timtely this Grippy is but the patriarch .of a flock of exquisite
originah, who vie with each other in commending themselves ,
to the good liking of every lover of genuine humour, drolierb
and truth of delineation. The story is of the simplest 1
Bible texture. Indeed, if the uninitiated durst venture a
conjecture about the mysteries of authorship, we would. sot
pose that some of the characters had so amplified and eipar4-
ed under the hands of the writer, as to compel him to cuitl
the story of its fair proportions.. The whole affair is the old
story of interest and family pride, setting the heads of' diverf,
of the Lairds of Grippy " a banning," to revive their (mg
ancestral dignity, and love creeping into the . hearts of ths
Juniors, and playing at cross purposes with thiswaisesvortb/
design. We have, accordingly, a variety of original chino"
ters bustling_away in the events of every-day life, each after bit
kind ; and this is all the story. Among the most amusing Ca
effective of those originals areNVatty, the daft Laird, and his hop
den partner ; sundry West Country lairds and teddies, all rilt4r
slenderly appointed as to intellectuals, but well diticrinditatedos
kind and degree of their mental deficiencies; also several Ni.
'liners, writers, and country ladies ; and, above and amigo'
ing. all, the incomparable Gtrzy Hypel, the wife of Claud—sba.
is indeed a gem of the first water. What exquisite deiglt
octante have atibriled to her Biographer, as coyly
degrees her various charms of character unfolded te.o
imagination. We have her in all relations, from a bloonuoi
bride to a reverend grandmother; but " age cannot wither hir.
Our author's fancy seems indeed to have run riot with Oaft,
and byro., .
Hypel, and he has ransacked every element to find souse we ne
and appropriate attribute to adorn this pet heroine,
at last from his hands a perfect counterpart of the Venus L.
Apelles-4 thing compounded of every creature's best.
We have premised that this story will not bear abridgeire::
and therefore merely present our readers with one or two sile
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mens of the work selected at random. The first shall be
purpose of marriage," propounded by Claud, between his lZ
Watty and Miss Betty Bodle, heiress of Kilinarkeckle. -1""
concluding extract is in a different, but notwithstanding, a t.sl:
recteristic style. For we conceive this writer to be quite a:
ginal in painting the scenes chosen on which to exhibit ill
characters, as in delineating the personages who figure oF4'
them.—( Edinburgh courant.) till sbecort:.
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before C. J EMMETT, Esq. Coroner for Stifle'', 3C
the Red Lion in \Valworth-roadr.on the body ,
Lawrence Kirkpatrick. Captain Gawsock, re'
siding in South place) Kennington, deposed tll3l.
the deceased was his groom ; he was very 1111/Cll
addicted to drinking, and his constant inebriA.
tion produced an aberration in his intellects.;
The Jury' after some deliberation, returned
their verdict—" That the deceased shot hinlself,
being at the time in a state of mental derange'
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