The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

(Front the Literary Gazette.)

Not one of the authors of our day has approached
Hugh Miller as a master of English composition, for
the equal of which we must go back to the times of
Addison, Hume, and Goldsmith. Other living writers
have now a wider celebrity, but they owe it much to the
peculiarity of their style or the popularity of their topics.
Slr. Miller has taken subjects of science, too often ren-
dered dry and repulsive, and has thrown over them an
air of attractive romance. His writings on literature,
history, and politics are known to comparatively few,
from having appeared in the columns of a local news-
paper. A judicious selection from his miscellaneous ar-
ticles in the Witness would widely extend his fame, and
secure for him a place in classic English literature as
high as he held during his life as a periodical writer and
as a scientific geologist. The personal appearance of
Mr. Miller, or "Old Red," as he was familiarly named
by his scientific friends, will cot be forgotten by any who
have seen him. A head of great massiveness, magnified
by an abundant profusion of nub-Celtic hair, was set on
a body of muscular compactness, but which in later
years felt the undermining influence of a life of unusual
physical and mental toil. Generally wrapped in a bulky
plaid, and with a garb ready for any work, he bad the
appearance of a shepherd from the Ross-shire hills rather
than an author and a man of science. In conversation
or in lecturing the man of original genius and cultivated
mind at once shone out, and his abundant information
and philosophical acuteness were only less remarkable
than his amiable disposition, his generous spirit, and his
consistent, humble piety. Literature. and science have
lost in him one of their brightest ornaments, and Scot-
land one of its greatest men.

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