The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-19 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

SCENES OF WAR, by J. MALCOLM.
Enniacacie, 1828. .
Mr. Malcolm is one of the best of our second,
rate class of Poets. He is of the same ranki
point of talent, as Messrs. Pringle, Hot''
Barton, T. N. Carrington, Robert M
gomery, Delta of " Blackwood's Magazine'
and some few others, whose knowledge.:-
the poetic vocabulary is. extensive, well-app'
and deficient only in the freshness of orie.7
genius. We recognise in. Mr. Maleolo
poems, a copiousnes's of tastefully self
imagery, a tender flow of unartificial sentiment,
an easy rapid style of versification, here and there
i.
careless, without nerve; without vigour, 'vridi,Pr.
the " thews and sinews" of thought, but Fife'!"
ing from its evenness, and in some degree fe,
its uniformity. The ‘c Scenes of War" bel9o(
almost exclusively to the descriptive class
poetry. They do not pretend to ambito!,
sketches of the horrors or vicissitudes of
they place nothing before the reader butt
he himself has either known, or can reatlill
imagine, and are so far from being truculent 61
energetic, that they abound in passages of
peaceful and sweetly pastoral character. TO ,
miscellaneous poems are all, more or less, tinge!
with the same pleasing turn of mind ; the major
rity of them, according to the Author's Preface'
have already appeared in different periodici!"
but a few are original.
aril unnng lbw we
het the .t.-lowing a 4 a quiet and favoural+,
cimen of Mr.
,Pringle's manner. It is. ulltair
bitions, and thercfora to our taste:
. 'Ti, eve, lod on the mountain-head
No fare-well ms..any smile is
The woodland-choristers arc gone,
The Lena: 4-i sipgg akryc
of the earth
*weet giTe3 birth;
pastags,r
Of thoughts a pale and pensive
And 7..z.euee that aun them in the rayt
. from departed days;
nd in the mellowed radiance welt*
et-r,td aspect, sadif-ii4 •
O'er which the tints of i!t.t ste-!
The mournful beauty of the dean 7
• And there, while Memory' wander,- o'er
• The regions of a lonely
A moaning of the distant insiu
• le blending with my dreamy dtral•!
•
•In dying sounds of eofteued mne,— •
Vrotn music to itiecho erown,•• •
From iar .2e•ay come back on me
The torrent's mountain-melody ;
And faint and low the mortnora mild
Or streams that warble to die wild. . •
For there, beneath the evening-star,
From home and haunt of mar afar, .
Oft have my wandering footsteps sought
The scenes that wakened ...olemn thought;
Eat ever dearest seemed to me •
Companionship of the lone sea,
Where, o'er the foam around them Hung,
Ti a world's grey fragments-frowning-hung,
,1
Dim-shaeowed in a niisty shroud,
Or honied in the stooping cloud ;
Where Ocean, 'with a quire of waves,
ilia anthem thunder'd the eaves,
And rolled through ',!'.7..it•c_i-es vaulted piles
Like organ's down

GERMAN AND ENGLISH DIALOGIJX, "
J. F. RECIMAM.—This is A useful praet;cal .elernenv.rf
work, nicely xclapted to tl,e necessities of the Citro•,,
dent. It doea its cempiler great crailit, 6•:-• 'IIY
for the alphabetical collection of idiows with sm.— i$
Abounds. •

We are .g 144,1 to perceive by an Afne..
moat i.. 4-or columns pf to-day, Ire
TL,L-Lie is still runnir4 `.? ad
enjoying a el,rulaticu, equal to its lest7ts,, as a cosraP4;
pensive, tasty, and well-seiented drarratie miscellany. 'is
mode of uublie..tiim iu sixpenny parts is a. very
one, as it bring Lip ate -oliecticp within :ca-4h if 41.
moat all classes of -r;,,dera.
Mr. Collins, of Glasgow, has just publidhel
a neat portable cditioio; embellished with a suii,able ca'
graving, of Sir Matlow Hales' Able and well-I=ra! Irak
"On the kucwle4e of Cbrist ertieified.": 1t w:ick
edited by the Revertud David Voting, 'who has nrii-.4-,a.ed
to it an introductory caul. chary...toiled by tingular
ptiety of though:

We lurr!e.bet:i aiiiu,ed anti inf.trUcte4.-.,
with' a little trits4e that bee ;teat appeared, i;a•l'le'd
Soames' History ortlue Reformation ahridged:''"Dh•
self, from a /arger.worlet.,s the sane. suit:(4l-, It 1, ~,m-perate,
perate, dispassionate, and mote than.fotiallyaccurat:: its
statements. At the present er;.Z.a).-Atuch a work waa
aweb
aeeded, and this discriminating abridgment will, sr:. 131-.l*
Got, supply the desideratum.
The gale on the night of the Cth wal.• ccry
severe in the mouth of the Englisli-itad the Irish CLen-
nels, around all the Jou t Leta and western shores of La-
;and, and in the.nerthem parts o the -of BiscaY-
shipping in ail these quarters has su(kred severely. - Marl
damage has also been sustained o)land in all thc souths.-rn
districts of Ireland.— Glusgmy Courier.
On Sunday last tl.O town of Lancaster was
alarmed by the report,7trf a maid-servant in the eraplOY:°,
'
Mr. -Sharp, solicit ,l; having been drow.sed in the Caul;
the preceding Screams were: said to have been heard
froiu din spot wifere sbc, is supposed to have been throo
In the itlerce, hawsver, of all material evidence) Pe
Jufy returned a verdict of—" Found Drowned."

The East India Company's ship Duchess. 1
Ath...7 sailed from Bombay for China the 26th
AUrcrombie .Robinson %las expected to follow on ",1
104 August.

wearing apparel of the greatest man of.
inodern timel—Tvlr. Daniel Lambert,—who died at Starr
ford above 2 years ago, has been recently purchased I.f
Mr. Cofe, the ingenious and spirited proprietor-of Vlore"
hall•garden. at Boston. The clothes are iuteaded,
believe, to decorate a figure Tel:reheating this wounsat
flesh. --Li?' Cjl4 Arercrtry.

DOVER, DEC. 17,—The wind b‘wwit s')
hard to-day that up vessel ventured to leavt the hiufrrr
for the Continent; nod the mail and dispatches were •0
consequence fc.•rveareledin one-ef our great bpatsio CAla,lo
`ender. the cars of the mite. His Majesty's pt.:kit Sol--
mender arrived off in the Itoatir this afternoon, fr°'4
Calais, hut was ohiiged to bear up for Oilais. The ligda,sll
steam-veuel 4rrived la 4 night from Calais, and landed tle,
Marquia and Marchioneus of SaliSeury from WIT! •
,arc;
the preceding evening the French strain packet
Marquis of Lansdowne and finite The Mayor of this tow a
has put out a notice th.“ it was the intention e•-f
and many others of the inhahitants., to close their windri-,
to-morrow, the day of the funeral of the bate Lord Wattle.,
as the last mark of respect that could be shown to_

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memory; mid there is !fate dotibi hut the exatoole win be
general!' followed. - •

• . . A considerable quantity of lybeat bas.arrive
mithin the lost three weeks Spain, and we learn fiell
merchant whe has a, very ‘orrevondetter
'tint country, that a fartlizr
.supp/t from the Mme
.r ter may be fairly reckno,Nl CM. The harvest, It ="•=''''''S
;cert an Abundant one in almost every part of 6:ntills
are! got in in excellent condition. Th..; noti,,,n prie'sei/Y
entertained on, this eubjcot is, that Spain could nos well
soprly more than
,100,090 quarterz of wheat 2o 11. i. 1114"
ket, which is estimatee as tip; surplus produce of We ci;*-
t,.iats adjoining tho uultliern purls; but .ve understai4
that the price of wheat, owing to il.. ahunda,t luarvei4

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so low in various parts of the tatelior that,a e3;n—
vevance to the coast, thlrgir thr.t oLly
backss Of mules, :au be scromplishe.ou terms t1;z:. ;11
yield a fair profit co it' export:llo,m to ,E.neatte. Lr
price of wheat in Old ald Op^r. ,O° -De
quartei, and theretnre, allow;ag demblei:s c•-at for
transportation to this coast, and freight, it will be aroplY
covered by the price wheat now bears in England. About
a fortnight ago there were above 20 Spanish vessels in the
river at the sense time, all laden principally with !hest--
There have been caisiderable remittances of gold to SpalO
lately, as a set-off agoost these importations of corn.