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London, England, 1827-03-01 00:00:00

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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. •
It is surprising with what admirable tact this Magazine
falls in with the ruling prejudices of the day. A few years
since, the prevailing taste was all foriljgh t, humorous, sad
fanciful miscellanies in periodicals—now It =0 much in
favour of the useful and didactic, discarding the ornamental
almost in toto. Christopher North has accordingly, despite
the pi ejudices of age, given up his own favourite literary pre-
p oss essi on s, and after glittering for nearly ten years as a first-
rate star in the galaxy of humour; has now taken it into his
bead to turn political economist and vent his spleen on Mac-
culloch. The article "On the Cora Laws" in the present
number of his Magazine, though written like most other
papers in Blackwood, with spirit, and a certain, showy as-
sumption of information, is tinged with bigotry and party
spirit. It takes the ultra side of the question; protests sgainst
any alteration in the existing laws regarclinggrain,and pee
considerably out of its way to attack Macculloch. In fact,
it is not so much a dissertation on the Corn Laws, as a
satire on Maculloch ; not a diatribe against a system—but
against an individual, and so far is objectionable. " The
Subaltern in America" is a vivid and interesting detail :
I full of pleasant, small, and familiar realities; with ,a graphic
power of description far superior to what is usually to be
met with in a Magazine. There is great force of expression
in the following glowing little bit of description:,' "Some
were lying at full length upon the grads, buk ug in the
beams of a sultry sun, and apparently made loriipyisttohr Very
feeling of the green sod under them." Thl3 passage it
I should be observed, alludes to some soldiers who have for
the first time stepped ashore after a tedious cons :cement
of • some months $n ship-bmitv.„cfaude woad. late
hinted just such an expression in an evening landscape,
had he taken to paint this incident. As another proof of
our subaltern's warmth of colouring, we extract the follow-
ing night-sketch.
The sun had hardly set, when every leaf of our tree became
alive with insects, which sent forth a ceaseless chattering, not per-
haps loud enough to break the repose of a sound sleeper but saf-
ficiently audible to drive sleep from the eyes of persons totally
un-
accustomed to it, and neither infirm nor weary. It was, hcrwerer,
upon the whole, an extremely pleasant sound ; and it MA not the
only sound which gave us pleasure. Stores continued to be co,
vied from the ships to the shore long after nightfall, and the ctif
of the seamen on the decks, the splash of oars in the water, and
the heavy noise of casks and carriages, as they were rolled into
the bivouac, all had an effect in keeping alive the excitement,
which men ever experience on first taking the field, afters long
interval of quiet. Then there was the hum of conversation from
the bivouac itself; a song, or part of a song, heard frost time to
time.;' and, as these died away, the murmur of the river, rolling
its large and sluggish body of water towards the sea, and breaking
as well upon its own banks as upon the bows of the ships, now
at anchor in its tide. Each and all of these made a music .to the
ear, which the ear could not refuse to take in ; whilst, for the
sense of sight, the fire-flies furnished ample occupation, as in
nu-
merous clusters they pitched upon the boughs overhead, and shed
a soft light through the foliage, such as legends tell once illumi'
nated the hall of Oberon, or Titania's bower. To bs grave and
serious, these sights and sounds, some of them perfectly novel, and
all so different from those to which we had of late been accustomed,
long hindered us from making so much as an effort to close our
eyes. But the enthusiasm even of soldiers will not resist the en-
croachments of drowsiness for ever. The sounds of human labour
and human voices gradually died away—those produced by in-
sects and the stream became confused and blended together—the
splendour of the fire-fly became more and more indistinct, and was
at last seen no more. Above all, our grog was 'drunk out, and
our cigars expended ; so, laying ourselves at length upon the
grass, we were soon fast asleep.
" The Death-scene by Delta," is pretty, interesting, and
all that, with a broken heart, somewhere about the twenty-
fourth line, kept in pathetic countenance by a sunset, with
a parcel of bilious-looking clouds about it : but the poem
is really pretty, and deserves any thing but ridicule.
" Selwyn in search of a Daughter," is descriptive and di-
versified, but possesses nothing about it this month equal
to the Sail along the Lake of Geneva, in the
last. The article entitled " Civilization of 'Africa,
Sierra Leone" is replete throughout with sound sense and
spirited observation, and prover the comparative worth-
lessness of one of the most popular of our African colo-
nies. It should be read with attention by all classes.—
The " Noctes" are this month heavy, and what is worse,
sentimental ; the eternal James Hogg may be a very
amusing eternity in Edinburgh, but he is a great bora in
this part of the world. Really Mr. Blackwood should
look to subjects of more general entertainment than the
buck-teeth of an Ettrick Shepherd. But verbtiet sap.

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