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, others, the Westminster and the Edinburgh
Reviews, and the New Monthly Magazine, while edited
by Campbell. The genius and capabilities of Grattan ap-
pear to have been thoroughly appreciated by one of a
kindred mind. Washington Irving saw that his friend
possessed great descriptive powers—a quick instinct, that
enabled him to understand all the mysteries of human
idle dreams, emotions_

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0 visionary maid

and a lively and life-like ability in portraying
them; added to these a great mastery of language ever
ready to be the vehicle of his versatile mind in every
phase, whether of pathos, or humour, or sentimentality,
or moralising. By Irving's advice, Grattan reduced to
order the memoranda of some of his touring, and sub-
mitted the manuscript to a London publisher. But the
London publisher did not appreciate what was offered to
him, and three others of his brethren were not a whit

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more sagacious. 'Tis a trite story in literature, and we
could illustrate it by many an instance in our own day,
where the rejected essay of the obscure author became the
first step of the ladder upon which he has climbed to
1 eminence. But Grattan thought not of this. When four
-blishers I,^' A

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.iad pronounced his condemnation, he flung
the manuscript aside as worthless, and turned again to
his previous avocations. An accident, however, again
brought it to light; and a literary friend was so convinced
of its merit, that he introduced the author to Mr. Whit-
taker, the eminent publisher, who undertook to bring out
the book ; and, in due time, the first series of " Highways
and By-ways," dedicated to Washington Irving, issued
from the press. The success of these delightful tales was
great and rapid. They were thoroughly suited to the
public taste, and to the time at which they appeared.
The "Sketch-book" of Irving had shown with what effect
the incidents of travel could be invested with all the
/charms of romance, and all the graces of sentiment.
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-MRS. JA

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

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ietical TVO7

With Life, &e. By

Rev.GeorgeGiffillan. Edinbu.
The very handsome vohimp

11.: James Nichol

[eh the aix

suoscrition series to
which we have already directed favo purable atten-
tion. The high poetic enthusiasm of the editor,
combined with +l-- nhpan Thrs.4- • .

mean to institute no comparison between the two writers ;
but assuredly Grattan may say of Irving, as did Ulysses
of Ajax—" Non superatus ab ilk" There is a wonderful
charm in these volumes. which tAlrpq cm-4;v. +h.

le very

series is furnished to the public, must ensui,
a wide popularity. As a favourable specimen of
Mr. Gilfillan's critical acumen, we quote his

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tion, the intellect, the feelings—one scarce knows how,
or stops to analyse ; lively, graphic, and wonderfully true
to nature, they are to us realities, while we are engaged
with them—the highest merit of all artistic works. We
may say of the pictures of Grattan what a painter once
said to v. d a f-

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his genius. H
great than a
" Castle of Ind
about his nom,

us, as we praises. ,oreign landscape _, est ne
pas un tableau, c'est la nature." Grattan's name was
now up. He had no need to court publishers. Several
came forward with offers for similar tales ; and the result

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and in the flAr',

;cape view than in the
v. He was better at

forefathers,„ the details being intermixed with
sundry allusions to more recent exentl3, mud -the
contrast which they present to,by-gene dtkrs. 'rho
book is„ well got up, cud; embellishia with
I well-executed engravings.

severs

carts belonging to those' gentlemen came for the iron,
and it was discovered that it had just been removed
by some one. On imiquiry, it turned out that a
lad, named John Toole, a carter,. had been employed by
The prisoner and another man to take theirov away, which
he did, delivering it, as desi•ed; at the premises of a ma-
rine store-dealer, named lllTOrmick: IVronneypenny, the
detective officer, traced out about three. tons of the metal,
and was successful in apprehendibg the. priSoner, but as
yet had not been able to find his' accomplice; The case
was remanded.

was, that two more series were quickly produced_
' C' est le premier pas qui coute is an aphorism
the truth of which was experienced and illustrated
in Grattau's case, as it has been in that of many
another son of the Muses. Success, indeed, fol- I
lowed,—but it is difficult to enchain Fortune to
the chariot-wheels of even the most dashing genius ;
and Grattan, eager in the journey towards affluence, !
embarked all he had or could command in some
favourite speculation, which, like those of many a'
less imaginative adventurer, resembling Jona's
gourd in the rapidity and magnitude of its growth, ...-
resembled it also in the suddenness with which it Mn. DiSTVLBLI, M.P., is on a visitrat:Knowsley:
was shrivelled, and the bitter disappointment it ; Tug Qirkazr has knighted Lieut.-COlonel. Archibald
entailed. In short, he was rained. Varied sue- I Bogle, of the-E. I. C.'s Bengal Establigulient, Civil.
missoner inthe Tenasserim
Cam-
cesses and reverses continued to pursue his literary and Matab!m.provinees.
Mu QrrEvhas appointed Captain Sir charles Hothart,
career, till at last he was enabled to take shelter 1
! RS., K.C.11,-to=be Lieut.-Governor of 'the of Vii!, in the haven, at least of literary taste, as British , teria.
Consul to the State of Massachusets, which appoint- ! Tun Dr
7C RVBRABANT and his aagust'consort were to
ment he received in 1839. The second flight of take leave of her Majesty and Prinee•Albert yesterdayv
" A Visit to Happy-Land" will be found pervaded morning, and travel, via' Dover and Ostend; without any'
by a fine flow of genial humour ; while other tales i evstoepnrig bucirEmo ORLEANS.—The annoßneement int
e, soas., if possible, to reach Beiginin the same.
and sketches contribute their respective degrees ofi TITEg
excellence to support the reputation of this, standard v -
the highest circles-of Paris of the marriage efthe Duchess'
periodical. ' of Orleans has- given another diversion to the emotions of
The Commerce of Liverpool. Liverpool : Haines.
the week. The certainty of the event iwestabliShed in the}
A valuable compilation by Mr. Braithwaite ,e
minds of Patisi.insi heyoncdticdlourt„, tth
suoiutit the 0
that ihe Poole, containing many interesting particulars of I mcuarritage,
asityoeuvarr: described.
1 gYsuspected, had hitherto remainett
the several trades carried on in the port of Liver- unrevealed, until the 'idea of the fusiovvras 'accepted by
pool. It will, no doubt, prove very useful ta the the-Din de Nemenrs;• when, upon being: called lupon for'
local authorities, as forming a guide by which to the. reasons of her-refusal to adhere to the" terms proposed
judge of the extent of business in, the several, on behalf of the C,Cil' Tnt de Paris, the duchess had at once-
articles of commerce, and the mode in which it is declared herself incompetent any longerto.aet without the
conducted ; but the statistics as to totals can only concurrence of her-husband ! The attachment which has -
led, to.the union is said to date from the early widowhood
be received as presenting an approximation to the of the duchess, when-the delicate sympathy and unceasing
truth, inasmuch as they are compiled chiek from: devotion of the late dike's aid-de-camp gradnally won their
brokers' circulars and customs' entries, neither of wayinto the heart of the young widow. The marriage; it
revolution seems,
aid-de-camp,' following '"the
filtemrar, -
fortunes of his august mistress and her ohirdren,,left'all
do watch over her interests ,and biers-arepirk G.4rmany.—
Alias.

COURT AND .F.;11SITIOIT.

A Descriptive Account of Liverpool, as, it" was
during the Last Qucvrter of the _Eighteenth, -----
Century-1775 to 1800. Liverpool :: tf..llfawds-
ley and Son. I)SpAan.rnE OF TUE A:REEICA.—On Saturday after-
Liverpool is not more a marvel for theiMmense noon the British and North American iroyaf Mail Steam-
ertent of its commerce than for the great rapiditY
ship America, Captain -W. J. C. Lan, sailed from the
with which it has risen from a smolt place, of Mersey for Boston and -Halifai, with the maw/ mails, 60
passengers, and a Liege cartro.
little or no importance, within living- memory,. THE LATE FATAIBLACCIDENT.—At St _.Tohnrs DiStrict
into being the great emporium and mart of all. Church, Birkenheath'on Sunday, the Rewle: J. Hamilton,
nations which we now- see it. This extraordinary the incumbent, in Ile course -of his sermon;. made an do-
rise has been chronicled in the work before us by: aetttael.rtoyfihign
,1,.,,-w•aihiswriioasn
itsll2ebymefau tku felo.todtalhw of
Richard Brooke, P.W.A., with whom it. has been-, iiriSouth John-street Kist
week. He saidtthat one of the
all
evidently a labour of lever He has not attempted, respected members of the congregation,. who on the previ-
a history of Liverpool,—a task which,: has been ons Sunday had twieeattended Divine Service there,.. was
very ably performed! by Mr. Thomas Baines,_ who; on the morrow sucidenlY- called to surren4l-ohistostipt to
began at the beginning,. and continued: the narra4.- the God wliatzvg:sToi,f,'-hat was a
beli it
that his souls hart cringed Wingiesdsnii;,.; tive down to the time- of .publication—but he- fur*
confined his attention- to the period.mentionedin:
nig-1"-r7lot to a brightersand a happier worlit..
SALUBRITY OF'HALSALL, NEAR Onnsxxxx:—ln tlia!
the title, and given copious details of- the•severa year 1800 there were- ten persons interred in the church,.
events which have now become matters-of histo7.. yard ofd this pariah: .chttrfeh,o:vvshose
eazts,i.hinia the order
polrdaceerbce!
To every inhabitant of Liverpool there is- numb, tehe'n aTrturrey,l277i,a'amllay (th
14th) :7-7,4,, 84,:37,-70, 84i;
which will prove both curious and interesting,. -;0,
72, 62, 80, 90:,_ The above year mustlamt been a fatal
while the general reader may derive infOrma- one to old personet;
tion and entertainment from the. numerous•parti, THE CuoLEna.4.—At the meeting ot the :Health Conn-
culars which Mr. Brooke has thuspreservedlroms mittee, on Thursday, it was reportet that, although the
wa
oblivion. The period'. referred- to- s onerof rapid Workhouse Hospital Eras empty, there-had lia4, been
increase a trade, as shown by the returns- of deaths from Cholera in the lower parts of the eighteenstown, ail
the sufferers being- inhabitants. We learn, also, that
shipping, the number of' vessels,.. British, arta there were two... fatal - cases on Soudan one being :blue
foreign, entered inwards and cleared: outwards Rogers, aged 60.,„ living at 26, Newsham-street; and:the
having been 2,111 in 1775,, and 071 in; 1801.. other, Ann Rawin, aged 16, lodging in No. 7
.Cctirtt
It appears that in July, 1785,. the-first mail-coach Hodson-street„ in, thletscMi3efionererali
;91Novnoarstledifttra. o.
of
was established between! LiVerpool:and.: London, theTs bein(g)wdlis*populated by the worst part of our7Diish
and then it required four days.to,,receiVe.a,reply- to
a. letter through the post-offite,, although, the population.
. C- ••
journey was performed, in, thirty hours, from the
Golden Lion, Dale-street, Some interesting par-
ticulars are given of the Unanimous Society.,
whioh was established, in 1754,_ and, comprised
most of the leading men- of liiverpool: ofthat day,
one of them being- the father of* the Ten.. Arch-
deacon Brooks. It is a book which. will afford
much gratification to the many who, take interest
in Liverpo4fi• and particularly to, those. who, are
curious as to_the manners and. customs: (1 their

WHEN YCi ENDEAVOUR, to make others laughl.take
care that it ie,..tritA you, not at you.
A SECT caned the Monnonites or Harmless Chaistinns
in Ohio, Imre recently divided on the question of morality
of wearing.4auttons on their- coats instead of hooks and
eyes. Theuttonites wore 'auger tails to their coats, and
split the tans with greater freedom than the adherents to
hooks ana'eyes.—Toronto Otobe,

THE EiGLISHMAN'S. CAM/LE.—“ The Englishmen's
House (says the Proverb) ie hia C•axstle ;" and so, it is, but
then it it, a castle which is, sub, to many attacks (such
as the House Tax, Poor Tax,. &e., &c.) and which requires
for its defence no end of,shot. The expenses.of its sup-
port are fearful—so musics°, that frequently. is_the castle
swallowed up in its keep.—ch.
TIM DOKE'S FIRST. V,icToitY.—Perhaps.it may inte-
rest the future author •of the Life of the :[flake of Wel-
lington to be informeillof' his first victory. It was not in.
India, as commonly supposed, but on Dc, nybrook-road,.
near Dublin, that his,first laurels were wore,, This appears,.
from the Freemares,J:ournal, Sept. 18, 1789, where we,
loarn that, in coLsequence of a wager between him and[
Mr. Whaley, of 16Q guineas, the Hon. krthur Wellesley.,
walked.from thesfive.mite stone on Detuybrook-road, to.
the corner of the circular road in Leeson-street, in fifty-.
five minutes, and!that a number of gentlemen rode with,
the walker, whose horses he kept in a tolerably smart trot.
When it is recollected that those were Irish miles; even.
deducting thedistance from Leeson-street to the. Castle,
where the original measurements were made, this. walk
must be computed at nearly six English miles. OMiCROX.
—Notes. and: Queries.
A WerED, oR Cot:rem/To IN Cnuncn,—We. copy the
following from an autobiography which. Hugh Millar is
now publishing in the Witner4.l :--" A simple, incident
which occurred during my first morning attendance at
Dr. I.rerie's chapel strongly impressed me with a sense of
his, sagacity. There was a gueat deal of coughing in the
place, the efft.cts of a recent change, f weather, and the
doctor,. whose voice was not a• strong one, and who seemed
somewhat annoyed by the ruthless interruptions, stopping
suddenly short in the middle of his argument, made a
dead pause. When people are taken, greatly by surprise
they cease to cough—a circumstance on which he had
evidently calculated. Every eye was now turned towards
him, and for a full minutes° dead was the silence that one
might have heard a. pin drop. 4 I see, my friends,' said
the doctor, resuming his speech, with a suppressed smile,
' I see you can be. all quiet enough when I am quiet.
There was not a little genuine strategy in the rebuke,;
and, as cough lies a good deal more under the influence. of
the will than most coughers suppose, such was its effect,
that during the rest of the day there was not a tithe of
the previous coughing."
THE FATOV-RITE DISHES Or AIITHOItB.—Dr., Rondelet,
an ancient writer on fishes, was so fond of figs, that he
died of a surfeit occasioned by eating them to: excess. In
a letter to a friend, Dr. Parr confesses his love of "hot
boiled lobsters, with a profusion of shrimp sauce." Pope,
who was an epicure, would lie in bed for days at Lord
Bolingbroke's, unless he was told that there were stewed
lampreys for dinner, when he arose instantly and came
down to table. A gentleman treated Dr. Johnson to new
honey and clouted cream, of which he ate so largely, that
his entertainer became alarmed. All his lifetime Dr.
Johnson had a voracious attachment for a leg of mutton.
" At my aunt Ford's," says he, " I ate so much of a boiled
leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother,

who was affected by little things, told me seriously that
it would hardly ever be forgotten." Dryden, writing in
1699 to a lady, declining her invitation to a handsome
supper, says :—" If beggars might be choosers, a chine of
honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the
marrow puddings, for I like them better plain, having a
very vulgar stomach." Baron Maseres, who lived to the
age of ninety, used to go home one day in every week
without any dinner, eating only a round of dry toast at
tea, Aristotle, like a true poet, seems to have literally
feasted on fancy. Few could live more frugally ; in one
of his poems, he says of himself, "that he was a fit per-
son to have lived in the world when acorns were the food
of men."—S'alads for the Solitary.