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ourselves to a perfect iden-
tity of opinion in every statement made in the
above extract, it must be admitted to evince
general accuracy of judgment, ad
anmid by no means an
illiberal or untrue estimate of Thomson's poetry.
What we look on as the charms of this edition of
the British Poets are general beauty of appearance
correct typography, and a pure text.
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and poetry, and, though last not least, Food prac-
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the other mysteries of what are denominated
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iety
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ogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg.
The December number of this periodical com-
pletes its first volume as a monthly serial. It
continues to maintain a creditable place among the
periodical literature of the day : and unlike several
of the old-established monthlies, which, professing
a politico-literary character, have gradually with-
drawn from political strife, Hogg, affecting a non-
political destiny, is deeply imbued with political
bias, which occasionally manifests itself in a form
considerably more than inferential. With its
politics we entertain no feeling of sympathy; its
literary characteristics we recognise in a friendly,
though not adulatory strain. Its contents are
always varied, and often possessed of deep interest.
The present number will bear a favourable com-
parison with any of its predecessors. It com-
mences with a brief, butinteresting biographical
sketch of " Hugh Miller," editor of the Edinburgh
Witness, and author of several popular, as well as
valuable and original works on Geology. Mr.
Miller is a remarkable and creditable specimen of
a hard-headed, horny-fisted, but warm-hearted
Scotchman ; self-educated, self-reliant, and emi-
nently intellectual : who, through native talent and
indomitable energy, has fought "his way from the
obscure and arduous manual toil incident to labour-
ing in a stone-quarry, to occupy a proud and
widely-recognised position as an intellectual lumi-
nary. Another paper in this number is devoted to
a biographical notice of " William Paterson, founder
of
of the Bank of England, and of the Scottish colony
Darien." Ms memoir, though brief, and, on
the whole, rather meagre, is both interesting and
Po From it we learn that the Bank of
England is not the only institution for which: London is indebted to the sagacity and enterprise
of Paterson. "In his early residence in London,
hhe engaged in an enterprise for supplying its in—
abitants with good water," and was " joint lessee
of t 11( Hampstead works." Though an assiduous,
as well as an intelligent merchant, Paterson was
likewise warmly attached to intellectual and literary
pursuits. He was the associate and fellow-labourer
of Addison, Steele, Budgett, and others, who were,
and still are, considered literary lions of that
period. To a thorough knowledge of commercial
business of every kind, Paterson added to his
literary accomplishments no mean skill as, a prac-
tical agriculturist ; and he is understood: to have
peen the original of Addison's " Sir Andrew Free-
port." Some idea of the quality and extent of
aterson's 'accomplishments may be gathered from
what he narrates in relation to his. own library of
trade. The observations, though plain, are not
unworthy of the pen of a " Merchant Prince" o
those days, and may be perused with advantage, a
well as satisfaction
of the present

the aristocracy of commerce

PATERSON'S

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what is commonly c

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ed of the tracts or treaties re-
I study of a matter so deep and
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whether in the w

navigation, extra,-
all of them. So that
now rising) study of

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is necessary (and it is hoped

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schemes, merel'

there is not only requisite as
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the states, inte
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warned and must
the lovers of light
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in which A.
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radiance.