Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-07-29

have, too, our histories: and we can say Of thcm
what cannot be said with truth OF those OF inc
writer's country that our histories are not two
thirds fabulous. We have works in every de-
part,nent of literature; and as for sermons, we
thought Ito 20 no further that every reader OF mo-
dern publications must be aware OF the deserved
renutation of CHASING, not at home only, but
abroad, as an eloquent Divine and accomplished
Essayst There is one man. it seems, who Is
thus ignorant, and he is the writer Uf review
bearing the imprint of the Metropolis of Great Br-
tan, whose periodicals might be expected, we
should think. to be characterized by some portion
at least of intelligence, ifnot OF candor. Nat lnt
Number of the XXth volume of Professor
Sillman's valuable Journal of Science and Arts
has reached US. After such disinterested efforts
! for the advancement of Science. and the repua.
ton of the country, we are much gTathed t" lind
/ this work bearing the aspect of being established
on firm and lasting basis. Among the papers
of strictly scient ilic character embraced in the
number before US, is large portion that take
more popular range, and will be read with salts
faction by every we'll informed and Intelligent Ia
dividual. We may enumerate as such the art-
cIes on Tides in the American Lakes; Notices OF
the Island Of Hawaii (Owyhee) and its Volca-
noes; Adu! teration of Bread; Steam, Steam En-
eines, and Steam.b boats; Storms and Meteorolo-
gy, &C. &c.
Professor W1ison-1his gentleman appears
TO be the generally acknowledged Editor OF the
Blackwoad's Magazine, in which he writes un-
der the assumed title of Christopher North. He
vas born in Palsy, North Britain in the month
of May, 1879, and is consequently AZ years of
aye az the present time. He inherited consid-
cradle sum from his father but soon lost it all in
mercantile speculation. young he ran a.
away from his home and served at as ship
bov; and he subsequently had serious intentions
of penetrating to ritDbucto, but was prevailed
upon by his friends TO give up so wild project
At Oxford he was owned as an excellent Greek
scholar and powerful pusilist, He was once
bathing with party of associates in the river.
when they we're attacked with stones BY some of
the country people; Wilson incontinently jump
ed on shore and pursued the assaants, in puris
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ware, on observing some ladies and gentlemen at
a distance, OF the extent to which his enthusiasm
had carried him. He was quito unfortunate
in one of his exploits; having privately Ieaped
over a canal of considerable width, he engaged
perform the same feat in public; but owing prob
ably to the gaze Of an immense multitude, he
failed, and alishted, not on the further b nix.
but in the middle Of its sluggish waters. Anoth-
err anecdote related of him is that of his having
''thrashed" an English Lord, who had insulted
his wife and some ladies, while drinking tea at
an inn near the Lakes.
On the death of DR.. Thomas Brown, the sac
cessor of DugaI Stewart in the University of Ed
| inburg, John Wilson became the candidate to fill
the vacant office. Hr election was violently
opposed, but he finally succeeded in obtaining the
chair; and TIE manner in which he fills it fully
justIfes the partiaity of his friends. HIS bear
ing towards his pupils is most engaging; his lee
lures always talanted and splendid and not unIre-
quently adorned bv bursts of the most impassion-
ed eloquence. Wilson's principal prose works
are: Lights and Shadows Of Scottish Life. y
"Trias Of Margaret Lindsay" "rhe Forres.
tiers, &C." The titles of his chief poems are
City Of the Plague" "The Isle of Palms"
and . An Evening in Furness Abbey" But it is
in his Magazine that Wilson feels and evinces
TIE 'uiI IOTCe duu COmpTeneDSNeneSS OF MS getii-
us. tits there that he throws off all restraint,
and gives free scope to his discursve pen.
Harvard College The prizes for the Bow
dom dissertations. have been awarded as follows:
prize of fifty dollars to Thomas Hopkinson, of
New Sharon, Me. of the class OF $780, A first
prize of 40 dollars to Geo. C. Combs, of New
Bedford, Senior, for a dissertation upon the
question sis there any connexion between the
shape and size Of the brain and the qualities of
the mind; or in other words, Is there any truth
in the system of CranioIogy promulgated by Gall
and Spurzheima" A second prize of so dol
lars, to John H. Morrison, Peterboro' n. II. Sc
nlor, upon the question, "Are there any fea-
lures in modern civilization, which are like to
preserve the countries, enlightened by it, from
sinking into that barbarism, which was the ulii.
mate fate of the refined nations of antiquity?"-
The prizes for the Junior class will be annonnc-
ed after mencement.-Bosfon Courier.