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Mr Johns of Crediton, author of "Dews of Castalie," reviewed in the Literary Journal some time ago, is about to publish, by subscription, a poem in four cantos, entitled, "The Pyramids." Some minor poems will be added.

The Rev. John Romney is about to publish Memoirs of the Life and Works of his Father, George Romney, the eminent painter. A work, entitled "Robert Emmet, or Ireland in 1803," by the Ba. ron Edward Henry, has been recently published in Paris.

M. Lamartine has announced a new volume of poems, under the title of "Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses.”

The Foreign Review is henceforth to be incorporated with the Foreign Quarterly, which will be printed, we believe, in Edinburgh. The London University Magazine has been given up, and also the daily newspaper, called the Morning Journal.

Theatre.-Some interesting particulars concerning the Metropolitan Theatricals will be found in a previous page.-So little taste for the Drama appears to exist at present in Manchester, that the announce ment of one of the first comic actors of the day-Dowton-in one of his favourite characters, attracted a house containing no more than twenty shillings, which sum the Manager returned, and no performance took place. The French comedians now in London have rccently gained an accession of strength in the person of a clever comic actor called Bernard Lear.-Caradori and Pasta are both engaged at Vienna.-An Italian company are at present performing in Constantinople, and a French one in Smyrna.-We saw a Jersey paper a few days ago, by which it appears that theatricals are thriving in that island. The star at present is a black man, who is styled the African Roscius.-Yates and the Elephant are attracting crowds in Dublin: they are afterwards to visit Glasgow and Edinburgh.-At our Theatre Miss Isabella Paton concludes her week's engagement, and takes her evening, and Wilson re-appeared in that part. Though in very different styles, this drama and “The Youthful Queen" are the two best new pieces which have been brought out this season. The br nefits are now commencing, and for the next fortnight we shall have little else. The Caledonian does not appear to be doing much good, which was naturally to be expected as long as the Theatre Royal continues open. We believe OLD CERBERUS will have something to say concerning theatrical matters next Saturday.

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE NEW EDITION OF THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. We are glad to perceive that the publishers of the new edition of this valuable work are resolved upon making the il-benefit this evening. "Masaniello" was revived on Wednesday lustrations worthy of the literary and scientific contents. We have seen one or two specimens of the new engravings, particularly views of the west fronts of the Cathedrals at York and at Pisa, and can speak of them in the highest terms as beautifully executed specimens

of art.

NEW PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.-We had the pleasure of seeing, a few days ago, a Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, painted by Mr Watson Gordon, and now nearly finished. We consider it the best likeness which has yet been taken of the Author of Waverley. He is represented sitting in the dress he usually wears in the countrya short green coat, and light yellow waistcoat; his hands rest upon his walking stick in an attitude at once easy, natural, and graceful. Mr Gordon has, in this picture, entirely avoided the fault which painters of celebrated persons are too apt to fall into-that of attempting to attach to the countenance some vague, ideal, and indescribable expression of genius, much more calculated ad captandum vulgus, than to satisfy those who look for truth to nature. It is always the exception to find a great man carrying in his features the visible stamp of that greatness. None but the unthinking would ever expect to see the Lady of the Lake, or Guy Mannering, written on Sir Walter Scott's face, any more than they would hope to catch Lalla Rookh peeping from under Mr Moore's eyebrow, or the Pleasures of Hope lurking in some dimple of Mr Campbell's chin. The truth is, there is little that is very peculiar in the predominant expression of Sir Walter Scott's face. His hair is now of a silver grey, he has a narrow but a very lofty forehead, his eye is of a light bluish grey, his nose is a very shapeless and unclassical combination of bone, skin, and muscle, his mouth is large, (as the mouths of most clever people are,) and has a sweet and mild expression; his cheeks and chin are deeply marked with the lines of thought. The mental states most commonly represented by his countenance, are either a complete abstraction from the external world, and consequently an absence of all play of feature, or a pleasant and humorous expression, somewhat sly and arch, or what the Scotch call pawky, betraying itself by the twinkling of the eye, and a certain puckering up of the corners of the mouth. Sir Walter Scott's most intimate friends, who have seen him in the act of composing his most popular works, will allow that they have seldom or never been able to trace upon his countenance the operations of his intellect to any extent beyond what we have now indicated. Mr Watson Gordon, aware of this fact, has contented himself with giving us the man as he is, and the result is a strong, characteristic, and highly pleasing likeness. We are glad to understand that this portrait is to be engraved by Horsburgh for the new edition of the Novels. We may take this opportunity of mentioning, that Mr Gordon has likewise painted lately, an exceedingly striking and able portrait of Alexander Alexander, a man of very remarkable fortunes, whose Memoirs are about to be published by Black wood.

LOTHIAN'S NEW MAP OF EDINBURGH AND ITS ENVIRONS.-We have been favoured with an early copy of this new plan of the city of Edinburgh and map of its environs, contained on one large sheet, calculated either for a roller, boards, or case. From the examination we have given it, we think we may pronounce it the best and com. pletest plan of Edinburgh we have yet seen. It is executed by Mr Claud Shaw, civil engineer and surveyor, and is adapted to illustrate not only the present state and intended improvements of the city, but also the antiquities, traditionary and historical-an interesting and hitherto almost neglected department. For this purpose, a number of printed references are given, which will be found exceedingly useful. The sheet is also embellished with nineteen marginal views in Edinburgh, very beautifully engraved from spirited drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd. Altogether, it is as creditable and at. tractive a production of the kind as could be desired.

Theatrical Gossip.-Lablache, the new singer at the Italian Opera, appears likely to become a great favourite." He has a giant person," says the Spectator," and a giant bass to suit it. His voice is of great depth, but flexible, and managed with accomplished skill. His acting is of the best quality of buffo performance-full of the part, but never running into extravagance." Lalande is not making much progress in public estimation.-The boy Burke (by the by he has been a boy a good while now) is playing with great eclat at the Surrey

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In order to make room for the favours of our advertising friends, we have of late been more than once obliged to encroach upon the space allotted to our literary matter. To atone for this we shall present our readers next Saturday with a double Number, containing an additional half-sheet of letter-press, and enriched with many articles by writers of celebrity, among which will be an interesting paper on the General Assembly.

We also take this opportunity of mentioning that there is now in preparation as a frontispiece to the third volume of the LITERARY JoURNAL, an engraving, from the most striking portrait of the ETTRICK SHEPHERD which has yet been painted, and which is to be executed expressly for this work. We shall state some further parculars concerning it ere long.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

THE account of the rise and progress of the French Institution, as also communications from the Ettrick Shepherd, and others are unavoidably postponed till next Saturday. The name mentioned by "Proteus" is not in our list of subscribers, and we have some doubts whether he gives it seriously or not. However, he will find his volume of poetry marked as he desires at our publishers on Monday. Our sins of omission and commission, to which he alludes, must remain, we suspect, in statu quo. The poetry of " R. S."—" R. L.” and of our Forfar correspondent, shall if possible have a place.—" The Morning Star," by "R. H." of Glasgow, contains some poetical thoughts and diction, but is unequal.-We think it our duty to publish the following lines as probably the worst we have ever received:

ON DEATH.

Oh Death! thou grimmest of the grim,
Thou who dost all subdue;

On whom thou look'st his life's but slim,
All bend the knee to you.

To some thou'rt welcome, -to others not;
To some thou art a load;
By the wicked thou art ne'er forgot,
But long'd for by the sons of God.

The guilty tremble, as well they may,
For see Heaven they'll never;
There is at hand a judgment day,

When they'll sink down, alas! for ever.

The author of this lucubration promises that if it is inserted we shall hear from him again; we willingly, however, release him from this promise.

[No. 80, May 22, 1830.]

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CONTENTS.

1. Naval Tactics Breaking of the Enemy's Line-Sir Howard Douglas and the Quarterly Review.

2. Sir James Turner's Memoirs of his Life and Times-Scottish Covenanters.

3. Public Schools of England-Eton.

4. Transactions of the Astronomical Society of London.

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8. Duty on Coal and the Coal Trade.

9. Mr Robert Montgomery's Poems, and the Modern Practice of Puffing.

10. Finance-The Budget.

11. Delavigne's Marino Faliero, and the Anglo-French Drama. 12 Gleig's Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Munro. Printed for LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, and GREEN, don; and ADAM BLACK, Edinburgh.

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And their various English and Latin Versions, particularly on the
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By ROBERT CHAMBERS,
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Vol. I.

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THE

EDINBURGH LITERARY JOURNAL;

OR,

WEEKLY REGISTER OF CRITICISM AND BELLES LETTRES.

No. 81.

LITERARY CRITICISM.

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1830.

On the Constitution of Church and State, according to the
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till after the publication of his great work on the Logos, and here he abruptly terminates the whole chain of en. quiry.

work, of which he has begun to consider the one in hand only a subordinate part. Thus, he proposed in his "Biographia Literaria" to give the history of his literary life and labours; but coming to speak of his share in the Lyrical Ballads, he enters upon an elucidation of the principles of Wordsworth's poetry; and, apropos of this subject, he conceives the idea of laying down canons for the criticism of poetry in general,—in order to do which systematically, he finds it necessary to set out with an enquiry into the distinction between Fancy and Imagination; by way of preface to this investigation, he enters into a discussion of the first principles of metaphysics, WE doubt whether any man living has exercised so and by the time he has got well through this preliminary pervading an influence on the English literature of his matter, his mind misgives him, he postpones the demonday, as Coleridge. Byron, Wordsworth, and Southey,stration of the difference between Fancy and Imagination Jeffrey, De Quincy, and Hazlitt,-poets, critics, moralists, and politicians,―scarcely one individual can be named, who has not, directly or indirectly, had his views and opinions formed or modified by the precepts and example of Coleridge. Yet, when we come to consult his published works, it is difficult to recognise in them the master mind which thus sways all the rest. We find, it is true, magnificent diction and imagery, comprehensive and profound views of nature,-but no clearness, no completeness. We are dazzled and astounded by his gorgeous and overwhelming thoughts, we are struck by the momentous truths which he is momentarily announcing; but we feel only half instructed. It is like listening to the voice of an oracle, which leaves us in greater doubt and confusion than we were before. We are convinced that something is to be learned of which we had previously no conception; but the mighty truth is only indicated at intervals, like the bold promontories of some mountain range, which start forth, here and there, through the shifting masses of voluminous clouds, glowing with reflected lights of gold and purple.

The key to this enigma is to be sought in the character of Coleridge's mind, the most prominent features of which are capacious intellect, high imaginative power, ambition, and indolence. His understanding seems to pervade all nature, and to take interest in all investigations, from dry enquiries into the affinities of words, numbers, and abstract form, to those more vital questions of metaphysics, ethics, and theosophy, which haunt the mind like a passion. In all this he is aided, to a great extent, by his imagination. It is his imagination which enables him to piece all his fragments of experience into one harmonious whole, and to impart to the language in which he enunciates his thoughts that spirit of poetry which elevates and sustains them. A naturally indolent frame of body, however, confirmed by indulgence, has had its usual effect of relaxing the activity of his mind, and has induced him to rest contented with being a recipient of knowledge, without adding to his acquisitions the art of communicating the fruit of his researches to others. When he does man himself to the task of writing, he lays his foundation on such a gigantic scale, that his perseverance fails long before he can complete his fabric. He generally leaves off in the middle, with a promise to conclude the subject in some yet more extensive and systematic

It is not by what he has done, but by what he has suggested, orally and in books, in prose and in verse, that Coleridge has given direction to the literary energy of the day. Although he has completed nothing, yet every sentence teems with the germs of thought, which have ripened in other minds, though not in his own. It is impossible to read a page in his works, without being set a-thinking; and every now and then we stumble upon some fragment of clear and weighty ratiocination. The work now before us, the perusal of which has set us upon recalling the peculiarities of one to whom we owe so much, is like all its predecessors. It is a bundle of fragments. It is the continuation of an attempt to state a fundamental principle in political science, which the author strove, but in vain, to express clearly, first, in the Morning Post, and afterwards in the Friend. He has succeeded this time in bringing it a little more into tangible form; but he is still any thing rather than clear

The work consists of two parts. The first, which occupies the greater part of the volume, is devoted to the elucidation of a theory of the British constitution in Church and State; the second, which is brief enough, contains an attempt to demonstrate that the late Catholic bill does not infringe upon any fundamental principle of that constitution.

Passing over some preliminary generalities, explanatory of the difference between the words idea and conception, and also of the doctrine of a social contract, Mr Coleridge comes to speak of the English Constitution. "It is," he remarks, "the chief of many blessings derived from the insular character and circumstances of our country, that our social institutions have formed themselves out of our proper needs and interests; that, long and fierce as the birth-struggle and the growing pains have been, the antagonist powers have been of our own system, and have been allowed to work out their final balance with less disturbance from external forces than was possible in the continental states." He also lays down the maxim, that " In order to correct views respecting the Constitution, in the more enlarged sense of the term, viz. the Constitution of the nation, we must, in addition to a grounded knowledge of the state, have a

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