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beauties of nature, and at the same time deeply
affected by the touching traces of a certain
process of change which has marred the face of
his native country within his own recollection.
Would to Heaven we had an Iain Lom to pour
forth on this process the ridicule and execration
of satiric song! Maclachlan’s neighbour, the
Rev. Dr. John MacLeod, is also known as the
author of very popular songs. Of him it is
sufficient to say generally that he has inherited
the talent and the genius of his family, and that
the developement of his intellectual capacities
has kept more than equal pace with that of his
physical capabilities. There are not a few, such
as the Rev. D. MacRae, Ness, Lewis, and Mr.
Stewart, the Nether Lochaber of the Inverness
Courier, who have written one or two pieces of
the highest order, which not unfrequently wander
nameless and claimless on the lips of thousands.
Of this description are some in Mr. MacPhbr-
SOn’s recent collection, “An Duanairein this
gathering, however, are many of very little
poetical merit; but our thanks are due to Mr.
MacPherson for collecting so many interesting
fugitive pieces, and for the pains he has taken
to write the Gaelic in accordance with the rules
of Grammar. Of another recent collection, that
of Mr. Menzies’s, printed by Blackie, Glasgow,
I have simply to say that it is execrable; a dis-