Stray leaves from the portfolios of Alisander the seer, Andrew Whaup, and Humphrey Henkeckle

THE AUTHOR’S LIFE.
XI.
continues to fillj with credit to himself and advantage to
his employers.
In the course of the year 1836, some of Rodger’s friends
and admirers, rightly judging that a substantial indication
of friendship and admiration made during a man s life, is a
much better mode of testifying respect than by raising a
monument after his death, resolved to commence a sub¬
scription to present him with some token of their esteem
for him as a poet, and as a man. So vigorously was the
matter gone about, and so generally was the feeling of the
originators of the proposal responded to by all wha were
applied to, that in a very short time they had the means of
showing, that at least for once the proverb was reversed
which says, that a “ prophet hath no honour in his own
country.” ....
On the 6th of June, Mr Rodger was invited to dinner in
the Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, where upwards of two hundred
gentlemen, of all shades of politics, creeds, and professions,
gave him a spontaneous and most hearty welcome. Mr
James Scott, Editor of the Greenock Advertiser news¬
paper, was in the chair, Mr James M‘Nab, now of the
Constitutional, and Mr Peter Donaldson, acting as crou¬
piers. in the course of the evening, the Chairman presented
the Poet, in name of the subscribers, with a massive
silver snuff-box, suitably inscribed; and containing, instead
of
“ Turner’s snuff, sae sharp and snell,”
eighty-five sovereigns.
It may be proper to state, that the present is the third
volume of Mr Rodger’s productions which has-been given to
the world. In 1827, at the solicitation of his friends, he
prepared for the press his principal poem, “ Peter
Cornclips,” which, with a number of his songs and other
pieces, was published by Messrs David Allan and Co.,
booksellers, then at the head of the Saltmarket. Much
as this volume added to his fame, it unfortunately