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beams during night on the hills of Scotland. Though the versification is often correct and harmonious, yet that roughness of numbers attributed to it by the author of the Dedication, must be admitted. In many respects, the rhythm of the verse is similar to that of Blair's Grave. The pause of the measure is not skilfully varied; the march of the verse is heavy and monotonous, and clogged with spondees, particularly in the close. The poem, however, merits the praise of "close wrought sense;" and, as was said of the poetry of Cleveland, instead of leaf gold, it exhibits massy wedges. The local allusions in Albania seem to have been chiefly derived from Martin's Descriptions of St. Kilda and the Western Isles of Scotland, and some other topographical works which were published about the commencement of last century. Some of the superstitions, however, to which he alludes, it is difficult to trace to any of these authors, and they seem to have been peculiar to the east coast of Scotland. To these remarks on Albania it may not be improper to subjoin the poem addressed by Aaron Hill to the original editor. That ingenious author, while he pronounces the numbers of the poem bold, and the ideas strong, censures the patriotism which it breathes, as too confined and partial. The genius of Hill was of no common stamp: his powers were seldom concentrated, but they were seldom unequal to the object to which he directed his attention. His versification is often harsh and careless; but his style is vigorous, and his phraseology original.