the grace of a dancing-master, of an
actor of plays. His voice and manner helped him more than his
sermons. I went with Jonathan Sewall."--"And you were pleased with
him, Sir?"--"Pleased! I was delighted beyond measure."--We asked,
if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--"Not the
same fury," he said, "not the same wild enthusiasm as before, but
a greater esteem, as he became more known. He did not terrify, but
was admired."

We spent about an hour in his room. He speaks very distinctly for so old a
man, enters bravely into long sentences, which are interrupted by want of
breath, but carries them invariably to a conclusion, without ever
correcting a word.

He spoke of the new novels of Cooper, and "Peep at the Pilgrims," and
"Saratoga," with praise, and named with accuracy the characters in them.
He likes to have a person always reading to him, or company talking in his
room, and is better the next day after having visitors in his chamber from
morning to night.

He received a premature report of his son's election, on Sunday afternoon,
without any excitement, and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it
was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in
his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it
aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their
seats and cheered thrice. The Reverend Mr. Whitney dismissed them
immediately.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well
spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that
belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is
young in fourscore years, and, dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy
subjects the mind purified and wise. I have heard that whoever loves is in
no condition old. I have heard, that, whenever the name of man is spoken,
the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution.
The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other
side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge,
hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the
inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.

_Lectures on the Science of Languages_, delivered at the Royal
Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June,