m common sense; but really, with the daily
experience of Scotchmen and Irishmen before us, we must say the most
wonderful part of the anecdote is, that it should have been recorded.
Theophrastus came from Lesbos--if we remember rightly--and his
pronunciation, therefore, naturally preserved some of the Lesbian
flavor, as Carlyle's does that of Annandale. Would any critic compliment
the cockney on delicacy of ear because it detects the accent of Carlyle,
or Sheridan Knowles, to be other than its own true London accent? Yet,
this is precisely what critics do with respect to the Athenians."

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MILTON, BURKE, MAZZINI, and DANIEL WEBSTER, present the most
extraordinary examples of the harmonious and effective combination of
political and literary genius, that have appeared in modern times. There
have been and there are now many politicians who are eminent as authors:
but these are preeminently great in both statesmanship and letters.
Mazzini is now the chief apostle of republicanism in Europe, as Milton
was in the time of the Protector. He devises and executes the schemes
which promise advances of liberty and happiness, and he is equal to the
defence with the pen of every thing he essays in affairs. "Young Italy,"
since it was put down by French bayonets, has had as little quarter from
parasite writers as from patristic governors; but Mazzini has come to
her defence with as vigorous a pen as that with which Milton vindicated
the people of England against the hireling Salmasius, under similar
circumstances. In another part of this number of the _International_, we
have copied from the London _Examiner_ a reviewal of Mazzini's work on
the Italian revolution. We should be glad to see it criticised by Mr.
Walsh also, or by Professor Bowen, in his _North American Review_.

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Since SIR FRANCIS HEAD went home from Canada, and finished the last
edition of his "Bubbles" and "Travels," and the funny anathema of poor
Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, in the _Times_, he has been very quiet,
except now and then, when he has given an explosive and amusing paper in
the _Quarterly_. But now he has published a new book, on "The
Defenceless State of Great Britain," in which, the _Examiner_ says "he
has made up for lost time." Says the critic, "It is calculated to rouse
all the old women in the country. Such a fee-fa-fum of a book we never
read. The Duke's letter to Si