election of "safe" subjects, and ROBERT BLAKE
is surely one of the "safest" that could be chosen. The Nelson of the
Commonwealth, without Nelson's faults and frailties.

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An elegant translation of CHARLES DICKENS'S works, well got up, and well
printed, is being published in Copenhagen. The first part commences with
_David Copperfield_, from the pen of Herr MOLTKE.

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The collected poems of D. M. MOIR, the "Delta" of _Blackwood_, lately
deceased, are announced by the Messrs. Blackwood, with a memoir by THOMAS
AIRD. "Delta" was an amiable and benevolent surgeon, at Musselburgh, a
little fishing village, a few miles east of Edinburgh, and had nothing
about him of the conceit which a little literary fame generally begets in
the member of a trifling provincial circle. Whether his musical and rather
melancholy verses will be long remembered is doubtful; but a tolerably
enduring reputation is probably secured to his _Mansie Wauch_, a genial
portraiture of a Scottish village-original, in its way quite as racy,
though not so caustic, as GALT'S best works in the same line. Mr. Thomas
Aird, his biographer, is the editor of a Dumfries newspaper, and himself a
man of original genius. D. M. Moir, by the way, ought not to be confounded
with his namesake and fellow contributor to _Blackwood_, GEORGE MOIR, the
Edinburgh advocate, a man of much greater accomplishment, the translator
of SCHILLER'S _Wallenstein_, and author of the _Fragments from the History
of John Bull_, a satire on modern reform, in the manner of Dean SWIFT'S
_Tale of a Tub_.

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The Council of King's College, London, have appointed Mr. JAMES STEPHEN,
son of Sergeant Stephen, author of the _Commentaries_, to the
Professorship of English Law and Jurisprudence, vacant by the resignation
of Mr. Bullock.

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At Belfast, the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics has been, by the Lord
Lieutenant, assigned to Dr. JAMES M'COSH, a minister of the Free Church of
Scotland, author of one of the most profound works that have appeared of
late years--_The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral._

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Mr. HAYWARD, the translator of Faust, has written to _The Morning
Chronicle_ to insist on the improbabi