nce the wife of Sir
Allen,--as we learn from her daughter's delightful memoir,--was a warm
adherent to their cause. The incidental benefits which Strachey
anticipates for the natives by their intercourse with civilized and
Christian people were strongly dwelt on by the exiles at Amsterdam; and
the very motto on the title-page of the work before us--"This shall be
written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created
shall praise the Lord"--was so often used by them, that in the record of
their settlement at Plymouth it might almost have been taken for _their_
motto. If such were the case, if the book before us gave, indeed, the
impulse to that devoted band of settlers, how mighty was its
influence:--for seldom have greater destinies been enshrined in a frail
bark than those that freighted the May-flower!--Mr. Major merits much
commendation for his careful editorship and his illustrative notes: nor
should the excellent etchings by his lady be overlooked, inasmuch as they
give additional interest to a very interesting volume.

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[From the Times.]

THE GREAT LORD MANSFIELD.

Lord Campbell has learned to take a broad and manly view of the
Profession which his own erudition adorns. In his temporary retirement he
paid homage to literature; and literature, as is her wont, rewards her
worshiper by extending his vision and emancipating his mind. A more
intimate acquaintance with the transactions and passions of the past, a
disinterested and unbiased survey of the lives and triumphs of his
illustrious predecessors, has prepared our present Chief Justice for his
eminence by teaching him, above all things, that judicial fame does not
arise from a dull though perfect knowledge of the technicalities of law,
and that there is all the difference in the world between a splendid
ambition and the groveling prosecution of an ignoble trade.

It is certainly not extraordinary that the life of the great Earl of
Mansfield has been contemplated by his biographer until a sense of
humility has been engendered, and eloquent admiration for transcendent
intelligence evoked. From among a host this luminary stands forth.
Faultless he was not, as we shall presently see; but his failings,
whatever they may have been, in no way obscured the luster of a genius
that gave sublimity to the most prosaic of pursuits, and, in the teeth of
prejudice, vindicated law against the toils of the narrow