make the best use of their faculties and accomplishments. On the contrary, the attraction and remuneration of Reviews largely increase and encourage the productions of authors, and open new markets for books. A Reviewer tests his own powers, and perfects them in a leading periodical; and Time, by the accumulation and reprint of his contributions, gives him a permanent celebrity and the widest sphere of influence. It is scarcely necessary to cite the increasing number of such Essayist collections in our own days, not excluding Essays from the Times!" Such authors become instructors of Posterity. Thus the living names in our own generation of Walter Scott, Southey, Arago, Jeffrey, Hazlitt, Mackintosh, Sydney Smith, Brougham, Guizot, Thiers, the two Mills, McCulloch, Senior, G. C. Lewis, Macaulay, Croker, Wilson, James Stephen, Lord Mahon, and Albany Fonblanque, are fixed stars in the firmament of literature. The liberality of the Proprietor of the Quarterly Review permits the present publication. The political opinions of Mr. GISBORNE, it is well known, were not in accordance with the principles on which that able Periodical is politically conducted. Nevertheless, the sagacity of its Editor discovered in Mr. GISBORNE, and used on common ground, a highly-gifted Contributor, whose mental labours might otherwise have never seen the light. These mutual relations constitute real liberality; may they be everlasting! The entire Agricultural and Political Essays and Speeches of Mr. GISBORNE, in Parliament and "out of doors," with a brief memoir of their author, are in the press, and will be early published. In the meantime this portion, exclusively of Essays on Agriculture, cannot be unacceptable to the Land Owners and Tenant Farmers of Great Britain and Ireland. The proprietors and tillers of the soil must now rest solely on themselves; their future and profitable success, as citizens of the world, depends on their own The contests individual exertions and improvements. between "Protectionists" and "Free Traders" are ex hausted discussions. Agriculturists can henceforth only ask the Legislature for Fair Play, in acts of free trade for all classes. The personal life of Mr. GISBORNE was, for nearly half-a century, connected with the stirring events and party-spirit of his day; but in all his writings on Agriculture, and in his speeches at Farmers' Meetings and Agricultural Societies, he ever avoided controversial politics. On such occasions and times, Agriculture was his only text; his single object the advancement of the Art of Husbandry. Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, 20th October, 1853. H. S. b |