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 JOHN WILSON.
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Just ss we were prepaFing to compile short as- tiee of ProkesSoF MiisSn, eensEaliy known ns ,he Christopher North of Black wood's Mawaxine. our attension was attracted b the announcement ,hst be hed retiFed from the editorial chair, with tue In teRsion of visiting tAe country. We hope that he EiH live 10 accomplish thus design. because we be- leve U may bs Pgpdueiive of great good n assaae. ing f net ia totally eradicasing, many of the pFs jadieea which have beeA eageBdesed against our

 nstifutonss hy the repFeaeutAiGn ns pl minor ciass of literary travellers and gossippegs who have been his predecessors, and Co sThosa, peThans. we n,av justly atiribnte many af the severe thiars which the Professor ot Morality has himselE said og oa, country.

 Professor Wilson was born ct Paisley, ia Scot. iahd. and IS represented as one Of the most remark alde mea sf the age. Hs early distinguished hsm. self by obiaiaiag the prize fer E6glssh Poetry, against numerous and noxerlal competition, in he Magdalen College Oxford His education

 Rished he retired to his heaa,iGaI estate uss ,sao when he was called ta the cbaiF of Moral phileso. ! Phy in the unisersiiy of Edinburgh.

 In his eighteenth year. be established hts repata [ toa as Poet, by the publication of the Isle o Paiaas. This aAs followed, ih I8fs. by the Cits i of the Piagne-a work of still higher merit The Ttiais of Margaret Lindsay. The Fereseers. ant the Lights and Shades Of Scottish Life, writtet siaee hss election to the Proessorship are dog bt les familiar 10 many ot readers. His eFisisa aud miscellaneous essays. as they originally ap peared iR Biaekwood. were some time since eoi T lseied and published by Carey & Hart, of Phlia deiphia. who also issued an edition of series Q papers from his pen. The Koctes .snA, osianas, = which have been esteemed as exhibiting a geniu the most versatile n English Literature. With ihi bret sketch we close, referring the reader to th aanexed poem, from whi<h, II he be not alread, isniilar with hS works estimate may be foF;as, of the poetry of Kit North"