of Scotland, where, at the same time, many voices. kindred to "honest Allan's "-those of Lady Nairne, whose fame, like that of Lady Anne Lindsay, depends on one song, of Motherwell, and Tannahill, and several other congenial spirits-were then flourishing. It is with an apology for previous omission that we mention them here. And on the same argument, we may add the name of another Scot of other pretensions, William Tennant, a man of education and literary skill who was not so fortunate as Allan, but lived and died a poor schoolmaster, without ever issuing out of his little native sphere. A long poem in the measure of Whistlecraft and Don Juan, but preceding both, the subject of which is Anster Fair and the heroine Maggie Lauder, could scarcely be carried into fame or the general knowledge except by the greatest gifts of genius. And these Tennant certainly did not possess. But his verse has much of the freedom and flow of the greater productions in which the same medium was adopted, and has power enough to make the chance reader regret that it had not a little more-enough at least to raise such a skilled manufacture to something more than merely local fame. Where Tennant got the measure we are not informed. That he should have drawn it direct from Pulei and the Italians seems unlikely; but it is at least remarkable that a form of poetry which was afterwards to become so famous should have first stolen into English in this humble and unnoticed way.

THOMAS MOORE, born 1779; died 1852.

Published Translation of Anacreon in 1800.
Little's Poems, 1801.

Odes and Epistles, 1806.

Lalla Rookh, 1817.

The Fudge Family in Paris, 1818.

Rhymes for the Road, 1819.

Loves of the Angels, 1823.

Fables for the Holy Alliance, 1823.

The Epicurean, 1839.

MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS, born 1775; died 1818.
Published The Monk, 1796.

The Castle Spectre, etc., many Dramatic Works and
Operas at different times betwixt 1797 and 1812.
Tales of Wonder, 1801.

Bravo of Venice, 1804.
Feudal Tyrants.

Tales of Terror.

Romantic Tales.

JAMES SMITH, born 1775; died 1839.

Published Rejected Addresses, 1812.

22d edition, 1851.

Comic Miscellanies contributed to various periodicals,

reprinted after his death.

HORACE SMITH, born 1779; died 1849.

Published Brambletye House, 1826.

Tor Hill.

Zillah.

Adam Brown, etc.

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, born 1785; died 1866.

Published Headlong Hall, 1816.
Melincourt, 1817.

Published Nightmare Abbey, 1818.

Rhododaphne.

Maid Marian, 1822.

Misfortunes of Elphin, 1829.
Crotchet Castle, 1831.

Gryll Grange, 1860.

THEODORE EDWARD HOOK, born 1788; died 1841.

Published A number of Farces and Operettas between

Maxwell, 1830.

Life of Sir David Baird, 1832.

The Parson's Daughter, 1833.

Jack Brag, 1837.

Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1839.

Love and Pride, 1833.

Gilbert Gurney, 1835.

Gurney Married, 1839.

He continued to publish Novels and Magazine

Articles to the end of his life.

JOHN GALT, born 1779; died 1839.

Published The Ayrshire Legatees, 1820.
Annals of the Parish, 1821.

Sir Andrew Wylie, 1822.

The Provost, 1822.

The Entail, 1823.

The Steamboat.
Ringan Gilhaize.

The Spaewife.
Lawrie Todd.

Published The Owner, 1824.

Bogle Corbet, 1831.

And many others.

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, born 1784; died 1843.

Published Several Songs in Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, 1810.

Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, 1822.

Paul Jones.

Lives of Painters.

History of Literature.

WILLIAM TENNANT, born 1785; died 1848.

Anster Fair, 1812.

CHAPTER VI.

MARIA EDGEWORTH-JANE AUSTEN-SUSAN FERRIER.

THERE is a curious symbolism in the names which stand at the head of this page-three women representing with great fitness the three countries that form Great Britain, all writing the same language, and embodying to a great extent the same ideal, yet revealing each the characteristics of her race in a manner as amusing as it is instructive. Miss Ferrier, the youngest of the group, was somewhat cast into shade by the apparition, close beside her, of the greatest of novelists, yet, nevertheless, kept her place and reputation notwithstanding Sir Walter. The others held undisturbed possession of the field, and were each supreme on her own ground. Novel-writing-though we are apt to say that it never attained such general extension as now has always been a popular art, and perhaps at no period since literature began to have a history, did it ever happen that the story-teller was absent from the beadroll. But there had been a lull after Richardson and Fielding, and their successor Smollett. The two latter, we presume, making every allowance for the change of manners, never could have