displayed on these occasions, but it is humour rather than wit with which they are seasoned. Of all the natives of Scotland, however, he has least of the patois of the country in his delivery, which is surprising, when it is considered be was above twenty-one years of age before he quitted it, and shows how accurately he must have attuned his ear to the English pronunciation early in life. Besides his knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages, Campbell is a good German scholar, has acquired a considerable knowledge of Hebrew, and speaks French fluently.

During the residence of Campbell at Sydenham, there were several individuals in that village who were fond of inviting literary men to their tables, and were conspicuous for their conviviality. Numerous choice spirits used to meet together there, and among them was Campbell. The repartee and joke were exchanged, and many a practical trick played off which now forms the burden of an after-dinner story where. ver the various individuals then present are scattered. Many of these have been since distinguished in the literary world; among them were the facetious brothers, the Smiths, James and Horace, Theodore Hook, and others; but it appears Campbell was behind none of them in the zest with which he entered into the pleasantries of the time, and many an anecdote is recorded of him on these occasions, to which some biographer will doubtless do justice hereafter.

In 1824 Campbell published his "Theodoric, a Domestic Tale," the least popular of his works.

Many pieces of great merit came out in the same volume, among which are the "Lines to J. P. Kemble," and those entitled the "Last Man." The fame of Campbell, however, must rest on his previous publications, which, though not numerous, are so correct, and were so fastidiously revised, that, while they remain as standards of purity in the English tongue, they sufficiently explain why their author's compositions are so limited in number, "since he who wrote so correctly could not be expected to write much."

By his marriage Campbell had two sons. One of them died before attaining his twentieth year; the other while at Bonn, where, as already observed, he was placed for his education, exhibit. ed symptoms of an erring mind, which, on his return to England soon afterwards, ripened into mental derangement of the milder species. This disease. it is probable, he inherited on his mother's side, as on his father's no symptoms of it had ever been shown. After several years passed in this way, during which the mental disease considerably relaxed, so that young Campbell became wholly inoffensive, his father received him into his house. The effects of such a sight upon a mind of the most exquisite sensi bility, like the poet's, may be readily imagined; it was, at times, a source of the keenest suffering.

We must now allude to an event in Campbell's life, which will cause him the gratitude of millions of unborn hearts, and the benefits of which are incalculable. It is to Campbell that England owes the London University. Four years before it was made public, the idea struck his mind, from having been in the habit of visiting the

universities of Germany, and studying their regulatione. He communicated it at first to two or three friends only, until his ideas upon the subject became mature, when they were made public, and a meeting upon the business convened in London, which Mr. Campbell addressed, and where the establishment of such an institution met the most zealous support. Once in operation, the men of the city, headed by Mr. Brougham, lost not a moment in advancing the great and useful object in view.-The undertaking was divided into shares, which were rapidly taken. Mr. Brougham took the leading part, and addressed the various meetings on the subject. Mr. Campbell, ill fitted for steady exertion, seems to have left the active arrangements to others better qualified for them by habits of business, and contented himself with attending the committees. With a rapidity unexampled the London University has been completed; and Campbell has had the satisfaction of seeing his projected instrument of education in full operation, in less than three years after he made the scheme public.

In person, Campbell is below the middle stature, well made, but slender. His features indicate great sensibility, and that fastidiousness for which he is remarkable in every thing he undertakes. His eyes are large, peculiarly striking, and of a deep blue colour, his nose aquiline, his expression generally saturnine. He has long worn a peruke, but the natural colour of his hair is dark. His step is light, but firm; and he appears to possess much more energy of constitution than men of fifty-two who have been stu

dious in their habits, exhibit in general. His time for study is mostly during the stillness of night, when he can be wholly abstracted from external objects. He exhibits great fondness for recondite subjects; and will frequently spend days in minute investigations into languages, which in the result are of no moment: but his ever-delighted theme is Greece, her arts and literature. There he is at home; it was his eariest and will probably be his latest study. There s no branch of poetry or history which has reached us from the "mother of arts" with which he is not familiar. He has severely handled Mitford for his singular praise of the Lacedemonians at the expense of the Athenians, and his preference of their barbarous and obscene aws to the legislation of the latter people. His Lectures on Greek Poetry are already before the public, having appeared in parts in the New Monthly Magazine. He also published "Annals of Great Britain, from the accession of George the Third to the peace of Amiens;" and is the author of several articles on Poetry and BellesLettres in the Edinburgh Encyclopædia. In ad. lition to the profits derived from these literary abours, our Poet enjoys a pension from Government, supposed to have been granted to him for writing political paragraphs in an evening paper, in support of Lord Grenville's administration.

Campbell was, as has been before observed, educated at Glasgow, and received the honour of election for Lord Rector, three successive years, notwithstanding the opposition of the professors and the excellent individuals who were placed against him; among whom were the

late minister Canning and Sir Walter Scott. The students of Glasgow College considered that the celebrity of the poet, his liberal principles, his being a fellow-townsman, and his attention to their interests, entitled him to the preference.

Finally, Campbell has all the characteristics of the genus irritabile about him. He is the creature of impulses, and often does things upon the spur of the moment, which upon reflection he recalls. He is remarkable for absence of mind; is charitable and kind in his disposition, but of quick temper: his amusements are few, the friend and conversation only. His heart is perhaps one of the best that beats in a human bosom; it is, in effect, that which should belong to the poet of "Gertrude," his favourite personification.