which make even Nature more beautiful.

ABOUT a century since, the pass from This description, be it remembered, applies VOL. IX. No. III.

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LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN | Lancashire into Yorkshire, through the vale

FOSTER.

of Todmorden, was one of the most beautiful in England. Its hill-tops, thrown into every variety of shape, seemed to lift themselves aloft as if to break the force of the winter storm, or to present a natural resting-place to the summer clouds as they coursed each other from height to height, and threw their flitting shadows over the glens below. Some of those heights were barren, and have so been since the upburst of the mighty forces which made them what they are; but the less elevated were crowned, or clothed from base to summit, with ancient and richly hanging woods. The dells, which receded right and left from the main line of road, presented curves and slopes, and sometimes abrupt and jagged outlines, in almost every form, intersected with rock, and wood, and verdure; and, after rain, while the voice of birds welcomed the returning sunshine, every hill-side might be heard tossing forth its tributary waters to feed the Hebden, as it rolled through its deeper bed beneath. The little of handicraft which mixed itself with the husbandry of the district, was not more than sufficed to impart those traces of man to Nature, which make even Nature more beautiful. ABOUT a century since, the pass from This description, be it remembered, applies VOL. IX. No. III.

[The decease of a person so distinguished in the literary and religious world as the author of the Essay on Decision of Character, and the publication of his Correspondence, have naturally called forth notices of greater or less extent in many of the leading British journals. We have seen none of these more completely and candidly presenting the life, and mental and moral traits of the man, than the following from the British Quarterly, an eminent dissenting periodical. While it will be found friendly to the subject, it deals fairly with his well-known faults as an author and a man; and as Foster's fame has become almost as familiar with us as with his own countrymen, we feel sure that the sketch will be well received and profitably read.-ED]

From the British Quarterly Review.

The Life and Correspondence of John Foster. Edited by J. E. RYLAND. With Notices of Mr. Foster, as a Preacher and a Companion. By JOHN SHEPPARD, Author of Thoughts on Devotion,' &c. Two vols. 8vo. pp. 468. 590.

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