THE ABERDEEN MAGAZINE. • WE have looked over the first
volume of the Aberdeen Maga • tine; the result of which is a very agreeable surprise. The work is, generally, a sensible and instructive miscellany : many of its papers contain solid information, derived from original sources,— such as the Sketches of Davis's Straits; others, again, are con- ceived in a thoroughly honest and enlightened spirit,—like the one on the System of Puffing ; the criticisms are respectable and judi- cious, and the poetry considerably above par. Some, if not the greater part of it, we recognize as by the author of the Poetical Ephemeras—a book we lately noticed : the imitations of HORACE, in the Scotch dialect, are full of force and freedom, and well de- serve preservation. Altogether, we think the Aberdeen Magazine not only does honour to the rational North, but affords an example to be followed by its brethren of the South. We should look in vain for frivolity, scandal, impertinence, and egotism. We wish that every town or city in the United Empire, of equal population with Aberdeen, could give similar evidence of intellectual activity, and equal good taste.
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