"Such is his EXTREME method of introducing himself, which deserves credit for its ingenuity and exclusiveness. I once knew a man who had only one story, and that was about a gun. His difficulty was to introduce this story, and he at last succeeded, like K—g, by the use of his foot. When sitting after dinner he would stamp under the table and create a hollow sound. Then, God bless me! what's that—a gun? By the by, talking about guns—and then came his story."
THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS.
THE MESSIAH.
By Robert Montgomery.
The subsequent passages exhibit many of the beauties and few of the blemishes of Mr. Montgomery's new poem:
THE WILDERNESS.
Oh, when hath mind conceived
Magnificence beyond a midnight there,