text:  Follett's voice are silvery"--a proposition that we do not at all intend to dispute; nor would it be easy to pronounce any panegyric on that really great man in which we should not zealously concur; but can it be necessary to mention this in a history of the eighteenth century? Or can any thing be more trivial or offensive or totally without the shadow of justification than this forced allusion to the "ignorant present time " in the midst of what ought to be an unbiassed narrative of events that affected former generations? We do not know whether the author of this ingenious allusion borrowed the idea from the advertisements in which our humbler artists recommend their productions to vulgar notice; or whether it is the spontaneous growth of his own happy intellect: but plagiarized or original and however adapted it may be to the tone and keeping of his work its insertion is totally irreconcilable with the qualities that a man should possess who means to instruct posterity