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the sportsmen of the Lennox, when one of the duke's deer gets out from InchMirran; nay, the joyous rally of the fox-chase itself, with all its blithe ac companiments of hound and horn, fall infinitely short of the animation with which the gallant sons of Thule set off to encounter the monster, whom the sea had sent for their amusement at so opportune a conjuncture.

"The multifarious stores of Burgh Westra were rummaged hastily for all sorts of arms, which could be used on such an occasion. Harpoons, swords, pikes, and halberts, fell to the lot of some; others contented themselves with hay-forks, spits, and whatever else could be found that was at once long and sharp. Thus hastily equipped, one di. vision, under the command of Captain Cleveland, hastened to man the beats which lay in the little haven, while the rest of the party hurried by land to the scene of action.

"Poor Triptolemus was interrupted in a plan, which he, too, had formed against the patience of the Zetlanders, and which was to have consisted in a lecture upon the agriculture, and the capabilities of the country, by this sudden hubbub, which put an end at once to Halcro's poetry, and to his no less formidable prose. It may be easily ima. gined, that he took very little interest in the sport which was so suddenly sub, stituted for his lucubrations; and he would not even have deigned to have looked upon the active scene which was about to take place, had he not been stimulated thereunto by the exhortations of Mistress Baby. Pit yoursell forward, man,' said that provident person, pit yoursell forward-wha kens whar a blessing may light?- they say that a' men share and share equals-aquals in the creature's ulzie, and a pint o't wad be worth siller, to light the cruise, in the lang dark nights that they speak of-pit yoursell forward, mau-there's a graip to ye-faint heart never wan fair lady-wha kens but what when it's fresh, it may eat weel enough, and spare butter?" Vol. II. pp. 70-72.

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"The animal, upwards of sixty feet in length, was lying perfectly still, in a deep part of the voe into which it had weltered, and where it seemed to await the return of tide, of which it was probably assured by instinct. A council of experienced harpooners was instantly called, and it was agreed that an effort should be made to noose the tail

of this torpid leviathan, by casting a cable around it, to be made fast by anchors to the shore, and thus to secure against his escape, in case the tide should make before they were able to dispatch him. Three boats were des tined to this delicate piece of service one of which the Udaller himself proposed to command, while Cleveland and Mertoun were to direct the two others. This being decided, they sat down on the strand, waiting with impatience, until the naval part of the force should arrive in the voe. It was during this interval, that Triptolemus Yellowley, after measuring with his eyes the extraordinary size of the whale, observed, that in his poor miud, ' A wain with six owsen, or with sixty owsen either, if they were the owsen of the country, could not drag siccen a huge creature from the water, where it was now lying, to the sea-beach.'" Vol. II. pp. 75, 76.

"The three boats destined for this perilous service now approached the dark mass, which lay like an islet, in the deepest part of the voe, and suffer. ed them to approach, without shewing any sign of animation. Silently, and with such precaution as the extreme delicacy of the operation required, the intrepid adventurers, after the failure of their first attempt, and the expenditure of considerable time, succeeded in casting a cable around the body of the torpid monster, and in carrying the ends of it ashore, where an hundred hands were instantly employed in secnring them. But ere this was accomplised, the tide began to make fast, and the Udaller informed his assistants, that either the fish must be killed, or at least greatly wounded, ere the depth of water on the bar was sufficient to float him; or that he was not unlikely to escape from their joint prowess.

"Wherefore,' said he, we must set to work, and the factor shall have the honour to make the first throw.'

"The valiant Triptolemus caught the word; and it is necessary to say that the patience of the whale, in suffering himself to be noosed without resistance, had abated his terrors, and very much lowered the creature in his opinion. He protested the fish had no more wit, and scarcely more activity, than a black snail; and, influenced by this undue contempt of the adversary, he waited neither for a further signal, nor a better weapon, nor a more suitable position, but, rising in his energy, hurled his

graip with all his force against the unfortunate monster. The boats had not yet retreated from him to the distance necessary to ensure safety, when this injudicious commencement of the war took place.

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"Magnus Troil, who had only jested with the factor, and had reserved the launching the first spear against the whale to some much more skilful hand, had just time to exclaim, Mind your selves, lads, or we are all swamped,' when the monster, roused at once from inactivity by the blow of the factor's missile, blew, with a noise resembling the explosion of a steam-engine, a huge shower of water into the air, and at the same time began to lash the waves with its tail in every direction. The boat in which Magnus presided received the shower of brine which the animal spouted into the air; and the adventurous Triptolemus, who had a full share of the immersion, was so much astonished and terrified by the consequences of his own valorous deed, that he tumbled back wards amongst the feet of the people, who, too busy to attend to him, were actively engaged in getting the boat into shoal water, out of the whale's reach. Here he lay for some minutes, trampled on by the feet of the boatmen, until they lay on their oars to bale, when the Udaller ordered them to pull to shore, and land this spare hand, who had commenced the fishing so inauspiciously.

"While this was doing, the other boats had also pulled off to safer distance, and now, from these as well as from the shore, the unfortunate native of the deep was overwhelmed by all kinds of missiles: harpoons and spears flew against him on all sides; guns were fired, and each various means of annoyance plied which could excite him to exhaust his strength in useless rage. When the animal found that he was locked in by shallows on all sides, and became sensible, at the same time, of the strain of the cable on his body, the convulsive efforts which he made to escape, accompanied with sounds resembling deep and loud groans, would have moved the compassion of all but a practised whale-fisher. The repeated showers which he spouted into the air began now to be mingled with blood, and the waves which surrounded him assumed

the same crimson appearance. Meantime the attempts of the assailants were redoubled; but Mordaunt Mertoun and Cleveland, in particular, exerted them

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selves to the uttermost, contending who should display most courage in approaching the mouster, so tremendous in its agonies, and should inflict the most deep and deadly wound upon its huge bulk. "The contest seemed at last pretty well over; for although the animal continued from time to time to make frantic exertions for liberty, yet its strength appeared so much exhausted, that, even with assistance of the tide, which had now risen considerably, it was thought it could scarce extricate itself.

"Magnus gave the signal to venture upon the whale more nearly, calling out at the same time, 'Close in, lads; she is not half so mad now-Now, Mr. Factor, look for a winter's oil for the two lamps at Harfra-Pull close in, lads.'

"Ere his orders could be obeyed, the other two boats had anticipated his purpose; and Mordaunt Mertoun, eager to distinguish himself above Cleveland, had, with the whole strength he possessed, plunged a half-pike into the body of the animal. But the leviathan, like a nation whose resources appear totally exhausted by previous losses and calamities, collected his whole remaining force for an effort, which proved at once desperate and successful. The wound last received had probably reached through his external defences of blubber, and attained some very sensitive part of the system; for he roared aloud, as he sent to the sky a mingled sheet of brine and blood, and, snapping the strong cable like a twig, overset Mertoun's boat with a blow of his tail, shot himself, by a mighty effort, over the bar, upon which the tide had now risen considerably, and made out to sea, carrying with him a whole grove of the implements which had been planted in his body, and leaving behind him, on the waters, a dark red trace of his course.

"There goes to sea your cruise of oil, Master Yellowley,' said Magnus, and you must consume mutton suet, or go to bed in the dark.'

"Operam et oleum perdidi,' muttered Triptolemus." Vol. II. pp. 79–84.

This affair gives Cleveland an opportunity of cancelling his obligation to Mordaunt, by risking his life to save his former deliverer. This gentleman ruffian, it seems, had some sentimental scruples about quarrelling with Mertoun, till he had repaid his obligation, which

cumstance which had placed her, in the words of Scripture, 'a little lower than the angels!"" Vol. III. pp. 343–346.

These volumes contain a considerable portion of poetry, much of which would not disgrace Sir Walter Scott himself. Most of the pieces are either connected with the story, and cannot be detached, or, if capable of being detached, are scarcely appropriate to our pages. We shall, however, ven1ure on a specimen. The following is an imitation of an ancient Northern war-song.

"The Song of Harold Harfager.
"The sun is rising dimly red,
The wind is wailing low and dread;
From his cliff the eagle sallies,
Leaves the wolf his darksome valleys;
In the mist the ravens hover,
Peep the wild dogs from the cover,
Screaming, croaking, baying, yelling,
Each in his wild accents telling,

Soon we feast on dead and dying,
Fair-hair'd Harold's flag is flying.'

Many a crest on air is streaming,
Many a helmet darkly gleaming,
Many an arm the axe uprears,
Doom'd to hew the wood of spears.
All along the crowded ranks,
Horses neigh and armour clanks;
Chiefs are shouting, clarions ringing,
Louder still the bard is singing,
'Gather footman, gather horsemen ;
To the field, ye valiant Norsemen !
"Halt ye not for food or slumber;
View not vantage, count not number;
Jolly reapers, forward still,
Grow the crop on vale or hill,
Thick or scattered, stiff or lithe,
It shall down before the scythe.
Forward with your sickles bright,
Reap the harvest of the fight-
Onward footmen, onward horsemen,
To the charge, ye gallant Norsemen !

"Fatal chooser of the slaughter,
O'er you hovers Odin's daughter ;
Hear the choice she spreads before ye,-
Victory, and wealth, and glory;
Or old Valhalla's roaring hall,
Her ever-circling mead and ale,
Where for eternity unite

Headlong forward, foot and horsemen,
The joys of wassail and of fight.
Charge and fight, and die like Norse-
Vol. III. pp. 26, 27.

men !'"

The following is in a different land to Minna. We should have style. It is the farewell of Clevethought its pathos improved if it had come from better lips, and under less revolting circumstances.

Farewell! Farewell! the voice you hear

Has left its last soft tone with you,Its next must join the seaward cheer, And shout among the shouting crew. "The accents which I scarce could form

Beneath your frown's controlling check,

Must give the word, above the storm,

To cut the mast, and clear the wreck. "The timid eye I dared not raise,

The hand, that shook when press'd to
thine,

Must point the guns upon the chase,—
Must bid the deadly cutlass shine.
"To all I love, or hope, or fear,—

Honour, or own,-a long adieu !
To all that life has soft and dear,
Farewell! save memory of you!"

Vol. II. pp. 239 240.

We have now devoted as much space to this tale as our limits permit, and more perhaps than some of our gravest readers may think necessary. Our comments we must reserve to another Number. (To be continued.)

REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

To the Editor of the Christian Observer.
HAVING observed your favourable
Review of the Rev. Mr. Bradley's
Sermons, from which, and other
commendations, they have had a

lieve your reviewer overlooked a wide circulation, I am led to bemost extraordinary sentiment in the Eighth Sermon, 4th edition, vol. I. pp. 145, 146;—a sentiment which fills my mind with horror,

as applied to the pure and immaculate human nature of our ever blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ; a sentiment which to my own knowledge is spreading widely and undermining the faith once delivered to the saints, and directly leading to, and can only end in, the denial of his Divinity altogether.

In vain will the author's qualifications undo the appalling sense which can alone be put upon the following expressions:

..." But there are other and still

more painful infirmities yet behind, the infirmities which are the effects of sin; sinful infirmities, the pain which is caused in the soul by its conflicts with evil lusts and unhallowed tempers ! !—* The text tells us, however, that he was in all points tempted like as we are; and again another Scripture says that he was made in the likeness of sinful flesh; that he took our nature upon him, not as it was in our first parents in a state of innocence, not as it is now in the glorified saints in heaven, but as it is impaired and degraded by the fall.—*** He knew what it was to be under the guilt of sin."

Truly he bore the punishment of sin. He made his soul an offering for sin. "The chastisement of our peace was upon him." "He bore our sins in his own body on the tree." The purity of his character qualified him for this work; for he was "the Lamb, without blemish and without spot, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth," much less in his thoughts or dispositions.

As I presume you will think it necessary to put your readers on their guard against these errors, so contrary to the avowed sentiments of the Christian Observer, I have taken the liberty of calling your attention to the subject.

J. S.

In reply to these strictures of our correspondent, so far as they concern ourselves, it is only neces sary to state, that we did not review the first volume of Mr. Bradley's Sermons, but the second only; and that, even if we had reviewed both, a general commendation of a work

is not intended for, and ought not to be construed into, an approval of every individual sentiment or expression. There are few publications, even among those which we most highly esteem, and should with least reservation commend, in which there may not be passages that we might think liable to just exception. But it would far exceed the bounds of a critique of ordinary length, to analyze each paragraph of a work, with a view to notice every sentence which appears to deserve either encomium or blame.

We shall not, however, on the present occasion content ourselves with this general statement, but shall freely express our own opinion on the point at issue between Mr. Bradley and our correspondent; first, however, in justice to the author, transcribing the whole passage, with bis "qualifications," which our readers may think, notwithstanding the denial of J. S., have some considerable, though not sufficient, tendency to modify the "appalling sense of his expressions." It is as follows. (We quote from the 2d edition.)

"But there are other and still more

painful infirmities yet behind, the infirmities which are the effects of sin, sinful infirmities; the pain which is caused in the soul by evil lusts, tempers, and habits. Are these then included in the Apostle's words? There is one expression in the text which seems, on the first view, to exclude at once all these sources of sorrow from the sympathy of Christ. He was tempted or exercised by all the various calamities of human life, but yet he was without sin. The text, however, tells us, that he was in all points tempted like as we are; and again, another Scripture says, that he was made in the likeness of sinful

flesh; that he took our nature upon him, not as it was in our first parents in a state of innocence, not as it is now in the glorified saints in heaven, but as it Not that there was any sin in him; he is, impaired and degraded by the fall. was perfectly harmless, perfectly pure, without spot, or blemish, or any such thing: but though he was free from sin,

he felt and tasted in all their bitterness He was "tried in all points like as many of those effects of sin to which man is liable in the present state. He knew what it was to be under the guilt of sin; not that he was ever really guilty, but he was dealt with as though he were. 'God,' says the Apostle,' made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.' Hence he was made to taste of the sufferings that are the consequences of guilt."

On perusing the whole of this passage, we perfectly accord with J. S. that some parts of it are expressed in a manner extremely exceptionable; though we cannot for a moment suppose--indeed the contrary is evident -that Mr. Bradley intended to intimate that our Lord had any propensity to sin, however he might be "exercised" with temptations to it. The origin of the improper language which J.S. reprehends, seems to us partly to lie in the equivocal meaning of the word "temptation." In one sense, our Lord could not be tempted to any evil; for instance, to pride, or ambition, or presumption; yet, in another sense, he was tempted to these very sins, that is, satan tempted him to them, as we find recorded in the Gospels. He suffered temptation from without; but, unlike us, he felt no temptation from within. Temptations were presented to him; but they glanced, blunted and powerless, from the impenetrable shield of his immaculate sanctity. This distinction should always be kept prominently in sight, in commenting on such passages as that which forms the subject of Mr. Bradley's discourse; nor should. even the laudable desire to comfort the afflicted, and support the weak, lead a Christian minister to such a mode of expression respecting our blessed Lord, as may seem to intimate that there is any immediate analogy in the manner in which He experienced the force of temptation, and that in which it assails us frail and sinful creatures. general, in speaking of our Lord, the term " tried" would more nearly correspond with the scriptural idea, and be less liable to misconception, than the word " tempted."

In

we are ;" and he can doubtless feel cumstanced, not because temptathe more for us when similarly cirtion or trial had any tendency to seduce him, or required, if we may so speak, any particular effort to repel it, but because, on account of his holy nature, the very suggestion of evil to his mind, though he felt not any inclination to yield to it, was immeasurably painful to

him.-Divines should also beware of carrying the comprehensive generalities of Scripture into exceptionable details. Thus, in the passage in question, the expression "in all points" (ката Tаνтα) seems scarcely capable of sustaining so minute a comparison as that which Mr. Bradley has instituted. There are many individual temptations with which our Lord could not be literally assailed, because there of life which he did not experience. were circumstances and conditions He was not, for example, a parent, Besides all which, the passage apa husband, a magistrate, or a ruler. plies to the "infirmities" of our nature, rather than to the temptathe text is beautifully, and we think tions to actual sin. The import of correctly, paraphrased in a wellknown hymn which first appeared some years since in our work, (Vol. for 1812, p. 91,) and has subsequently been transcribed in several collections of sacred poetry: "When gathering clouds around I view," &c.

We perfectly coincide with the following remarks of Beza on the passage in question.

"I allow that no sufferings can fall upon Christ, now he is glorified; but thus much is certain, that by the expression in the text is signified that complete sympathy between the members and the Head-that is, the church and Christ-on which St. Paul so often expatiates. Moreover, the Scriptures, when speaking of Christ glorified, adapt themselves to our apprehensions, the same as when speaking of God. We

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