THE SPECTATOR'S LIBRAR Y.
SOME valuable additions have this week been made to our Library ; and as the season of publishing activity is arrived, or is fast approaching, we may expect more important claims upon our attention than have lately been made. Mr. LOGAN'S work on the history of the Celt-7-that is to say, of the original inhabitant et these islands—embraces all that can now be collected respecting his character, his habits, his manners, and Modes of acting and thinking. It is not a philosophical book, neither does it pretend to be so. The subject has given rise to numerous intemperate discussions by such hot-headed individuals as PINKERTON but the aim of Mr. LOGAN has been to put to- gether, in a reasonable compass, and under a methodical arrange- ment, all that has been asserted respecting the Gael on decent authority, as well as all the inferences that might be reasonably drawn from such remains as exist or have been discovered. The work is consequently a valuable book of reference, and by no means unentertaining to read. The Gael appears to have been one step, further in civilization than the New Zealander ; but the ancient Britons did not avail themselves nearly so fast of the benefits of .Roman instruction, as the subjects of Queen Noma- hanna of English. The tenacity with which the-Scotch Highlanders have adhered to the -language and manners of their forefathers, is one of the most remarkable phmnomena of history. In two thou- sand years, how_ faint will be the traces of the manners of the Ota- heitans as they were described*Captain Comm
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