The Twenty-eighth Volume of SCOTT'S Prose Works, concludes
the Tales of a Grantyitther. It derive: its claim to preseet attention as at last concluding the series of the Works of WALTER Score, after a consecutive issue of seven years and four months! The collection already extends to eighty volumes. Another of Miscellanies might have been added ; and, we think, should have been, for the sake of completeness. In addition to which, there are the History if Scotland in Lardner's Cyclopedia, anti the Letters on Demonology, both copy- rights in other hands. What a monument of genius and industry! What a thirty years' work !—the Thirty Years' War is nothing to it. Bere is a monument more durable than brass, more conspicuous than the Pyramids. Yet a quaint pyramid might well enough be raised from such a legion of books, with emblematical backs and lettered, a bust surmounting the whole. It would form a more appropriate monu- ment than those mythological allegories with which sculptors some- times puzzle the beholders.
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