The most notable feature of an excellent number of the
Scottish Review--containing we may mention in passing, a most valuable historical paper on " Giordano Bruno before the Venetian In- quisition "—is a mass of hitherto unpublished letters of the Ettrick Shepherd, recently discovered by his daughter among his papers. They describe very minutely a tour made by Hogg in the High- lands in 1803, and would appear to have been intended for the eye of Sir Walter Scott, although it is doubtful if he ever read them. They are vivacious, descriptive, and enthusiastic, and full of that naiveté of the Shepherd which frequently passed into self-conceit. Hogg, however, to do justice to him, was even more ready to laugh at himself than to laugh at others, as the lively account he gives of his visit to Inverary Castle abundantly proves.
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