DEATH OF HENRy MACKENZIE.
THE venerable HENRY MACKENZIE is dead, at length. The Man of Feeling feels no more ; the Man of the World has ceased to be of this; his Mirror is dull ; the Lounger no longer lingers : he has shuffled off his mortal coil and departed. MACKENZIE was the last in the field once crowded with gay and animated pursuers in the same sport as himself—the "gal science," as the Troubadours called their profession. For a long time he has stood alone—ready to fall apparently—tottering after the accomplished scribblers of half a century ago, and yet hesi- tating to leave the children of the day. What changes there have been in literature since HENRY MAC- BENZIB was in his prime !—since he invented that rare device of the flat clergyman tearing up the manuscript of the Man of Feel- ing for wadding! And yet, in their way, his works still remain perfect : they are only surface deep, but what a polish it bears, and how true the graining, how delicate the colour ! An Edinburgh contemporary very justly observes- " We cannot but with feelings of regret notice the departure of almost the last of that eminent class of literary men, who, above fifty years ago, cast such a lustre on our city. They were succeeded, indeed, by a more stern, and probably more philosophical class of writers, as dis- played in the papers of the Edinburgh Review, and similar productions ; but in that delicate perception of human character and human man- ners, so correctly, so elegantly, and often so humorously delineated in the numbers of the Mirror and Lounger, where Mr. Mackenzie was the chief contributor, as well as in his-other works, and in his general views of the great principles of moral conduct, there have been few authors more distinguished. The elegant society in Edinburgh, well known in former days by the name of The Mirror Club,' consisted, besides Mr. Mackenzie; of several gentlemen who were afterwards Judges in the Court of Session, viz. Lord Bannatyne, Lord Cullen, Lord Abercromby, Lord Craig, and also Mr. George Home, and Mr. George Ogilvie. The first, now Sir William Bannatyne, a venerable and most accomplished itantlenlais of the old school, is the only survivor."
Mr. MACKENZIE was in his eighty-sixth year, having been born lithe Memorable Forty-five.