PROFESSOR AYTOUN'S LECTURES.
The author of the "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers" has received a cordial welcome at Willis's Rooms, where he has set up a rostrum to dis- course on Poetry and Dramatic Literature. We need scarcely say that he belongs rather to the genus Romantic than to the genus Classic (in the Louis Quatorze sense of the word) ; that he loves the swing of the Norseman's broad-sword better than the twirl of the "clouded cane " - and that he would rather listen to the minstrel with a flowing beard than to the court poet in a periwig. While his erudition is most extensive, there is great fascination in the earnestness with which he embraces a favourite topic; and we have no doubt that many a heart beat high when he wound up the first of his six lectures, yesterday, with the dying shout of Regner Lodbrog. There is always something pleasant in an orator who evidently loves his subject.
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