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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 478, February 26, 1831
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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

      Volume 17, No. 478, Saturday, February 26, 1831

      Author: Various

      Release Date: June 11, 2004 [EBook #12576]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 478 ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, David Garcia and the Online Distributed

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      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      AUTOGRAPHS OF EMINENT PERSONS.

      AUTOGRAPHS OF EMINENT PERSONS.

      AUTOGRAPHS.

      It is long since our pages were illustrated with such characteristic lineaments as those on the opposite page. The reader will, however, perceive that we have not entirely forgotten the quaint motto from Shenstone, in our earlier volumes—

      I want to see Mrs. Jago's handwriting, that I may judge of her temper.

      Still the annexed Autographs have not been drawn from our own portfolio: they come frae North, being selected from an engraved Plate of forty-three signatures, published with No. 28 of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, and prefixed to a pleasing chapter on the connexion between character and handwriting—from which we select only a few anecdotical traits.

      ANNE GRANT: "We have given Mrs. Grant of Laggan's present hand, in which may be discovered a little of the instability of advancing life; but there is a well-rounded breadth and distinctness in the formation of the letters, which seems to carry along with it evidence of the clear and judicious mind of the talented authoress of 'Letters from the Mountains.'"

      D. STEWART:—General Stewart of Garth, a free, bold, military hand; his signature is taken from a letter complimenting in high terms Mr. Chambers's History of the Rebellion of 1745.

      ALLAN CUNNINGHAM:—an easy flow of tasteful handwriting. Allan Cunningham, observes the reviewer, has raised himself like Hogg; but, instead of the plough, he has handled the chisel; and there is in his constitution an inherent love of the fine arts, which brings his thoughts into more grateful channels. We are well aware that there is a warmth and breadth of character about Cunningham which mark 'the large-soul'd Scot;' but looking forward to his forthcoming Lives of the British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, we do not conceive this to be in the least inconsistent with the easy flow of his tasteful handwriting.

      F. HEMANS: the very hand—fair, small, and beautifully feminine—in which should be embodied her gentle breathings of household love, her songs of the domestic affections, and all her lays of silvery sweetness and soft-breathing tenderness.

      F. LEVESON GOWER, the distinguished translator of Goëthe's Faust.

      H. BROUGHAM: a good deal like his own style of oratory—impressive and energetic, but not very polished. We question the last; but, be this as it may, polish is only desirable so long as it does not impair truth and utility. Plain-speaking has been the best rule of conduct for public men in all ages.

      BASIL HALL: the observant traveller and very ingenious writer.

      JOHN WILSON (the reputed editor of Blackwood's Magazine); and beneath, F. JEFFREY (late editor of the Edinburgh Review), who took his seat in Parliament not many days since.—"These are two names which stand at the head of the periodical literature of Scotland. The periodical writer must have a ready command of his pen and a versatile genius; he must be able to pass quickly from one subject to another; and instead of devoting himself to one continuous train of thought, he must have a mind whose quick perception and comprehensive grasp enable him to grapple with a thousand. See how this applies to the handwriting of Jeffrey and of Wilson. The style of both signatures implies a quick and careless motion of the hand, as if the writer was working against time, and was much more anxious to get his ideas sent to the printer, than to cover his paper with elegant penmanship. There is an evident similarity in the fashion of the two hands—only Mr. Jeffrey, being much inferior to the Professor in point of physical size and strength, naturally enough delights in a pen with a finer point, and writes therefore a lighter and

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