This
impropriety, which is beyond a literary joke, was reprobated some months
since by the _Quarterly Review_, but here the offending parties are
properly visited with a burst of honest indignation which may not pass
unheeded. Mr. Hogg says
"For my part, after twenty years of feelings hardly suppressed, he
has driven me beyond the bounds of human patience. That Magazine of
his, which owes its rise principally to myself, has often put words
and sentiments into my mouth of which I have been greatly ashamed,
and which have given much pain to my family and relations, and many
of those after a solemn written promise that such freedoms should
never be repeated. I have been often urged to restrain and humble
him by legal measures as an incorrigible offender deserves. I know I
have it in my power, and if he dares me to the task, I want but a
hair to make a tether of."
The Shepherd appears to have written since 1813, fifteen volumes of
poetry and as many volumes of prose, besides his contributions to
periodical works; and, what is not the less extraordinary he was forty
years of age before he wrote his first poem.
The Tales in the present volume are the Adventures of Captain Lochy, the
Pongos, and Marion's Jock.
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