ABSTRACT
The wild Scottish heath suddenly yielding forth its brood of hidden warriors at the summons of the Alpine chieftain, may not inaptly illustrate the literary, as well as the military aspect of people's own country, under the wide-spread and deeply penetrating influences which the war has all at once generated in their midst. The war, however, by interrupting people's foreign intercourse, has compelled people to draw upon their own resources and the wants of the army, furnishing the strongest of all incentives to varied and energetic exertion, have caused them to turn their attention more patiently to the different departments of mechanical labor. Good literature will be produced arid encouraged wherever the public taste is capable of rejecting the opposite, and where this delicate sense of appreciation does not exist, there people shall find the most popular style of literature to be that which it is least desirable should be so.
