\  "  You  must  some  day  or  other  bring  your  thoughts  on  the  philosophy
of  poetry  and  poetic  expression  into  the  form  of  a  systematic  essay;
-which  I  shall  insist  on  your  publishing  with  much  care.  That,  and  a
little  treatise  on  the  ethics  of  common  life,  and  the  ways  and  means  of
ordinary  happiness,  are  the  works  which  I  bespeak  from  you  for  after-
times."-  (Horner  to  Jeffrey,  Memoirs,  ii.  53.)


LORD   RUTHERFURD.  289

However,  while  at  Skelmorlie,  he  wrote  the  excellent
article  published  in  the  Review,  in  October,  (No.  125,  art.
11,)  in  which  he  records  the  grounds  of  his  so  loving  and
admiring  Sir  James.
