26 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
Engraving on the left shows the entrance to the grinting-office and the
window of the room in which Sir Walter revised his proofs, and that on
the right Ballantyne's house in St. John Street.) The Edinburgh Reviaer
PAUL'S WORE. BALLANTYNE'S HOUSE.
is in undiminished force. John Wilson has arrived, and is forcing his way
toward the immense popularity he is soon to gain. In the Chairs of the
University, Dugald Stewart, Playfair, Thomas Brown, Leslie, Pillans, and
Dalzel are teaching. Andrew Thomson is thundering statedly in the pulpit,
and Chalmers is preaching occasionally, as no one but himself can preach,
and is by and by to be Divinity Professor. James Hogg is in Gabriel's
Road meditating the Queen's Wake. Edward Irving is studying in Bristo Street
for the ministry. M'Crie is issuing the Lfe of Andrew McZviZZe, and attacking
OLd MortaIity with merciless power. BZmkwood's Magazine has started, and
is attracting to itself such spirits as Thomas Pringle (at first) and J. G.
Lockhart, Maginn, Galt, Croly, Delta, and Christopher North, who also in
1820 mounts the Moral Philosophy Chair, and takes to him his great power
and reigns for more than thirty years, while a profounder, if not so brilliant
a man, has been obliged to retire upon the Chair of History, whence he by
and by emerges on that of Logic, as the full-fledged and unique Sir Wiliiam
Hamilton. Meantime the Bar is radiant with Jeffrey, Cockburn, Cranstoun,
John Clerk, Moncreiff, and Murray, and the Bench with President Blair,
Hemand, and Hope, and the Medical SchooIs are resplendent with Munro,
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Hope, Christison, Lizars, Liston, and Robert Knox In lower but still lofty
literary regions William Knox is singing his Hebrew songs, ' most musical,
most melancholy.' ,The two Chamberses are laying the slow but surefoundations
of their extensive fame and usefulness. Miss Ferrier is writing her
Marriage and Inhe~itame, and Mrs. Johnstone her CZan AZbin. Robert
Pollok has come to town from the Mearns, near Paisley, and is publishing
his highly popular and promising poem, Tke Course of Time, and Thomas Aird
has startled the literary world by his strange and powerful Devit's Dream and
Dmoniac, holding out a grand hope that has, alas ! not been thoroughly
realised. In the Dissenting pulpit, besides old Dr. James Peddie and Dr.
Hall, two men, very different, but both of no ordinary powers, have appeared
in Dr. John Brown and Dr. John Ritchie. In the Newspaper press, the
Wee&& Yourna4 the CaZedonian Mercwy, and above all the manly and
liberal Scofsman, have made their mark. And this last may be considered
the avanf-courmr of Fait's Magazine, which comes to the aid of the Liberal
PAUL STREET.
interest in 1832, and rallies round it, besides its energetic publisher, such
writers as William Weare, Roebuck, FonbIanque, Mrs. Johnstone, Bownng,
Professor Nichol, Robert Nicoll, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and the wondrous
De Quincey. Besides, the Edinburgh Literary YourjzaL: edited by Henry
Glassford Bell, is for some years a very meritorious publication, and so is,
in another sphere, the Edfdurgh Christian Instmcfor, edited by Dr. xndrew
