_Brydone the Tourist_ (Vol. ix., p. 138.).--The literary world would feel
obliged to J. MACRAY to tell us the name of the writer of the criticism who
says, "Brydone never was on the Summit of Etna." Did the scholars of Italy
know more of what was done by Englishmen in Sicily in Brydone's day than
they do at present? How are the dates reconciled? Brydone would be 113
years old. Mr. Beckford, I think, must have been some thirteen or fourteen
years younger. Brydone was always considered to be in his relations in life
a man of probity and honour. I used to hear much of him from one nearly
related to me, whose father was first cousin to Brydone's wife.