[1] Here is a stump of wood which denotes the grave of Major Labelliere, a deranged officer of the Marines, who, by his own request was buried on this spot, with his head downwards; it being a constant assertion with him, "that the world was turned topsy-turvy, and, therefore, at the end he should be right." From this point may be seen _Leith Hill_, with an old prospect tower, within which are interred the remains of another eccentric gentleman who died in the neighbourhood. In the road from Dorking thence is _Wotton_, the family seat of the Evelyns. * * * * * NOTES OF A READER THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER AND OTHER POEMS. We usually leave criticism to the _grey-beards_, or such as have passed the _viginti annorum lucubrationes_ of reviewing. It kindles so many little heart-burnings and jealousies, that we rejoice it is not part of our duty. To be sure, we sometimes take up a book in real earnest, read it through, and have _our say_ upon its merits; but this is only a gratuitous and occasional freak, just to keep up our oracular consequence. In the present case, we do not feel disposed to exercise this privilege, further than in a very few words--merely to say that Mr. Robert Montgomery has published a volume of Poems under the above title--that the poems are of unequal merit, and that like Virgil, his excellence lies in describing scenes of darkness. The "Universal Prayer" is a devotional outpouring of a truly poetical soul, with as much new imagery as the subject would admit; and if _scriptural_ poems be estimated in the ratio of _scriptural_ sermons, the merit of the former is of the first order.[2] From the other poems we have detached the following beautiful specimens:-- CONSUMPTION.