He has a great deal of thought and poetry in him.

Alexander Smith I know by copious extracts in reviews, and by some MSS.

once sent to us by friends and readers.

Judging from those he must be set down as a true poet in opulence of imagery, but defective, so far (he is said to be very young) in the intellectual part of poetry.

His images are flowers thrown to him by the gods, beautiful and fragrant, but having no root either in Enna or Olympus.