Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

We learn (says the New-York Evening Post) that the author of those excellent and popular essays which have appeared in the Connecticut Courant for the last two or three years, under the head of "The Brief Remarker," is preparing to collect and publish the whole series in a volume. They are from the pen of the Rev. Ezra Sampson, of Hudson, author of the Historical Dictionary, and that highly useful and valuable little work, the Beauties of the Bible. Mr. Sampson is a scholar of the first order, and though far advanced in life, yet the energies of his mind remain unimpaired. The style of his writings is always chaste and classical, and the sentiments pure. The public have for several years been indebted to Mr. S. for the many valuable essays from his pen, and the most of which have received a very extensive circulation in our public papers. The essays of which we are speaking, in particular, have attracted unusual attention; and we think it hazarding but little to remark, that had they appeared in the golden age of British literature, they would at this day have been found in our libraries upon the same shelf with Addison and Johnson.