.... Fernando Wood. Mr. McMahon is a gentleman also whose acquaintance with that rare work, Lempriere's classical Dictionary, we can vouch for, since he compares the South to Niobe and the North to Latona , and since he also calls plain sea-faring sporting with the Nereides of the deep. Now, why he should compare the South to Niobe, we do not precisely comprehend, unless it is conceded by him to be ...