11 DECEMBER 1830, Page 17

Signor Anstras has sent us a practical method of learning

Bussola per lo Studio Pratico della Lingua Italiana." We could not conceive for some time what could have been his motive for printing such:a work, till we found out that—the drollest scheme imaginable-;-it is neither more nor less than a mode of smuggling the life of his father into the notice of the world. He has actually given A long biography of his father by way of a practical lesson in Italian. This is not in the old style of pocket-picking.