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The first volume of the Life of GEORGE the -Fourth,

which forms the second of Dr. LARDNERS Cabinet Library, is the only publication that has yet appeared at all worthy of the importance of the subject. It is a rapid and spirited narrative, by one who has at least made himself master of the subject. Perhaps it is a little too hersh upon the failings of a man in the trying situation of the late King. The personal traits of his character are looked upon with an intolerant. eye. But the political views are manly and straightforward, and we have no disposition to quarrel with their sternness. The life is freely sprinkled with anecdote, and al- together forms a volume of very pleasant and instructive reading.