Tinsley' s Magazine for January is composed too much of
thin fiction. There is, however, a paper of some interest on " The Life of a News- paper Correspondent," by Mr. O'Shea, which includes a sketch of some of his Irish contemporaries in the same walk of life, and espe- cially what seems to na a very repulsive sketch of John Mitchel —though it is meant to be honorific. The paper is in itself lively and -worth reading. There is also a humorous paper which is worth reading by Miss Dillwyn, " A Personal Statement by 'Mustard,'" giving an account of a dog-fight (not a very deadly one), which pro- fesses to be the version of one of the combatants, and apparently of the one most blamed for the encounter which took place. It is told in a very lively fashion. The paper on "Bits of Rustic Philosophy," has a certain interest of its own, but covers too small a surface to give us much light on the subject of the next layer of voters and their minds.
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