15 DECEMBER 1838, Page 19

The Comic Almanacli for 1839, is not deficient in drollery,

but it is rather too independent of the months and the seasons; one continuous story, amusingly illustrated by CRUIKSR ANK, inter- leaving the calendar of Momus. Seasonable topics, however, are of constant recurrence, though "saints' days" do not increase: there are the fashions of the day—its amusements, whims, and quackeries to ridicule : society is continually showing new "weak points" for the graphic satirist to aim at. So. up, GEORGE! to the wood, or the etching-ground ! Draw that needle-pointed arrow, whose wound tickles and makes "the stricken deer go laugh." "Shoot fully as it flies!"