PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
Witusr we questioned the pecuniary syceess of Mr. TAIT'S bold speculation of reducing the price of his Magazine to a shilling,. maintaining at the same time the quantity and quality of his mat- ter, we reckoned without our host. Versed as we are by practice in the art of compressing, it did not occur to us, that by a little spreading of the page in width and in length, and by marshalling the type in double columns, the thick demy of the half-crown Number could be compressed into the thin royal pamphlet, at a great saving of cost in the material part, without injury to the spiritual. But " where there's a will, there's a way." nits ample page looks as frank and open as ever; its matter is as good, as various, and nearly as much of it, as before; and the most dim-sighted of its readers may thread their way more easily along its clear and spacious lines, now that they are divided into shorter ones and ranged in colutna. Tait has cut off his wooden head of Mimic:11Am too, that, hid in a pile of wig, darkened his cover. The .1 udge's eiiigy being removed, the " Fiat Justitia of the motto shows all t tic clearer.
Mrs. JoitxsToxi: contributes one of her veritable sketches of social life and chararter,—" The Sabbath Night's Supper; " The Opium-Eater gives us a few pages of his Autobiogrtiphy ; Lon- don Streets, the Empire of Fashion, the House of COIDIDODS, and Lord ALTHORP ID particular, form the subjects of the miscella- neous articles ; and Ministerial Dissensions, the Poor-Laws, Pars liamentary Attendance, the Dissenters and the Church, are the subjects treated politically. As a Magazine for the Reformer and the intelligent reader, we know of none more solid, animated, and vigorous, and free from those flimsy affectations of smartness that are to the intellectual taste what wafer-cakes are to the palate—as insipid as they are unsubstantial : and there is no one SO cheap—Mrs. JOH NSTONE'S own Magazine alone excepted.
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