21 JANUARY 1837, Page 19

Ratings of Fancy, by ROBERT Sur-wale, Esq., is a collection.

of short tales, poetry, and miscellaneous papers of different kinds; some of which having been deemed of sufficient merit to be sur- reptitiously reprinted by editors in lack of matter to fill space, have now been collected and republished by their proper parent. They have the merit of being various and readable, but they smack of their original nature, and are very Magazinish,