23 APRIL 1831, Page 20

Wedded Life in the Upper Ranks consists of two tales,

both of great pretension, but of very small power. Of the many fashion- able novels we rave lately read, this is, if not the one most desti- tute of talent, certainly the most commonplace. The publishers had better employ some one to grind up the unsold copies of their less successful noveli, than add to the stock of paper assuredly destined to the trunk-maker. A copyist, by picking a chapter

here and a pale or two there, and throwing over the whole a unite formity of names, would concoct a far better work at much less expense.