24 JANUARY 1835, Page 19

RICHARDSON'S Sketches in Prose and Verse comprise a miscellaneous collection

of verses, essays, tales, and " articles," on various subjects and in various veins. Some of them have already appeared in Annuals or Periodicals ; and as these " were honoured with testimonies of approval, the author has been in- duced to add to the number, and to submit the whole, to the public." We know not that this labour was requisite; for the papers display no higher excellence than that exhibited in the average run of Magazine and Annual literature. One of the best things in the book is a letter from a lady in London to her lover in Paris; but it too completely resembles PRAED'S early-verses in the New Monthly, to claim any other praise than that of being a clever copy.