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The Medicaster and the Mortgagee form the first volume of

the "Edinburgh Cabinet Novels ;" a work which is undertaken with the view of supplying the public with original fictions at a low price, so as to put the dearest class of literature on a par with the cheapest. As far as price is concerned, there is nothing to complain of—the work would be cheap as a reprint ; and dicta] readers will feel pleasure in the tales whose taste has not been rendered fastidious by much novel-reading. As far as subject is concerned, the work is an imitation, not of SCOTT, but of those tales with which ALLAN CUNNINGHAM and others supplied the Magazines when SCOTT was in his heyday.