Another Annual has arrived from Elgin—the Ultima Thule of Scot-
land—to prove the fallacy of our remarks last week as to the existence of any other Annuals. The Elgin Annual, by the way, might be called the .Leap-year Annual, or the Triennial, since it appears at intervals of three: years. It contains the usual quantity of prose and verse ; is printed in a respectable manner—for the country ; and embellished With some very neat little aquatint views of Elgin and its neighbour- hood, from drawings by Mr. GRANT; who is also projector, proprietor, printer, editor, and prose-writer of the work. A view of the Suspen- sion Bridge over the Findhorn—renowned for haddocks—is interesting for its novelty ; tire bridge having been only completed this year.
We were led astray by Miss SHERIDAN, who, in the preface to her Comic Offering, induced us to apprehend the loss of our boon, or at least the non-appearance of his C011ik Annual. We rejoice to learn that his annual specimens of Pea-manship will appeal' with the Novem- ber fogs, as usual ; and no doubt its contents will be as unusual as ever. Mr. Hoon, in a letter to his publisher, says—" I intend to contradict my demys by fresh octavos ;" and adds, that the appearance of a novel
help to prove that I am not in a state of de-composition."
The First Volume of the Comic Magazine, with its numerous graphic puns, makes an amusing Comic Annual, of no mean pretensions as far as the wood-cuts are concerned. They are designed with all the gusto of HOOD'S fancies, and engraved in a spirited style. Some of them are excessively droll, as well as ingenious.
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