4 FEBRUARY 1837, Page 17

Boz keeps up the ball in Pickwick, with unabated fun

and vivacity. The consultation with Sergeant Snubbin, in No. II, is a capital satire upon those expensive farces, as dull as they are brief. The dirty and littered chambers, and the sleek and snigger- ing clerk—the sallow and slovenly Sergeant, affecting an air of profound abstraction, and showing his importance by a contemp- tuous iadifference to the interest of his client and an utter igno- rance of his case—the " leader's " lofty condescension to his "6 junior," and the bashful humility and deference of the briefless barrister—are dune to the life. The supper at the lodgings of the medical student, with the interruptions of the termagant landlady, is also a rich scene in its way.