5 MAY 1832, Page 21

13. A Queer Book, by the Ettrick Shepherd, is a

quackish title to a, volume• of Poems by the interminable Mr. HOGG, who has traded now so many years on the fact of his having been an Ettrick Shepherd's boy. The book is no more queer than is any

1 other of the same writer's publications : it is a volume of miscel- laneous poems; of which we will next week give a more detailed t account, when perhaps we may notice his Altrive Tales.