7 JANUARY 1837, Page 23

Tints of Talent, from Many Pencils, is—to carry out the

simile of the title—a book of pretty sketches, highly coloured and smoothly finished, such as we should admire in an Album and tolerate in an Annual. The volume is edited by G. MOIR BUSSEY ; who contributes two or three tales and sonnets ; and he is aided by several minnows of the brook of literature. It is pleasing and inoffensive reading, for such as prefer this kind of light food—the confectionary of intellect. Perhaps our impatience of the want of pith and substance in these trifles may incline us to undervalue their worth: our opinion, therefore, must be taken with a grain of allowahee for the unpretending nature of the pub- lication.