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2. The Trials of Charles the First, and of some

of theRegicides, forming Family Library, Number XXXI., is a workmanlike per- formance; but we do not like the spirit in which it is composed : it is altogether Quarterly Reviewish, and this we hope will expire under the Reform Bill. Direct political remarks are, however, generally avoided by the author ; and in fact, both the spirit and the matter of the work, as respects CHARLES, may be found in the folio "Trial of Charles the First, published from authority ;" a work very unsuitable to these times.