8 APRIL 1837, Page 19

4. Self-Fornation is the history of an individual mind by

a Fellow of a College ; and the work professes to be " intended as a guide for the intellect through difficulties to success." We fear that the Fellow will turn out but a blind guide. He has a college self-sufficiency, and a kind of intpusing wordiness, saying much and conveying little. What mental incidents may have happened to his mind and imparted interest to his hook, we shall learn when we are at leisure to read it. As regards manner, he seems to have very effectively got rid of the graces of the old school without acquiring the directness of the new.