15 AUGUST 1829, page 9

Tragic And Comic Impressions Compared.

WE remember to have controverted, in the Atlas, Sir WALTER SCOTT'S position, that the world is more susceptible of comic than of tragic impressions. Two singularly striking......

The French Ministry.

IT curiously exemplifies the spread of English influence on the Conti- nent, that the new French Ministry is designated, both by its friends and its enemies, as a Tory Ministry.......

Melodramas—the Witness.

THERE are now two sources of the drama,—the French, and the popular novels. The only question regarding the origin of a new piece is, whether it is translated or derived.......

The Mail Sex.

THE settlement of the genders of things is whimsically capricioui. The neuter, the law of grammar, is very impatiently borne by the vulgar ; and we may observe that in the range......

. Mathematical Studies.

LADY MORGAN, in her Book of the Boudoir, makes this remark- " I suspect that the current admiration for the mathematics, as an in- strument of mental discipline, arises much......