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The Natural Son

Is perfectly intelligible, and has furnished us with not a few hearty laughs. Whether the author would have expected that precise demonstration of feeling, we are not prepared......

The Oli Ad Is A Poem, Which In This May Be

said to approach the sublime, that it is utterly incomprehensible. We shall not endeavour to de- scribe what we do not understand. A more decided case of folly we never met with......

Skinner ' S Excursions In India.

TDB is an exceedingly pleasant book,—pleasant in its subject, pleasant in its stN le, pleasant in the play of the author's humour, .pleasant in the exhibition of an amiable and......

Tait's Magazine And Other Periodicals.

WE said we would tell Mr. TAIT why the plan of name-seeking, on the part of editors and publishers, in literature, and more espe- cially in periodicals, was a bad one. To Mr.......