21 OCTOBER 1837, page 20

Self-formation.

As regards value, these volumes are pretty much what we pro- nounced them to be from a hasty glance some months ago; but their literary merit is far greater than we concluded......

We Have Received From The Old Sailor A Wrathful And

not over-modest letter, calling us to account for having, in expressing our opinion of his tale of " The Avenger" in Friendship's Offering, said that (in that tale) " he was......