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Second Series Of Sketches By B 0 Z.

No writer ever attained general popularity so instantly as Boz ; and certainly no one has made such industrious use of his advan- tage. Like the " wag " in society, he is seized......

Prior's Life Of Goldsmith.

DURING the whole of the last century, authorship was in a transi- tion state. The age of patronage had gone ; the age of indepen- dence had not arrived. Till the time of DRYDEN,......