27 DECEMBER 1845, page 16

Leigh Hunt's Stories From The Italian Poets.

IT is a relief to turn from the unskilful or trading compilations of the day, and from fictions where the artist is sunk hi the craftsman, to a work like this, where a cognate......

The Cricket On The Hearth.

BEYOND those qualities which may be called the formal characteristics of Charles Dickens, there is not much to distinguish The Cricket on the Hearth from the common run of tales......