8 DECEMBER 1849, page 15

Washington Irving's Life Of Goldsmith. * One Would Have...

new Life of Goldsmith was needless. From the time when he first emerged into notoriety as an essayist and ready writer, whom Johnson (it was thought unaccountably) made a good......

Publications Received.

THE week has exhibited a rare influx of publications, both as regards &erecter and number; and with few exceptions they came pouring in too late to allow of anything to be done......