The Pilgrim of the Thames, by PIERCE EGAN, appears to
have taken its title from Mr. But.wee's Pilgrims of the Rhine, and to be intended as a kind of sequence to the far-lamed Tom and Jerry. The exact object of the periodical we cannot tell, as the First Part is introductory. It would appear as if it were designed to contain a descriptive account of life in the various pleasure-places on the banks of the Thames, and in the steamers which move upon its surface. The framework, of course, is merely a vehicle for the sketches of the author ; but the principal persons are a retired Lord Mayor, who has risen from a very humble station and is bent upon taking his pleasure ; his nephew, and a kind of half- and-half City gentleman, such as Mr. EGAN might he supposed, to invent. These, if we guess rightly, are to take a tour down the Thames, and describe what they see. How far it may be worth seeing, time must show.
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