Transactions of the Loggerville Literary Sxiety. Printed for private circulation.
(J. R. Smith.)—Some of the papers in this collection are
amusing; others merely strive to gain that object, and are tedious in their pursuit of it. The frontispiece is an excellent bit of false perspective) roads going up into the air in a line with the string of a kite, the tail of
which waves in the face of a horse visible on the other side of a church, houses tumbling down hill, and men standing on roofs which are some way from them, compose an edifying and pleasing picture. There are good ideas in the article on the neglected characters of Shakespeare, especially in the discovery that the most important personage in Hamlet, and the one without whom the play would have ended very differently, is Writs. And Dr. Homer Dormouse, principal of the Loggerville Grammar- School, contributes some valuable "observations on ignorance," as the subject with which he is most familiar.
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