In addition to these, we have, as usual, a vast
number of pamph- lets on all subjects which can affect the body or the soul, im- prove mankind in this world, or fit them for the next. Some people take up the Church, some the State; some would put the Colonies to rights, others confine their attention to the one hundred millions of India; some set their pen against the power of Russia, and others would establish Education on a Scriptural basis. One individual writes upon Steam to India via the Red Sea and via the Cape of Good Hope, but seems as if he were rather puffing a project than discussing a matter to be solved; whilst another ex- pounds the superiority of his mode of propelling vessels. All this is very well. The pamphlets are no doubt important to those who write them ; and individuals interested in the several subjects may take some interest in the discussion of them, if their exist- ence were known, which it may be by advertising. Au reste, a pamphlet is either of much interest to the world at large, or none at all. The secret is, to choose a right subject at the right time, and treat it rightly.
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