Lady MORGAN'S Dramatic Scenes have only just been put into
our hands. We have read enough of the first and principal piece to be greatly entertained with the humour of Mrs. Quigley, and not a little struck with her picture from the life of the clashing materials of the modern Irish gentry. Dr. Polypus is admirable! be ought to have spoken on the Irish Church Temporalities Bill. Lady MORGAN has a theory that the people of England are too busy, and too thoroughly taken up with their political condition, to read elaborate novels : she has therefore stripped the novel of all its surplusage, and given us the skeleton, in the shape of dramatic scenes, taken, as she says, and as we verily believe, from real life. The plan admirably suits her light and lively pen, her turn for satire, and her abundant materials for sketching Irish society of the dominant claises.
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