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Mr. GoaTox, the author of the Biographica/Dirtionary, has compiled a

cheap and copious analysis of the three Reform Acts ; which is valuable from its including the whole of the boundaries of the several boroughs in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The analysis is gone about in as careful a way as any that we have seen : but we know not how it is—whether from the nature of the subject, or some other cause —we have always found more difficulty in comprehending analyses of these Acts than the Acts themselves. In fact, till we have some deci- sions, it will be in vain that an attempt is made to settle what is am- biguous, and what is explicit needs no settling.