Time's Telescope is thiiyear behind time ; a great fault
in a time- keeper and observer, like this publication. The editor had gazed so long at some new asteroids, that he forgot to observe that the planet lie was upon had completed its revolution. We do not see that the older this publication grows it may be said to be better; this number smacks of exhaustion. In speaking of the poetical department, the editor observes, he "need only refer to the names of those whose gems grace our pages." This is unfortunately the vice of the present day—to take names for things : it is the foun- dation of the puffing system, and, as such, to be eschewed. A name is no guarantee for a copy of verses, as is proved by the mass of mediocrity here collected together, under what the editor considers great names. The best thing in the book—excepting the astronomy always, which is really well kept up—is a little hu- morous wood-cut, whether original here or not we cannot say, of St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. David, all reeling and roaring in a string. The man who drew this ought to be known ; there is a great deal of just conception about it.
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