A new carica!tirist has taken the field; who appears to
possess humour and vigour, though his style is coarse and homely. He has been very happy in the choice of a subject for his first effort. But we should have liked it better had it not been evidently intended to pass for HB, whose mariner he imitates; and, moreover, he unfairly takes the title and adopts the precise mode of publication of the " Political Sketches."
The reginatnania that just now possesses all classes of people, is amusingly ridiculed in Follow my Leader. The little Queen, with head erect and a stately gird, is leading. John Bull with a hook through his nose. John, with hands thrust in his pockets, as if ready to pay before he is called ripen, fbllows with plodding alacrity, his eyes fixed with the stupid stare of one besotted on his royal leader,—who just deigns to east a backward glance, as if to see that he walks orderly, and does not tread upon her train.
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