Timothy Cripple; or, Life's a Feast. By Thomas Auriol Robinson.
2 vols. (S. Tinsley.)—Timothy Cripple is a lad who, seeking to obey his father's precepts, attempts to go through life on the principle of honesty, and meeting for the most part with rogues and hypocrites, and being himself simple to the verge of silliness, does not attain any very great success. His adventures are told in what is, on the whole, a foolish book, written in a style which makes it look as if it had strayed by some strange mistake out of the last century into this. So foolish is it, that we would fain hope that the writer does not know what a detestable accusation he has brought against the morals of a great public school, to which he gives a pseudonym clearly intended to point out the original. A reviewer ceases, after a while, to be astonished at what men are found to write and publishers to publish; but could Mr. Samuel Tinsley have read the tenth chapter' of the first volume, before he allowed it to pass out of his shop?
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