2 JULY 1836, Page 17

Recollections of an Artillery Wirer. Two volumes of egotistical gossip,

by BENSON HILL the actor ; who narrates his adventures when a stage-struck lieutenant in barracks in Ireland, serving in the American campaign, and in the operations in Flanders after the battle of Waterloo. The interest is less exciting than the average of soldiers' stories; but it is eked out, after the manner of actors' reminiscences, with anecdotes elaborately but smartly told ; and the whole makes a readable and entertaining medley of soldiership and theatricals, of the lightest and most fugitive kind. A phrenologist would infer from reading the book, that " love of approbation" is a most prominent organ in the cranium of Mr. HILL.