ILLUSTRATED PUBLICATIONS.
The publication of another volume of the Waverley Novels, awakens with a painful feeling the interest which we felt on their first appear- ance. The mighty mind which teemed with their thronging multitudes of images, is now closed to all outward impressions; and the hand whose movement of the pen gave them an immortality on the page of letters, is paralyzed. We look eagerly for the added matter in the re- print, and peruse it as though we listened to the latest expressions of a departed friend. Sir WALTER will not live to see "the topstone brought out with shouting" of this, the best and most lasting monu.. merit of his fame. The new Volume—the Thirty-eighth—completes the Tales of the Crusaders ( Volume Thirty-seventh, containing the commencement of the Tales, never reached us): it is embellished with two admirable illustrations by WATSON Goanow, among the best of the whole series. Volumes X X Xl X. and XL. will comprise Wood- stock ; and the whole of the prose works of fiction will be completed ins . forty-eight volumes. What writer ever left such a legacy to the world as these alone constitute !
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