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The new edition of Rejected Addresses, edited by Mr. Andrew Boyle (Constable, 15s.) is very handsome. Its value, more- over, is increased by the very informative notes and the twenty portraits which illustrate it. Parodies are apt to fade with age ; but the work of " the sneering brothers, the vile smiths," as Lamb called them, still seems consummately clever. Byron enjoyed the parody of himself : " Tell the author I forgive him," he wrote, were he twenty times over a satirist." Southey thought that the Smiths had entirely failed to hit his manner. Coleridge thought that no one would suppose him " so childishly irritable as to be provoked by a trifle so contemptible." But Sir Walter. Scott felt he must really have written the verses attributed to him.
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