PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
Flom the number of publications of one kind or another on our table, we infer activity in the publishing world. It seems, how- ever, to be more in the trading than the literary way ; the articles being better fitted for purchase than reviewing. We have indeed a leash of Novels; but, judging from a slight inspection, we fear they are rather for the circulating library than the critic. We have also several Annuals,—Cie Picturesque, in whose lite- rature Mr. RITCHIE tells us we are to find some solid nutriment ; the Forget Me Not, which is flaunting away in a new and most elegant garb; and (amongst others) an Agricultural and Horti- cultural Annual, clothed as beseems it, in grass green, with
something like the plan of a maze impressed upon its sides, and its embellishments of a convolvulus and a South Down resplendent
in BAXTER'S oil-colours. Of this batch we shall very shortly give a more detailed account ; and also, when fresh arrivals en- able us to take a completer view, of a lot of Almauacks, amongst which the very elegant specimens of Mr. TILT'S typographical taste occupy a conspicuous place. In the mean time, we proceed to dismiss those claimants whose appearance requires a notice rather than a review.
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