8 JANUARY 1831, Page 13

We have read with much pleasure the little volume entitled

Excitement; a very bad title for any thing else than a gin-shop. It consists of selections from narratives of striking and dangerous scenes. The commencing paper on the Winterton Shipwreck, and the concluding one, also a shipwreck, are two stories Of the Most enchaining interest. The editor deserves the credit of having compiled a volume, of which, were we once more boys, we would not lose a line for the largest bag of marbles or the biggest of plum-puddings : nay, we are not sure that we should not prefer a rage from Excitement to a gallop on Dumps the pony.