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wise people ought not to be in a hurry." Miss Lan-
don should lay this sentiment to heart, for it is truer
than anything in " Romance and Reality." " Better
Never than Late" is a clever dramatic piece from the
pen of the popular author of " Paul Pry."
Ultn in is
written in Mr. Poole's best manner. The
vited One" is a Ittle sparkling Poem very much in
the manner of Haynes Bailey.

BENTLEY:',S MISCELLANY.
Bentley takes the field in
The present Number is the strong forse this month.
best we have yet seen.
Boz shows off in his best style ;
Maginn is critical
and learned ; and Ingoldsby versifies; a ig Family
Story" in the happiest and most whimsic.ll mak7ller.
To begin with " Oliver Twist ;" the " Pick;*bck
Papers" will, we suspect, be soon rivalled in popular: V 1
by this clever series of articles ; the characters of
which, though only in outline, are superior to any-
thing we have met with in Captain Marryat's clever,
off-hand nouvelletes. Boz has great and ready powers
of invention, combined with a felicity of touch that not
unfrequently reminds us of the " Citizen of the .1
World." He has no occasion to dig for materi.als ;
they are ever ready at command. His Mr. Bumble,
the parish beadle, is almost as original a conception as
Mr. Pickwick. What can be racier, or display more
nice observance of character, than the following
dialogue, which takes place between the great parochial
dignitary and Mrs. Sowerbery, who has called him in
to assist her in reducing to obedience a refractory
parish apprentice ?
" A'int you trembling while I speak, Sir ?' said Mr.
Bumble.

" • No,' replied Oliver boldly.
44 Oh, you know, Mr. Bumble, he must be mad,' sail Mrs.
Sowerbery, no boy in half his senses could venture to speak
so to you.'
" It's not madness, Ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after al
few minutes of deep meditation, it's meat.'
"' What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerbery.
" Meat, Ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble with stern em—
phasis. You've overfed him, Ma'am. You've raised a
artificial soul and spirit in him, Ma'am, unbecoming a person of
his condition, as the Board, Mrs. Sowerbery, who are prac-
tical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do
with soul or spirit either ? It's quite enough that we let 'era
have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, Ma'am,
this would never have happened.' "
The philosophy of this passage is parochial in the
highest degree. There can be no mistaking the,
speaker, which is the, great charm of dialogue. " Peter
Plumbago's Correspondence" works out a lively con-
ceit with much archness and spirit. The " Youth's
Vade Mecum" is a clever piece of versification front
the pen of Mr. Whitehead, a gentleman who deserves
to be better known than he is. There are few more

striking tales in modern literature than his " Confes•-
sions of James Wilson." Why does he not follow up

the dramatic faculty which he unquestionably pos-
sesses ? " Nights at Sea" are not so good this month
as they have been. But talent, like the tide, must
have its ebb and flow. " Shakspeare Papers" is by
Dr. Maginn. It is an analysis of the character of
Falstaff, and shows much shrewd, subtle discrimina-
tion. We hope he will next take in hand Rabelais'
Panurge, which Shakspeare, we suspect, had in hit
eye when he drew " plump Jack," as cannot fail to
have struck those who arc familiar with the " Voyage
to the Holy Bottle," and the style of bouncing adopted
by Pantagruel's " lean liar." The " Squire's Story"
is capital. The verse trundles on as lightly and
smoothly as a Cambridge tandem on a Newmarket
road. " Reflections in a Horse Pond" might have
been a posthumous production of Charles Lamb- -
The article exhibits throughout much of his quaint,
grave humour.

FRA ER' S MAGAZINE.
There is too much politics in this Number, which
otherwise is a good one. The " Greek Fragment lately
discovered at Derrinane"—we say nothing of its poli-
tical bias, but regard it only as a squib—is capital.
The lambic metre is preserved with tolerable accuracy
throughout, and the doggrel slang in the Greek dialect
has an effect irresistibly ludicrous. O'Doherty must
be the author of this jeux d'esprit, for we know no
other humourist of the day who is capable of it. the
solemn exhortation to all Englishmen to look about
them—

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rqty ay 61:q9aFri7E :WV wro,—
before they be destroyed or corrupted by the Pats, who
are a nation of mere " brog-trotters" and " shillelagh'
bearers" (Bo7reor'rEFvv), is the very sublime of bur'
lesque. An " Essay on Originality of Mind," is a pass'
able article, from the somewhat antiquated pen of Sir --
Egerton Brydges. An " April Voyage'! contains
some caustic notices of a variety of new publicationO•
" Melange from the Notes of an Employe," is an irni"
tation of the " World we Live in" of Blackwood, but
is scarcely so well executed. The " Fraser Papers
for May" are, as they have always hitherto been,
of point and fun. We have no space for extracts. .

THE DUBLIN MAGAZINE.
Sintpkin and Marshall.
The " Convicts of Lisnamona," by Mr. Carleto vt_
is continued in this Number. The writer sotugla
every page the depths and shallows of genuine Triae
~
feeling. We cannot doubt but the perusal of this w
will contribute to direct the attention of his country'
men to an author who is not prized half so highly 8:
he deserves. The author of " Hyacinth O'Gara'
whose chronicle of " Some doings long ago at C.tit;
raghbeg" we have read with pleasure, is a WIds
with whom—(through the medium of the Da
University Magazine be it remembered)—we desire
further acquaintance. His shrewdness, and dry llu'
mour, slightly tinged with sarcasm, are qualities
we highly appreciate in the common run of Magasiuti
articles on fanciful or imaginative subjects----val,e
brought to bear on the ordinary occurences of life. I);
the " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen" Sheridan figureer
again this month. We like the second part rathis
better than we did the first, principally because its.
not overloaded with theories and hair-splitting illy
tiuctions without differences. The other Papers ceio
sist chiefly of criticisms on works long since noticed
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this Journal. As a whole, the present Number isbiest
means equal to the last, either in the variety or interest
of its articles.

COURT MAGAZINE.
Albeit we are the antipodes to the Court in °lir
tastes, feelings, and principles, and consider the °Pe;
pellativc of this Magazine by no means attractive, Ist
we must be just; and being just, we at once allow tra"il
there is some very pleasant reading in it. The lilte ofy.
character, if not of the highest order, is unlfd to
tedly higher than we have before been accustwZriti.
see in its pages. The paper on " Contemporary. et of
cism" contains much of truth, although the °Wild
the writer in his classification of the various geneetiire
critics, is evidently enough to raise a stiPerstru inr
that may stand as a sort of monument to his °Ill: soa
partiality on the ruins of all other pre-existan
Contemporary critics. c -
" The Observations on Shakespeare are usylel
terised by some research and much good sense. mo The
has contributed a May-bud, under the title of
Belle of the Year ; he gives us some sparklingsrort;
written in a spirit which we much admire.
.0 oats
least attractive pages are the opening ones, for loot;
there is a spirited engraving of Lady Augu,sta seat
worth, and a landscape of Raby Ca le, tn.steon tre
the Duke of Cleveland. They reflect credit
artists.
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Our old and familiar acquaintance:Pio,h the -4-posi4
is struggling manfully to regain his former