The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-02 00:00:00

FRASER' S MA GAZINE.

This periodical improves as it advance
in—
months. There is none of the frivolous egotism
that defaced its early numbers. It is no longer
in its teens, it has attained the—not years but—
months of discretion. The first article, on
" Canada," is a very amusing melange of cri-
ticism, anecdote, and biography, and opens with
a broad, humorous sketch of a clever cosmopo-
lite, ycleped Dunlop, once Editor of a London
newspaper, then writer fur a Scotch Magazine,
then professed tourist, then "gentleman" on the
score of his having nothing to do, then lecturer
on medical jurisprudence in Edinburgh, and
now, we understand, director of a company in
Canaia, but at the same time so perfectly free
in temperament and independent in conduct
that he is ready to start for any part of th,
world in ten minutes. This Review, judging
from internal evidence, and the tone of good
fellowship that pervades it, is from the pen of
the celebrated MOrgan O'Doherty, who died, we

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►re credibly i _thormed, of a broken heart the
other day, owing to nervous agitation, brought
on by a sixteenth order of affiliation, with which
'►e had the ill luck to be visted last May. " The
Book of Jashur" is an imitation of Hogg's
" Chaldee MSS.," but is good enough to be
an original. It is a remarkably clever political
squib, supposed to be translated from the
/Ethiopic. We subjoin a specimen, to wit, a
sketch of Sir Joseph Surface, the Prince of
Waterloo, and that Noble Ex-Cabinet Minis-
ter—he of the love-locks and the cornuted
temples—whose appearance in public on horse-
back has been pronouced, by no incompetent
judge, to be quite sufficient to justify a revolu-
tion. Our readers will see that the period alluded
to is the late interregnum of ten days, when the
Tories tried to patch up a Government.

" 15 Now the great captain, whose nose is like unto
a cedar of Lebanon, went unto them in whom he put his
trust, and whom he had of old time ruled as it were with
a rod of iron.

" 16 And the first of these was of a name as of the
outer covering of a leek, hut men called him Joseph, and
he was a man crafty in council.
" 17 So said the great captain unto him, stand thou by
me, Joseph, the son of the weaver, as thou saidst thou
wou,dst do, and we shall do Iyattle against the uncircum-
cised Philistines,
18 That have seated themselves in our high places,
and tear our food from our mouths.

" 19 But the heart of Joseph was hardened, and he
said unto the captain, nay;
" 20 Long have I served thee in the times of old, and
I have worked out the days of the years of my servitude,
and I shall serve no more.

" 21 Beside, I fear the people, lest they stone us with
stones, and the cry of him whose nose is shaken as it were
by the east wind.
" 22 Therefore is it that I will not up with thee, to fight
in Ramoth Gilead.

" 23 So when the great captain heard these things, be
put dust upon his head, and rent his garments, and said,
verily thou art a weaver, and the dung is in thee.
" 24, And he smote him with a kick in the hinder part,
and went on his way.
"25 And he looked for whom he could see; and be-
hold their hearts were affrighted by reason of the things
that Joseph the son of the weaver had said, and they would
not go up.
"26 Save one who was the son of a great judge in the
land, a comely man, whose hair is scented with myrrh
and aloes, and to whom his wife hath given the horn of
abundance. And he said, make me the chief of the
council, and give me gal 1, and so I shall scatter thine
enemies before thee.

"27 But the heart of the great captain was sad, and he
said, is there none better than he;
" 28 Who scattereth words without knowledge, and to
a byword in the land ?"

" Thompson's Life" of Sir W. Raleigh" is s
passable notice of a passable sample of bio.
graphy. " Allan Cunningham's Maid of Elvar"
does justice to a very delightful poem, which, had
it not fallen on evil days, would have been uni-
versally read and admired. " The Progress of
Revolution" is a satire modelled on the style of
Pope, with the exception of the wit, point, and
sarcasm, all of which are diligently omitted. It
is tame and prosaic enough to have been written,
by the Editor of " Boswell's Life of Johnson.'
On second thoughts, it cannot possibly be Mr,r
Croker's composition, for it makes no mention
either of his modesty, learning, or genius,
" Domestic Manners of the British" is a capital
quiz on some late dissertations by Englishmen
on American habits, manners, and so forth.
" The Biograghical Sketch of Dr. Dennis
Lardner"—Dionysius, as he is called for short, .
after the Irish fashion—is amusing, but tOO
severe ; the Doctor is a creditable, though not $
first rate scholar, and has turned out of late
some very creditable compilations. « The
Schoolmaster's experience in Newgate," (a strange
place for a schoolmaster to study in,) contains
some very valuable and striking facts.

• COMIC MA GAZINE.
This is a very amusing little work, full of
clever pictorial puns, edited by the author 01
Figaro in London. Duncombe, the bookseller,
has, we see, published a rival Original Conde'
Magazine, whose embellishments are its sole
recommendation.