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Blackwood': Magazine. October, 1829.

The introductory article in this number contains an able
analysis of " Torqnato Tasso ; or, the Prison and the Crown,"
by the Baron Von Zedlitz. The essay on the feigned " Mad-
ness of Hamlet" exhibits great penetration of mind and dis-
crimination of character. The essay on " Casuistry" is also
exceedingly clever. The notices of the" Picture Exhibitions"
will be read with great interest both by the artist and the
amateur. The author is evidently a complete master of his
subject, which he treats of with great vivacity of style. The
commencement of " Goethe's Life and Works" gives pro-
mise of a very interesting series. The elaborate review of
the " Whig and Tory Finance" has been very seasonably in-
troduced at the present crisis. The arithmetical statements
which it contains afford the most conclusive evidence of whig
extravagance and mismanagement. " Ten Thousand a Year"
is a capital tale, fully equal in many respects to anything that
Boz has ever published. Dickens must really now look after
his laurels, or he will assuredly be eclipsed by the anonymous
author of the tale before us. The conclusion of the review
of " Henry Grattan's Life" abounds in anecdote. The con-
cluding article on " State Trials" is very curious and in-
teresting,

Fraser .Magazine. October, 1839.

This is a capital number, whether as regards its variety or
the excellence of its several articles. The continuation of the
" Greek Comedy" contains very able and scholarlike strictures
on the Knights of Aristnphanes. "The Legend of Becket"
is an extremely well written tale. The specimens given from
" The Elder (English) Sacred Poets," though frequently
quaint and homely in their phraseology, abound with rich
touches of fancy. One of the most interesting articles in the
present number is that entitled " Some Recollections of
James Hogg." It is replete with characteristic anecdotes.
" The Church" is the title of a very masterly article in vin-
dication of the principle of an Established Religion, which
we especially recommend to the attentive perusal of our read-
ers. " The French Plutarch" promises to be an interesting
series. " The Youth of Julia Howard" is another excellent
tale. Dr. Magitna's remarks on " The Learning of Shak-
speare" will afford the antiquarian reader a very rich treat.
The observations on " Don Carlos, Christina, and the
Spanish Question," display much sound sense. " A Passage
in the Second Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria" will be
read with a painful degree of interest. It contains a careful
review of the correspondence respecting the case of the late
Lady Flora Hastings. The author's remarks are not less
severe than true.

The Dublin University Magazine. October, 1839.

The spirited publishers of thin excellent magazine have in
this number commenced a series of-portraits of eminent cha-
racters connected. with Ireland. The first given is that of
the Rev. Cmsar Otway, author of " A Tour in Connaught."
The etching is well executed, and the biographical memoir
well written. Ma article on the " State of Parties in the
British Empire" is very valuable. It proves the truth of the
proposition that the government is a faction, and that the
faction is a government. " A Chapter in the History of a
Tyrone Family" is another of the graphic extracts from the
legacy of the late Peter Purcell. The continuation of " The
Journal of Francaise Krasinka" is getting rather tiresome.
The review of " The Life and Times of Henry Grattan" is
dispassionately written. "The Grave-digger's Daughter" is
a tale of great power and pathos. There is much truth,
plainly but forcibly expressed in " The Epistle of a Yeoman
from the North." We have been highly pleased with " The
Recollections of a Portrait Painter." We are glad to find
the " Legends and Tales of the Queen's County Peasantry"
continued. The " Bewitched Butter" is exquisitely rich in
its illustrations of a popular superstition.