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The Magazines.—A few of our month!; friends, like George of Clarence, briug up the rear with a dilatory step. Colburns New Monthly Magazine and Ifumorist is of the number. It is a good number; though we cannot consider the “ Gurney paper” good among its follows. It is amusing, but not equal to the editor’s writing in general. There are some entertaining stories:—The “ Yard-arm duel,” an account of a bloodless combat, and a deathless hanging, in which the hero is a most easy philanthropist; “ Tom Smith,” a pleasant story of a fortunate orphan ; “ Mr. Peppercorn, at Home,” an anecdote of a miser; and others. Tlie “Recreations in Natural History, No II.,” is a bit of erudite gossip about the Turkey, and forms an agreeable feature in the Magazine.The Dublin University Magazine contains a very striking story, not concluded, called “ Fardorougha, the Miser,” an Irish talc. The hero is beset with avaricious feelings, and, in spite of his better nature, sacrifices himself to them. The “ Confessions of Henry Lorequer” ar; the avowal.of a very sprightly scapegrace, full of anim*.! spirits and good humour. Dr. Wall continues his rejoinder upon the hostile notice of his work in the Edinburgh Review. There is too much writing of a political kind in the present number for a miscellaneous magazine.In the British Annals of Medicine are some highly-intc- ^ ^.1.. k ilt; FW WftalKnfK nh tli n H pAWni e% _
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London Constitutional and Public Ledger
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 10, 1837
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