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approaching winter evenings. Miss Sedgwick's new work had scarcely passed 

 through our hands and reached the circulating libraries of the united kingdom, 

 ere we were presented with ' The Conquest of Florida j" and by whom, fair 

 reader, do you incline to think ? Prepare for a fresh surprise if not delight ; we 

 answer, by a nephew of Washington Irving, the American novelist. The very 

 name carries with it a modern charm, if his volumes fail to impart enchantment. 

 In few words, then, let us sum up the evidence and pronounce the sentence. 

 The Conquest of Florida, as a whole, is one of the best written and most refreshing 

 works we have read for some time. We are by no means inclined to cavil or find 

 fault with trifling discrepancies, but ever happy to award praise, especially where it 

 is pre-eminently due. Theodore Irving bids fair to follow in the wake of his 

 uncle's, Washington Irving's, intellectual sailing-yacht. We regret we have not 

 space for extracts. The work must make its way rapidly. 



The Englishman's Political Legacy, or John Bull's Spy-Glass for dis- 

 covering and unmasking- the Corruptions and Abuses in his Church 

 and State Property. Strange, Paternoster Row. 



THIS is an extraordinary book of facts, indeed ; we say facts, because, however 

 revolting however loathsome however unpalatable they may prove to all of us 

 Englishmen, who are made, as it were, to pay the piper ; they are, nevertheless 

 (to speak sincerely), but too true. Indeed, it is not likely that the author, who 

 is evidently not merely a talented but a gifted and literate man, would, with 

 his immovable reputation, for the purpose of gratifying a vicious propensity, 

 namely, that of misrepresenting the real state of things. Moreover, this popular 

 public writer seems to us who delight not in judging invidiously to have derived 

 a powerful genius from nature : he evidently displays an original invention in his 

 political theories as well as an original style in his turbulent not to say revo- 

 lutionary, declamation. We say turbulent, for he doubtless possesses a very 

 tumultuary mind. Perhaps, indeed, he was bom in a tempestuous atmosphere, for 

 the express purpose of becoming 



" The scourge of impostors and the terror of quacks." 



Although we differ with the writer in politics, taking it for granted his are extreme 

 Radical, we must concede to him the merit of having issued a most skilful and 

 comprehensive " Political Legacy." The language he has adopted is, in many 

 instances, too " boisterous" nay, vociferous in the highest degree, to please our 

 sober judgment ; but this fault may, perhaps, best suit the majority of his readers, 

 despite our dislike of it; and when we find so much plain dealing and wholesome 

 truth set down with so much national pride and native honesty, we readily negative 

 our unbought opinion. 



" The Englishman's Political Legacy" addresses itself to every man who has a 

 head to think, and a heart to feel : as a memorial of abuse and corruption, 

 of misrule and oppression perhaps unequalled it demands attentive [pe- 

 rusal and the serious meditation of every Englishman, Irishman, and Scotch- 

 man, who wishes to live and die a freeman, and to transmit the blessing of 

 freedom to his children. To the participators and abettors in corruption and 

 abuse, this little work will be the subject of dread and abhorrence the very 

 mention of its name will strike them half dead with fear and terror j but by the 

 friend and well-wisher to his country's happiness and prosperity, it cannot but be 

 hailed as a useful and readable medium for the diffusion of political knowledge 

 and public spirit. The size of the work is adapted so as to form an appendage 

 to every man's pocket-book, and thus calculates it to be handed down to 

 posterity. 



To candidates for Parliamentary representation, on liberal and popular prin- 

 ciples, *' The Englishman's Political Legacy'' is respectfully recommended, as an 



