TO "OUR CRITICS." 



WE owe many obligations to our contemporaries, daily and weekly, metro- 

 politan and provincial ; and we are always glad to acknowledge them. But the 

 sweets we are thus grateful for, cannot be supposed to render us insensible to the 

 bitters which are now and then, inadvertently no doubt, administered to us. In 

 short, we have a grievance to complain of : it is this ; that a few of our friends 

 occasionally do us the honour to quote from our pages, without the slightest 

 mention of the source from whence the extract is derived. The Globe (and there 

 is no. journal, morning, evening, or weekly, that we respect more) flattered us 

 exceedingly by burthening one of its columns with three passages from our last 

 number ; but unluckily the effect of this kindness was a little diminished by the 

 omission of the title of the work from which they were taken. This, however, is 

 not so bad as the treatment we have met with at the hands of three provincial 

 journalists, who (each of them) carefully selected the most brilliant paragraphs 

 of the whole number, and placed them to the credit of the " New Monthly Maga- 

 zine !" We have too much respect for the talents and liberal spirit of the 

 editors of that journal, to suffer any little frivolity of our own to be attributed 

 to them ; and we are not merely willing, but anxious, to bear the odium of any 

 extract that may be made from our pages. But, after all, the obligations ac- 

 knowledged at the commencement of this paragraph, far outweigh any causes of 

 complaint that even the ingenuity of discontent could devise. 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Those of our correspondents who have favoured us with their addresses will 

 hear from us before the 5th of the month ; all others will find their communi- 

 cations at the publisher's after that day. 



Articles intended for insertion in the ensuing number must be forwarded by 

 the 10th of the month. 



It is requested that all communications may be addressed " To the Editor" 

 only, and forwarded to Messrs. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say that no unpaid letter can be received. 



The writers of poems, and other short pieces, are requested to keep copies of 

 them. 



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