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performed. They do these things better in France, as Sterne says : there 

 every author's work is read, and if it deserves to be, acted. Here if 

 an author is lucky enough to get his piece read, it is almost sure not to be 

 acted, unless it happens to have been written by one of the choice few. But 

 this state of things will not, we are satisfied, last much longer. 



FAMILY LIBRARY, No. 36. Six MONTHS IN THE WEST INDIES. BY H. 

 N. COLERIDGE, M.A. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALBEM A RLE- STREET. 



This is a reprint of a work that has long and deservedly been a favourite 

 with the public. There is an exuberance of fancy and an out-pouring of 

 feeling about every page that must at once delight the mind and interest the 

 heart. We could quote from it passages of superlative merit from almost 

 every chapter, but it has been so long before the public that most of our 

 readers are, we doubt not, already acquainted with its contents. If there is 

 any individual to whom it is as yet a sealed book, we would advise him to 

 procure the work immediately. Any extract that our limits would allow us 

 to make would only spoil his relish for the feast which is previded for him in 

 the perusal. We believe that this is the first edition which has appeared 

 with the author's name. It is, with two exceptions, verbatim the same as 

 the former two editions. " In this," the author v says in the preface, " I have 

 inserted a note and a few verses, but omitted nothing. The book pleased 

 with all its faults, and with all its faults it shall remain/' 



DRAMATIC LIBRARY, WITH REMARKS, CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. BY 

 GEORGE DANIEL. LONDON. THOMAS HURST, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH- 

 YARD. 



We know more than one individual who, after having given orders for 

 Valpy's Shakspeare, countermanded the same on the announcement of the 

 Dramatic Library, fearful that by taking in the two works they might thus 

 have duplicate copies of the Bard of Avon. Sadly will they be disappointed 

 when they receive the first volume of the present work, for it is neither more 

 nor less than eight pieces selected from Dolby's or Cumberland's edition of 

 plays, bound up in one volume. The embellishments are precisely the same, 

 and so are the critical and biographical remarks. The only addition is an 

 introductory preface. But we would not have our readers hence believe that 

 we think lightly of the present undertaking ; for, on the contrary , we have 

 always looked upon the edition of which the present work is only a reprint, 

 as the very best companion to the theatre that is extant in the language. 



AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



THE singularly mild weather of late Autumn, has continued <!b early Win- 

 ter, Christmas -eve, and Christmas-day partaking of the mildness and moist- 

 ure of April. A mild winter under the present circumstances of the popula- 

 tion would undoubtedly prove a blessing, yet with some countervailing effect 

 in a probability of the accustomed sequel of a chilly and ungenial summer, 

 defectively productive and perhaps unfavourable to health. The present sea- 

 son affords little novelty or variety for report. The wheat and other au- 

 tumnal crops, barring interruptions from the weather, formerly stated, have 

 been put into the ground successfully and with good promise, since they 

 have generally, a luxuriant and healthy appearance, warranting no serious 

 complaints; The superior or inferior state of forwardness has been almost 



