MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



' first step,' the transition was probably too abrupt. I think it might have 

 been better if the Bill had been made two mouthfuls of; in which case there 

 would not have been such a terrible hubbub about cliokiny and cramming, as 

 the party militant were pleased to raise. At the same time that I admit this. 

 I must confess, that however small the bolus had been, the Conservatives 

 would, in all probability, have piped to the same tune, t/torgJi in a lower key ; 

 for, in point of fact, it was not so much that the Bill was too large for their 

 swallow, but that its ingredients were unpalatable." In the whole range of 

 English literature there is no parallel passage to this. The figure of a 

 Conservative piping, with a small bolus going down his throat is matchless ; 

 and then the metaphor of a stride being taken at two mouthfuls ! 



" I confess I exult and glory in the proud consciousness of my own inde- 

 pendence, I clap my wings and crow for joy. For I see a wide and bound- 

 less ocean before me, upon which my bark is but just launched." Here the 

 author is a cock on the brink of embarkation. 



" As Buffon once observed, that if he were shown only so much as the 

 smallest joint in the little toe of an animal, such was his knowledge of com- 

 parative anatomy, that he could assign the genera and species to which it be- 

 longed, &c." Where did Buffon observe this ? He was scarcely such an ass 1 

 What ! assign an animal to genera ! Is Mr. Holworthy so ignorant as not to 

 know that genera is the plural of genus ? The passage quoted is quite as 

 droll as though one were to say, " only let me see any gentleman's little 

 finger, and I will tell you of what countries he is a native." 



" For what am I created, and what ought to be the aim and business of 

 my existence?" This question we really cannot answer: it is quite clear 

 that our author was not " created" to write a pamphlet. 



" Truth, in her native modesty, retires from the fierce arena of contention, 

 disgusted with the meanness and selfishness of her mock- champions in the 

 scuffle for victory, and the hurly-burly of conflicting interests, she gets 

 crushed and trampled upon by both parties." In this passage, a young lady 

 very properly retires in her native modesty, and perfectly disgusted because 

 she has been crushed and trampled upon. 



" The Tories, like that renowned heroine of romance, Mrs. Partington, run 

 dow r n to the beach, brandishing their mops, to prevent the flowing of the tide; 

 while, the more nimble Radicals leap over their heads, and strive to mop the 

 tide on ; one is every whit as absurdly employed as the other." Query. When 

 writing this pamphlet was not the author more absurdly employed than 

 either ? 



" I draw a line here, in order to signify, that there is no kind of connexion 

 between the above propositions and those which follow." This is invidious : 

 on the same principle the author should have " drawn a line" after every 

 paragraph in his book, " in order to signify that there is no kind of connexion 

 between the foregoing propositions and those which follow." 



" I fear I may not have rendered myself quite intelligible to many of my 

 readers." The author's fears are not without foundation ; but we beg to 

 assure him that although " quite unintelligible," he is, by no means, the less 

 amusing. 



In his chapter on Church Reform, the author asks, " Who is there, who 

 understands the question in all its breadth, its height, and its depth ?" 

 Certainly not Mr. Wentworth Holworthy. Shortly after he gives triumphant 

 evidence, that, as regards style, he has ceased to be " boyish and tumacious:" 



" I have heard many a stormy debate over which the whirlwind of human 

 passions has swept. { have read many an hypocritically-indignant pamphlet 

 and news-mongering article, beslimed and beslobbered with Billinsgate insult 



