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would be the only persons entitled to complain, provided their croakings were 

 confined to some congenial site. But when we find their splenetic fervour 

 leading them to pollute a place hallowed above all others in the estimation of 

 every lover of transcendent and unequalled genius, one's patience get the 

 better of one's apathy respecting things contemptible in themselves, and 

 only worthy of notice from their noxiousness. However, like the Agnewites 

 and similarly absurd fanatics, in whom a lust for notoriety of any descrip- 

 tion predominates over all other feeling, we may be but ministering to the 

 hankerings of these " churlish priests" in censuring them. Be it so]: their 

 ambition is unique, and its indulgence will beget the envy of few out of their 

 own clique. 



APROPOS. Nearly every attack upon O'Connell made lately by the Tories 

 has been prefaced or accompanied by some reproach for the continuance of 

 his allusions to the Rathcormack butchery. Judging from the sensitiveness 

 they display whenever the word is mentioned, we fancy JFratfA-cormack would 

 be the more suitable designation. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



A Work will shortly appear, bearing the rather eccentric title of ' Piso and 

 the Prsefect, or the Ancients off their Stilts.' In this production it has been 

 the object of the author to exhibit the citizens of old Rome in a new point of 

 view, and one too, which, if not particularly favourable, may be more conso- 

 nant with truth and reality than the notions which we have imbibed from the 

 writings of the commentators, or which have been scourged into us at an early 

 period of existence by the pedagogue's rod. 



The author of 'Jerningham' has just completed a new metaphysical romance, 

 under the title of 'Doveton, or the Man of Many Impulses,' wherein he has 

 attempted, under cover of a highly interesting narrative, to trace the develop- 

 ment of the imaginative faculty. 



We are glad to find Miss Stickney engaged on a third volume of her inimit- 

 able 'Pictures of Private Life,' and that she has chosen the fertile subject of 

 Pretension for the exercise of her talented pen. If there be one prevailing 

 annoyance greater than another, in every grade of society, it is that of Preten- 

 sion; and we therefore anxiously hope that the present laudable endeavour of 

 this popular writer to expose its folly, and check its many absurdities, will 

 prove successful. The work will be published in a few days. 



The first monthly part of a new and extended series of 'The Byron Gallery/ 

 to be accompanied, for the first time, with historical and descriptive letter- 

 press, will appear in a few days. 



A new issue of ' The Library of Romance' is now preparing for publication, 

 with splendid illustrations, engraved on steel, by the most eminent artists 

 after drawings by the first masters of the clay. 



Mrs. Steward, the author of 'Prediction,' and other works of great merit, 

 has just completed a second edition of 'The Mascarenhas, a Legend of the Portu- 

 guese in India.' The interest of the present edition of this extraordinary 

 work is greatly enhanced by the addition of historical and descriptive notes 

 illustrative of the narrative. 



Just published, 'The Bridal of Naworth,' a poem in three cantos. London : 

 Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 



Anew edition of Inglis's 'Spain,' with an introductory chapter, giving some 

 account of the lamented author, and an outline of the proceedings in the 

 Peninsula since his decease. 



An elegantly written and highly instructive work for young people is now 

 in the press, from the pen of Miss Caroline A. Halsted, Author of the ' Little 

 Botanist,' &c., in which a general knowledge of various interesting topics 

 connected with everyday life, is presented to the youthful mind in an attractive 

 and amusing form. 



