CRITICAL NOTICES. 



■ We must add to our notice of the Monthlies, a brief reference to this provincial 

 production, which, as our readers know, is published at Worcester. We did not see 

 the second number, but the third is a marked improvement on the first. There is 

 in it a touch of seriousness which must have been nurse/j by some solitude, and a 

 touch of earnestness which speaks a mind not rifled by the thousand petty dissipation;* 

 and pursuits of the metropolis. There are two articles in it on natural history, full 

 of personal observations, which are almost worthy of Gilbert White." — Courier. 



"This new periodical bids fair to become an honour to the provincial district from 

 ^hich it emanates. It has already proved that Worcestershire and the neifjhbourinj; 

 counties are favoured by the residence of genius and talent. The second number 

 furnishes sufficient assurance that, if articles abounding with beautiful thoughts and 

 written in the language of elegance, have any power to attract, "The Analyst" must 

 live and prosper in no ordinary degree. It has several excellent compositions, and 

 is, on the whole, a very pleasing magazine for the young and the old, the grave and 

 the gay." — Warwick Advertiser. 



" Great works and valuable instruments do not proceed at once full-formed and 

 complete from the hands of the inventor, but attain perfection by slow degrees. 

 Thus it was with the originally complex machinery of our manufactories, by which 

 England has now become the mart of the world. " The Analyst" may be considered 

 as the invention and application of a new instrument to the diffusion of science and 

 the arts throughout the midland counties. In noticing the two former parts of this 

 useful work, we have borne our testimony to its sterling merit, and the present 

 number evinces that it is making all the progress to perfection that we anticipated. 

 We cannot conclude this short notice without expressing our admiration of the tact 

 and taste of the editor, in the selection and arrangement of his excellent materials," 

 — Hereford Times. 



" This periodical, which is in every respect most creditable to the provincial 

 literature of the day, puts forth in each succeeding number fresh claims to admiration 

 and support. The scientific papers are excellent ; and a vast body of information 

 on the most important and interesting subjects gives value to its pages." — 

 Cheltenham Jotcrnal. 



"We hail with considerable gratification the appearance of another number of 

 this periodical. Our readers are already in possession of our opinion of the merits 

 of the first number of this interesting publication. Since then a second and now a 

 third has appeared, and we feel assured that by this time the intrinsic merits of this 

 work will have wrought out for it a welcome access to the study and the boudoir of 

 every lover of literature in the country. The spirit with which the several articles 

 are written — the interest of the legendary tales — the sound judgment displayed in 

 the reviews and critical notices — are not surpassed in the best of our periodical 

 ifulilications, and afford as gratifying a testimony to provincial talent as the work 

 itself does to provincial enterprise. The occasional remarks on subjects of natural 

 history are peculiarly appropriate in such a work as the present, emanating as it 

 does from a locality so highly favoured in the objects of this interesting pursuit. Of 

 these the short Essay on Insectivorous Birds, in the number before us, reminds us 

 ih style as well as in matter (and we can scaicely gi\o it higher praise) of that most 

 interesting of all writers on this fascinating study, Gilbert White." — Worcester 

 Journal. 



" We have to make our acknowledgments to some correspondent, who has 

 politely presented us wiih a number (the third) of this very interesting and valuable 

 periodical miscellany. We have perused some of the articles it contains with 

 interest, and promise ourselves much pleasure and instruction from the portion we 

 have not yet found leisure to attend to. The story of " Faithful unto death," with 

 Avhich the number before us commences, is an admirably written pathetic narrative; 

 and it would be well if our costly albums and annuals, which are so beautifully 

 embellished with graphic illustrations, would enhance the value of their works by 

 specimens equal in literary merit and genuine feeling to the tale we have named." 

 — Liverpool Mercury. 



'•The universal commendation which greeted the appearance of the first number of 

 this periodical from the provincial press, was justly extended to the second, and the 

 iliird now before us, is even more deserving of praise than its precursors — it is ricli 

 in variety of matter, instructive, amusing, and suited to every class of readers." — 

 Hereford Journal. 



" The publication for the present month, which, in our opinion, far surpasses any 

 of its predecessors in all the qualidcations necessary for a literary periodical. We 

 can assure our readers that " The Analyst" is well deserving of their patronage — 

 that it is, indeed, one of the most promising periodicals of the day." — Chel. Chron. 



