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THE EDITOR'S LATEST MOMENTS. 



It is quite impossible for us to insure a notice of any new publication 

 that is not sent in before the 18th day of each month in succession. 

 The quantity of books sent for this purpose, even after the •24th of 

 January, will account for their not being reviewed in this number of the 

 " Old Monthly." Our friends and subscribers will perceive that we 

 have no less a number of crowded pages than sixteen, devoted to the 

 notice of books of sterling merit, in our present number. We have yet 

 — we are free to confess it — a great arrear of book criticism to bring up, 

 at least forty volumes, which shall be done speedily. 



Our Glasgow correspondent is sincerely thanked by the editors of 

 the " Old Monthly." — As early iu March as he may think proper. — By 

 sea. 



We advise Junius Brutus to call on the liOrd Chancellor, de facto. 



" Pope Leo's Jiast Words, by an African Chief," may be rendered 

 eminently useful in another quarter of the world ; we must decline the 

 honour of publishing them. 



Mr, Middleton's paper is accepted, and at his own terms. 



At the suggestion of an eminent bookseller — whom we are happy to 

 rank amongst our friends — we have erected new premises in our ad- 

 vertising department, exclusively for the " advertisements" of book- 

 sellers, authors, and literary men. 



A " paper," of considerable interest, from the pen of T. Miller, 

 Basket-maker, will be found in the present number of the "Old 

 Monthly." It is no less gratifying to us than it will be pleasant to all 

 those literaturists who have known Mr. Miller, from the first step he 

 gained on his ascent to the better walks of literature, to know that he 

 has been kindly— nay, splendidly patronised. We say splendidly 

 patronised, because, if such names as the Countess of Blessingtou, 

 Mrs. Bulwer, Miss Landon, on the one hand : the Editor of the Literary 

 Gazette (W. Jerdan, Es^.), the elder and younger Dilk, of the Athenaeum, 

 Mr. Lockhart, of the Quarterly, Mr. Bulwer, Mr. Harrison, the accom- 

 plished author-editor of " Friendship's Ofiering," on the other, do 

 not tend to add splendour to their unafiected and benevolent patronage 

 of a man of genius — although a basket-maker — we are at a loss to un- 

 derstand what " splendid patronage," would import. It is with feelings 

 of no ordinary kind we speak of Mr. Miller ; — for the present, however, 

 let silence speak our respect _ 



