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matter would be yet to be regretted if it had not brought Mr. Blanf ord into a 

 place where we should have been glad to see him long ago ; in the columns of 

 this Journal ; furnishing us with information not to ourselves accessible. It is 

 to be hoped that more of the same may be to be had from him, and his anony- 

 mous critic, at any rate, will not complain of the "emphasis" of any commu- 

 nication from him half as interesting as the present. Eeviews and controversies 

 are not best written in butter, and mere mutual admiration would be much out 

 of place between writers who are, as such, public servants, answerable not 

 merely to each other, but to their employers and their readers. 



