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Rh editor of Mr. Life, am necessitated to "gratify," with all possible expedition, "the impatience of the public curiosity;" so eager is it to hear, what they, who believe in, can possibly have to say for themselves. And if this will do the business, why should you be troubled with more? I am far from agreeing with Mr., in all his observations. But there is one, in which it is impossible to disagree with him. "I have said, and I abide by it," cries the little hero, "that the fault of most books is, their being too large." On review-