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x ages, and occupations, makes but a very mall variation in the play of the machinery within. And if this be faithfully repreented, and that well delineated, we may be gratified at once by the diplay of hitorical and poetical truth.—I doubt if Cervantes, the firt of maters, can hew me a more whimical figure than our honet Swabian gaping for wans at the mouth of his hermit’s den, the morning after he became the confidant of his mater’s amours.

In taking leave of the work before us, we cannot but acknowledge that there are dipered here and there ome glimmerings, which might have been eaily improved into bright corucations of wit. We upect, however, that in this intance the author, if there be really more than one peron concerned, has uffered from the negligence or unkilfulnes of the tranlator, who appears ometimes to uppres local alluions, and ometimes to ubtitute ideas or terms more familiar to the Englih reader.

And o much the better for the Englih reader, if he has taken thee liberties judiciouly! Is not an Englih crown as good as a German dollar, provided it be terling coin? And how long has exchange been accounted robbery?

But the periodical court didains to revie its decrees. The antiquated pretenions of his Holines have centered in the judges who preide there. From their infallibility, however, there till lies an appeal to public