This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...to give a literary tone to the age or the hour.' Somebody in the August issue of the 'Magnolia' Magazine, for the lack we may suppose of something better to do, has entertained himself with an elaborate review of one of our old back numbers. It is very pleasant reading. We like it hugely. It is rather 1 lengthy;' hence ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...to give a literary tone to the age or the hour.' Somebody in the August issue of the 'Magnolia' Magazine, for the lack we may suppose of something better to do, has entertained himself with an elaborate review of one of our old back numbers. It is very pleasant reading. We like it hugely. It is rather 1 lengthy;' hence we can afford our readers no other proof of the pudding than a few of xhepiums, which we proceed to pick out. Our respected correspondents will require some ' green willows' to wear round their hats; for 1 list! O list!' The critic says that the 1 Quod Correspondence' is ' balderdash stuff, ' for quoting from which he 'owes his readers an apology;' that the good old ( Grandfather's Port-Folio' is 4 sentimental twattle;' that1 Edward Alford and his Play-fellow' is such an 'unintelligible farrago of skimble-skamble stuff' that it 'would be degrading to criticism to dwell upon it;' that Consul Greene, in his ' Letters from Rome, ' has hashed up 'trite and thread-bare subjects, 'embracing only ' information of the most common-place character;' that' Life in Hayti' contains 'no solitary item of new information;' that Rev. Mr. Cheevrr's Grenada and the Alhambra ' is a' mere second-hand serving up of cold condiments;' that the 1 Rime of Sir Thopas' is an ' abortion of stupidity, ' (abortion of stupidity (U good!') 'puerile and silly stuff, which it would be an insult to the understanding of the reader to dwell on; insinuates that The April Shower' by Mr. H. W. Rockwell is trash, and so forth. lei est un pretty kettle de poissons!' as a pleasant contemporary has it, in his very 'domestic French.' 4 Decidedly these are the opinions' of the critic, however--all which are respectfully submitted. It is a little odd, though, when we come to think of it, that
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