nal faith, and I be deceived in the object of her worship?" These ruminations had so wholly occupied the mind of Wentworth, that he heeded not the hints of weariness which Mr. Hall more than once exhibited, by just inquiring" if he had not rung the bell?" "I shall not go to bed," said our hero ; "get me the Morning Post as early as possible; I will take a nap upon the sofa," and folding himself in his domino, he sought repose. It is, perhaps, a task above the abilities of a female scribbler to depict the character of an Englishman accurately; I know there are many touches of excellence which should grace the portrait; and that the picture might be made transcendantly perfect, by culling the virtues of the race, rather than by mixing the colours with the simplicity with which Nature usually decorates her works. The heroes of former works (I mean works of fiction) were prodigies of valour; they fought like giants, and and they fed like giants; to them all seasons were the same; they could repose in the open air, or languish in dungeons for periods indefinite, and emerge from them ready and able to meet all contingencies. Such are not the men of the present day; many are frivolous and highly degenerate; numbers are pedantic, without a clue to guide us to the reason for such an assumption; one is a philosopher; another never thinks at all. Again, one views this world as the terminating system of his existence; another bears the chequered scenes of this temporal estate with fortitude, for he looks beyond its sphere. While I allow Nature' to be thus various, and tremble lest my pen should betray my ignorance, like the most bigoted of my defined genus, I am tempted to go on. I feel that I shall be forgiven, though I err, for I am a woman. END OF VOL. 1. Lane, Darling, & Co Leadenhall-Street. PRINTED FOR A. K. NEWMAN & co. AT THE Minerva Press, LEADENHALL-STREET, LONDON. An Old Family Legend, by J. N. Brewer, 4 vols...... Sir Ralph de Bigod, a Romance, by E. Moore, 4 vols.. 1 Elnathan, or the Ages of Man, an Historical Romance, £ s. d. 1 09 1 ...... 0 16 6 by a Philosopher, 3 vols...... 0 15 @ Felicia, by Madame Genlis..... 0 4 0 The Cousins, or a Woman's Promise and a Lover's 0 15 0 The Caledonian Bandit, or the Heir of Duncaethel, a Mortimer Hall, or the Labourer's Hire, by Mrs. Bridget 0 10 0 1 0 1 0 0 Fitz-Edward, or the Cambrians, by Emma de Lisle, 3 vols 0 15 0 1 1 0 0 15 9 0 15 0 Pyrenean Banditti, a Romance, by Mrs. Sleath, 3 vols |