The Reviews for the summer quarter possess unusual like the typographical vagaries of Tristam Shandy--but it interest. There is an eloquent article in the Edinburgh, often happens that the meaning of a passage is altogether from the pen of Lord Dover, on Macaulay's History, wherein changed, by the substituted letters going to make another Mr. Croker is made to appear in very diminutive proportions, and full justice is awarded to the excellences of the great historian. The North British, among other things, discusses Lieut. Lynch's Narrative of the Expedition to the Dead Sea, in rather a depreciating spirit. It contains an article of interest on the " Railway System of Great Britain."

THE MAGIC OF KINDNESS. Such is the attractive title of a very pleasing volume published by Harper and Brothers. It is written by the brothers Mayhew; and is a handsome and ingenious allegorical-yet essentially true exposition of the beauty, wisdom and truth of genuine philanthropy.

HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. The same house have issued this very useful and interesting work consisting of reliable portraits of prominent members of the French Assembly since the last revolution and accounts of the proceedings.

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A LIST OF ERRATA.

Elia, in one of his Essays, speaks of a poor relation as the greatest annoyance of life, and employs a formidable catalogue of similes in his description of the class, which we consider peculiarly applicable to another sort of petites miseres-typographical errors. "A Poor Relation," says he, among other things, is "a blot on your 'scutcheon-a rent in your garment-a death's head at your banquetAgathocles' pot-a Mordecai at your gate, a Lazarus at your door-a lion in your path-a frog in your chamber-a fly in your ointment—a mote in your eye-a triumph to your enemy, an apology to your friends-the one thing not needful-the hail in harvest-the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet."

and very ludicrous version. During the Mexican War the papers at one time gravely informed us that "Gen. Pillow and seven of his men had been lost in a bottle,” and we all recollect the complaint of Miss Biddy Fudge of the blun ders of the County Gazette

But 'tis dreadful to think what provoking mistakes
The vile country Press in one's prosody makes.
For you know, dear,-I may, without vanity hint-
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print;
And you can't think what havoc these demons sometimes
Choose to make of one's sense, and what's worse, of one's
rhymes.

But a week or two since, in my Ode upon Spring,
Which I meant to have made a most beautiful thing,
Where I talked of the "dewdrops from freshly-blown roses,”
The nasty things made it "from freshly-blown noses!"

The Messenger is usually as free from typographical errors as a Magazine can be, and when we consider the awful' MSS. from which it is sometimes printed, we have reason to congratulate ourselves on its accuracy. But in our present number, we find several blunders of such a provoking character, that we are constrained to point them out, and say something in explanation of their occurrence. We shall mention only the prominent mistakes, leaving all minor blunders to the correction of the intelligent reader. In the article on Moore's Anacreon, p. 564, four notes are marked in the text but not given. They were omitted in the MS. by an oversight of the author. The notes were most probably the Greek words employed in the Iliad.

In Mr. Tuckerman's article-Manzoni-p. 587, "Cheer byle" should be Cheeryble, p. 588 "Albermarlett" should he Albemarle Street, p. 588, 2nd column "Anderson's" shoold be Andersen's, p. 590 "dankness" should be darkness, p. 591 the name of the Swedish novelist is again misprinted, and Ware is transformed into a wave.

In "A Bachelor's Reverie," p. 604, for "Ebzeoir" read Elzevir and a few lines lower down, same column, for are, ave, read aus, auɛ,- p. 607 for “martial" read Martial, and p. 609 for "the sick nurse" read "the sick sense." The errors in this article, with the exception of the last, occur, however, in but a small portion of our edition.

Our list of errata is finished. We deem it due to our readers, our contributors and ourselves to say how they came to be made. A short time during August and the early part of September the editor was absent from home, and the revisal of sheets devolved on the proof-reader of the printingoffice. Now it happens to be a maxim with the craft “to

All this to the sensitive author or editor is the typographi- follow copy even should it go out of the window," and we cal error.

It invadeth his repose, it destroyeth his peace of mind, it causeth him not unfrequently to utter maledictions upon innocent persons, it oppresseth him with a sense of an irreversible fate, from which there is no escape and for which no remedy can be supplied. The author, perhaps, has written an ingenious treatise upon the Homeric poems and looks with interest for its appearance in print. He opens the magazine containing it, and finds it so full of blunders that it is indeed "all Greek" to him. Thereupon he swears at the printer and writes down the editor an ass. The Editor, beholding with dismay the sad work of his compositors, must submit to the worst imputations upon his scholarship, or seek to repair "the wreck of matter" by inserting that most awkward of all possible emendations, a list of errata. It is well indeed if the blunders make simple nonsense of the original. A page thrown into pi, or types out of place, might be taken as something bizarre or whimsical,

have found on recurring to the MSS. that in every case the printer has strictly adhered to the characters as set down. Our friend Mr. Tuckerman makes a legible and graceful chirography, yet he sometimes abbreviates and writes two words together to the perplexity of the compositor. Thus occurred the most awkward error in his article: "Albemarle St." written together having very much the appear. ance of "Albermarlett."

We have been not a little annoyed at these apparently trivial matters, inasmuch as they subject us to unjust snubbing at the hands of the critical reader. Not to know the home of John Murray, or the chorus of the Greek tragedy, or the name of the most famous of printers, or that Martial meant a man, would argue in us a melancholy want of fitness for our position as editor of the Messenger. We ery in this instance peccavimus and beg our correspondents in future to be careful in the preparation of their MSS. for the press.

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