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    CRITICAL NOTICES.

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    £ 46 * Critical Notices .

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    w $ & lifted : — " If it be possible , die ! Soui-destroyer ! " and the b ) ftde sped to his heart ' s core . A wild demoniac death-yell , and my own ungovernable and triumphant shout of joy , hurled back suad dispersed the mighty shadows of the hour . Chiaro ' scuro .

    Critical Notices.

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    Glances at Life in City and Suburbs . By C . Webb ^ . London , 1836 .

    Another " poet" turned proser ! There is much pleasantry in these sketches . Here is one of them : — " The wags about the inns of court say of him ( the late well-known Steeple-tall lawyer , Mr Wilson ) that when he applied in the King ' s Bench for his certificate as ' one of his Majesty ' s Attorneys , ' the learned Chief Justice hesitated a minute , and inquired of his learned brothers

    - Whether Mr Wilson could be legally descnbed in that document as a ' Gent . One , when he was , at the least , ' one and three-quarters !' Upon this a waggish barrister rose and begged leave to move the Court ' with a new conundrum : ' Rule granted . '— ' Why is an attorney , ' asked lie , ' onl y half as much a gentleman as an East Indian ? ' Both bar and bench gave it up : ' even Judge Garrow was pozed , and said he * couldn ' t say . ' Why , the attorney can only be a Gent . One ; but the Indian ma y be a GentooJ The Court immediately rose , and Westminster Hall was heard giggling , chuckling , and guffawing for half an hour afterwards . It

    is said that he was the only cause of the Strand being lighted with gas the commissioners for li g hting saw that it was impossible any longer to sustain the loss of oil which his head running against their old lamps nightly brought upon them ; the unreasonable Radicals in the parish objected to such enormous expenses : they did not so much mind the broken glass , but the waste of oil was awful , and as Russia looked refractory about that time , there might have been a failure in the usual unctuous supply . Willis , of Charles street , Covent garden , who used to

    shave him , was obliged to mount a dining-table to get at his chin ; and even then he strained his tendon Achillis , from standing so long on tiptoe . It was sometimes wondered that he did not operate upon his chin after the manner of that celebrated Irish giant who went up a ladder to shave himself . His tailor , when he measured him , like a sensible

    man , stood on a night of steps ; but three of his journeymen , unaccustomed to such a perpendicular position , were said to have broken their necks in the attempt to take measure of him , and their widows and children becoming pensioners on the master , he was compelled to say that such repeated accidents so lessened his profits , that he could not make more than fifty per cent , b y bis custom , and must give it up . He wanted to go up with Mr Sadler in his balloon . Sadler , who had been in Ireland for some time , and had come back as full of bulls as a pope , told him candidly that he could not carry him up higher than he was already . Fitting in thia , he wanted to over-monument the Monument ; but the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/58/