nce of _Tom Jones_
shall flourish in eternal youth. If Coleridge classed him, as
one of the true immortals, with Shakspeare, Goethe could not,
nor was willing to contest, that he was so; if Byron could
cheer his heart and refresh his mind with his pages, so can,
and so does, Wordsworth. In a word, the matchless drawing of
his characters, which are not likenesses from life, but copies
from Nature--the one being a shallow art, the other a
profoundly creative power--his exquisite wit, his abounding
humor, his natural and manly pathos--in these no writer of
narrative fiction has ever approached him.

"While, therefore, nothing can be less likely than that the
fame of Fielding should ever be suffered to die, or that, as
long as literature exists it can ever diminish, nothing can be
more proper than to attempt to extend his popularity--a
consummation inevitably to be effected by producing his works
at a price accessible, and in a form attractive, to all
classes. The late Rowland Hill once observed, that it was not
fitting that the arch-enemy of mankind should have all the best
tunes to himself. In a like spirit it may be remarked, that it
ought not to be permitted to inferior writers to monopolize all
the appliances and means of popularity that art can bestow.
Accordingly, the proprietors have secured the hearty and
zealous co-operation of Kenny Meadows. It would be invidious,
and from the purpose, to institute a comparison between this
gentleman and his contemporaries; but it may be asserted that
no living artist has shown an equal versatility of genius,
which points him out as the man best fitted to trace the
many-colored life of Fielding. From the illustration, almost
page by page, of Shakspeare, where is the man but would have
shrunk? but that work of our artist has secured not merely an
English, not only a European reputation, but a world-wide
celebrity. The proprietors are assured, that from the hand of
Kenny Meadows such an edition of Fielding will proceed as we
have not yet seen, and shall not hereafter see."

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Of Mr. JOHN BIGELOW'S work on _Jamaica_, (published a few weeks ago by
Putnam,) the London _Examiner_ of April 5th, remarks:

"It contains the most searching analysis of the present state