to have done in days past. Reviewers
too!---will they ever dine together anon?--surely not. Authors are known
to be in the malicious habit of speaking ill of their friends and judges
behind their backs; and at dinner-time they will soon have every
opportunity of so doing. How unpleasant to call for beer from the poet
you have just set in a foam; or to ask for the carving-knife from the
man you have so lately _cut up_! _We_ reviewers shall then never
be able to shoot our severity, without the usual coalman's memento of
"take care below!" One advantage, however, from the new system must be
conceded, and that is, that when an author waits in a great man's hall,
or stands at his door, he will be pretty sure of being paid for it; which,
in the case of your dangling garreteers, has never hitherto happened.
Crabbe's story of "The Patron" will become obsolete. High Life will,
indeed, be below stairs!

There is a lively spirit of banter in these observations, which is
extremely amusing. They are from the _Athenaeum_ of last week,
which, by the way, has more of the intellectual gladiatorship in its
columns than any of its critical contemporaries.

[5] There is a cookery-book, by "a Lady," and a cookery-book by a
Physician; but Mrs. Rundell and Dr. Kitchiner will soon be warned
off the gridiron by the erudite genuine practical cook, who has
a right to the _kitchen stuff_ of literature. Mrs. R. must show
herself to be what she professes, and take "her chops out of the
frying-pan;" and the "good doctor" must "put his tongue into plenty
of cold water" to cool its boiling, broiling ardour.

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STEAM.

A Mr. Josph Hardaker has sung the praises of this gigantic power in
thirty-five stanzas, entitled "the Aeropteron; or, Steam Carriage." If
his lines run not as glibly as a Liverpool prize engine, they will
afford twenty minutes pleasant reading, and are an illustration of the
high and low pressure precocity of the march of mechanism.

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TIME'S TELESCOPE FOR 1831

Has appeared in somewhat better style than its predecessors. The paper
is of better quality, the print is in better taste, and there are a few
delicate copper-plate engravings. The old plan or chronological
arrangement is, however, nearly worn threadbare, and to supply this
defect there are in the present volume many specimens of cont