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Review Of New Publications.
is written with great neatness and spirit . The comic parts are admirably written . The following passage , which relates to a " war-worn Soldier , " resident in a country village , we give as , in our opinion , equal to any thing we have ever read . " " ' I'd much rather be a poor man , like Nic the old soldier , ' said Evilen . ' Who is Nic the old soldier ? ' Mr . Barnet asked . ' He is a poor Chelsea pensionerwho lives with his wife in that there
cot-, tage , and sometimes does a job of work to help the pension to hold out to the year ' s end . He is liked very much in these here parts , please your honour , because he is always ready with his joke , and tells us stories of the wars , and General Wolf , aud General Quebec , and such like great commanders ; but after all , he is but a poor devil , with hardly a whole rag to his back , except upon Sundays , and upon the versenary of General Quebec ' ' What is that ? ' said Barnet .
' Good Lord 1 does your honour not know the versenary of General Quebec ? ' cried she . ' Not I , " said Barnet . ' Well , that is curious , ' said the old woman ; ' but we all knowit'in , these here -parts , by the means of old Nic . Good gracious , I wish your honour but saw him at the versenary !' ' -Why , what the devil is the versenary ? ' cried Barnet .
' I'll tell you particularly , please your honour , ' said she , ' if your honour will only have a little patience . ' ' Weil , well , ' cried-Barnet , ' let us hear . ' ' Why , then , your honour must know , that -. the versenary of General Quebec comes round , like Christmas only once a year , and then old Nic appears in all his glory , with his red scarlet coat on his back , and fierce cock'd laced hat on his head , and a uniformal -sword by his side ; and then lie struts away to the alehouse , where he usually meets three or four old soldiers , who comes thereto keep the versenary . along with him ; and so they drinks the healths of all the old tcommanders who were . killed abroad :
and then they begins to tell stories about the wars , and describe how the battles were won b y the English , and lost by the Trench and Spaniards ; for your honour knows , that the French . and Spaniards neverbeat the English in . their lives , though they were , two to one . And . then old . Nic gives . a- full and true account of how-GenerarWolf was . killed , and General . Quebec taken prisoner ; and then they desire blind George , who was once a grenadier , and now sells ballads to sing the British Grenadiers , which he does ; all about
Ivlarsthe god of war , ancl all the-other gods descending upon spears , and then they all join in the rorus , and . beats the grenadiers march with . their-tongues , and they are ail as drunk as lords , and then I always helps Margery-to carry Nic home . And then—and then , this 'is the versenary of -General Quebec , please your honour . ' Many parts of equal beauty mig ht be . extracted , but our -limits . will not permit . In a work of such general merit , to cavil at individual
passages may appear an invidious task ; but we cannot close -the article without-objecting to the duel , in the second volume , between Edward and Sir-Charles Royscon , for which we cannot think there . is . sufficient reason . So man of honour-is , in our opinion , bound to fight every Bully who calls him out , The medical dissertations also of Mr . Sound and-the other sons-ofEsculapius would have been better , in proportion as they'had been ; shorter .
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Review Of New Publications.
is written with great neatness and spirit . The comic parts are admirably written . The following passage , which relates to a " war-worn Soldier , " resident in a country village , we give as , in our opinion , equal to any thing we have ever read . " " ' I'd much rather be a poor man , like Nic the old soldier , ' said Evilen . ' Who is Nic the old soldier ? ' Mr . Barnet asked . ' He is a poor Chelsea pensionerwho lives with his wife in that there
cot-, tage , and sometimes does a job of work to help the pension to hold out to the year ' s end . He is liked very much in these here parts , please your honour , because he is always ready with his joke , and tells us stories of the wars , and General Wolf , aud General Quebec , and such like great commanders ; but after all , he is but a poor devil , with hardly a whole rag to his back , except upon Sundays , and upon the versenary of General Quebec ' ' What is that ? ' said Barnet .
' Good Lord 1 does your honour not know the versenary of General Quebec ? ' cried she . ' Not I , " said Barnet . ' Well , that is curious , ' said the old woman ; ' but we all knowit'in , these here -parts , by the means of old Nic . Good gracious , I wish your honour but saw him at the versenary !' ' -Why , what the devil is the versenary ? ' cried Barnet .
' I'll tell you particularly , please your honour , ' said she , ' if your honour will only have a little patience . ' ' Weil , well , ' cried-Barnet , ' let us hear . ' ' Why , then , your honour must know , that -. the versenary of General Quebec comes round , like Christmas only once a year , and then old Nic appears in all his glory , with his red scarlet coat on his back , and fierce cock'd laced hat on his head , and a uniformal -sword by his side ; and then lie struts away to the alehouse , where he usually meets three or four old soldiers , who comes thereto keep the versenary . along with him ; and so they drinks the healths of all the old tcommanders who were . killed abroad :
and then they begins to tell stories about the wars , and describe how the battles were won b y the English , and lost by the Trench and Spaniards ; for your honour knows , that the French . and Spaniards neverbeat the English in . their lives , though they were , two to one . And . then old . Nic gives . a- full and true account of how-GenerarWolf was . killed , and General . Quebec taken prisoner ; and then they desire blind George , who was once a grenadier , and now sells ballads to sing the British Grenadiers , which he does ; all about
Ivlarsthe god of war , ancl all the-other gods descending upon spears , and then they all join in the rorus , and . beats the grenadiers march with . their-tongues , and they are ail as drunk as lords , and then I always helps Margery-to carry Nic home . And then—and then , this 'is the versenary of -General Quebec , please your honour . ' Many parts of equal beauty mig ht be . extracted , but our -limits . will not permit . In a work of such general merit , to cavil at individual
passages may appear an invidious task ; but we cannot close -the article without-objecting to the duel , in the second volume , between Edward and Sir-Charles Royscon , for which we cannot think there . is . sufficient reason . So man of honour-is , in our opinion , bound to fight every Bully who calls him out , The medical dissertations also of Mr . Sound and-the other sons-ofEsculapius would have been better , in proportion as they'had been ; shorter .