tessor Sedgwick to be its writer, as we Happen to
know the fict, apart from the internal evidence it
contains of his authorship.

It is by no means our intention to give a set “ re-
view of the reviewer” on the one hand, nor to laud
the author of the * Vestiges” on the other, but hav~
ing heard so much said (among men of small critical
note, it is true) about the castigation, the unfortu-
nate author has received, under the sledge-hammer
hands of the Reverend reviewer, amounting, indeed,
to annihilation, we have thought it our duty to read |
this long, but by no means dull, sumple of’ periodical
criticism, and point out, by a few brief passages, the |
manner in which this literary feathas been performed.

Lest our object should be mistaken, a word or
two as to our own opinion of the work, that is the
occasion of so much critical turmoil may not be
wholly out of place; and we may add, this is
the first ink we have shed on the subject. We
have seldom read a book so open to severe criti-
cism, nor one where the facts, to use the mildest