tessor Sedgwick to be its writer, as we Happen to know the fact, apart from the internal evidence it contains of his authorship.  It is by no means our intention to give a set " review of the reviewer" on the one hand, nor to laud the author of the * Vestiges" on the other, but having heard so much said (among men of small critical note, it is true) about the castigation, the unfortunate 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, sample of' periodical criticism, and point out, by a few brief passages, the  manner in which this literary feat has 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 criticism, nor one where the facts, to use the mildest