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mg uumoerless mutations . AVe think Mr . Timbs well justified iu producing this second scries , ivhich wc can bear testimony is equal in interest and valuable information to that ivhich preceded it . This scries is especially devoted to subjects of a domestic character , ancl goes far to prove the acla ^ c , - that there is nothing new under the sun , " the popular Punch and Jiui y being well known m the fourteenth century , if not centuries before , and the recentlrevived

y shoeblacks , being an important body a century since , though it died out about thirty years asro . . Air . Timbs on this subject savs ¦ - On the general manufacture of Hacking , shoeblacks rapidlv disappeared but we _ remember a shoeblack at the entrance to Johnson ' s-court " , Fleetstreet , m 1824 . " AVe who arc some years the junior of Mr . Timbs , remember two , one at the corner of Johnson ' s-court , and the other vt the corner of Church-court , Strand , as late as 1829 . What would our modern belles think of

weaving cloth stockings ; and yet Queen Elizabeth wore none other until " her silkwoman , Mrs . Montague ( in 1500 ) presented her maiestie with a- payre of blacke knit silke stockings for a new year ' s < dft " winch pleased her so well , that she , finding them " pleasant , iinefau ' d delicate , " declared that henceforth she would" " wear no more cloth stockings . " _ We recommend everyone to buy the hook , and especially commend to then- attention the chapters on " Olden Meals and Housewifery

; " on "Money , AVeights , and Measures : " and on " the Phenomena of Life ' ; " in either of which they cannot fail to find matter of considerable interest . ¦ ' History of the British Empire in India , by Bi ; o . E . H . NOL-VX P ' I D Parts 25 26 , aud 27 . J . S . Virtue , City-road and Ivy-Ianc . —AVe have sd oitcn spoken in terms of commendation of the labours of BroNolanthat

. , ive need hardl y again assure our readers that the work loses none of its interest as it proceeds and approaches towards the events of the present day , the parts before us bringing down the history to the time of Give one of the most momentous in the history of India . The maps aud plates are beautifully executed , and the portrait of Sir Henry Lawrence in " Part 26 will be hi ghly valued by the subscribers . ' 1 he work is wonderfully J

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CLIENTS . —The whimsical" species is a very large family : and if not very pei " plexing , is certainly very far from agreeable . The case of the wrong-headed is ' usually one of some very equivocal right : the abatement of an alleged nuisance ; the restraint of a customary trespass ; resistance to a doubtful encroachment j

enforcement of a vague contract ; or above all , the assertion of some very quos , tionable right of way , of toll , of common , and of so forth . AVith the olei- ; . yniiin invariably , it arises on the titheable character of a twig of hazel , or aklerbush ' So with the client whimsical , his wrongs are always characteristic of the man they savour of frivolity—he has been deceived in the value of a painting , or ' i horse , or the mail has started before the time aud left him behindor he has

con-, tracted for a greenhouse or a dog kennel , ancl the builder has built it one waywhile he ordered it another ; and then comes objection—objection ends in quarrel —and each party flies to his attorney to bring the other to book . —Adventures of an Attorney .