A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers.

chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death

to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.

Humor is not so distinct a quality as, for the purposes of criticism, it is commonly regarded, but allied to every, even the divinest faculty. The familiar and cheerful conversation about every hearthside, if it ...