The joys of friendship or of love?
Oh, let him die! when these are fled
Scarce do we differ from the dead!

_Gentleman's Magazine_.

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LITERARY GAZETTES.


As one of the signs of the times we notice the almost simultaneous
appearance of three new Literary Gazettes, at Edinburgh, Oxford, and
Manchester. One of the latter contains a wood-cut of the Manchester
Royal Institution, and eight quarto pages for three-pence. Among the
original articles is a sketch of Mr. Kean, in which the writer says,
"Mr. Kean's countenance was some years since, one of the finest ever
beheld, and his eye the brightest and most penetrating. Without ever
having seen Lord Byron, we should say there must have been a great
similarity of features and expression between them."

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DUELLING CODE.


People talk about the voluminous nature of our statute-books,
forsooth. Nonsense! they are not half large or numerous enough. There