P.has a hump-back, and his nose and chin are more crooked than those features in the Apollo or Antinous, which we are accustomed to consider as our standards of beauty; does this argue malice on my part towards MR.
PUNCH?
Not in the least.

It is the critic's duty to point out defects as well as merits, and he invariably does his duty with utmost gentleness and candour.
An intelligent foreigner's testimony about our manners is always worth having, and I think, in this respect the work of an eminent American, Mr.N.P.Willis is eminently valuable and impartial.

In his 'History of Ernest Clay,' a crack magazine-writer, the reader will get an exact account of the life of a popular man of letters in England.

He is always the lion of society.
He takes the PAS of dukes and earls; all the nobility crowd to see him: I forget how many baronesses and duchesses fall in love with him.

But on this subject let us hold our tongues.