The fiery enthusiasm of the ATHENAEUM is well known: and the bitter wit of the too difficult LITERARY GAZETTE.

The EXAMINER is perhaps too timid, and the SPECTATOR too boisterous in its praise--but who can carp at these minor faults?
No, no; the critics of England and the authors of England are unrivalled as a body; and hence it becomes impossible for us to find fault with them.
Above all, I never knew a man of letters ASHAMED OF HIS PROFESSION.
Those who know us, know what an affectionate and brotherly spirit there is among us all.

Sometimes one of us rises in the world: we never attack him or sneer at him under those circumstances, but rejoice to a man at his success.

If Jones dines with a lord, Smith never says Jones is a courtier and cringer.

Nor, on the other hand, does Jones, who is in the habit of frequenting the society of great people, give himself any airs on account of the company he keeps; but will leave a duke's arm in Pall Mall to come over and speak to poor Brown, the young penny-a-liner.
That sense of equality and fraternity amongst authors has always struck me as one of the most amiable characteristics of the class.