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CROTCHET CASTLE.

too darkly for the other of you, I should say, as an impartial man, he has represented it fairly. My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything. There is no question about the amusement,—amusement of multitudes; but if he who amuses us most, is to be our enchanter κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν, then my enchanter is the enchanter of Covent Garden.