A portion of Mr. Jerrold'? dramatic works, with the more important of his stories and miscellaneous writings, have been collectively pub lished in eight volumes. Here we find the 'Men of Character,' origi nally published in Blackwood's Magazine;' ' Clovernook,' which appeared in ' The Illuminated Magazine; "St. Giles and St. James,' written for Jerrold's Shilling Magazine ;" Tho Story of a Feather,' and 'The Caudle Lectures,' which gave such an impulse to the popu larity of Punch.' For this famous journal be has regularly written from the second number. In this constant round for thirty years of a very peculiar form of literary labour, where the strongest effects are produced by epigrammatio terseness, we trace a life of unremitting industry, combined with very rare natural gifts improved by diligent cultivation. The flippant satirist—and we have many such amongst the young race of periodical writers—who pours out his invectives without impartial observation or accurate knowledge, belongs only to the passing hour. Jerrold'? satire has always a foundation of truth and earnest purpose, and therefore it lives. In his most ephemeral
writings we may trace that wide acquaintance with the best literature which in somewhat too much despised by those who believe that a brilliant writer, to use a familiar phrase, can make everything out of his own head. For three or four years Mr. Jerrold has been the editor of ' Lloyd'? Weekly Newspaper '—a journal of so enormous a circu lation that its conduct Involves a tremendous moral responsibility. Whatever objection there may be to the strongly expressed opinions, the invective, or the sarcasm of this paper under its present manage ment, it has never aimed at popularity by false and dangerous doctrines n1cou the great principles of society and government. Its present success, compared with its previous position, is one of the many proofs that the largest number of readers are not to be pro pitiated by what has beeu falsely oonsidered as essential to popularity —to write down to an imaginary low intellectual standard.