The Portraits in " Fraser's Magazine."
The wicked wag who directs the battery of wit and satire which this periodical levels against the notorious characters of the present day, has obtained the graphic aid of a very clever and original artist, who with pen and ink sketches at full length, in a pointed and picquant manner, the literary lions, as they are seen in the snug recesses of their caves. In the last number we have "A mortal likeness of Samuel Rogers—painted to the very death," to use their own phrase, a living" Anatomy of Melan- choly" ensconced in quiescent abstraction in an easy-chair. It is irresistibly ludicrous and a tete mores to the Pleasures of Memory. We have also had served up to us by the same acute delineator of character, JERDAN, CAMPBELL, and LOCKHART. The hit or miss style of the plates is admirably adapted for the embellishments of a periodical ; and the hits are palpable. The Magazine is much improved in its literary character, though we still desiderate somewhat less of slang.
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