Curiosities of Literature, by J. Disraeli, Esq. Illustrated by 'BOLTON
CORNEY, Esq. This labour of love and leisure is printed for private circulation, and we wish it had been otherwise : not that the little volume is likely to have a large sale or to produce a popular effect, but because it would afford pleasure to very many scholars and studious persons, by its learning, its shrewd. ness, arid its patient sagacity in hunting out errors, as well as by the cool, quiet, crushing manner in which it exposes them, and the superficial compiler assuming the air of the profound scholar, whether it be J. DISRAELI or his voucher E. L. flut.wiiit. The work consists of thirty papers; nearly the whole of which are de- voted to expose one or more gross blunders, ignorances, or, as it llfauld almost appear, sheer inventions of the author of the Curio litres of Literature; and although a microscopic examination of minute particulars and a constant reference to various authorities is often very dry work, yet in the brochure before us, mastery of the subject, and a latent spirit of satirical humour, give a rapidity and attraction which papers on professedly lighter subjects very often want.
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