“You will not like me the less for being candid. A few plain words then. I cannot but feel that you have not treated me with that common generosity which ought to be the characteristic of every refined mind. I never courted your favour, nor feared your criticisms; but was it possible for me not to notice the strange fact, that while the most frivolous and ephemeral publications of the day had their quantum of New Monthly comments bestowed upon them, not a word was condescendingly devoted to any