yourselves enough in my field, I'll thank you kindly to ride out!" The words were scarcely out of his mouth, before they came out in a hurry, both claiming the stakes! K. as having won, and H. because K. had gone out of the line in the beginning of the race. So the matter stands at present, and I humbly submit the ease to you, Mr. Editor, for your opinion, in this, the first Steeple Chase on Long Island. From the New York Spirit of the Times. LOTTERY, REVIEWS OF NEW WORKS. "THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE."-Blackwood and Sons. There are some supercilious critics who affect to hold in supreme contempt the republication of works which have shed lustre over many scattered pages, and given pleasure to many passing moments; but we are none of these, and therefore welcome with unfeigned delight, the reissue, in volumes, of the best works of fiction which have graced old Maga. Of these moreover, none are more suited to our taste than the work now under consideration and its predecessor, from the pen of the same author (Michael Scott) Tom Cringle's Log." They are both written in that off hand, bold, dashing style which carries you away without allowing you to dwell, or weary of your subject, and the fund of animal spirits poured over the whole work from the first page to the last, is such as would cover a multitude of sins. In fact, the worst of sins which, in our opinion, can attach to a writer's name is prosiness, and this our author steers well clear of, and although he now and then draws so far on the imagination that we involuntarily utter "Pooh!" we look upon the Cruise of the Midge, as one of the pleasantest books which has visited our library table, Anno Domini 1842. "THE MODERN SHOOTER," by Captain Lacey.-Whittaker and Co. Captain Lacey is like a mermaid-there is no telling to what "genus" he belongs. Is he a wit?-His book abounds in quips, yet altogether lacks the attic salt. Is he a sportsman?-His style is any thing but that of the straightforward manly follower of the sports of flood and field. Is he a philosopher? His would be sentiment, changes like the king in the pantomime from the hero to the clown. Yet withal is there a something of merit in this " Modern Shooter," though so obscured beneath a heap of rubbish, that it is scarcely worth one's while to seek the grain of worth in such an overweening weight of chaff. We extract a specimen of practical "grain" in the "General Remarks on Flight Shooting :" "Like all other sports and sublunary pursuits, that of Flight Shooting is subject to vicissitude and disappointment. The state of the tides, the change in the wind and weather, and other causes, have a sensible influence on the birds, which it would puzzle even an airy or a whewell (wit again!) to account for. One night the birds shall fly past you, trip after trip, presenting the fairest shots; the next you shall hear hundreds in the air, but not one can you see; on a third night you shall sit for a couple of hours without seeing a bird, hearing a solitary quack,' or perhaps the whiz' of a single pinion! "To make amends, however, for these little drawbacks to the sport, there are many favourable nights during a season; and when there is sport, that sport is good. On one occasion, at the Tees Bay, with a ten-pound single gun, I bagged, in two shots, and in five minutes, two mallards, and a duck, as two individuals still living could attest. And ere now, I have bagged five head of a night; so that flightshooting is not always a sport to be despised. "Those nights which present a mixture of dark and white clouds, with but little moonlight, are the best seeing nights ;' and, universally, the less frost there is in the atmosphere the better; no nights so bad for seeing as bright, starlight, frosty nights. "The more birds fly about during the day, the less they fly at night; and, generally speaking, they fly well on a change of weather, from good to bad, or the contrary. When much abused, by being constantly shot at, they will alight on the water, not very far from the feeding-ground, and remain there till it is too dark to shoot.” All this is good sterling stuff well told, and we have given it rather to show the manner in which much good matter is given, than as a particular specimen of that matter which, like the Captain's abused birds, "lies very hid." The besetting sin of the book, as we have before observed, is its vile torturing of words, which will not own to wit. A pug may be a very pleasant pet, but our author would doubtless think him a very unfit companion for a shooting party-so do we—and a pun being the captain's pug, he has almost made us forswear the use of puns for ever. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. COACHING ADVENTURES will not suit our purpose. MASTER HARRY's Pigsticking Sketch has come to hand. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Nimrod never edited the New Sporting Magazine. It is a matter of opinion, as to whether Bee's-wing or Charles XII. is the best. They are now quits-each having beaten the other twice. Should they meet at Doncaster, and both fit, we should take "the horse" for choice in spite of the public quotations of the betting being in favour of "t' ould mare." 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