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EDITOR'S NOTICE.

WERE We to follow the footsteps of our contemporary, Christopher North, Esq. we would plume ourselves in the superlative excellence, and increasing improvement of our magazine; but we know how little professions avail: we know the public will always judge for itself, and that mere swaggering, where there is no evidence of real literary talents, will avail little or nothing. If, however, we were inclined to boast, we would not hesitate to say that our present number evidences as much, at least, if not more, talent, than any periodical of the day; but we regret to think that the affectation of talent is frequently mistaken by the ignobile vulgus for the real exercise of those powers which distinguish gifted minds from the unthinking multitude. We are happy, however, to find, that we have succeeded, in a very great degree, to remove the literary fanaticism, if we may so call it, that has produced new schools of poetry and criticism, and we hope to witness its absolute extinction.

We shall be happy to receive any communications from the sentimental author of " A Take Up."

We have received several letters, expressing a hope that we would not neglect our promise, to defend the character of Doctor Johnson, as a critic and moral writer. We hope we have done so at least we certainly feel as much zeal to defend him against the principles of new theorists as any of our contemporaries. The Author of the Essay on Italian Literature will receive a letter at our publisher's.

Replies to our Correspondents will be left at our publishers on the fifth instant.

We regret that the space which we allotted to a notice of Mr. Wilson's late admirable landscape, in our department of the Fine Arts, has been filled up by the printers. It will certainly appear in our next.

Collectors of Portraits, illustrative of works of Biography and History, or those who are desirous of enriching their portfolios, are respectfully informed, that they may, on application to Messrs. Sherwood and Co. Paternoster-row, or W. J. White, Printseller, 14, Brownlow Street, Holborn, be accommodated with proof impressions that have accompanied the "European Magazine" for some time past, and of which the Publishers beg to observe, a very limited number has been printed,

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