Reviews.

Who knoAVs Avhat lot aAvaits your boy—Of happiness or sorroAV 1 Sufficient for to-day is joy , Leave tears , sweet , for to morroAV !" We might say more , we might give other extracts from a very pleasant volume

, but we think we have put forAvard enough to prove to our many courteous readers , that the criticism Avith Avhich Ave commenced this article is true , and that the humble meed of praise we offered is fully justified .

Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAJI TAVEDDELL , Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , Loudon ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society , & c , & c .

AFTER an existence of seventy-eight weeks ; The Dominie , a journal of humour , satire , and literature , conducted by Mr . Tom H . North , of Micldlesborough , ceased to exist on Saturday , the fourth of November , to the joy of some and the regret of others . As

might be expected , where providing amental feast once a Aveek depended almost entirel y on the editor , aud him reporting regularly for a daily paper , the articles have varied very much in real value . But perhaps the chaff sold it more than the solid grain .

From the -very commencement of the facetious journal to its conclusion , I have never seen it without thinking of that beautiful and truthful passage in the twelfth chapter of the first volume of ( shall I say Brother ? for whether initiated

or not into the Craft , it was the Freemasons Avho buried him ) Laurence Sterne ' s "Tristram Shandy , " where Eugenius is addressing the dying Yorick : — " Trust me , dear Yorick , this unAvary pleasantry of thine Avill sooner or later bring thee into

scrapes and difficulties , which no after-Avit can extricate thee out of . In these sallies , too oft , I see , it happens that a person laughed at considers himself in the li ght of a person injured , Avith all the ri ghts of such a situation belonging to him ; and

when thou viewest him in that light too , and reckonist up his friends , his famil y , his kindred and allies , —and musterest up Avith them the many recruits that will list under him from a sense of common danger ; —' tis no extravagant arithmetic to say ,

that for every ten jokes , —thou hast got an hundred enemies ; and till thou hast gone on , and raised a SAvarm of Avasps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou Avilt never be convinced it is so , I cannot suspect itin the man I esteem

, , that there is the least spur from spleen , or malevolence of intent , in these sallies . I believe and knoAV them to be truly honest and sportive . But consider , my dear lad , that fools cannot distinguish this , —ancl that knaves Avill not : —and thou knoAvest

not Avhat it is , either to provoke the one , or to make merry Avith the other : —Avhenever they associate for mutual defence , depend upon it , they will carry on the Avar in such a manner against thee , my dear friend , as to make thee heartily sick of it , and of thy life too . Revenge from some baneful corner shall level a tale of

dishonour at thee , which no innocence of heart or integrity of conduct shall set rig ht . The fortunes of thy house shall totter , — thy character , Avhich led the Avay to them , shall bleed on every side of it , —thy faith questioned , —thy works belied , —thy Avit

forgotten , —thy learning trampled on . To Avind up the last , scene of thy tragedy , Cruelty and CoAvardice , tAvin ruffians , hired and set on by Malice in the dark , shall strike together at thy infirmities ancl mistakes . The best of us , my dear lad ,

lie open there . And trust me , —trust me , Yorick , when , to gratify a private appetite , it is once resolved upon , that an innocent and helpless creature shall be sacrificed , ' tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enoug h from any thicket where it has strayed , to make a fire to offer it up with . " That Mr . North has shoAvn considerable

ability and no small degree of courage during his editorship of Tlie Dominie , none but a prejudiced enemy can deny . " HOAV many enemies Ave have made , " he remarks in his farewell address , " we have no conception of , indeed it has never been part of our programme to care . Certain , however , we are , that they are all impersonations of some of the varieties of humbug , cant , snobbishness , roguery , and cad-