SPIRIT OF "THE ANNUALS" FOR 1828.
Our readers have annually anticipated a high treat from this splendid intellectual banquet, served up by some of the master[1] spirits of the age.
We doubt whether the comparison is refined enough for the fair authoresses; but our fancy has led us to class their contributions to the present feast as follow:—
Hock—Champagne, (Still and Sparkling.)
L.E.L.
Hood.
Bucellas.
Miss Mitford.
Bernard Barton.
Lacrymae Christi.
Mrs. Hemans.
Watts.
Delta.
Port.
Coleridge.
Southey.
Claret.
Montgomery,
with a due proportion of vin ordinaire. This comparison may be pleasant enough as after-dinner chat, but we fear our readers will think it like cooks circulating the Bills of Fare on the morning of Lord Mayor's Day; and lest we should incur their displeasure, we shall proceed with our select course: but we are mere disposers.