We have not had time to do more than glance through this handsomely printed volume, but the name of its respectable editor, the Rev. Mr. Wilbur, of Jaalam, will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth of its contents....  The paper is white, the type clear, and the volume of a convenient and attractive size....  In reading this elegantly executed work, it has seemed to us that a passage or two might have been retrenched with advantage, and that the general style of diction was susceptible of a higher polish....  On the whole, we may safely leave the ungrateful task of criticism to the reader.  We will barely suggest, that in volumes intended, as this is, for the illustration of a provincial dialect and turns of expression, a dash of humor or satire might be thrown in with advantage....  The work is admirably got up....  This work will form an appropriate ornament to the centre table.  It is beautifully printed, on paper of an excellent quality.

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From the Dekay Bulwark.

We should be wanting in our duty as the conductor of that tremendous engine, a public press, as an American, and as a man, did we allow such an opportunity as is presented to us by ‘The Biglow Papers’ to pass by without entering our earnest protest against such attempts (now, alas! too common) at demoralizing the public sentiment.  Under a wretched mask of stupid drollery, slavery, war, the social glass, and, in short, all the valuable and time-honored institutions justly dear to our common humanity and especially to republicans, are made the butt of coarse and senseless ribaldry by this low-minded scribbler.  It is time that the respectable and religious portion of our community should be aroused to the alarming inroads of foreign Jacobinism, sansculottism, and infidelity.  It is a fearful proof of the widespread nature of this contagion, that these secret stabs at religion and virtue are given from under the cloak (credite, posteri!) of a clergyman.  It is a mournful spectacle indeed to the patriot and Christian to see liberality and new ideas (falsely so called,—­they are as old as Eden) invading the sacred precincts of the pulpit....  On the whole, we consider this volume as one of the first shocking results which we predicted would spring out of the late French ‘Revolution’ (!)

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From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin (a try-weakly family journal).

Altogether an admirable work....  Full of humor, boisterous, but delicate,—­of wit withering and scorching, yet combined with a pathos cool as morning dew,—­of satire ponderous as the mace of Richard, yet keen as the scymitar of Saladin....  A work full of ‘mountain-mirth,’ mischievous as Puck, and lightsome as Ariel....  We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective