_Recent Curiosities of Literature._--Thackeray, in the second number of
_The Newcomes_, describes an old lady's death as being caused from her head
having been _cut_ with a bed-room _candle_. N. P. Willis, in his _Health
Trip to the Tropics_, speaks {32} of being waited on by a Carib, who had
"no beard except a long moustache." Professor Spalding, of St. Andrew's in
his _History of English Literature_, says that the sonnets of Wordsworth
"have _perfection_ hardly to be _surpassed_." And J. Stanyan Bigg (the "new
poet"), in the December number of Hogg's _Instructor_, exclaims:
"The winter storms come rushing round the wall,
Like him who at Jerusalem shriek'd out 'Wo!'"