There is one feature in Murray's _Reading for the Rail_, namely, that of making the volumes not of one uniform price, but varying from One Shilling and upwards, the advantages of which are shown very clearly by the first two of the series which have appeared. For it would have been a difficulty for the most Procrustean of editors to have compressed _The Essays from The Times_ within the limits of that capital shilling's worth, _The Chase_, by Nimrod. Well do we remember, that on the appearance of that sparkling sketch in the _Quarterly_, in the same way that many--who like Michael Cassio, "never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knew, More than a spinster," have watched with the deepest interest the masterly strategy of Marlborough, Napoleon, or that greater still, The Duke--hundreds who never set foot in stirrup--who certainly never joined in a view hallo! followed with the greatest interest and anxiety the adventures of Snob and his little bay mare in the Quorn Country. If Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived. May he sell as many of its more important companion, _The Essays from the Times_: for, as he well observes in his prefatory notice to the volume in question, these brilliant Papers on Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Railway Novels, Louis Philippe, Southey, &c. exhibit "literary merits and a moral tone well calculated to promote the important national object" advocated by that powerful journal in the article on the Literature of the Rail to which the present series owes its origin. How many hundreds, nay thousands, must there be who, having read these Essays and Reviews in _The Times_, where they were made to point a moral most effectually, have especially desired to possess them in a more permanent form; and who, having secured the present admirable selection, will look anxiously for the period when Mr. Murray will be enabled to give a second volume of them.