We will dismiss the "Editor of the Mirror" with a few questions. When did you ever know, Mr. Fay, of any prosecuting attorney behaving so much like a bear as _your_ prosecuting attorney in the novel of Norman Leslie? When did you ever hear of an American Court of Justice objecting to the testimony of a witness on the ground that the said witness _had an interest_ in the cause at issue? What do you mean by informing us at page 84, vol. i, "that you _think_ much faster than you write?" What do you mean by "_the wind roaring in the air_?" see page 26, vol. i. What do you mean by "an _unshadowed_ Italian girl?" see page 67, vol. ii. Why are you always talking about "stamping of feet," "kindling and flashing of eyes," "plunging and parrying," "cutting and thrusting," "passes through the body," "gashes open in the cheek," "sculls cleft down," "hands cut off," and blood gushing and bubbling, and doing God knows what else--all of which pretty expressions may be found on page 88, vol. i.? What "mysterious and inexplicable destiny" compels you to the so frequent use, in all its inflections, of that euphonical dyssyllable _blister_? We will call to your recollection some few instances in which you have employed it. Page 185, vol. i. "But an arrival from the city brought the fearful intelligence in all its _blistering_ and naked details." Page 193, vol. i. "What but the glaring and _blistering_ truth of the charge would select him, &c." Page 39, vol. ii. "Wherever the winds of heaven wafted the English language, the _blistering_ story must have been echoed." Page 150, vol. ii. "Nearly seven years had passed away, and here he found himself, as at first, still marked with the _blistering_ and burning brand." Here we have a _blistering_ detail, a _blistering_ truth, a _blistering_ story, and a _blistering_ brand, to say nothing of innumerable other blisters interspersed throughout the book. But we have done with Norman Leslie,--if ever we saw as silly a thing, may we be ---- blistered. THE LINWOODS. _The Linwoods; or, "Sixty Years Since" in America. By the Author of "Hope Leslie," "Redwood," &c. New York: Published by Harper and Brothers._