"Unfold--unfold--the day is going fast, And I would know this _old-time_ history." Page 5, vol. ii--"The Carolinian well knows these _old-time_ places." Page 98, vol. ii--"Look, before we shall have gone too far to return to them, upon these _old-time_ tombs of Dorchester." Here are eight _old-times_ discovered in a cursory glance over "The Partisan"--we believe there are ten times as many interspersed throughout the work. The _coils_ are equally abundant, and the _hugs_ innumerable. One or two other faults we are forced to find. The old affectation of beginning a chapter abruptly has been held worthy of adoption by our novelist. He has even thought himself justifiable in imitating this silly practice in its most reprehensible form--we mean the form habitual with Bulwer and D'Israeli, and which not even their undoubted and indubitable genius could render any thing but despicable--that of commencing with an "_And_," a "_But_," or some other conjunction--thus rendering the initial sentence of the chapter in question, a continuation of the final sentence of the chapter preceding. We have an instance of this folly at page 102, vol. ii, where Chapter XII commences as follows: "_But_, though we turn aside from the highway to plant or to pluck the flower, we may not linger there idly or long." Again, at page 50 of the same volume, Chapter VII begins--"_And_ two opposing and mighty principles were at fearful strife in that chamber." This piece of frippery need only be pointed out to be despised.