Suppose, for instance, an astronomer were to compose a perfect treatise on astronomy, so simple that the meanest capacity could comprehend it, and yet so profound that the most penetrating genius could find no fault with it, it is evident he would be the last that would rise to fame and fortune by the profession of that science; nay, such a treatise would deprive many of the means of procuring a sub mitive signification. It is a well-known fact tel, &c.; on Moral Philosophy-Paley, Char- On looking at the prefaces to several of It is the imperfection of any single work, upon any given subject, that renders it necessary to consult various authors; and the necessity of consulting various authors is a means of affording employment to thousands. If man had kept his original state, there would have been no need of resorting to so many artificial means of procuring a livelihood, for each individual having food and raiment, would therewith have been content. SIR,-A few days ago I took a pen in hand, to write a letter to a friend, on the origin of The apparent imperfection in the Book of Polytheism. Being fully aware that the sub- the highest authority in the world, is, in my ject had been treated upon by men of the first opinion, a perfection; for had the inspired eminence; and having an intention of advanc- penmen supplied us with all those particulars, ing something new, I very naturally exercised the absence of which we too often regret, the my wits in making an apology for presuming sacred volume would have been swelled to a to imagine, that I had any thing to communi- very inconvenient size. The poor man could cate which had not already been done by have known nothing of its contents but from 'abler pens. It would be tedious for you to hearsay, and but a very small portion of the read, and me to copy, the whole of this apo-world could have known any thing of it at all. logy; I shall only acquaint you with the wonderful discovery I made. I found out, that even the omissions and mistakes of celebrated writers have beneficial effects. Indeed, Mr. Editor, I went so far as to insinuate, that the most favored of the sons of wisdom are not permitted to render their works so complete, as to exclude the necessity of future speculation. Had the Bible been as voluminous as a mo- I am sensible that the obscurity of the Scrip The old times had wags as well as the new. I hate quotations, but when they come upon me as thick as thistles in a Scotch church-yard, or flint stones among the Appennines, I mast give them vẹnt; ere they pour down their mighty hosts like a torrent the multifar ons cogitations of a fruitful brain. I upon the vale of my understanding, and sweep away have many grand ideas, Sir; Newton never soared higher among his planets, nor Goldsmith penetrated deeper among the variegated strata of the earth, than I often do. I told you before that I experienced some of those peculiar sensations which are attached to our nature, every Saturday morning previous to my receiving your tidy journal; these pleasant sensations were increased lately, on perceiving that my worthy uncle, Sir Anthony Absolute, bad commenced his luerary career at all events, that Ire had enrolled himself good good -"in all tongues the hornbook is the same, To tell the blunders of the printer's hand !”— Critical career for me. Suppose my grandam sitting in the old arm chair, with her reverend silver speriacles clasped firmly round her aged bead, nødding periodically, as if in token of submission to Somnus, who paid her regular visits during the time of teaching her "clever grandson, Dicky;"-suppose me. I say, sitting at her knee, on a little three-legged stool, after the hornbook lesson was completed, take a slate and pencil, and adding up an addition sum from the learned and venerable Cocker-he wrote an excellent treatise on arithmetic in the old times!-I proceedyou proceed, of course, with me as I relate it;—well, I say 2 and 3 are 7-" very well, Dicky; good child, Dicky;" says she, "go on, boy."-7 and 4 are 9— very well again, Dicky; clever Dicky."-9 and 8 I stop, being at the end of the line.Suppose me are 19-" quite correct, my dear; go on.”—But here now, dear Hermes, looking up wistfully in my grandmother's face, asking her, very earnestly, what I should put down?" Put down the 10 and carry the 9, Dicky;"-done-"That's a clever boy; excellent Dicky, clever Dicky!"—After this, I turn to my hornbook again, if her nap was over; or else 66 to some other similar classbook—Puss in Boots, the "Great A I gravely roar'd; the important sound 53 Cur conversation became general, as is the case in records was some time ago produced in evidence, in a law. all parties; and Miss Flipflap commenced a long Tallics, or cleft peces of wood, in which the notches are eut suit at Winchester. barangue on Danish literature. My uncle, whose The mode of keeping accounts by correspondence with Denmark is very considerable, by the creditor, and the other by the debtor, is st 11 practised on one piece conformably to the other, one part being kept hegan with an elaborate speech on the unnecessary length of his Danish correspondents' letters,-they there upon loans; hence the origin of the Teiler, or Talley in many parts of England, in particular cases. A Tally con tinues to be given by the Exchequer, to those who pay money are generally three folio sheets, with the same old, writer of the Exchequer; and also of the phrase to tally, to dll, stupid, routine of expression; even Sir An- fit, to suit, or answer exactly......The word Bible, which Often, amid those painful and never-to-be-forgotten exhausted at the perusal of a letter from Van Dul-signified the inner bark of a tree. The word Book is also thony's patience, which is exemplary, has often been means, by way of eminence, the Book, is derived from the avocations, has she told me that I should shine at kensteen, of Rotterdam; but your Danish---your derived from the Saxon Boe or Bocce, the beech tree, proGreek word Biblos, or Byblos, a book, but which originally some future time; and so I will, Sir, I hope, notwithstanding the exertions of Uncle Absolute to pre- eyes, business lethargy, or something worse-- O the Danish correspondent will give you the ennui, sore bably from tablets or leaves of that tree having been used vest my genius from exercising its native energy. letter of Mr. Von Wolfenstukenbergen, describing for writing upon.-Pp. 28, 29, 30, 43. What! cramp my genius over an old dusty ledger the grandeur and variety of a Frankfort fair, or the and tattered journal, mewed up in an old counting-price of a Danish pickle !---My uncle says that he is house, keeping a beggarly account of rabbit-skins and long by name, by body, and certainly, to judge from tobacco pipes!-no, no, it will never do better see myself reflected in your journal—that is, journalised his production, natu e has given him a very long in a literary-like manner in your paper-that's pride! away whenever my uncle begins to read a Danish mind, though not a very bright one. Fanny runs that's ambition! I will only continue the literary letter, fearing that she should fall asleep ere he half fame of our family-O the various branches of the reads it---she hates Denmark for that very reason--Pompositys! Why I had a granduncle, a school waster, in London, who is said to have walked across O Von Wolfenstukenbergen: the school with strides of two ells long-he read pompously-spoke pompously-and, if all be true, walked pompously; that is, he was in every thingabsolute pomposity. I bad another relation, a grand cousin, who was so great a naturalist, that be wrote eight quanto volumes on the anatomy of a butterfly; contending with a greater blockhead than himself, that the tendons and ligaments of this creature were not of a resilient nature, and that the intercostal sinews were red, not white! The wags of the time used to call him, emphatically, the “musical hayrick." Poor man, he was killed one day, running after one of his favorite insects! You ask, where are his books ?-they died with him!-the huge volumes died with the huge disordered brain that compiled them. 64 I "That old vertigo in thy head, Will never leave thee till thou'rt dead !” embrace the present opportunity, as my uncle is out of town, but I have no fear of his troubling you I am, dear Hermes, your most potent ally, Original Kebiew. occasioned by the Dioclesian persecution, the author an account of the persecution of the third century, in these old rhymes: Twei emperoures of Kome, Byoclician, Here bothe at on tyme, the on in the Est ende, brogte. Chirches he fel al a doun, ther ne moste nonstonde, martired for our Lorde's lobe. • schende, spáil, destroy. + luther, cruel, wicked. NICA, in which it is copied from the Harleian MSS The following is from Lyson's MAGNA BRITANthe British Museum: The Pompositys are not the only pedants on earth: Illustrations of Biblical Literature, exhibiting We had a tea party lately, and, O how pleased my mother looked, when introducing her dutiful son Dick to the young ladies. Miss Flipflap, my son Dicky Dicky, my dear, Miss Flipftap. Mrs. Goodfornothing, my son---- Richard, Mrs. Goodfornothing and so on, so on. subject. Much interesting matter is to be met with For deep research, his volumes are to be equalled by few modern productions on any in this work, which the title does not lead us to anticipate. The origin of writing and printing; the various methods of writing in use among the ancients; and dark ages; have considerable light thrown upon the state of literature in our own country during the them. The following are extracts: It was an ancient practice, to write upon thin smooth planks or Tables of Wood. Pliny says, that table books of wood were in use before the time of Homer............The original manner of writing among the ancient Britons, was by cutting the letters with a knife upon sticks, which were most commonly squared, and sometimes formed into three three lines. (See Ezek. xxxvii. 16.) Several sticks, with sides; consequently a single stick contained either four or frame, which was called Peithynen or Elucidator, and was writing upon them, were put together, forming a kind of so constructed, that each stick might be turned for the facility of reading, the end of each running out alternately on both Pamber, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. The Court-leet, sides of the frame........A singular custom still prevails at small piece of ground called Lady-Mead, which belongs to holden annually for that manor, is opened sub dio, in a the tithing-man for the year. Thence an adjournment is the court are recorded on a piece of wood, called a Tally, made to a neighbouring public-house. The proceedings of uished every year by the steward. One of these singular about three feet long, and an inch and a half square, fur "NOE AND HIS SHIPPE. wife except, the arke must be borded founde aboute and upon "Wiffe come in, why standes thou there "Yea sir, set up your sayle But I have my gossippes every eich one, And I may save there life; But thou wylt let them into that chiest, Here is a pottell full of Malmeseye gode and strouge Japhat. "Mother, we pray you all together, For we are here your owne children; Come into the shippe for feare of the weather.". Noe's Wiffe. "That will I not for all your call, But I have my gossippes all." "In fayth mother yet thou shalt "Have thou that for thy note [She gives him a box on the sar.] "Ha! ha! marye; that is hott, It is good for to be still; A! children methinkes my boat remeves, -Pp. 421-2 "Scot-Ales. The nature of these compotations will be best understood by the two following constitutions; the first by Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury, A. D. 1236; the latter by Simon La gham, archbishop of Canterbury, A. D. 1367. See Johnson's Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws, II. sub. dn. "6. We wholly forbid Clergymen the ill practice, by which all that drink together are obliged to equal draughts, and he carries away the credit who hath made most drunk, and taken off the largest cups: therefore we forbid all forc ing to drink: let him that is culpable be suspended from office, and benefice, according to the statutes of the council," (of Lateran, 1216, ch. xv.) "unless, upon admonition from his superior, he make competent satisfaction. We forbid the publication of Scot-Ales to be made by priests. If any priest, or clerk, do this, or be present at Scot-Ales, let him be canonically punished." "9. When a multitude of men, exceeding ten in number, stay long together in the same house for drinking sake, we declare them to be common drinking bouts. But we mean not to comprehend travellers, and strangers, and such as meet, (though in taverns) at fairs and markets, under this prohibition. Detesting those common drinking bouts, which, by a change of name, they call Charity Scot Ales, we charge that the authors of such drinking bouts, and they who publicly meet at them, be publicly solemnly denounced ex communicate, till they have made competent satisfaction for it, and have merited the benefit of absolution."-Pp. 456-7. These extracts will be sufficient to show the va ried contents of Mr. Townley's publication. With respect to the style of composition, it has no higher charms of sober sense, and the treasured sweets of "Stir the fire and close the shutters fast, There is not a being under the sun more consolatory Of men in the country, the sportsman contrives to make the most of this season of the year; and very pleasantly so. He has his gun; and when the scent will lie, his hounds--health in the chase, and social, 80. though rather noisy, companions, to keep his fireside delights of the fireside and the fireirons; and we are told that Louis XIV. and Father La Chaise, once bad a serious dispute concerning which of them should hold the tongs. Then while we can have a good fire, and good coals to replenish it, a set of fireirons and an easy chair, let us envy no man's station in life, be it ever so exalted; for though his pleasures may be more varied than ours, he cannot boast of enjoying any superior to that of sitting by the fire and stirring it. JEREMIAH SNUG. Profane Swearing. The following extract from an American work, which, as a contemporary would say, "has never been published on this side the Atlantic, and probably never will be, to most of our readers will have all the charms of novelty."-HERMES. To this siu, it is generally acknowledged, there is hardly any temptation. Wickedness here assumes the character of disinterestedness; and the sin is committed from the pure love of sinning. Yet how immensely extensive is this evil practice! The heathen and the pretensions than to that of simple narrative. The frequently longs, as he strolls round Grosvenor-square, Mohammedan, the Jew and the Christian, nature of the subject is such that, as our readers will anticipate, great use has been made of the labors of other authors; yet to most it will have all the charms of originality. We conclude with observing, that "Illustrations of Biblical Literature" ought to bave a place in every library. It is one of the most amusing and instructive works we have ever seen. ANALECTA LITERARIA. Coming on of Winter. "Thus in some deep retirement would I pass The days are fast drawing in, and those who are fond of Summer, its green fields and its sunshine, and to whistle around him his favorite hounds---half resolving, in his dull uneasy moments, to resign the of amusements. But Winter evenings are not pleasant only where "Meantime the village rouses up the fire: The simple joke-the long, loud laugh sincere." professing widely different views, in other respects, concerning the Ruler of all things, quietly unite in profaning his awful name. Men of all ages and characters, however discordant, otherwise, harmonise here. The sage and the blockhead; the gentleman and the clown; the prince and the peasant, join their voices in unison; and form one great chorus, not for the praise, but for the dishonor of God. The prince swears on his throne, and the beggar on his dunghill; the child lisps out the imperfect curse, and the tongue of the man of gray hairs trembles beneath the faltering blasphemy. From California to Japan, the general voice of mankind rises up to heaven, not as the odor of sweet incense, but as one vast exhalation of impiety, immensely ungrateful, immensely wicked, and infinitely disgraceful to our reason. Lord Mayor. The word mayor, if we adopt the etymology of Verstegan, comes from the ancient English maier, able or potent, of the verb may or can. King Richard I A. D. 1189, first changed the bailiffs of London into Mayors; by whose example others were afterwards appointed. And even with us bachelors, Winter has its pleawho rejoice in the golden ripeness of Autumn, are he-sures--its soul-satisfying enjoyments. We begin to ginning to deplore the change in the season. In the look at many of our books which, through the sumcountry, the "leaf incessant rustles from the mournmer months, have lain unopened on our shelves: ful grove;" and the decaying, yet still interesting, now we are driven to look within ourselves; and as face of nature, wears the sober look of age. The there is little sun to cheer us ont of doors, we stir rainy days prevent our pleasant strolls, and the umour solitary fire, and renew the valued acquaintance brella is taken out with us, as a regular and matterwith "the good, the great, the wise of other days," of-course companion. When perchance a fine day with nothing to break the silence of our chamber, glads our countenances, and invites us to a ramble, save the undisturbing music of the cricket. the falling foliage of the trees, in all its varied hues Then, who is there who does not like to stir the of decay, reads a moral lesson to our hearts, and fire? What a host of speaking reflections rush upon points to the ripeness of our days, the feeble step, the with either leg upon the hob of the grate; the head one's memory while seated in an easy elbow-chair, reclined upon the band, and the other employed in adjusting the coals with the poker according as the fancy directs? Delightful occupation! Enviable post! Delectable listlessness! Moments of bliss, in which none but the most agreeable occurrences of our lives dare intrude themselves upon our minds; in which the airy dreams of our youth present themselves before us in the same glowing colors, and with the same magic influence, that they possessed in former days--who can be insensible to the tranquillity ye be-ed. stow, and to the golden visions ye create ? fullness, and the tomb. Let Winter come! since it does not visit us without a smile; or throw its frost around us, without a genial consolation. " Winter! I love thee-all unlovely as thou seem'st, I crown thee King of intimate delights, The head is never so full of ideas, the imagination is never so fertile, as while enjoying the comforts of a good fire, and the indefinable pleasure of fiddling with the poker. A philosopher seated by his fireside, and making his tea, observed the lid of the teapot to rise up after he had closed it, and this simple circumstance causing him to reflect upon the force of the evaporation from boiling water, enabled him to discover the steam engine. Montgolfier, in all probability, conceived the idea of compressing smoke, and of giving it a certain form, from seeing a piece of burnt paper carried up the chimney by the force of the smoke while stirring his fire; and hence, perhaps, the discovery of the balloon. Kings as well as commoners have yielded to the The Bar. "There is a tide in the affairs of men." known for having borne up against adverse fortune, The present Lord Chancellor, Eldon, is well and persevered to the end; and his Lordship tells with pleasure of the difficulties with which, in his early days, he was surrounded, and over which he triumph. We give an account of his early success, as he the Chancellor," and I borrowed thirty pounds to go related it himself at table to a friend :--" Yes," says borrowed another thirty, but met with no return. the northern circuit, but I got no briefs. And, Sir, I After some time at this game, I had determined to friend to try again, and I did so. borrow no more; when I was prevailed on by a junior brief, and Davenport, then a leading counsel At York, I had a on the circuit, was to state the case to the jury. The cause was called on in the morning, and Davenport cellor, "begged the judge to postpone it ;" but he was engaged in the Crown court; I," says the Chanreplied, "you must lead, Mr. Scott." And I did so: it was an action for an assault: two Yorkshire ladies them was turned off her chair on to the ground; this had quarrelled at cards, a scuffle ensued, and one of was the nature of the assault; it happened," proceeds the Chancellor, "that I set the court into a roar of laughter, and succeeded for my client; retainers began to flow in, and the prospect brightened. On proceeding to Carlisle, a fortunate circumstance occurred :-I had retired early to bed the night before the assizes, when I was aroused by a knock at my door; on getting up, I found Mr. the solicitor, with a large brief in his hand; he observed that a cause was coming on in the morning, and the leading counsel were all too much engaged to read so large a brief : you must take it, Mr. Scott:' I hesitated, as Davenport and others had declined it, and expressed doubts of being able to accomplish the task. He pressed me, and by the little light, as the attorney put the brief (it was a thick brief,) into my hand, I saw written on it, Mr Scott, twenty guineas.' This was not to be refused, and I said, Well, I'll promise to read your That's all we want,' brief, and state its substance.' replied the solicitor; so I dressed myself and read it the next day I succeeded in the cause, and never wanted briefs again." Miracles. St. Gregory the Great aflirms, and who will doubt him, that a little monk got into such a habit of working miracles, that, at length, the prior forbade him to exercise his supernatural talent. The monk conformed to the order; but one day seeing an honest bricklayer falling from the roof of a house, he hesitated betweeu monastical obedience and charity, in saving the poor man's life; and only ordered him to remain in the air till he ran to acquaint the prior with the case. The prior gave him absolution for the sin of beginning a miracle without his leave, and allowed him to go through with it, but never to do the like again! Persons of the Apostles. On Swearing. I've started, crewhile, from a horrid dream, Till my pen's scratch has seem'd a groan, Of Hastings' giant cliff, At twilight-hour, o'er Aber's strand, When one false step upon the slippery snow At dark December's latest hour, A mortal man, a worm, a wretch profane, This very instant, speak thee damn'd and dead. Liverpool. Nicephorus, an author of the fourth century, describes the person of St. Paul as tall, thin, and upright; his face long and pale, his eyes black, his nose long, but rather flat than pointed. The Epistle of St. Thecla, which although not canonical, is of the first century, thus describes St. Panl: "Short in stature, bald, with crooked thighs, and thick legs; his nose aquiline, his eyebrows joined --full of the grace of God." The sketch of St. Peter is in a great degree attended to by Raphael and other pain-ther ters; that of St. Paul being less favorable, the ideal is preferred. Thracian Custom. On the birth of a child among the ancient Thracians, it was customary to make great mourning and lamentation; and, on the contrary, on the death of any of their people, it was usual to rejoice and triumph, and to celebrate the funeral with sports, pastimes, and feasting, according to the rank of the party deceased; and these customs were founded on the belief, that our birth is but an entrance into a troublesome world; whereas death is not only a release from those troubles, but an introduction to a better and more permanent life. ORIGINAL POETRY. Sonnet To Bespair. I know thee Despair thou destroyer of peace! I mark thy damn'd anguish that never must cease, W. J. At Aber, in North Wales, the sands extend three miles from the bed of the river to the outer shore, and at low water are entirely bare. From the flatness of the strand, the floodtide overruns it in a very short time, rendering it extremely dangerous for travellers to pass after low-water. If the weabe hazy, and the day advanced, when the sands are covered, the prospect to a strange passenger, is inconceivably awful. · On the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelly. List to that voice that swells upon the deep; It murmurs from the ruffled wave: forgot, Erased from memory's page, the foul, the erring blot! My Father's at the Helm. The following lines are from the pen of the incomparable Montgomery, and, we believe, have never bejore aps peared in print. Twas when the seas with awful roar A little bark assailed, And pallid fear's distracting power Save one, the captain's darling child, Why yield to fear?-the boy replied,— Safe in his hand and happy lay, Still upward look, howe'er chastised, The Beparture. There are moments in life when the full cup of sadness, May fade, like youth's dream, from this hosom of mine, Those moments so fleet, which can never return! But oh! though our days may in sorrow be wasted, Though our course may be various, in pleasure or pain, Tho' our young budding hopes by life's frost may be blasted Yet the joys of remembrance shall ever remain. Ah! then will it sooth us, when joys are departing, When the sun-set of life calls our days to their close, That tho' storms may obscure the bright eve of our parting, Yet cloudless and radiant our morning arose. Farewell then, my friends; may no blessings be wanting, To secure you those joys which in friendship can dwell, Till my breast with the last throb of nature is panting, Ye friends of my bosom, for ever farewell! • In plain English,-I am a man of profound eradition. Kemembrance. There is a name at which my tears Can never cease to flow, Yet 'tis the sweetest sound my ears Can ever-ever know. There is a form, whose beauties lie Low mould'ring into clay, Yet seems to me more sweet and fair There is a hope, and that alone, SCIENCE. Georama. Of the Georama, a new mode of teaching Geopraphy, which has been lately discovered at Paris, the following is a description in the words of the anthor, with which we have been favored previous to publication: "The Georama consists of a large hollow globe, forty feet in diameter, lighted from above, in which is the arctic pole; in the interior of the globe the spectator is placed upon circular stages, surrounded with a balcony, to which he ascends by means of a spiral staircase, which rises from the antarctic pole, and reaches to the centre of the globe. On the interior of the globe is painted, with the greatest exactitude, a map of the world, according to the latest discoveries; and upon the edges of the balcony is a sort of small telescope for those who are short-sighted." Suggestions to the Gentlemen: "O Britons! O my countrymen, beware: Of all the animate creation Man ranks pre-eminent; he, did not its spreading foliage protect, and in the mightiness dreariness. Man, therefore, as universal governor and protector is this nether world, has received from the bountiful hand of his Creator that power and authority which qualify him for sus The author enters into a long detail of the advan-taining so exalted a character; nevertheless, there is a tages of his invention, which, to do him justice, would certainly tend to facilitate the study of Geography; but the enormous expense of erecting the globe and appendages is, we think, sufficient to prevent its general application. This expense he esti-mates at two thousand guineas. Lithography. boundary, whereon is inscribed, "Hitherto shalt thou go, Of late a strange anomaly has been witnessed; one of no We are beginning to enjoy the fruits of the litho graphic process in this country, as they have long done in Germany and France. One great merit of this style is its cheapness, which renders, its pro ductions accessible to every class of the people, and must lend, to a certain degree, to disseminate a love of the Arts. The connoisseur may smile at this opinion, but considering, as we do, every humble dignity, and is disgusting in its display. approach to this desirable sentiment to be an approach to refinement in civilisation, and kindly and good feeling, we confess that we have looked with pleasure even at the poorest finery of stuccoed dolls, and rudest of all outlines of prints which often adorn the lowly chimney-piece of the cabin and shed. THE RETICULE. "In man or woman, but far most in man, .......................................... in my sont 1 loathe a young female possessed of many elegant accomplishments, reverie, and we have declined our pretensions in favor of pieces of creation from their pristine height to an affectation It is much to be lamented, that these degenerate sons of Adam, in competing with the ladies, do not combine retiredness with effeminacy. Alas! they court publicity, and are always to be seen as prominent figures in those companies which condescend to receive them, e teeming their recent We presume it is hardly necessary to say, that this de-' Matrimony. Upwards of three centuries ago, the busband thus addressed his wife on taking her, as now, by the right hand: "I, N. undersygne the N. for my wedded wyfe, for beter, for richer, for porer, yn seknesse, yn helthe, tyl deth us departe, ( not us do part,' as we have erroneously rendered it; the ancient meaning of 'departe, even in Wickliffe's time, being separate,) as holy churche bath ordeyned, and thereto I plygth the my trowthe." The wife replies in the same form, with an additional clause, "to be buxom to the tyl deth us departe." So it appears in the first edition of the Missal for the use of the famous and celebrated church of Hereford, 1502." In what is called the Salisbury Missal "to be bonere and buxom in bedde and at the horde." Edit. Wayland, 1554, 4to. Dibdin's Biographical Decameron. * Bonav. French; whence our English debonair, which sometimes means genteel, at others cheerful, agreeable, good-tempered. Buxom, blythe, and debonair." Or, debonair always implies a cheerful gentility. Johnson overlooks the second meaning of the term, and erroneously represents the French original as being spelt debonnaire. brilliants; and it is from the obtrusive gaze of these petit- To this class of character I do sincerely advise a reform, "One self-approving hour whole years outweighs But I would intreat them to guard against receiving a coun- EMILY. General Lovers among the Ladies. DEAR HERMES,-I observe in your last number severe restrictions on our sex, by some fair hand, I will not say unmerited, but which appear to me equally and perhaps more applicable to women. The subject to which I allude is a profession of attachment where none exists. Of this I will. adduce an example in support of my statement. Valeria is The Herms. FRIDAY, TWO o'clock. JOHN WILLIAMSON's fragment, and the lines of Junius, It is our intention to indulge PUZZLE-PATE and other |