Prototypes. a Thracian slave.-Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures.-The metre of Ten- nyson's Charge of the Light Brigade.-The starting-point of the Faust legends. Air cushions.-Adage quoted by Lady Macbeth.-Cork legs. The Pope's bull against the comet.-Swapping horses while fording a stream.-Wooden nutmegs.-Trade unions.-Inferential damages.— The original Shylock.-Druid decree of excommunication.-Character and fall of Napoleon.-Lanark and Lodore.-Turgot's ephigraph on Franklin traced to its original.-The Mechlenburg Declaration of Inde- pendence.-The Know Nothings.-The main idea of Bunyan's Allegory anticipated.-Crusoe and Selkirk.—Proverb of De Foe traced to earlier sources.-Talleyrand's mot on the use of speech anticipated.—Scandina- vian scull cups.-Paley's Natural Theology a plagiarism. Old ballads and their prototypes.-The story of the Wandering Jew. . . . . 669 letters of the text being cut out of the vellum pages and interleaved with blue paper. A silver book—the Codex Argenteus.-Distinctions among HE mysterious authorship of the Letters of Junius; the views of Literary oddities, and the singularities of their habits.-The war of cul- ture upon ignorance, and its perpetual sacrifices in the strife.-Sharon Turner's contemptible meanness, and outrageous disregard of the value of the time of compositors.-Dryden bringing his publisher, Jacob ton's strategy of Satan borrowed at Austerlitz.-Personal appearance of Napoleon as described by Maitland; his opinion of suicide.-Frank- lin's frugal wife.-Major Andre's Cow chase.-An English view of Andre and Arnold.-Flamsteed's involuntary magic. Lord Nelson's imper- turbable coolness.-Martin Luther, the dreamer and the man of action; the Marsellaise of the Reformation.-Queen Elizabeth as described by Sir John Hayward and Paul Heintzner.—Shakspeare's orthodoxy as shown in his writings.-Oliver Cromwell; character sketched in a letter to Governor Winthrop; embalmed head in possession of a lady.— Pope's skull in a private museum.-Wickliffe's ashes not scattered be- yond recall.-Talleyrandiana.-One of Porson's diversions. . . . . 763 HE first blood of the Revolution shed thirty-seven days before that Tof Lexington. The tea-burning at Annapolis two months before the tea-party at Boston.-Preliminary estimates for the United States Historical illustrations of the manner in which great events frequently COM Multum in Parvo. 782 COMPREHENSIVE fact and striking sentiment compressed into Life and Death. 823 ISHOP HEBER'S illustrations of the voyage of life.-Aphorisms B of Bishop Horne.-Peters' rule of living. Franklin's moral code. The proper distribution of time.-Sir Thomas Browne on living life euthanasia. 826 Glean not in barren soil these offal ears, That which we garnered in our eager youth SOUTHWELL. Becomes a long delight in after years.-ETHEL CHURCHILL. To the man of robust and healthy intellect, who gathers the harvest of literature into his barn, thrashes the straw, winnows the grain, grinds it in his own mill, bakes it in his own oven, and then eats the true bread of knowledge, we bid a cordial welcome. SOUTHEY. A hope has crossed me, in the course To this and this. WORDSWORTH. Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.-COLERIDGE. Mislike me not that I've essayed to please ye: Some things herein may not offend.-FLETCHER. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.-SIR THOMAS BROWNE. E fontibus eorum, judicio arbitrioque nostro, quantum quoque modo videbitur, hauriemus.-CICERO. Quidquid agunt homines votum, timor, ira, voluptas, 24 Alphabetical Whims. LIPOGRAMMATA AND PANGRAMMATA. N No. 59 of the Spectator, Addison, descanting on the different species of false wit, observes, "The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists, or letter droppers of antiquity, that would take an exception, without any reason, against some particular letter in the alphabet, so as not to admit it once in a whole poem. One Tryphiodorus was a great master in this kind of writing. He composed an Odyssey, or Epic Poem, on the adventures of Ulysses, consisting of four-and-twenty-books, having entirely banished the letter A from his first book, which was called Alpha, (as lucus a non lucendo,) because there was not an alpha in it. His second book was inscribed Beta, for the same reason. In short, the poet excluded the whole four-and-twenty letters. in their turns, and showed them that he could do his business without them. It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity, and making his escape from it, through the different Greek dialects, when he was presented with it in any particular syllable; for the most apt and elegant word in |