tory of France is as improper for the Egyp-| tian modes of reasoning as for their palm trees; and, without going so far, perhaps the orange trees, which do not flourish here so easily as in Italy, denote that there is in Italy a certain turn of mind, which we have not in France. It is however certain, that by the reciprocal connection and dependance that exists among all the parts of the material world, the difference of climate, perceivable in its effects upon plants, ought also to extend its influence to the powers of the human brain."

"MLLE. D'Osmond, à laquelle on avoit défendu de faire des vers, en faisoit dans le cabinet secret."

The Duc de Bourgoyne thus alludes to this in some verses to his wife.

"O toi Latonien, descends du sacré mont, Fais éclore de ma pensée

Des vers, tels que tu sçais sur le chaise percée

Dicter à la belle Osmond."

Mem. de M. Maintenon, tom. 6, p. 133.

THE two things in the world of which there seems to be the greatest waste, are good advice, and good intentions.-R. S.

"THE time shall come that the oak which is beaten with every storm shall be a dining table in the Prince's hall." -DR. DEE'S Relation, p. 153, said by Gabriel.

"THE Turks say a man is to say No only to the devil."-Lives of the Norths, vol. 3, p. 181.

OYSTER mouse trap.-BRITTON's Devonshire, p. 26.

WILL any great effects be produced again in Christendom, as in former times, by religious delusion, or imposture? The failure of the St. Simonians does not prove it to be impossible.

"In the first days of balloons, old Frede

rick said, Austria and Russia aimed at supreme dominion on the land, England at sea, France now in the air, so that the only element left for him was fire."-Monthly Review, vol. 70, p. 408.

"NEOCLES of Crotona maintained that the women in the moon lay eggs, and that the men children hatched from them grow to five times our stature.". Athenæus Deip. lib. 2, p. 57. TURNER'S Sacred History, vol. 3, p. 18, N.

"ARCHIMEDES is said to have raised four

columns at Syracuse, and to have placed upon each a bronze ram, so ingeniously constructed that the wind made them bleat, and so placed that the ram which bleated denoted what wind blew. M. Houel thought he had identified two of these weather-rams in the Viceroy of Palermo's palace (about 1780), for he observed small holes in their flanks, near the thigh, and in other parts, and by blowing in them, a sound like bleating was produced."-Monthly Review, vol. 72, p. 515.

A STORY of Theocritus, that when some one who had been reading some of his verses to him, desired to know which he liked best, he replied, "all that you were so kind as not to read."—Ibid. vol. 74, p. 457.

UNDER the article Amusements in DR. TRUSLER'S London Adviser and Guide, he ranks as one "occasional floating through the atmosphere in balloons." A. D. 1786.

DR. SEDGWICK. A little, pale clergyman, Master of Queen's, Cambridge, always stood by the fire at Morgan's Coffee-house, without speaking to any one; so splenetic, that he fancied his nose to be loose in his face, and consulted Palmer upon it, who

1 It were hardly worth the statement,-but in the original of Athenæus, instead of five, it is fifteen - πεντεκαιδεκαπλασίονας ἡμῶν εἶναι, in loc.-J. W. W.

"the

statue of Jupiter Olympus was made of the bones of an elephant." (Sed qy. ivory ?) -HOOKE, vol. 1, p. 23.

A SUSPICION that Pallas derived name and origin from the Palladium, that statue which represented a young man, armed from head to foot, having been given by Pallas, King of Arcadia, to his daughter Chrysé when she married Dardanus. Ibid. p. 23, N.

"THE Flamen Dialis, or Priest of Jupiter, might not ride on horseback, nor be absent a night from Rome; but he had the privilege of wearing a hollow or pierced ring, wearing a splendid robe (the prætexta) and sitting in the senate in a curule chair; none but a freeman might cut his hair: and the clippings, and the pairings of his nails, were to be buried' subter arborem felicem."" - Ibid. p. 115, N.

"HOR ristringendomi sotto i panni de la patienza."— PIETRO ARETINO, Letters, vol. 1, p. 23.

"Quis enim potest crastinum videre solem? aut quis imaginem hominis nondum nati depingere?"-SOUTH as Terræ Filius.

"TRISTE de quem assi sua vida passa."

DIOGO BERNARDES, Lyma, p. 143.

"QUANTO O silencio val, sabese tarde.”

ANTONIO FERREIRA, ibid. p. 168. “Ὀρθῶς μ' έρωτᾶς, κεὶς ἀγῶν ἔρχει λό

ywv." EURIPIDES, Phænissæ, v. 944.

“ Ου γὰρ ὁ μὴ καλὸν, οὔποτ ̓ ἔφυ καλόν.” Ibid. v. 828. "It is not and it cannot come to good." Hamlet, act i. sc. ii.

IN an Eclogue of DIOGO BErnardes, Alcido, who was chosen by two poetical shepherds,

Ibid. p. 106.

“ περισσοὶ πάντες οἱ ν μέσῳ λόγοι.” EURIPIDES, Medea, v. 815.

"HEARKEN to me and I will tell you,touch whom it may touch, hurt whom it may hurt, feel it who that may feel it."Golden Book, G. 2.

"In verities he was very veritable.”— Ibid.

THE Twelve Tables say, when they order temples to those commendable qualities by

which heroes obtained heaven, such as understanding, virtue, piety, fidelity, say, “But let no worship ever be paid to any vice.”HOOKE, vol. 2, p. 322.

"MR. DARBY.-I might call him the religious printer. He goes to heaven with the Anabaptists, but is a man of a general charity."-J. DUNTON, p. 247.

"Whose wife was chaste as a picture cut in alabaster; whose son John was a very beauty of a man, and a finished Christian to boot, and for his daughter in Cornhill, she bore away the bell from all the booksellers' wives in London."—Ibid.

"Duchess. WHY should calamity be full of words?

Q. Eliz. Windy attorneys to their client

woes,

Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope, though what they do
impart

Help nothing else, yet do they ease the

heart." Richard III. act iv. sc. iv. "HUMPHREY hour" calls upon every one. Richard the Third, act iv. sc. iv.

This, I suspect, has reference to dining with "Duke Humphrey,"-a well known expression;-but not, as far as I remember, to be found in Shakspeare, unless in this passage. J. W. W.