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CONCLUDING motto,-
"Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail."
Ibid. act iv. se. 2.

ANECDOTES relating to some of the books in my possession, would supply matter I enough for an amusing paper.

ANNALS of G. Hall. The great little

events that have occurred there:Bursting the oven.

Night attack on the windows.

The great wet.

IMITATIVE talent is, I believe, as comWhen mon, as creative genius is rare. Columbus had once broken the egg, there were plenty of gentlemen who could all do

it.

The imitative poems, good in their kind, which are continually produced by persons incapable of producing any thing good of their own, prove this.

Thus too we have mimics, who can personify the best actors, but would be utterly incapable of acting any one of their parts. Avellaneda's Don Quixote is perhaps the best example of a good imitative work ;—as

The blowing open the door in the night. to conception I mean, for what the style

Putting up the roof.

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may be, I have no means of judging, never having seen the original. It shows also what not unfrequently accompanies this talent, a base mind, a low vile envious desire of depreciating his original; having beyond all doubt its root in a consciousness of inferiority, and an ambition with no worth to support it. Lord Byron is another instance of this.

It is very much to the credit of the Spaniards that Avellaneda's talents have not in any degree saved him from the disgraceful fame that he deserves.

TOMFOOLITES, OF Noodelitarians.

THE new press gang.

A black fellow, who had been in the

Mr. Fisher's cow. And my opinion of the guards. man who kept his cow.

The bums.

Crazy woman at Musgrave's.
Northern lights.

Hartley splashing his hat.
Harry's shoe.

Shirt island.

Holly bush and beak.
Buonaparte's cuirasse.
Dancing bears.

My reputed prophecies.

The strange fish.

The Irish clergyman.'

A portion of this list has appeared before.

This is an amended one.-J. W. W.

An old waterman.

Smearing them with printer's ink, and tossing them in wet sheets.

OLD Cob, sometimes called the sergeant, and sometimes the bone-stealer, having once been engaged in the resurrection trade, is now, in consequence, employed as bully in the house of an infamous old woman, well known by the name of Mother Scarlet.

THE Jerry Bedlamites. These fellows have the same sort of dislike to black that bulls have to scarlet.

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THEY have a good fashion in Valencia of

“Nis. Ay, concerning his being sent I making the chairs of unequal heights, so as

know not whither.

Dor. Why then he will come home I know not when.

You shall pardon me, I will talk no more of

This subject, but say the gods be with him Where'er he is, and send him well home

again.

For why he is gone, or when he will return,
Let them know that directed him."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Cupid's
Revenge, act ii. sc. 3.

66 They say that we tailors are
Things that lay one another, and our geese
Hatch us."-Ibid. act iv. sc. 3.

EFFECT of diet.-SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, vol. 1, p. 52.

VINUM Theologicum.-HOLINSHED, vol. 1,

p. 281.

to accommodate persons of different statures.

NEVER trust the heart of any man who wears it on the outside of his waistcoat; for what he has within his sternum or its stead, is sure to be either as hard as a pippin, or as hollow as a pumpkin.

THE morality and duty of merriment.TH. JACKSON'S Works, vol. 3, p. 125.

RABBA saith a man is bound to make himself so mellow on the feast of Purim, that he shall not be able to distinguish between "Cursed be Haman," and "Blessed be Mordecai."

The Rabbis say "they were sweetened," for they got drunk.-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 8, p. 376.

They say a demon called Cordicus possesses them, who are drunk with new wine. -Ibid. p. 377.

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AN odd thought concerning Lord Byron | came into Bertha's head, "that there was in him two pounds of devil to one pound of man."

AKBAR's seal, "I never saw any one lost on a straight road." But a man may be lost there if he travel on snow, or in the dark.

"NONUMQUE prematur in annum." HORACE, A. P. v. 388.

DEKKER uses to wihy, for neigh.-Wonder of a Kingdom, p. 15.

Ir may, perhaps, not be known to the generality of readers, that the following twenty-two occupations are engaged to produce a single book :-"The author, the designer, the rag-merchant, the paper-maker, the stationer, the type-founder, the pressmaker, the ink-maker, the roller-maker, the chase-maker, the reader, the compositor, the pressman, the gatherer, the folder, the stitcher, the leather-seller, the binder, the coppersmith, the engraver, the copper-plate printer, and the bookseller!"

There are more than these:-the smel

ter, the tanner, the gold-beater, the bookbinder's toolmaker, the miner, and then it supports reviews and small critics, brings money to newspapers, and contributes by its duty on advertisements to the revenue.

แ "It is enough for me that I do know What they commend, and what they disallow.

And let it be enough to them, that I Am pleased to make such faults for them to spy."

WITHER, Remembrancer, p. 137.

"THE chiefest cause why I wrote this, was on set purpose to please myself."-TAYLOR, the W. P., Preface.

TAYLOR'S Revenge, or William Fenner firked, ferreted, and finally called over the coals.

"Nor a letter but what is fair: in technical language no pick, blot, bur, friar or monk is to be seen in the work."-ISAIAH THOMAS, Vol 1, p. 54.

"CONJECTURE is all that one can go upon here; and it is better to conjecture at Satan's mind, in such a thing as this, than to be acquainted in it.”—LIGHTFOOT, vol. 9, p. 365.

"O thou vinegar, the son of good wine!" a Rabbinical expression for " O thou wicked son of a good father."-Ibid. vol. 12, p. 407.

"WHO would marry a woman, though of a comely and well-proportioned body, who had the head of an ugly dragon? Certainly, although she had a great dowry, none would covet such a bedfellow.”—J. Taylor, vol. 3, p. 445.

"APOLLINIS simulachrum quatuor olim auribus Lacedæmonii donarunt, ut sapientiam ostenderent, cujus imaginem Apollo referebat, multarum auditione rerum enutriri."-Orationes, Jo. ALOYSII CERCHIARII,

p.

76.

"Quin ipsi physiognomones, qui indolem animi ex notis corporis, cum quâdam veritate conjectant, ex auribus pressis, et simiarum ad instar adherentibus, stuporis et imperitiæ signum eliciunt; quæ si paulisper promineant et extent, mentem ad omnia compositam arguunt, et in studiis mirificè profuturam."—Ibid. p. 71.

"THE circle is óλoywvía, a totangle: it is also ισογώνιος ἰσόπλευρος, as well as óλónλεvρoç."-JACKSON, vol. 2, pp. 103-4.

ONE in merriment proposed this question in the schools, "An Chimera, calcitrans in vacuo terat calceos ?"— Ibid. p. 152.

"ALPHABET de l'imperfection et malice des femmes"-par J. OLIVIER, Rouen, 1635.

WHY he would have liked a deaf and dumb wife, not meaning any reflection upon

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WITCHES' Souls fly out of their mouths in house should turn their drink sour?—Ibid. the shape of a fire-fly.—Ibid. p. 27.

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p. 785.

Will it do so? and if so, is the same effect produced by bell-ringing?

A NOTION Said to be confirmed by gravediggers, that the earth which is dug out of a grave will not fill it after the coffin is put in!-Ibid. p. 795.

OLD NICK said to be so called from Nic Machiavelli!-Ibid. p. 822.

HARCOURT (Longeville), "Histoire des personnes qui ont vecu plusieurs siècles, et qui ont rajeuni.”—A. D. 1715.

I KNEW a man to whom all the middle walks of life were open in his youth, and yet in spite of all dehortation he would be nothing but a tailor. He was not, as might perhaps be supposed, either effeminate in disposition or fractional in person, but an absolute integer in form, stature, appearance, and in heart also. Inclination, however, for an art is no more a proof of aptitude or genius for it in a sartorian aspirant than in a stage-struck youth, or votary of the muses. The person in question made me one pair of breeches, and they did not fit.

"AN aged saying, and a true,
Black will take no other hue."
PEELE, vol. 1, p. 13.

SOME one was asked which of Cicero's

orations he liked best, and he answered"eas sibi videri optimas quæ essent longissimæ."-LANGUET. Epist. p. 175.

THE Scotchman who said men were divided into those who preyed upon others and those who were preyed upon.

But neither all men nor all animals can thus be classed.

The elephant, which is the noblest of quadrupeds, neither preys nor is preyed.

upon.

"MUCH matter decocted into few words." This is Fuller's definition of a proverb.

"A CONTINUAL emanation of unsavouriness, so that the stink doth never cease or give over."-BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 4, p. 203.

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