A BOOK called Arma Anserina, in praise of the pen, printed at Leyden, 1679. BAYLE, vol. 3, p. 255. "AGED Indians, whether male or female, generally continue in apparent good health to the last; and death is most frequently sudden. But they become bowed and very much wrinkled." - EDWIN JAMES, vol. 1, pp. 235-6. WARM Beere, a Treatise, wherein is declared that Beere so qualified is farre more wholesome then that which is drunke cold. 18mo. neat, scarce, 7s. 6d. Camb. 1641. "At nine in the evening of the 25th, a fall of rain commenced: we were now ten in company, with a single tent, large enough to cover half the number. In order, however, to make the most equal distribution of our several comforts, it was so arranged that about the half of each man was sheltered under the tent, while the remainder was exposed to the weather. This was effected by placing all our heads near together in the centre of the tent, and allowing our feet to project in all directions, like the radii of a circle."-EDWIN James, vol. 2, p. 261. FRANCIS BARNETT says in his Memoirs, (vol. 1, p. 316) "From my own observation I do not think there is a real British sailor who would not sooner part with the whole of his apparel, than either pawn or part with a Bible given him." WHEN Mr. Butler condemned Beza, he "INTERDUM quies inquieta est."-SENE- ought to have remembered what Mr. EusCA, Epist. 56. THE horse of the good knight El Bembe, was better than any of the horses of the sun.-Chev. du Sol. vol. 6, p. 229. NATALIS the physician informed Peiresk that there are in Guinea " apes with long, gray, combed (compt) beards almost venerable, who stalk an alderman's pace, and take themselves to be very wise."-Life of Peiresh, p. 92. tace has said in defence of Virgil,—to this purpose. Vol. 1, 8vo. edition, pp. 220-2. BISHOP WATSON said of certain Protestant landholders in Ireland-"they are desirous to pay no tithes for their lands: the event may be, that they will have no lands to pay for."-Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 251. TAYLOR from Vienna, 1635. “The Duke of Bavaria hath always discovered a strange ambitious mind, and of late hath given more testimony of it than before. Since this marriage he feeds of nothing but on capons and chickens, fed with flesh of vipers, and to this purpose, I am told, that there are a great many brought forth of Calabria. What a child would he beget to infest the world."-Clarendon Papers, vol. 1, p. 373. I AM of opinion with DONA OLIVA SABUCO, that "El sueño deve ser comun a todos pur ley rigurosa en la noche; y no es buen govierno que unos duerman, otros cauten por ! las calles."-P. 74. THE British Apollo explains the reason why dogs wag their tails when they are FROGS in Italian cry quattro, quattro.- pleased, thusBERTOLDINO, vol. 8, p. 73. In Latin they call out aqua, aqua. "The cause why that part such quick sense doth retain, Is from vessels continued from thence to the brain, Where a secret impulse first impresseth the notion, And joy at one end puts the other in motion.-Vol. 1, p. 107. "FRETS make best music; strings the higher racked Sound sweetest." ROWLEY, New Wonder, a Woman never vext, p. 333. ""Tis said "Edition recherchée, à cause des figures The grave's good rest when women go first en taille douce, dont elle a été ornée. Il est à remarquer, que dans le nombre de ces figures, il s'en trouve une à la page 276, qui représente une action un peu libre et indécente, et qui, par cette raison, est sujette à ne se recontrer que déchirée ou gâtée. Il est bon de s'en assurer, parce qu'alors ce volume perd la plus grande partie de son mérite et de sa valeur."-DE BURE. to bed." Ibid. 347. THE valley of Ajalon was in Dan's portion, and because the coasts of this tribe "went out too little for them, the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their father."-Judges, xix. 47. The only one of the sons of Jacob after whom a city was named. A MAN enquires why it is that after eating he is as much intoxicated as if he had been "drinking at an excessive rate;" and the British Apollo, (vol. 3, p. 399), replies, | "It is because the brain being crowded with the grosser vapours ascending from the aliments, the influx of the animal spirits out of the carotid arteries into the nerves is partly obstructed, which, rendering the nerves remiss, that drowsy disposition follows." "I DESIRE you to oblige me so far as to give me a reason why I, that am so very ticklish, can't tickle myself."-Ibid. p. 496. The most unsuccessful author succeeds in doing this. "I HAVE heard Sir Henry Wotton say that there be many that in Italy will catch swallows so, or especially martins; this bird-angler standing on the top of a steeple to do it, with a line twice as long as I have spoken of, i. e. about twenty feet long.”— A NOTION that love brought on toothache. Iz. WALTON, p. 206. -Ibid. p. 504. CAREW, p. 707, that it cures it. SOME of the Hebrews liked jingling names, as the Arabians, and as our old lawyers. Shuppim and Huppim, the sons of Ir." WHY there are so many maggots in fil-1 Chron. 7, 12. berts, and none in walnuts."-Ibid. p. 594. "WAR is a game sometimes at chess, sometimes at hazard; politics a game at blind-man's-buff; patriotism, at brag; trade, at beggar my neighbour." Or rather, the soldiers play at, &c.; the statesman, &c. "Peresh and Sheresh, sons of Machir." -Ibid. 16. DONCASTER-quasi Dancaster. NOTHING like a chimney appears in any remains of Roman architecture. Either there was an aperture in the roof for the smoke, or it escaped through the windows. Did they burn charcoal? "ONE Cockerell of Stockton, captain of a ship, was washed overboard in a storm by one wave and thrown upon deck again by another. In pious memory of this providential escape, he kept the day of the week (Wednesday), a solemn fast while he lived, and never suffered his beard to be shaved again."-RITSON. SURTEES' Durham, vol. 3, p. 191. This seems to have been late in the 17th century. "Gal. WELL, and what dost thou play? Bal. The part of all the world. All. The part of all the world? What's that? Bal. The fool." Induction to MARSTON'S Antonio and "THE Arabians, in default of other fuel, are fain to burn, and dress their meat with aromatical wood, which so stupifieth the senses of the people, that they are forced with bitumen and the scent of goats, (where BURTON says that when persons are afflicted with St. Vitus's dance, the magistrates in Germany hire musicians to play to, and some lusty sturdy companions to dance, with them. "I WILL have my picture drawn most compositiously."-FORD, vol. 1, p. 372. "THAT I had thought, and thought I had thought rightly."-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Woman Hater, act v. sc. i. "MERRY as a cricket," is a proverbial similitude, but I am not sure that crickets are merry,—any more than a set of psalmsingers are. Merry as a tadpole would be a better form of speech. We were looking at some to-day in a little stream, where they were wagging their tails with all imaginable liveliness and alacrity. Should not you like to have such a tail, said I to Karl; and he looked up at the question with a broad smile of delight, and answered with! a voice of honest, deep earnestness, that it | seemed to come from the heart, or half way thither at least,-" I should!"— May 18, 1829. "BIRDS of the gull species, within the last week, have been exceedingly plentiful in Kent, attracted to the lands by sprats, which are used in great quantities by farmers as manure. Flights of thousands have also daily occupied the marshes in search of food. At Beacon Hill, near Green Street, on Friday last, a curious scene took place. Several loads of fish had been thrown down in a heap in consequence of the snow preventing the operation of spreading. In a short time after being deposited, many thousand gulls invaded, and commenced operations upon them in right earnest, without, for a time, being interrupted in their repast; at length, some boys observing the havock they were committing, repaired to the spot; but such was the determined spirit of the birds, that they kept them at bay a considerable time, by hovering over, |