"Foor passengers in every city of Europe, except London, were exposed to accidents from being mixed with horses and carriages, as well as from the insolence and brutality of their riders and drivers, for want of a footpath. In Paris, a great many people are annually killed and maimed for want of one."-BURNEY, Musical Tour in Germany, vol. 2, p. 197.

"There is a foot pavement in Pompeii; and on each side the Via Appia and other ancient roads in Italy."-Ibid.

Ibid. p. 36.-A STRANGE story of a native of Poole, driving a nail into a horse's head, and curing it by a chemical liquid of his own preparing.

SOME excellent remarks upon those poets whose verses are made up from memory, and whose memory sticks in the letter, without having a glimpse of the spirit. SIR EGERTON BRYDGES' Recollections of Travel, vol. 1, p. 240.

AGRICULTURISTS prone to religion, as soldiers to impiety.-MAX. TYRIUs, Dissert. 14, p. 172. A valuable passage.

THE Hindoos at their marriage invoke the manes of their ancestors to be present. -MORGAN'S Duct. of Mar. vol. 1, p. 97.

1791. THE Royal Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, in 1791, proposed these questions :

"What is the reason that ornaments of public buildings, bridges, railings, monuments, mile stones, trees, and banks of walks, &c. are defaced, out of mere malice (mischief) more in Germany, or in many parts of it at least, than in Italy or other countries? and how may this apparently national viciousness be most securely and speedily eradicated?

"What is the least expensive mode of inclosing towns that have neither walls nor

A PASSAGE in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER vol. 8, p. 192 (Woman's Prize), which looks as if there was a notion concerning women like that concerning sylphs, upon which the tale of Undine is founded. Yet there cannot have been; the meaning must be accidental, I think.

"A CONJURER's the devil's master, and commands him.

Whereas a witch is but the devil's prentice, And obeys him."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Fair

Maid of the Inn, p. 360.

"LES Européens seuls sont capables d'apprendre aux Indiens leur propre histoire, et

de voir dans leurs traditions, dans leurs monumens des idées et des faits qui ne sauraient être découverts et compris par les Indiens aux-mêmes.”—Doctrine of S. Simon, p. 118, N.

ST. AUGUSTINE derives servus from servare.—Ibid. p. 240.

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ONE, in the Serées of BOUCHET, (vol. 2, p. 361) asks, qui est celuy de nostre temps, qui ne naisse moindre que ses pere et mere?" Perhaps the wars of that age had, as in Buonaparte's, left only the immature and the old to propagate; and in the same way affected female constitutions, as the revolution is known to have done. See the account of Strasburg.

DURING the civil wars in France, people retired into the lazar houses for safety, feign

ing to be lepers, and exposing themselves to leprosy.

See this very curious passage in the Serées of BOUCHET, tom 3, p. 245-6.

THERE used to be a very considerable demand for Irish editions, from America.Irish Debates, vol. 16, p. 73.

THE roots of the couch grass (triticum repens) in Flanders, and in the south of Italy, are collected, washed, and sold in bundles for horses.-QUAYLE's Survey of Jersey, Guernsey, &c. p. 255.

WHOEVER would understand what reliance may be placed upon the Unitarian writers on the score of integrity, should consult Archbishop Magee's notes upon their improved version of the New Testament. They are to be found in the third volume of his most valuable discourse on the Atonement.

See also in the same volume, N. p. 810, the fraudulent manner in which they have used the names of Dr. Watts and Mrs. Trimmer.

HOBBES recommends the Whole Duty of Man, as (except a few passages that he misliked) very well worth reading; and as containing the then system of church morals. -ВЕНЕМОТН.

Ir has been said that "bugs were first brought into the country after the fire of London, in the fir timber imported for the rebuilding of the city." Gifford says, “unfortunately for them, however, they were the greatest sufferers by the fire, having been denizened in vast numbers long before that calamitous event took place."-B. J. vol. 6, p. 50, in a note upon

66 Run away like cimici, Into the crannies of a rotten bedstead." This seems to be an Italian word.

a conceited and barbarous attempt, Gifford calls it, to rectify the writing of the English language, which seems to have fallen into the hands of the late James Elphinstone.-Ibid. vol. 6, N. p. 127.

"As just a carrier as my friend Tom Long was." Ibid. Tale of a Tub, p. 201. He was of that age then, and noted for his honesty.

"THE whirligig, the whibble, the carwidgen.
Hey day, what names are these?
New names of late."

MIDDLETON, Mayor of Queenborough,
Old Plays, vol, 11, p. 167.

VINDICATION of Alva's cruelty.

Adventures of Five Hours, Old
Plays, vol. 12, p. 41.

THE most curious stage direction I have seen is in Apius and Virginia. "Here let him make as he went out, and let conscience and justice come out of him; and let conscience hold in his hand a lamp burning, and let justice have a sword, and hold it before Apius's breast."-Ibid. p. 356.

French Memoirs.

Tom. 28.-VINCENT CARLOIX, Mem. du Vieillevilli.

Tom. 165.-Defence of spies, as men of principle.

Tom. 331.-Bull dogs, and bull baiting introduced from England into France.

Tom. 32.-Mem. de Tarannes. A Frenchman proposes to surprise Malta, as a sure step to Sicily, and to the conquest of Italy.

Ibid. tom. 30, p. 197. By the usage of war, the cannoneers had a right to all "les cloches d'une ville qu'ils ont battue, en quelque sorte qu'elle se sont rendue, ou par force ou composition."-VINCENT CARLOIX.

IN R. Greene's Looking Glass for London and England, Jonah is cast out of the Whale's belly upon the stage.

WALLIUS, p. 106. Paulus Manutius Aldus, lib. 1, ep. 4, describes his way of borrowing from ancient authors, which is precisely the same as Ebenezer Elliot's. Wallius himself (p. 150) recommends it.

PARNASO Ital. Modern. vol. 13, Parini, p. 125-7. What men of rank learnt from Voltaire, and what they did not learn.

MR. DEVAY of Boston tells me, that madness is more common in America than in England; and that the most frequent cause is political excitement, the boundless ambition, and continual ferment of democracy.

He says also, that a small collection of good books is more generally to be found in an American house, than in an English one.-July, 1833.

UNCALCULATED and, quasi, uncalculable dangers, or consequences

"It lately happened that an iron bridge fell in very curious circumstances, by the marching of a body of soldiers over it. Now, the bridge was calculated to sustain a greater weight than this body of men; and had they walked tumultuously over it, it would have withstood the pressure: but the soldiers marching to time, accumulated a motion, aided by the elasticity of the material, which broke it down."-BELL's Bridgwater Treatise, p. 234.

"Nous entrâmes dans un petit batteau rond qui avoit à chacun de ses flancs une roue attachée dont les aîles servoient de❘ rames, une manivelle double les faisoit tourner à la fois."-LAMEKIS, vol. 1, p. 93.

QUESTION de Amor. At a tournay, prizes both for knights and ladies who shall appear in the most gallant attire.-H. 2, I. 5.

“I Do not like that he names me so often, Especially on his death-bed: 'tis a sign I shall not live long."

WEBSTER, Vol. 1, p. 134.

FLIES annually destroyed by fire at Florence."-GALIFFE, Italy, vol. 2, p. 408.

"REX NEMORENSIS, a priest of Diana at Nemi by the lake, who held his place by the tenure of having murdered his prede

cessor, and was never without a drawn sword to protect himself against his aspirant successor."-Mementoes of a Tour, vol. 2, p. 217.

GAS from a burning spring used for domestic purposes in America.—M'KENNEY's Sketches, p. 84.

GALILEO's finger bit off by an antiquary. DUPPA'S Travels, p. 13.

Dios me dè cient años de guerra, y no un dia de battalla."-GARIBAY, vol. 4, p. 1031.

THE miscreant Burke was asked how he felt when pursuing his trade of murder, he

THE modern Greeks use Mπ for B.TURNER'S Tour, vol. 1, p. 145.

STRANGE history of a Corsican who was like Prince Leopold of Naples.-Ibid. p. 195.

when he was awake, but that when he slept he had frightful dreams, such as he had never had before."

Drink had something to do with this waking state, for the price of blood was chiefly expended in ardent spirits.

Ibid. p. 204.

Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,