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 smelter, 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.

"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.

"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 oλoywvía, a totangle: it is also ισογώνιος ἰσόπλευρος, as well as óλÓTλεuρos."-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

UNION of Trades, the one public and the other secret. Shoemaker and corn factor.

It is hardly necessary to say that Rydychen, and Vadum Boum, and Oxford, are the same. Rydychen is the old British name. 2 Cf. lib. vii. c. 52. J. W. W.

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.

The Gridiron.1

BROILING is best, bear witness, gods and

men,

From five begin the strain.

Gridiron the A and Z in the humanizing art. Savages begin with it-the Boucan. Epicure's end-the Beef Steak Club. Sacrifices.

Homeric cookery.
Escurial.

Aurigrills-Utopia.

Jove who rules the roast.
The pot, the stewpan, and the spit,
Give them their honours fit,
Nor let the oven go without its praise.
A wreath of garlic flowers, or shalott-
Odify the gridiron, odiate the frying man.
The devil uses frying pans.
Pepper and salt.

Vulcan makes a gridiron.

The golden age, when every man will be his own priest, his own king, and his own cook.

Jupiter's prophecy of beef and Blenheim -beef and Waterloo. Apis looking at the battle of the Nile.

The land of Shakespeare and beef steaks.
Towton-when beef met beef.
Pepper from Malabar.

Potatoes from the Tupinambas. Creation of the gridiron from ferruginous particles.

JOHN JACKSON, the Arian, Master of Wigstow Hospital, Leicester, when his eyes began to fail, was immoderately fond of cards, and devoted every evening to the quadrille-table. "The seven o'clock bell at the hospital called him to evening prayer in the midst of a dispute at the game, and he crossed St. Martin's churchyard in great haste to his constant duty. As soon as prayers were over, he returned to the cardtable, and said 'I am confident I was right as to that card.' 'I submit,' replied his opponent,' for you have had leisure to consider the state of the game attentively.'-A| reply at which he took no small offence."CRADOCK'S Works, vol. 4, p. 88.

MRS. BRAY.-DR. VIAL, vol. 3, p. 200.

His father was Vicar of Doncaster, and he, who was born at a farm-house, Sensey, near Thirsk, was educated at Doncaster, where Dr. Bland, after head master of Eton, dean of Durham, and provost of Eton, was master. He was born 1686; and studied Hebrew under Simon Ockley at Cambridge. Warburton said of him, that he had spent his days in the republic of letters, just as vagabonds do in London, in one unwearied course of begging, railing, and stealing.NICHOLS, Vol. 2, pp. 519-31.

IN Defoe's time there was a great manufacture of stockings, gloves, and knit waistcoats there.

A. D. 1812. A SERVANT of Williamson, the horsedealer of York, was trying a horse on the road toward the High Street, Doncaster, when it took fright between the Rein Deer and Ram inns, and leaped through the shop window of Mr. Whalley, shoemaker. The rider crouched, or he must have been killed, the height from the ground to the under part of the beam being only seven and a half feet. He was thrown upon the counbeing near the window, prevented the horse from getting wholly into the shop. The window was of course shivered, but neither horse nor man much injured.-Edinburgh Annual Register, p. 61.

ter, which,

THORESBY, (Diary, vol. 2, p. 13,) speaks of a delicate parsonage-house at Cromwell, thought to be one of the best in England,

(1708): It was built by Mr. Thwaits, a Yorkshireman, (formerly schoolmaster at Doncaster), at the expense of £1000, on the road from Leeds to Grantham.

MARTIN LIster. Dean Waddilove. Sterne.

Hall Stevenson.

"Voici un dogme fort choquant; c'est que les choses qui n'ont jamais été, et qui ne seront jamais, ne sont point possibles. C'a été sans doute le sentiment d'Abelard; et je ne vois pas que ceux qui disent que Dieu est déterminé par sa sagesse infinie à faire ce

said more of it.

HUNTER in his History of the Deanery of Doncaster, says, "it is distinctly related by Bede, that the church at Doncaster was founded by Edwin, under the auspices of Paulinus."

"WE have notable fellows about Doncaster; they'll give the lie and the stab both in an instant."-WEBSTER, vol. 3, p.

186.

Kate, the innkeeper's daughter, says this.

sans inconséquence la doctrine de ce philosophe."-BAYLE, tom. 3, p. 335.

PHILIPPUS CAROLUS, a commentator upon Aulus Gellius, says, after the Hebrews, "que ceux qui auront été mal mariés, seront absous devant Dieu, sans comparoître devant son tribunal."-Ibid. p. 450.

"NESCIO quomodo nihil tam absurdè dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum."-Cic. de Divinat. 1. 2, c. 58.