twenty stone, and hunting almost every day, and moreover as an affectionate and generous uncle to his nephews, who lived with him, had a glass barrel with a silver cock, bunches of grapes cut on the barrel, and a silver Bacchus mounted on it. It turned on a pivot, and his butler used to fill it with a magnum bonum of claret. -PERC. STOCKDALE, vol. 1, p. 416. See the chorus of his hunting song. Ibid. p. 415.

[Opinion of Hobbes.]

HOBBES was of opinion that physics, ethics, and politics, if they were well demonstrated, would be as certain as the mathematics; and he wrote a book to show that there is no

less uncertainty and falsity in the writings

of mathematicians than there is in those of naturalists, moralists, and politicians. This was his treatise "De Principiis et Ratiocinatione Geometrarum, contra fastum professorum Geometriæ." In this book he says, "Eorum qui de iisdem rebus mecum aliquid ediderunt, aut solus insanio Ego, aut solus non insanio, tertium enim non est, nisi (quod dicet forte aliquis) insaniamus omnes."Phil. Tran. Abridg. vol. 1, pp. 85-6.

QUEEN OF NAVARRE, looking for the exit of one.-BRANTOME.

WATTS's error in supposing that "this mind (soul) might have been paired with any other human body, or this body with any other mind.”—Vol. 7, p. 309.

A. D. 1758 CALEB FLEMING published “ A Survey of the Search after Souls, by Dr. Coward, Dr. S. Clarke, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Sykes, Dr. Law, Mr. Pockard, and others.

His notion was, "that the soul, after death, active consciousness, in a well-prepared new immediately returns to the exercise of an vehicle, the resurrection body, which accommodates the departing spirit, unclothed Review, vol. 19, p. 353. of its mortal and corruptible one."-Monthly

JEAN D'ESPAGNE. Shibboleth, p. 123. Where it goes out.

naculo Animarum), and till all these shall All unborn souls are in Guph (i.e. retihave been born into the world, the Jews hold that the Messiah cannot come.

"Animæ quæ sunt in Guph retardant adventum Messiæ; animæ, inquam, illæ in Guph, quas ego feci; quando quidem Messias non antè est adventurus, quam omnes animæ e Guph exierint in corpora.”—Avoda Sara. p. 28.

IN Loango the royal family think a certain number of souls belong to them, and always continue in the family, passing from the dead to the newly born.-Parallels, vol. 1, p. 725.

"THE angels, they stand at our elbows, that so soon as a saint departeth, they may with all speed immediately transport his soul into heaven."-PERKINS, vol. 1, p. 93.

A WOMAN affected with chlorosis had a longing to suck the wind out of a bellows, which as often as she could she received with open mouth, blowing with her own hands

the inverted bellows.-Abr. Phil. Trans. vol. 1, p. 201.

It was thus that Jeremy B. suckled his disciples.

LOUIS DE BILS, or Bilsius, a Flemish nobleman, whose passion was anatomy. One of his treatises was De Anatomia Incruenta, though he kept secret his art of dissecting, and of preserving or embalming bodies without effusion of blood. He had a large collection of bodies thus prepared, and set a very high price on them; but in process of time they became putrid, and he died of consumption, induced, it is said, by the fetor emitted from them.-Ibid. p. 283, N. See Sprenger, vol. 4, p. 227.

ISAAC VOSSIUS affirmed "that if we employed as much labour and time in learning the pantomimical art as we do in learning a language, we might possibly come to express our mind and thought as clearly by that way as now we do by the aid of a language; nor does he think that mankind would suffer anything by it if the pest and confusion (these are his own words) of so many tongues were banished, and instead of them this sole art of the pantomimes were known by all mankind, and men explained everything by signs, nods, and gestures; on account of which he thinks the condition of brutes to be much better than that of men, seeing they signify without an interpreter their sense and thought more readily, and perhaps better, than any man can do."!Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 2, p. 63.

See Puttenham, p. 119, for something quite as good in its way.

"WHAT am I the better," says NORRIS, "for being able to tell what 'tis o'clock in several languages? How great a folly must it needs be to place learning in that which is one of the greatest curses upon earth, and which shall utterly cease in heaven!"-Reflections upon the Conduct of Human Life

with reference to the Study of Learning and Knowledge, pp. 45-6.

SHAW. Minerva's Triumph, or Grammar and Rhetorick, personated by Youths in Dramatick Scenes in a Country School, calf, 68. 12mo. 1682.

Theatre.

TATE WILKINSON, vol. 1, p. 184. Saturday, no material distinction in the nights at Doncaster and Wakefield.

Vol. 2, p. 191. MRS. JORDAN, at York, in 1786, playing at £1. 11s. 6d. a-week. The London performers who saw her thought her acting really very clever; but all said it would not do among them.

He is "compelled to declare, that Mrs. Jordan, at making a bargain, is too many for the cunningest devil of us all."

T. DAVIES married his " very pretty wife at York, where he acted, and her father also." Yarrow was her name.-MALCOLM GRANGER, p. 69.

Vol. 3, p. 119. "A FARCE, if it possesses true humour, will be greatly relished and applauded in London. In the country, very possibly the same piece, (even decently acted), shall be termed vile, low, vulgar, and indelicate. The Love for Love of Congreve, The Trip to Scarborough, The Way of the World, The Confederacy, and others, are in London attended to as plays of wit and merit, (witness their constant repetition), but in the country not permitted; or, if permitted to appear, not upon any account fashionable, which is just as bad."

Vol. 4, p. 18. Provoked Wife. See the place.

Vol. 3, p. 127. CUSTOM of begging support at a benefit abolished by Tate Wil| kinson.-Vol. 4, p. 65.

WHEN Miss Frodsham was once acting at Peterborough, the Bishop (Hinchcliffe, I suppose), showed her some civilities, as having been at Westminster school with her father.-English Theatre, vol. 6, p. 289.

KEMBLE at Wakefield and York, 1778. -Ibid. p. 294.

MRS. JORDAN and Knight's escape there. -Ibid. P. 374-5.

THE clergy of the Established Church in Scotland who at any time frequent the theatre, are said to make a point of doing so in Lent, to show their contempt for that remnant of Popery.

KEAN was engaged at Glasgow to play six nights in Passion Week. He acted Iago on the Friday. "If Kean and the good people of Glasgow do not go to the Devil, it will be a hard case." Such is the remark of the coarse-minded scoffer who compiled the two volumes of the English Stage. -vol. 7, p. 136.

A GOOD remark concerning Edwin. "He required to have parts written expressly for him. When an old comedy was revived, there was generally a part in it for Quick and Parsons; but not one for Edwin."Ibid. vol. 7, p. 384.

THE author of the English Theatre says, (vol. 8, p. 320), that after the young Roscius had acted Hamlet (1812), it might be said without any scruple, he was the worst actor who ever came before the public, (except in a part for trial), as a firstrate performer.

J. TAYLOR's Sermons, p. 125.

Ibid. vol. 3, p. 544. MILLER, who was a favourite actor for thirty years, (1709– 1738), could not read. It was said that his principal object in marrying was to have a wife who could read his parts to him.

Marriage.

NEWTON, pp. 264-5, 218.

PONTOPPIDAN says, that till the middle of the last (17th) century, when a Norwegian peasant's family was invited to a wedding, the wife generally took her husband's shroud with her.

The men used to buckle themselves together by the belts, and fight with their knives till one was mortally wounded.Monthly Review, vol. 13, p. 45.

JEREMY TAYLOR's Sermon, vol. 5, p. 249, &c., the Marriage Ring.

By the laws of Geneva, a widow must months after her husband's decease. not engage in a promise of marriage till six

A woman who is not above forty is not allowed to marry a man more than ten years younger than herself; but if she hath past her fortieth year, her husband must be within five years of her own age.

A man after his sixtieth year cannot marry a woman that is not half as old as himself. KEATE'S Account of Geneva.Monthly Review, vol. 24, p. 215. a. D. 1761.

ACCORDING to the precepts of the book Li Ki, the Emperor of China, besides his wife, may have 130 concubines, of whom three are Toug-in, nine are Pin, thirty-seven Chi-Fou, and eighty-one Yu-Tsi.—Ibid, vol. 60, p. 503.

hurling for her, that the winner may marry IRISH custom of horsing a girl, and then ber.-Ibid. vol. 63, p. 102. ARTHUR Young.

AN ill-conditioned pair. "If they are together, two people may lead an uneasy life, to be sure; but it will, in all probability save four from being in the like condition."-J. BAILLIE. The Match, p. 377.

THE Savoy marriages were put a stop to by the transportation of Wilkinson, and Grierson his curate.-BURNS's Fleet Marriages, p. 19.

WILKINSON began his trade on the passing of the Marriage Act, before which there had been no clandestine marriages there. He conceived himself authorized to grant licences, as a privilege annexed to the Savoy, of which he was "his Majesty's chaplain." Of 1190 of his marriages in 1755, the clerk deposed on his trial that 900 of the women came out of the country, enciente.-Ibid. p. 94-5.

KEITH, of May Fair, says in his pamphlet, "Happy is the wooing, that is not long a-doing,' is an old proverb, and a very true one. As I have married many thousands, and consequently have on those occasions seen the humour of the lower class of people, I have often asked the married pair how long they had been acquainted; they would reply, some more some less, but the generality did not exceed the acquaintance of a week, some only of a day, half a day.”—Ibid. p. 99.

"Ruth. Have you a month's mind to this gentlewoman, Mrs. Arbella? "Abel. I have not known her a week yet." Committee, p. 23.

SIR THOMAS HANMER (the Speaker, and editor of Shakespeare), "married an old woman for love, and a young one for money, and was not very fortunate in either of them." - YORKE's Royal Tribes of Wales, p. 112. N.

In Astrea, (P. iv. l. 8, p. 767), it is said, "les femmes la première fois se marient par obeyssance, et la seconde par élection."

The remark is true of D'Urfe's age, not of the time in which he lays his romance.

THREE marriages decided by blind-man'sbuff in Astrea.-P. v. l. 4, vol. 9, p. 326.

AUTHORESS of Caroline de Litchfield married for her book.-MISS SEWARD's Letters, vol. 1, p. 210.

A MAN, in CUMBERLAND'S Natural Son, when he is told that the woman whom he wishes to marry has a "vengeance of a temper," replies, "Never mind that, mine will serve for both."

REV. THOMAS COOKE, minister of St. Bennets, Paul's Wharf, who died in 1731, had married about 13,000 couple there, "being situated near the commons." (?)— G. Magazine, vol. 1, p. 221.

IN 1784, a Key to the Three First Chapters of Genesis was published. This world was formed out of the wreck of Satan's kingdom, and given to Adam as his principality, all that was in it being very good, and to continue so as long as he continued in his innocence. The necessity of tilling the soil began when he began to fall, and the mist that arose to water the ground was the first indication that evil had entered. Then there grew up the noxious tree. Till then, Adam and Eve had been literally one, but upon eating of this fruit they were divided, increasing thus the imperfection of human nature, and ensuring the propagation of it to their offspring.M. Review, vol. 71, p. 233-4.

Animalcula and Insects.

scurf of a man's teeth are so many, that he LEUWENHOECK says, the number in the believes they exceed the number of men in a kingdom. For, examining a small parcel of it, no thicker than a horse-hair, "I found so many living animals in it, that I guess there might have been a thousand in a quantity of matter no larger than the hundredth part of a sand.”—Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 3, p. 37.

ONE of Jacob Abbott's scholars being called upon, Prejudice, which was the "moral exercise for the day," produced the following theme. "I am very much prejudiced against spiders and every insect in the