dities that arose by it, or not so much in value as two miles of ground in England would afford and yet I must rightly say of that evil tobacco, this plantation sends the best, if the strength of tobacco be so accounted."-Ibid. "IF the charge bestowed upon plantations were valued with the gain reaped from them, it were not worth a purse to put it in; and for ours in England, it would be consumed in smoke. For one staple commodity which it sends out is stinking, barbarous tobacco; for from the barbarous savages it is derived: a brave original for civil men to learn from and imitate! “The French herein far exceed us; for by their industry and laborious endeavours, they have attained to a rich and profitable traffic of costly furs, which makes our shame the greater, when we consider how easily they have effected it, and how profitably they persevered, whilst we are sucking of smoke, that brings with it many inconveniences, as time has made too plain."-Ibid. p. 414. "CAPT. WM. MYDDLETON, the first who smoked tobacco in London. He was brother of Sir Thomas, who purchased Chirk Castle; and of Sir Hugh, who brought the New River to London, then called Myddelton's Water; another of his numerous oroHis scheme for a tobacco trade.-Ibid. thers wrote a treatise on Welsh prosody." p. 446. -YORKE'S Royal Tribes, p. 107. A POOR German tutor. In a mock description of one, it is said, " N. B. Bremen tobacco goes down with him."-Monthly Review, vol. 17, p. 109. A FRIEND from Edinburgh sends Shenstone, A.D. 1761, as a small stimulus to their friendship, "a little provision of the best Preston Pans snuff, both toasted and untoasted, in four bottles; with one bottle of Highland Snishon, and four bottles Bonnels. Please to let me know which sort is most agreeable, that I may send you a fresh supply in due time."-HULL's Select Letters, vol. 1, p. 313. 66 SCARCELY any small apartment called the Smoking-Room. old house without a "THERE is reason," says EVELYN, (Misc. In these, says Sir John Cullum, from about | p. 328), “ that we who are composed of the 66 elements should participate of their quali- | Semiramis), bore a dove in their banners. ties; for, as the humours have their source from the elements, so have our passions from the humours; and the soul which is united to this body of ours, cannot but be affected with its inclinations." Heaven. THE elder Venn, (p. 15), speaks of the vast assembly of perfect spirits, who are swallowed up in love and adoration of God, and are perfectly one with each other. DANTE. Purgatorio, xxviii. vol. 4, p. 181. Two streams from Paradise, Lethe and Eunoe; the one to wash away the remembrance of sin, the other to renew that of our good deeds. "Heralds may here take notice of the antiquity of their art; and for their greater credit blazon abroad this precious piece of ancientry; for before the time of Semiramis we hear no news of coats or crest."-JOHN GREGOIRE, p. 236. "DEBOHRA prophetissa, quia ab asse nomen habet, vocatur apis fœminei sexus." -Avoda Sara, p. 324. Fashion. IN Barbadoes, such was the influence of fashion, or custom, that Dr. Hillary (1759) says, "he had seen many men loaded, and almost half melting, under a thick rich coat and waistcoat, daubed and loaded with gold, on a hot day, scarce able to bear them." IBID. Paradiso, xviii. v. 29, vol. 5, p. 116. | Monthly Review, vol. 21, p. 370. Paradise is called "L'albero che vive de la cima,' perchè viene arrivato dall' essere sovrano ch'è Dio: al contrario degli altri alberi, che traggono il sugo vitale, e il nutrimento dalla radice." The Name. BRANTOME, vol. 10, p. 48, speaks of a Captain Sainte Colombe, "vaillant et brave soldadin, et déterminé s'il en fut oncques." | He was "de cette maison valeureuse de S. Colombe en Bearn, mais non légitime." At Rochelle he was wounded three times, and was no sooner recovered from the wound than he received another; twice in Normandy-de-sorte que nous l'appellions et son corps, une garenne d'harquebusades.” He was killed at St. Lo. CORNELIUS à LAPIDE, and many others, following the interpretation of St. Jerome, (who, at the 13th chap. of Isaiah says, that God calleth Nebuchadnezzar columbam), say that the Assyrians (in honour no doubt of "A WOODEN pillow, about the width of a hoop, and of a semicircular form, to admit the head, sustained by a column of four to six inches high, with a broad, flat base. They are almost exactly similar to those often found in the ancient tombs of the Egyptians, and, notwithstanding their apparent discomfort, are now very generally used in every part of Upper Nubia. The ladies of Shendy value them highly, because, being so narrow, they do not disarrange their hair, a serious consideration, if it be true, as I am informed, that the coiffure of the Shendyan beauties requires nine hours' work to be quite comme il faut,- beautifully plaited, bushy at each side, projecting behind, and flat above the forehead."-HOSKINS, p. 124. "To promote the growth of the nails here (as a decided indication of high rank), they are held over small fires of cedar-wood."Ibid. p. 125. COZENS, in 1778, published the "Principles of Beauty relative to the Human Head, a Metaphysico- Physiognomico - Pictorial Work." Each head in the engravings had an antique head-dress. "We sincerely wish, for the honour of the sex, that our countrywomen would study them, and remove the present enormous encumbrances from their heads, to make way for a dress which in more elegant times adorned the heads of the Grecian ladies."-Monthly Review, vol. 58, p. 444. A. D. 1781. “Les dernières robes en vogue sont les Levites, imitées sur ces robes ma jestueuses des enfans de la tribu consacrée à la garde de l'arche, et au service du temple de Jerusalem. Ces Levites se modifient déjà de cent manières. Madame la Vicomtess de Jaucour ayant imaginé des Levites à queue de singe, a paru, il y a quelque tems, au Luxembourg avec cette queue, très longue, très tortillée, et si bizarre que tout le monde se mit à la suivre; ce qui obligea les Suisses de Monsieur de venir prier cette Dame de sortir pour éviter un trop grand tumulte. Il faut espérer que, pour l'honneur de l'inventrice le public étant fait à THE first Fashionable Magazine commenced May 1768, and, as might be guessed, it was a French production; its title, "Courier à la Mode, ou Journal du Goût." "C'est un nouvel ouvrage périodique, fort intéressant pour Paris, et pour les Provinces, veautés de mode. C'est, si l'on veut, une qui contient le détail de toutes les nouespèce de Supplément aux Mémoires de l'Académie des Belles Lettres, qui consacre à la postérité le tableau mourant de nos caprices, de nos fantaisies et du costume national."-BACHAUMONT, Mem. Sec. vol. 4, p. 80. "WHO would have thought that our side-curls and frizzled toupée had such antiquity, but along with that such barbarism, as to be the fashion of the Germans ere they left their native woods. Tacitus mentions their twisting their locks into horns and rings. "Cærula quis stupuit Germani lumina, flavam Cæsariem madido torquentem cornua cirro?"-JUVENAL, Sat. xiii. v. 164. PINKERTON, Lett. of Lit. p. 61. THE Merovingian kings used to powder their heads and beards with gold dustIbid. p. 62. some one to shave him, but they who acquire kingdoms, shave themselves." Probably Buonaparte would not have liked to trust his throat to a razor in any one's hand but his own. "TILL new-born chins Be rough and razorable.”. Tempest, act ii. sc. i. "Now of beards there be Of fashions such a throng, To treat of the beard Though it be ne'er so long." Says a ballad concerning beards in a miscellany entitled Le Prince d'Amour. 1660. MALONE's Shakespeare, vol. 17, pp. 366-7. WHEN Mr. Hoskins was residing in the Temple of Tirhaka, he took the portrait of a Melek of the Shageea Tribe. "As there was no barber in the village, and I was told he had some skill in shaving, I allowed him to officiate in that capacity; but most anxiously shall I avoid to have my head again shaved by the son of a king. Never did I endure such a scarification. His razor, one of the twopenny sort from Trieste, was blunter than even a French table-knife, and he had no means of sharpening it but according to the custom of the country on his bare arm. He drew blood four times, and scraped my head in such a manner that it smarted for several hours afterwards. But it is impossible to endure the wearing of one's hair in this climate, after having once been accustomed to the luxury of having it shaved every week and having lost my penknife, I had been obliged to take my own razor to cut my pencils.”—Ibid. p. 164. BEARD-BRUSHES. "Pulidas escobillas de barba."—Luis Munoz. Life of L. de Granada, p. 23. EFFECT of shaving on physiognomy, and in pictures; it aids the former, but in some degree injures the latter. A DISSERTATION on Peculiarity in Death, showing the use and abuse of the Barba Humana, or the Human Beard, 1769. Autograph, with a note respecting the Author, 2s. 6d.—Rodd MS. Qy. Dress. ULMA, (M. A.), "Physiologia Barbæ Humanæ hoc est, de fine illius." 6s. Folio. Bonon. 1602. 3134. RODD's Cat. 1836. THE famous Roskolniki schismatics con sider the Divine image in man as residing in the beard.-Monthly Review, vol. 68, p. 352. LE Sieur Dumont, at Lille, knit a pair of stockings de cheveux. They were "plus beaux, plus solides, et plus chauds que ceux de soye," and they would wash. "C'est sa propre chevelure qui lui a fourni la matière; il mettoit de côté seulement les cheveux qui tomboient à mesure qu'il se peignoit." He meant to knit a striped pair of different colours, but still "de chevelures humaines." -Mem. Secrets, t. 33, p. 137. RECEIPTS for its growth.-WURTZUNG's Practice of Physic, p. 116-7. "THE Lacedemonians obliged their Ephori to submit to the ridiculous ceremony of being shaved when they entered upon their office, for no other end but that it might be signified by this act that they knew how to practise submission to the laws of their country."-Jones of Nayland, vol. 5, p.294. "IF the Normans can scrape off their beards with an English razor, they are happy. But, in fact, no man can be expected to be patriotic or national in the matter of razors; for if the devil himself kept a cutler's shop, and sold a good article, I think no man who has a beard would scruple to become his customer."-AUGUSTIN ST. JOHN. Journal in Normandy, p. 72. Diet. BRANTOME's uncle, Chastaigneraye. As soon as he was weaned, his father, by advice of a great physician at Naples, had gold, steel, and iron, in powder, given him in whatever he ate and drank, "pour le bien fortifier," till he was twelve years old; and this answered so well, that he could take a bull by the horns and "l'arrester en sa furie." Ibid. t. 9, p. 75. IN New Zealand stones are thrust down the throat of a babe to give him a stony heart, and make him a stern and fearless warrior.-WILLIAMS, Miss. Ent. p. 543. Leyden. WILKES writes to his daughter from the Hague, A.D. 1767, "I was obliged to go in a coach yesterday little better than a wagLeyden. (The canals were frozen, and no gon, to pay my duty to the university of boat could pass.) My good mother (for in where we are educated) received me with that style we always speak of the university raptures, and congratulated herself on having produced so illustrious a son,—a very flattering compliment for me."-Almon. vol. 3, p. 223. "I OFTEN put you in mind that I was brought up at Leyden; and there you would be ordered to continue in bed sixteen or eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, when you are oppressed with a violent cold."— Ibid. p. 226. GAUBIUS lectured there in D.'s time. See Monthly Review, vol. 68, p. 555. He expounded the true principles of medical psychology. STOLP, a citizen of Leyden, left prizes for dissertations on subjects relative to natural religion and moral philosophy. DR. COLIGNON there in his time. Profes |