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condemnation of his white art.— Amadis, prenant la peine elle mesme de vous monlib. xv. p. 178-9.

DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE's argument for the existence of fairies.-Poems, p. 139-40.

QUESTION Concerning the bodies which angels assume when they appear.- PERKINS, vol. 1, p. 148.

The Non-Naturals.

trer les pas d'un Balet, dont elle vouloit que vous fussiez, et de fait vous le dançastes huict jour après devant le Roy et ainsi que nous l'avons ouy dire au Sieur d'Yvetot."-SULLY, vol. 1, p. 30.

Life of Wilberforce, vol. 5, p. 262. To go with Bourdaloue,-preparation for his Good Friday sermon.

"VALENTIN, a French dancing master, was brought up on a charge of allowing a pro

WHY so called.-SENNERTUS, vol. 1, p. hibited dance at a ball in the Place Cadet.

344.

Fools natural and non-natural. Rogues also, and blockheads.

Dancing.

"MRS. MARY, upon St. Stephen's day in the afternoon, danced before the Queen two galliards, with one Mr. Palmer, the admirablest dancer of this time; both were much commended by her majesty; then she danced with him a corante."-RowLAND WHITE to Sir Robert Sydney, December 28, 1602.

N. NOVERRE, whose works were translated, and published in 3 vols. 8vo. 1786, has these lines under his portrait, containing, says the Reviewer, his just panegyric. Du feu de son génie il anima la danse ; Aux beaux jours de la Gréce il sut la rappeller;

Et recouvrant par lui leur antique elo

quence,

Les gestes et les pas aprirent à parler. Monthly Review, vol. 74, p. 274.

DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE'S Poems, p. 17. -Dance of Life.

ARCADIA Felice, the Italian pastoral romance, p. 79-81.

IN Bearn-" Là commençastes vous à faire le Courtisan, Madame Sœur du Roy

Being questioned by the President of the Tribunal, he replied that his profession was that of a dancing master and a teacher of good manners. You are accused of an offence against morals, in having exhibited an indecent dance on Sunday, December 13, at a ball in the Rue Cadet.' I am sorry to dispute the word of the Sergens de Ville; but what they have asserted is not common sense.' 'You were taken in the fact.' 'This is not to understand what dancing is! How do you suppose that I, a professional man, could permit myself to lapse into such absurdities? You might just as well accuse a professor of rhetoric of tanning hides.'

Your dance was of so indecent a nature, that you were arrested on the complaint of several persons who were present at the ball. I beg to be remanded for a week, to bring forward a number of pupils as witnesses.' 'What can your pupils say ?'

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They will tell you that I am utterly incapable of that which is ascribed to me, and that it is impossible to be more scrupulous than I am in every thing relative to dancing. There are three things that I most particularly enjoin. Honour to the fair sex the fear of the gens d'armes; and malediction to the Cancan.' This proves that you have not followed your own rules.'

"The accused then drew from his pocket a dirty piece of paper, and replied, 'I beg to lay before you the rules of my establishment, and hope to have the pleasure of communicating them to you.' It is use

less.' 'It is my defence. You will see if I am capable of being wanting in the observances due to society.' Hold your tongue, the case is decided.' The dancing master persisted, however, in producing his regulations. Art. 1. Every pupil on entering the ball room shall pay a sum of 25 centimes (24d.) for polishing the floor. 2. Politeness being the link of humanity, every one is expected to take off his hat on penetrating into the hall. 3. If the wearer has only a casquette, he will take that off, just the same. 4. The ball room will be lit with candles. Those who desire a lamp must make a purse of four persons, and pay 15 centimes (14d.) each. 5. Each pupil shall pay a premium of 30 centimes (3d.) on being promoted to the galop, and 50 centimes on reaching the gavotte. 6. The produce of these premiums shall be expended on a dinner, to be given every six months, at which the Professor will preside, who will fix the day and hour. 7. The fair sex being especially the ornament of society, and of the ball room in particular, it is expressly forbidden to occasion the ladies the slightest inconvenience, or to call them camels. Lastly, The Cancan, the Macaire, and other characteristic dances, are forbidden under the most severe penalties; and the person guilty of introducing them will be punished by expulsion.'

"M. Valentin reckoned, no doubt, on the moral effect which this official document would produce; but he was undeceived when the tribunal condemned him to five days' imprisonment, and a fine of 30 | francs."-Gazette des Tribunaux.

Theatre.

MRS. MONTFORD's story and remarkable death.-Monthly Review, vol. 72, p. 185.

Marriage.

"THERE'S such coupling at Pancras, that they stand behind one another, as it were in

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FREQUENT changes of name, and samples. Queen Mary's. -Ibid. p. 120-1, 2nd paging.

"THE Jews were wont to name their children so when they were born, that ever after, if they did but think upon their names, they would put them in mind of that religion which they should profess, for they did signify something that they should learn."-HENRY SMITH, p. 44.

HEARNE, in his journey to the northern ocean, "coming to a lake which, though very considerable both in length and breadth, was not distinguished by any general name, gave it," he says, "on that account, the name of No-name Lake."-P. 210.

"JOURNEY me Long Lane, from Goole to Thorne, six miles on a dead level, without a turning."—SIR G. HEAD'S Tour, vol. 1,

p. 222.

AMONG the fantastic tricks in Ireland which make "the angels weep," this stands foremost-Steele, the mad Limerick agitator, has changed the name of the Clare range

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Animals.

THE Canadian Indians say, 66 que tous les animaux de châque espèce ont un frère aisné, qui est comme le principe et comme l'origine de tous les individus, et ce frère aisné est merveilleusement grand et puissant." The beaver, for example, as big as the cabin in which the Jesuits lived. These aisnez of all animals, are all cadets of Messou, the restorer of the world. "Le voila bien apparente, le brave reparateur de l'Univers."

Atahocam made the world, and Messou repaired it after it had been destroyed by a deluge.

"The aisnez of birds had their abode in heaven; those of other creatures in the waters; but of this the Indians were not sure. To dream of any one, was a good omen of success in hunting, whatever animal he represented.-Relation, 1634, pp. 44-6.

Women.

THEIR early decay in France, not perceivable in the higher classes.-EVELYN'S Misc. p. 90. It is therefore the effect of exposure and hard work.

Inserenda.

316.

found in Yorkshire, especially in slow rivers and standing waters; but no where more frequent than in the fen ditches of the levels, about four miles from Doncaster."Ibid. vol. 6, p. 46.

EFFECTS of Love.-LEONE HEBREO, ff. 31.

DEE Matres.-Philosophical Transactions Ab. vol. 10, p. 317. Altars at York. "Matribus Africis Italicis Germanicis" discovered a. D. 1753. ded. by Marcus Minucius Ande.-The Beerothites.

TREE lung-wert.-Ibid. vol. 11, p. 259.

"In the neighbourhood of Doncaster two kinds of lime are employed in agriculture. The one must be used sparingly, and spread evenly, otherwise instead of increasing, it diminishes the fertility of the soil. The other is brought farther and therefore much dearer, but more used, and in large quantities. Tennant inquired into the fact, and found that the one species contained two parts magnesia to three of calcareous earth, and that the magnesia was exceedingly injurious to vegetable life."-Ibid. vol. 18, p. 548.

PUPPET shows. - Account of the Stage, vol. 1, p. 458.

LENGTHY sermons.-NEWTON, p. 278.
SEEING the heart.-Ibid. p.
PHYSIOGNOMY.-Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 3, duction recommending a review of the Ma-

p. 638.

DR. DICKSON published A. D. 1765, a Treatise on Blood-letting; with an Intro

teria Medica.

66

Part I. 4to. 1s. 6d.

Diseases," he says,

66 are seldom seen

SWALLOWING pebbles. — Ibid. vol. 4, p. with their natural faces by a physician; for

381.

SIGNATURES of plants, a rational view of them.-Ibid. p. 416.

"BURBOLTS (Gadus Lota. Linn.) a fish not frequent in our southern rivers,' often

I YARRELL says it is met with in the Cam, in some of the rivers of Norfolk and Lincolnshire, and in the Trent, &c. British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 183. J. W. W.

before he is called, the patient has been either blooded or blistered, purged or vomited, and perhaps many other things done which give them often a very artificial complexion."-Monthly Review, vol. 32, p. 433.

"MEDICAL Observations and Inquiries, Vol. 4. A Defence of Sydenham's History of the Measles, by him, and G. Sydenham's treatment of it.-The letters against Mead.

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