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PRELUDE OF MOTTOES.— Page v.

POSTSCRIPT.— p. vii.

CHAPTER VII. A. I.— p. 21.

CHAPTER I. A. I.— p. 35. NO BOOK CAN BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A PREFACE

I see no cause but men may pick their teeth, Though Brutus with a sword did kill himself.

Taylor, the Water Poet

ANTE-PREFAC E.— p. 37.

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach ! There are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee should chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands ; there's none will sting thee if thou strike not lirst. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee

too. — QCJARLES.

Oh for a quill plucked from a seraph's wing ! — Young.

INITIAL CHAPTER.— p. 43.

'E^ ou lr\ Tel vpS)Ta. — HoMER.

CONTENTS. Xm

Orl. Innam.

THE SUBJECT OF THIS HISTORY AT HOME AND AT TEA.

If thou be a severe sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. — Izaak Walton.

WHEREIN CERTAIN QUESTIONS ARE PROPOSED CONCERNING TIME, PLACE, AND PERSONS.

Quis? quid? ubi? quibus auxiliis ? cur? quomodo? quando?

Technical Verse.

WHOLESOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE VANITY OF FAME.

Wliosoever shall address himself to write of matters of instruction, or of any other argument of importance, it behooveth that before he enter thereinto, he should resolutely determine with himself in what order he will handle the same ; so shall he best accomplish that he hath undertaken, and inform the understanding, and help the memory of the reader. — Gwil- LIM's Display of Heraldry.

BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF DR. DOVE, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A yeoman's HOUSE IN THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE A HUN- DRED YEARS AGO.

Horace, 1. 4, ode 9.

VOL. I. — 2

XIV CONTENTS.

EXTENSION OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY, WITH SOME RE- MARKS UPON THE PRACTICAL USES OF CRANIOLOGY.

Hanc ergo scientiam blande excipiamus, hilariterque amplectamur, ut vere nostram et de nobismet ipsis tractantem ; quam qui non amat, quam qui non amplectitur, nee phUosophiam amat, neque suae vitae discrimina carat. — Baptista Pokta.

A COLLECTION OF BOOKS, NONE OF WHICH ARE INCLUDED AMONG THK PUBLICATIONS OF ANY SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF KNOW- LEDGE RELIGIOUS OR PROFANE HAPPINESS IN HUMBLE LIFE.

POLITIAN.

RUSTIC PHILOSOPHY AN EXPERIMENT UPON MOONSHINE.

Quien comienza en juventud A bien obrar, Senal es de no errar En senetud.

Proverbios del Marques de Santillana.

A

CHAPTER Vni. P. I.— p. 64. j

A KIND SCHOOLMASTER AND A HAPPY SCHOOLBOY.

Though happily thou wilt say that wands be to be wrought when they '

are green, lest they rather break than bend when they be dry, yet know ;

also that he that bendeth a twig because he would see if it would bow by :

strength may chance to have a crooked tree when he would have a ] straight.— EuPHUES.

CONTENTS. XV

INTERCHAPTER I.— p. 66

REMA^RKS IN THE PRINTING OFFICE THE AUTHOR CONFESSES A

DISPOSITION TO GARRULITY— PROPRIETY OF PROVIDING CER- TAIN CHAPTERS FOR THE RECEPTION OF HIS EXTRANEOUS DIS- COURSE CHOICE OF AN APPELLATION FOR SUCH CHAPTERS.

Ovid.

EXCEPTIONS TO ONE OF KING SOLOMON's RULES A WINTEr's

EVENING AT DANIEL's FIRESIDE.

These are my thoughts ; I might have spun them out into a greater length ; but 1 think a little plot of ground, thick sown, is better than a great field, vvhich, for the most part of it, lies fallow.— Norris.

ONE WHO WAS NOT SO WISE AS HIS FRIENDS COULD HAVE WISHED, AND YET QUITE AS HAPPY AS IF HE HAD BEEN WISER — NEPOTISM NOT CONFINED TO POPES.

There are of madmen as there are of tame,

All humoured not alike. Some

Apish and fantastic ;

And though 'twould grieve a soul to see God's image

So blemished and defaced, yet do they act

Such antic and such pretty lunacies.

That spite of sorrow, they will make you smile.

Dkkeer

A. WORD TO THE READER, SHOWING WHERE WE ARE, AND HOW WB OAME HERE, AND WHEREFORE ; AND WHITHER WE ARE GOING.

'Tis my venture On your retentive wisdom.

Ben Jonson.

XVI CONTENTS.

A HISTORY NOTICED WHICH IS WRITTEN BACKWARD THE CON- FUSION OF TONGUES AN ESPECIAL EVIL FOR SCHOOLBOYS.

For never in the long and tedious tract Of slavish grammar was I made to plod ;

No tyranny of Rules my patience rackt ; 1 served no prenticehood to any Rod ;

But in the freedom of the Practic way

Learnt to go right, even when I went astray.

Dr. Beaumont.

A DOUBT CONCERNING SCHOOL BOOKS, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED HERETICAL ; AND SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SUB- STITUTE FOR OVID OR VIRGIL.

They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone ; and there is no knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, either positively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge. — Herbert'' s Remains.

AN OBJECTION ANSWERED.

Is this then your wonder ?

Nay then you shall understand more of my skill.

Ben Jonson.

THE AUTHOR VENTURES AN OPINION AGAINST THE PREVAILING WISDOM OF MAKING CHILDREN PREMATURELY WISE.

Pray you, use your freedom ; And 80 far, if you please, allow me mine, To hear you only ; not to be compelled To take your moral potions.

Massinger.

USE AND ABUSE OF STORIES IN REASONING, WITH A WORD IN BEHALF OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS, AND IN REPROOF OF THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.

My particular inclination moves me in controversy especially to approve his choice that said, Fortia mallem quam formosa. — Dr. Jackson.

CONTENTS. XVU

INTERCHAPTER II.— p. 91.

ABALLIBOOZOBANGANORRIBO.

lo'l dico dunque e dicol che ognun m'ode.

Benedetto Vaechi.

THE HAPPINESS OF HAVING A CATHOLIC TASTE.

There's no want of meat, sir ; Portly and curious viands are prepared To please all kinds of appetites.

Massinger.

all's well THAT ENDS WELL.

Ta 6^uv (TTinvriaSSJ — vird rov \6yov f^avay^a^d/xevos i7n[j.vT](y^r}(jonai. — Herodotus.

A CONVERSATION WITH MISS GRAVEAIRS.

Operi suscepto inserviendum fuit : so Jacobus Mycillus pleadeth for himself in his translation of Lucian's Dialogues, and so do I ; 1 must and will perform my task. — Burton.

HOW TO MAKE GOLD.

L'alchimista non travaglia a voto Ei cerca I'oro, ei cerca I'oro, io dico * Ch' ei cerca I'oro ; e s' ei giungesse in porto Fora ben per se stesso e per aitrui.

L'oro e somma posanza infra mortal! ; Chiedine a cavalier, chiedine a dame, Chiedine a tutto il mondo.

Chiabrera.

XVlll CONTENTS.

A DOUBT CONCERNING THE USES OF PHILOSOPHY.

El comicnzo de salud es el saber, distinguir y conocer qual es virtud.

Proverbios del Marques de Santillancu,

O felice colui, che intender puote Le cagion de le cose di natura, Che al piu di que' che vivon sono ignote ;

E sotto il pie si mette ogni paura De fati, e de la morte, ch'^ si trista, Ne di vulgo gli cal, ne d'altro ha cura.

Tansillo.

ROWLAND DIXON AND HIS COMPANY OF PUPPETS.

Alii se ve tan eficaz el llanto, las fabulas y historias retratadas, que parece verdad, y es duke encanto.

* * * *

Y para el vulgo rudo, que ignorante

el plato del gracioso extravagante ; Con que les hartas de contento y risa,

Joseph Ortiz de Villena.

QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DR. GREEN AND HIS MAN KEMP — POPULAR MEDICINE, HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNA- TURES, WILLIAM DOVE, JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER.

Hold thy hand ! health's dear maintainer ; Life perchance may burn the stronger : Having substance to maintain her, She untouched may last the longer.

When the artist goes about To redress her flame, I doubt Oftentimes he snulfs it out.

QUARLES.

CONTENTS. XIX

Hiatus valde lacrymahilis.

Time flies away fast, The while we never remember

How soon our life here

Grows old with the year That dies with the next December !

Herrick.

DANIEL AT DONCASTER ; THE REASON WHY HE WAS DESTINED FOR THE MEDICAL PROFESSION RATHER THAN HOLY ORDERS ; AND SOME REMARKS UPON SERMONS.

Je ne veux dissimuler, amy lecteur, que je n'aye bien preveu, et me tiens pour deiiement adverty, que ne puis eviter la reprehension d'aucuns, et les calomnies de plusieurs— ausquels c'est escrit desplaira du tout. — Chris-

TOFLE DE HeRICOURT.

A PASSAGE IN PROCOPIUS IMPROVED A STORY CONCERNING URIM

AND THUMMIM ; AND THE ELDER DANIEL's OPINION OF THE PRO- FESSJON OF THE LAW.

Here is Domine Picklock, My man of law, solicits all my causes.

Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels Between my tenants and me ; sows all my strifes, And reaps them too, troubles the country for me. And vexes any neighbour that I please.

Ben Jonson.

PETER HOPKINS — EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE DESCRIPTION

OF HIS DWELLINGHOUSE.

Combien de changemens depuis que suis au monde, Qui n'est qu' un point du terns !

Pasquier.

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a hint of reminiscence to the reader the clock of st.

George's — a word in honour of archdeacon markham.

There is a ripe season for everything, and if you slip that or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter, be it never so good. As we say by way of proverh that a hasty birth brings forth blind whf Ips, so a good tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is ungrateful to the heare: — Bishop Haokett.

THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE.

If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em.

MORE CONCERNING BELLS.

Lord, ringing changes all our bells hath marr'd ;

Jangled they have and jarr'd So long, they're out of tune, and out of frame ;

They seem not now the same.

Put them in frame anew, and once begin To tune them so, that they may chime all in !

Herbert.

AN INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN PRELIMINARIES ESSENTIAL TO THB PROGRESS OF THIS WORK.

Mas demos ya el assiento en lo importante, Que el tiempo huye del mundo por la posta.

Balbuena.

DONCASTRIANA THE RIVER DON.

Rivers from bubbling springs Have rise at first ; and great from abject things.

MlDDLETON.

CONTENTS. XXI

MORAL INTEREST OF TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS LOCAL ATTACH- MENT.

Let none our author rudely blame

Who from the story has thus long digress'd;

But for his righteous pains may his fair fame For ever travel, while his ashes rest.

INTERCHAPTER III.— p. 159.

THE AUTHOR QUESTIONS THE PROPRIETY OF PERSONIFYING CIR- CUMSTANCE DENIES THE UNITY AND INDIVIS.BIMTY OF THS

PUBLIC, AND AlAY EVEN BE SUSPECTED OF DOUBTING ITS OM NISCiENCE AND ITS INt ALLIBILITY.

Ha forse Testa la plebe, ove si chiuda in vece Di senno, altro che nebhia ? o forma voce Chi sta piu saggia, che un bebii d'armento ?

CUIABRERA.

DONCASTRIANA POTTERIC CARR SOMETHING CONCERNING THE

MEANS OF EMPLOYING THE POOR, AND BETTERING THEIR CON- DITION.

Why should I sowen draf out of my fist, When I may sowen wheat, if that me hst?

Chaucer.

REMARKS ON AN OPINION OF MR. CRABBe's — TOPOGRAPHICAL POETRY DRAYTON.

Do, pious marble, let thy readers know

What they and what their children owe

To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust

We recommend unto thy trust.

Protect his memory, and preserve his story ;

Remain a lasting monument of his glory ;

And when thy ruins shall disclaim

To be the treasurer of his name,

His name that cannot fade, shall be

An everlasting monument to thee.

Epitaph in Westminster Abbey.

XXll CONTENTS.

ANECDOTES OF PETER HEYLYN AND LIGHTFOOT, EXEMPLIFYING THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ALNVAYS APPLICABLE TO LITTLE things; AND THAT AS CHARlPY BEGINS AT HOME, SO IT MAY WITH EQUAL TRUTH SOMETIMES BE SAID THAT KNOW- LEDGE ENDS THERE.

A scholar in his study knows ihf. stars, Their motion and their influence, which are fix'd. And which are wandering; can decipher seas, And give each several land his proper bounds . But set him to the compass, he's to seek. Where a plain pilot can direct his course From hence unto both the ndies.

Heywood.

THE READER IS LED TO INFER THAT A TRAVELLER WHO STOPS UPON THE WAY TO SKETCH, BOTANIZE, ENTOMOLOGIZE, OR MIN- ERALOGIZE, TRAVELS WITH MORE PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO HIMSELF THAN IF HE WERE IN THE MAIL COACH.

Non servio materia sed indulgeo ; quae quo ducit sequendum est, non quo iijvitat. — Seneca.

INTERCHAPTER IV.— p. 173.

ETYMOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REMAINS OF VARI- OUS TRIBES OR FAMILIES MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURAL HISTORY.

All things are big with jest ; nothing that's plain But may be witty if thou hast the vein.

Herbert.

A CHAPTER FOR THE INFORMATION OF THOSE WHO MAY VISIT

DONCASTER, AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE WHO FREQUENT THB ]

RACES THERE. j

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My good lord, there is a corporation, (

A body — a kind of bodj\ !

MiDDLETON.

CONTENTS. XXlll

REMARKS ON THE ART OF VERBOSITY A RULE OF COCCEIUS, ANB

ITS APPLICATION TO THE LANGUAGE AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW.

If they which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and uncon scionable thirst of gain, being pot in heart persuaded that justice is God's own work, and themselves his agents in this business — the sentence of right God's own verdict, and themselves his priests to deliver it — formalities of justice do but serve to smother right, and that which was necessarily ordained for the common good, is through shameful abuse made the cause of common misery. — Hooker.

REVENUE OF THE CORPORATION OF DONCASTER WELL APPLIED- DONCASTER RACES.

Play not for gain, but sport : who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart ; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

Herbert.

INTERCHAPTER V.— p. 184.

WHEREIN THE AUTHOR MAKES KNOWN HIS GOOD INTENTIONS TO ALL READERS, AND OFFERS GOOD ADVICE TO SOME OF THEM.

I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, with submission to better judgments, and 1 leave it to you, gentlemen. I am but one, and I alioays distrust myself. I only hint my thoughts. You'll please to consider whether you will not think that it may seem to deserve your consideration. This is a taking way of speaking. But much good may do them that use it ! — Asgill.

DONCASTER CHURCH THE RECTORIAL TITHES SECURED BY ARCH

BISHOP SHARP FOR HIS OWN FAMILY.

Say, ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown gray, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-bravijig tower, and silent mark'd The human leaf in constant bud and fall ? The generations of deciduous man How often hast thou seen them pass away !

HURDIS.

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ANTIQUITIES OF DONCASTER THE DE^ MATRES SAXON FONT-

THE CASTLE THE HALL CROSS.

Vieux monuments —

Las, peu a peu cendre vous devenez,

Fable du peuple et publiques rapines !

Et bien qu'au Temps pour un temps facent guerre

Les bastimens, si est ce que le Temps

Joachim du Bellay.

HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH DONCASTER THOM- AS, EARL OF LANCASTER EDWARD IV. ASKE's INSURRECTION

ILLUSTRIOUS VISITERS — JAMES I. BARNABEE CHARLES I.

CHURCH LIBRARY.

They unto whom we shall appear tedious, are in nowise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure. — Hookek.

CONCERNING THE WORTHIES, OR GOOD MEN, WHO WERE NATIVES OF DONCASTER OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH THAT TOWN.

Vir bonus est quis ?

Terknck.

INTERCHAPTER VI.— p. 196.

CONTINGENT CAUSES — PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS INDUCED BY RE- FLECTING ON THEM THE AUTHOR TREMBLES FOR THE PAST.

Vereis que no hay lazada desasida

De nudo y de pendencia soberana ; Ni a poder trastornar la orden del cielo

Las fuerzas llegan, ni ei saber del suelo.

Balbuexa.

CONTENTS. XXV

DANIEL dove's ARRIVAL AT DONCASTER THE ORGAN IN ST

George's church — the pulpit — mrs. neale's benefaction.

Dr. Johnson.

DONCASTRIANA guy's death SEARCH FOR HIS TOMBSTONE III

ingleton churchyard.

Go to the dull churchyard, and see Those hillocks of mortality, Where proudest man is only found By a small hillock on the ground.

Tixall Poetry.

A father's misgivings CONCERNING HIS SON's DESTINATION—

PETER HOPKINS'S GENEROSITY DANIEL IS SENT ABROAD TO

GRADUATE IN MEDICINE.

Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts Both good and evil ; Prayer's the key that shuts And opens this great treasure : 'tis a key "Whose wards are Faith, and Hope, and Charity. Wouldst thou present a judgment due to sin ? Turn but the key and thou mayst lock it in. Or wouldst thou have a blessing fall upon thee ? Open the door, and it will shower on thee !

QUARLES.

XXVI CONTENTS.

CONCERNING THE INTEREST WHICH DANIEL THE ELDER TOOK IN THE DUTCH WAR, AND MORE ESPECIALLY IN THE SIEGE AND PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERY OF LEYDEN.

Glory to thee in thine omnipotence,

O Lord who art our shield and our defence,

And dost dispense,

As seerneth best to thine unerring will,

(Which passeth mortal sense,)

The lot of victory still ;

Edging sometimes with might the sword unjust/

And bowing to the dust.

The rightful cause, that so such seeming ill

May thme appointed purposes fulfil;

Sometimes, as in this late auspicious hour

For which our hymns we raise.

Making the wicked feel thy present power ,

Glory to thee and praise.

Almighty God, by whom our strength was given '

Glory to thee, O Lord of earth and heaven !

SOUTHEY.

VOYAGE TO ROTTERDAM AND LEYDEN THE AUTHOR CANNOT

TARRY TO DESCRIBE THAT CITY — WHAT HAPPENED THERE TO DANIEL DOVE.

He took great content, exceeding delight in that his voyage. As who doth not that shall attempt the like ? For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet variety, that some count him unhappy that never travelled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case that from hia cradle to his old age he beholds the same still ; still, still, the same, the same ' — Burton.

ARMS OF LEYDEN DANIEL DOVE, M.D. A LOVE STORY, STRANGE

BUT TRUE.

Oye el extraiio caso, advierte y siente ; Suceso es raro, mas verdad ha sido.

Balbuena.

CONTENTS. XXVU

SHOWING HOW THE YOUNG STUDENT FELL IN LOVE AND HOW

HE MA.DE THE BEST USE OF HIS MISFORTUNE.

II creder, donnevaghe, e cortesia, Quando colui che scrive o che favella,

Fossa essere sospetto di bugia, Per dir quale osa troppo rara e bella.

Dunque chi ascolta questa istoria mea E non la crede frottola o novella

Ma cosa vera — come ella e di fatto,

Fa che di lui mi chiami soddisfatto

E pure che mi diate plena fede,

De la dubbiezza altrui poco mi cale.

RlCCIARDETTO.

OF THE VARIOUS WAYS OF GETTING IN LOVE A CHAPTER CON- TAINING SOME USEFUL OBSERVATIONS, AND SOME BEAUTIFUL POETRY.

Let cavillers know, that as the Lord John answered the queen in that Italian Guazzo, an old, a grave, discreet man is fittest to discourse of love matters ; because he hath Ukely more experience, observed more, hath a more staid judgment, can better discern, resolve, discuss, advise, give better cautions and more solid precepts, better inform his auditors in such a subject, and by reason of his riper years, sooner divert. — Burton.

MORE CONCERNING LOVE AND MARRIAGE, AND MARRIAGE WITHOUT LOVE.

Nay, Cupid, pitch thy trammel where thou please. Thou canst not fail to catch such fish as these.

QUARLES.

THE author's LAST VISIT TO DONCASTER.

Fuere quondam hsec sed fuere ;

Nunc ubi sint, rogitas? Id annos Scire hos oportet scilicet. O bonae Musae, O Lepores — O Charites merae !

O gaudia offuscata nullis

Janus Douza.

XXVlll CONTENTS.

A TRUCE WITH MELANCHOLY— GENTLEMEN SUCH AS THEY WERE

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1747 A HINT TO YOUNG LADIES

CONCERNING THEIR GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS.

Fashions that are now called new, Have been worn by more than you ; Elder times have used the same, Though these new ones get the name.

MiDDLETON.

iuN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO REMOVE THE UNPLEASANT IMPRESSION PRODUCED UPON THE LADIES BY THE DOCTOr's TIE WIG AND HIS SUIT OF SNUFF-COLOURED DITTOS.

_ So fuU of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.

Twelfth Night.

CONCERNING THE PORTRAIT OF DR. DANIEL DOVE.

The sure traveller, Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on.

HEKBKnT.

CHAPTER VII. A. I.

A FAMILY PARTY AT A NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR'S.

Good sir, reject it not, although it bring Appearances of some fantastic thing At first unfolding !

George Wither to the King.

I WAS in the fourth nig-ht of the story of the doctor and his horse, and had broken it off, not hke Scheherezade because it was time to get up, but because it v»^as time to go to bed. It was at thirty-five minutes after ten o'clock, on the 20th of July, in the year of our Lord 1813. I finished m^ glass of punch, tinkled the spoon against its side, as if making music to my meditations, and having my eyes fixed upon the Bhow Begum, who was sitting opposite to me at the head of her own table, I said, " It ought to be written in a book !"

There had been a heavy thunder storm in the afternoon; and though the thermometer had fallen from 78 to 70, still the atmosphere was charged. If that mysterious power by which the nerves convey sensation and make their impulses obeyed be (as experiments seem to indicate) identical with the galvanic fluid ; and if the galvanic and electric fluids be the same, (as philosophers have more than surmised;) and if the lungs (according to a happy hypothesis) elaborate for us from the light of heaven this pabulum of the brain, and material essence, or essential matter of genius, it may be that the ethereal fire which I had inhaled so largely during the day produced the bright conception, or at least impregnated and quickened the latent seed. The punch, reader, had no share in it.

I had spoken as it were abstractedly, and the look which accompanied the words was rather cogitative than regardant.

The Bhow Beg-um laid down her snuffbox and replied, entering into the feehng, as well as echoing the words, " It ought to be written in a book — certainly it ought."

They may talk as they will of the dead languages. Our auxiliary verbs give us a power which the ancients, with all their varieties of mood, and inflections of tense, never could obtain. " It must be written in a book," said I, encouraged by her manner. The mood was the same, the tense was the same ; but the gradation of meaning was marked in a way which a Greek or Latin grammarian might have envied as weil as admired.

"Pshaw! nonsense! stuff!" said my wife's eldest sister, who was sitting at the right hand of the Bhow Begum; "] say write it in a book indeed !" My wife's youngest sister was sitting diagonally opposite to the last speaker: she lifted up her eyes and smiled. It was a smile which expressed the same opinion as the late vituperative tones; there was as much of incredulity in it; but more of wonder and less of vehemence.

My wife was at my left hand, making a cap for her youngest daughter, and with her tortoise shell paper workbox before her. I turned towards her and repeated the words, " It must be written in a book !" But I smiled while I was speaking, and was conscious of that sort of meaning in my eyes, which calls out contradiction for the pleasure of sporting with it.

" Write it in a book?" she replied, " I am sure you won't!" and she looked at me with a frown. Poets have written much upon their ladies' frowns, but I do not remember that they have ever described the thing with much accuracy. When my wife frowns, two perpendicular wrinkles, each three quarters of an inch in length, are formed in the forehead, the base of each resting upon the top of the nose, and equi-distant from each other. The poets have also attributed dreadful effects to the frown of those whom they love. I cannot say that I ever experienced anything very formidable in my wife's. At present she knew her eyes would give the lie to it if they looked at me steadily for a moment; so they wheeled to the left about quick, off at a tangent, in a direction to the Bhow Begum, and then she smiled. She could not prevent the smile ; but she tried to make it scornful.

My wife's nephew was sitting diagonally with her, and opposite his mother, on the left hand of the Bhow Begum. "Oh!" he exclaimed, " it ought to be written in a book! it will be a glorious book! write it, uncle, I beseech you!" My wife's nephew is a sensible lad. He reads my writings, likes my stories, admires my singing, and thinks as I do in polities : a youth of parts and considerable promise.

*'He will write it!" said the Bhow Begum, taking up her snuffbox, and accompanying the words with a nod of satisfaction and encouragement, " He will never be so foolish!" said my wife. My wife's eldest sister rejoined, " He is foolish enough for anything."

CHAPTER VI. A. I.

SHOWING THAT AN AUTHOR MAY MORE EASILY BE KEPT AWAKE BY HIS OWN IMAGINATIONS THAN PUT TO SLEEP BY THEM HIMSELF, WHATEVER MAY BE THEIR EFFECT UPON HIS READERS.

Thou sleepest worse than if a mouse should be forced to take up her lodging in a cat's ear ; a little infant that breeds its teeth, should it lie with thee, would cry out as if thou wert the more unquiet bedfellow.

Webster.

When I ought to have been asleep the " unborn pages crowded on my soul." The chapters ante-initial and post-initial appeared in delightful prospect "long drawn out:" the beginning, the middle, and the end were evolved before me: the whole spread itself forth, and then the parts unravelled themselves and danced the hays. The very types rose in judgment against me, as if to persecute me for the tasks which during so many years I had imposed upon them. Capitals and small letters, pica and long primer, brevier and bourgeois, Enghsh and nonpareil, minion and pearl, Romans and Italics, black letter and red, passed over my inward sight. The notes of admiration ! ! ! stood straight up in view as I lay on the one side; and when I turned on the other to avoid them, the notes of interrogation cocked up their hump backs'? ? ■? Then came to recollection the various incidents of the eventful tale. " Visions of glory spare my aching sight !" The various personages, like spectral faces in a fit of the vapours, stared at me through my eyelids. The doctor oppressed me like an incubus; and for the horse — he became a perfect nightmare. "Leave me, leave me to repose !"

Twelve by the kitchen clock ! — still restless ! One ! oh, doctor, for one of thy comfortable composing draughts! Two ! here's a case of insomnolence. I, who in summer close my lids as instinctively as the daisy when the sun goes down ; and who in winter could hibernate as well as bruin, were I but provided with as much fat to support me during the season, and keep the wick of existence burning; I, who, if my pedigree were properly made out, should be found to have descended from one of the seven sleepers, and from the sleepmg beauty in the wood.

I put my arms out of bed. I turned the pillov/ for the sake of applying a cold surface to ray cheek. I stretched my feet into the cold corner. I listened to the river, and to the ticking- of my watch. I thought of all sleepy sounds and all soporific things : the flow of water, the hunmiing of bees, the motion of a boat, the waving of a field of corn, the nodding of a mandarin's head on the chimneypiece, a horse in a mill, the opera, Mr. Humdrum's conversation, Mr. Proser's poems, Mr. Laxative's speeches, Mr. Lengthy's sermons. I tried the device of my own childhood, and fancied that the bed revolved with me round and round. Still the doctor visited me as perseveringly as if I had been his best patient ; and, call up what thoughts I would to keep him off, the horse charged through them ah.

At last ^lorpheus reminded me of Dr. Torpedo's divinity lectures, where the voice, the manner, the matter, even the very atmosphere, and the streamy candlehght were all alike somnific ; v»^here he who by strong eff'ort lifted up his head, and forced open the reluctant eyes, never failed to see all around him fast asleep. Lettuces, cowslip wine, poppy sirup, mandragora, hop pillows, spiders' web pills, and the whole tribe of narcotics, up to bang and the black drop, would have failed: but this was irresistible ; and thus twenty years after date I found benefit from having attended the course.

CHAPTER V. A. I.

something concerning the philosophy of dreams, and tue author's experience in aerial horsemanship.

If a dream should come in now to make you afeard, With a windmill on liis head and bells at his beard, Would j'ou straight wear your spectacles here at your toes, And your boots on your brows and your spurs on your nose ?

Bex Jon son.

The wise ancients held that dreams are from Jove. Virgil hath told us from what gate of the infernal regions they go out, but at which of the five entrances of the town of Mansoul they get in, John Bunyan hath not explained. Some have conceited that unimbodied spirits have access to ns during sleep, and impress upon the passive faculty, by divine permission, presentiments of those things whereof it is fitting that we should be thus dimly forewarned. This opinion is held by Baxter, and to this also doth Bishop Newton incline. The old atomists supposed that the likenesses or spectres of corporeal things, (exuvice scilicet rerum, vel effluvia^ as they are called by Vaninus, wtien he takes advantage of them to explain the Fata Morgana,) the atomists, I say, supposed that these spectral forms which are constantly emitted from all bodies,