Bartolus,) which Jortin must have seen; but Darwin destroys the interest by representing these figures not as individuals, but generally as emblematical of mortality. Nothing can be more accurate or striking than his description of the personage passing the portals of death, exploring, with timid step, the darkness, and as unwilling to part with his garment; and his description of the female holding out her hand to enconrage him to descend. But all that is most interesting and affecting in the picture is destroyed by the idea that these are allegorical, not individual personages! The whole affecting groupe Darwin coldly represents as mere emblems, but how doubly interesting is the groupe, when the woman is considered as holding the hand of her husband, encouraging him as he fearfully descends; shows to him the emblem of immortal life on her bosom, whilst faithful love lights the darkness with his uplifted torch! Nor does Darwin seem at all aware that Jortin had copied this affecting groupe." The Parochial History of Bremhill in the County of Wilts, by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, p. 233.

CCCXXXIV. THE TWO THIEVES.

Two thieves, disguised as country-girls, obtained admittance at a farm-house, which they intended to rob. In the course of the evening, the farmer began to entertain suspicion of their sex. To settle the point, he tossed into their laps the shells of some nuts he had been cracking. The pretended females immediately closed their knees to prevent the shells from falling through, forgetting that women never do so, because their petticoats accomplish that purpose for them. The farmer secretly left the house and returned with assistance to capture his deceitful guests.

CCCXXXV. THE DEAF MAN.

The following is from Strabo. A musician was playing in the market-place, when the market-bell began to ring, and the crowd moved away at the summons. One person however, who happened to be deaf, stayed behind, at which the Harper said he was highly honoured by this man's remaining when all the rest left him at the sound of the market-bell. "What?" said the deaf man, "has the market-bell rung? Nay then, I must be gone too."

CCCXXXVI. Authorship of certain Articles in the Reviews.

Monthly Review, Copy which belonged to GRIFFITHS, the Editor.

1785. PARR wrote the Review of Cicero's Works p. 56; also of Dr Jos. White's Sermons; of Burton's Manilius; also,

1786. Sermon by Bp. Hurd, Headley's Poems, Edwards's Memorabilia.

1785. BURNEY wrote the Review of Glasse's Caractacus, the Glasgow-Eschylus, Euripidis Medea by Musgrave; 1786. Piozzi's Anecdotes, (Badcock reviewed the Tour to the Hebrides;) 1795. Wyttenbach's Plutarch; 1796. Porson's Eschylus; also, Gray's Elegy, and Marcus Musurus, perhaps in another Volume. 1793. PORSON reviewed Wyttenbach's edition of Plutarch de Liber. Educ. pp. 257-64; Dr Norbury's Translation of Gray's Elegy, 1793; also the Review of Ruggle's Ignoramus; and three Articles on the Parian Chronicle, one on the Dissertation by Dr Hewlett, and another on the Dissertation which stands before it.

1785. Dr Jos. WHITE wrote the article on Hadley's Grammar of the Hindostanee Tongue.

1794. PARR wrote the Article on Bryant about Justin Martyr, in the British Critic; also, in the Monthly Rev. a notice.

1794. SHERIDAN's name is subscribed to pp. 89-97. 103 -8. 110-12. 202-12. 217-32. 313-21. 330 -41. 343-4. 345-9. 436-43. 449-60. 47680. 545-9; Vol. 2, 1794, p. 31-8. 83-95. 95 —107. 118—20. There are other articles by Sheridan, extending to 1796, all political, I think except what relates to Dallaway's Heraldry.

HUNTINGFORD'S Μετρικά τίνα Μονοστροφικά, reviewed in the Monthly Review June, 1783. p. 505-15. Oct. -154-61.

-Apology for the Monostrophics,

Monthly Rev. April, 1785. pp. 291–303.

May,

- pp. 357-70.

1. Queen Elizabeth, going to visit Sir Nicholas Bacon said "My Lord, what a little house yours is!" "Nay, Madam," said Bacon, "it is your Majesty that has made my house too small for me."

2. Ferdinand, of Castile, asked one of his courtiers at whose house he was visiting, why he had not made a larger staircase. "Nay, sir," said the courtier, "I did not expect so great a guest would ever have to go up it."

3. Philip II of Spain was driven by a storm to take refuge in a poor man's house. The man, who had been sadly distressed to provide accommodation for his guest, said to him when he departed: "I pray God to bless your Majesty and I hope, with his blessing, never to see your Majesty here again."

CCCXXXVIII. APPETITE.

A great eater, going to a dinner party, remarked to his entertainer that he had lost his appetite: "God be praised," said the Host, "I only hope none of the company has found it."

CCCXXXIX. DIOGENES.

Diogenes, the Cynic, begging (as many Philosophers used to do formerly, and as Catholic Friars do still) asked more of a spendthrift than of the others; "for" says he "I shall get something from them again.”

CCCXL. GRIMANUS.

When Fabius Grimanus was provost of Padua, some students bribed a poor ragged man to salute him in the street as his brother. The thing took place accordingly, and Grimanus, nothing daunted, led the man into his palace and treated him handsomely. Having extracted a confession from him, he sent for the students, and told them how happy he was at having found his brother, and that it only remained for them to relieve him from the penury and wretchedness in which his brother was found. He therefore made them pay down one hundred crowns.

CCCXLI. SHORT MEMORANDA.

Burney's edition of Bentley's Epistles is most inaccurate, Dyce says.

Scaliger's death and his ecclesiastical fears.

Eternity the life-time of the Almighty.

Porson's hat and a c-r-p-t.

Gratitude the memory of the heart. Dr Lee says that he saw the boy write it down.

Porson's Eloisa, Monthly Review, 64, 153.

Erskine, girl of 16, every Saturday, glass-coach, a house.

4 Vols of SIR WM DRUMMOND's Origines the 4th, as Huttman says, is hardly known and is not in the British Museum, he has one.

drops of blood. Sellis, servants.

Memoirs of the Life of Don Rafael Del Riego by a Spanish officer, Author of the Last Days of Spain, 7s. 6d., printed for Partridge, 4 Royal Arcade, Pall-Mall.

The Last Days of Spain pr. 5s.

Gul. Burtoni Asiyava veteris Linguæ Persicæ, quæ apud priscos scriptores Græcos et Latinos reperiri potuerunt. Accedit Marci Zuerii Boxhornii Epistola ad Nic: Blancandum de Persicis Curtio memoratis vocabulis, eorumque cum Germanicis Cognatione. Præfatione, Notis, et Additamentis instructa a Jo. Henr. Von Steelen, Lubecæ, 1720 8.

D. Wilkinsii Dissertatio de Lingua Coptica, p. 94—112. Thesaurus Epistolicus La Crozianus, edidit Jo. Lud. Uhlius, Lips. 1742-6.3 Vols small 4to.

Sylloge nova Epistolarum, collect. a J. L. Uhlio, Norimbergæ, 1760. 6 vols 8vo.

Arcadius Grammaticus MS. in Bibliotheca Regia Parisiensi. Isaaci Vossii Excerpta MSS. ex Arcadio Grammatico quæ Amstelodami in Bibliotheca Remonstrantium asservantur.

Wilkins's Dissert. de Ling. Copt. is in Chamberlayne's Lord's Prayer.