"I am sorry for it, indeed: she was a very honest woman.'

LOST DECADS OF LIVY.

M. Chapelain told me that a friend of his, a man of letters, perceived on a racket, with which he was playing, some fragments of the decads of Livy written on the parchment, and which were not known to the editors of that historian: and that his friend traced the discovery to the house of an apothecary, who had received them as a present from the nuns of Fontevraut, and through ignorance of their nature had sold them to a maker of rackets. This singular discovery reminds me of that made by Poggius, whilst he attended the Council of Constance; in which place, at the house of a hog-butcher, he found the MS. of Quintilian.

QUEEN CHRISTINA.

M. Vossius told me, that one day, when the Queen of Sweden had attended to a long harangue, which very much fatigned her, and at the conclusion was requested

to shew her liberality to this pertinacious orator, Christina replied, "I will reward him very willingly, as I am much obliged to the gentleman for the end of his speech."

END OF COLOMESIANA.

SCALIGERANA.

SKETCH

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

SCALIGER THE YOUNGER.

-Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes,

Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros.

OVID.

Learning, if deep, and useful, and refin'd,
Communicates its polish to the mind.

THE subject of the following biographical sketch was a strong and conspicuous exception to the above beautiful but fallacious sentiment. Every one would wish