up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruellest, the coldest, and stupidest, of pretended sports. They may talk about the beauties of nature, but the angler merely thinks of his dish of fish; he has no leisure to take his eyes from off the streams, and a single bite is worth to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite on a rainy day. The whale, the shark and the tunny fishery have somewhat of noble and perilous in them; even net fishing, trawling, &c., are more humane and useful-but angling! No angler can be a good man.

"One of the best men I ever knew ;-as humane, delicateminded, generous, and excellent a creature as any in the world, was an angler: true, he angled with painted flies, and would have been incapable of the extravagance of I. Walton."

The above addition was made by a friend in reading over the M S.-"Audi alteram partem"-I leave it to counterbalance my own observation.

CANTO XIV. STANZA XXXIII.-Craning.-" To crane" is, or was an expression used to denote a gentleman stretching out his neck over a hedge, "to look before he leaped:"-a pause in his "vaulting ambition," which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be immediately behind the equestrian sceptic. "Sir, if you don't choose to take the lead, let me"-was a phrase which generally sent the aspirant on again; and to good purpose: for though "the horse and rider" might fall, they made a gap, through which, and over him and his steed, the field might follow.

CANTO XIV. STANZA XLVIII.-In Swift's or Horace Wal

pole's letters I think it is mentioned that somebody, regreting the loss of a friend, was answered by au universal Pylades; "When I lose one, I go to the St. James's Coffeehouse, and take another."

I recollect having heard an anecdote of the same kind. Sir W. D. was a great gamester. Coming in one day to the club of which he was a member, he was observed to look melancholy. "What is the matter, Sir William ?" cried Hare, of facetious memory. "Ah!" replied Sir W., "I have just lost poor lady D." "Lost! What at-Quinze or Hazard?" was the consolatory rejoinder of the querist.

CANTO XIV. STANZA LIX.-The famous Chancellor Oxen

stiern said to his son, on the latter expressing his surprise upon the great effect arising from petty causes in the presumed mystery of politics: "You see by this, my son, with how little wisdom the kingdoms of the world are governed."

CANTO XV. STANZA XVIII.-As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, I say that I mean, by "Diviner still," Christ. If ever God was Man-or Man God-he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but the use or abusemade of it. Mr. Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction Negro Slavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might be scourged? If so, he had better been born a Mulatto to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation.

Canto XV. STANZA XXXV.-This extraordinary and flourishing German colony in America does not entirely exclude matrimony, as the "Shakers" do; but lays such restrictions upon it, as prevent more than a certain quantum of births within a certain number of years; which births (as Mr Hulme observes) generally arrive in a little flock like those of a farmer's lambs, all within the same month perhaps." These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America.

CANTO XV. STANZA LXXXVIII.-Jacob Tonson, according to Mr. Pope, was accustomed to call his writers "able pens" "persons of honour," and especially "eminent hands." Vide Correspondence, &c.

CANTO XV. STANZA LXVI.-A dish "à la Lucullus." This hero, who conquered the East, has left his more extended celebrity to the transplantation of cherries, (which he first brought into Europe) and the nomenclature of some very good dishes-and I am not sure that (barring indigestion) he has not done more service to mankind by his cookery than by his conquests. A cherry-tree may weigh against a bloody laurel: besides, he has contrived to earn celebrity from both.

CANTO XV. STANZA LXVIII.-"Petit puits d'amour garnis des confitures," a classical and well-known dish for part of the flank of a second course.

CANTO XV. STANZA LXXXVI.-Subauditur "Non;" omitted for the sake of euphony.

CANTO XV. STANZA XCVI.-Hobbes: who, doubting of his own soul, paid that compliment to the souls of other people as to decline their visits, of which he had some apprehension.

CANTO XVI. STANZA X.-The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a shell-fish or from cochineal, or from kermes, is still an article of dispute; and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing.

CANTO XVI. STANZA XLIX.-I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes trod, with-"Thus I trample on the pride of Plato;" but as carpets are meant to be trodden upon, my memory probably misgives me, and it ought be a robe, or tapestry, or table-cloth, or some other expensive and uncynical piece of furniture.

CANTO XVI. STANZA LI.-I remember that the mayoress of a provincial town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break through the applauses of an intelligent audience-intelligent, I mean, as to music,-for the words, besides being in recondite language (it was some years before the peace, ere all the world had travelled, and while I was a collegian)were sorely disguised by the performers;-this mayoress, I say, broke out with, "Rot your Italianos! for my part, I loves a simple ballat !" Rossini will go a good way to bring most people to the same opinion, some day. Who would imagine that he was to be the successor of Mozart? However, I state this with diffidence, as a liege and loyal admirer of Italian music in general, and of much of Rossini's: but we may say, as the connoisseur did of the painting, in the Vicar of Wakefield, "that the picture would be better painted if the painter had taken more pains."

CANTO XVI. STANZA LXV.-" Ausu Romano, ære Veneto," is the inscription (and well inscribed in this instance)

on the sea walls between the Adriatic and Venice. The walls were a republican work of the Venetians; the inscription I believe Imperial; and inscribed by Napoleon the First. It is time to continue to him the title-there will be a second, by and by, "Spes altera mundi," if he live: let him not defeat it like his father. But in any case he will be preferable to the Imbeciles. There is a glorious field for him, if he know how to cultivate it.

CANTO XVI. STANZA LXVI.

"Though ye untie the winds, and bid them fight
"Against the churches."-MACBETH.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CIII.-In French "mobilitè." I am not sure that mobility is English; but it is expressive of a quality which rather belongs to other climates, though it is sometimes seen to a great extent in our own. It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions at the same time without losing the past; and is, though sometimes apparently useful to the possessor, a most painful and unhappy attribute.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CVIII.-"Curiosa felicitas".-Petronius Arbiter.

CANTO XVI. STANZA CXX.-See the account of the Ghost of the Uncle of Prince Charles of Saxony, raised by Schroepfer-"Karl-Karl-was-wolt mich ?"

CANTO XVI. STANZA CXXVI.

"Shadows to-night

"Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, "Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

MILNER AND SOWERBY, PRINTERS, HALIFAX.