ON MEMORY.
What an unknown and unspeakable happiness would it be to a man of judgment, and who is engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping all his own best sentiments upon his memory in some indelible characters; and if he could but imprint every valuable paragraph and sentiment of the most excellent authors he has read, upon his mind, with the same speed and facility with which he read them?—Watts.
Upon a stone in St. Margaret's churchyard, at Lynn, in Norfolk, is the following inscription to the memory of William Scrivenor, Cook to the Corporation, who died in the year 1684:—
Alas! alas! Will Scrivenor's dead, who by his art,
Could make death's skeleton edible in each part,
Mourn, squeamish stomachs, and ye curious palates,
You've lost your dainty dishes and your salades;
Mourn for yourselves, but not for him i'th' least
He's gone to taste of a more heav'nly feast.
At Whitchingham Magna, in the same county, is the following epitaph to Thomas Alleyne, gent. who died Feb. 3, 1650, and his two wives:—
Death here advantage hath of life I spye,
One husband with two wives at once may lye.
A recent American newspaper has the following notice to its readers:—"The editor, printer, publisher, foreman, and oldest apprentice (two in all,) are confined by sickness, and the whole establishment is left in the care of the devil."
| s. | d. | |
| Mackenzie's Man of Feeling | 0 | 6 |
| Paul and Virginia | 0 | 6 |
| The Castle of Otranto | 0 | 6 |
| Almoran and Hamet | 0 | 6 |
| Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia | 0 | 6 |
| The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne | 0 | 6 |
| Rasselas | 0 | 8 |
| The Old English Baron | 0 | 9 |
| Nature and Art | 0 | 8 |
| Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield | 0 | 10 |
| Sicilian Romance | 1 | 0 |
| The Man of the World | 1 | 0 |
| A Simple Story | 1 | 4 |
| Joseph Andrews | 1 | 6 |
| Humphry Clinker | 1 | 8 |
| The Romance of the Forest | 1 | 8 |
| The Italian | 2 | 0 |
| Zeluco, by Dr. Moore | 2 | 6 |
| Edward, by Dr. Moore | 2 | 6 |
| Roderick Random | 2 | 6 |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | 3 | 6 |
| Peregrine Pickle | 4 | 6 |
Footnote 1: [(return)]
"Literary Gazette," Sept. 19, 1829.
Footnote 2: [(return)]
The propellers, I am informed, are not absolutely discarded. They are now not fixed, but movable, and reserved for extreme possible emergencies, or for certain military purposes.
Footnote 3: [(return)]
Yorkshire. This wonderful assemblage lies scattered in groups, covering a surface of nearly forty acres of heathy moor. The numerous rocking-stones, rock-idols, altars, cannon rocks, &c. evidently point out this spot as having been used by the Druids in their horrid and mysterious ceremonies. The position of some of these rocks is truly astonishing; one in particular resting upon a base of a few inches, overhangs on all sides many feet; while others seem suspended and balanced as if they hung in air.
Footnote 4: [(return)]
Human sacrifices formed part of the religious rites of the Druids.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Picturesque Promenade round Dorking. Second Edit. 12mo. 1823, p. 258, 259.
Footnote 6: [(return)]
Ibid p. 143.
Footnote 7: [(return)]
The Alpenstock, by C.J. Latrobe, 1829.
Footnote 8: [(return)]
Gray's Alliance of Education and Government.
Footnote 9: [(return)]
See the second Georgic of Virgil.
Footnote 10: [(return)]
For a Report of this discovery, see MIRROR, vol. xiii p. 409.
Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers.