etc., etc. This is rather too much for even the inflexible gravity of our censorial muscles. When the author talks, with all the
reality
(if we may use the expression) of a Lemprière, on the stories of the fabulous ages, we cannot refrain from indulging a momentary smile; nor can we seriously accompany him in the learned architectural detail by which he endeavours to give us, from the
Odyssey
, the ground-plot of the house of Ulysses, — of which he actually offers a plan in drawing! "showing how the description of the house of Ulysses in the
Odyssey
may be supposed to correspond with the foundations yet visible on the hill of Aito!" — Oh, Foote! Foote! why are you lost to such inviting subjects for your ludicrous pencil! — In his account of this celebrated mansion, Mr. Gell says, one side of the court seems to have been occupied by the Thalamos, or sleeping apartments of the men, etc., etc.; and, in confirmation of this hypothesis, he refers to the 10th
Odyssey
, line 340. On examining his reference, we read —
