Cook’s Specimens of the Sandwich Tongue.
Peel on Bell’s System.
Lamb’s Recollections of Suett.
Blaine on Equestrian Burglary; or The Breaking-in of Horses.
The Rape of the Lock, with Bramah’s Notes.
Kosciusko on the Right of the Poles to stick up for themselves.
Haughty-cultural Remarks on London Pride.
THE JESTS OF HIEROCLES.
A young man, meeting an acquaintance, said, “I heard that you were dead.” “But,” says the other, “you see me alive.” “I do not know how that may be,” replied he: “you are a notorious liar; but my informant was a person of credit.”
A man wrote to a friend in Greece, begging him to purchase books. From negligence or avarice, he neglected to execute the commission; but, fearing that his correspondent might be offended, he exclaimed, when next they met, “My dear friend, I never got the letter you wrote to me about the books.”