Improving.—Brother Harper promises “one or more original articles,” and “copious selections,” in the new volume.
“One swallow does not make a summer,” nor will one swallow sustain “an author and his family.”
Quære. Whether “Swallow Barn” contains any allusion to authorial capacity for gulping—Bird could tell.
Delusion Extraordinary.—To suppose that because a man is poor, he has unlimited credit at bank, and can pay all manner of absurd bills and drafts at sight—and gold going out at the rate of a million per steamer, and the rocks in California not all crushed, either.
Minute.—One of the Magazines, in numbering the illustrations for the month, treats us to the following:
“No. IX. Pattern for Baby’s Cap, one engraving, with directions for working it in crotchet.”
Who has a nice, small mitten