THE GOLDEN AGE.

(From the Latin.)

Why "golden," when that age alone, we're told,

Was blest with happy ignorance of gold—

More justly we our venal times might call

"The Golden Age," for gold is all in all.

RUFUS.


NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell on Monday next two collections of Autographs; the first consisting of Autograph Letters, the property of a gentleman; which will be immediately followed by that belonging to the late Mr. Rodd, and the extensive Correspondence of the late William Upcott, Esq., comprising several thousand Autograph Letters. Mr. Rodd's collection comprises many letters of great historical and literary interest.