"When asked on one occasion who is in the way to become learned, he answered, 'Whoever will content himself with the reading of a single book."—The British Critic, No. LIX. p. 202.

W. Fraser.

Tor-Mohun.

"Now the fierce bear," &c.—Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the following lines?

"Now the fierce bear and leopard keen,

All perished as they ne'er had been;

Oblivion's their best home.

. . . .

There is an oath on high,

That ne'er on brow of mortal birth,