Butler, in his character of "An Antiquary," observes:
"He values things wrongfully upon their antiquity, forgetting that the most modern are really the most ancient of all things in the world; like those that reckon their pounds before their shillings and pence, of which they are made up."—Thyer's edit., vol.ii. p. 97.
Jarltzberg.
Napoleon's Spelling (Vol. viii., p. 386).—The fact inquired after by Henry H. Breen is proved by the following extract from the Mémoires of Bourrienne, Napoleon's private secretary for many years:
"Je préviens une fois pour toutes que dans les copies que je donnerai des écrits de Bonaparte, je rétablirai l'orthographe, qui est en général si extraordinairement estropiée qu'il serait ridicule de les copier exactement."—Mém. i. 73.
C.
Black as a mourning Colour (Vol. viii., p. 411.).—Mourning habits are said first to appear in England in the time of Edward III. Chaucer and Froissart are the first who mention them. The former, in Troylus and Creseyde, says:
"Creseyde was in widowe's habit black."
Again:
"My clothes everichone