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my little darling, with Patty Barclay and Priscilla Bail, were
introduced to her. I was present, and not a little anxious on
account of my girl, who kissed the queen's hand with so much
grace that I thought. the Princess Dowager would have
smothered her with kisses. Such a report was made of her to
the king, that Miss was sent for, and afforded him great
amusement by saying, `that she loved the king, though she
must not love fine things, and her grandpapa would not allow
her to make a curtsey.' Her sweet face made such an im-
pression on the Duke of York, that I rejoiced she was only five
instead of fifteen. When he first met her, he tried to persuade
Miss to let him introduce her to the queen ; but she would by
no means consent till I informed her he was a prince, upon
which her little female heart relented, and she gave him her
hand—a true copy of the sex. The king never sat down,
nor did he taste anything during the whole time. Her
majesty drank tea, which was brought her on a silver waiter
by brother John, who delivered it to the lady in waiting, and
she presented it kneeling. The leave they took of us was
such as we might expect from our equals ; full of apologies
for our trouble for their entertainment—which they were so
anxious to have explained, that the queen came up to us, as
we stood on one side of the door, and had every word inter-
preted. My brothers had the honour of assisting the queen
into her coach. ' Some of us sat up to see them return, and
the king and-queen took especial notice of us as they passed.
The king ordered twenty-four oflis guard to be placed opposite
bur door all night, lest any of the canopy should be pulled
down by the mob, in which (the >canopy, it is to be presumed,)
there were one hundred yards of silk damask.

The preceding narrative is pleasing from its simplicity
and interesting in its minuteness. It is a good illus-
tration of the kind of matter with which the book
'abounds; although, unfortunately, the minute delinea-
tions by which it is filled are not always, scarcely even
generally, of so pure, so peaceful, and so innocent a
character. As it approaches the middle and latter
period of Queen Charlotte's life, the incidents become
more complicated, and lose their simplicity without
gaining in interest. Concerning the last Queen Con-
sort of the Brunswick line—the second Caroline—wife
of George IV., Dr. Doran says much, and it must be
admitted generally in a fair spirit. On this subject,
howeVer, with its perplexing and unpleasant details,
we shall not enlarge. It has been so frequently
before the public, and has of late received such painful
amplification in the " Malmesbury Papers," as well as
through other means of communication, as to afford as
little room for novelty of illustration as the topic pre-
sents but few features of an inviting character.
In the two volumes under consideration, Dr. Doran
has done no small amount of service in collecting
and condensing a mighty mass of widely-diffused
materials, which he has wrought up into a readable
compendium. If the book lack some of the higher
attributes of moral teaching, which the subject is capa-
ble of bearing, the fault is probably as fairly attribu-
table to the subject treated of, as to the author ex-
'pounding it ; and the public will cheerfully acquiesce
in according to that author

the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use.
lie had previously conferred on them the privilege of
spending many an hour with pleasure and with profit ;
he now adds to the former obligations a work more
systematic in its character than those he has hereto-
fore produced. To say that it is not perfect, is not to
reflect on Dr. Doran ; and to wish that it had been
better than it is, is to do little more than express a
hope that he will yet, and that ere long, come before
us with a work more fully in accordance with the
vigour of his intellect and the abundance of his re-
sources.

The Rag-Bag : a Collection of Ephemera. By N.
Parker Willis. London : Triibner and Co.

Few men have laboured with such remorseless
assiduity in the collection of anecdotes and incidents
illustrative of the weaknesses, puerilities, and pettish-
nesses of great minds as Mr. Willis has, from time to
time, exhibited for many years past. Having ex-
hausted his resources in the collection of fresh
material, he seems to have fallen back upon the
trivialities which in his period of better luck fell acci-
dentally in his way, and which, although not of suffi-
ciently high flavour," or in connexion with parties
whose names would bestow on them ready currency,
were insufficient to warrant the committal of them to
instant print, yet were, nevertheless, carefully bagged
by the Yankee trapper, into whose net everything
seemed fish that would come. In other words, having
expended his " domestic gleanings" of such men as
Wordsworth, Southey, Professor Wilson, Jeffrey, and
other " men of might,", he appears now to be com-
pletely "used up, ' and to rely upon desperate dips

into his " game-bag" for whatever may chance to turn.,
up. Having transferred his collection-and- his pencil
to the western sea-board of the Atlantic, he presents
his readers with scraps and sketches- of men, mannevsp
and scenery, as these have presented themselves-to his
delineative eye in different places and on different
occasions. For these avocations he• has- exhibited
some genius and no limited ambition; his delineative
skill will be readily recognised in the annexed sketelt.of