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s ater-bibbing propensities among the Brahmins dur-,
ing his long residence in the East, but we can assure
him that the system which may work very we'd
under the glowing Indian skies; would be exceedingly
c.)ld and comfortless in the sullen atmosphere of Eng-
land. What right either have the wealthy and the
high in place to complain that the multitude inquire
too narrowly into their conduct, while they are con-
stantly interfering with the habits of the mob ? —we
hollow the word from them with no admiration of its
propriety. They even grudge the poor man the prac-
tice of those vices in which they are themselves habi-
tually indulging, and while they get intoxicated with
champagne and claret, have all their virtuous feelings
roused into indignation at the drunkenness of gin and
brandy. This pharisaical disposition to amend others,
and leave our own faults unquestioned, is the besetting
:in of the day, and, though we perfectly acquit- Mr.
Buckingham of all hypocrisy or uncharitableness, we
cannot so easily absolve him from the charge of the
grossest folly. It is difficult to believe that a man of
his acknowledged talents can be serious when we read
the conclusion which he, and his select committee of
Solons have come to, prohibiting the importation or
the distilling of ardent spirits :
" 46. The absolute prohibition of all distillation of ardent
spirits from any foreign country, or from our new colonies, of
distilled spirits in any shape.
" 47. The equally absolute prohibition of all distillation of
ardent spirits from grain, the most important part of the food
of man, in our own country.
" 48. The restriction of distillation from other materials, to
the purposes of the arts, manufacturers, and medicine, and the
confining the wholesale and retail dealing in such articles, to
chemists, druggists, and dispensaries alone."
Certainly, if the scheme were only practicable, it
might go far to put an end to drunkenness, and by a
parity of reasoning it would be well to forbid any rights
of property, as the most effectual means of weaning
pickpockets from, their little amiable weaknesses ; it is
proverbially said that rats will leave an empty larder,
and hence we may infer, with some probability of truth,
that these ingenious gentlemen would give up their
vocation if, by a community of goods, there was nothing
left for them to pilfer. Where spirits are to be bad,
men will drink; where there is property, men will steal;
remove the cause, and you remove the effect—Q. E. D.
If another committee is not started upon the strength
of this happy suggestion, we shall think ourselves ex-
tremely ill-used by the two honourable houses. The
" Nights in the Gallery " are somewhat long and
dreary, and this, perhaps, is the more sensibly felt
from coming upon them so immediately after the fun
and frolic of the " Steam Excursion." This last is
a piece of broad, rich farce, that would tickle the lean
ribs of Envy herself into laughter. If Grimaldi, of
clownish memory, could write, this is just the sort of
thing we should expect from him ; and never did the
genius of pantomime grin more delectably—no, not
even when he called up the spirit of Sancho, and set
him before our eyes as he lives and breathes in the im-
mortal pages of Cervantes. Of course, it is hardly
necessary to say that we do not mean to compare this
article, amusing as it is, with the unimitated and inimi-
table Don Quixotte. A single page will serve to show
its quality—
" Did you ever hear a tom-tom, Sir? sternly inquired the
captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his travels, real
or pretended.
" A what ?" asked Hardy, rather taken back.
" A tom-tom."
" Never 1"
" Nor a gum-gum ?"
" Never 1"
" What is a gum-gum ?" eagerly inquired several young
ladies.
" When I was in the East Indies," replied the captain, (here
was a discovery—he had been in the East Indies?)—" when
I was in the East Indies, I was once stopping several thousand
miles up the country, on a visit at the house of a very parti-
cular friend of mine, Ram Chowder Doss Azuph Al Bowlar—
a devilish pleasant fellow. As we were enjoying our hookahs
one evening in the cool verandah, in front of his villa, we were
rather surprised by the sudden appearance of thirty-four of his
kitrma-gars (for he had rather a large establishment there),
accompanied by an equal number of Consumers, approaching
the house with a threatening aspect, and beating a tom-tom
The Ram started up—" •
" The who ?" inquired the bald gentleman, intensely in
wrested.
" The Ram—Ram Chowdar—"
" Oh 1" said the old gentleman,
really didn't occur to me ; pray go on."
Started up, and drew a pistol. Helves,' said he
my boy'—he always called me, my boy—'Helves,' said he,
do you hear that tom-tom I do,' said I. His counte•
nance, which before was pale assumed a most frightful appear
b
ance ; his whole visage was distorted, and his frame shaken ;
violent emotions. 'Do you see that gum-gum ?' said he.
-
No,' said I, staring about me. ' You don't ? ' said he
No, I'll be damned if I do,' said I ; and what's more,
don't know what a gum-gum is,' said I. really thought the
man would have dropped. He drew me aside, and with an ex-
pression of agony I shall never forget, said in a low whisper"._
" Dinners on the table, ladies," interrupted the steward's

. I beg your pardon ;

the Belgian Government to the amount of 270,000 florins,
being three years' pay as Field-marshal of Belgium and In-
spector-General of fortifications.'
These appointments were made in the good times of Dutch
rule, and if the Dnke wants his money he had better apply to
his old friend the Dutch King ; but he is aware that at the
Dutch territory pickled herrings are more plentiful than
piastres, so he is trying to " come the old soldier " over the
"brave Bulges." It happens, however, most unluckily, that
the Duke's appointment has not been recognized by the pre-
sent Belgian Government, so that his Grace might as well
apply to the King of the Sandwich Islands, as far as hope of
coin is concerned, and with about as much right."

THE METROPOLITAN.

" Jacob Faithful" has concluded his adventures on

the " Deep Deep Sea," an announcement which we
should have received with sorrow, did he not give us a

parting pledgc that he is only changing one element
for another. Jacob was, from the first, a favourite
with us, and we trust it will be long before he ceases

to pay us his monthly visit. His " Last Yarn" is a
beautiful sketch, full of nature, and feelings deep and
true to naturei " Novels and Novel-writing" evinces

a sound judgment and a cultivated taste, but it is much
too general, and so far falls short of the great ex-
cellence which ought to be the principal " end and aim"
of such an essay. " Wallace to his Army" is sad
stuff—common-place in thought and in the expres-
sion, taken at second-hand. Very different, however,
are the lines " My Home is by the Sea," some stanzas
of which are beautiful, and the whole strikingly full of
feeling. The following lines struck us as very natural,
simple, and touching
I bear with me an ocean shell,
It's sounds to me are dear—
Oh ! like an old familiar spell
It murmurs in my year;
Even in exile I rejoice
In some still spot to be,
And greet its low mysterious voice,
The language of the sea."
" The Life of a Sub-Editor" appears to be written
by a man who has not passed through life without
noting the working of our worst passions. His paper
of this month is very interesting. " Physiognomies
at Paris," by Caleb Caustic, is a marina account of
the Hells and Hell-hunters of that celebrated capital.

wile.
" Will you allow me ?" said the Captain, immediately suit-
ing the action to the word, and escorting Miss Julia Briggs to
the cabin, with as much ease as if he had finished the story.
" What an extraordinary circumstance !" ejaculated the
same old gentleman, preserving his listening attitude.
" What a traveller 1" said the young ladies.
" What a singular name 1" exclaimed the gentlemen, rather
confused by the coolness of the affair.
" I wish he had finished the story," said an old lady.
wonTheder what a gum-gum really is ?"
" Sketches in Portugal" have fairly brought us
to a nonplus. Is it intended that we should receive
them as the bond fide adventures of the writer ? We ask
only as to the intent, for of the fact we shall take the li-
berty of judging for ourselves. At all events they are
highly amusing, and not a little characteristic, showing
plainly that the author knew well what might
either from his own experience, or the borrowed know-
ledge of others. It will be difficult to give a just idea
of it by any extracts, the great merit of the picture
being in the whole combined, and not in the details ;
but we must try notwithstanding.—
" That horse belongs to me," said I, addressing the grumb-
ling soldier, who was already casting him adrift ; and replac-
ing the bridle, I led him out of the yard, to seek for other
quarters, as I originally intended. The door of a house, or
rather hovel, being open on the other side of the way, I quickly
introduced myself and my horse into the naked apartment, and
found it occupied by two or three officers and their horses ;
the former sitting in a circle on the plastered floor, and enjoy-
ing themselves with a jorum of port wine, which they invited
nie to share with them. But the bit of candle which was
stuck in the neck of an empty bottle, being in the act of ex-
piring, and threatening to drop through every moment, we
were at our wits' ends how to obtain another ; till, recollecting
the one in the lantern at the foot of the staircase, I volunteered
my services to go and fetch it. This it was less easy to do
than to say ; for, on crossing over, I found two sentinels were
posted there, which, of course, rendered the attempt altogether
impracticable. Thinking, however, I might perhaps procure
one from one of the Emperor's attendants, I mounted the
stairs ; but, on reaching the door at the entrance of a passage,
hesitated to proceed further, as all within was total darkness ;
and though I beard the sound of voices in distant apartments I
should certainly have descended, and thus have missed one of
the many opportunities I have had of estimating the amiable
qualities of Don Pedro (for whatever may be his bad ones,
nulla virtute redentptum a vitiis cannot be said of him), had
not the rays from a torch in the street shot through a window
directly in front of me, and enabled me to discover a room with
folding doors open at the end of the passage in which I stood.
Stepping as lightly as if I had been treading on a flower-bed,
I advanced towards the room, and by the time I entered it,
the.torch having passed on, all was again in darkness. At
this moment a door was thrown back on my left, and two ser-
vants came in, one carrying lights, the other a pilau for the
Emperor's supper. As I was well known to every one about
him, they expressed no surprise at seeing me there, and telling
me they would furnish me with what I wanted as soon as they
came back, passed into a room on the right, and as they neg-
lected to close the door, I had a full view of an inner apart-
ment, in which were the Emperor, Villa Flor, Padre Marcus,
Almeida, Jos6 da Silva Cavalho, and Ayostinho Jose Freire.
The house, like all the others, having been deserted, was
completely destitute of furniture, and his Majesty was raising
himself when I caught sight of him from a reclining posture
on a couch formed of cloaks, and elevated a little from the
floor, and before him was an old wooden box, on which the
servants placed his frugal meal. With the exception of the
padre,
who Tins extended on a hp4p of cl9oq 1,4 feet,t, the
persons I have nained4ere spnle olking 04 ;Elowil, Others
standing still. I have frequently ol3sei•fed' ion Pedro con-
ceal a feeling of despondency (when I knew, Crow what had
transpired, he must have been greatly depressed), and affect
to be in the highest spirits, in order that his example might
infuse courarr
fortitude into the hearts of those around
him, whom tie
e tiVcaYi liked to goo Cheerful anti bitpic, When
the door opened I heard him, as he raised himself, say (in re-
ference to what I could not tell)—
" I'll stake this ring against your head, Padre, that you
don't," pulling. it off his finger and laying it on the box.
" The risk is rather disproportioned," replied the old gen-

The sketch of Coulton, the sharper, is particularly
good. Altogether the Metropolitan for this month is
above mediocrity, though by no means comparable to
what we have seen it. We give the following short
sketch of the, Rothschild family from an article headed
the " Wondrous Five," as an encouragement to those
who are studying to rise in the world
The father, and founder of the ' House of Rothschild,' was
christened—l mean named—Mayer Anselmo, and Frankfort
had the honour of his birth, which auspicious event occurred in
Anno Domini 1743. At eleven years of age the future father
of the Five had the misfortune to lose both his parents. After
serving as an usher's helper at a public school, lie instinctively
turned his thoughts to business, and commenced a little com-
merce of the following order. Every body knows that the nu-
mismatic gout is extremely prevalent with the rich, especially
in Germany, and that an intelligent trafficker in medals is sure
to make handsome profits. Mayer Anselmo, therefore, gave
up his pedlaring profession, and confined himself solely to the
collecting and selling of medals. Another advantage accrued
to him from his new calling, as it enabled him to become, in a

certain manner, acquainted with several distinguished person-
ages, who were of considerable use to him in the end, and by
whose patronage he continued to make out a suitable sort of
existence. He now began to exercise his ready talent in the
sciences of the counter and money-changing. In the capacity
of a banker's clerk at Hamburg, he acquired a creditable re-
putation by his assiduity and tact ; and, after several years, he
left his first master's house, with a good character, and a toler-
able capital, the fruits of his careful economy. On his return
to Frankfort, he married a cousin of the tribe of Judah, and
boldly set up a banking concern in a small way, the nucleus of
the great house which now fills all Europe with its fame. By
dint of probity, activity, and native aptitude for money-making,
the father of the present firm gained more and more ground in
public confidence; his credit extended, and his clients in-
creased. In 1801 his former illustrious numismatic patron,
the Landgrave of Hesse, appointed Mr. Rothschild agent to
his Court. This was the first princely connexion of the con-
cern, although they have since had dealings with, and in sove-
reigns to a pretty considerable amount, as the New York bard
says. It was in this quality that Rothschild rendered very im-
portant services to the successor of the above-named Prince,
especially when, in 1808,, the latter, obliged to retire from his
hereditary states at the approach of' the French army, could
only carry off with him a comparatively inconsiderable sum in
gold, to which his whole fortune was then reduced. By his
presence of mind, address, and ability, Mr. Rothschild con-
trived to save from the grasu czf tu ila,A the greatest part of
the il,ndgraveis property, lAit not without a few hair-breadth
'sca pes! from the lynx-eyes, and drum-head justice of the Gal-
licintruders. The property so preserved from the plundering
heroes, was conscientiowly administered 1?y, Rothschild for his
patron the Prince.
" About this period the financial business a ill?, house of
Rothschild began to assume impsAaric.e, in consequence of its
first Wan, ten InilliOns of florins, to the Court of Denmark.
In 1812, Mayer Anselmo Rothschild, the father, was attacked
by a mortal illness. Aware of his approaching end, he had
L his ten children called to his bedside, gave them his dying
benediction, and made them promise never to change, their re-
ligion, and always to remain unite 4 ambrie themselves on

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laughter. - - ./ honourable to their filial feelings. Their great political
' s'•tothe battle which is os •
n But," said the Padre, "in regard
expected will be fought to-morrow, I predict that if we ar 0 is computed their house has negotiated, in loans, subsidies,
victorious, ' I shall see our gracious Queen in Lisbon." c., upwards of 160.000 millions sterling, pri:ecipally for the
" I trust your prophecy will be verified, my good friend," different Monarchs of Europe ; their profits have, of course,
the Emperor exclaimed. been immense. Their long and uninterrupted success was
"If it depends on the result of to-morrow's operations," oh- owing to their unanimity and community of interests. Every
served Villa Flor, " I think it will be ; for I have a very strong proposition is decided by mutual deliberation. Each opera-
presentiment that we shall beat them." tion, of major or minor importance, is conducted upon a con-
" Your Excellency's declaration is very cheering," replied certed and common plan ; and all their individual and corn-
the Emperor, and added—" Come, gentlemen, will you not bined energies are employed to command success. Although
partake with me ?" The courteous invitation was, however, for several years they have resided at a distance from each
declined by all but the confessor, whom his Majesty assisted other, that circumstance has by no means caused a distance,
himself. During the common-place remarks which were now or discord amongst them ; on the contrary, it has proved a
made, his Majesty appeared quite lost in abstraction, and I great advantage, in contributing towards the prosperity of
should certainly have supposed he was merely pondering on their immense undertakings, by thus making them nu courant
the toughness of the fowl's leg, which he held in both hands, of the state of the principal money-markets of Europe,
and gnawed with laudable perseverence, had he not suddenly through a continual exchange of couriers, which generally
looked up and said, precede the Government messengers ; in this manner, each of
" However ridiculous it may seem, I cannot divest myself of the five brothers, from the point where he is placed, possesses
a strange fancy that I have before been in precisely the same a great facility for preparing and negotiating different affairs
situation lamin at this moment, The very scene is impressed for the central establishment. It is but very recently that the
as it were on my mind from a former recollection of it ; but tide of fortune has seemed to run less smooth for the house of
as this is not only improbable, but actually impossible, I must Rothschild. The avidity with which they caught at the
doubtless have witnessed it in a dream, or my imagination has Spanish bonds, their calculating, and ever-grasping ambition
pictured it at some time or other, when in one of her wildest to become the financiers-in-chief of the Queen's Government,
have caught the wary brothers at last, not in a petty mouse-
moods."
is trap, but in a prodigious money-trap, baited with seals, which
The Portuguese monarch not the only man who ,
alasl are likely to turn up unreal mockeries. losses
has entertained the singular fancy expressed in the last have been estimated at fi om 1,200,0001, sterling to 2,000,0001.
few lines. Sir Walter Scott, too, has alluded to the But it is not easy to fix the sum, for the following reasons.
The Rothschilds business at the Bourse is done by different
same thing, though we cannot at the moment lay our agents, in such a way, that oach is ignorant of the other's
hands upon the passage, and it has frequently hap- employer, consequently the losses and gains cannot be fairly
pened that—but it will not do to give way to this averaged by the public at large ; except upon some great or
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particular purpose the on rousFive choose not to al,-
?ear
dreamy mood. on the great gambling stage, and publish their transactions • •
• A , in
The " Notes for the Month" have as usual much Plf rumour might be relied -
ropria personii. . upon, a private
pique had something to do with this so,
and last, or rather
hard hitting—harder at times than there is any occa- latest reverse of the late golden re-
, srveyors of Kings. A ces-
sion for—and the blows are dealt out, as it appears to min formerly Proscribed Co',nt, and new, "'by the vicissitudes
. . of fate," a Minister oc_ a very critical
department of the Spanish
us, somewhat too much at random. The following is State, was refused by Rothschild
. a loan of 25,000/. upon his
a knock-down specimen, though we must be permitted sequestrated property in Spain, when the Peninsula was un-
der the sway of the
to question whether it was worth while for so stout Ferdinand Beloved. The Count de
T
was then a liberal in Paris. Baron Rothschild was
and able a man as the editor to try his brawny knuckles then the sterling sheet anchor of the ' blessed Bourbons,' and
on the soft head of poor Yates ; it is something like had never been tainted with liberal notions in word or in deed.
The quintupal firm. backed by the accredited Don A
killing flies with a sledge hammer : had arranged a most magnifique bargain for themselves bien,
" FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.—We are happy to find that entendu ; it was on the point of being legally validated, when,
the exclusiveness of fashionable life is beginning to be aban- most unlucky contre-temps, the erst banished Count, on a car
doned—a more liberal feeling is taking its place ; and talent taro fine morning, stepped into the national Spanish counting-
and station are now sharing the distinction heretofore monopo- house at Madrid, as chief comptroller of finances. His first,
lized by rank. The Court Circular people will have some- best step, was to annul the hopes of the Rothschilds, and, in
thing else to do besides recording the movements of mere so doing, there is no occasion to attribute personal malice, as
lords and ladies; they must keep a watchful eye upon the the unlegalized contract was most unfair and disadvantageous li
errant peculiarities of the aristocracy of talent, and they will to his country.
not have such an idle time of it. We found the following " The statistique of the Wondrous
.Five is as follows :
announcement a short time since in one of the Evening Papers, " Anischa or Anselmo, resides at Frankfort-sur-le-Maine.
after the intelligence of the arrival of the Marquis of Hertford He is the senior, and chief of the family, aged sixty-one
and suite : years. At his house the general inventory is made out, from
"4 We understand that the talented comedian, Mr. Frede- the private inventories furnished by the other four banks. It
rick Yates, with his amiable and accomplished lady, are still is there, also, that the congresses of the fraternity are gene-
enjoying the gaieties of the French capital. They may be rally held.
seen every evening, joining the company on the Boulevards,' " Solomon, the second brother, September 9th, 1774, has
" This is an amiable condescension indeed, and liberal too ; passed his professional time, the last eighteen years, between
for we cannot obtain a sight of them in London of an evening Berlin, and Vienna, chiefly at the latter.
for less than a shilling a piece. Doubtless there must have " Nathan, the third brother, is in his fifty-seventh year. He
been a great rush of Parisians to see the ' distinguished is the London Rothschild.
foreigners.' " " Charles, the fourth of the five bankers, is forty-six years
One more brief quotation, and we have done with old. He has been established at Naples since 1821.
" Jacob, the youngest in years, was born May sth, 1792.
our friend for this month g-- His consort, the Baroness, is the daughter of his second bro-
" MAGNANIMITY OF WARRIORS.—SOMC years since, the ther, the Baron Solomon. Jacob has carried on his business
British Government granted honorary rank in the army to the since Anno Domini 1812, at Paris."
Prince of Orange, intended, no doubt, by the pliant indivi- Has private vicque, then, any thing to do with the
duals of power in those days as
;abut compliment to the heir-ap-
threatened insolvency of Spain ?
We ask the ques-
parent of the throne of Holland
ti
.
his brevet than he, with the thrifty spirit of his illustrious tion in ignorance of the correctness of the fact above
father, inquired into the proceeds, and not understanding empty stated, and we leave
it to be answered at leisure by
compliments, regularly from that moment touched his " com-
pensation " with the precision of a gazetted and garretted half- those politicians who take an interest in the subject.
pay. Nothing like Royal example ; witness the following :
" ' The Courier Beige, of the 17th inst., states that the il-
lustrious hero, the Duke of Wellington, has made a claim of
_ .

THE BRITISH FARMERS' MAGAZINE.
No. XXXIII.
Published Quarterly. Ridgway, Piccadilly.

This is a strange medley of all sorts of sayings, on
all manner of things. We have strictures on the
Reformed Parliament, and essays on the growth of
potatoes ; tirades against the Poor Laws' Amendment
Bill, and discoveries of the causes of the decay of larches
in this country. Lectures on Corn Laws, and letters
on the crochles in cattle. We, of course, do not ob-
ject to the variety, but to the incongruousness of such
variety. The articles, however, are well written ; and,
did the writers confine themselves to agricultural sub-
jects, this periodical would be a most valuable acqui-
sition to the useful literature of the country.

AN ENCYCLOPJEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY.
PART VIII. By HUGH MußnAr, F.R. S.E.
Longman and Co.

We have had so many occasions of bearing our
testimony to the great merits of this work, and have
so repeatedly availed ourselves of it, that nothing new
remains to be said on the subject. Whether we regard
the quantity of letter-press, the excellence and number
of the engravings, .or the subject-matter of the, work,
we pronounce it the cheapest, as well as first, among
the most useful publications of the day.

MUSICAL LIBRARY. Part VIII.
C. Knight, Ludgate-hill.
As the music of this number consists chiefly of se-
lections from the works of Handel, Mozart, Haydn,
Purcell, and other such rare " Masters of song)" it is
superfluous to say more in its favour ths.l that the
extracts are well chosen. The work is remarkably
cheap, considering that it is 'a handsome quarto, and full
of matter.

The ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. No. VIII.

CONDUCTED Br J. C. LOUDON'.
_Longman 8f co.
An improving little periodical, of which the present is an
excellent number. No architect ought to be without it,
and with such as wish to acquire a correct taste in archi-
tectural works, it must be a great favourite. The articles
in the present number are less " professionally" written than
those which preceded, which we are inclined to think a
great improvement.

LADY'S MAGAZINE• AND MUSEUM.
J. Page, Fetter-lane.
The chief embellishment of this graceful periodical
is a full-length portrait of Diana of Poictiers, which is
tawdrily coloured, and as stiff and unbending as if the
fair original had swallowed a poker. The Memoir
prefixed, however, is pleasingly written. " Address to
a Lady who ivcpt on giving her little girl her first Cor-
rection"—what a theme for a poem !—" by Mrs.
Cockle"—what a name for a poetess !—is worthy of
its subject. " The Cartel" is a spirited tale, exhibit-
ing not a little dramatic skill ; and " Matrimony"
somewhat dull and prosy. How unlike the State of
which it treats I

SPORTING MAGAZINE.
M. A. Pittman, Warwick-square.

We cannot vouch for the likeness of Mr. John
Clark, of Newmarket, which forms the frontispiece to
this number, but as an engraving it deserves praise,
though the lines of the countenance, especially the fur-
rows under the eyes, are somewhat too harshly and
strongly marked. " Eel-fishing near Maintenon," is
skilfully and picturesqUely treated; the eel with a hook
in his gullet wriggles at the end of the angler's line in
the fore-ground, with a vivacity and consciousness of
the peculiar delicacy of his position, that would have
gladdened
the humane heart of Isaac Walton. The li-
terary contents of the number are cleverish, though too
restricted in their nature. The best article is the " Lion
Hunting at the Cape."

THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY. No. XCIV.
Edited by 1. J. Fox.

This number is less political than any we have seen
of this very useful and, occasionally, very able maga-
zine. Still the improvement is by no means equal to
our expectations when we recommended such a course
to its talented and eloquent editor. " Experiments in
education, by a Lady," might as well have been kept in
her note-book. She would lose nothing by being sent to
school a second time herself, The world may be very
ignorant, and raothers may be the worst possible
teachez, of their _offspring, but both rewire other in-
structors, " Notes on Plato's Dialogues' is an instruc-
tive, interestiN articiol though we §hould think rather