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you ignominiously married. If you have
abandoned your children and your religion, Goo
forgive your wckednessl If you have forfeited
your fame and your country, may your folly do nc
further mischief" &c. The poor woman was in fact
shocked at herself The fashionable, the brilliant,
the most respectable, most wealthy Mrs. Thrae,
was conscious of an inclination for an Italian public
singer and music master, by name Piozzi, "Why
ma am" says johnson, che is not only stupid,
ugly dog, but an old dog too.' Wonderful in the
pure Imagination of the great moralist, that a
WIDOW OF forty-fve should fancy an sold dog p'
MISS lhrale, the daughter, DR.. Johnson's QHeeny,
was, OF course, fully shocked She was the most
respectable and handsomest of girls-a good ma
| thematican besides-in search of a coronet-which
she found, when she became a second wife and
Lady Keith. The newspapers were all dreadfulIv
shocked. In short, it was shocking on all hands
that Mrs. Thrale believed she had made up her
mind to do without the cold dog" who was Ger
taioIy as well most ''gentIemanly dog" mas
much as before going into his banishment to the
continent, he surrendered all her mothers lore
letters, chow shockng!) &C., &C., to Miss ThraIe
who instantly, and most respectfully turned her
back on him, without even thanKee But il could
not be settled so. Horet lateri leihalis arundo
Late IN life as it was the youthful disease was dan
gerous and the sold dog' must be wbistled hack
OF MS old mistress will die. Miss ThraIa has tbaro
iore 10 ask her mother where his kennel is and tho
family doctor must write to him to come back and
De married, all other prescriptions having utterly
ialed. And so 1t came about, that this most shock
ing occurrence took place, and the widow of fortv
hVe basely surrendered the high privilege of per
forming slow suttee for the rest of her davs. in
memory of the wealthy and respectable Thrale-to
De nothing more than wife of the gentle Lombard
whose artist nature and her own accorded so perfect
ly throughout the twenty years in which thev lived
together, it seemed to the happy woman. as she
herself declares, but day. Piozzi, in fact was
the better gentleman, and better man, and better
husband, of the two who fell to the lot of this
bright, genial female nature, who remains a most
loquacious and chirping, but by no meaps unreis
Die witness OF the comparative advantages of loving
wisely and loving WELL That the last state seemed.
IN her experience, infinitely better thar the first is
a lesson neither new nor without value.
We have thought proper rather to draw this
moral from the book before us than to treat il in tba
more obvious and possibly entertaining light of
hrst-rate collection Of biographical and other an
ecdotes In this point of view, it is one of the
most agreeable memoirs which have lately passed
through the press. 1t would be perfectly easv tn
select any number of good things In lSls. etat
io, she writes in of her letters to Sir James
FeOwes -
''When will the ladies be more or less strict in
their manner OF dressing? gentee young cer-
gymsn in our Upper Crescent told his mamma
about ten days ago, that he had lost bis heart to
pretty Miss Prideaux, ana that he must absolutely
marry her or die. La chcrc mere OF course re-
piled gravely, 'MY dear, you have not been ac
quainted with the lady above a fortnight; let me
recommend you to see more of her. More of her!'
exclaimed sSti the lad, why have down to the
NTH rib on each side already Will this story
heip to cure the toothache? 1t will serve to con-
vince Capt. j. f. and yourself that as Won baya
always acknowledged the British bellies to exceed
truth they outstrip them.''
Messrs. Ticknor & Fields have presented this
book with their usual elegant Typography and
paper. Why cannot our American publishers dis
cover that secret of binding possessed abroad lack
ing which our American books open for the most
part like steel traps, requiring painful force of
thumb and an oblique scrutiny of page altogether
unnecessary and disagreeable? We have also to
observe that the index printed at the end of this
volume is very Indifferent one.
From Nr. James S. Waters:
HARPER's MONTHLY MAGAZINE for May
An entertaining number, with many clever illus
trations.
From the publishers-for sale by Messrs. Cush-
ings Bailey:
MEAoIRs OF THE LIPE OF SIR WALTER SCorT, by J. G.
LookhART. Vols l and2 Ticknor 4 Fields Boston
This edition of standard biography will be re-
ceived with great satisfaction Its merits are too
universally known to need comment The present
edition is from the Riverside Press of Cambridge.
and Is uniform with the edition of the Wayerlv
Novels from the same publishers, already SO well
received by the public.
This memoir is fuller than the Edinburgh copv.
and contains several biographical notes not ipcIud
ed in it,