to mind to eain ones self    of anoty and breeding may be mucural sprouts of his own.

        -- Lord Foppington in the Relapse.

        AN ingenious acquaintany o sally of     off reading altogeto t improvement of y. At t on t fess t I dedicate no insiderable portion of my time to ots. I dream aions. I love to lose myself in ot    sit and think for me.

        I esbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonatoo lo s allow for such.

        In talogue of books ories, Pocket Books, Draugtered at tific treatises, Almanacks, Statutes at Large; tsoie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all t;lemans library s :" tories of Flavius Josep learned Je any tars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding.

        I fess t it moves my spleen to see ts, usurpers of true sruders into tuary, ting out timate octs. to reac is some kind-ed play-book, t "seem its leaves," to e bolt upon a ion Essay. to expect a Steele, or a Farquo viement of blockropolitanas) set out in an array of Russia, or Morocco,    good leatably re-clote Paracelsus o look like ors, but I long to strip to erans in their spoils.

        to be strong-backed a-bound is tum of a volume. Magnifies after. t    be afforded, is not to be lavisely. I    dress a set of Magazines, for instance, in full suit. tume. A Son (u editions), it o trick out in gay apparel. tin. terior e to say, raises no s emotions, no tig sense of property in t (I maintain it) a little torn, and dogs-eared. iful to a genuine lover of reading are t appearanay, t fet kind feelings in fastidiousness, of an old "Circulating Library" tom Jones, or Vicar of akefield!    urned over t! -- of tress, er oil, running far into midnigco steep    ting tents!    less soiled?    better dition could o see them in?

        In some respects tter a book is, t demands from binding. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and all t class of perpetually self-reproductive volumes -- Great Natures Stereotypes -- , because o be "eterne." But    t perishes,

        e kno orch

        t    its lig; --

        suce, as tle, by    is ricly durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.

        Not only rare volumes of tion, ed; but old editions of ers, suilton in s, yet t, and are talked of    endenizeional , so as to bee stock books -- it is good to possess tly covers. I do not care for a First Folio of Sions of Roonson,    notes, and es, o text; and    pretending to any supposable emulation , are so mucter ty of feeling rymen about ions of ,    tumbled about and rary, I ot read Beaumont and Flet Folio. tavo editions are painful to look at. I    editions of t, I s so t knoomy of Melaneed    fantastic old great man, to expose t of t faso modern sure? ioner could dream of Burton ever being popular ? -- tc do ratford co let e- lively fased, to to ic testimony s and parcels of    of . By ----, if I ice of peace for arator aon fast in tocks, for a pair of meddling sacrilegious varlets.

        I t t trouble-tombs.

        S fantastical, if I fess, t ts sound ser, and o to mi least -- t of Milton or of S may be, t tter are more staled and rung upon in on discourse. test names, and    Marloon, Drummond of hornden, and Cowley.

        Mut minutes, before te ready, opgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes sermons ?

        Milton almost requires a solemn serviusic to be played before you enter upon    o wens, s, and purged ears.

        inter evenings -- t out -- le Sers. At sucempest, or ers tale --

        ts you ot avoid reading aloud -- to yourself, or (as it e single person listening. More t degees into an audience.

        Books of quiterest, t s, are for to glide over only. It    do to read t. I could never listen to even tter kind of modern novels    extreme irksomeness.

        A ne, is intolerable. In some of t is tom (to save so mucime) for one of t sence upon times, or te its entire tents aloud pro bono publico. itage of lungs and elocution, t is singularly vapid. In barbers s up, and spell out a paragrapes as some discovery. Anotion. So tire journal transpires at lengt t no one in travel tents of a whole paper.

        Nee curiosity. No one ever lays one do a feeling of disappoi.

        aernal time t gentleman in black, at Nandus, keeps ter ba incessantly, "t;

        ing in to an inn at nig    be more deligo find lying in t, left time out of mind by t -- tory Magazine, s amusie-d-tete pictures" -- t; "ting Platonid t; -- and suciquated sdal? ould you exc -- at t time, and in t place -- for a better book?

        Poor tobin,    regret it so mucier kinds of reading -- t, or us, o     pamp.

        I s care to be caughedral alone, and reading dide.

        I do not remember a more ed -- by a familiar damsel -- reed at my ease upon to make a man seriously as t as sed ermio read in pany, I could     finding to aste, s up, and --    ale casuist, I leave it to to jecture, y of t t.

        I am not muco out-of-doors reading. I ot settle my spirits to it. I knearian minister, reet ), beten and eleven in tudying a volume of Lardner. I oo rain of abstra beyond my reaire acts. An illiterate enter ers knot, or a bread basket, o fliger of, and    me    to ts.

        treet-readers, e    affe -- try, le learning at talls -- ting envious looks at turing tenderly, page after page, expeg every moment , a uo deny tification, t;snatc; Martin B----, in ts, got to purder no circumstances of isfa c poetess of our day    in touzas.

        I sah eager eye

        Open a book upon a stall,

        And read, as    all;

        all-man did espy,

        Soon to the boy I heard him call,

        "You, Sir, you never buy a book,

        t look."

        th a sigh

        augo read,

        the old churls books he should have had no need.

        Of sufferings the poor have many,

        he rinoy:

        I soon perceivd another boy,

        had any

        Food, for t day at least -- enjoy

        t of eat in a tavern larder.

        t I, is surely harder,

        t a penny,

        Bey-dressed meat:

        No .
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