No. Two characters from Mons. La Bruyere 56. Sentiments on the spring---A London spring for salmon Lowhen 57. Sermon to a clerical congregation---Pulpit ... 58. Hospitality---Curious list of the moral be- 59. The philosophy of the comfortable---Cha- 60. Translation---Specimen of a modern trans- 61. Same subject---Difficulty and dignity of 62. Modern sensibility---Grown gentlemen and 63. Thoughts on love---The hereditary com- Page. 44 56 66 77 86 97 109 121 64. The mock pathos in composition exposed ---Bombastical moralists ---A pensively- elegant lecture on life, extracted from the scene presented by Covent-Garden 65. The sweeping effects of time---Melancholy contemplations arising thereupon---Signi- ficancy of this fluctuating character, and the great and consoling arguments it sup- 66. Scandal viewed in more lights than one--- Short history of scandal---A passage from Lucian---Story of the green ass---Ana- 67. The practice of lying considered---Extraor- dinary letter on the subject, to Simon. Olive-branch, read at the Club, containing a strange account of a classical lie---Its various impressions on the Club---Mr. Allworth's speech on the subject of the letter---Sentiment from Cicero---A fable ---Viceroy of Naples and the galley-slave Mr. Blunt's story of the inquisitorial 68. God's government one great scheme---The ignorance and audacity which man carries to the contemplation of it---Passage from the book of Job admirable to this point 69. On the excellency of an early inculcation of religious principles, in respect to every Whate'er she does, where'er her steps she bends, Her every act a subtle grace attends; We can't tell how---but when she speaks, it talks; IT was last night considered as an especial favour, that I was permitted to have a seat at the female board, where my mother sits as presidentess. It had been determined on this evening to take into consideration the state of the female nation-a discussion to which they dedicate one sitting in every six months. Miranda, who is my mother's principal secretary, had the chief direction and management in the business of the day; and almost all the motions, petitions, remonstrances, advices, &c. either originated with her, or passed through her hands. I think I never saw her appear with such advantage as upon this occasion. It is a most difficult task for a woman to come forth in the character of a director and manager, and to mix in the more active duties of VOL. XLIII. life, without losing something on the side of delicacy and softness; and it is on this ground, principally, that the men are found to object to any masculine undertakings in the women not because we regard such undertakings with jealousy, as an invasion of our provinces, but because we consider them as leading to the destruction of that amiable and captivating gentleness which constitutes the great ornament of the female mind. Somehow or other, Miranda manages to steer with the nicest precaution in these difficulties: a certain magical grace of manner, a lubricous insinuating softness slides into every action and gesture, and often disappoints their natural effects; so that, attempt what she will, it is all becoming; and say what she please, we cannot find fault. Thus she can do a thousand things which other women dare not, and allow herself a thousand freedoms which would be indecorous and even dangerous in others. Miranda is a little too short, but you hardly know it; and somewhat marked with the small-pox, which you presently forget. She is little under forty, but you would leave twenty-five to follow her; her very blemishes she converts into graces, and infirmities bear a premium in Miranda, and go farther than perfections in another face. She possesses an uncommon power of giving price to trifles, and of decorating mere nothings with the playfulness of her wit, the sprightliness of her allusions, or the importance of her inferences. She will raise a Venus out of the froth of the sea, or from an elephant's tooth produce an ivory statue. Last night she was busily employed in laying before the assembly the different reports, proposals, and requisitions, which had been sent to her, as the secretary, from all quarters. The first paper which |