No. Page. na's lamentations---Story of Renée Corbeau 64. The mock pathos in composition exposed ---Bombastical moralists--A pensivelyelegant lecture on life, extracted from the scene presented by Covent-Garden market 65. The sweeping effects of time---Melancholy contemplations arising thereupon---Significancy of this fluctuating character, and the great and consoling arguments it supplies to thinking men---) ---Letter from Eugenio to Amelia 66. Scandal viewed in more lights than one--Short history of scandal---A passage from Lucian---Story of the green ass---Anatomy of an old maid's ear 67. The practice of lying considered---Extraordinary 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 bridge 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 object of education---Story of Polemo's conversion Eugenio's letter 131 144 155 165 176 189 No. 70. Travelling considered---Needs a proper preparation of the mind---Not adapted to all men---Absurd conduct of parents in this respect---Severe sentence pronounced by a father on his own child---Curious letter from a son abroad to his father at home 71. Story of Urbain Grandier 72. Same story concluded Page. 211 223 236 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 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 was read to us was of a singular nature, considering the chaste assembly to which it was submitted. It was a petition from an association of such of the sex as profess loose love, the keepers of bagnios, &c. praying to be heard against those usurpers of their craft, who, in this great city, had of late years drawn all the trade to themselves;-against those duchesses and countesses who had engrossed, as the petition set forth, all the fashionable custom of the town, by underselling those whose bread depended upon the profits of their business-that the fair traders were reduced to the saddest shifts imaginable, by these smugglers of debauchery-and that one of the most numerous classes of female manufacturers was likely soon to be reduced to throw up their calling, and beg their bread, or to emigrate to other countries, and carry the mysteries of the trade with them- That these interlopers had taken the most ungenerous and illiberal means, and acted in a manner that was calculated to bring scandal upon the profession, in order to attract custom; that they parted with their favours for nothing, only to pilfer in other ways with greater success-That they had sunk the price of intrigue, only to make it subservient to their gaming plans, that thus the dupes of their caresses might hug themselves in the excellence of their bargains, and cheapness of their pleasures, while a collateral drain was insensibly emptying their pockets. That these petitioners and innocent sufferers entreated the high court of females, assembled under the direction of Madam Olive-branch, that they would back with all their credit another petition which they had in contemplation to present to parliament, by the help of such connections there as they still retained; praying to succeed to those honours and dignities which ought in all reason to be laid down by the |