legends are all true, then! Not a bit of it! cries a| Even Fielding, had turned from his Jonathan Wild stony-hearted Professor of fossil osteology---Look at the Great, to his Jacobite Journal, True Patriot, and the teeth, they're all molar! he's a Mylodon! That Champion; and, from his Tom Jones and Amelia, creature ate neither sheep, nor oxen, nor children, sought refuge in his Covent Garden Journal. We nor tender virgins, nor hoary pilgrims, nor even have the names of fifty-five papers of the date of a geese and turkeys---he lived on---What? what? few years before this, regularly published every what? they all exclaim---Why, on raw potatoes and week. A more important literary venture, in the undressed salads to be sure !" nature of a review, and with a title expressive of the fate of letters, the Grub Street Journal, had been MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.-Seven brought to a close in 1737. Six years earlier than hundred and fifty-nine additions have been made to that, for a longer life, Cave issued the first number the MS. collection at this institution since the last of the Gentleman's Magazine. Griffiths, aided by report; including the volume of miniature drawings Ralph, Kippis, Langhorne, Grainger, and others, by Giulio Clovio, representing the victories of followed with the earliest regular Review which Charles V. of Germany; a collection of two hun- can be said to have succeeded, and in 1749 began, dred and forty-one MSS. in Persian and Hindustani, on Whig principles, that publication of the Monthly presented by the sons of the late Major W. Yule; which lasted till our own day. Seven years later, four volumes of ethnographical and topographical the Tories opposed it with the Critical; which, with drawings made by Mr. Goodall, the artist who ac- slight alteration of title, existed to a very recent companied Sir R. Schomburgh in his expedition to date, more strongly tainted with High Church Guiana in 1835-39; a large and important collec- advocacy and quasi Popish principles, than when tion of ancient Syriac MSS. obtained from the the first number, sent forth under the editorship of monastery of St. Mary Deifara, in the desert of Smollett in 1756, was on those very grounds assailScete, forming one hundred and forty or one hun- ed. In the May of that year of Goldsmith's life to dred and fifty volumes--amongst these are many which I have now arrived, another review, the fragments of palimpsest MSS., the most remarkable Universal, began a short existence of three years; of which is a small quarto volume containing, by its principal contributor being Samuel Johnson, at the first hands, nearly the whole of St. Luke's ver- this time wholly devoted to it.—Foster's Goldsmith. sion of the Gospel in Greek, and about four thousand lines of the "Iliad" of Homer, written in a fine, square, ancial letter, apparently not later than the 16th century; three finely illuminated "Books of Hours," executed in France, Germany, and Flanders; a volume of Persian poems by different authors, superior, it is thought, for delicacy of ornament and calligraphy to any in the Museum; a small but valuable collection of liturgical MSS. on vellum, containing the ancient ecclesiastical services in Italy, France, and England from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, including a "Book of Hours," which contains the autographs of Henry VII., Elizabeth of York, his consort, Henry VIII., Catherine of Arragon, and the Princess Mary; several valuable liturgical and theological MSS. on vellum, of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries; a selection from the Rezzi collection of MSS. formerly at Rome; a fine copy of the "Roman d'Athènes," by Alexander de Burday, written in 1330, on vellum; many classical MSS. of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, comprising Cæsar, Horatius, Sallustius, Cicero, Aulus Gellius, Plinius Junior, and others; also a copy of the "Latin Chronicle of Eusebius," Jerome and Prosser, of the ninth century, and a valuable "Latin Psalter" of the thirteenth century; a selection from the MSS. of the Count Ranuzzi, of Bologna, in eleven volumes, illustrative of the history of Italy, France, and Spain, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, centuries, especially in regard to the war of succession, which alone fills thirty volumes: the original diplomatic and private correspondence and papers of Lawrence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, and Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from 1677 to 1696, from which the two quarto volumes were compiled by Mr. Singer.-Athenæum.

THE MODESTY OF GOLDSMITH.-Colonel O'Moore, of Cloghan Castle in Ireland, told me an amusing instance of the mingled vanity and simplicity of Goldsmith, which (though perhaps colored a little, as anecdotes too often are) is characteristic at least of the opinion which his best friends entertained of Goldsmith. One afternoon, as Colonel O'Moore and Mr. Burke were going to dine with Sir Joshua Reynolds, they observed Goldsmith (also on the way to Sir Joshua's) standing near a crowd of people, who were staring and shouting at some foreign women in the windows of one of the houses in Leicester Square. "Observe Goldsmith," said Mr. Burke to O'Moore," and mark what passes between him and me by and by at Sir Joshua's." They passed on, and arrived before Goldsmith, who came soon after, and Mr. Burke affected to receive him very coolly. This seemed to vex poor Goldsmith, who begged Mr. Burke would tell him how he lad had the misfortune to offend him. Burke appeared very reluctant to speak, but after a good deal of pressing, said "that he was really ashamed to keep up an intimacy with one who could be guilty of such monstrous indiscretions as Goldsmith had just exhibited in the square." Goldsmith, with great earnestness, protested he was unconscious of what was meant. Why," said Burke, "did you not exclaim, as you were looking up at those women, what stupid beasts the crowd must be for staring with such admiration at those painted Jezebels, while a man of your talents passed by unnoticed!" Goldsmith was horror-struck, and said, Surely, surely, my dear friend, I did not say so ?" “ Nay, replied Burke, "if you had not said so, how should have known it?" "That's true," answered Goldsmith, with great humility: "I am very sorry-it was very foolish. I do recollect that something of the kind passed through my mind, but I did not think I had uttered it."-Croker's Boswell,

PUBLISHING, A CENTURY AGO.-Periodicals were the fashion of the day; they were the means of those rapid returns, of that perpetual interchange of bargain and sale, so fondly cared for by the present THE DANISH NAVY.-The following is given as arbiters of literature; and were now universally the the list of the Danish men-of-war now in active serfavorite channel of literary speculation. Scarcely vice:-The Galathea, 20 guns; the Najaden, 20; a week passed in which a new magazine or paper the Flora, 20; the. St. Thomas, 25; the Mercurius, did not start into life, to die or live as might be. 25; the St. Croix, 25; the Gefion, 46; the Thetis,

46; the Delphinen schooner; the Pilen schooner; CHOLERA AND INFLUENZA.-Few records of huthe Neptune cutter; the Hecla, steamer, 200 horse man power are more striking than that presented power, armed; the Skirner steamer, 120 horse in the Second Report of the Metropolitan Sanatory power, armed; the Ægir steamer, 80 horse power, Commissioners. They may be said to show that armed; besides a flotilla of gun boats, armed with they have those terrible visitants Cholera and Influtwo guns, 60 and 40 pounders each. The Danish enza within their grasp, and to have rendered both Government has besides-6 line-of-battle ships of amenable to authority. The medical reader will 54 to 90 guns, 15 frigates, 5 schooners, 2 steamers, refer to the Reports of the Commissioners, and to and 85 large and small gun-boats, which can be put the original documents which they quote: it would into active service from fourteen days to three be out of place here to attempt scientific precision, weeks. 25,000 mariners in all, in time of war, and we shall only endeavor to explain, in popular stand at the Government service. fashion, the kind of results that the Commissioners have attained, and what remains to be done. With an industry minute and comprehensive, they have KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.-In the course of the paci- collated evidence from all quarters, abroad as well fication conference of Sir Harry Smith with the as at home; and the results are most important. Kaffirs at King William's Town, a voltaic battery The intimate nature of the two diseases, like that was fired on the opposite slope about a quarter of a of all others, will probably be for ever hidden from mile distant. Here a waggon had been placed at our perception; but the Commissioners have estab300 yards' distance from the battery, communicat-lished the nature of the conditions which must be ing in the usual manner by means of wires. The combined in order to the development of the malaobject of his Excellency was to convey to the Kaf- dies, and the still more important fact that some of fir mind an idea of sudden and irresistible power. those conditions are within human control; so that Accordingly, on a given signal from him-the if requisite authority be granted, it would be quite waving of a small flag-the discharge instantly possible in this country to forbid that combination of took place. The explosion shattered the carriage of causes, and thus to prevent the existence of either the wagon,-canting up the body of the vehicle, of the formidable epidemics.

so that it remained fixed by one end on the ground, Cholera is by no means the sudden and irresistiat an angle of 45 degrees. The action was so sud-ble disease which it is supposed to be: to describe it den as scarcely to afford time to his Excellency to broadly and popularly, it is no more than the comdirect the attention of the Kaffirs to the experiment -but in those who were looking towards the spot and saw the power exercised on a distant object the surprise manifested was amusing. "There," exclaimed his Excellency, "is a lesson to you not to meddle with wagons; as you now see the power I possess, should you do so, to punish you."-South African Advertiser.

mon disease diarrhoea developed to a monstrous form by a peculiar state of the atmosphere,-an accumulation of moist exhalations with sudden changes of temperature. In like manner, Influenza may be described as ordinary catarrh or "cold," developed by similar causes to a fatal epidemic. Influenza visits the same spots as cholera, and has preceded, accompanied, or followed other great mortal epidemics. Influenza is more fatal than cholera. "Towards the latter end of November, influenza broke out, and spread suddenly to such an extent that it is estimated that within five or six weeks it attacked in London no less than 500,000 out of 2,000,000 persons. Altogether, the excess of mortality in 1847 over the mortality of 1845 is 49,000; and in the Metropolis there were within eleven weeks 6,145 deaths above the ordinary number,—an excess greater than the entire mortality produced by the cholera in the twenty-one weeks during which it prevailed in the year 1832."

SHAKSPEARE'S REMOVAL TO LONDON.-Rowe says that Shakspeare removed to London, leaving his business and family in Warwickshire; and it is to be observed that no contemporary evidence has been produced to show that his family ever resided with him in the metropolis. His daughter, Susannah, was born at Stratford, in May, 1583; and Hamnet and Judith, twin children, were born in the same town early in 1585, the son dying at Stratford, in August, 1596. It seems evident that the poet was always intimately associated with his native town, and never made a removal from it of a permanent The frightful character of cholera is the rapidity character. The probability may be in favor of his with which it destroys: another cause of its fatal never having relinquished what establishment he influence is that it often makes its approaches inmay have possessed at Stratford; and, if so, his sidiously, without pain. But in its premonitory association with the drama may have commenced al-stage it is a disease that readily yields to medicinemost as early as the date of his marriage with Anne to aromatics, opiates, and astringents. During the Hathaway. This is a point which will probably prevalence of cholera, the slightest manifestation of never be correctly ascertained; but it is by no means that premonitory disease should not for a moment necessary to suppose that the depredation committed be neglected: diarrhea is inchoate cholera―cholera on Sir Thomas Lucy, and its consequences, were in its curable stage.

the only reasons for his entering on a new profession. The predisposing causes both to cholera and inI have proved, on undeniable evidence, that influenza are humid exhalation and sudden alternaMarch (29th Elizabeth), 1587, Shakspeare's father tions of temperature. Even the effects of temperawas in prison; for on the 29th day of that month he ture may be modified by human agency; but in produced a writ of habeas corpus in the Stratford Court of Record. Previously to this period, we discover him in transactions which leave no room for doubting that he was in difficulties, or at least in circumstances that placed him in a delicate legal position. Join to this the certainty that these matters would affect his son, with the traditions relating to the latter, and reason will be found quite sufficient for Shakspeare's important step of joining the metropolitan players.-Halliwell's Life of Shakspeare.

most habitable spots the humid exhalations are greatly to be controlled. London, which has been so severely scourged by cholera and Influenza, is dotted, intersected, and surrounded by an immense aggregate of bad drains, open ditches, stagnant pools, waste grounds, marsh and forest lands-all active scources of pestilential miasmata: all those sources may be abolished; and what is more, every improvement of that kind "pays," by the improvement of the neighboring property.-Spectator.