ellectual competition, rappings of factitious dignity, brings te doo a level o depend on ive poinction. It is curious, too, to get at tory of a monarc, and to ?nd tions of ure t James  to be a poet before y, and reared in ts.

    Monarcime to parley s or to meditate to poetry; and  up amidst tion and gayety of a court, we sy, he Quair.

    * Quair, an old term for book.

    I icularly interested by ts of te ts concerning uation, or ment in toantial truto make t ive in ations.

    Suc  ed ting t ill mid-c nigars,  of ;Cynt; less, and took a book to beguile tedious ius Consolations of Pers of t day, and ed by  prototype, C is evident te volumes ext-book for meditation under adversity. It is t, puri?ed by sorroo its successors in calamity t morality, and trains of eloquent but simple reasoning, by o bear up against t is a talisman, e may treasure up in ly pillow.

    After closing turns its contents over in o a ?t of musing on tune, tudes of  aken ender youto matins, but its sound, co ing o e ory. In t of poetic errantry ermines to comply imation; akes pen in  a sign of to implore a benediction, and sallies forto try. tremely fanciful in all t is interesting as furnisriking and beautiful instance of trains of poetical t are sometimes aerary enterprises suggested to the mind.

    In te, to lonely and inactive life, and s up from t animal indulges unrestrained. tness, s; tations of an amiable and social spirit at being denied ts kind and generous propensities; te