ner and tea are both over by five, when we retire till eight."- HULL's Select Letters, vol. 1, pp. 166-168. 1780. "GOLDSMITH one day brought to the Club a printed ode, which he with others had been hearing read by its author Had tea been introduced into her family in a public room, at the rate of five shillings in this interval? George the Third. 1766. "PEOPLE," said JOHNSON, "have now a days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now I cannot see that lectures can do so much good, as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures. You may teach making of shoes by lectures."-BosWELL, vol. 2, p. 5. 1778. "In England, any man who wears a sword, and a powdered wig, is ashamed to be illiterate."-JOHNSON. Ibid. vol. 3, p. 204. 1778. LORD SHELBURNE told Johnson "that a man of high rank who looked into his own affairs, might have all that he ought to have, all that could be of any use, or appear with any advantage for £5000 a year."-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 211. 1778. BOSWELL says, "there is a general levity in the age. We have physicians now with bag-wigs." 1779. "SAUNDERS WELCH, the Justice," said JOHNSON," who was once High Constable of Holborn, and had the best opportunities of knowing the state of the poor, told me that I underrated the number, when I computed that twenty a week, that is above one thousand a year, died of hunger; not absolutely of immediate hunger, but of the wasting and other diseases which are the consequences of hunger. This happens only in so large a place as London, where people are not known." -BOSWELL, vol. 3, p. 316. each for admission.”—Ibid. vol. 4, p. 2. "THE bones which are picked up by the poor are boiled to extract a grease for wheels and other coarse purposes; knifehandles and other things are made of the best pieces; the rest are burnt and pounded to make crucibles and furnaces for melting iron, because a paste made of burnt bones will stand a stronger heat than any thing else."-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 151. 1783. "WE compute in England a park wall at £1000 a mile."—Ibid. vol. 4, p. 151. 1783. WHEN Johnson was told that Shebbeare had received six guineas a sheet for reviewing, he replied, "Sir, he might get six guineas for a particular sheet, but not communibus sheetibus." and gave many premiums. Very good white, ash-colour and brown were made. The two first were much esteemed by the artists for drawing upon; and in the brown, black rags were used, which before were thought useless, as indeed all silk rags had been. It was thought that this paper, not being inflammable, would be convenient for hangings of rooms."-Ibid. p. 234. I suppose the scheme failed because silks went out of fashion. 1767. "In consequence of a motion in the House of Lords by Lord Radnor, the Pope sent instructions to the clergy of their several dioceses to take an account of the number of Catholics in their respective parishes."-Ibid. p. 350. The increase is said to have been very great. MICHAELIS says (in a note to his Com. on the Laws of Moses, vol. 1, p. 214), “that in the war preceding the American war, Great Britain lost 130,000 seamen by disease, and only 5000 in action and by other causes." THE Editor of the French Collection of Memoirs, in 1787, says, in a note upon Montluc (tom. 25, p. 103)," cette manière de calculer avec des jetons, est encore en usage, parmi ceux qui ne savent pas l'arithmétique." It must have been wholly disused long before this in England. www www THERE was a mad fashion among riotous drinkers about 1792, of eating the wine glass, biting a piece out, grinding it with the teeth, and actually swallowing;-the enjoyment being to see how an aspirant cut his mouth! I never saw this, but R. L. had done it. Mortimer the artist did it, and is said never to have recovered from the consequences.-R. S. ROASTED porter was a fashionable fancy in Sir G. Beaumont's youth. He has now a set of silver cups made for the purpose. They were brought red hot to table, the porter was poured into them in that state, and it was a pleasure to see with what alarm an inexperienced guest ventured to take the cup at the moment that the liquor foamed over and cooled it. The effect must have been much the same as that of putting a hot poker in, which I have often seen done at Westminster,―or a piece of red hot pottery, which we sometimes use here.R. S. ww wwwwm since been called, Lombardy poplar) planted "THE first poplar-pine (or, as they have Thames) on the bank of the river near the in England was at Park Place (Henley upon great arch. It was a cutting brought from carriage, and planted by General Conway's Turin by the late Lord Rochford in his own hand."-Notes to Horace Walpole's Letters, vol. 3, p. 355. WHEN Whalley edited Ben Jonson, the theatres opened at four o'clock, and there was a third music before the play began.— GIFFORD'S Ben Jonson, vol. 2, p. 11. 1762. WHISTLER to Shenstone. "the Princess Amelia did us the honour of a visit at Whitchurch, though we were obliged to the stag for it, who seemed to fly from the honour she designed him, and had not ambition enough (as Lee says) to meet the blow half way, or be pleased with death, though in the royal presence. It was a terrible day, and the princess was wet through; she had rode thirty miles when I saw her, and she rode thirty miles after that, which was six o'clock at night (September), in her wet cloaths, and appeared at the drawing-room at St. James's the next day, which was a birth-day.”— HULL'S Select Letters, vol. 2, p. 29. daily walks nearer Mary-le-Bone than you or I could have believed so corpulent a lady able to do."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 91. Giles, the new bridge at Blackfriars, an. the introducing asses in the city for the of milkmen, fruiterers, hawkers, &c. The I thought a great improvement, as it serve to lesson the number of barrows that usTHE alterations which a friend of Hull's to interrupt walkers on the broad pare noticed in London upon visiting it (circiter ments; but this consideration was daraj 1774) after a long interval of years, were again at seeing the barbarous treatLiet "the taking down the signs, the rooting up these poor animals often suffer from th the posts, the paving and lighting of Oxford | brutal goads or drivers.”—Ibid. vol. 2, †Road, Holborn, Monmouth Street, and St. 183. INDEX. A. Aaron, novel name for a king, 401. Abridgments of Sermons taken down by women, temp. Car. dren, character of, 288. St. 135. Alliance between Church and contents, 492. Alonzo, Don, the call of, 421. American Independence, 2. Anatomy of the Service Book, Anglo-Saxon, God and Man in, Balloon, Italian scheme for, Burgote, the Cura de, 427. cooker of fish, 545. watches, 565. BARROW. Necessity of follow- ing a good guide in things Basil, accuracy of the printers 533. Bees, instinct of, 374; im- Beggars, idle, and wanderers, 316. Belief rejected with as little reason as it is received, 223. 362. BERKELEY, character of, 311. Prayer efficacious only Bible and Common Prayer opinion of, 10; plate and Bilberries of Sherwood Forest, English the first of noble family since Bohemian custom of throwing 256. Bookseller's Shops, very rare Boots, common use of, in Bordarii, who? 453. Border, the, in Charles II.'s BOSWELL, character of, in his youth, 318; quoted, 572, &e. Bowling in the Spring Gar- Whether |