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 the Dutch weather-toy, which comes out or goes in with the change in the atmosphere. Again,

This Squire Western might have said, who was always afraid of the whigs sending the sinking-fund over to Hanover. But the following is the best it is good advice to a young man, very well expressed under the circumstances:—

Which in more sober English would be, Marry; be cheerful; watch your business. There is more edification, more religion in this than in the 666-interpretations put together.

Such things would make excellent writing copies, for they secure attention to every letter; v and j might be placed at the end.

The first work had an additional preface and a new index in 1829. Possibly, in future time, will be found bound up with copies of the second work two sheets which Mr. Higgins circulated among his friends in 1831: the first a 'Recapitulation,' second 'Book vi. ch. 1.'

The system of these works is that—

These works contain an immense quantity of learning, very honestly put together. I presume the enormous number of facts, and the goodness of the index, to be the reasons why the Anacalypsis found a permanent place in the old reading-room of the British Museum, even before the change which greatly increased the number of books left free to the reader in that room.

Mr. Higgins, whom I knew well in the last six years of his life, and respected as a good, learned, and (in his own way) pious man,