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 third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness."

"Pray, Sir," said Mr. Milestone, "by what name do you distinguish this character, when a person walks round the grounds for the second time ?"

Mr. Gall bit his lips, and inwardly vowed to revenge himself on Milestone, by cutting up his next publication.

A long controversy now ensued concerning the picturesque and the beautiful, highly edifying to Squire Headlong.

The three philosophers stopped, as they wound round a projecting point of rock, to contemplate a little boat which was gliding over the tranquil surface of the lake below.

"The blessings of civilisation," said Mr.