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 from him yesterday. Do you ever see the Weimar Literary Gazette, my Lord?"

"No;— why?"

"There's a most admirable review of your poem, in the last number I've received."

The young nobleman looked agitated. "I think, by the style," continued Vivian, "that it's by Goëthe. It is really quite delightful to see the oldest poet in Europe, dilating on the brilliancy of a new star in the poetical horizon."

This was uttered with a perfectly grave voice, and now the young nobleman blushed-"Who is Gewter?" asked Mr. Boreall, who possessed such a thirst for knowledge, that he never allowed an opportunity to escape him of displaying his ignorance.

"A celebrated German writer," lisped the modest Miss Macdonald, who was, of course, beginning German.