gentleman admired how so pithy, learned, and witty a dedication was matched to a flat, dull, foolish book : " in truth,” said another, “they may be well matched together, for I profess they be nothing akin."

5. Proportion an hour's meditation to an hour's reading of a staple author. - This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar.

Fuller.

THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES.

I I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions

In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her ;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man :
Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ;
Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.

Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood,
Earth seemd a desert I was bound to traverse,
Seeking to find the old familiar faces.

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother,
Why were not thou born in my father's dwelling?
So might we talk of the old familiar faces,

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me, all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb.

Ballantyne and Company, Printers, Edinburgh.