O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,

The wise expect, the sorrowful invite ;

And all the good embrace, who know the Grave

A short dark passage to eternal light.

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT.

Let not that ugly Skeleton appear !
Sure Destiny mistakes ; this Death's not mine!

DRYDEN.

CHAPTER CLXXIV.- p. 48.

THE DOCTOR INDULGES IN

THE WAY

OF FANTASTIC

AND TYPICAL SPECULATION ON HIS OWN NAME, AND

ON THE POWERS OF THE LETTER D., WHETHER AS RE

GARDS DEGREES AND DISTINCTIONS, GODS AND DEMI

GODS, PRINCES AND KINGS, PHILOSOPHERS, GENERALS

OR TRAVELLERS.

My mouth's no dictionary; it only serves as the needful interpreter of my heart.-QUARLES.

CHAPTER CLXXV.-p. 56.

THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS UP HIS MEDITATIONS ON THE

LETTER D. AND EXPECTS THAT THE READER WILL

BE CONVINCED THAT IT IS A DYNAMIC LETTER, AND THAT THE HEBREWS DID NOT WITHOUT REASON

CALL IT DALETH-THE DOOR-AS THOUGH IT WERE THE DOOR OF SPEECH. THE MYSTIC TRIANGLE.

More authority dear boy, name more; and sweet my child let them be men of good repute and carriage.

LOVE'S LABOUR LOST.

CHAPTER CLXXVI.-p. 66.

THE DOCTOR DISCOVERS THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NAME

OF DOVE FROM PERUSING JACOB BRYANT'S ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.-CHRISTOPHER AND FER

DINAND COLUMBUS.

SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEON

PIE, AND THE REASON WHY THE DOCTOR WAS IN

CLINED TO THINK FAVOURABLY OF THE SAMARI

TANS.

An I take the humour of a thing once, I am like your tailor's needle; I go through. — BEN JONSON.

None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd
As wit turn'd fool : folly, in wisdom hatch'd
Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school,
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.

Love's LABOUR Lost.

CHAPTER CLXXVIII.-p. 85.

THE MYSTERY OF NUMBERS PURSUED, AND CERTAIN CALCULATIONS GIVEN WHICH MAY REMIND THE

READER OF OTHER CALCULATIONS EQUALLY COR

RECT

ANAGRAMMATIZING OF NAMES, AND THE

DOCTOR'S SUCCESS THEREIN.

There is no efficacy in numbers, said the wiser Philosophers; and very truly," saith Bishop Hacket in repeating this sentence; but he continues,-" some numbers are apt to enforce a reverent esteem towards them, by considering miraculous occurrences which fell out in holy Scripture on such and such a number.- Non potest fortuitò fieri, quod tam sæpe fit, says Maldonatus whom I never find superstitious in this matter. It falls out too often to be called contingent; and the oftener it falls out, the more to be attended."