We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.