80 A FEW WORDS ON OUR BOOK. 



political concerns of Europe ; the affairs of the five powers are in an 

 interesting position at present, and by the bye, Antwerp has not yet 

 lost its interest, could you not devise an ingenious wood cut of the 

 Scheldt ? Oporto harbour, too, would be a good subject : between' 

 ourselves dont you think Pedro has got into a pretty mess ? Pray 

 take my proposal into consideration. 



QUIDNUNC. 



My dear Mr. EDITOR. 



Beg pardon, hope I dont intrude ; just drop a line to 

 suggest that you might make an agreeable addition to your list of 

 marriages, &c., by informing the public of all tender connections that 

 are likely to end in happy matches ; take the hint and you are a made 

 man ; the materials will be joyfully supplied by your devoted servant 



PAUL PRY. 



In answer to the above we beg to assure " CRITO" 

 that we did instantly perceive the excellency of his 

 paper, we were ourselves absolutely delighted with it, 

 and sat up till four o'clock in the morning to verily the 

 results of the curious quadratic equations, which he 

 also kindly favoured us with ; but a technical paper 

 on an abstract matter, has in our opinion no more 

 chance with general readers than Wordsworth's philo- 

 sophical poems ; it requires more patience and laborious 

 thought to get at the marrow of these things than 

 people have generally on hand, and for this reason 

 alone we rejected the paper. 



As for our fair " OCTAVIA," we perfectly a^ree \\ itli 

 her in one thing at least, the ladies, sweet creatures, do 

 undoubtedly sway most sublunar matters, and she may 

 be assured that Sir Walter Raleigh himself never \\<i> 

 more attentive to the fair sex than we mean to be. 

 And finally, a word to Paul Pry, let him keep clear of 

 us for ever, or, by all that's merry, we'll suspend him, 

 by the under lip, with a big salmon hook, from the end 

 of his own fishing rod. 



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