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burdensome to her stomach, especially if tender. We may ourselves 

 mention a rather marvellous occurrence which took place in the county 

 of Elgin, in lS-29, and which, as being 200 miles from the metropolis, 

 has escaped the penny-a-liners : — the memorable flood of that year, 

 amongst other ravage's it committed on the property on the banks of 

 the Spey, swept off, in the middle of the night, a little house, with no- 

 thing but " a but and a ben," tenanted by an aged v.'eaver. The water, 

 somehow or other, never entered the house, though it carried it away ; 

 and the weaver, who had been up all night in order to finish a web he 

 had on hand, continued most industriously to ply the shuttle during the 

 time he and his house were being carried forty miles down the river, 

 when the water gently deposited the house and its inmate on an emi- 

 nence it chanced to overflow to the depth of five feet, and left it there 

 perfectly uninjured. In passing Craigellachie Bridge, the son of the 

 shuttler chanced to look out at the window, and observing a great num- 

 ber of people standing on the bridge, gazing at the flood, he took off 

 his hat, and making a gentle nod, saluted them with — " It's rather a 

 dewy morning, friends !" the spectators assented, and the industrious 

 weaver resumed his shuttle. It was only when he went out after taking 

 breakfast — by which time the waters had subsided — that he discovered 

 that a change had taken place in the locality of his humble abode. 



LITERATURE AND ART. 



The Supplement to "Bent's Literary Advertiser," for 1835, just 

 issued, contains lists of the New Books and Engravings published in 

 London, during the past year, with their sizes and prices. The num- 

 ber of books is about 1400, exclusive of New Editions, Pamphlets, or 

 Periodicals, being 130 more than in 1834. The number of Engravings 

 is 100 (including 47 Portraits), 15 of which are engraved in the line 

 manner, 75 in Mezzotinto, and 10 in Aquatinta, Chalk, &c. This pub- 

 lication is so well known — its reputation so well grounded, that praise 

 from us would be superfluous. It constitutes, perhaps, the only really 

 genuine and well-authenticated daily and hourly Reference Book, to 

 which the London and Country Bookseller may refer with confidence 

 and security: moreover, it is well established as the "Text Book" of 

 the literary commonwealth of England, if not of France, America, and 

 Europe. It is but bare justice to the present Editor and Proprietor to 

 state, that under his able management, the arrangement of " Bent's Ad- 

 vertiser" has been considerably improved. 



The Paris Advertiser and Journal of English and Foreign Literature, 

 George W. M. Reynolds, British and Foreign Library, Paris : — We 

 have received the first number of this enlarged and much improved 

 weekly emanation from the teeming press of Paris, or La Belle France ; 

 and feel bound to state our cordial approval — admiration, indeed — of the 

 metamorphosis it has so suddenly undergone. We congratulate both 

 the Editor and Proprietor of the " Journal of English and Foreign 

 Literature," on their new undertaking, which, we think, merits ex- 

 tensive patronage. 



