ADDRESS. 
Vll 
however, in a single passage of “ The Good Ad- 
vice of an old Literary Sinner,” he found matter 
sufficient for a decision in accordance with his 
own wishes, though at variance with the argu- 
ment. Even so keen a critic as Gilles Menage 
is represented as having found pleasure in the 
miserable productions of the Abbe de Marolles, 
purely for the sake of their embellishments , and 
the singular neatness of their bindings . By virtue 
of these extrinsic advantages then, if a superior 
merit be denied, the Author admits a hope that 
he may still reap some favor. 
Natural historians have said that birds, and 
other animals which prey upon the insect tribes, 
may be observed to select and pursue the most 
splendid of their victims in preference to the less 
beautiful. All who have travelled in the Himala 
Mountains must have remarked with admiration 
the brilliant array of colours exhibited by t]ie 
Leaf-butterfly , when on the wing ; and possibly 
have watched, with suspended breath, its daz- 
zling flight from tree to tree, and from rock 
to rock, as it has flitted on in zig-zag course, 
striving to elude the pursuit of its insa- 
tiate enemy, the Fly-catcher; until, at last, 
