to that city, and afterwards, with bis mother and brothers, settled in the island, which, from him, has been denominated Keis, or, according to the Persians, Khish.'

THE GOLDEN TOOTH.

Fontenelle says, If the truth of a fact were always ascertained before its cause were inquired into, or its nature disputed, much ridicule might be avoided by the learned.' In illustration of this remark, he relates the following whimsical anecdote :

In 1593, a report prevailed, that a child in Silesia, seven years old, having lost its first teeth, in the new set a tooth of gold grew up in place of one of the cheek teeth. Hortius, Professor of Medicine in the University of Helmstadt, became so convinced of the truth of this story, that he wrote a history of this tooth, in which he affirmed, that it was partly natural and partly miraculous, and that it had been sent by heaven to that child to console the poor Christians oppressed by the Turks. It is not, however, very easy to conceive what consolation the Christians could draw from this tooth, nor what relation it could bear to the Turks.

Hortius, however, was but one historian of the tooth; for, in the same year that this work appeared, Rullandus wrote another history of it. Two years afterwards, Ingosterus, another learned man, wrote in opposition to Rullandus respecting the golden tooth, who failed not to make a very elaborate and scientific reply. Another great man, Libavius, collected all that had been said on the tooth, and added his own peculiar doctrine.

'Nothing was wanting to so many fine works, but a proof that the tooth was really of gold; a goldsmith at length was called to examine it, who discovered that it was only a bit of leaf gold applied to the tooth with considerable address. Their books were first composed on an assumed fact, and then the goldsmith consulted.'

THOU, WHO SEEKEST ETERNAL LIFE. GO UNTO THE
SHORES OF THE DARK NILE.

THE LOVER'S STRATAGEM.

LOVERS, like Fortune, are not always to be won by those who are most sanguine in the pursuit. They are shy as fish, and those who angle for them must well disguise their hooks, and cunningly exert their quietness and patience; for an over-anxiety may frighten away their prey, and leave the fair anglers even without the poor satisfaction of a solitary nibble. Men, like trout, must be tickled; and those who would be followed must necessarily run first; ever pursued, and never pursuing: for men are physically stronger and fleeter, and will be sure to catch the fair creatures, let them fly as fast as they will; while, on the contrary, should they pursue, the ungrateful he's will soon bound beyond the reach of their outstretched arms and eager eyes.

Fair reader! be not offended by these preliminaries, nor deem them in any wise impertinent. I (a man of three-score and ten, and of some little experience in the world) address these precautionary hints solely for the benefit and edification of those spinsters who have arrived at the discreet age of five-and-thirty without VOL. II. Dec. 1828.

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fixing any of the innumerable beaux who have tauntingly fluttered in their neighbourhood for the last twenty years, vexatiously whirling about and settling on every flower but themselves, who have been the most sedulous in attracting their admiration. Such a situation is galling in the extreme; but, nevertheless, such things are!

Perhaps no one ever so vexatiously experienced the truth of what I have advanced as Miss Bridget Burdock, of Bloom Lodge, in the fair county of Miss Burdock was the sole and single daughter of Sir Bensley Burdock, Knight, who at the early age of twoand-twenty became, by the death of both her parents, which happened within a very short space of each other, the envied mistress of Bloom Lodge and its beautiful grounds, with an annual income adequate to its support.

She was not very remarkable for her personal attractions, but all the country folks within the atmosphere of her bounty praised her as a sweet angel, so unaffectedly did she administer her innocent conserves and cataplasms to the afflicted; while her benevolence and charity were loudly lauded by the sentimental young ladies of her circle, who warmly declared, Miss Burdock was all heart'—like a summer cabbage!

Many honest fox-hunting squires of substance came a-courting of the maid,' but she found their manners too insufferably coarse to be endured; while her refinement was quite as discordant with their ideas and pursuits.

They consequently soon followed on another scent, and left Miss Bridget Burdock to her meditations. Her inexperienced thoughts at first aspired to the peerage, but after three years' fruitless chase she gave up all hopes of realizing her ambitious wishes, which were gradually moderated to a simple baronetcy. There was a large field for her manœuvres, but alas! she still failed in her object; the same fatality accompanied her, and, jaded by disappointment, and heart-sick with hope deferred, she retired from the gay world to Bloom