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TO THE MOON, IN VIEW OF THE SEA.

There is a blush upon thy face to-night Which sheds around a luxury of light!  Wherefore, oh, Moon, art thou so brightly fair!  Would’st thou some new Endymion ensnare?  Each sparkling wave, as it receives thy rays, Seems quivering and thrilling at thy gaze; And gently murmurs, whilst the God below Feels through his frame the universal glow, And heaves his breast majestical for thee!  Cease, cease, to look on us so lovingly, but in thy silv’ry veil still half conceal Thy modest loveliness, nor more reveal; For oh! fair queen, no mortal now can soar, Or, love, as thy fond shepherd did of yore!

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THE KING’S FEET-BEARER.

During the ancient days of Welsh royalty, among the twenty-four ranks of servants that attended at court, was one called “the king’s feet-bearer.”  This was a young gentleman, whose duty it was to sit upon the floor with his back towards the fire, and hold the king’s feet in his bosom all the time he sat at table, to keep them warm and comfortable.  A piece of state and of luxury unknown in modern times.

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MONTPELLIER.

Within the last century it has been fashionable in England to give the name of Montpellier to many places, new streets, rows of houses, terraces, and gardens, where the situation has been supposed to have been at all favourable; indeed, there seems to be something attractive in the very sound of the word Montpellier; but the original city has much fallen off, and is not so much frequented now, but on account of its former fame, and the assemblage of the States of Languedoc during the winter, when the noble families still maintain their old exemplary hospitality.  Joseph Scaliger is known to have asserted, that if he had his choice where to end his days, of all cities in the world he should prefer Montpellier; but since that time physicians have agreed that there has been a remarkable change of climate; and from my own observation I must declare, that I knew several consumptive patients who seemed to have recovered at Marseilles, and almost all relapsed again after they had remained for some time at Montpellier.

Cradock’s Literary Memoirs.

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ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.

  Notings, selections,
    Anecdote and joke: 
  Our recollections;
    With gravities for graver folk.

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FASHION.