a bad ballet in a booth has no attraction, and an attempt at variety mars the whole affair.  Vauxhall is a delightful place to go to in fine weather with a pleasant party; give us space to walk, light up that space, and shelter us from the elements, set the military bands to play popular airs, and we ask no more for our four or five shillings, or whatever it is; but the moment tumbling is established in various parts of the garden, and the whole thing is made a sort of Bartholomew Fair, the object of breathing a little fresher air, and hearing ourselves talk is ended; crowds of raffs in boots and white neckcloths attended by their dowdy damsels and waddling wives, rush from one place to another, helter skelter, knocking over the few quiet people to whom the “sights” are a novelty; turning what in the days of the late Lady Castlereagh, the present Duchess of Bedford, the first Duchess of Devonshire, and the last Duchess of Gordon (but one) was a delightful reunion of fashion, into a tea-garden (without tea) or a bear-garden—­not without bears.—­Sharpe’s Magazine.

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AND LORD NOEL BYRON.

It is a singular coincidence, not unworthy of remark, that the initials of two of the most singular men of their own, and perhaps of any age, the Emperor Napoleon of France, and Lord Noel Byron of England, used the same letters as an abbreviation of their name, N.B. which likewise denotes Nota Bene.  It was not the habit of either to affix his name to letters, but merely N.B.—­R.W.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE FOLLOWING NOVELS IS ALREADY PUBLISHED: 

s.  d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling           0     6
Paul and Virginia                    0     6
The Castle of Otranto                0     6
Almoran and Hamet                    0     6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia  0     6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne   0     6
Rasselas                             0     8
The Old English Baron                0     8
Nature and Art                       0     8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield       0    10
Sicilian Romance                     0    10
The Man of the World                 1     0
A Simple Story                       1     4
Joseph Andrews                       1     6
Humphry Clinker                      1     8
The Romance of the Forest            1     8
The Italian                          2     0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                 2     6
Edward, by Dr. Moore                 2     6
Roderick Random                      2     6
The Mysteries of Udolpho             3     6
Peregrine Pickle                     4     6