of dogmas about utility, &c.; and man being a developing animal, till he decides that “there is no such thing as Nature; Nature is Art, or Art is Nature; that which is most useful is most natural, because utility is the test of Nature; therefore, a steam-engine is in fact a much more natural production than a mountain.”  Here, observing a smile upon his majesty’s countenance, Popanilla tells the king that he is only a chief magistrate, and he has no more right to laugh at him than a constable.  This is “too bad” for the royal mind; Popanilla is cut; rather crest-fallen, he sneaks home, and consoles himself for having nobody to speak to, by reading some very amusing “Conversations on Political Economy.”  But he sinks to rise again.  He obtains many pupils, who had no sooner mastered the first principles of science, than they began to throw off their retired habits and uncommunicative manners.  “Being not utterly ignorant of some of the rudiments of knowledge, and consequently having completed their education, it was now their duty, as members of society, to instruct and not to study; and on all occasions they seized opportunities of assisting the spread of knowledge.  The voices of boys lecturing upon every lecturable topic, resounded in every part of the island.  Their tones were so shrill, their manners so presuming, their knowledge so crude, and their general demeanour so completely unamiable, that it was impossible to hear them without the greatest, delight, advantage, and admiration.”  The king at last becomes impregnated with the liberal spirit of the age; Popanilla is “sent for” to court; he is overpowered with promotion, told that “with the aid of a treatise or two,” he will make “a consummate naval commander,” although he has “never been at sea in the whole course of his life,” and at length thrust into a canoe, with some fresh water, bread, fruit, dried fish, and a basket of alligator pears.  “Unhappy Popanilla! and all from that unlucky lock of hair!” His fright is ludicrously sketched.  “Poor fellow! how could he know better?  He certainly had enjoyed a seat at the Admiralty Board of Fantaisie, but then he was a lay-lord.”  Among his discoveries, on the second day, at 25 m. past 3 p.m., though at a considerable distance, he saw a mountain and an island:  he called the first Alligator Mountain, in gratitude to the pears; and christened the second after his mistress; but the happy discoverer further found the mountain to be a mist, and the island a sea-weed.  At length, on the third day, after being in a valley formed by two waves, each 3,000 feet high, and in as tremendous a tempest as ever raged in Chelsea or Battersea-reach, “great, square and solid, black clouds drew off like curtains, and revealed to him a magnificent city rising out of the sea.  Tower and dome, arch, and column, and spire, and obelisk, and lofty terraces, and many-windowed palaces, rose in all directions from a mass of building, which appeared each instant to grow more huge, till