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BACKGAMMON BOARDS.

We frequently find backgammon boards with backs lettered as if they were two folio volumes.  The origin of it was thus; Eudes, bishop of Sully, forbade his clergy to play at chess.  As they were resolved not to obey the commandment, and yet dared not have a chess-board seen in their houses or cloisters, they had them bound and lettered as books, and played at night, before they went to bed, instead of reading the New Testament or the Lives of the Saints; and the monks called the draft or chess-board their wooden gospels.  They had also drinking vessels bound to resemble the breviary, and were found drinking, when it was supposed they were at prayer.—­Literary Gazette.

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LOVE OF THE COUNTRY.

Country people will tell you that they like the country, and detest the town, although their enjoyments are of a kind which may be obtained in far greater perfection in the latter than in the former.  The only person I ever knew who was honest in this respect, was a gentleman, the possessor of a beautiful seat, in a beautiful country, when he avowed his opinion, that there was “no garden like Covent-garden, and no flower like a cauliflower.”

C.L.

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The Morning Chronicle, Nov. 20, in noticing the funeral of the late Mr. Sale, says, “At a little after three o’clock, the body of the lamented gentleman entered the church.”

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE BRITISH NOVELIST, Publishing in Monthly Parts, price 6d. each.—­Each Novel will be complete in itself, and may be purchased separately.

The following Novels are already Published:

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

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