A certain would-be bibliopole, desirous of emulating the Constables, Boyds, and Colburns of this century, lately opened a couple of windows at Johnston, and exhibited the beautiful wood-cuts on the title page of the Shorter Catechism to the wondering amateurs of the fine arts there with so much success, as to induce him to become printer and publisher.  Forthwith he set to throwing off an impression of a thousand copies—­he was fond of round numbers—­of a work “on Indwelling Sin.”  It threatened to be an indwelling sore in his shop; and he set off to Campbelton to sell a few in that pious place.  A tobacco-seller and grocer gave him a cask of whisky for the lot—­which, on his return, he disposed of to a popular publican; and now, when the wags of the place seek to wet their whistle, they gravely call for “a gill of indwelling sin!”—­Edinburgh Literary Journal.

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Learning is like mercury, one of most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most mischievous.—­Pope.

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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 Wakefieid         0  10
Sicilian Romance                       1   0
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