grapheis eis to alêthestaton apoblepontes chacheise aei anapherontes te chai theômenoi hôs oion te, achribestata, ontô dê chai ta upo tôn chapêlôn hechastote proseiomena orthôs diachrinein aph ôn dê chathaper oi thallô tini ta probata epagomenoi tous amuetous periagousin]. Then you will hardly be induced to pay much for what you do not set much store by, merely for the sake of calling it your own. Add to this the further consideration, that in towns the _Antiquari_ keep their best things for the resident collectors, so that you never see them; whilst all hopes of finding sound windfalls on the road you are journeying, are rendered futile, since Italy is now infested by lines of antiquarian footpads, who tramp as regularly as a well-organized police, right across its _instep_ from sea to sea, and measure it lengthways from Milan to Otranto, sweeping up and carrying away every thing that is worth the transport. After this, you need hardly feel nervous (as some we have known were) lest, in the event of falling in with something exquisitely beautiful, the government should interfere to prevent its leaving Italy. Such an event not being in question, you need make no provision to meet it. Of the brigands and brigandage of Italy, the public has had enough; of her cheats and cheating--her _virtuosi_ and their _virtù_--nobody has enlightened us. Nor, to say the truth, does the subject, at first sight, appear to admit of more than a few not very promising details of a not very pleasing picture of the Dutch school--the romance of the waylaid carriage in the mountain defile; the sudden report of fire-arms; the troop of gay-sashed cut-throats in sugar-loaf hats; the "_faccia à terra!_" the escort to the robber's cave; the life amongst the mountains; the ransom and the discharge--lend themselves much more readily to the author's pen, and present themselves much more forcibly to the reader's fancy, than the details into which we are about to enter. Still _our_ subject has _its_ interest, both in having a _practical_ bearing, and in being _new_; and, as we have adopted it, we must make the best of it. Therefore, we propose to give a series of _ana_, rambling like our last, (as all "_ana_" claim a right to be,) but purporting to make some remarks, didactic and miscellaneous, on coins, gems, marbles, bronzes, _terra cotta_, and glass, each in due order of succession, our present lucubration confining itself to the mere introduction of our reader to the _Antiquari_ themselves. Allusion has already been made to the very large sums wasted every year on the Continent by our countrymen in pursuit of the "antique," though it might be difficult to determine to what extent pubic credulity is thus annually imposed upon; difficult, because self-love is here at variance with self-interest, (_silencing_ many a victim, who fears, lest if his mistakes were blabbed abroad, the world might append some more unflattering name to his own than that of _dupe_;) and difficult again,