PISISTRATUS, pushed to the verge of human endurance, and upsetting tongs, poker, and fire-shovel.--"What nonsense you are talking, all of you! For heaven's sake, consider what an important matter we are called upon to decide. It is not now the titles of those very respectable works which issued from the Minerva Press that I ask you to remember--it is to invent a title for mine--My Novel!" MR CAXTON, clapping his hands gently.--"Excellent--capital! Nothing can be better; simple, natural, pertinent, concise--" PISISTRATUS.--"What is it, sir--what is it! Have you really thought of a title to My Novel?" MR CAXTON.--"You have hit it yourself--'My Novel.' It is your Novel--people will know it is your Novel. Turn and twist the English language as you will--be as allegorical as Hebrew, Greek, Roman--Fabulist or Puritan--still, after all, it is your Novel, and nothing more nor less than your Novel." PISISTRATUS, thoughtfully, and sounding the words various ways.--"'My Novel'--um--um! 'My Novel!' rather bald--and curt, eh?" MR CAXTON.--"Add what you say you intend it to depict--Varieties in English Life." MY MOTHER.--"'_My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life_'--I don't think it sounds amiss. What say you, Roland? Would it attract you in a catalogue?" My Uncle hesitates, when Mr Caxton exclaims imperiously-- "The thing is settled! Don't disturb Camarina." SQUILLS.--"If it be not too great a liberty, pray who or what is Camarina?" MR CAXTON.--"Camarina, Mr Squills, was a lake, apt to be low, and then liable to be muddy; and 'Don't disturb Camarina' was a Greek proverb derived from an Oracle of Apollo; and from that Greek proverb, no doubt, comes the origin of the injunction, '_Quieta non movere_,' which became the favourite maxim of Sir Robert Walpole and Parson Dale. The Greek line, Mr Squills, (here my father's memory began to warm,) is preserved by STEPHANUS BYZANTINUS, de _Urbibus_-- ®'Mê kinei Kamarinan, akinêtos gar ameinôn.'® ZENOBIUS explains it in his Proverbs; SUIDAS repeats ZENOBIUS; LUCIAN alludes to it; so does VIRGIL in the Third Book of the ÆNEID; and SILIUS ITALICUS imitates Virgil-- 'Et cui non licitum fatis Camarina moveri.'