These Abderites, who were, notoriously, the most stupid of the Thracians, looked upon Democritus precisely as the miserable monks, about Oxford, looked upon Roger Bacon, in the thirteenth century--they believed him a magician, or a madman. To laugh and grow fat is a proverb. Whether Democritus grew fat or not, I am unable to say; but he died at a great age, having passed one hundred years; and he died cheerfully, as he had lived temperately. Lucretius says of him, lib. iii. v. 1052-- "_Sponte sua letho caput obvius obtulit ipse_." The tendency of his philosophy was to ensure longevity. The grand aim and end of it all were comprehended, in one word, [Greek: euphymia], or the enjoyment of a tranquil state of mind. There is much good-natured wisdom, in the command, and in the axiom of Horace-- "_Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem Dulce est desipere in loco_"-- which means, if an off-hand version will suffice-- Mix with your cares a little folly, 'Tis pleasant sometimes to be jolly. One of the most acceptable images, presented by Sir Walter Scott, is that of Counsellor Pleydell, perched upon the table, playing at high jinks, who compliments Colonel Mannering, by continuing the frolic, and telling him, that, if a fool had entered, instead of a man of sense, he should have come down immediately. My New England readers would be very much surprised, if they had any personal knowledge of the late excellent and venerable Bishop Griswold, to be told, that, among his works, there was an edition of Mother Goose's Melodies, with _prolegomina, notæ, et variæ lectiones_; well--there is no such thing there. But every one knows, that the comic romance of Bluebeard, as it is performed on the stage, was written by Bishop Heber, and is published in his works. Every one knows that Hannah More wrote tolerable plays, and was prevented, by nothing but her sex, from being a bishop. Every one knows that bishops and archbishops have done very funny things--_in loco_. And every one knows, that all this is quite as respectable, as being very reverently dull, and wearing the phylactery for life--_stand off, for I am stupider than thou_. I have now before me a small octavo volume--a very _bijou_ of a book, with the following title--_Arundines Cami, sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori_, and bearing, for its motto--_Equitare in arundine longa_. This book is printed at Cambridge, England; and I have never seen a more beautiful specimen of typography. The work is edited by Henry Drury, Vicar of Wilton: and it contains a collection of Greek and Latin versions; by Mr. Drury himself, and by several good, holy, and learned men--Butler, late Bishop of Litchfield--Richard Porson--Hodgson, S. J. B. of Eton College--Vaughan, Principal of Harrow--Macaulay--Hallam--Law--and many others.