the other instruments of wind and strings. Having thus discoursed upon the discovery of music, the Parrot proceeds to detail _The Seven Requisites of a Perfect Woman._ 1 She ought not to be always merry. 2 She ought not to be always sad. 3 She ought not to be always talking. 4 She ought not to be always thinking. 5 She ought not to be constantly dressing. 6 She ought not to be always unadorned. 7 She is a perfect woman who, at all times, possesses herself; can be cheerful without levity, grave without austerity; knows when to elevate the tongue of persuasion, and when to impress her lips with the signet of silence; never converts trifling ceremonies into intolerable burdens; always dresses becoming to her rank and age; is modest without prudery, religious without an alloy of superstition; can hear the one sex praised without envy, and converse with the other without permitting the torch of inconstancy to kindle the unhallowed fire in her breast; considers her husband as the most accomplished of mortals, and thinks all the sons of Adam besides unworthy of a transient glance from the corner of her half-shut eyes. Such are the requisites of a perfect woman, and how thankful we should be that we have so many in this highly-favoured land who possess them all! These maxims are assuredly of Indian origin--no Persian could ever have conceived such virtues as being attainable by women. V THE PRINCESS OF ROME AND HER SON--THE KING AND HIS SEVEN VAZIRS. The story told by the Parrot on the 50th Night is very singular, and presents, no doubt, a faithful picture of Oriental manners and customs. In the original text it is entitled _Story of the Daughter of the Kaysar of Rome, and her trouble by reason of her Son._