The custom of using hard compounds furnished Ben Jonson opportunities of showing his learning as well as his satire. He used to call them “words un-in-one-breath-utterable.” Redi mentions an epigram against the sophists, made up of compounds “a mile long.” Joseph Scaliger left a curious example in Latin, part of which may be thus rendered into English:— Loftybrowflourishers, Noseinbeardwallowers, Brigandbeardnourishers, Dishandallswallowers, Oldcloakinvestitors, Barefootlookfashioners, Nightprivatefeasteaters, Craftlucubrationers; Youthcheaters, Wordcatchers, Vaingloryosophers, Such are your seekersofvirtue philosophers. The old naturalist Lovell published a book at Oxford, in 1661, entitled _Panzoologicomineralogia_. Rabelais proposed the following title for a book:—_Antipericatametaparhengedamphicribrationes_. The reader of Shakspeare will remember Costard’s _honorificabilitudinitatibus_, in Love’s Labor Lost, v. 1. There was recently in the British army a major named _Teyoninhokarawen_. In the island of Mull, Scotland, is a locality named _Drimtaidhorickhillichattan_. The original Mexican for country curates is _Notlazomahnitzteopixcatatzins_. The longest Nipmuck word in Eliot’s Indian Bible is in St. Mark i. 40, _Wutteppesittukqussunnoowehtunkquoh_, and signifies “kneeling down to him.” OUR VERNACULAR IN CHAUCER’S TIME. But rede that boweth down for every blaste Ful lyghtly cesse wynde, it wol aryse But so nyle not an oke, when it is caste It nedeth me nought longe the forvyse Men shall reioysen of a great emprise Atchewed wel and stant withouten dout Al haue men ben the longer there about.—_Troylus_, ii. Tall Writing. DEFINITION OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. The spiritual cognoscence of psychological irrefragibility connected with concutient ademption of incolumnient spirituality and etherialized contention of subsultory concretion. Translated by a New York lawyer, it stands thus:— Transcendentalism is two holes in a sand-bank: a storm washes away the sand-bank without disturbing the holes. THE DOMICILE ERECTED BY JOHN. _Translated from the Vulgate._ Behold the Mansion reared by dædal Jack. See the malt stored in many a plethoric sack, In the proud cirque of Ivan’s bivouac. Mark how the Rat’s felonious fangs invade The golden stores in John’s pavilion laid. Anon, with velvet foot and Tarquin strides, Subtle Grimalkin to his quarry glides,— Grimalkin grim, that slew the fierce _rodent_ Whose tooth insidious Johann’s sackcloth rent.