BY EDGAR A. POE. 1. It is observable that, while among all nations the omni-color, white, has been received as an emblem of the Pure, the no-color, black, has by no means been generally admitted as _sufficiently_ typical of Impurity. There are blue devils as well as black; and when we think _very_ ill of a woman, and wish to _blacken_ her character, we merely call her “a _blue_-stocking” and advise her to read, in Rabelais’ “_Gargantua_,” the chapter “_de ce qui est signifié par les couleurs blanc et bleu_.” There is far more difference between these “_couleurs_,” in fact, than that which exists between simple _black_ and white. Your “blue,” when we come to talk of stockings, is black in _issimo_—“_nigrum nigrius nigro_”—like the matter from which Raymond Lully first manufactured his alcohol. 2. Mr. ——, I perceive, has been appointed Librarian to the new —— Athenæum. To him, the appointment is advantageous in many respects. Especially:—“_Mon cousin, voici une belle occasion pour apprendre à lire!_” 3. As far as I can understand the “loving our enemies,” it implies the hating our friends. 4. In commencing our dinners with gravy soup, no doubt we have taken a hint from Horace. —— Da, he says, si _grave_ non est, Quæ prima iratum ventrem placaverit isca. 5. Of much of our cottage architecture we may safely say, I think, (admitting the good intention,) that it _would_ have been Gothic if it had not felt it its duty to be Dutch. 6. James’s multitudinous novels seem to be written upon the plan of “the songs of the Bard of Schiraz,” in which, we are assured by Fadladeen, “the same beautiful thought occurs again and again in every possible variety of phrase.” 7. Some of our foreign lions resemble the human brain in one very striking particular. They are without any sense themselves and yet are the centres of sensation. 8. Mirabeau, I fancy, acquired his wonderful tact at foreseeing and meeting _contingencies_, during his residence in the stronghold of _If_. 9.