"Quæ nocuere sequar, fugiam quæ profore credam."--_Hor._, lib. I. epist. viii. 11. 3. "Without father, without mother, without descent," &c.--Heb. vii. 3. "Ante potestatem Tullî atque ignobile regnum, Multos sæpe viros, nullis majoribus ortos Et vixisse probes," &c.--Hor. _Sat._ I. vi. 9. 4. "For I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you."--2 Cor. vii. 3. "Tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam libens."--Hor. _Carm._, lib. III. ix. 5. "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."--1 Cor. xv. 32. "Convivæ certe tui dicunt, Bibamus moriendum est."--Senec. _Controv._ xiv. 6. "Be not thou afraid though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him."--Ps. xlix. 16, 17. "How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not; To whom related, or by whom begot: A heap of dust alone remains of thee. 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be."--Pope. "Divesne, prisco natus ab Inacho, Nil interest, an pauper, et infima De gente sub divo moreris, Victima nil miserantis Orci."--Hor. _Carm._, lib. II. iii. The following close parallelism between Ben Jonson and Horace, though a little wide of your correspondent's suggestion, is also worthy of notice. I have never before seen it remarked upon. It would, perhaps, be more correct to describe it as a plagiarism than as a parallelism: "_Mosca._ And besides, Sir, You are not like the thresher that doth stand With a huge flail, watching a heap of corn, And, hungry, dares not taste the smallest grain, But feeds on mallows, and such bitter herbs; Nor like the merchant, who hath filled his vaults With Romagnia, and rich Candian wines, Yet drinks the lees of Lombard's vinegar: You will lie not in straw, whilst moths and worms {561} Feed on your sumptuous hangings and soft beds; You know the use of riches."--Ben Johnson, _The Fox_. "Si quis ad ingentem frumenti semper acervum Prorectus vigilet cum longo fuste, neque illinc Audeat esuriens dominus contingere granum, Ac potius foliis parcus vescatur amaris: Si, positis intus Chii veterisque Falerni Mille cadis--nihil est, tercentum millibus, acre Potet acetum; age, si et stramentis incubet, unde-- Octoginta annos natus, cui stragula vestis, Blattarum ac tinearum epulæ, putrescat in arca."--Hor. _Sat._, lib. II. iii. JOHN BOOKER. Prestwich. * * * * * ASTROLOGY IN AMERICA. The six following advertisements are cut from a recent Number of the _New York Herald_: