"The Sphinx's Head Broken: or a Poetical Epistle, with notes to THOMAS JAMES M*TH**S, Cl*rk to the Q***n's Tr**s*r*r. Proving him to be the author of the Pursuits of Literature: a Satirical Poem. With occasional Digressions and Remarks. By Andrew Oedipus, an injured Author. London: Printed for J. Bell, No. 148. Oxford Street, opposite New Bond Street, MDCCXCVIII." This epistle is a very severe castigation for Mathias, whom Oedipus styles the "little black jogging man," whose "Politics and religion are very well, but he is a detestable pedant, and his head is a lumber-garret of Greek quotations, which he raps out as a juggler does ribbands at a country fair." And speaking of "Chuckle Bennet," he calls him in a note, "A good calf-headed bookseller in Pall Mall, the intimate confidant and crony of little M*th**s, and who, upon Owen's bankruptcy, published Part IV. of _Pursuits of Literature_ himself." Of Owen, who published Part I., our author says: {379} "Hither the sly little fellow got crony Becket to send his satirical trumpery;" which is further explained in the following note: "Becket's back door is in an alley close to his house; here have I often seen little M*th**s jog in and sit upon thorns for fear of being seen, in the back-parlour, chattering matters over with old Numscull. After passing through many hands, the proof sheets at last _very slily_ reached little M*th**s that he might revise the learned lumber." After alluding to several pieces published by Mathias, our unmerciful critic adds in another note: "It is very remarkable how strongly the characteristic features of identity of authorship are marked in these several pieces; the little man had not even the wit to print them in a different manner, yet strange to tell, few, very few, could smell the he-goat! "Who reads thy _hazy weather_ but must swear, 'Tis Thomas James M*th**s to a hair!" MERCURII. _Dutch Books_ (Vol. iii., p. 326.).--MARTINUS is probably aware that the library of the Fagel family is now a part of the University Library of Dublin, and that it contains a very fine collection of Dutch literature, in which it is very possible some of the books of which he is in search may be found. The auction catalogue prepared in 1800, when the library was to have been sold by auction, had it not been purchased by the University of Dublin, is printed, and a copy of it is at his service, if he will inform me through you how to send it to him. This library contains many rare tracts and documents well worthy of Mr. Macaulay's attention, if he is about to continue his history of the Revolution; but I have not heard whether he has made any inquiry after them, or whether he is aware of their existence. There is a curious MS. catalogue of them in the possession of the University, which was too voluminous to be printed, when the library was about to be sold. HIBERNICUS.