3rd. "The Font guarded with XX arguments, containing a compendium of that great controversie of Infant Baptism, proving the lawfulness thereof; as being grounded on the word of God, agreeable to the Practice of all Reformed churches: together with the concurrent consent of a whole jury of judicious and pious divines. With a word to one Collier and another to Mr. Tombs, in the end of the Book. Birmingham, 1651." 4th. "Vindiciæ, Pædo-Baptismi, or A Vindication of Infant Baptism in a Full Answer to Mr. Tombs his twelve arguments alleaged against it in his exercitation, and whatsoever is rational or material in his answer to Mr. Marshall's sermon. By John Geree, M.A. and Preacher of the Word sometime at Tewksbury, but now at St. Albanes. London, 1646." 5th. [Title-page wanting, but it appears to have been this:] "The Gangrene of Heresie, or A catalogue of many of the Errours, Blasphemies, and Practices of the Sectaries of the time, with some observations upon them. By Thomas Edwards, 1650." 6th. "The Patrimony of Christian Children, or A defence of Infants Baptisme prooved to be consonant to the Scriptures and will of God against the erroneous positions of the Anabaptists. By Robert Cleaver, with the joynt consent of Mr. John Dod. London, 1624." These six treatises contain from 80 to 220 pages each, and in reading them I have noted the three following "sententious truths," which I hope may be thought worthy to be added to the much larger number contributed by COWGILL. The first is from the lines of Beriah Philophylax to his friend Mr. Thomas Hall, which is prefixed to his "Font Guarded;" and the other two from Edwards' "Gangrene of Heresie,"-- 1st. "Answers are Honours to a Scold, And make her spirit much more bold." 2nd. "A spark not quenched may burn down a whole house." 3rd. "Little sins make way for great, and one brings in all." JOHN BRANFILL HARRISON. Maidstone. "A BREATH CAN MAKE THEM AS A BREATH HAS MADE." (Vol. iv., p. 482.) With reference to the observations of HENRY H. BREEN upon a well-known passage in Goldsmith's _Deserted Village_, a little consideration will convince him that the view taken by D'Israeli and himself is not only extremely superficial, but that the proposed emendation would entirely destroy the poet's meaning. The antithesis is not between flourishing and fading, but between the difficult restoration of a bold peasantry and the easy reproduction of princes and lords. The first branch of the antithesis is between _wealth_ and _men_: "Where wealth accumulates and men decay." It then proceeds to set forth that it matters little whether nobles flourish or fade, because a breath can make _them_ as easily as it has originally made them: but not so with a bold peasantry. When once _they_ are destroyed, _they_ can never be replaced.