This old Robin shamefully pecks at the fair sex. In his notes on April he says: "Then let young people have a care, Nor run their heads in marriage snare; A woman's tongue is like the ocean. It ebbs and flows in constant motion; But yet herein a difference grows-- Her tongue ne'er ebbs, but always flows." No booklings have multiplied more almanacs: we have now clerical, medical, naval, military, aye, horticultural, down to children's almanacs; and amongst these almanacs there is one entitled _Almanac des Voleurs_. Magazines swarm, ranging from the highest class of religious, literary, and social-scientific, not forgetting _industrial_, subjects, to the most commonplace and trifling matters. The Gentleman's Magazine is stated to have been the first of the class published in England. Of reviews we have a long array, distinguished by every shade of uniform and badge, and from them a vast amount of useful and pleasurable information is obtainable. This class of books first appeared in the middle of the last century; one entitled the Monthly Review was the first published. The first newspaper was published in the time of Queen Elizabeth--The English Mercury, of which the earliest number is in the British Museum, and bears the date 1588. In the reign of Queen Anne there was but one daily paper, which made a slow and tedious course of circulation; whereas in these days newspapers are everywhere, and the leading ones convey intelligence of the whole world's transactions, and issue admirable essays, affording information on every subject, and this within a marvellously short space of time.