perished suddenly, like Miss Bathurst, in the very bud and bloom of existence,--or another, who died away, day after day, in the embraces of her parents, and now rests in the midst of the beautiful in vain. The graceful lines of Petrarch are inscribed on the sarcophagus--they are full of feeling and the country, and make one pause and dream:-- "Non come fiamma, che per forza è spenta, Ma che per se medesma si consuma, Se n'andò in pace, l'anima contenta." No epitaph could be better. _New Monthly Magazine._ * * * * * QUACKS Have nearly the same interest as knaves in concealing their ignorance and frauds, and for the most part regard with the same fear and detestation the instrument which unmasks their pretensions. This must be understood with some qualification, because the exposure of ignorance and fraud is not always sufficient to open the eyes, and enlighten the understandings, of mankind. Some perverse dupes are not to be reasoned out of their infatuation; they had rather hug the impostor, than confess the cheat; and quacks, speculating upon this infirmity of human nature, will sometimes court even an infamous notoriety.--_Lancet._ * * * * * ANECDOTES OF THE MARVELLOUS. _Charming away the Hooping Cough._ An English lady, the wife of an officer, accompanied her husband to Dublin not very long ago, when his regiment was ordered to that station. She engaged an Irish girl as nurse-maid in her family; and, a short time after her arrival, was astonished by an urgent request from this damsel, to permit her to _charm_ little miss from _ever_ having the hooping-cough, (then prevailing in Dublin). The lady inquired how this _charming_ business was performed; and not long after had, in walking through the streets, many times the pleasure of witnessing the process, which is simply this:--An ass is brought before the door of a house, into whose mouth a piece of bread is introduced; and the child being passed three times over and under the animal's body, the charm is completed; and of its efficacy in preventing the spread of a very distressing, and sometimes fatal disorder, the lower class of Irish are _certain_. _The Legend of Hell Mary Hill._