* * * * * An Irish barrister had the failing of Goldsmith, in an eminent degree: that of believing he could do every thing better than any other person. This propensity exhibited itself ludicrously enough on one occasion, when a violent influenza prevailed in Dublin. A friend who happened to meet him, mentioned a particular acquaintance, and observed that he had had the influenza very bad. "Bad!" exclaimed the other, "I don't know how bad _he_ has had it, but I am sure I have had it quite as bad as he, or any one else."--"Not quite, I think," replied his friend, "for poor Mr. Gillicuddy is dead."--"Well," rejoined our tenacious optimist, "and what of that? _I_ could have died too, if I had liked it."--_Ibid_. * * * * * THE LATE SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. THE SUPPLEMENT, containing Title, Preface, and Index to Vol. xiii. and a fine Steel-plate PORTRAIT OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART. With a copious Memoir of his interesting Life and Discoveries, Notices of his Literary Works, &c. is now Publishing. * * * * * LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE _Following Novels is already Published_: s. d. Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 Paul and Virginia 0 6 The Castle of Otranto 0 6 Almoran and Hamet 0 6 Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 Rasselas 0 8 The Old English Baron 0 8 Nature and Art 0 8 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 Sicilian Romance 1 0 The Man of the World 1 0 A Simple Story 1 4 Joseph Andrews 1 6 Humphry Clinker 1 8 The Romance of the Forest 1 8 The Italian 2 0 Zeluco, by Dr. Moore 2 6 Edward, by Dr. Moore 2 6 Roderick Random 2 6 The Mysteries of Udolpho 3 6 Peregrine Pickle 4 6 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various