In modern days we should term _Grecian Flies, Spongers; alias Dinner Hunters_. Among the Grecians (according to Potter) "They who forced themselves into other men's entertainments, were called _flies_, which was a general name of reproach for such as insinuated themselves into any company where they were not welcome." In Plautus, an entertainment free from unwelcome guests is called _hospitium sine muscis_, an entertainment without flies; and in another place of the same author, an inquisitive and busy man, who pries and insinuates himself into the secrets of others, is termed _musca_. We are likewise informed by Horus Apollo, that in Egypt a fly was the hieroglyphic of an impudent man, because that insect being beaten away, still returns again; on which account it is that Homer makes it an emblem of courage. P.T.W. * * * * * THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. * * * * * MARSHAL NEY. [No apology is requisite for our introduction of the following passage from the life of Marshal Ney, in a volume of the _Family Library_, entitled "_The Court and Camp of Buonaparte_."] In the campaign of 1813, Ney faithfully adhered to the falling emperor. At Bautzen, Lutzen, Dresden, he contributed powerfully to the success; but he and Oudinot received a severe check at Dennewitz from the Crown Prince of Sweden. From that hour defeat succeeded defeat; the allies invaded France; and, in spite of the most desperate resistance, triumphantly entered Paris in March, 1814. Ney was one of the three marshals chosen by Napoleon to negotiate with Alexander in behalf of the King of Rome, but the attempt was unsuccessful, and all he could do was to remain a passive spectator of the fall and exile of his chief. On the restoration of the Bourbons, Ney was more fortunate than many of his brethren: he was entrusted with a high military command, and created a knight of St. Louis, and a peer of France.