orisons for the defunct. Fraternities and guilds were, therefore, in use, long before any formal licenses were granted to them; though, at this day, they are a company combined together, with orders and laws made by themselves, under sanction of royal authority. The several trades of Preston are incorporated; twenty-five chartered companies go in procession on the guild festival. W.G.C. * * * * * EPIGRAM. Bob scrubs his head, in search of wit, And calls his follies phrenzy fit; But Bob forgets, with all his wit, Poëta nascitur, non _fit_! P.T. * * * * * COMPLETION OF VOL. XVI. WITH THE PRESENT NUMBER A SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, With a Portrait of the Queen, and a Memoir of her Majesty; with Title-page, Preface, and Index to Vol. XVI. * * * * * [***] Books are flocking fast around us. Among them are Mr. Boaden's Life of Mrs. Jordan--the Romance of History--Vols. 13 and 14 of Lardner's Cyclopaedia--Dr. Dibdin's Sunday Library--Vol 1 of the Cabinet Library--and three other volumes of the periodical libraries. Our preference of Moore's Byron is, we hope, borne out by its paramount interest. * * * * * _Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 470, by Various