The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 48 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 48 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
and a List of our Metropolitan Charitable Institutions, their officers, &c.  The Parliamentary Register is as copious as usual; the Chronicle of the Session is neatly compiled; and a rapid Sketch of Public Improvements, and a Chronicle of Events of 1829 will be interesting to all readers.  In short, we can scarcely conceive a work that is likely to be more extensively useful than the present:  it concerns the business of all; it is perhaps less domestic than in previous years; but as “great wits have short memories,” its scientific helps are not overrated.

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PENITENT LETTER.

The following letter occurs in Captain Beaver’s Memoirs, said to be written by a runaway pirate:—­

“To Mr. Beaver.—­Sir, I hope that you will parden me for riteing to you, which I know I am not worthy of, but I hope you will forgive me for all things past, for I am going to try to get a passage to the Cape deverds, and then for America.  Sir, if you will be so good as to let me go, I shall be grately ableaght to you.  Sir, I hope you will parden me for running away.  Sir, I am your most obedent umbld servant,

“PETER HAYLES.

“Sir, I do rite with tears in my eyes.”

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FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN ENGLAND.

A Frenchman in London, without any knowledge of our language will cut but a sorry figure, and be more liable to ridicule than an Englishman in a similar condition in Paris:  to wit, the waggish joke told of the Parisian inquiring for Old Bailey, or Mr. Bailey, Sen. It is, therefore, quite as requisite that a Frenchman should be provided with a good French and English phrase-book, as that an Englishman should have an English and French Manual.  Of the former description is Mr. Leigh’s “Recueil de Phrases utiles aux etrangers voyageant en Angleterre,” a new and improved edition of which is before us.  It contains every description of information, from the embarkation at Calais to all the Lions of London—­how to punish a roguish hackney-coachman—­to criticise Miss Kemble at Covent Garden—­to write an English letter, or to make out a washing-bill—­which miscellaneous matters are very useful to know in a metropolis like ours, where, as the new Lord Mayor told a countryman the other day, we should consider every stranger a rogue.  Glancing at the fetes or holidays, there is a woeful falling off from the Parisian list—­in ours only eleven are given—­but “they manage these things better in France.”

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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.

In the Quarterly Review (lately published) there is an excellent paper on these Societies.

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