from whence the knowledge of it is to be derived.  An introduction of this compass is, however, with greater propriety styled encyclopaedia and methodology.  Thus, we hear of separate lectures on encyclopaedias and methodologies of divinity, jurisprudence, medicine, philosophy, mathematical sciences, physical science, the fine arts, and philology.  Manuals and lectures of this kind are exceedingly useful for those who are commencing a course of professional study.  For “the best way to learn any science,” says Watts, “is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain scheme of that science, well drawn up into a narrow compass.”—­Ibid.

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PERSIAN CAVALIER.

The following sketch of a Persian cavalier has the richness and freshness of one of Heber’s, or Morier’s or Sir John Malcolm’s pages:—­“He was a man of goodly stature, and powerful frame; his countenance, hard, strongly marked, and furnished with a thick, black beard, bore testimony of exposure to many a blast, but it still preserved a prepossessing expression of good humour and benevolence.  His turban, which was formed of a cashmere shawl, sorely tached and torn, and twisted here and there with small steel chains, according to the fashion of the time, was wound around a red cloth cap, that rose in four peaks high above the head.  His oemah, or riding coat, of crimson cloth much stained and faded, opening at the bosom, showed the links of a coat of mail which he wore below; a yellow shawl formed his girdle; his huge shulwars, or riding trousers, of thick, fawn-coloured Kerman woollen-stuff, fell in folds over the large red leather boots in which his legs were cased:  by his side hung a crooked scymetar in a black leather scabbard, and from the holsters of his saddle peeped out the butt ends of a pair of pistols; weapons of which I then knew not the use, any more than of the matchlock which was slung at his back.  He was mounted on a powerful but jaded horse, and appeared to have already travelled far.”—­Kuzzilbash.

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ORATORY

The national glory of Great Britain rests, in no small degree, on the refined taste and classical education of her politicians; and the portion of her oratory acknowledged to be the most energetic, bears the greatest resemblance to the spirit of Demosthenes.—­North American Review.

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GRESHAM COLLEGE.[8]

The City of London could not do a more fitting thing than to convert the Gresham lectureships into fourteen scholarships for King’s College, retaining the name and reserving the right of presentation.  A bounty which is at present useless would thus be rendered efficient, and to the very end which was intended by Gresham himself.  An act of parliament would be necessary; and the annexations would of course take place as the lectureships became vacant.—­Quarterly Rev.