<span style="color:grey">If t severe doom of Synesius be true,--quot;It is a greater offence to steal dead mens labor, t;--ers?

    I en  treme fecundity of t comes to pass t so many ure seems to ed teem ions. As a man travels on, s of  some very simple cause for some great matter of marvel. tions about t metropolis, to blunder upon a scene eries of t, and at once put an end to my astonis.

    I ering t saloons of tis listlessness  to saunter about a museum in imes lolling over   times studying tian mummy, and some times trying, o compreings on ty ceilings.  I  in ttention tracted to a distant door, at te of apartments. It  every no range-favored being, generally cloteal fort noticing any of ts. tery about t piqued my languid curiosity, and I determined to attempt t strait, and to explore to my  facility als of enced castles yield to turous knig. I found myself in a spacious c cases of venerable books. Above t under t number of black-looking portraits of ancient aut tables, ands for reading and ing, at udious personages, poring intently over dusty volumes, rummaging among mouldy manuscripts, and taking copious notes of tents. A illness reigned terious apartment, excepting t you migs of paper, and occasionally ted ion to turn over tless arising from t ulency incident to learned research.

    Noe sometake t of turn sly loaded omes, upon y. I  t I udy of occult sciences. tale, of a p up in   an enced library, in tain,  at tal once more ss o be able to soar above titude, and to control ture.

    My curiosity being no to leave terpretation of trange scene before me. A fe for t terious personages,  of manufacturing books. I , in t Britision of volumes of all ages and languages, many of  of e literature to ;pure Englis; y rills of t.

    Being no, I sat docory. I noticed one lean, bilious-looking  t en volumes, printed in black letter. ly constructing some ion, t  learned, placed upon a conspicuous sable--but never read. I observed  of biscuit out of , and gna exion of tomaco udents to determine.

    ttle gentleman in brigenance, h his bookseller.

    After considering tentively, I recognized in  getter-up of miscellaneous rade. I o see ured ir and so various books, ?uttering over ts, taking a morsel out of one, a morsel out of anot;line upon line, precept upon precept, tle and ttle.quot; tents of o be as erogeneous as tc ing, ;baboons blood,quot; to make t;slab and good.quot;

    After all, t I, may not tion be implanted in aut not be taken care t to age, in spite of table decay of t produced?

    e see t Nature o clime, in tain birds; so t animals, ter tly t, Natures carriers to disperse and perpetuate ies and ?ne ts of ancient and obsolete aut up by ts of predatory ers, and cast forto ?ouris in a remote and distant tract of time. Many of tempsyc o a modern play--and a sober preatise furnis is in t of stately pines, a progeny of dart up in trate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birto a wribe of fungi.

    Let us not t over to ers descend; t submit to t laure, er sed in tion, but  sion after generation, botable life, passes a tal principle is transmitted to posterity, and tinue to ?ouris aut is to say, olen.

    I  a pile of reverend folios.  o tions for to t of to tude arising from muco an unlucky  of napping at improper times and places, ed, so it  I fell into a doze. Still, ion continued busy, and indeed tinued before my minds eye, only a little cails. I dreamt t till decorated raits of ancient aut t tables  t repository of cast-off clotreet. ies common to dreams, met it turned into a garment of foreign or antique faso equip ticed,  no one pretended to cloticular suit, but took a sleeve from one, a cape from anot from a t piecemeal, w from among his borrowed ?nery.

    tly, rosy, rived to slip on tle of one of to look exceedingly  tenance set at naugrappings of leman   of several old court-dresses of trimmed ly from an illuminated manuscript, uck a nosegay in ;ty Devices,quot; and  Sir P on one side of rutted off e air of vulgar elegance. A t of puny dimensions, ered  bravely racts of p , but ably tattered in rear, and I perceived t c from a Latin author.

    tlemen, it is true,  eclipsing too, seemed to contemplate tumes of ters, merely to imbibe taste, and to catc; but I grieve to say, t too many  to array top to toe, in tcioned. I s omit to speak of one genius, in drab breecers, and an Arcadian , y to toral, but s of   Primrose udes of ts Park. oral poets, and,  about astical, lackadaisical air, quot;babbling about green ?eld.quot; But t most struck my attention ical old gentleman in clerical robes,  bald ered turdy self-con?dence, and, o, clapped it upon  majestically away in a formidable frizzled wig.

    In t of terary masquerade, a cry suddenly resounded from every side, of quot;t; I looked, and lo! traits about ted! t out, ?rst a ant upon tley to claim ty. t ensued baf?es all description. ts endeavored in vain to escape  be seen ripping a modern professor; on anotation carried into tic ers. Beaumont and Fletcor and Pollux, and sturdy Ben Jonson enacted more eer o ttle compiler of farragos mentioned some time since, cention of claimants about  troclus. I o see many men, to o look up o steal off o cover t t by tical old gentleman in t er   every turn some strip of raiment il in a fes, from o a little, pursy, quot;c,quot; and made  ags and rags ?uttering at his back.

    tastrop I burst into an immoderate ?t of laugumult and t an end. ts usual appearance. to ture-frames, and y along t, I found myself  me onis. Not my burst of laug grave sanctuary, and so ab to to electrify ternity.

    tepped up to me, and demanded  I did not compre I soon found t terary quot;preserve,quot; subject to game-la no one must presume to  t special license and permission. In a ood convicted of being an arrant poaco make a precipitate retreat, lest I s loose upon me.