It is true that, amidst the general chorus of appro bation which they have excited, a few anserine dis cords have occasionally been heard. Chesterfield, in his famous Letters, thus peremptorily denounces them to his son I hope you will keep company with Horace and Cicero among the Romans, and Homer and Xenophon among the Greeks, and that you have got out of the worst company in the world - the Greek epigrams. Martial has wit, and is worth looking into sometimes; but I recommend the Greek epigrams to your supreme contempt. But whatever we may think of his lordship in respect of knowledge of life and worldly wisdom, we are not disposed to bow to his authority in literature any more than in morals.

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