der in his panegyrical peroration by his cheerings:* for he had, in his youth, (as was before observed) been instructed by the distinguished character upon whom the eulogy had been pronounced.

The effort occasioned by the warmth in discussing such interesting subjects nearly exhausted Lysander-when it was judged prudent to retire to rest. Each had his chamber assigned to him; and while the checquered moon-beam played upon the curtains and the wall, through the half-opened shutter, the minds of Lysander and Philemon felt a correspondent tranquillity; and sweet were their slumbers till the morning shone full upon them.

This word is almost peculiar to our own country, and means a vehement degree of applause. It is generally used previons to, and during, a contest of any kind-whether by men in red coats, or blue coats, or black coats-upon land, upon water, or within doors. Even the walls of St. Stephen's chapel frequently echo to the loud cheerings' of some kind or another. See every newspaper on every important debate.

PART II.

The Cabinet.

OUTLINE OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Condemn the daies of elders great or small,
And then blurre out the course of present tyme:
Cast one age downe, and so doe orethrow all,
And burne the bookes of printed prose or ryme:
Who shall beleeve he rules, or she doth raigne,
In tyme to come, if writers loose their paine?
The
pen records tyme past and present both:
Skill brings foorth bookes, and bookes is nurse to troth.

CHURCHYARD'S Worthiness of Wales,

p. 18, edit. 1776.

Tout autour oiseaulx voletoient
Et si tres-doulcement chantoient,

Qu'il n'est cueur qui n'en fust ioyeulx.

Et en chantant en l'air montoient
Et puis l'un l'autre surmontoient

A l'estriuee à qui mieulx mieulx.

Le temps n'estoit mie mieulx.
De bleu estoient vestuz les cieux,
Et le beau Soleil cler luisoit.
Violettes croissoient par lieux
Et tout faisoit ses deuoirs tieux
Comme nature le duisoit.

Oeuvres de Chartier, Paris, 1617, 4to, p. 594.

UCH is the lively description of a spring morning, in the opening of Alain Chartier's Livre des quatre dames; and, with the exception of the violets, such description conveyed

a pretty accurate idea of the scenery which presented itself, from the cabinet window, to the eyes of Lysander and Philemon.

PHIL. How delightful, my dear friend, are the objects which we have before our eyes, within and without doors. The freshness of the morning air, of which we have just been partaking in yonder field, was hardly more reviving to my senses, than is the sight of this exquisite cabinet of bibliographical works, adorned with