the goddess. And next, to show that it mattered little with our author upon what subject he wrote, we will extract a sentence or two from the "Improved method of quilling harpsichords."

- After fair experiment and long trial, the following method of tongueing a barpsichord hath been found to answer all the above requisites.

I took what is called velvet-cork, of the best kind, free from dolts, cracks or blemishes. I cut this cork into plates, about one quarter of an inch thick, and glued upon them thin and well polished leather; from these plates I cut the tongues, and pressed them tight into mortises cut for the purpose through the plates, in the same manner, and with the same case that the common is fixed in the little hole punched for its reception. The cork must then be shaved off underneath, slanting from the point, where it must be very thin, to the face of the palate, and then nibbed, like a pen to the proper length. The touch may afterwards be nicely regulated by shaving away more of the cork from underneath, if requisite, with a sharp penknife or a file.

The merits of this paper the rea der may settle with himself, for of what it treats" we know no touch." But we have said, that these volumes were not absolutely barren of interesting matter; and, seeing we have exposed their poverty without mercy, let us proceed now to point it out.

Well then, "The battle of the kegs,"" On white washing," "Nitidia's answer," "Speech of a post in the assembly-room," "Specimen of a collegiate examination," a dozen lines or so of poetry, here and there, are far from contemptible. But our limits will not allow us to make extracts from the whole, we must content ourselves therefore with particularly noticing a few. And first, take a sliver of the Post."

To all which the column firmly re

plied-[Congress would have it the reade en member was not in order-that he was properly speaking,a standing member of the house, having been duly fixed in ha station by those who had a right and power to place him there: that he wa the true representative of a numerous race, descended in a direct line from the aborigines of the country-those vene rable ancestors who gave the name of Pennsylvania to this state, and whose pos terity now inhabit every county in itthat he was not only a member of the house, but one of its principal supportai, in as much as they could never make a bouse without him-that he had faithful ly attended the publick bus ness, having never been fined as an absentee-and that those very members, who now op posed him, had confided in his wisdom and integrity, by constantly appealing to him in every contest about rules and internal economy of the house.

* The rules of the house are framed and hung up against one of the columns.

But we want room for the rest.

Now, this is pretty well for a post! and we have heard many pil lars of the state hold forth with less pith. But to the collegiate exam. ination.

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and the uppermost part is the top. How is it then, if the bottom should be upper. most? Stu. The top would then be the lowermost; and so the bottom would become the top, and the top would become the bottom: and this is called the topsey-turvey mode, which is nearly allied to the accidental, and frequently arises from it. Prof. Very good But are not sa t-boxes sometimes single and sometimes double? Stu. Yes. Prof. Well, then mention the several combinations ofsalt boxes, with respect to their having salt or not. Stu. They are divided intosingle salt-boxes having salt; single salt-boxes having no salt; double salt-boxes having salt; double salt-boxes having no salt; and single double salt-boxes having salt and no salt. Prof. Hold hold! you are going too far.

Though, by this time, the reader must be acquainted with our opinion of these works, we cannot close them forever without a few last remarks. Their principal defect is, want of character. They have no point, no tooth, and take such ladylike hold

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on the mind, that we read them and forget them with perfect unconcern. The abuse of logick, grammar and rhetorick ought not to be laid to their charge; for so far as these go, they are tolerably correct. The absence of blunders, however, is not excellence, any more than exemption from criminality is virtue. honours are decreed to mediocrity, and not till then, the subject of this review may come in for the 'laurel. Such is our opinion of the works of Francis Hopkinson, Esq. in giving which, we have spoken of them as they are; "nothing extenuated, nor set down aught in malice." have said, and we repeat it, had Mr. H. gone correctly to work,he would have done something, but he has played with his pen, instead of wielding it like a man, and it was our duty to take him in hand for his folly.

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