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little bark go forth upon the waters. (Hear, hear!) But the present year will probably see the end of our course. (A deep sigh from the junior Sub-Ed.)

"And now let me thank the gentlemen on the right for the cordial assistance they have afforded us. I speak for my two friends as well as myself. (Iverly and Buchanan nodded assent.) I have but little more to say. You will go home, and your friends will ask you if you know the editors, and you will truly answer that you do; but as a little mystery is necessary in the craft of authorship, if closely catechized whether Moubray is a monitor, or Iverly in the sixth, or Buchanan a gownboy, you will discreetly evade the questions as may best conduce to the success of our undertaking; we promise, however, that it shall not conclude without wiping away from the eyes of the public any little dust which for the moment we may have deemed necessary to cast in their eyes." (Continued cheering followed the delivery of this oration.)- Mr. Moubray descended from his elevation.

Mr. Buchanan then proposed a vote of confidence in the editors, which was carried unanimously.

Three cheers were then given for "The Carthusian”, and one cheer more for Harry Moubray, after which the meeting separated; not, however, before considerable confusion had been created in the Dormitory by Iverly making some of the Unders jump over the bed and chairs, to the great discomfort of their shins.

As they were retiring from the room, little Scrub, eyeing its dismantled state, whispered Duster, "What will Mrs. J. say to this?"

Erratis condonet lector benevolus.

POSTSCRIPT.

Notwithstanding the earnest request of our publisher, we have been unable to procure from the critical world any encomiums on our production before it was produced. We think this, considering the many admirable precedents in our behalf, rather hard; but determined that our work shall come forth in all things agreeable to the publishing fashion of the times, we have selected from the old masters that which was denied us by the new; and we trust that the "discerning" public will at once recognise with us the truth of the prophetic spirit in which our labours are by them described.

An excellent trifle."-Domestic Cookery, p. 13.

"A magazine so constructed is proof against all attacks." -Hutton on Fortification.

"Feb. 1. About this time green sprouts begin to shoot. Prune all exuberant suckers."-Mawe and Abercrombie, p. 113. "A glorious trio."-Musical World.

"Neat in his appearance, punctual to his duties, modest in his demeanour, and equally profound and discursive in his learning, the CARTHUSIAN may be taken as an example of the best-regulated and agreeable of his order, in the class to which he belongs."-Dugdale's Hist. of Monast. Ord., ch. xvi.

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Few periods could be fixed upon which promised better for the institutions in whose defence they came forward, than the moment when the first Triumvirate entered on the duties of their office."-Hooke's Roman History, vol. iv. p. 139, new ed.

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We prophecy an abundant harvest.”—Moore's Almanac.

See also "The Young Man's Mirror," "Every Man his own Printer," "Pastime Published," &c. &c. &c.

We find at the last moment that "Public Schools," "David and Jonathan," &c. &c., are obliged to be omitted, notwithstanding that we have given an extra half sheet, an impertinence that we do not mean again to inflict on our readers.

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No. 2. The Muses' Masquerade

Some Extracts from the Writings of Dugald Stewart

Theophrastus Redivivus :-Zoological Series. No. 1. The

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Suggestions and Contributions (the sooner the more thankfully)

will be received, addressed to the Editors, care of Mr. Moore, 58, Barbican.

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