this purpose. The feelings which it must engender in the reader
will be doubly grateful in these troublous times of strong
political excitement: they enjoin "peace on earth, and goodwill
towards men." the Divine antidote to the storms of conflicting
interests and passions, and the balm which heals the thorny
wounds of the world, that cross every path and tear the finest
sympathies of our nature. It adds, moreover, a pleasant variety
to the contents of our sheet, and alternates with the
vicissitudes of enterprise, in the progress of infant liberty
in the New World, as in the Memoirs of the patriot _Miller_;--the
daring and recklessness of crime, as in the vivid sketch of
_First and Last_;--the picturesque country and ceremonies of
Arabia and its religious people, as drawn by _Burckhardt_;--and
the architectural embellishment of the Metropolis, as shown in
_Britton's Picture of London_.

[2] In the MIRROR, dated March 1, 1828, we noticed "Gilbert White's
Natural History of Selborne, is one of the most delightful
household books in our language, and we are surprised at the
rarity of such works." The publication of the _Journal of a
Naturalist_, early in March, 1829, is "a coincidence."

[3] Philosophers and wits have written on this subject. Sir Thomas
Brown, who wrote a book of _Vulgar Errors_, remarks with great
seriousness that the man "who could eradicate this error from the
minds of the people, might prevent the fearful passions of the
heart, and many cold sweats taking place in grandmothers and
nurses"--Swift lets fly the shafts of satire in these lines.--

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