ple excitement of perfect health. And only six months before, life had been a burden: with sluggish step I had dragged myself about, while a settled foreboding of evil lay cold at my heart. I have no doubt that almost all cases of consumption, nervous debility, dyspepsia, and the theological bronchitis, might be prevented, and many of them cured, by due exercise. There is no need of going to Florida, or Hayti, or Europe, for health; only go to the gymnasium. We would appeal to young students, especially to collegians, to ministers, and to all those who lead sedentary lives, to think on these things. Ye who have a slight hacking' cough, or a miserable digestion, or an occasional headache, or a feeling of lassitude, and lack of energy, bear in mind that the cough may become consumption; the indigestion, dyspepsia; the headache, fever; the lassitude, uselessness; and each and all, an early death: and that these may be cured by vigorous gymnastics, you spared to your friends, and a violation of Nature's laws not result in a 'mysterious dispensation of PROVIDENCE.' You can have health if you will have it. Ye who are pale and stooping, and miserable and 'nervous,' who are losing the bloom of youth at twenty-five, and becoming prematurely gray at thirty, you will find exercise the best of cosmetics. It will restore color to your cheek as well as roundness to your form, and happiness to your heart, too.'

THOSE enterprising book-sellers, Messrs. DEWITT AND DAVENPORT, Tribune Buildings, continue to supply us regularly with 'Littell's Living Age. We agree entirely with a contemporary, that 'the excellent judgment with which the selections for this work are made, the variety of its contents, and the fact that it appears with singular punctuality every week, and is the cheapest periodical of the kind published, have long since established it in public favor, so that we need only record that the zeal and taste of the editor continue unabated, and that those who intend providing themselves with the cream of English periodical literature for the next season, should remember that the 'Living Age' soon enters upon a new volume.' It is an excellent time to subscribe. . . 'SOMEDELE' spicy, and not a little personal, are certain strictures of a correspondent upon the criticism of a daily journal on a certain poetical lecture of his, delivered many months ago. The following is 'in point:'

'A WONDROUS age is this, when every asS
Thinks himself SOLON, looking in the glass;
When every bletherin' murderer of grammar

Thinks he is wielding THOR's tremendous hammer;

When every gander that should wear a yoke
Covers his feathers with a prophet's cloak;
Or, burdening with cacklings harsh the air,
Quits some mud-puddle for the critic's chair.'

These be harsh words; and we are glad that our friend's better judgment prevailed, and that his 'Strictures' were suppressed. 'Least said, soonest mended,' is a good maxim, in such cases. The Lorgnette, or Studies of the Town, by an Opera-Goer,' has reached its completion in two handsome volumes, and the end of two large editions. As the work advanced, in numbers, we took one or two occasions to speak of its spirit and elegance of style in terms of well-deserved praise. We now commend it to our readers, in its finished state, as indicating a power of satire which is equally wholesome and good-natured; knowledge of the world, gained by an observation acute and general; great good taste in all things; and despite the instructiveness of the MENTOR, a geniality which at once begets an affection for the author. We make the following selection from the closing paper on Town Society,' which we commend to the heedful attention alike of our metropolitan 'society'-framers and 'society'-hunters:

"SEEK your companions where you find agreement of tastes, or of occupations; in short, give up your tacit allegiance to those sets which, by notoriety, are first sets; follow the dictates of your own judgment-refined as much as you please with education, and adorned as much as you dare with charity.

'As it is, our classes monopolize the distinctions, to the discredit of the individual attractions. What strange lady, after a year's life in the town, is known as a delightful companion, or a pleasant entertainer, one half so well as she is known for a visitor in such and such circles, or as belonging to such or such a set? And who, under the present artifical range of classifications, can safely judge of a man's character, by the houses at which he visits?

A sensible man chooses his companion for congeniality of tastes; they together choose a third; and presently you have a good fellowship, natural, easy, and honest. But put yourself in a townsaloon upon a reception-day, and you shall find the farthest remove from this; and the more notoriously fashionable the house, the farther is the remove. Some are come to do themselves

the honor of making show of the acquaintance; others feel that they are doing a generous condescension, and sustain their position by a pretty superciliousness. In this matter, let me note, for contrast, the easy groupings of a Paris reception, where affinities are more studied, and where the visitors mingle spontaneously, as it were, and with a genial hum of talk. With us, it is all the good lady can do, to keep up an appearance of bonhomie, by adroit manœuvres from party to party. But while I make this special comparison, in which the French are more liberal, and truly republican, than ourselves, I would not be understood to carry it farther. Democratic institutions, and education, ought to modify social action. Those Medici who gave grandeur to what is now the Tuscan Duchy, showed as much social as political wisdom, in searching out companions and partners for their children, among the most meritorious of the Florentine Bourgeois. Prescriptive castes in an old country, and a feudal country, may be time-honored and legitimate; in our town, they are either prurient affectations, or the result of a publicity and notoriety at which true delicacy is shocked. They defeat the issues of rational geniality, and make shelter for all manner of pompous deceits.

The absurd intimations which I have seen in some country papers, that my letters were written merely to unfold the pretensions of the vulgarly rich, or the follies of an upper ten thousand, I wholly abjure; if I cordially detest any thing, it is those eternal railers at an imaginery set, whom they thus designate. It is not necessary to be rich, to be vulgar-nor to be vulgar, to be rich. Folly has been my target, wherever it appeared; and I have endeavored, by the wide range of my observations, to do away with the suspicion that I ranked vice by social grades, or heaped upon wealth or fashion any gratuitous reproach.

The tone of all my letters has been Republican; they have tended, in their humble way, towards the dismantling of those awkward and vulgar scaffoldings, by which our social architects of the town were trying to build up something like the gone-by feudal fabrics of the old world. I have pandered to none of the finical tastes of an Upper Ten;' to none of the foolish longings of a Lower Ten,' and to none of the empty and ill-directed clamor of those who affect to guide the million. JOHN TIMON, in the pride of his citizenship, as a Republican, and as a New-Yorker, acknowledges no Upper Ten! He will try to consult those proprieties which reason, good feeling, and good custom suggest; and he will mingle in such circles as will receive him kindly; as will greet him with a manly cordiality, and entertain him by such frankness, intelligence and refinement, as he thinks he can appreciate.

Nor do I apprehend that these things are to be bounded by houses, or by streets; or that any man, or any set of men, can lay down the codes by which I am to reach them, or prescribe the ways in which I am to enjoy them. Good habit, in a free society, is as much a matter of taste and circumstance, as coloring in painting, or the management of the rod in angling; and who, pray, is going to give us rules for the precise amount of chromes, or for the exact length of line, or the dressing of a hackle?

'Good breeding does not necessarily suppose a knowledge of all conventionalities; and a true gentleman can in no way better show his gentle blood, than by the grace and modesty with which he wears his ignorance of special formulas. If there be not a native courtesy in a man, which tells him when he is with gentlemen, and when with the vulgar; and which informs him, as it were by intuition, what will conspire with the actions of the first, and offend against the sympathies of the last, he may study till doomsday his etiquette, and his French feuilleton, and remain a boor to the end.'

With these sensible, manly remarks, we leave 'The Lorgnette' with our readers; taking the liberty only to add, that, to our conception, judging from the style of the work, Mr. ROBERT DODGE (although he does admit it) is not the author. We may be wrong, but that's our opinion!' VERY pleasant and memorable to

all concerned' was a recent Winter Trip to Huntington, Long-Island, on a visit to an old and genial friend. It is hard to say whether Huntington is most pleasant in summer or winter. Cordial hospitality and the heartiest welcome; wood-fires roaring up broad-backed chimneys; the alternations of travel thither, in the clear bracing air; these made summer in the hearts of three friends on a visit to a fourth. Was it not so, LORD R- -LL? Was it not so, DoN M- LL? Was it not so, 'Brother S. -N?' Was it 'any thing else?' Have we not all 'marked the day with a white stone?' A DUTCHMAN, in one of the thinly-settled parts of Pennsylvania, was induced one Sunday to go to meeting' for the first time. It chanced to be 'communion-day;' and when the sacred emblems were handed around, he first took the wine-cup, and after a 'long pull' at its contents, he seized a handful of bread from the plate, saying to the attendant deacon, ‘I likesh it more better myzelf mit der k'rust;' and he added, 'Hav' you got leedle bit o' gheeze to go mit it!' MR. N. DODGE, the eminent dentist in Broadway near Bleecker-street, has discovered the 'philosopher's stone,' or a stone that is better. He fills teeth, without pressure and without pain, by a material entirely stone, without the slightest amalgam of any kind. It is placed in the cavity while in a state ‘as soft as putty,' and soon turns to a white enamel, as hard as that of the tooth itself. It is a most important discovery, and will be widely adopted.

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