effect; and the "_J'y allois_" of _La Fontaine_ was not quoted with more
approbation in the circles of Paris, than the _naïveté_ of my equally
veracious and spontaneous reply. The triumph of my simplicity did not
increase Kemble's good humour; and, shortly after, Mr. Spenser carried
him off in his carriage, to prevent any further attacks on my
unfortunate head--inside or out.

* * * * *


WOMAN.


There is no doubt that the proper study of mankind is WOMAN; and Mr.
Pope was wrong; for the endless variety of character among the sex is
of itself a mine, endless and inexhaustible; but to study them in their
domestic capacity, is the sweetest of all--

Man may for wealth or glory roam,
But woman must be blest at home.
To this her efforts ever tend,
'Tis her great object and her end.

So says one poet, I have forgot his name. Another hath this expression--

O woman! lovely woman! Nature form'd thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without thee.

But the sweetest thing that ever was said of woman in this amiable
capacity, or ever will be said again, is by a contemporary:--"A woman's