N.
E. W.
S.

meaning that their intelligence was derived from all quarters of the
globe. This must, at any rate, be allowed as ingenious etymology.

J.U.G. GUTCH.


THE GOLDEN AGE.

(_FROM THE LATIN_.)

Why "golden," when that age alone, we're told,
Was blest with happy ignorance of gold--
More justly we our venal times might call
"The Golden Age," for gold is all in all.

RUFUS.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell on Monday next two collections of
Autographs; the first consisting of Autograph Letters, the property
of a gentleman; which will be immediately followed by that belonging
to the late Mr. Rodd, and the extensive Correspondence of the late
William Upcott, Esq., comprising several thousand Autograph Letters.