portrait of Bunyan appended to his ever-fresh allegory. The engraved
portrait I have has not the name of the painter.

O.W.

_Sonnet: Attempting to prove that Black is White._--

"It has been said of many, they were quite
Prepared to prove (I do not mean in fun)
That white was really black, and black was white;
But I believe it has not yet been done.
Black (Saxon, Blac) in any way to liken
With _candour_ may seem almost out of reach;
Yet _whiten_ is in kindred German _bleichen_,
Undoubtedly identical with _bleach_:
This last verb's cognate adjective is _bleak_--
Reverting to the Saxon, _bleak_ is blæk. [4]
A semivowel is, at the last squeak,
All that remains such difference wide to make--
The hostile terms of keen antithesis
Brought to an _E plus ultra_ all but kiss!"

MEZZOTINTO.

[Footnote 4: Pronounced (as _black_ was anciently written) _blake_.]

_Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks_, 1626.--MR. HEBER says, "Who has seen
another copy?" In Tanner's Collection in the Bodleian Library is one copy,
and in the British Museum is another, the latter from Mr. Bright's
Collection.