Oh misery! must I lose _that_ too?
Yet go! On peril's brink we meet;--
Those frightful rocks--that treach'rous sea--
No, never come again--tho' sweet,
Tho' Heav'n, it may be death to thee!"

This passage contains 126 words, 110 of which are monosyllables, and the
remainder words of only two syllables. The sentiment embodied throughout is
that of violent mental emotion; and it affords a further illustration of
the correctness of MR. C. FORBES'S theory (Vol. i., p. 228.) that "the
language of passion is almost invariably broken and abrupt."

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850.

_Specimen of Foreign English._--

"RESTORATIVE HOTEL, FINE HOK.
KEPT BY FRANK PROSPERI,
FACING THE MILITARY QUARTER
AT POMPEII.

That hotel open since a very few days, is renowned for the cleanness of
the apartments and linen; for the exactness of the service, and for the
eccelence of the true french cookery. Being situated at proximity of
that regeneration, it will be propitius to receive families, whatever,
which will desire to reside alternatively into that town, to visit the
monuments new found, and to breathe thither the salubrity of the air.