Your Cheek seems "_Ready for the Press_";
Your Laugh as _Clarendon_ is clear;
There's more distinction in your Dress
Than in the oldest _Elzevir_.

So with me live, and with me die;
And may no "FINIS" e'er intrude
To break into mere "_Printers' Pie_"
The Type of our Beatitude!

(ERRATUM.--If my suit you flout,
And choose some happier Youth to wed,
'Tis but to cross AMANDA out,
And read another name instead.)

Note:

[18] "Pronounced Bre-veer" (Printers' Vocabulary).




M. ROUQUET ON THE ARTS


M. Rouquet's book is a rare duodecimo of some two hundred pages, bound
in sheep, which, in the copy before us, has reached that particular
stage of disintegration when the scarfskin, without much persuasion,
peels away in long strips. Its title is--_L'Etat des Arts, en
Angleterre. Par M. Rouquet, de l'Academie Royale de Peinture & de