Among other instances, the following anecdote is related of the noted Thurneisen, who, in the seventeenth century, was invested, at Berlin, with the respectable offices of printer to the court, bookseller, almanack-maker, astrologer, chemist, and first physician.

I cannot refrain from relating a piquant little anecdote told to me by a French colleague, who had occasion to make an arrest, and came unexpectedly on his man.

Miss LOGAN, with her customary modesty, declined to view the mysterious future in that puerile light, gracefully suggesting, amid a brilliant outburst of puns, metaphors and amusing anecdotes, that SUSIE distorted the facts.

The bishop told me a characteristic anecdote illustrating this: "A clergyman complained to him of feeling low and depressed, unable to face his work, and tempted to rely on stimulants.

Many curious anecdotes are current respecting the consuls and the Moorish government.

In relation to this affair a pleasant anecdote is told.

Orthodoxy of the Shereefs, and illustrative anecdotes of the various Emperors.

He always rejoiced to visit the country; loved horses; was an excellent rider; was fond of plain country talk, jests, humorous anecdote, and chit-chatwas the plain country gentleman, in a word, preferring grass and trees and streams to all the cities and crowds in the world.

After grace Father Richmond took the floor, conversationally, as seemed to be his wont, and breakfast went on, as supper had the night before, to the accompaniment of his shrewd observations and lively anecdotes.

Numerous anecdotes of the period relate to acts of public or private benevolence, which endeared him to the population of the island; but he was on the alert against being fleeced or robbed.

At this period, as is usual among degraded peoples, the history of the Romans degenerates into mere anecdotes of their rulers.

He who has stored his memory with slight anecdotes, private incidents, and personal peculiarities, seldom fails to find his audience favourable.

"' 'He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote: "Green and Guthrie[104], an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China.

A striking anecdote is recorded of King James II. addressing himself in the time of his extremity, in 1688, to the aged Earl of Bedford, saying, "My Lord, you are an honest man, have great credit in the State, and can do me signal service."

What would not the Shakspeare clubs give for one more authentic anecdote of the world's great dramatist?

Their disinterested love for Caesar appeared in another and more difficult illustration: it was a traditionary anecdote in Rome that the majority of those amongst Caesar's troops who had the misfortune to fall into the enemy's hands refused to accept their lives under the condition of serving against him.

There are from thirty to forty tales, sketches, and poems, among which are a pretty story, by Mrs. Hofland; a Cricketing Story, by Miss Mitford, &c. There are two or three little pieces enjoining humanity to animals, and some pleasing anecdotes of monkeys and tame robins, and a few lines on the Reed-Sparrow's Nest: Only see what a neat, warm, compact little thing!

"What delightful anecdotes concerning my island!

I accompanied them; and the hour so spentin the course of which the fine old man gave us some most touching anecdotes of his early struggleswas a truly delightful contrast to the bustle and worry of miscellaneous society which consumed so many of his few hours in Scotland.

Innumerable anecdotes cluster about this fine diamond.

And Hardy, without any encouragement whatever, was interrupting with puerile anecdotes concerning the late lamented Joe Banks.

Among the score of charming anecdotes of the dear Colonel that she told me, there was one, the most delightful of all, that related to the time-worn subject of the child in the library.

Historical anecdotes.

Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried future, and has the interest of genius, and is fruitful in heroic anecdotes.

This well known base ball celebrity has a store of familiar anecdotes embracing the entire period of the game as now played and the reader will find it most interesting.