Stars, forsooth!and, pray, what paltry sun, what irresponsible comet, what pallid, clinkered satellite, might boast a purple splendor such as this?

[Footnote X: See Smollett's 'Ode to Leven Water' in 'Humphry Clinker', and compare 'The Italian Itinerant and the Swiss Goatherd', in "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent" in 1820, part ii.

" The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains.

What if the historian had continued Humphrey Clinker? I have, in the abstract, no disrespect for Jews.

Humphrey Clinker.

May I ask where you have been?" "Oh, just for a ride; been trying the new horse: he's a clinker!

And hell's gates were opened wide That all hell rang, and the clinkered imps sang When the Devil passed Outside.

This document, having been duly drawn up by Professor Coello, seated on a lava rock amidst the clinker-like cinders of the old volcano, was duly signed and sealed.

Smollett insured his literary life in "Humphrey Clinker"; and we suppose his Continuation of Hume is still one of the pills which ingenuous youth is expected to gulp before it is strong enough to resist.

Your coal may melt and run down on the bars, but if the cold air can get to the grates, the only damage this will do is to form a clinker on the top of grates, and shut off your draught.

But mostly it was on the lake that I saw her, for there we chiefly lived, and occasionally there were guilty approaches and rencontres, she in her boat, I in mine, both being slight clinker-built Montreux pleasure-boats, which I had spent some days in overhauling and varnishing, mine with jib, fore-and-aft mainsail, and spanker, hers rather smaller, one-masted, with an easy-running lug-sail.

1 6 Humphry Clinker. . . . . . . . . . .

CLINKER (Humphry), a poor work-house lad, put out by the parish as apprentice to a blacksmith, and afterwards employed as an ostler's assistant and extra postilion.

T. Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771.) CLIP'PURSE (Lawyer), the lawyer employed by Sir Everard Waverley to make his will.

The labor connected with the feeding of furnaces with coke and cleaning fires from clinker is of a very arduous and heavy nature.

"'Humphrey Clinker,'" says he, "is, I do believe, the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began."

Despite his own birthplace being north of the Tweed, many Scots were aggrieved at the incidental ridicule with which characters from "the land o' cakes" are sometimes treated in that and other works from the same hand; and the picture of Lismahago in "Humphrey Clinker" is said to have still more violently inflamed their ire.

What if the historian had continued 'Humphrey Clinker'?"

Let any one read the account of the ten or a dozen authors whom Smollett describes himself, in "Humphrey Clinker," as entertaining at dinner on Sundays,that being the only day upon which they could pass through the streets without being seized by bailiffs for debt.

"See how fine these great mounds of mine, these clinker-heaps, look in the night!

" As they came out of the labyrinth of clinker-heaps and mounds of coal and ore, the noises of the rolling-mill sprang upon them suddenly, loud, near, and distinct.

"Here it is red," said Horrocks, "blood-red vapour as red and hot as sin; but yonder there, where the moonlight falls on it, and it drives across the clinker-heaps, it is as white as death.

'She's a clinker,' observed Willie under his breath.

She's a clinker!'

There can be no doubt that at the time referred to by Mrs. Keith, Tristram Shandy, Tom Jones, Humphrey Clinker, etc., were on the drawing-room tables of ladies whose grandchildren or great-grandchildren never saw them, or would not acknowledge it if they had seen them.