Marquis, anecdotes of a dictatorial.

" SOME ANECDOTES ABOUT LORD SHAFTESBURY.

I picked up many an anecdote from him, and many curious bits of learning.

It is not to be supposed that at this meal the colonel faltered in his duties as a host, for, to the contrary, he narrated several anecdotes in his neatest style.

"It was plain that he relied upon his anecdotes for the hold upon his audience, and the anecdotes were attached to the main discourse by a very slender thread of connection.

NECESSARY NOTE.Persons sending anecdotes to this Drawer (or those reading them), need not expect to make anything by the operation.

It would have been quite possible for Ibsen to have completed the play without any such scene: he might, for instance, have let Nora fulfil her intention of drowning herself; but in that case his play would have been merely a tragic anecdote with the point omitted.

I have been much amused, and not a little instructed, by the following anecdote on this point, from Dr. Dewees: We were speaking with a lady who had lost three or four children with "croup," who informed us she was convinced, from absolute experiment, that there was nothing like exposure to all kinds of weather to protect and harden the system.

If a man is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in comparison of what we might get.

Kelly gives the anecdote as authentic.

To take first, however, the eccentricities of his character, and especially his love of horrors, we find anecdotes by the dozen retailed of him.

I heard an anecdote at Perth that bears upon this subject: A native of the name of Tonquin asked a settler, who lived some distance in the interior, permission to spend the night in his kitchen, of which that evening another native was also an inmate.

Dr. Johnson did not talk much to-day, but seemed intent in listening to the schemes of future excursion, planned by Col. Dr. Birch[701], however, being mentioned, he said, he had more anecdotes than any man.

I could relate anecdote after anecdote to prove the utility of this part of our system, but as it is now more generally in the training juvenile schools, and becoming better known, it may not be necessary, especially as the prejudice against it is giving way, and the public mind is better informed than it was on the subject, and moreover it must be given more in detail in the larger work on Juvenile Training or National Education.

This way of linking the two anecdotes, as cause and effect, would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus.

" There are always pointed anecdotes against houses wanting in a liberal and hospitable expenditure in Scotland.