Say on, replied I, and tell me how you propose to fill up the vacuum which my fear has created, or how brighten up the gloom that surrounds me. Nothing so easy, said be; your first difficulty, respecting the want of sonnets, epigrams, or panegyrics bv high and titled authors, may at once he removed simply by taking the trouble to compose them yourself, and then baptizing them by whatever name you please fathering them upon Prester John of the Indies, or the Emperor Trapisonda, who, to my certain knowledge, were famous poets but suppose they were not so, and that sundry pedants and praters, doubting that fact, should slander you — heed them not for should they even convict vou of falsehood, they cannot deprive you of the hand that wrote it.